The Spanish spoken here in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay is different from other areas of the country as well as other Spanish speaking countries. Rioplatense is a dialect of Spanish spoken mainly around the river plate region. Some basic differences are the sounds the "y" and "ll" makes. We pronounce the word for beach (playa) this way, "Plasha". Ya is sha. Yo = sho. And Tortilla (though we don't have them here) would be pronounced tortisha.
There is also an additional or different person with which to conjugate verbs - Vos. Vos is very informal and is used with parents to children, good friends, and brothers and sisters. Adding Vos to the standard six persons - 1st, 2nd & 3rd singular and plural - of conjugations plus the imperitve command gives us 95 different ways to learn every verb. Yes, it can be confusing! But it is fun to listen to a native speaker conjugate a word they're not familiar with.
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