Gaucho - I am trying to resurrect my feeble Spanish to add some depth to my visit and be a good tourist (I can probably understand Spanish well enough to do whatever I would be doing, it is speaking that is always the problem.). The Pimsleur language tapes are helpful as they force you to speak, but Argentinean Spanish has idiosyncracies all its own, especially "vos." I found the conjugations and other useful grammatical information here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voseo

http://spanish.about.com/cs/historyo...h/f/vosqow.htm


But in what situations would I use vos as opposed to usted? I understand the difference between vous and tu in French, but every country has its own customs about the informal pronoun and in other parts of Central America tu is patronizing. I guess usted is always safe, but are there situations where it would sound stilted?

Anything else one should know about the Spanish of Buenos Aires?

Muchas gracias!