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Argentina’s official language is Spanish although we call it “Castellano” (Castilian).
You probably know how to say “No hablo español“ a term which is correct to use and is understood well in Argentina, but you could also say “No hablo Castellano”.
For the people that have visited Argentina in the past they probably noticed that the accent in Buenos Aires is totally different to the rest of the Spanish speaking world it’s even different to the rest of the provinces of Argentina, only the province of Rosario resembles the unique “Porteño” accent and outside Argentina, Montevideo, Uruguay has a slight resemblance. This difference in the accent is the result of the great immigration Argentina had from the mid 19th well into the 20th century mainly from Italy and although millions came to “Populate” the great “Pampas” most of them stayed in the city of Buenos Aires especially in the suburbs close to the port like “La Boca” an Italian “Barrio” with many migrants from Genoa and even today their descendants still live there.
It’s difficult to express the “Porteño” accent, for some people it sounds “Fanfarron” (Show-off, cocky) and aggressive to others is “Canchero” cool .There’s also the “Lunfardo” which are “Slang” words incorporate in the every day language used by the Porteño in years past and now-days are only spoken by the older generation. A great deal of Lunfardo can be found in the poetic Tango’s lyrics which makes it very difficult to translate into another language without losing its feeling which the words give to the songs.

Below you can find some Porteños words (Shortly we’ll incorporate more words)