Yes it is. But you never will have problems to communicate with people who speak European Spanish, nor in speaking neither in written communication.
Spanish is Spanish, and important is that you know it, which "local Spanish" you know, doesn‘t have any importance.
Voseo is named the use of the second person singular pronoun vos in Argentina instead of tú.
The voseo predominate in Central America, also on the Canarty Islands of Spain and the voseo is used in Buenos Aires and Argentina. It‘s estimated that about 30% of all Spanish native speakers around the world are using vos in instead of tú.
Only in Argentina the voseo forms also part of the written language.
Our experience shows that for communicating with Spanish speaking people it‘s not important if you are accustomed to use vos or tú, they will understand you in any case.
vosotros, the informal second person plural currently is used only in Spain.
Therefore the majority of the Spanish native speakers don‘t use the verbs in second person plural.
The conjugation of verbs for tú and for vos changes:
Verbs in -ar and -er in the second person singular in the case of using vos get stressed (get an accent) in the last syllable:
tú hablas >> vos hablás, tú comes >> vos comés …
Verbs in -ir change from -es using tú to -ís using vos (note the accent):
tú vienes >> vos venís, tú vives >> vos vivís
In the case of changing the stem vocal to diphthong or other vocal using tú, this conversion will not happen if you use the vos:
tú vienes >> vos venís, tú tienes >> vos tenés
At the beginning your attention maybe caught by the use of sos instead of eres:
tú eres >> vos sos
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