Most prestigious dialect of Spanish, which is also useful in the U.S.

[Aji_de_Gallina]

@KarlGrenze

The most it can get is that, although they taught us the form vos and the conjugations for it, we were not require to know them as well as the other conjugations. It was more of a “and if you go somewhere else, you may encounter this”.

Or they’d differentiate the c, s, and z sounds only during a spelling test. They would say the word by itself, and then in context, to help us learn it. But this was all the way back in elementary school.

Again, grammar and lexicon will be mostly uniform throughout. That’s part of the academias’ work. When my Chilean coworker and I talk about work-related or professional matters, there is little to no difference (exept our accents and one word). When we start talking about what each of us did over the weekend, then yes, hilarity occasionally ensues.

Chileans learn very quickly to drop “cabro” as their common word for “guy”, especially when they come to Peru where “cabro” means gay man.