Live, Study, Work & Volunteer in Argentina
The study abroad dream is to pop into a new culture, learn the language and travel. One wants to make as many local friends as they can, while skipping the culture shock phase and jumping right in to life in a foreign country. For those studying in Argentina, here are some tips to get the [...]
Mention the words ‘student visa’ to a group of foreign undergrads in Argentina and you’ll hear irritated sighs followed by stories of waiting hours in line only to discover one is in the wrong line, has the wrong documents and has wasted hours of their life. Images of getting lost, having to return repeatedly and [...]
The unsettling discovery that you have fewer pesos than you anticipated can happen often for students living on a tight budget in Buenos Aires. Monetary dilemmas, such as where to eat lunch or do laundry cheaply and how to save for a weekend trip or a night out with friends constantly haunt the student without [...]
Argentine Spanish, or castellano, can be particularly confusing for those who’ve learned the language elsewhere and arrive to find themselves perplexed by the unique intonation, lunfardo (slang) and an endless amount of words and grammar that differ from those in other Spanish speaking countries. Confused foreigners who are wondering why the rules they learned at school [...]
Having a recognized TEFL qualification of any kind can open doors, help to land a job and boost confidence in the classroom. After gaining an understanding of all the ESL acronyms, choosing the right course is important because the multitude of certification programs can vary greatly in quality. While there are a staggering amount of [...]
If after many hours of focused practiced you can’t master rolling your ‘r’s you may be unable to do it. Some people just can’t seem to make the Spanish ‘erre’ sound no matter how hard they try. A small number of people can’t produce the sound due to Ankyloglossia, or ‘Tongue-tie’ – a decreased [...]
The trill of the Spanish double ‘r’ may come naturally to you if you tried to imitate the purring of your pet cat or played with a lot of toy cars while making awesome sound effects as a kid. The double ‘rr’ in Spanish for those who can’t grasp it though presents an equally [...]
Porteño Spanish has many idiosyncrasies. Among the challenges are a high lunfardo slang content, the letter ‘s’ often ‘missing in action,’ and the tendency of locals to speak at rapid-fire pace. Despite these initial trials, Buenos Aires is a great place to learn Spanish. It’s a city of contrasts, mixing a Latin American spirit with [...]
Many times people say, “You’re crazy if you decide to take Spanish lessons in Buenos Aires! Porteños, i.e., people born in this city, speak a bizarre distorted type of Spanish impossible to understand for the rest of the people on the planet.” It’s true that the variety of Spanish spoken in the Río de la [...]
