It takes about two minutes after arriving in Argentina to notice that Argentine Spanish is distinct from Iberian Spanish and the U.S. ‘food truck Spanish’ of those who only took remedial Spanish in school. At first, it sounds like bastardized Italian and it differs considerably from the Spanish spoken in other countries of Latin America, […]
Día del Amigo: Argentina’s Friend’s Day
Foreigners living in Argentina will soon discover the importance of Día del Amigo (Friend’s Day) if in the country on July 20. While not an official public holiday, Día del Amigo is a quintessential Argentine celebration. It is a important day to send messages and meet up with close friends — and the holiday cranks up even […]
Where to Learn Argentine Spanish Online & Beyond
Anyone looking to travel or move to Argentina will have to reckon with its unique version of Spanish, which, with its own vocabulary, slang, and Italian-flavored intonation, differs from what most people learned in high school. There are plenty of resources that can help Spanish language learners get a handle on the basics of the […]
Why Argentines are Bitcoin Crazy
Carolina Lopez learned early in her life a hard lesson about the instability of Argentina’s economy. It was the late 1960s. She was a grade school student living in rural Northwest Argentina. At the time, post office officials came to her school weekly to sell stamps for a savings notebook in a government program […]
Argentina’s Macri Congratulates Trump on his Election
Argentine president Mauricio Macri made his first public comments on the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president the day after the upset election. At an event in the Luján district in the Buenos Aires province Macri said, “We congratulate the Americans for the election and I hope we’ll continue to work on this constructive, […]
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