Thinking about going to Buenos Aires to learn Spanish

futbol
bano
beso
mi familia

And the most important.....

Cerveza.

DD

 

Get a senorita to teach you - but seriously, immerse yourself in it and you will learn. If you hang out with people speaking your native language in your off time, you'll fall short of how much you could have gained. Finito

 

Didn't you visit there on your South America trip before?

I'll get right down to the point - it's a nice city, but I was a little disappointed with the women (they were a little too big-boned and plastic surgicalized for my taste :grin: )

The people there speak Spanish, but a majority of the people are actually of Italian descent and the culture is much closer to that of Italy than Spain.

Nightlife is good and the city is huge, so there's quite a few interesting neighborhoods to check out (Recoleta, Retiro, Palermo, etc). But there are a lot of depressed low-income and crime-ridden areas as well so you have to be careful.

The best desserts and ice cream I've ever had were in BA

As the name suggests, the air in BA is really good. Unfortunately the car exhaust seems to negate this. Beaches aren't all that great, as the water isn't very clear. Also summertime there is ridiculously humid.

If you go, make sure to visit Bariloche. It's about a 2hr flight away. Absolutely beautiful scenery and nature.

A couple of my favorite movies are from BA, you can check em out to get an idea what the city's like - 'Son of the Bride' (which in Spanish is 'El Hijo de la Novia') and 'Nine Queens'

I took a Spanish course in Granada many years back. Didn't learn much, but the good thing is that lotsa hotties from all over the world always sign up for learning Spanish. It's like the college advertising major of languages.

 

have some friends who were happy with this website listing nice luxury apts for short-term rental:

http://apartmentsba.com/

 

Just go stand under the Westpark Tollway between Chimney Rock and 59. Few days there and you'll be set.

 

I think this sounds like fun, and a great way to learn the lingo.

Good luck ATW !

DD

 

Ha ha ha, so true!

 

Argetinian's talk the weirdest spanish..

 

Messi es mejor que Maradona

 

aaahhh...buenos aires. definitely one of my most favorite cities in the world. the steak and women are absolutely out of this world.

 

My brother just left for Damascus, Syria for a year to become natively proficient in Arabic. He spent last summer is Alexandria, Egypt. Best way to learn.

 

Yeah it sounds great, but it ain't cheap to do that, man. I would love to be fluent in Spanish, but I don't think I can afford to live in Spain for a year.

 

He's part of UT Austin's Arabic Flagship Program, so they cover all costs. You'd be surprised by the amount of money that's out there for getting people to fluently learn critical languages (i.e. really be dedicated enough to attain native proficiency in a language, not just learn to speak conversationally).

Apart from official university-sponsored programs, the US State department also has several funded language programs for critical languages (link).

I visited while he was in Alexandria, Egypt last summer, and you'd be pretty surprised at how cheap cost of living is there for Americans ($2 mixed grill kebab platters, $3 haircuts, dirt cheap rent, etc.)

While I was at UT, I studied abroad in Italy for a semester. I paid UT tuition while I was there for 12 credit hours (which I would have paid in Austin anyways), textbooks were far cheaper in Italy than they are here, and my rent in Milan was cheaper than what I was paying in Austin. So pretty much, the only extras I was paying for was my roundtrip ticket and for traveling around Europe while I was there (which if you've been to Europe, you know how cheap it can be if you're a college student strapped for cash).

 

How is this a question? If you have the opportunity to do it, do it.

 

You are German right? I recall there were a bunch of Germans who went to Buenos Aries and surrounding area to learn Spanish back in the mid-to-late 1940s.