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Have you decided to travel abroad and study Spanish in Buenos Aires?
This may mean that you have to say “goodbye” to your family and friends for a while but nowadays that doesn’t mean that you can’t keep in touch with them.
Thanks to the latest in technology, you only have to decide what kind [...]

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All of us who come to Buenos Aires to learn Spanish will be staying in some sort of accommodation: homestay, shared apartment, private apartment, hostel, hotel, friend’s house, etc…
There are some very simple rules, or commandments if you will, that every single one of us should follow at all times.
 
7 Accommodation Commandments
 
1. [...]

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Now that you have made it Buenos Aires to study Spanish, it is time to navigate the city.
Selecting a mode of transportation can depend on many different factors such as, the time of day, location, and weather. Maybe it is late at night or you are in a hurry to get to your [...]

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Living with new people while abroad in Buenos Aires is a living and learning experience! Everyone is new to the city, away from their home country, looking to meet new people, discover the best experiences,  and of course, learn a foreign language.  Living with roommates can teach you a lot about people and become [...]

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Downtown Buenos Aires is one of the older areas of the city, yet has been kept modern, efficient,  and up-to-date due to the high number of people infiltrating the streets, business’s, and buildings at every moment of the day and night.  It is a fact that downtown is a mix of hurried traffic, bike [...]

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You do not have to visit a famous art gallery or an international renowned museum in Buenos Aires to see great art.  In between the beautiful architecture, modern high rises, and eclectic apartment buildings, there is still plenty of boring grey concrete and  the ‘artists’ of Buenos Aires are taking these ‘empty canvases’ and [...]

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Learning Spanish in the classroom is the only way you are going to learn proper Spanish (grammar, verbs, tenses, etc) and learn the fundamentals of the language.  The trick to learning practical Spanish, slang, expressions, conversation, etc, is to combine your Spanish classes with ‘classes’ outside of the classroom.
Take your Spanish lessons in Buenos [...]

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Studying Spanish in Buenos Aires?  Need to make some of those basic decisions and not finding them so basic?  We are here to help!
Check out Traveling Abroad and Studying Spanish. Decisions, decisions…Part 1 >>>>
Electronics
Bring or leave electronics
Many traveler’s today or students studying Spanish abroad are taking their valuable electronics from back home on [...]

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Studying Spanish in Buenos Aires?  Need to make some of those basic decisions and not finding them so basic?  We are here to help!
Traveling Abroad
Backpack vs Suitcase
This is one of the most talked about items on a travel abroad experience. There are some travelers who swear by the ‘traveling backpack’ and others who still [...]

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There are two ways to travel abroad:
1) Travel abroad “vacation style”, check out the sites, eat the food, buy some stuff, and return refreshed and ready to continue with life back home.

2) Travel abroad, study a language, speak the language, learn about a culture, live in one place, eat the food, cook the [...]

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