Expanish Blog

As a lover of the summer, sun, and heat, even I myself get a little overwhelmed with the Argentina summers as they do tend to be stifling hot with very little off time from the sun. However, as the old saying goes, ‘if you can’t beat em’, join em’.’ For students studying Spanish in Argentina, [...]

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Students studying Spanish in Buenos Aires should have no problem noticing the change in the city; the air is refreshingly warm, the flowers are in bloom, the skies are clear and sunny, and the people of Buenos Aires have a sort of ‘spring’ in their step. Its spring in Argentina and we are welcoming it [...]

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Every student that walks through the doors of Expanish has come to study Spanish in Buenos Aires for a different reason; each student has their own story to tell and we are thrilled to help them tell it. Here is the story of Rachel Arkle and her experience at Expanish.

Rachel reports for the [...]

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The Chinatown in Buenos Aires began in the 1980´s, not long after the second wave of Asian immigrants landed in Argentina in the late 1960´s. In the 1990´s more Chinese immigrants arrived in Argentina, mostly entrepreneurs, and Chinatown and the number of Chinese owned business began to flourish. Many Chinese and Asian owned businesses [...]

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In 1998, former President Carlos Ménem began constructing South America’s biggest mosque, today called the Centro Cultural Islámico. Although catholic at the time of his presidency, Ménem was of Syrain Muslim decent and on return from a visit to Saudi Arabia he decided to build the mosque in homage to his ancestry, finishing this [...]

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