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Spanish Creative Corner - Part 1

We are introducing a brand new section in our blog called “Spanish Creative Corner”! We are going to use this opportunity to feature some of the best works from our students who wrote and shared their thoughts about Buenos Aires in Spanish!

In this post, Caoimhe, Holly, Dana, Sean and Lee [...]

Spanish in Argentina: Vos vs Tu

Many students get shocked in their first Spanish lesson when they found out that the only conjugations they felt confident about, don’t exist in Buenos Aires. I’m talking about their first contact with the “voseo”, the use of “vos” instead of the more familiar “tú” to address “you”.

Basically, in Spanish we have [...]

My Top 5 Moments in Buenos Aires

Some background: before moving to Buenos Aires in June 2010, I had lived in NY my entire life. I grew up on the east end of Long Island, went to university in the Bronx and most recently lived in Queens for the past 8 or so years. I received my masters degree in [...]

The Argentine Way of Time

Surprisingly, out of the biggest challenges in adjusting to life in Buenos Aires has been coming from the ridged, early start and get everywhere on time western attitude towards times to landing here in Argentina at the opposite end of the spectrum.

From getting strange looks for eating dinner at the perfectly [...]

Vamos Spanish Video Series: "Wish You Knew How To Speak Spanish?!"

We always share stories and experiences of living in Buenos Aires with Vamos students and friends. They could be amazing, unbelievable, funny or anything in between. One type of stories that always came up was embarrassing situations occurred due to misunderstanding of languages. It was because of that, the idea of [...]

5 Pain-free Ways to Improve Your Spanish

As a fellow busy expat, teaching English in Buenos Aires, I know that it can be easy to fall into the trap of limiting your daily Spanish intake to “un café con leche, por favor.” When you are surrounded by eager Porteños who want to learn your native tongue as well as an [...]

Speaking Argentine Spanish – the Urban Dictionary

As a Spanish language learner in Buenos Aires I sometimes hears phrases that I dont understand. Together the words dont make literal sense so I know they must have some other meaning. Argentines have there own way of speaking Spanish and expressing themselves. In recognition of this the National Literature Academy [...]

Let's unite!

Spanish King Juan Carlos was given a copy of the new book. Courtesy of BBC.

Modern Spanish is full of differences in grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary in Spanish-speaking countries around the world. The aim of this new grammar book is to draw up joint rules for a language spoken by some 500 million people in [...]