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This weekend AMAUTA Buenos Aires will be moving to an amazing new location in the city center of Buenos Aires.
At a stone’s throw from the famous Obelisc in the historic city center of Buenos Aires, AMAUTA Spanish School and EleBaires joined forces and expertise in order to offer the best Spanish immersion experience in Buenos Aires and to maintain our affordable rates and many inclusives. Our Spanish classes and volunteer placements will maintain the high quality and will guided by a dynamic, experienced and professional team that offers a 24/7 guidance.
From Monday 2 of December on our Spanish classes in Buenos Aires will be taught from the new school in the Barolo Palace at the Av. de Mayo, that was once an ambitious arequitectonical project and back in 1935 the highest building in Buenos Aires.
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Argentine food: about Empanadas, Noquis, Tartas, Asado and Mate
“Argentina is very famous for his amazing meat.” That was about all I knew about Argentine food when I arrived to Buenos Aires for my Spanish course.
Soon I’d find out that, to start with, Argentine people eat four times a day, instead of three. The first meal of the day is ‘el desayuno’ (the breakfast). Breakfast in Argentina is smaller than the usual American or European breakfast. The typical Argentine breakfast is a cafe or a ‘mate’, the typical Argentine caffeine-rich kind of herb tea, with a medialuna (a croissant) or toast, served with mermelade or dulce the leche (caramel-like substance).
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Argentine Spanish and 7 typical Argentine words
As I studied Spanish in Spain for almost a year before my stay in Buenos Aires, I speak Spanish with a “Spanish” accent. When choosing where to do my internship, I chose Argentina. I had always been curious about the Argentine culture and I would be immersed in good, clear and slow Spanish, that’s what I thought. The moment I arrived in Buenos Aires, I realized how wrong I was! I arrived to a country with a totally different “Spanish”, not clear, good and slow at all! As a way of surviving and out of interested – I started to analyze the Argentine Spanish most Argentine people are so proud off.
One of the major causes of the different Spanish is the history of the country: except for the Spanish immigrants, in Argentina mainly Italian immigrants arrived, millions of them. And all those immigrants created their own “Spanish”, a kind of “Spatalian”. That’s how the Spanish language of the conquistadores was turned into that new language, with that typical ‘Argentine sound’.
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