Walter Freiberg, Writer & Teacher Age: 31 Lives: San Justo, Buenos Aires • People love your novels for Spanish language learners (which you write under the name Paco Ardit) and … [Read more...]
Where to Learn Spanish in Buenos Aires
If you’re going to spend anytime in Argentina it is a great opportunity to study Spanish. While most Argentines do study a little bit of English in school, relatively few speak it fluently. Visitors are inevitably forced to use Spanish or sign … [Read more...]
Lunfardo: The Dirty Slang of Buenos Aires
Lunfardo is a jargon of about 5,000 words that emerged among the lower classes in Buenos Aires in the second half of the 19th century. The slang first grew out of cocoliche, a pidgin used by immigrants during the first wave of immigration to … [Read more...]