Discover Buenos Aires

It seems like a lot of my posts are starting to have a Part II to them… Well, the Learning Spanish post is no exception.  We’ve been down here just over three weeks now and while we’re picking up the language in bits and pieces (we can almost read a full menu now!), we were starting to wonder if 4 hours per week with our tutor, Marco, was going to cut it. He’s great, by the way, but we found that once we left the classroom, we were not always keeping up with the lessons.

Luckily, one of our blog readers, Henry, let us know that The University of Buenos Aires was about to start an 8 week intensive course in Spanish as a Foreign Language on Monday. It’s 4 days per week for 2 hours per day for a total of 64 hours.  He said that his friend took the course and it really helped him, and we had heard the same on some other expat forums.  We decided to check it out and went down for the placement exam. After placing into Level 1 (there is no Level 0), that was enough convincing for us. We signed up.  The cost is AR $1053 in one payment or AR $554 for two payments. We got a small discount for signing up together (AR $2001 for both), so for US $5/hour, we’re now enrolled!  There’s no more than 14 people per class, and they’re entirely in Spanish.  We’ll see how it goes, and we’re keeping our more private sessions with Marco too.

We’ll be sure to let you know how it goes!