In Buenos Aires it is not very usual to find street food like in other cities. However, there is an exception: la Costanera Sur. The Costanera Sur used to be THE Buenos Aires riverside path but nowadays you won’t see the river. Instead, you will apreciate the “Reserva ecológica” (nature reserve). All along the Costanera, there are streetfood stands specialized in three esential elements of porteños’ diet: Choripán The name comes from two words put Read more
Generally, in Spanish, the adjective follows the noun but there are some exceptions to this rule, for example: buen,mal, primer, segundo, etc. In this post we will talk about the difference between GRAN and GRANDE. Gran se usa siempre antes del sustantivo Grande se usa siempre después del sustantivo (igual que los adjetivos normales) Pero… ¡Cuidado! aunque son palabras muy similares, no tienen el mismo significado. Gran significa importante, notable, noble. Grande es opuesto a Read more
There are lots of places that you can visit in Buenos Aires, which are not in the most popular tourist areas. Among them, one of the most amazing is Agronomía. It is a park that belongs to the Faculty of Agronomy of U.B.A. The campus has a huge green area where the students make their practice. The good thing is that this space is open to students but also to the community in general. It’s Read more
¿Cuántas veces te quedaste callado escuchando a un amigo contar una historia? A veces es difícil saber qué decir para demostrar interés, sorpresa o acuerdo cuando alguien más habla. En este post, te vamos a ayudar a no repetir sólo “sí, sí” cuando otra persona está contando algo. Para demostrar sorpresa: – Che, ¿sabías que Marcos se va a casar? – ¿En serio?, ¡no me digas! ¿con quién? Otras expresiones pueden ser: * ¿De verdad? Read more
There are some phrases that we always repeat in the same way. We use them as a comment when we are faced with certain situations. These phases are fixed metaphores we use everyday. Everyone knows them. They are very frequent so you don´t need to say the whole phrase to be understood. De tal palo, tal astilla – (literalmente: From such a stick, such a splinter) Guido es muy desorganizado. El cuarto de su hijo Read more
There are many places in Latin America where people are not familiarized with English. Even when it comes to tourism, sometimes you will have to figure out how to buy a ticket or book a hotel room using only Spanish. If you don´t know the right words, there is a chance you end up sharing a bathroom with 10 people or travelling in the back of a pick up. But don´t worry… Super Ñ is Read more
You have to start to think about prepositions because you depend on them to talk about anything in Spanish! Prepositions are a necessary evil: we can´t live with them, but we can´t live without them. These are the three most useful and frequent ones: Hay tres preposiciones que son bastante lógicas y, por suerte, muy frecuentes. Son:  DE: Expresa la idea de orígen y la de terminar un proceso o una acción / origin Read more
“Lunfardo” is a vocabulary that was born in Buenos Aires at the turn of twentieth century. It was a slang made up by criminals. They used it to talk without being understood by the police. Many lunfardo words come from different languages (such as italian, french or greek) because, at that moment, Buenos Aires received a huge inmigration from all around the world. Tango, just like lunfardo, was born among the lower social classes. That´s Read more
In this post you are going to find the uses and examples of the verbs ir, venir, llevarand traer. Read the dialogue below and see how they work. Usamos los verbos ir y llevar para indicar movimiento hacia otros lugares (diferentes al lugar donde está la persona que habla). Usamos los verbos venir y traer para hablar de un movimiento hacia el lugar donde está el hablante. Volviendo al ejemplo de arriba, como Fernando está Read more
You can explore the city as a tourist, alone with your Lonely Planet guide. If you are lucky enough, you might have a local friend who will let you experience the city from a non- tourist point of view. If you don´t, but you still feel that Buenos Aires is more than Caminito, el Obelisco, Palermo and San Telmo, you have another option. Cicerones of Buenos Aires is a group of volunteers. They live here Read more