Please, consider that:
Regular
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* Group class: 2 weeks minimum, 4 students max |
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Private Lessons
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| Number of Weeks | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Extra |
| Homestay (w/breakfast) |
185 |
370 |
555 |
740 |
925 |
1110 |
1295 |
1480 |
1665 |
1850 |
2035 |
2220 |
175 |
| Homestay (no meals) |
145 |
290 |
435 |
580 |
725 |
870 |
1015 |
1160 |
1450 |
1100 |
1595 |
1740 |
135 |
| (*) :: For Homestay with 2 meals (breakfast and dinner) please ask. | |||||||||||||
| Extra Day Homestay | No meals | w/breakfast |
| 27 | 40 |
The following is an extract from the main website. To view the full version of this section including pictures, and a virtual tour around Argentina, please click [here]
Buenos Aires
To the city's poet laureate, Jorge Luis Borges, Buenos Aires was as eternal as air and water. To many Argentines, their capital city is synonymous with the country itself - indeed, nearly 40% of the population lives in the city or its massive, sprawling suburbs. Buenos Aires is situated on the banks of the Río de la Plata.
A city transported from its European parents, its compact and regular centre is reminiscent of Paris, and its tree-lined avenues and frequent plazas have a beguiling, faded elegance.
The centre of Buenos Aires clusters around the Obelisk and contains the business and financial centres of the country plus many shops, restaurants, and movies, plus government buildings, parks and plazas, monuments and two of the biggest streets in the world.
Avenida 9 de Julio is the widest and crossing it is Rivadavia, the longest street.
The Pink House (La Casa Rosada): Since 1894 it has been the seat of the National Executive Power. It is said that President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ordered to paint it pink to symbolize the balanced position taken by the Government as regards two important political factions whose emblems were red for one and white for the other.... At the School we organise guided visits with our students to the Pink House, the Plaza de Mayo and the Cathedral. Both in Spanish and in English (of course we recommend to take the Spanish Tour!).
El Cabildo: In this building, finished by the end if the 18th century, the Argentine people managed for the first time the destiny of their country, on May 25th, 1810.
El Palacio del Gobierno de la Ciudad y la Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires: Both the Government and the Congress of the City of Buenos Aires are housed in these beautiful buildings around Plaza de Mayo. From the tower, on holidays, a carillon cheers the Porteños up with tango music and other melodies.
Buenos Aires Cathedral: Facing the Plaza de Mayo, the Metropolitan Cathedral with its neoclassic front and its twelve columns representing the twelve apostles of Jesus. It houses the mausoleum of General José de San Martín, the greatest Argentine hero.
Calle Florida: This pedestrian street, is one of the most traditional arteries of the city.
Puerto Madero
Reclaiming this port area for residential and commercial use, the city is creating a planned development of restaurants, businesses homes, the Catholic University and office buildings. By 2005, there will be public parks a covered stadium two convention centres, three museums and four five star hotels.
Ten years ago, this scenery only featured abandoned docks. Today, it has become one of the most sophisticated quarters in Buenos Aires, with spectacular office buildings, restaurants and entertainment spots.
The Catalinas building, the spectacular office block in the Retiro district, serves as the backdrop for one of the crafts that daily crosses the river and links Buenos Aires with the ports of the neighboring Oriental Republic of Uruguay.
Frigate Libertad, the National Navy training ship, has proved to be a cause of local pride. Every time she sets sails and comes back with a new class of ensigns, the whole city is moved and many Porteños gather at the port to show their affection to her crew.
Frigate Sarmiento, a former training ship of the Argentine Navy, came to anchor at Puerto Madero. Nowadays, it became a museum, telling us stories of her adventures across the world seas.
At night, Captains and their crews join their Porteño fellow citizens. They all converge on Puerto Madero to enjoy the good things of life.
San Telmo
This section of the city retains some of the colonial flavour of past years and is steeped in the city's history. It was a fashionable district for years until a yellow fever epidemic drove the inhabitants north into what is now the Recoleta, and the lower classes and immigrants moved in.
It has cobblestoned streets, low buildings, antique shops and the famed Sunday antique market in the main square of the barrio.
San Telmo's tango bars are an excellent place to learn and dance the tango.
From obsolete soda siphons to complete sets of fine glassware, everything can be found at San Telmo´s Fair, where artists, antiquarians and curious visitors from all over the world meet every Sunday.
Some Museums of Buenos Aires.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes: The most complete and praised museum in Latin America. Admission is free and hundreds of thousands of visitors attend its special exhibitions.
Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo: A former family palace gathers marvelous pieces of furnishing, tapestry, porcelain, and glassware. Its luxurious rooms also hold exhibitions and special meetings organised by the national government.
Traces of the Hispanic Past: The Enrique Larreta and Isaac Fernández Blanco Museums keep the spirit of colonial Buenos Aires, featuring customs that time has long left behind.
Tango
Although it has come to epitomize the glamour and elegance of high society, with women in sleek glittering evening gowns and men in tux and tails, the tango originated in society's underbelly-the brothels of turn-of-the-century Argentina.
As immigrants from Europe, Africa, and ports unknown streamed into the outskirts of Buenos Aires during the 1880's, many gravitated toward the port city's houses of ill repute.
The portenios (as they were called) looked desperately for a distraction to ease their sense of rootlessness and disfranchisement as "strangers in a strange land."
The wail of the tango, it is said, speaks of more than frustrated love. It speaks of fatality, of destinies engulfed in pain. It is the dance of sorrow.
Soon the tango developed into a worldwide phenomenon. Even the Americans were doing it. During the first two decades of the new century, the tango took Paris by storm. The blessings of the Parisians, in turn, made it a staple of Argentinean high society.
Today the tango is enjoying a worldwide renaissance of popularity, keeping the fire of this daring art form burning brightly.
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Why learning Spanish?
Spanish is the mother tongue of more than 400 million people all over the world. Experts predict that by 2010, the USA will have a larger Spanish-speaking community than Spain. HAVING SPANISH WILL BECOME A CONSIDERABLE ASSET. It will not only increase your chances of getting a better job or a promotion, but it will become a requested skill to get a job of any kind.
What an Immersion Program is?
Studying a foreign language is a difficult task. You can improve your chances if you learn it in an environment where the language is commonly spoken. That is why immersion programs have become increasingly popular among those who want to understand the whole of what they are learning. It is an 100% effective experience that will remain for the rest of your life. Traditional teaching methods are being replaced by this learning process as the excellent results become evident in each student. Having fun while learning is the best way to receive and retain the information.
Why our School?
The main reason for choosing our School is one of our mission statements: We love what we do. Each student is for us an unique visitor, with their own interests and needs. We provide them personalised advise to make their immersion program an unforgettable experience. We make them feel “at home”, even if they are miles away from it. We start the service during the registration process, and from the very first moment you arrive to the city, as we give you a free service of transfer from the airport to your housing.
We provide you all kind of accommodation according to your wishes, in the best areas of Buenos Aires and at affordable prices. The School is very well located in Palermo neighbourhood, a very safe and beautiful area. It is very comfortable and well managed too. Our teachers, all native-born, have lot of teaching experience not only in the country but abroad too. They have all experienced an immersion program for their second languages, so they know how the students feel and what they expect. They speak fluent English, French, German, Portuguese and Italian as second languages.
We are very responsible and effective with the classes and the time’s classes. The study material is very complete and it is actualised every day. We use complementary material such as local newspapers, which aloud you both to learn the language and to know more about the country. The School’s Director supervises herself all the activities. She organises the visits to different places of the city, such as museums, the Pink House, the Parliament, restaurants, typical bars, tango lessons. She can plan with the students trips to other parts of the country, like the Falls, Mendoza, Córdoba and the South. She is there for them for any need they may have.
Why Buenos Aires?
Despite the political and economic troubles you may have seen on TV, Argentina remains a safe city. The state of siege declared in December 2001 has been cancelled, and although the protests continue, they are mostly limited to peaceful ones.
And as a proof of this, you can see many tourists taking pictures during the protests. We had presidential elections on April 2003, and the new President has spread peace over the country. As the exchange rate, now is very convenient for tourists (Buenos Aires is nowadays the fourth cheapest city in the world, but continue to be named the “Paris of South America”), people in Argentina welcome foreigners. Of course, you have to take some precautions but these are the same precautions everyone should take in a large city whether New York, Athens, or Rome: avoid certain districts late at night; protect yourself from pickpockets in certain crowded areas; take only registered clearly marked “Radio Taxis”, there are literally thousands of them everywhere in the city.
Moreover, this is the city where we do live, and we are the ones who help you select your housing in areas as safe or safer, than your home town, and we will advise about the activities you can do!
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