This is Ariel my spanish teacher. I found him and his school, Experiencia Buenos Aires (the Buenos Aires experience) because I was talking to a bartender who used to be a Spanish teacher with Ariel. I was asking for a recommendation of a school and she suggested I call him.
This school´s philosophy is based less on classroom teaching and more on getting out into the city and practicing your spanish there.
On Wednesday, I went to a traditional spanish school and took a two-hour grammar lesson. It was painful. Basically, my Spanish vocabulary is great, but apparently I talk something like this (Next Tuesday, I went to the movies, then I will go to the restaurant).
I don´t know if I want to spend my whole trip working on that, so I signed up for Experiencia Buenos Aires. Basically, I sat down with Ariel and the other teacher Diego and told them what activities I wanted to do (improve my spanish, play tennis on a clay court, try tango, learn more about Argentinian politics and history, see an Argentinian movie and discuss it, learn how to cook one Argentinian meal). Then, I pay them about $8 an hour and we do the activities along with a pre-lesson (e.g. flashcards for tango vocabulary before the tango club)and then do the activitity while they correct all of my Spanish errors.
Curtis Kaiser
This school´s philosophy is based less on classroom teaching and more on getting out into the city and practicing your spanish there.
On Wednesday, I went to a traditional spanish school and took a two-hour grammar lesson. It was painful. Basically, my Spanish vocabulary is great, but apparently I talk something like this (Next Tuesday, I went to the movies, then I will go to the restaurant).
I don´t know if I want to spend my whole trip working on that, so I signed up for Experiencia Buenos Aires. Basically, I sat down with Ariel and the other teacher Diego and told them what activities I wanted to do (improve my spanish, play tennis on a clay court, try tango, learn more about Argentinian politics and history, see an Argentinian movie and discuss it, learn how to cook one Argentinian meal). Then, I pay them about $8 an hour and we do the activities along with a pre-lesson (e.g. flashcards for tango vocabulary before the tango club)and then do the activitity while they correct all of my Spanish errors.
Curtis Kaiser
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