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Are you looking for group lessons or private tutoring? I took private lessons with a tutor from Brazil in downtown. Prices were very reasonable. I don't have her name off the top of my head but I can get it if you are interested. Also, they do offer classes at some of the public universities...

You know I'm not sure....in any event I just saw that they don't cover pre-exisitng conditions so they're out! I am an asthmatic and I essentially want coverage so that I can go to a doctor and get a script for my maintenance asthma medicine, Advair. Argentina has an equivalent that is...

Hello all: I am headed back to BsAs in the next couple of weeks for a "permanent" move. Permanent meaning two or three years if everything works out. In any event, I have not purchased a return ticket because I honestly don't know when I'll be heading back to the states for a visit. It could...

Thanks for all the advice.

Hello all: Quick question. At the moment I am back in LA and I am in the market for a new laptop. I plan to use it like a desktop computer, for some business things and personal usage. I had a macbook before, which I really loved, however it was plagued with several problems, including a failed...

I disagree. The point of pubic protests are to disrupt normalcy in order to make people pay attention and listen to you. Using the US as a reference I can think of several instances in my country's history in which protests/riots engendered change and brought awareness to an issue that other...

Are you sure this time? Because you said something similar a couple of weeks ago but still managed to bring the same very beaten and dead horse back to life yet again.

Ask the Aborigines and southeast Asian immigrants that question. They might have a slightly different take. Seems to be a budding backlash against the latter.

It is customary to tip in Argentina. Most Argentines I've eaten out with leave less than 10%, although it is customary to leave 10% for good service. More is typically unheard of, but just as well appreciated. So yes you are supposed to leave something. I worked as a server in the US...

You made your point quite clear several times. Forum members also made their points quite clear several times, just as I think it was stated several times that if Latin Americans want to call themselves "American" good for them. I don't remember seeing one single US American "object" to that...

I think the only one making this a debate or debacle is you and a few others who are more than well-known on this board for being "anti-american" anything. I and most other "Americans" from the US made peace with being American a long time ago. I think it's time you should too. The term's not...

But it's really simple. In English we, "Americans", refer to ourselves as such because we have no equivalent for "estadounidense". To the anglophone ear any variant of USAer, etc would sound extremely awkward. Thus, we are Americans from "America", as in the United States of America. It's not...

What a constructive and thoughtful post.

Hey Ariel, Your private messaging seems to be turned off. I'd like to send you a message when you get it turned on.

Sara, no offense, but if I recall correctly you lived in the suburbs of DC, not the "district". While it's common for the DC suburbs to "claim" DC, living in the NW, NE, SE, and SW quadrants is a completely different beast when it comes to crime and one's perception of safety. I lived in the...

Okay I get it. If I had known that you were suffering from "Argentina is utopia" syndrome I never would've brought it up. Keep dreaming that the economy is perfect. Heck why stop there? The subte is state of the art, the ubiquitous presence of dog crap in BA gives the city character, and the...

Nah......that's just New Yorkers. :p

Ah ghost give him a break. 600,000 million is typically how Latin Americans write 600 billion. :)

As opposed to what? Printing money when there is no crisis? Printing money, period, is considered an inflationary pressure. My point was because the rate of inflation is so low right now and because the economic recovery is so tepid in the US, the US can "afford" to print more money, ie...

Because the US economy is so sluggish right now they are comfortably able to print more money without affecting inflation much, which by the way is hovering near 1%. Argentina's true rate of inflation is somewhere between 20-25%. Printing money typically begets more inflation. That should be the...