Learning Argentinian Spanish (app)

LuckyLuke said:
There's plenty of previous chats on this forum regarding various tools, methods and apps that you can search for. If you are old school (like me) and don't do well with Youtube videos, apps and virtual things then I would highly highly recommend just going to a community college or any night school and taking some basic spanish 101 courses in person. Learning another language is no fly by night affair and unless you already know a Latin language it will take study and practice. Immersion learning while "adventurous" can be also be extremely frustrating and cost you valuable time with mistakes. Getting the basics down is fundamental to further expanding into the argentine dialect.
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Mistakes are the most valuable part of immersion learning. And it really doesn't work (well, it surely didn't for me), until you accept that mistakes are 50% of the whole process; making them, learning from them, and accepting that you will always make them (unless you're one of those rare gifted people who learns languages easily; I've met a handful in my life -- of course, I hate them for it).

The good thing is that you have very little choice, since not many people speak anything but Spanish.

I also suggest reading the newspapers here a couple hours every day. You'll get the Argentine flavor of the language, build vocabulary, and get accustomed to the grammar and idioms, which I still often struggle mightily with. And you'll learn an enormous amount about where you live.

You'll find that when you live here, if you don't stay hidden in the house all day, you'll find a thousand ways to learn the language. It's all around you.
 
LuckyLuke said:
I would highly highly recommend just going to a community college or any night school and taking some basic spanish 101 courses in person
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Thanks, I'll definitely check what julia_en_ruta suggested, that seems to be exactly what you advised here.

Fortunately I know a couple other latin languages, so I guess I'm at an advantage here. I'm 100% into in person courses, but was looking for some easy tool I can do when I have a couple free minutes here and there, so that I can at least use a few sentences when I arrive.
 
SinPulgas said:
accepting that you will always make them
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100%!
SinPulgas said:
The good thing is that you have very little choice, since not many people speak anything but Spanish.
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That's actually great for learning, indeed.
SinPulgas said:
I also suggest reading the newspapers here a couple hours every day. You'll get the Argentine flavor of the language, build vocabulary, and get accustomed to the grammar and idioms, which I still often struggle mightily with. And you'll learn an enormous amount about where you live.
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Could you suggest a few online publications I could read? News from Argentine.
 
HenryHoneyBalls said:
The book Che Boludo is a good introduction to Lunfardo the Argentinian dialect or argot. I have found it useful.
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Some Argentinians resent the use of Lunfardo by English Speakers, particularly if Mispronounced..!
(I do) The use of the "Che" to address people, needs expertise to determine when it's appropriate..?
 
Learning neutral Spanish is valuable, Lunfardo maybe?
I'll say it once again.
The key issue in communicating (in Spanish) is the Accent/Phonetics , to carry a conversation let's say over the phone.
Many Many famous English teachers concentrate on Vocabulary, verb tenses and the like.
To improve your the verbal communications ability, you need a coach.
 
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