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Técnica Pomodoro para aprender español

También podés usar la técnica Pomodoro para lograr tus objetivos: La Técnica Pomodoro es una forma de organizar tus sesiones de estudio, evitar el cansancio fatiga y potenciar la concentración. Funciona así: 1️⃣ Elegir una tarea específica de estudio: por ejemplo, aprender 5 palabras nuevas o practicar el uso de un tiempo verbal. 2️⃣ Establecer un tiempo de [...]

By |2024-01-14T21:00:39-03:00enero 14th, 2024|Espanhol / Español, Sin categorizar, Spanish / Español|Comentarios desactivados en Técnica Pomodoro para aprender español

Bad words in Spanish: what «boludo» and «pelotudo» originally meant?

"Boludo" and "pelotudo" are bad words used in Argentina specifically to mean "stupid". But where do they come from? In the Wars of Independence, Argentine gauchos fought against the Spanish army. They fought against disciplined men who prepared themselves in the best military academies, armed with firearms, artillery, armor, cavalry, the best steel, etc. [...]

By |2019-06-18T11:59:35-03:00marzo 22nd, 2019|Espanhol / Español, Spanish / Español|Comentarios desactivados en Bad words in Spanish: what «boludo» and «pelotudo» originally meant?

Week of the art in BA: April 8th to 14th

From Monday 8 to Sunday 14 April, contemporary art becomes protagonist in the City through a wide range of artistic activities in the public space, art fairs and cultural institutions of Buenos Aires. Art Week encourages residents and visitors of the City to enjoy for seven days the programming made by 22 participating institutions and [...]

By |2019-03-21T12:56:42-03:00marzo 21st, 2019|Buenos Aires NOW, Em Argentina|Comentarios desactivados en Week of the art in BA: April 8th to 14th

The Librería de Ávila: the oldest bookstore in Buenos Aires and a witness to Argentine History

Known today as the "Library of the College" was founded in 1785 and continues in front of the school “Nacional Buenos Aires”. In the Librería de Ávila there are not only avid readers, students looking for textbooks or parents buying manuals. Between shelves and tables crammed with books more than one hundred thousand copies, tourists [...]

By |2019-03-19T12:52:43-03:00marzo 19th, 2019|Sin categorizar|Comentarios desactivados en The Librería de Ávila: the oldest bookstore in Buenos Aires and a witness to Argentine History

The prettiest bookstore is in Buenos Aires!

The bookstore of Buenos Aires El-Ateneo-Grand-Splendid was chosen the prettiest bookstore in the world by National Geographic in 2019. The current building was started in 1917 and opened in May 1919 by Austrian businessman Mordechai David Glücksman (known to everyone as "Max"). He commissioned its construction in order to install a theater-theater on the foundations [...]

By |2019-03-19T12:26:42-03:00marzo 19th, 2019|Buenos Aires NOW|Comentarios desactivados en The prettiest bookstore is in Buenos Aires!

Buenos Aires Celebrates Afro

Buenos Aires Celebrates Afro In 2018 it is on Saturday November 17 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Place: Av. Iraola y Montt (A few meters from Av. Libertador y Sarmiento, Bosques de Palermo). Buenos Aires celebrates the Afro culture. I came to enjoy African dance, music and gastronomy. At the stands you can find [...]

By |2018-11-09T13:26:21-03:00noviembre 9th, 2018|Sin categorizar|Comentarios desactivados en Buenos Aires Celebrates Afro

Week of the Italian food and cuisine in Buenos Aires

As every year during this week we celebrate the week of the Italian food in Buenos Aires. The sixth edition of the Week of the Italian Cuisine of Buenos Aires will come to an end on Sunday, November 4 and La Boca, the neighborhood with the largest community of Genoese in the City, will be [...]

By |2018-11-01T13:24:54-03:00noviembre 1st, 2018|Sin categorizar|Comentarios desactivados en Week of the Italian food and cuisine in Buenos Aires

Enjoy Av. de Mayo on this Saturday: food and activities

On this Saturday, November 3, from 12 pm to 9 pm, on Avenida de Mayo, between Bolívar st. and Chacabuco st. you will have the opportunity to enjoy many activities . There will be more than 60 stands of regional products, gastronomic products, dance classes and shows. Entrance is free. The event will end with [...]

By |2018-11-01T13:14:37-03:00noviembre 1st, 2018|Sin categorizar|Comentarios desactivados en Enjoy Av. de Mayo on this Saturday: food and activities

November 2nd: day of the dead ones at Eduardo Sivori Museum

Buenos Aires celebrates this Mexican tradition. On Friday, November 2, we will celebrate the Day of Saints and the Dead with a performance by the artist Ariadna Pastorini that will bring together more than 80 artists from different disciplines - writers, musicians, performers, artists - in an ephemeral tour that proposes to celebrate life. It [...]

By |2018-11-01T13:00:08-03:00noviembre 1st, 2018|Sin categorizar|Comentarios desactivados en November 2nd: day of the dead ones at Eduardo Sivori Museum

The Colón Theater, considered as the best in the world

It is already known that the Teatro Colón is one of the most pondered lyrical spaces in the world. But now one of the two most important Italian sites in terms of cultural tourism suggests, among the ten "most famous and largest in the world" lyric theaters, the Colón in number one, among the 15 [...]

By |2018-10-23T13:39:03-03:00octubre 23rd, 2018|Sin categorizar|Comentarios desactivados en The Colón Theater, considered as the best in the world