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Português e Espanhol em Argentina

Meu nome é Débora Reis, sou economista e psicopedagoga. Atualmente exerço a função de professora de ensino fundamental no Brasil. Estive em Córdoba por um mês para estudar na Coined e, nesse tempo, surgiu a oportunidade de dividir com um grupo de funcionários da empresa, que trabalha diretamente com a venda de cursos para estrangeiros, o conhecimento e contato direto com a língua Portuguesa.

Lecionei 30 horas/aula, na qual discutimos a cultura dos brasileiros e a formalização da língua. Esse processo resultou em uma experiência extremamente gratificante, na qual conseguimos socializar algumas das expectativas dos alunos brasileiros que apresentam o desejo de ingressar em um curso na Coined e, em cima disso, trabalhar com o intuito de atender essas mesmas expectativas.

As aulas foram interativas e expositivas, o que proporcionou um maior envolvimento do grupo, que por si só, já demonstrava-se interessado em aprender essa nova cultura. Interagimos com vários estudantes brasileiros de diferentes localidades através da linguagem oral, escutamos músicas, produzimos textos respondendo diversos questionamentos levantados por outros alunos da mesma nacionalidade e, trabalhamos com a parte formal da língua, a partir da necessidade do grupo, o que tornou o trabalho mais construtivo.
E isso vem sendo apenas mais um dos investimentos da Coined para atender melhor seus clientes.



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WRC Feel the roar of the World Rally in Cordoba

World Rally Argentina

If you like listening to the sound of the engines and living extreme adventures, then you should go to the WRC Rally in Cordoba Argentina on March the 27th.

You just can’t miss this unbelievable opportunity to witness the WRC racing in Cordoba, Argentina. The Spanish School in Cordoba is 30 minutes away from Carlos Paz, where the real excitement is settled.

Come to Cordoba, Argentina and take advantage of this incredible experience. Spend 3 days in Cordoba hills and experience the intense car races.

Moreover, the WRC Rally in Cordoba, Argentina is one of the only events of the year where people from all places of the world gather together to share the same passion, cars!
Get together with friends, eat a traditional Argentinean barbecue and enjoy the best pilots and cars of the world such as Citröen, Ford, Subaru and Suzuki.

The WRC - World Rally Championship in Argentina is organized by the Argentinean Cars’ Club along many other companies that offer health security, food and catering, and different products. You have no excuses!

Come to Cordoba Argentina and get wild with the Rally racing!

Click here to get the schedule of the WRC and find out when and where the races will take place. What are you waiting for?



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Meeting real Gauchos in Cordoba

Last Saturday, the second weekend of January, I went to the Festival Nacional de Doma y Folklore (the National festival of horse taming and folklore) in Jesús María, a small village very close to Cordoba, Argentina.

Together with two other girls, also language students at my Spanish school in Cordoba, I met early afternoon at the bus terminal where hundreds of other locals had the same idea. Fortunately the city was very organized and there were buses heading to the festival every 20 minutes.

The bus ride took about 1 hour and arriving in Jesús María we were overwhelmed with the masses of people strolling around the loads of stands selling so called artesanías, traditional crafts, of all kind. Of course there were also lots of different stands with a large variety of different food, from the classic Argentinean Asado, Empanadas, or Choripan to the local delicacy Cabrito, which is chevon or young goat.

The main spectacle though takes place inside a huge football stadium in the middle of the fare grounds. During a whole week, so called gauchos, the Argentine version of a cowboy, compete in various horse taming tournaments inside the stadium until late at night. During brakes in between and after the competitions finish, various folklore bands and dance groups provide for entertainment. The event last long into the early morning hours and some people stay at the festival until 5am or even longer!

A very amusing thing was that nearly everyone in the crowd had huge posters with all sorts of personal messages written on them which they would hold up so they could be seen on television. Of course we didn’t want to be an exception to this and had a great time running around with our poster which said: Buscamos gauchos (con plata), meaning Looking for gauchos (with money)!


One can imagine that we were very popular with all the guys and thus ended up taking about 30 photos with different gauchos and were even filmed by a television broadcaster!
Well, at the end we didn’t find gauchos with money, but nevertheless we had a great time at the festival, experiencing part of the Argentinean way of life with lots of eating, dancing and celebrating with the local people until early in the morning!!
by Janine Coppens

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