Originally Posted by ellielou
I have some very rudimentary Spanish at my disposal, but am planning to spend the next five months learning as much as I can... (BTW, does anyone know of a decent self-study program CD or DVD and booklet thing that I can order and learn from home.....?)
Just wondering, though, if the typical foreign travel thing of pointing at other diner's food and gesturing wildly works in BsAs?!
The time invested in learning Spanish will be well worth it. The difference between my trip last October and this April was staggering, mostly because I spent a lot of time improving my Spanish.
I took a beginners course from the USDA Grad School about a year and a half ago. I supplemented between the BA trips with Rosetta Stone cds. They worked right by me. I think they're fully refundable if you don't like them.