English for Specific Purposes (ESP)

Ok, so you can converse with native speakers and be understood. You can write fairly well and your reading comprehension is above normal thanks to working with a native professor. But, what about the lexicon of your profession? That is where English for Specific Purposes enters the language battle so to speak. Remember, learning of a second language never stops. Examples of English for Specific Purposes include but not limited to the following:

·English for Business (Inglés para Negocios)

·English for Nursing (Inglés para Enferemeros)

·English for Hospitality (Inglés para Turismo)

·English for Law (Inglés para el Derecho)

·English for Finance (Inglés para Finanza) ESP requires different courses or syllabuses which are designed to meet the needs of learners who want to learn how to be able to speak and write in the context of their work more than general English proficiency.

If you are in Buenos Aires, please contact Professor Winn directly for your own English classes at: 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations via email may also be sent to the gmail account for evaluation.Courses are designed to meet your professional requirements.

Spanish<>English Interpreter

Besides translating your documents from Spanish, French, and Portuguese, I also do Spanish<> English interpreting for any event or individual. Translation is for documents. Interpretation is for speech. The two concepts are often confused.

There are two main types of interpretation: consecutive and simultaneous.

In business meetings or visits by executives to Buenos Aires, consecutive interpreting is more likely. This occurs when one person speaks, the interpreter renders the message into the listener's language, and then waits to communicate accurately and responsibly the response. The interpreter serves as a bridge between the two parties. The interpreter is paid by the hour.

In conferences, speeches or other similar venues, simultaneous interpretation is more likely. Instant interpretation of the speaker's words occurs. It is important to have an advance copy of a speech if possible to prepare for any terms or concepts that may require extra work. Again, the interpreter is paid by the hour.

Should you need a competent and personable interpreter during any time in Buenos Aires, please contact me to schedule your event.

Professor Winn is available for your own English classes or interpretation needs at: 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations via email may also be sent to the gmail account for prompt evaluation.

Translation Sp/Fr/Pt > English

As a certified translator, I can offer a gamut of English Services.

As a language practitioner of English, I am proficient in adequately finding the meaning in text and converting it to my native language. A professional translator only renders documents into his or her own maternal language.

From large texts and memos to personal letters, a translator can help you communicate in another language.

I specialize in the areas of business, law, medicine, technology and international affairs.

Also, I translate from Spanish, French, and Portuguese into English, my mother language.

Let me help you communicate your ideas professionally and effectively. If you are in Buenos Aires, call me at (1160 461 342 ) or anyone can send an email to mrenglish101@gmail.com for prompt attention.

Ingles para Negocios

Ingles para Negocios (Business English) is gaining importance in the English as Foreign Language (EFL) field.

English is the dominant language. So much so, even in Hong Kong, English is preferred over Mandarin Chinese as the lengua franca of business affairs.

Here are some key sources for business news in English on the Internet:

http://www.bloomberg.com/
http://www.ft.com/
http://online.wsj.com/public/us
http://www.economist.com/

In Buenos Aires, contact Professor Winn directly for your own English classes at: 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations via email may also be sent to the gmail account for prompt evaluation.

How to Hire an English Professor

Ok, in our last post, we discussed some of the advantages of studying English with a native professor.

However, what qualities should you look for before hiring one?

Not every native speaker of a language can teach it.

There are two main qualities to insist upon when hiring a native language professor:

1) Does s/he have a university education?
2) Does s/he have teaching experience?

It takes a certain person to be a language teacher. Patience, organizational skills, and of course knowledge of the language inside and out are essential. A university education is a credit. It is a measurement of proficiency and demonstrates a command of knowledge and education above minimal standards.

Experience. Sometimes experience is the best teacher. Does the prospective professor have a track record for teaching English? Through institutes or universities? Or does their experience consist of only private students? Investigate. Ask for references.

Buy an hour of the professor's time to test their competence, demeanor, and manner of teaching a class. They are professionals (hopefully) and their time is valuable. If you like the class and if there is a chemistry with the teacher, then sign up for more classes.


In Buenos Aires, contact Professor Winn directly for your own English classes at: 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations via email may also be sent to the gmail account for prompt evaluation.

English Lessons

English is the lengua franca in the world today. In business, science, arts, communication, and diplomacy, English in one form or another dominates. Moreover, it is the mark of a well-rounded educated individual.

In Buenos Aires, I offer private lessons for those interested in improving their skills in English or those just beginning to learn the language.

There are more non-natives teaching English than natives in the world. However, a native English-speaker offers natural advantages.

A native speaker can correct instantly the use of expressions and the accent. Conversation forces the brain in an instance to find the adequate phrase for the situation, stimulates learning of vocabulary, grammar and leads eventually to dominating the language.

Serious language students seek out native speakers to dominate the language and to achieve the optimal level of perfection available. The personal and professional rewards are immeasurable.

In Buenos Aires, contact Professor Winn directly for your own English classes at: 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations via email may also be sent to the gmail account for prompt evaluation.

7 Things to Know about Teaching English in Buenos Aires

The English teacher abroad is a special person. The combination of wits, strength, intelligence, and flexibility is just some of the traits needed to survive against the odds away from his or her native land.

In Argentina, the demand for English is strong. It will probably be impossible to gain the proper papers to work legally without much effort and time - time you need to be working to make a living.

So, what do you do?

Come to Buenos Aires, but heed these 7 points of advice.

1. Find a recruiting firm for English teachers - teach Business English. The firm assigns you hours with companies. Get some hours in the morning - the popular time - and save the afternoon for private lessons (see below). You will have to travel around the center of Buenos Aires to different sites. The going rate? 20 pesos / hour.

2. You get paid once a month. The pain! So bring a budget of at least $2500 to hold you over until you can get the first payment in Argentine pesos. Hold some dollars in reserve. You never know when you will need them.

3. Know thy grammar. Teaching English requires a great degree of professionalism an competence. Not every speaker of the language can teach it. Buy a grammar book before leaving home that covers the basics and more. Have a good understanding of the tenses and be able to explain them without fail.

4. Teaching experience is helpful. As a native speaker you will be given wide berth here to teach your maternal tongue. Experience as a teacher with classroom experience or as a tutor is an asset. Your students will know immediately. It will also help you with private students.
5. Private students are golden. You will make more pesos with private lessons than you could hope to make with a recruitment firm. It will take effort and marketing wits, but it can be done.
6. Speak some Spanish. The last two points here are for emphasis. While you are may be more likely to encounter one who speaks English here than other Latin American capitals, learn the local language. Your traditional Spanish is not spoken in Argentina. However, any effort to speak the language is appreciated and will make your life easier in your new land. Take a class or at least pick up a phrasebook before arriving.

7. Review your life and make sure you are ready to make the leap. You are not going to get rich and may not have a comfortable life at first. Make sure you are prepared mentally and economically for the life in another land. Some rewards in life are not monetary. Your perspectives will be challenged. Buenos Aires is a marvelous city with many charms.

In Buenos Aires, contact Professor Winn directly for your own English classes at: 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations via email may also be sent to the gmail account for prompt evaluation.

Welcome!

The purpose of English in Buenos Aires (EBA) blog is two-fold - to both inform and alert potential customers of English language services available in Argentina's capital city.

Hello, I'm Winn, a professor of English and certified translator and native of the United States. I hail from (south) Florida, the Sunshine State, where many Argentines call home.

Buenos Aires lies at the crosscurrents of the strong demand for English in Argentina. The vibrant "Paris of South America" opens its doors to the world with strong tourist, cultural, and commercial links.

Argentines are well-educated and porteños (residents of Buenos Aires) are especially tuned into the world around them. Given English at the moment is the lengua franca, it is therefore important to not only learn but dominate the language.

EBA covers the EFL (English Foreign Language) territory in the Argentine capital as well as life in general here for an American expat. Plus, given my profession as a translator as well, my loyal readers can get a daily sample of the headlines from Argentine papers translated into English.

I invite you to subscribe to EBA. If you are interested in EFL in Buenos Aires, want to learn about life here, sign up today!

If you need to learn English or prepare for the TOEFL or IELTS, need documents translated from Spanish, French or Portuguese into US English, require a specialized English service (writing letters, essays or CVs in English) or are visiting and require a confidential interpreter (Spanish<>English), not only subscribe but contact me directly!

Life abroad is full of unique challenges and rewards. Join me on this excursion!

In Buenos Aires, contact Professor Winn directly for your own English classes at: 1160 461 432 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations via email may also be sent to the gmail account for prompt evaluation.

Answers to "Argentine Wine Woes"

1. Where is the heart of the Argentine wine industry located? Mendoza

2. "A glass of wine is soon ____________." (followed by a bottle)

3. Argentina is the ___th largest exporter of wine to _____ countries. (7th, 130)

4. Name three types of Argentine wine grapes. cabernet, chardonnay, malbec

5. Which countries are the greatest consumers of Argentine wine? United States, United Kingdom

6. What is a current challenge to the progress of the Argentine wine industry? global economic downturn

7. How long does it take to bring wine to market? Why? 3 years - 1 to grow grapes, 2 before selling the wine

8. What makes Argentine wine "great" according to the video? glacier water from high Andes

9. Define these vocabulary terms.

vineyard - place where grapes are grown

harvest - a season for gathering agricultural crops

financing - gathering of money needed for a project or venture

cordillera - a system of mountain ranges often consisting of a number of more or less parallel chains

marketing plan - campaign to generate awareness of a product or service

glacier - a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface

grandee - "big wigs," important individuals in an industry

capital investment - money used by businesses to buy fixed assets (land, machinery)

poverty line - minimum income amount deemed necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living in a given country



In Buenos Aires, contact Professor Winn directly for your own English classes at: 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations (Es/Fr/Pt >En) via email may also be sent to the gmail account for prompt evaluation. Buy your English-language texts here!

English Services

Can you and your team tackle the communication challenges of international business in the future?

English in Buenos Aires is proud to offer the following English Services in addition to English classes.

Please contact Professor Winn via cellular in Buenos Aires @ 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101@gmail.com:

Our Services:

1. Translation - from Spanish/French/Portuguese to English in the following areas: business/commerce/finances, medical, legal, technology, and government/international relations.

2. Copywriting and Proofreading - If you need a letter, essay or other document written originally in English (not translated), please contact us immediately for your project. We promise to communicate your meaning precisely and succinctly directly to your attended audience. We also proofread your existing English documents. You only have one chance to make a first impression!

3. Perfecting Business English - Are you able to compete and win the business you want with your current level of Business English? From documents to negotiations, Professor Winn can transform your business products into a competitive advantage.

Professor Winn can assist you with the following (not exclusive):

• E-mail Writing
• Telephoning
• Presentations
• Efective Meetings
• Accent Training

We are qualified and ready to design any kind of workshop. Our clients tell us their needs and we work to meet them with excellence and professionalism.

4. Executive Services - Business English Executive Coaching: face-to-face or via e-coaching - learn the cultural aspects of the English business world and learn professional and intercultural competencies.

Professor Winn understands today's world of global business from the inside out.

If you are in Buenos Aires and want English lessons personally designed to fit your needs, please call Professor Winn at 1160 461 342 or send an email to mrenglish101@gmail.com.

Anyone interested in English-language services or translations (Sp/Fr/Pt>En) may send an email to mrenglish101@gmail.com for a prompt evaluation.

Buy your English-language texts today!

In Buenos Aires, contact Professor Winn directly for your own English classes at: 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations (Es/Fr/Pt >En) via email may also be sent to the gmail account for prompt evaluation. Buy your English-language texts here!

What is RSS?

What is RSS? This questions comes to mind for many new readers. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) makes it easier for your to keep up with your favorite website. Get my feed!

You do want to keep up to date with the latest posts on English in Buenos Aires?

We have a number of ways that you can subscribe to this site and receive updates. The main one that our readers use is our RSS feed. But what is RSS?

What is RSS?

RSS is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favorite websites.

In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to see what had been added.

The problems with bookmarking

• You as the web surfer had to do all the work
• It can get complicated when you are trying to track many websites at once
• You miss information when you forget to check your bookmarks
• You end up seeing the same information over and over again on sites that don’t update very often

RSS Changes Everything

What if you could tell a website to let you know every time that they update? In a sense, this is what RSS does for you.

RSS flips things around a little and is a technology that provides you with a method of getting relevant and up to date information sent to you for you to read in your own time. It saves you time and helps you to get the information you want quickly after it was published.

It’s like subscribing to a magazine that is delivered to you periodically but instead of it coming in your physical mail box each month when the magazine is published it is delivered to your ‘RSS Reader’ every time your favorite website updates.

The key is for you to understand why it’s good and how to use it.

I have found RSS to be almost an addiction and much easier to get the information you need from the sites you like.

How to Use RSS

Get an RSS Reader - The first thing you’ll want to do if you’re getting into reading sites via RSS is to choose an RSS Feed Reader.

There are many feed readers going around with a variety of approaches and features - however a good place to start is with a couple of free and easy to use web based ones like Google Reader and Bloglines. Either one will do if you’re starting out (I use Google’s Reader) - as I say there are many others to choose from but to get started either of these are fairly easy to use and will help you work out the basics of RSS.

You can receive your own news briefing in the reader and decide which stories you want to read more about or skip to the next item.

The best way to learn how to use either Google Reader or Bloglines is to simply subscribe to some feeds and give it a go. Both have helpful help sections to get you up and running.

Find Some Feeds to Subscribe to - there are two places to look for a site’s feed:

1. On the Site
2. In Your Browser

On Site Subscription
Over the last few years you may have noticed a lot of little buttons and widgets appearing on your favorite sites and blogs. Little orange buttons, ‘counters’ with how many ‘readers a blog has, links called RSS, XML, ATOM and many more.

There are plenty more - but any time you see any of these buttons or anything like them it means that the site you are viewing almost certainly has a feed that you can subscribe to. In most cases it’s as simple as either copying and pasting the link associated with the button into your RSS Reader or clicking the button and following the instructions to subscribe using the feed reader of your choice.

Browser Subscription

Many internet browsers now have the ability to find and subscribe to RSS feeds built right into them.

When you surf to a site you can usually tell if it has an RSS feed by looking in the right hand side of address bar where you type in the site’s URL with the familiar orange RSS icon.

Using Safari Browser it is a blue RSS icon.

Other modern browsers will have similar icons.

To quickly and easily subscribe by clicking these icons you’ll want to set up your browser to do it with your feed reader of choice as by default they will probably subscribe you using the in-browser reader. You can do this by going to the ‘preferences’ to your browser and choosing ‘Google Reader’ or ‘Bloglines’ etc as your feed reader.

Once you’ve done this and have subscribed to a few feeds you’ll begin to see unread items in your Feed Reader and you can start reading.

Don’t want to Use an RSS Reader? Email is an Option

If the above explanation all just seems a little too complicated for you then please don’t worry. Many sites also enable you to subscribe to RSS feeds via a more familiar medium - Email.

Here at English in Buenos Aires we offer a handy email sign up in the top right sidebar where you can enter your email address and get a daily email with a summary of our latest posts. You can unsubscribe at any time and your email will be kept private and not used for any other purposes than to send these daily updates.

Further Reading on What RSS is

RSS In Plain English
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In Buenos Aires, contact Professor Winn directly for your own English classes at: 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations (Es/Fr/Pt >En) via email may also be sent to the gmail account for prompt evaluation. Buy your English-language texts here!

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About English in Buenos Aires

About English in Buenos Aires

Welcome to English in Buenos Aires- a blog helping you understand and appreciate the English language in Buenos Aires!

Into the Virtual English Classroom

My name is Winn Trivette II - the Ace Translator and English professor as well! Languages are my passion and I share the love of my native language everyday to students, mis amigos here in Buenos Aires, and of course with you, my loyal reader through posts to English in Buenos Aires and accompanying blog, Mr. English 101 or my blog dedication to translation.

I am a US expat living in Buenos Aires who teaches English and does freelance translations to afford a comfortable life in Argentina's sprawling capital city.

Learning is no longer confined to the stuffy classroom with a teacher before the class lecturing on the value of the subject material and imploring you to learn or else.


Why English in Buenos Aires?

The site is dedicated to you - the student of English and even we native speakers are all students of English at sometime. The learning never stops. English in Buenos Aires is important to you for the following 4 reasons:

1. Influence of English

The flexibility of the English language and the heavy influence of popular culture require constant monitoring of trends in the language. Also, the influence of English on other languages grows each day. We explore these phenomena in our commentary on the English language in posts to Mr. English 101.

2. Importance of English in today's world and in Buenos Aires

Communicating in English is a certain route to a better living and cultural enrichment on an unparalleled scale. International commerce, media and entertainment, science and technology, and diplomacy are conducted on a global basis in English as a common medium between interested parties. English is the modern lingua franca and for that alone the importance of learning the language is paramount.

Mr. English101 is fluent in Spanish and encourages the learning of another language for cultural enjoyment alone.

3. Learning English

Mr. English101 covers English grammar, writing, proofreading, and even resume writing. Business English is a favorite topic given its role as described above.

4. Learning how to use English

English in Buenos Aires provides helpful tips on how to use English in the four disciplines of speaking, reading, writing, and listening. The hope is that our information aids in learning the language in the smallest amount of time possible.

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In Buenos Aires, contact Professor Winn directly for your own English classes at: 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations (Es/Fr/Pt >En) via email may also be sent to the gmail account for prompt evaluation. Buy your English-language texts here!