Spanish for Tango
" It takes two to tango" 👠👞
by Maria Soledad Bancoff
Translator & Lecturer
Tango & Argentine Spanish (Rioplatense) are even closer than you think! As a professional dancer & tango lover I'm lucky enough to witness the "life" of this language in the streets and in the milonga. If you'd like to learn some lunfardo, follow these activities.
🤔 Some of the questions I come across when meeting people in different destinations are:
Do you currently use the word "chamuyo" out of the Tango world? How can I use it in a sentence?
Do you really use words from the Tango lyrics in your daily life?
Why is the Spanish from Argentina so different from the rest of varieties?
👞👠 I prepared this post aiming to help tangueros/as (non-native tango teachers, serious students, milonga organizers and culture lovers) to understand Argentine jergon.
❤️ Here you have a BRIEF DEMO of some of the activities I pepare for my classes (of course there's a lot of conversation as well, but for that we need to see each other on Zoom 😉 )
Activity 1: Learn new words we'll be using to undersatand the first part of "Milonga lunfarda". Click here! (go over these flashcards as many times as you need). Play a game to check if you remember the words (play here.)
Activity 3: watch and listen to "Milonga Lunfarda", by Edmundo Rivero (replay the first part until 0:45 for the next activity).
Activity 4: Try to put the following words in the correct order to match the lyrics playing this game.
Activity 5: Watch and listen to the lyrics as many times as you need to check ;-)
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Un abrazo milonguero,
Una teacher milonguera y viajera
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