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Many Argentines also speak other European languages (Italian, German, Portuguese, French, Welsh, Swedish and Croatian, as examples) due to the vast number of immigrants from Europe that came to Argentina. [9] English language is a required subject in many schools, and there are also many private English-teaching academies and institutions.
English-style houses on a residential street in Belgrano R. Around 100,000 Anglo-Argentines are the descendants of English immigrants to Argentina. [1] They are one of the most successful immigrant groups of Argentina, gaining prominence in commerce, industry, and the professions. Many speak fluent English at home.
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [70] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [71] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
One notable pronunciation difference found in Argentina is the "sh" sounding y and ll. In most Spanish speaking countries the letters y and ll are pronounced somewhat like the "y" in yo-yo, however in most parts of Argentina they are pronounced like "sh" in English (such as "shoe") or like "zh" (such as the sound the s makes in "measure").
English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 million 199 million 1.140 billion Hindi (excl. Urdu) Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 345 million 264 million 609 million Spanish (excl. creole languages ...
It's very serious that the president is speaking in these terms," Cintia Vignot, a 42-year-old teacher, told Reuters at the march. "As a citizen, as a teacher, as a mother, I say no."
Many young Argentines are struggling to find opportunities in a country where a cost-of-living crisis and triple-digit inflation has compounded investor wariness after years of political and ...
Many of these cuts were necessary to rein in a bloated, inefficient and spendthrift state. But the adjustment has proved painful in a country where roughly every 10th person is employed in the ...