Laboratorio de Idiomas at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (www.idiomas.filo.uba.ar/extranjeros/espanol/extranjeros.htm). UBA is the best university around. It's also public, which means regular enrolment is free for Argentine citizens. Not so for foreigners. A two-month intensive course will cost new students $655 for 64 hours of instruction. (Returning students pay $495 for 64 hours.) Programa de Español para Extranjeros at the Centro Universitario de Idiomas (www.cui.edu.ar/secretaria/espanol). Courses at CUI (which is also part of UBA) run $400 for two months, with classes three mornings a week (70 hours total). An intensive program squeezes the same number of hours into one month, though our teacher recommended the two-month option for more absorption time. The Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas Juan Ramán Fernández? (www.ieslenguasvivasjrf.esc.edu.ar)a.k.a. Lenguas Vivas"was where Jorge Luis Borges's father taught psychology. The price: Just over $2 an hour for intensive or regular courses. Also, the city government of Buenos Aires has a Website that lists all the language courses available searchable by name and by neighborhood: www.buenosaires.edu.ar.