I am planning to travel to Buenos Aires in August to study Spanish for a month. I thought that taking classes at the University of Buenos Aires would be a good idea and I found this company (GIC Argentina) online that would register you for classes at UBA and also provide accomodation. Did anyone have experience with them?

Thanks,

hi

really is nuew for me, about this company, i saw the web, but i never see anything about them. bye

Hi,
I haven´t heard about GIC either... But I have had a very good experience studying Spanish at Verbum school in Buenos Aires. The groups are small and that gives you the opportunity to practise a lot.
Good luck!
Kajsa

Yes, I am planning on studying Spanish in B/A early next year and I am also looking into studying with GIC.
I have been in contact with teachers and staff from the school and they have been very helpful to me. (I reccomend that you contact them with any questions you may have) - But I think that they are booked out for August.

Hi, i haven t heard about them, but there is a tourist services supplier in buenos aires which arranges spanish courses and classes. Have a look at
www.argentineplanet.com.ar
good luck

Hi!
Yes I know GIC… and I had a very bad experience with them this summer! This company offers Spanish classes and internship programs. I am a medical student and I applied for a Medical Internship which offered me the chance to work directly with doctors in Argentina’s public hospital and make arrangements for my accommodation in Buenos Aires. From the first day I arrived in Buenos Aires I noticed that the company was very disorganized. They were supposed to meet me in the apartment I was going to be staying in to give me information about the program, but no one showed up. I had to go to their office to find out when it was that I was going to start working. Then the day we arrived at the hospital they told us that we would be working on an investigation project and going for rounds with the residents in the hospital as well. What really happened was that they left us in the volunteer program office discussing a campaign the hospital wanted to implement for the medical staff about the importance of washing your hands. As the days went by we started talking to the other students who were in the internship program and they all felt that they had been cheated. After two weeks had gone by we went to their office and asked for a breakdown of the program price since we felt that we were entitled to a refund because they didn’t offer us what we paid for. But nothing happened, they said that they weren’t obligated to provide us that (and actually by law they were). So we asked other people in the program how much they were paying and we called the company that rented the apartment what the rent price was. Turns out that not only did they not do their jobs, they also charged us $450 dollars extra for the apartment just because they didn’t think we could get information on how much the apartment rent was. When we confronted them the guy in charge said, with a smile on his face, that he didn’t know what the extra $450 they charged were for and he threw us out of the office because they didn’t want the other students to find out. These people take complete advantage of the fact that we are foreigners and that many don’t speak well Spanish to rob us with a smile on their face. So I would definitely recommend that you apply directly to UBA and find accommodations by yourself online since you will be saving hundreds of dollars that GIC robs you so that they can have a nice office, and then don’t even provide the service you pay them for. You can get information for accommodations at www.4rentargentina.com or just google temporary rentals in Buenos Aires. Hope this message helps since I know that when you search for this company nothing ever comes up about people that have had experience with them...