I love how friendly people in Argentina are to noobs trying to learn Spanish.

If they notice that you "habla un poco" they speak more slowly, use individual English words as needed if you don't understand, but don't just give up and use English for the whole conversation.

I wish people in more countries did this.

it’s like this in Portugal, too :) but there are two other stages: where you get better and start getting treated like and equal and judged for not speaking well enough, and where you get good and achieve true harmony (but start seeing all the human flaws in the world that surrounds you)