Archive for 'Spanish Culture'
La Navidad en Uruguay Posted by Adir on Dec 19, 2011
¡Hola a todos! I have this friend from Uruguay who lives in São Paulo, Isaac Rodríguez. We chatted over Skype and he told me how they celebrate Christmas and New Year’s in his home country. Check out his interview and pay attention to how he hesitates by using the informal word “este”. Download audio Bueno…
Fiestas curiosas en Cáceres: Los escobazos y La Encamisá Posted by Magda on Dec 15, 2011
No sé si en España tenemos una fiesta para todo, pero lo que sí es cierto es que tenemos muchas bastante curiosas. Hace pocos días celebramos el Día de la Constitución (6 de Diciembre) y el día de la Inmaculada Concepción (8 de Diciembre). Y en la víspera del 7 al 8, acabo de descubrir…
Spanish slang: mogollón Posted by Adir on Dec 12, 2011
Yes, slang is part of our lives and definitely we need to learn some slang words to understand when native speakers use them and, why not, with care, use them ourselves? A very cool slang word is mogollón. Mogollón is basically a big amount of something, oodles of something. It comes from Italian moccobello or…
Song: Mis Deseos/Feliz Navidad, Michael Bublé + Thalía Posted by Adir on Dec 9, 2011
¡Hola a todos! ¿Cómo les está yendo por Navidades? A lot of English-speaking artist record songs for the Spanish-speaking market and Michael Bublé is no exception. On December 6th he had his Christmas special on NBC and sang with Latin diva Thalía. Michael tried to speak a little Spanish, just for fun, and along with…
La voz dormida Posted by Magda on Nov 15, 2011
¿Cuál es la última película que visteis en el cine? El pasado fin de semana yo vi La voz dormida, de una novela de Dulce Chacón. Basada en hechos reales, cuenta la historia de un grupo de mujeres republicanas en una prisión madrileña tras la Guerra Civil Española. Los críticos dicen que la película, y…
Entrevista con Thalía: Cada Vez Más Fuerte Posted by Adir on Nov 14, 2011
Mexican bombshell Thalía has just released her new book, Cada Día Más Fuerte (Growing Strong – English title). In this book she talks about the good and bad situations she has gone through in her life as a person and a celebrity. Below you can watch the video and a summary of the interview in…
Canción: Noviembre sin Ti, de Reik Posted by Adir on Nov 11, 2011
Reik is a Latin Grammy-winning Mexican band from Mexicali, Baja California formed by Jesús Alberto Navarro Rosas (lead vocals), Julio Ramírez Eguía (guitar/background vocals), and Gilberto Marín Espinoza (guitar). The group’s name actually means “rake” (as in raking the guitar’s strings), but the band wanted their Mexican listeners to pronounce it correctly, hence, Reik. (Wikipedia)…