{"id":201,"date":"2009-09-11T16:59:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T20:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=201"},"modified":"2009-09-11T16:59:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T20:59:03","slug":"las-telenovelas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/las-telenovelas\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Telenovelas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Las Telenovelas<\/p>\n<p>Telenovelas are a big hit in Latin America and Brazil. Hundreds of them are produced every year, and stars go from telenovelas to Hollywood, like Mexican Salma Hayek and Brazilian heartthrob Rodrigo Santoro, who\u2019s starred in Lost and some mainstream movies.<\/p>\n<p>Watching soap operas in Spanish is a very good way to improve your Spanish and even keep updated with slang and expressions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carrusel <\/strong>was a very successful soap in the early 90s. It told the story of Maestra Jimena (Gabriela Rivero) and her students in a typical Mexican elementary school.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Carrusel telenovela - video 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HqmqhkEowvI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see the kids 15 years later on this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Carrossel - A professora e as criancas 15 anos depois...\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KlITzTLp78c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ver\u00f3nica Castro<\/strong> is one of the most respected Mexican actresses and has participated in more than 15 soap operas and more than 20 movies, besides being a recording artist in Mexico. Her role in <em>Los Ricos Tambi\u00e9n Lloran<\/em> was highly acclaimed in every country where the soap opera was broadcast. Here\u2019s a video of her role in Rosa Salvaje, where she plays a tomboy who falls in love with the wrong man but, as it turns out, everything ends well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HuvGfsYXW_Q\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HuvGfsYXW_Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, a teen soap that has been a huge success, even after it\u2019s finished, is <strong>Rebelde<\/strong>. The main characters have a band off-screen and it\u2019s a hit all over Latin America and the United States. The following video is very easy to understand and it is the first episode of this soap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hMoKIto6sv8\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hMoKIto6sv8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s finish by showing the first telenovela trilogy: <strong>Maria Mercedes<\/strong>, <strong>MariMar<\/strong> and <strong>Mar\u00eda la del Barrio<\/strong>, which tell basically the same story: a poor girl falls in love with a rich guy and after lots of distress, backstabbing, crying and shouting, the main characters (Mexican actress\/singer Thal\u00eda and some leading man) live happily ever after.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XkFBETOxujw\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XkFBETOxujw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"la venganza de marimar (todo en uno sin cortes)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6YiF7l_k85U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aBlDrL_gLak\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aBlDrL_gLak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nos vemos prontito.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Telenovelas Telenovelas are a big hit in Latin America and Brazil. Hundreds of them are produced every year, and stars go from telenovelas to Hollywood, like Mexican Salma Hayek and Brazilian heartthrob Rodrigo Santoro, who\u2019s starred in Lost and some mainstream movies. 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