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Translating For My Parents
¡Ay, Ay, Ay! At times I didn’t want to translate. It was embarrassing to be the interpreter. To not understand what that person was saying or how exactly it was my parents wanted me to convey their...
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Rata De Dos Patas, And Other Scorned Love Worthy Songs
Artist rendering - anonymous I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Para una corazón roto there’s definitely nothing like a Spanish song about despecho. That feeling that you get after a love...
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Ask Juan: Why is Spanish so Hard to Learn?
The other day a reader emailed me with the following question: Since you are Juan of Words, what do you do when life gives you a whack in the back of the head? I’ve been trying to learn Spanish through...
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Putting Bilingual Children to Sleep in Spanish: Un Lullaby
Niña durmiendo via mosaicoderetazos.blogspot.com A la ru y la ru ri ta, A la ru, duerma chiquito, Y a la ru ru, Y la ru ri ta. A la ru y a la ru ri ta… That’s how I put Edgar to sleep last night. For...
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Is Samy on ‘Mira Quién Baila’ a Sign of the Times?
Is Samy introducing a new, more accepting era of Spanish-language television? So Samy is on Mira Quien Baila this season. “Samy from Miami” to be more precise – who knew? That in it of itself is not...
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Why All Latinas In Hollywood Should Learn Conversational Spanish
Eva Longoria for Lay’s. It wasn’t too long ago that celebrities like Eva Longoria, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Alba, and yes even La Diva Del Bronx Jennifer Lopez could speak only a couple of words of...
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¡Nanais!
¿Te gusta esto? Can you do this? What do you do for a living? How many of those have you had? What do you know about them? ¿Cuánto me puedes prestar? What did you say? These are all pretty simple...
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