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Christmas Traditions
In this special time of year, I would like to interrupt our MultiTerm classes in order to talk about the different ways in which Christmas is celebrated in different parts of the world. While the...
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Pronouncing “c” and “z” in Spanish
“Seseo” consists of pronouncing the letters “c” (before “e” and “i”) and “z” with the sound normally associated with the letter “s”. If someone speaks with seseo, they would say “serésa” for “cereza”...
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Translation: Specialty of Cultural Interpretation
“The Spanish language has to undergo massive changes in preparation for the future without borders,” warned Gabriel García Márquez in the Congress of Zacatecas 1997. This declaration from the Colombian...
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Regional Soccer Terms That Go Global
In a previous post (Derby or Clásico?), we looked at some of the soccer terms which, by virtue of the incessant flow of Latin American players to Spain, the European media and fans ended up adopting....
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The Real Academia Española Celebrates 300 Years
Three hundred years ago in Madrid, at the house of Don Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, the Marquis of Villena, a group of eight determined men met in order to attempt the feat of creating a dictionary...
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The “Ibero-Americanization” of the Cervantes Institute, Heading Towards the...
The director of the Cervantes Institute (In Spanish, Instituto Cervantes), Victor García de la Concha, announced last week that the organization is in the process of increasing collaboration with...
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A Sonorous Atlas of the Spanish Language
To celebrate the Sixth International Conference on the Spanish Language, which took place last week in Panama, the Spanish newspaper El País had writers from the twenty Spanish-speaking countries (as...
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Spanish Language and Its Countless Variations
Today, the Spanish speaking population reaches over 500 million people around the world. Additionally, Latin America has become in a rapidly growing market with much development and growth potential....
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A few years back, it seemed highly improbable that cable channels would modify their lineup in order to offer their content dubbed rather than subtitled. From some point in the late ‘90s until quite...
View ArticleThe Multilingual Superpower
When and where I grew up, mostly where, knowing more than one language was not a good thing. It made you stand out. Kids looked at you funny and made fun of you as if you were someone from outer space....
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