Tag: latino
member name: Rico V.
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August 07, 2007 11:47 PM EDT --
Welcome to a new Gather group for all things Latin: LATIN CULTURE.
This group is for all who enjoy Latin cultures: music, film, literature, and popular culture. Post film, song and book reviews, . . .
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October 25, 2008 10:34 AM EDT --
A new poll (National survey of Latino Protestant registered voters, 1-7 October 2008, http://faithinpubliclife.org/content/nslp ) shows Obama leading McCain by almost 17 points among Latino Protestants. . . .
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June 12, 2007 09:37 AM EDT --
MANTEQUILLA= BUTTER
Kind of a long word, so if you’re in a restaurant in a Spanish-speaking country and you’d like some butter, just tell your server, rather quickly, “I MEANT TO KILL . . .
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May 25, 2007 06:52 PM EDT --
What are your hobbies and special interests? Your passions? Focus on words you think of and say a lot, and build a Spanish vocabulary around that. If you do music, for example, here a starter list:
MÚSICA . . .
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May 30, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
(Sections underlined indicate where to stress pronunciation)
No, it's NOT a repeat of yesterday (NADA). Because DE NADA means YOU'RE WELCOME. Today we cover some politeness.
GRACIAS. DE NADA. . . .
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June 02, 2007 01:31 AM EDT --
Two days ago we started covering verbs. It’s not THAT hard, check it out. Today, we’ll put it together, starting with a typical verb that ends with AR (HABLAR).
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June 02, 2007 11:28 PM EDT --
<fade from black>
We move on with typical (or “regular”) verbs, today with those that end in ER (COMER). The nice thing about this: once you learn the present . . .
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June 05, 2007 09:51 PM EDT --
This is your 5th pronunciation lesson. You may want to take a quick peek at the very short previous lessons from May 20th, 21st, 24th, 25th (remember those bowels?). I’ve been underlining the part . . .
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June 07, 2007 09:48 PM EDT --
MAÑANA means both TOMORROW and MORNING.
(See how I spelled it MANIANA up on the Title section? This is because when I used the Ñ character, it became a weird mix of symbols, so this is what . . .
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July 02, 2007 01:24 PM EDT --
My apologies for the long lapse of “Spanish Word of the Day” … which may turn into the “Spanish Word of the Week” to keep with current interest levels.
This week I’m . . .
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August 09, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
If you enjoy Latino life in the United States, either because you are Latino/Latina, or because you like Latin music, food, culture, I invite you to join the new LatinoUSA group. Once you're a member, . . .
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May 29, 2007 03:47 AM EDT --
(Sections underlined indicate where to stress pronunciation.)
NADA (nah-dah) = NOTHING
(bonus word: ACA = HERE)
When the Spanish conquistadores traveled the American west, they named places according . . .
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May 31, 2007 10:44 AM EDT --
As many of you know, action words or verbs are a bit more tricky in Spanish than in English. For example, for the verb “to speak,” you just use “speak” in English no matter who’s . . .
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June 01, 2007 02:01 AM EDT --
Today you’ll learn THREE Spanish words. You could say that there are three types of action words, or verbs, in Spanish, based on the “infinitive” (or word that identifies the action itself): . . .
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June 05, 2007 10:15 AM EDT --
Mi restaurante mexicano favorito está en el lobby de un hotel. ¡Tienen una muy buena sangría! En el restaurante, el presidente del hotel habla con el director administrativo de un hospital. . . .
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June 07, 2007 12:10 PM EDT --
As you may suspect, ORDEN means “order” … and we’re talking about word order here. When describing things in Spanish, many times the order of the words may feel “backwards.” . . .
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June 09, 2007 01:17 PM EDT --
SEMANA= WEEK. Today, not quite an ethymology (word origin) lesson, but the curiosity of similarity – when learning or reviewing the days of the week, in some cases one Spanish word gives you TWO . . .
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June 11, 2007 10:26 AM EDT --
I heard this one in the 80s: “How do you say 'Vietnam' in Spanish?” And the answer was “El Salvador.” Today we’ll talk about a lesser known place: the islands that . . .
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June 03, 2007 07:31 PM EDT --
Today we live it up! VIVIR (to live). This concludes the regular verb conjugation series for now (in the last two days we covered AR and ER endings in the present tense).
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