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Spanish is the most widely spoken language in the world, and is the official language in over 20 countries. Because of the beauty and practical use of this language, it is also the most commonly learned second language. There are many benefits of learning Spanish,
On the basis of the interaction between Spanish and English was created a hybrid language called Spanglish. Do you know this combination?
Today we will present another of very famous festivals which was inagurated yesterday at noon in Pamplona, the region of Navarra. The Festival of San Fermin, popularly called sanfermines , is known mainly for so called closures (encierros) which are based on running in front
The Real Academia Española published in October the 23rd edition of the DRAE – Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, the most authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. The new edition is aimed at enriching the Diccionario, modernizing it and making it more coherent. What
Everyone knows that is not entirely correct to say that in Spain they speak “Spanish” (or ” Castilian ” ) , and no more else, because each of the Autonomous Communities , has its own linguistic characteristics , and in some of them, like Catalonia
Today we will talk about a very interesting book of “thriller” plot: ” The Club Dumas” by Arturo Perez -Reverte , a Spanish writer and journalist , member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 2003. He wrote this book in 1993 and it is focused
Today we will talk about a Spanish author who in the last period was considered to be the one who more did talk about him and his books. We are talking of Carlos Luis Zafón and in particular of his best-known and most sublime work,
The Spanish Golden Age begins in 1492, with the end of the Reconquista (Reconquest), the sea voyages to the New World, the reigns of Carlos I and Felipe II, and it ends in the middle of the XVII Century. The Catholic Monarchs had a goal
El Albaicín loses another piece of its historical heritages. Friday evening died José Ferrer González, cantaor flamenco known as “El Niño de las Almendras”. In this way an age of flamenco ends, the flamenco of the struggle and of the poverty. The flamenco guitarist and
MARIANA PINEDA Mariana de Pineda y Muñoz, generally known as Mariana Pineda, (1 September 1804–26 May 1831) was an Andalusian national heroine. At a very young age, she married Manuel Peralta Valte, a liberal army officer, but was widowed in 1822 with two children. She
