Hola mis amigos. Es viernes de nuevo. I hope you have fun plans or at least relaxing plans for your weekend. Welcome back to my Friday Canción feature. I’ve got a well-known, dance inducing…
Date Archives November 2018
Pablo Neruda’s “Leaning Into The Afternoons”
Leaning into the afternoons is another poem about love by Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda. The first time I read it, I got a sense of an older person talking to his love. Perhaps senility was playing its…
Reblog: Lake Titikaka and the Uros on their floating Islands
I saw a documentary once about a group of indigenous peoples who literally built their islands, their homes, out of reeds. The Uru or Uros are indigenous to the area of Peru and Bolivia and…
Spanish Lesson 14: Adjectives ~ Adjetivos
According to Grammarly.com, Adjectives are words that describe/ modify the qualities or states of being of nouns, egs. enormous, silly, yellow, fun, fast. They can also describe the quantity of nouns: many, few, millions, eleven. …
Lázaro Cárdenas and the post Revolution Reforms in Mexico
Who was Lázaro Cárdenas? He was the President of Mexico from 1935 to 1940. He was said to be one of the most honest and dedicated of all Mexican presidents. During his campaign, he visited…
FRIDAY CANCIÓN: Como La Flor – Selena
It’s viernes de nuevo. Welcome to another Friday Canción. My selection today is a little slower in tempo but so beautiful, even if it is about an unrequited love. Today’s cancion de viernes is Como La Flor by Selena. Como La…
Using Grammarly as a Teaching and Writing Resource
Today I’d like to talk about a tool I have been using for the last few years, Grammarly. There are both the Grammarly application and the Grammarly website. Long before I used the application, I…
DÃa de los Muertos – Nov 2
While many around the world celebrated Halloween on Wednesday (Oct 31), in Mexico and (by people of Mexican heritage throughout the world) a different but somewhat related festival takes place today: DÃa de los Muertos….