Month: January 2019

SPANISH LESSON 17: Trabalenguas

January 31, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

!Hola mis amigos! It’s time for another Spanish lesson.  Today’s lesson involves you doing a lot of talking… or rather, sound making!  We’re doing tongue twisters.  The Spanish words for it is trabalenguas, which roughly translates to tongue work… and we’ll most certainly be working those tongues. I will warn you that these aren’t the […]

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Spanglish Sunday 8

January 27, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Happy Sunday!!! Here are some more Spanglish memes to tickle your funny bone and two new vocabulary words for you: bear: el oso wave: la ola Bear those words in mind… 😉     Check out my Hispani-centric Memes Pinterest Board for more jokes like these.   Enjoy the rest of your weekend.  Wishing you good things for the […]

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FRIDAY CANCIÓN: Frío Frío by Juan Luis Guerra

January 25, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

Hola mis amigos.  ¡Es viernes! Welcome to my first Friday Canción for 2019. Today I’m in a bit of a romantic mood.  Let’s get a head start on Valentine’s Day with a love song written and performed by Latino musical favourite, Juan Luis Guerra.  Frío Frío is wonderfully poetic in its description of love.  Love […]

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A Book Review: Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton

January 23, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

  After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity–and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution… Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba’s high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country’s […]

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