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Amigos D.F. - Consejos para la calle

Difficulty: Beginner

Mexico

Are you ever confused about what to say to other pedestrians? Our Mexico City friends Miguel, Anvar and David have agreed to pass on a few tips regarding what to say, and when, as we navigate the streets and sidewalks of the habla hispana (the Spanish speaking world).

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Caption 2 [es]: Tengo veintiún años y soy estudiante de negocios internacionales.
Caption 2 [en]: I'm twenty-one years old and I'm a student of international business.

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Tierra Envenenada - Desminando - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Honduras, Nicaragua

The effort to de-mine Central America is truly an international one, with assistance coming from the U.S., Germany, Spain, France, England, Japan, Canada and Sweden (who’s ambassador is featured here, speaking eloquent Spanish). Also we hear from soldiers on the pleasure of serving a mission of peace, as opposed to one of war.

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Caption 29 [es]: Después que Nicaragua sufrió una guerra civil de aproximadamente diez años...
Caption 29 [en]: After Nicaragua suffered a civil war of approximately ten years...

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Belanova - Entrevista - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

Edgar Huerta, keyboardist of Belanova, refers to Joselo of Cafe Tacuba as un cuate. The word comes from the indigenous Nahuatl word coatl, which means “twin.” But Joselo is not Edgar’s gemelo, cuate is known by all Mexicans to refer to a “good buddy,” a “dear friend.”

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Caption 6 [es]: Yo desde chavita a los doce años, trece,
Caption 6 [en]: Since I was a little kid, at twelve, thirteen years old

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Estado Falcón - Locos de la Vela - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

Most English speakers have at some time in their lives heard Donovan sing “The Hurdy Gurdy Man,” but how many knew what such a man did? The woman in this video talks about a musical family that used to play the sinfonía, and indeed this is the Spanish name for the hand-crank organ known as a “hurdy gurdy.”

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Caption 2 [es]: Es de quienes, por años,
Caption 2 [en]: It belongs to those who, for years,

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Biografía - Natalia Oreiro - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Argentina, Uruguay

When a strange man insists he is Natalia’s true father, she is oddly sympathetic, “we all know about el proceso.” But do we? The “process” is shorthand for the era of military dictatorships that engulfed the Southern Cone in the mid 70’s. During this era, untold numbers of infants of suspected “subversives” were kidnapped, often taken by police or military members to raise as their own.

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Caption 13 [es]: Todos los años mi personaje era más importante.
Caption 13 [en]: My character was more important each year.

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Arturo Vega - Entrevista - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Mexico

Arriving in December of ‘71, a young Arturo Vega decides that it is New York where he is going to clavar, or stay put. His journey began in Mexico, where he began his artistic life as an actor and participant in experimental theater or “happenings”—an art form which was not well received by the powers that be in that country.

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Caption 20 [es]: ¿cuántos años atrás llegaste?
Caption 20 [en]: you arrived how long ago?

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Belanova - Entrevista - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Mexico

Why is it that some musicians have such synergy together? Belanova describes the fusión that is created when each distinct musical personality comes together, and how this unique “fusion” has brought them from after-class practice to stadium-filled tours.

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Caption 29 [es]: Es como... no sé si hace diez años me hubieran dicho hay que hacer una canción
Caption 29 [en]: It's like... I don't know if ten years ago they had told me we have to make a song

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Con ánimo de lucro - Cortometraje - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Nicaragua, Spain

Not only does our filmmaker continue with his diatribe against the state of society as he finds it in Nicaragua, but the story takes an investigative turn. We find that not only doesn’t sponsored-child Christina del Carmen match the photo that had been supplied by Ayuda en Acción, she is also not yet enrolled in a school.

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Caption 9 [es]: Una alumna de catorce años de Manlleu
Caption 9 [en]: A fourteen-year old female student from Manlleu

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Playa Adícora - Chober - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

Chober and his buddies are building a little club on the beach that is aiming to provide services to beach goers and visitors, while at the same time providing events and opportunites for community members, particularly young people. Like his friend Francisco, Chober is concerned with the environment, and finding uses for discarded materials.

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Caption 60 [es]: Que hasta hace varios años...
Caption 60 [en]: That until a few years ago...

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Tierra Envenenada - Desminando - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Honduras

Imagine the horror of stepping on a landmine while gardening. This is what happened to farmers José Moncada and Reinaldo Herrera. Through great courage they survive to testify of the enduring evils that are minas antipersonales.

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Caption 9 [es]: Al cabo de muchos años e ingentes esfuerzos
Caption 9 [en]: After many years and huge efforts

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Playa Adícora - Chober - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

A fishing village like Adícora can be a place of work and industry for locals, but also one of rest and relaxation for travelers. Chober comes from a fishing family and knows the trade, but he recognizes the growing importance of tourism. His generation realizes that the survival of both ways of life necessitates better care of the environment and increased ecological awareness.

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Caption 55 [es]: cuando seamos, cuando tengamos ya diez años,
Caption 55 [en]: once we're, once we've been here ten years,

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Playa Adícora - Francisco - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

Maria Lionza is said to have been born in 1502 to an Indian Chief in the Yaracuy region of Venezuela. Today she is revered throughout the Caribbean by followers of the syncretic cult which is named after her, but artists too find her an irresistably mystical symbol alluding to history, race, and sex. Her painting hangs on the wall of Francisco’s taller in Adícora.

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Caption 38 [es]: hace muchos años... del ochenta y dos.
Caption 38 [en]: a long time ago... from [nineteen] eighty-two.

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Con ánimo de lucro - Cortometraje - Part 8

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Nicaragua, Spain Catalonia

Spain has never been a country afraid of divisive politics, and filmmaker Joan Planas has no fear of getting controversial when presenting his views of society, church and state. Note that the older gentleman is not speaking straight Spanish but Catalan, and the Spanish captions reflect not his exact words but are the same as the Spanish subtitles seen in white on the screen.

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Caption 11 [es]: Yo tengo setenta y dos años.
Caption 11 [en]: I'm seventy two years old.

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Arume - Málaga, España - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Spain

Malaga gets over 300 days of sunshine every year, so it’s no surprise that Arume has chosen it for her vacation. She’s been studying hard and learning a lot over the past year, and luckily she’s agreed to fill us in!

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Caption 4 [es]: que he estado estudiando dos años, eh...
Caption 4 [en]: where for two years I've been studying, um...

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Joselo - Sobriedad

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

Joselo Rangel is a native of Minatitlan, Puerto de Veracruz. He went to university, however, in Mexico City, at UAM (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana). It was there that he teamed up with Ruben Albarran to create the legendary Café Tacuba. “Sobriedad” is from his recent solo effort, Lejos.

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Caption 11 [es]: como un whisky doce años
Caption 11 [en]: like a twelve-year-old whiskey

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