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Con ánimo de lucro - Cortometraje - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Spain

Joan Planas’ documentary, Con ánimo de lucro (With Intent to Profit), launches with a list of the UN’s objectives for development in the new millennium. While the UN plan calls for cutting poverty in half by 2015, it’s off to a terrible start. So we’re off to explore what’s gone wrong in Nicaragua, one of the countries with the most NGOs and the highest levels of poverty in Latin America.

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Caption 22 [es]: Han pasado cinco años y aún hay pobreza.
Caption 22 [en]: Five years have gone by and there's still poverty.

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Federico Kauffman Doig - Arqueólogo - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Peru

Federico Kauffman Doig has received the highest title the Peruvian government gives in honor of cultural achievment, Amauta. Sweden and Austria have also bestowed him with awards and titles. So is he ready to join the ranks of jubilados? No way! He still explores cliffs 4000 meters high and has far too many unfinished essays to even consider it for un momentito.

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Caption 42 [es]: tiene Dios unos...Taita Dios unos cuantos años más
Caption 42 [en]: God has some... Father God has a couple more years

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Federico Kauffman Doig - Arqueólogo - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Peru

If you are not yet a fan of Señor Doig, you don’t have a pulse! His jungle expeditions have led to the discovery of everything from the anatomically-blessed Pinchudos statues to the giant upright mummies found in a site known as Carajía. We’re ready for an expedition!

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Caption 24 [es]: Durante muchos años hemos... hemos llevado a cabo...
Caption 24 [en]: For many years we have... have conducted...

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De consumidor a persona - Short Film - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Spain

Comercio Justo, or “Fair Trade” products are often seen in “socially conscious” retailers like health and “whole” food shops. It presents a novel approach to doing business that takes into account social and environmental factors in its pricing to consumers and directly compensates commodity food producers, like coffee and cocoa farmers. Here proponents explain the philosophy from several different vantage points.

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Caption 42 [es]: que durante equis número de años
Caption 42 [en]: that during x number of years

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De consumidor a persona - Short Film - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Spain

Is organic farming still ecological when excessive resources are spent to ship goods halfway around the world? Why are ecologically-oriented producers more subject to government oversight than those using environmental contaminants?

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Caption 6 [es]: o los próximos cinco mil años,
Caption 6 [en]: or next five thousand years,

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José Rodríguez - La Finca

Difficulty: Beginner

Venezuela

José Rodriguez, the caretaker of a beautiful finca, or farm, is kind enough to show us around and tell us a bit about the area and himself. You will probably realize that pues, as José employs it, is a common muletilla (“filler” word), used to add a bit of emphasis or just as a matter of speech style, and doesn’t really always have to be translated (though it can often be thought of as akin to “well”).

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Caption 2 [es]: Tengo cuarenta y tres años.
Caption 2 [en]: I'm forty three years old.

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Emiro - La Historia de Emiro

Difficulty: Beginner

Venezuela

Emiro used to live in oil-rich Maracaibo, where his father was headmaster of the school system Shell oil ran for the children of employees. (Did you know: Venezuela is the only country in the Americas that’s a member of OPEC? And a founding member at that!)

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Caption 3 [es]: alrededor de treinta años viviendo aquí en Adícora.
Caption 3 [en]: something like thirty years living here in Adícora.

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Si*Sé - EPK

Difficulty: Beginner

Dominican Republic

Si*Sé brings together musical languages such as hip-hop, funk, rock, jazz and even classical violin. Singer Carol C, who grew up in a Spanish language household within an English language city, adds bilingual vocals that pull together the group’s electrifying sound.

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Caption 20 [es]: Eh... y me enseñó a mí a cantar desde los cuatros años.
Caption 20 [en]: Eh... and she taught me to sing since I was four [more correct: "los cuatro años"] years old.

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Enanitos Verdes - Luz de día

Difficulty: Intermediate

Argentina

Who is this woman that Marciano Cantero met in Denver one winter evening? (Madonna?) It may have been a temporary affair, but the song it inspired has endured, proving to be one of the Enanitos Verdes’ biggest crowd pleasers, as you can see from this concert footage.

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Caption 4 [es]: Esto sucedió, hace un par de años atrás.
Caption 4 [en]: This happened, a couple of years ago.

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Javier García - EPK - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Argentina, Spain

¿Quién es Javier García? With his producer (and two-time Academy Award winner) Gustavo Santaolalla, Javier Garcia talks about his roots and influences. Also, we learn about some noted musicians who contributed to the album 13, including the great trumpet player, Arturo Sandoval.

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Caption 37 [es]: y que Javier nació en España y vivió hasta los trece años en España.
Caption 37 [en]: and that Javier was born in Spain and lived until he was thirteen in Spain.

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Javier García - EPK - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Argentina, Spain

We’ve all heard of the bolero, which has its modern roots in nineteenth century Santiago de Cuba (even though we might not be able to hum one on cue). But what about the cuartetazo? Born in Córdoba, Argentina, and derived from Spanish and Italian dances, the name is derived from the fact that the earliest players were invariably four-piece bands. The rhythm is similar to merengue.

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Caption 51 [es]: trabajo que había estado haciendo durante muchos años al nivel que necesitaba llevarse.
Caption 51 [en]: work I had been doing for many years to the level it needed to be taken to.

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Taimur - Taimur habla

Difficulty: Beginner

Venezuela

Young Taimur’s Spanish is not quite as easy for the non-native as that of his neighborhood pal Zulbani, but he does have a lot of interesting things to say! Listen up, because our young friend presents an opportunity to hear some expressions and turns of phase you may have not heard before.

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Caption 61 [es]: y tengo... ocho años.
Caption 61 [en]: and I have... I'm eight years old.

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Molotov - Hit Me

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

Molotov brings us another inspired video that doubles as a lesson in modern Mexico: PAN, PRI, PRD, and el bono sexenal! By the way, do you know why Rudy Giuliani’s image appears so often in Molotov videos?

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Caption 36 [es]: de un legado de setenta y cinco años
Caption 36 [en]: from a seventy-five-year-old legacy

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Cuatro Amigas - Piloto - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Argentina, Puerto Rico

That mujeriego Mariano has really messed with poor Elena’s head. If we were her, we’d dump the scoundrel for Durand, the suave French lawyer, tout suite.

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Caption 95 [es]: Hace tantos años que estoy allá que...
Caption 95 [en]: I've lived there so many years that...

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Zoraida - Vida - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Venezuela

Zoraida is a spunky young woman from coastal Venezuela who talks about her recent past and her hopes for the coming year.

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Caption 2 [es]: Tengo dieciocho años.
Caption 2 [en]: I am eighteen years old.

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