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Tu Rock es Votar - Armando - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

Armando David Ortigosa decided that something needed to be done to motivate the young people of Mexico to participate in its presidential election. He looked north for inspiration, where the “Rock the Vote” campaign used pop stars to try and get young voters to the polls. The Mexican equivalent became known as Tu Rock Es Votar.

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Caption 63 [es]: Pero que también se iba a generar como una...
Caption 63 [en]: But that we were also going to generate like a...

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Belanova - Entrevista - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Mexico

Belanova is appreciative and proud that so many of Latin America’s and Mexico’s biggest stars, such Joselo and Coti saw fit to take the time to join them on their tour. The band is humble, but not without ambition; they have set their sites beyond the habla hispana, seeing potential fans in Australia, Italy and even Japan.

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Caption 11 [es]: Así como, queremos invitarlos pero tal vez vengan, tal vez no.
Caption 11 [en]: Like, we want to invite them but they may come, they may not.

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Biografía - Natalia Oreiro - Part 8

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Argentina

Imagine the shock to Natalia’s parents when they first saw another couple on the TV claiming that she was their child. Unfortunately, such a thing was not, in fact, entirely impossible. A blood test, however, proved the sad couple wrong. Natalia’s starring role in Ricos Y Famosos would soon bring Natalia, and her actual mom and dad, back to the top of the world.

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Caption 24 [es]: Pero no... no tenía cómo decirle a los padres:
Caption 24 [en]: But no... she had no way of telling her parents:

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Javier García - Me Gustaría

Difficulty: Beginner

Cuba, Spain

Viewer Discretion Advised

If you have ever seen Almodovar’s Matador you are familiar with the “black widow” phenomenon. Javier García explores the same territory here, tongue firmly in cheek, in his remix video for Me Gustaría, which might make you think twice before chatting up that sexy pole dancer you meet at the airport.

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Caption 19 [es]: Poder sentir como crece cada día mi amor por ti
Caption 19 [en]: To be able to feel how my love for you grows day by day

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División Minúscula - Sismo

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

Division Minuscula hails from Matamoros, a Mexican border town just to the south of Brownsville, Texas. Despite having disbanded for five years while members finished their degrees and helped out with family businesses, the group is back and not yet forgotten, with this hit song, Sismo (Earthquake), shaking the airwaves.

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Caption 7 [es]: Ojalá fuera tan bueno para aprender como tú para olvidar
Caption 7 [en]: I wish I were as good at learning as you are at forgetting

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Desayuno Puerto Escondido - Avena

Difficulty: Beginner

Mexico

Al gusto means, literally, “to the taste,” but in English we usually express this as “to taste.” So Gregoria doesn’t add honey to the avena (oatmeal). She puts it on the side of the plate. The person eating can can put it on al gusto, a little or a lot, however they like it. We often do this with salt, syrup, hot sauce… anything where individual palates vary considerably.

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Caption 19 [es]: No sé cómo... por qué se llama Dominico.
Caption 19 [en]: I don't know how... why it's called Dominico.

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Playa Adícora - Francisco - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

A little spot to build, to create, to listen to the sea, what more do any of us really need? Francisco takes a beautiful public space and makes it his own through conservation, beautification, and an open invitation to all to come, enjoy and treat nature’s work with care and respect.

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Caption 43 [es]: como para que la gente tome conciencia, ¿no?
Caption 43 [en]: so that people gain awareness, right?

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Carli Muñoz - Los Años Rock - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Puerto Rico

“Rock en español” is what we refer to the relatively new movement of musicians from Spanish speaking countries singing in their native language. Back in the sixties and seventies, these musicians were taken up with rock like much of the rest of the world, but they sang in English. Puerto Rican Carli Muñoz explains while looking back over his career.

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Caption 10 [es]: Y... y era un grupo vocal tanto como instrumental.
Caption 10 [en]: And... and it was both a vocal and an instrumental band.

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Nuyorican Café - Baile Salsa

Difficulty: Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Deep in the heart of Old San Juan you can hear live salsa music playing most any night at the Nuyorican Cafe. We stepped into the alley for a breather and had a little chat with two lovely salseras to get an insider view of what brings them back to the dance floor night after night.

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Caption 6 [es]: Es gozar lo que somos nosotros, como... Caribe, música, fusión, África...
Caption 6 [en]: It's enjoying who we are, like... Caribbean, music, fusion, Africa...

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La Gusana Ciega - Entrevista - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Mexico

To hear La Gusana Ciega play live we trekked to a club called Babel located in a giant mall / theme park called Mundo E, located just north of Mexico City. Come backstage with us for an exclusive interview you’ll find only here!

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Caption 52 [es]: Y fue una gran sorpresa cómo la gente...
Caption 52 [en]: And it was a big surprise how people...

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La Gusana Ciega - Me Puedes

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

"Me Puedes" is the first sencillo (single) to be released by the phenomenal La Gusana Ciega in over five years. (And it’s great!) It’s from an album called La Rueda del Diablo (The Devil’s Wheel), which was recorded in Los Angeles under the direction of eight-time grammy winner Benny Faccone, who has worked his magic with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Ricky Martin and Santana.

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Caption 12 [es]: que muestre como has enredado la verdad
Caption 12 [en]: to show how you have tangled up the truth

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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 30 [es]: Es muy importante, ahora, eh... ¿Cómo se llama?
Caption 30 [en]: It's very important, now, er... How do you call it?

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Luís Fonsi - Por una Mujer

Difficulty: Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican by birth, Luis Fonsi moved at an early age to Orlando, Florida. Despite having participated in a number of minor “boy bands,” it wasn’t until he was discovered by the president of the music school at the University of Florida, where he was a student, that he was offered a sizable recording contract. Success came quickly as his reputation spread throughout Latin America.

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Caption 9 [es]: Ella sí llegó como cohete invisible en el mismo centro de mi alma
Caption 9 [en]: She did arrive like an invisible rocket in the very center of my soul

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Toledo, España - Cerámica

Difficulty: Beginner

Spain

Juan paints outlines on his tiles using a paintbrush and manganese oxide, but at one time practitioners did this by laying down fine strings dipped in wax, and this explains why Juan still calls the technique he uses cuerda seca, or “dry cord.” Note that he describes the technique as one of alto relieve, or “high relief,” which is the opposite of bas-relief (low relief).

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Caption 11 [es]: La técnica, como ves, es una técnica que se va perfilando.
Caption 11 [en]: The technique, as you see, is a technique that involves outlining.

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Circo - La sospecha

Difficulty: Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Viewer Discretion Advised

Have you ever had una sospecha (a suspicion)? Puerto Rico’s Circo explores restless uncertainty and mines a treasure chest of carnivalesque imagery from the world of Santeria, that mix of African deity worship and Catholicism that sprouted after African slaves arrived on the shores of the new world.

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Caption 13 [es]: He tenido la sospecha de sentir como enloqueces
Caption 13 [en]: I have had the suspicion of feeling how you go crazy

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