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Cuentas claras - Sobreviviendo enero - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Nicaragua

¿Cómo manejar nuestras tarjetas de crédito? ¿Cuáles son las mejores opciones para la gente que empieza a construir su historia bancaria? Elaine Miranda nos explica distintos escenarios para controlar nuestras finanzas.

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Doña Coco - La Vida De Una Cocinera

Difficulty: Intermediate

Nicaragua

Trabajando de cocinera y trabajadora de limpieza en un sitio de contrucción, Doña Coco es la primera que se levanta en la mañana y la última que se va a dormir por la noche. Su salario mensual es de C$2,000 córdobas con lo cual apenas le alcanza para el arroz y los frijoles para su familia. ¿Cómo hace entonces para proveer a sus cinco hijos con ropa y cubrir el resto de sus necesidades? Leonido, el entrevistador, le hace éstas preguntas.

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Con ánimo de lucro - Cortometraje - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Nicaragua, Spain

El equipo haciendo el documental conoce al grupo Ayuda en Accion, una organización que parece estar interesada en ayudar de la forma correcta. Sin embargo, la existencia de más de 500 organismos dedicados a erradicar la pobreza en Nicaragua no ha cambiado mucho las cosas, que cada vez se ponen peores. Muchos activistas locales e intelectuales no confían en las organizaciones y las acusan de tener como prioridad el propio enriquecimiento.

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Leyendas urbanas - Los duendes de Nicaragua

Difficulty: Beginner

Nicaragua

Our friend María Conchita brings us another urban legend from Nicaragua, this time, about some mischievous, dwarf-like creatures called duendes who are supposedly evil spirits.

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Caption 14 [es]: Los duendes son como niños de cinco años
Caption 14 [en]: The duendes are like five-year-old children,

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Leyendas urbanas - La Cegua

Difficulty: Beginner

Nicaragua

Men, beware of the voluptuous vixen La Cegua, who seduces men she encounters wandering along lonesome roads. Find out more about this notorious Nicaraguan urban legend.

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Caption 38 [es]: como símbolo de picaflor o de infiel.
Caption 38 [en]: as a symbol of a womanizer or unfaithful man.

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Cuentas claras - Sobreviviendo enero - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Nicaragua

Elaine continues to talk about personal finances, including the Fifty-Two-Week Saving Challenge and how to talk to kids about finances.

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Caption 4 [es]: ¿En qué consiste y cómo la gente puede engancharse a este desafío?
Caption 4 [en]: What does it consist of and how can people get involved with this challenge?

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Cuentas claras - Sobreviviendo enero - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Nicaragua

Financial blog author, Elaine Miranda, explains that while there are different strategies to get out of debt, the method one chooses is less important than the ability to change the habits of consumption that got that individual into debt in the first place.

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Caption 1 [es]: ¿Cómo en ese aspecto, cómo...?
Caption 1 [en]: How in this aspect, how...?

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Cuentas claras - Sobreviviendo enero - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Nicaragua

Acclaimed financial blog author, Elaine Miranda, gives us some tips to manage our personal finances and get out of debt, particularly in January following the financial excess that often accompanies the holidays.

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Caption 16 [es]: ¿cómo podemos comenzar a ordenar nuestra deuda?
Caption 16 [en]: how can we start to organize our debt?

Warmup Workout

Circo Infantil de Nicaragua - Francesca

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Nicaragua

Acrobat Francesca was a mujer de casa before becoming a circus artist. It was love that brought her here to the big tent, where she now splits her time between performances and day-to-day chores.

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Caption 32 [es]: Pues, para la mujer es más fácil porque como no le toca hacer nada más
Caption 32 [en]: So, for women it's easier because they don't have to do anything else

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Circo Infantil de Nicaragua - Learning the Trade

Difficulty: Intermediate

Nicaragua

Meet Francisco Javier, a passionate apprentice at the Circo Infantil Americano, and learn that a circus is a serious business, where hard work is always required. But the long hours of rehearsal are rewarded with family-like treatment and access to one of the most magical places on earth.

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Caption 32 [es]: Hay mucha gente que me ve y pregunta que cómo es el circo.
Caption 32 [en]: There are a lot of people who see me and ask what the circus is like.

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Circo Infantil de Nicaragua - Growing up in the Circus

Difficulty: Intermediate

Nicaragua

We all know how magical a circus ring can be: crazy clowns, fearless acrobats, smart animals and all kind of colorful and dreamlike acts. But here, at the Circo Infantil de Nicaragua the real magic happens backstage, where we learn that a good show takes a lot of dedication, hard work and passion.

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Caption 17 [es]: Claro que también como todo niño uno tiene que practicar,
Caption 17 [en]: Of course like all children you have to go to practice too,

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Doña Coco - Música

Difficulty: Beginner

Nicaragua

While stirring a pot, Doña Coco sings us a couple of Christian songs, which she learned at her evangelical church.

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Caption 32 [es]: Ya casi vienen siendo como evangélicos.
Caption 32 [en]: They'd be almost like Evangelicals.

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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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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 1 [es]: Entonces quise ver cómo iba la educación del país.
Caption 1 [en]: So I wanted to see how the education in the country was going.

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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 55 [es]: ¿Cómo vamos a solucionar la pobreza del tercer mundo
Caption 55 [en]: How are we going to solve poverty in the third world

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