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Deportes en Adícora - Carlos

Difficulty: Beginner

Venezuela

Carlos is a fine artist and an athlete who, when not painting a canvas, can be found sailing windsurfers and kites from his little guest house on the breezy south beach in Adícora, Venezuela. We asked him if he would give us a little presentation from atop his roof. You can hear for yourself that this spot is all about one thing, el viento!

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Caption 10 [es]: No se conoce mucho,
Caption 10 [en]: It's not much known,

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Verano Eterno - Fiesta Grande - Part 12

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Argentina

Tomás’ parents are leaving him all alone for the weekend, and Juan is quick to come up with a plan. Violeta, meanwhile, is cooking up plans of her own, but they don’t involve Mauro—despite his attempts to woo her back with flowers.

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Caption 38 [es]: Saludos, los quiero mucho. -Chau, gracias.
Caption 38 [en]: Regards, I love you very much. -Bye, thanks.

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Disputas - La Extraña Dama - Part 14

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Argentina

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Majo’s daliance with a washed-up actor will soon prove to provide her with a little more drama than she’d bargained for. Gloria senses that his role might not be the hero’s but Majo is oblivious. Meanwhile Gala meets one of those cincuentones (guy in his fifities) that Melina has promised her.

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Caption 71 [es]: No, porque no tomo mucho alcohol. -Pero es importado, ¿viste?
Caption 71 [en]: No, because I don't drink too much alcohol. -But it's imported, see?

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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 34 [es]: El rock en México, eh... ha crecido mucho,
Caption 34 [en]: Rock in Mexico, uh... has grown a lot,

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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 18 [es]: Y ahí está a un lado de nosotros desde hace mucho tiempo tocando.
Caption 18 [en]: And he has been there at our side playing with us for a long time.

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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 54 [es]: Me hizo sufrir mucho.
Caption 54 [en]: It made me suffer a lot.

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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 32 [es]: Tengo una hermana mayor que... bailábamos mucho el Bop.
Caption 32 [en]: I have an elder sister who... we used to dance Bop a lot.

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Amigos D.F. - Clima en el DF

Difficulty: Beginner

Mexico

Miguel, Alvaro and David have teamed up once again to tell us a little something about the weather and overall climate found in Mexico City and its environs. Pay attention to the words and vocabulary, as they will certainly be of use no matter where you travel!

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Caption 25 [es]: En las zonas altas también hace mucho frío, generalmente...
Caption 25 [en]: In the higher areas it's also very cold, generally...

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Arturo Vega - Entrevista - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

As it turns out the young Arturo Vega, Mexican emigré actor and artist in New York, lived below a girl who was seeing a young man named Douglas Glenn Colvin (who would come to be known as “Dee Dee Ramone”). The two visionaries got to talking…

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Caption 45 [es]: en mucho, muy mal estado. No estaba sucediendo absolutamente nada
Caption 45 [en]: in much, in very bad shape. Absolutely nothing was happening

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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 15 [es]: Trabajar... mucho.
Caption 15 [en]: To work... a lot.

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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 60 [es]: y por lo tanto leyendo a Jim Morrison mucho.
Caption 60 [en]: and therefore reading Jim Morrison a lot.

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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 8 [es]: Que la han tomado mucho en cuenta y ha sido muy apreciada.
Caption 8 [en]: Which has been much taken into account and has been very appreciated.

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Arturo Vega - Entrevista - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Mexico

A little research tells us that the musical comedy Arturo did with Héctor Suárez at the Teatro de los Insurgentes was Sigue tu onda (Follow Your Wave), a Spanish language adaptation of a Broadway show known to American theater-goers as Your Own Thing. Soon Arturo himself would be heading to New York on a tip from Paul McCartney’s agent that he could land a spot in Hair...

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Caption 4 [es]: Entiendo que te gusta pintar mucho y...
Caption 4 [en]: I understand that you really like painting and...

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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 39 [es]: Todo lo que me estaba pasando ya era mucho más de lo que yo... este...
Caption 39 [en]: Everything that was happening to me was much more than I... uhm...

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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 72 [es]: Y pues, realmente me gustó mucho luego, luego.
Caption 72 [en]: And well, I really later, later liked it very much.

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