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Tu Rock es Votar - Armando - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

Could it be that the “Tu Rock es Votar” campaign resulted in a closer Mexican 2006 election, one that ironically left the youth feeling more disillusioned than ever? Felipe Calderón Hinojosa edged out Andrés Manuel López Obrador by such a thin margin that the losing side demanded a total recount, which was not granted. The ensuing cloud surrounding the election left a bitter taste in the mouths of many Mexicans.

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Caption 34 [es]: eh, en México, y en el resto del mundo también.
Caption 34 [en]: uh, in Mexico, and also in the rest of the world.

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Rafael T. - Guatemala Hermosa

Difficulty: Beginner

Guatemala

Wicoy: como una calabaza pequeña, tal vez 15 cm de diametro, verde y blanco y es mucho mas fino que la calabaza. Para comer es parecido a un zucchetthi/zucchini. Bastante rico. (Thank you to Guatesol for info!) Rafael relates facts and myths of the natural environment in his native land.

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Caption 24 [es]: Porque en cualquier parte del mundo siempre existen animales que son muy peligrosos.
Caption 24 [en]: Because anywhere in the world you always have animals that are very dangerous.

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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 19 [es]: dos mundos, el mundo del entretenimiento con el mundo de la política.
Caption 19 [en]: two worlds, the world of entertainment with the world of politics.

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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 53 [es]: realmente el plan de Belanova es llevarlo a todo el mundo.
Caption 53 [en]: really Belanova´s plan is to take it all over the world.

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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 16 [es]: y que el mundo se muera de envidia
Caption 16 [en]: and may the world die of envy

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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 1 [es]: ¡Hola, qué tal a todo el mundo!
Caption 1 [en]: Hello, What's up everyone!

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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 15 [es]: en el mundo del rock and roll.
Caption 15 [en]: in the world of rock and roll.

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Belanova - Tus ojos

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

We are all familiar with ¿Cómo se dice…?, “How do you say…”—it’s a very useful phrase when inquiring about the right words to use. Denisse Guererro repeatedly uses a similar phrase, asking the audience ¿Cóme dice?, which also sounds like it might be something like “How does one say?” but in fact this is Spanish for “How does it go?”—she wants the crowd to sing along!

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Caption 15 [es]: Que este mundo gira y algún día ha de morir, pero contigo
Caption 15 [en]: This world spins and someday it shall die, but with you

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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 16 [es]: o de absorber el mundo siempre...
Caption 16 [en]: or of capturing the world always...

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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 89 [es]: De lo que... sabíamos, verdad porque pues, en México todo el mundo sabemos, ¿verdad?
Caption 89 [en]: Of what we... knew, true because well, in Mexico everyone knows, right?

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Con ánimo de lucro - Cortometraje - Part 10

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Spain

Joan Planas continues to pull no punches, taking on NGOs, television, and the Catholic church. Oddly enough, despite his firebrand rhetoric, the film ends on a rather conservative note, suggesting that perhaps what poor nations need is not so much charity but rather a change in actitude, or “attitude,” so as to reflect the mindset of people in successful nations. Tune in to find out the details.

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Caption 28 [es]: Sin embargo es la segunda potencia económica del mundo.
Caption 28 [en]: However, it's the second economic power in the world.

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SiZu Yantra - Bienvenido

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Mexico

Bienvenido al sueño is the first solo effort by the artist formerly known as Rubén Albarrán—of Café Tacuba / Café Tacvba fame. (‘Tacuba’ became ‘Tacvba’ after a lawsuit, according to this Wikipedia entry.) Check out Sizu’s wild video to the album’s title track. Nice hats, no?

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Caption 2 [es]: si al mundo lo encuentras enfermizo, delirante y brutal
Caption 2 [en]: if you find the world sickly, delirious and brutal

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Cuatro Amigas - Piloto - Part 4

Difficulty: Advanced

Argentina

The cocktail party effect explains our ability to isolate a solitary voice amidst a sea of yappers, music and crowd noise. Let’s meet our ladies at the disco, where background noise and the effects of actual cocktails upon speech put our own c.p.e. skills to the test. (This one is hard, use the SLOW button!)

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Caption 6 [es]: Viste, todo el mundo se va al frente del levante.
Caption 6 [en]: Look, everybody is heading for a hookup.

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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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Rafael T. - La Cultura Maya - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Guatemala

In Guatemala, people of Mayan descent not only retain various native forms of dress, but they also speak dialects of the Mayan language, a language many people wrongly presume to be long lost to history. Rafael treats us to some examples of words and phrases in this language, and also explains some of the particulars of traditional dress.

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Caption 56 [es]: Poco a poco el mundo se va... cambiando.
Caption 56 [en]: Little by little the world is... changing.

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