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Orishas - Entrevista Canal Plus - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Cuba, Spain

The Cuban band Orishas went all the way from starving artists to well fed ambassadors of Latin Hip Hop. Let’s listen in as even Spaniards ask for some explanation of the Cuban slang and cultural references found in the song “El Kilo.”

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Caption 93 [es]: Así que tuve un contrato de trabajo para ir a Francia
Caption 93 [en]: So I had an employment contract to go to France

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Muñeca Brava - 18 - La Apuesta - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Argentina

Finally, Ivo acts on his threats. He asks his grandmother—the refined Señora Angelica—to fire her maid Milagros. Why? Because Milagros is una cloaca, un desastre and, well, casi salvaje. But Grandma has some of her own ideas cooking…

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Caption 40 [es]: Pará, ¿qué es esto?
Caption 40 [en]: Wait, what's this?

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Bersuit Vergarabat - EPK - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Argentina

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In this Electronic Press Kit (EPK), Bersuit Vergarabat’s members talk about the inspirations for and the process behind many of the songs on their album, Hijos del Culo, while talking a bit about the social commentary that runs strongly throughout their music.

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Caption 101 [es]: "Negra Murguera" para mí es un tema muy importante.
Caption 101 [en]: "Negra Murguera" is a very important song for me.

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El Pulguero - Muchachos del Pulguero

Difficulty: Intermediate

Colombia

In Bogotá’s flea market, children help out in their parents’ businesses. We stop at a stall of handcrafted wood figures and chat with the artisan’s daughter.

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Caption 8 [es]: Lo... lo lijamos y todo eso para que quede así.
Caption 8 [en]: We sand them... them and all, in order to make it look like that.

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Franco de Vita - No Hay Cielo

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

Franco de Vita, born in Venezuela to Italian immigrants, is probably Venezuela’s most popular musical export; he’s considered Latin music’s most consistently popular singer-songwriter. At 53 he has 25 years in the limelight to prove it. Mil y Una Historias En Vivo is his newest album.

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Caption 9 [es]: Ni palabras para decir
Caption 9 [en]: Neither words to say

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Calle 13 - Cumbia de los Aburridos

Difficulty: Intermediate

Puerto Rico

Viewer Discretion Advised

Puerto Rican half-brothers Residente (René Pérez Joglar) and Visitante (Eduardo José Cabra Martínez)—nicknamed for their respective roles in their weekly step-family visits to 13th Street—together make Calle 13. The music of Calle 13 is a sort of hip-hop/reggaeton with a sense of humor and playfulness. Watch out for the bleeped naughty words.

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Caption 10 [es]: para estimular la espina dorsal
Caption 10 [en]: to stimulate the spinal column

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Disputas - La Extraña Dama - Part 17

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Argentina

Viewer Discretion Advised

Majo’s theatrical aspirations seem to have been crushed by reality. Meanwhile Gloria is trying without success to balance intimacy and family.

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Caption 9 [es]: Ay no, pará... Pará, pará... Pará, pará, pará.
Caption 9 [en]: Oh no, stop... Stop, stop... Stop, stop, stop.

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Amigos D.F. - El secuestrar

Difficulty: Beginner

Mexico

Our good friends from México City are willing to talk about everything: good, bad or ugly. Here we have their take on kidnapping, one of the growing fears of Mexicans.

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Caption 37 [es]: para ver si se alejaban esos cuates.
Caption 37 [en]: to see if those guys would go away.

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Bersuit Vergarabat - Madre Hay Una Sola

Difficulty: Intermediate

Argentina

Always with a light touch, often with full force, Bersuit Vergarabat dishes out social commentary and political activism. "Madre Hay una Sola" is no exception, as Gustavo Cordera apologizes to Mother Nature for the damage done to her by the human race.

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Caption 12 [es]: ¿Para qué un juicio final,
Caption 12 [en]: What can a final judgment be

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Una Historia de Café - La Catación - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Colombia

After all the bean sorting, cleaning, grinding and toasting we witnessed in our previous segments of Una Historia de Café, it’s finally time to boil up some water and do a little tasting, or “cupping,” as it’s known in laboratory circles. You might want to fire up your percolator; we have a feeling you’ll be craving some caffeine any moment now!

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Caption 3 [es]: O sea, estamos creando, como, conciencia tanto para los caficultores,
Caption 3 [en]: That is, we're creating, like, consciousness for both the coffee growers,

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Belanova - Niño

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

Belanova, the electropop band from Mexico, sounds like it was influenced by nightclub epiphanies, Japanese anime and sweet lollipops. "Niño", one of the songs off their album Dulce Beat, is a painful goodbye, adios, au revoir, arrivederci—but it’s somehow lightened by the constant use of the word “boy” (niño) to address the unlucky target of the bad news.

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Caption 25 [es]: La vida tiene algo para ti
Caption 25 [en]: Life has something for you

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Muñeca Brava - 18 - La Apuesta - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Argentina

Once again Mili has to face Ivo. They’re sharing a roof after all. But this time she seems to have a strategy suggested by good friend and inexperienced but enthusiastic hairdresser Mariposa. Will it work? Heavenly houseguest Sister Catalina is leaving. The fridge is empty and we learn what planchar used to mean.

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Caption 51 [es]: ¿Ah, la medallita? ¿Para qué?
Caption 51 [en]: Oh, the little medallion? What for?

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Biografía - Natalia Oreiro - Part 11

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Argentina

Natalia Oreiro’s life keeps getting better after her marriage to Dividos’ Ricardo Moyo. But she knows that when you get so much from life, you have to give something back, and that’s why she’s constantly trying to help people.

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Caption 4 [es]: para muchos, ambos pertenecían a mundos diferentes.
Caption 4 [en]: for many, they both belonged to different worlds.

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Estado Falcón - Locos de la Vela - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

La Vela is a small town in the state of Falcón, on the northwest coast of Venezuela, where every December 28th Los Locos [“The Crazy Ones”] arrive wearing colorful and elaborated costumes. The whole town becomes a party, with businesses closing and people dancing in the streets. It’s a tradition that could be in any magical realism novel and that desperately struggles to not fall into oblivion.

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Caption 15 [es]: Y esto es una tradición que... que perdurará para toda la vida
Caption 15 [en]: And this is a tradition that... that will last for life

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El Pulguero - La Gente

Difficulty: Intermediate

Colombia

We’ve already seen some interesting, fabulous and downright curious things in the “mercado de pulgas” (flea market). But what about the people in there? They’re as colorful, amusing and charming as the goods in any stall.

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Caption 9 [es]: Aquí nosotros tenemos la concha de nácar para borrar cicatrices, manchas, barros, estrías, acné.
Caption 9 [en]: Here we have the mother-of-pearl to erase scars, spots, pimples, stretch marks, acne.

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