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Biografía - Natalia Oreiro - Part 12

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Argentina

This is the final part in Natalia Oreiro’s biography. We have seen family, friends and coworkers talk about her successful professional career and personal life. We’ve felt both jealous and glad when listening to all her achievements. Luckily, Natalia is still working hard to please us!

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Caption 15 [es]: Y, no sé, es una persona increíble,
Caption 15 [en]: Well, I don't know, she's an amazing person,

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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 21 [es]: ¿Y cómo hace usted para ponerle el precio a las cosas? ¿Según la persona?
Caption 21 [en]: How do you price the stuff? According to the person [who is buying]?

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Biografía - Natalia Oreiro - Part 10

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Argentina

Off-screen, Natalia Oreiro’s love life sounds a lot less complicated than her on-screen characters’. After her six-year relationship with fellow actor Pablo Echarri ended amicably, she found love with the front man of the band “Divididos,” Ricardo Mollo, with whom she had more in common with than people seem to think.

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Caption 74 [es]: Llevaban todos uno, tipo, una persona más,
Caption 74 [en]: Everybody would bring one, like, one more person,

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Biografía - Natalia Oreiro - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Argentina

Sure, Natalia has had it rough. A certifiable worldwide hit with Muñeca Brava, a stud actor boyfriend followed by a superstar musician boyfriend, a rising singing career; she’s the kind of girl many mere mortals would love to hate. But… she’s just impossible to dislike!

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Caption 114 [es]: Es como que estuvieran hablando de otra persona que no fuera yo.
Caption 114 [en]: It is as if they were talking about another person who wasn't me.

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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 13 [es]: Y desde todo eso, te digo, aparte de la misma persona
Caption 13 [en]: And from all of this, I tell you, besides the same person

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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 32 [es]: si fue una persona que estaba enferma y realmente perdió una hija y...
Caption 32 [en]: if it was a person that was ill and really lost a daughter and...

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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 91 [es]: Trata que la persona se sienta bien en el lugar donde está...
Caption 91 [en]: He tries to make people feel good in the place where they are...

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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 64 [es]: Pero habida cuenta de que una persona que se disfraza
Caption 64 [en]: But knowing that a person who's in a costume

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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 8 [es]: entre una y otra persona que íbamos seleccionando... este...
Caption 8 [en]: between one person and other we were selecting... uh...

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¡Tierra, Sí! - Atenco - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Mexico

In this installment of the dispute documentary we hear Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata quoted over a protester’s loudspeaker. As Zapata said: “¡Victoria o muerte!” (“Victory or death!”). To protest the taking of their farmland, the people of Atenco are using stronger and stronger language. Listen in.

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Caption 52 [es]: cualquier persona, tú tienes que defenderte.
Caption 52 [en]: whomever, you have to defend yourself.

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Escuela Don Quijote - En el aula - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Spain

Sometimes when we give advice it seems a little presumptious to tell people outright what we think they should do. It’s a little smoother to instead say what we would do if we were in their place, “I would watch more Spanish videos (if I were you).” Let’s have a look at how we do this in Spanish.

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Caption 56 [es]: pero si yo hablo con una persona de "usted"
Caption 56 [en]: but if I speak with a person [using the formal] "you"

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Omar Viscaya - Cambio total - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Venezuela

Barrio Adentro (Inside the Neighborhood) is a program of free medical clinics that have been established throughout Venezuela. Critics include the Venezuelan Medical Association, who claim that the Cubans who make up most of the doctors are not qualified, though the WHO and UNICEF are generally as enthusiastic as Omar about the program.

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Caption 30 [es]: Entonces, una persona pobre aquí no tenía como cancelar eso.
Caption 30 [en]: So that a poor person here couldn't pay for it.

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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 71 [es]: Para mí un gay es una persona que nace tarada.
Caption 71 [en]: For me a gay is someone who's born stupid.

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Burgos - Caminando

Difficulty: Beginner

Spain

Carlos and Angeles are a young couple from Burgos, located about an hour and a half north of Madrid, a city that dates back to 884! The surrounding province is also known as Burgos, and tucked inside it is an equally historical town known as Lerma, which is where we meet up for a walk and conversation.

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Caption 37 [es]: que es una persona que ha tenido mucho interés en aprender el idioma,
Caption 37 [en]: that she's a person who has had a lot of interest in learning the language,

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Felipe Calderón - Publicidad - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

Does Felipe Calderón love his children? We are quite sure that he does. If this promotional video for the possible heir to fellow PANista Vicente Foxe seems to you to have a “North of the border” slickness, it may not be simply coincidental.

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Caption 51 [es]: y de democracia y de dignidad de persona humana...
Caption 51 [en]: and on democracy and on the dignity of the human person...

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