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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 51 [es]: Eh... Lo que significa que varias personas hacemos el mismo ejercicio de sorber y catar
Caption 51 [en]: Uh... Which means that several people perform the same excercise of slurping and cupping

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Francisco Pérez - La Universidad

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Spain

Francisco Pérez talks about his life as a student in the Universidad Pontivicia’s other school, la Universidad de la Experiencia de Salamanca, a place where elders like himself become college students again.

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Caption 13 [es]: hablando con personas muy ilustradas
Caption 13 [en]: talking to very illustrious people

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La Gusana Ciega - Entrevista - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

We skip backstage once again to get some final thoughts from La Gusana Ciega, learning a bit more about their career and personnel changes. Like many of Mexico’s popular bands today, they got their start at a Mexico City club called Cocotitlán, which is also the name of a municipality well known for its corn festival.

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Caption 26 [es]: con... con personas maduras
Caption 26 [en]: with... with mature people

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Fonda Mi Lupita - Encargado - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Mexico

Quite frankly, it’s not hard to find excellent Mexican food in Mexico City! Yet, we still consider ourselves lucky to have pulled into Fonda Mi Lupita while out foraging along Calle 17 de Mayo. We invite you to join us for a little chat with manager José Luis Calixto Escobar, completamente!

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Caption 21 [es]: que se tiene que componer a veces de doce personas, completamente.
Caption 21 [en]: that has to be composed sometimes of twelve people, completely.

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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 44 [es]: traté de ayudar a las otras personas.
Caption 44 [en]: tried to help the other people.

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Desayuno Puerto Escondido - Frutas

Difficulty: Beginner

Mexico

In beautiful Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, the local cooks know their fruit! Let’s drop by the lovely Casa Mar as Gloria prepares a glorious multi-colored fruit salad made with local sandía (watermelon), melón, and plátano (banana). You may soon find yourself blending melon seeds into a delicious horchata.

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Caption 12 [es]: algunas personas sí les quitan las... las semillas.
Caption 12 [en]: some people do take out the... the seeds.

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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 94 [es]: Tratamos que las personas se sientan bien en un lugar y bueno...
Caption 94 [en]: We try to make people feel good in a place and well...

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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 42 [es]: para lo que es adaptar prótesis a personas
Caption 42 [en]: to what it is to adapt prosthesis to people

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Belanova - Entrevista - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

Edgar Huerta, keyboardist of Belanova, refers to Joselo of Cafe Tacuba as un cuate. The word comes from the indigenous Nahuatl word coatl, which means “twin.” But Joselo is not Edgar’s gemelo, cuate is known by all Mexicans to refer to a “good buddy,” a “dear friend.”

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Caption 27 [es]: desde el barecito de doscientas, trescientas personas.
Caption 27 [en]: since that little bar of two hundred, three hundred people.

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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 58 [es]: todas las personas involucradas cumplen diversas funciones.
Caption 58 [en]: all the people involved carry out a variety of functions.

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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 33 [es]: La actitud de las personas hace la diferencia.
Caption 33 [en]: The attitude of the people makes the difference.

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Playa Adícora - Chober - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

Chober and his buddies are building a little club on the beach that is aiming to provide services to beach goers and visitors, while at the same time providing events and opportunites for community members, particularly young people. Like his friend Francisco, Chober is concerned with the environment, and finding uses for discarded materials.

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Caption 62 [es]: Entonces, este, habemos [sic] muchas personas que tenemos iniciativas propias
Caption 62 [en]: Then, um, there are a lot of us who have our own initiatives

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Playa Adícora - Francisco - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

Maria Lionza is said to have been born in 1502 to an Indian Chief in the Yaracuy region of Venezuela. Today she is revered throughout the Caribbean by followers of the syncretic cult which is named after her, but artists too find her an irresistably mystical symbol alluding to history, race, and sex. Her painting hangs on the wall of Francisco’s taller in Adícora.

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Caption 24 [es]: para las personas que quieran venir a conocer el lugar,
Caption 24 [en]: for those people who want to come and see the place,

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Estado Falcón - Locos de la Vela - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

Vela, a word often used for “candle,” or “sail,” can also mean “wakefulness,” as in “vigilance.” It’s related to the verb velar, “to stand watch.” The name of the port city of La Vela de Coro refers not to the “sails” of merchant ships (as many assume) but rather to this town’s role as a “lookout” point for marauding pirates. One-eyed peg-legs are now less common, but the carnivalesque annual festival of Los Locos continues on.

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Caption 42 [es]: Son personas que, en verdad,
Caption 42 [en]: They are people who, in truth,

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Jugando a la Brisca - En la calle

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Spain

The game of brisca uses 40 cards known as the “Spanish deck.” One aspect of play involves using body language to reveal your hand to your partner. This is why the gentleman says “we blink an eye and we do like this…” He is making a joke about this body language/cards relationship when he says “your head aches when you have the ace of oros.”

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Caption 47 [es]: Cada tres... -Eso es ni más ni menos. -...personas tenemos un jefe.
Caption 47 [en]: Every three... -That's it, no more no less. -...people we have a boss.

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