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Felipe Calderón - Publicidad - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

Harvard-educated Felipe Calderón, who the New York Times calls “a dapper man who speaks with all the fire of an economist,” is perceived as the safe, business-friendly presidential candidate. This video carefully cultivates a persona antithetical to the rougher-hewn López Obrador.

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Caption 65 [es]: tiene pasión por sus ideales...
Caption 65 [en]: he has passion for his ideals...

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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 19 [es]: María, que tiene ocho años, que es la mayor...
Caption 19 [en]: Maria, who is eight years old, is the oldest...

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Felipe Calderón - Publicidad - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Mexico

Felipe Calderón is running for president of Mexico as the candidate of PAN, Partido Acción Nacional. “The National Action Party” is also the party of Mexico’s current president, Vicente Fox. Felipe’s campaign slogan? Para que Vivamos Mejor, “So we can live better.” We know there must a word play parody of this phrase, but we haven’t found it yet!

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Caption 9 [es]: Esa pasión nos tiene que sacar adelante.
Caption 9 [en]: That passion must make us move forward.

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Omar Viscaya - Cambio total - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Venezuela

Hugo Chávez is divisive figure in Venezuela, as he is the world over, but the enthusiasm he generates amongst a large and vocal segment of the population is undeniable. Omar Vizcaya is a Chávez supporter, and was kind enough to agree to share some of his thoughts and ideas about the current situation.

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Caption 11 [es]: Todo el pueblo tiene participación... directa.
Caption 11 [en]: All the people have participation... direct participation.

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Javier García - Lagrimas Negras

Difficulty: Beginner

Cuba, Spain

If Javier doesn’t get you swinging, swaying and stumbling over your two left feet with this tune, you’re at the wrong site! The trumpet is courtesy of the incomparable Arturo Sandoval, who we had the pleasure of seeing at the Blue Note a while back. A drunken and noisy Tom Jones showed up mid-set with full entourage, causing the fiery Sandoval to call for ¡cállate!

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Caption 33 [es]: Tiene lágrimas negras
Caption 33 [en]: Has black tears

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Cocinas Peruanas - Short Film - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Peru

Daily exposure to wood smoke can really wreak havoc on the body. It affects the eyes, the skin, and, of course, the lungs. With small material investment, kitchen smoke is minimized through a cleverly designed, well-ventilated, stove.

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Caption 28 [es]: ¿Qué beneficios tiene el nuevo modelo de cocina Inkawasi y cómo funciona?
Caption 28 [en]: What type of benefits does the new Inkawasi stove have and how does it work?

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Zurdok - Para Siempre

Difficulty: Beginner

Mexico

In English “forever” is a really long time, it’s also, you’ll notice, written as a single word. In Spanish “for ever” is expressed as “for always,” also a long time, and is written as two distinct words, para siempre. Zurdok has been infecting Mexico, and the world, with its catchy tunes since 1994.

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Caption 15 [es]: Tiene que ser para siempre
Caption 15 [en]: It has to be forever

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Con ánimo de lucro - Cortometraje - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Nicaragua, Spain

The film crew met with a team from Ayuda en Acción, and it appears that its organizational heart is in the right place. Yet, despite the presence of over five hundred NGOs working to improve the lot of Nicaragua’s poor, their plight worsens every year. Many local activists and intellectuals do not trust the non-profits, and accuse them of having their own enrichment as concern numero uno.

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Caption 55 [es]: La verdad es que Nicaragua es el segundo país de Latinoamérica que tiene más ONGs al año,
Caption 55 [en]: Actually, Nicaragua ranks second in Latin America in terms of the annual number of NGOs,

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De consumidor a persona - Short Film - Part 8

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Spain

Can a consumer-driven market be replaced by an informed system of mutual cooperation by a like-minded populace? Is the market always at odds with the well being of the planet? Is it true that otro mundo es possible? Let’s find out what some experts think…

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Caption 37 [es]: es decir, se trata de vincular la misma actividad que uno tiene pues para...
Caption 37 [en]: that is, it is about linking the same activity that one has, well, to...

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De consumidor a persona - Short Film - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Spain

Transgenic, or genetically modified, crops are a marginal issue for most people in the United States. This is not the case in Europe, where the issue of transgénicos is very much in the forefront of the public's mind.

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Caption 10 [es]: Eso tiene el... el riesgo bastante grave
Caption 10 [en]: That involves... the pretty serious risk

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De consumidor a persona - Short Film - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Spain

Is organic farming still ecological when excessive resources are spent to ship goods halfway around the world? Why are ecologically-oriented producers more subject to government oversight than those using environmental contaminants?

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Caption 41 [es]: ¿Por qué el agricultor ecológico tiene que estar registrado
Caption 41 [en]: Why does the ecological farmer have to be registered,

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De consumidor a persona - Short Film - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Spain

De consumidor a persona means “From consumer to person,” and that’s a transformation of psyche the world may need to undertake if it’s going to survive peak ecological crises. Un Solo Mundo Produciones is a production company in Granada, Spain that produces engaging films revolving around social and environmental themes important to the planet as a whole.

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Caption 41 [es]: Por supuesto todo tiene su precio.
Caption 41 [en]: Of course, everything has its price.

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José Rodríguez - La Finca

Difficulty: Beginner

Venezuela

José Rodriguez, the caretaker of a beautiful finca, or farm, is kind enough to show us around and tell us a bit about the area and himself. You will probably realize that pues, as José employs it, is a common muletilla (“filler” word), used to add a bit of emphasis or just as a matter of speech style, and doesn’t really always have to be translated (though it can often be thought of as akin to “well”).

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Caption 25 [es]: que esto no tiene mucho, mucho tiem'... años, pues.
Caption 25 [en]: that doesn't have much ti'... well, many years.

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Emiro - La Historia de Emiro

Difficulty: Beginner

Venezuela

Emiro used to live in oil-rich Maracaibo, where his father was headmaster of the school system Shell oil ran for the children of employees. (Did you know: Venezuela is the only country in the Americas that’s a member of OPEC? And a founding member at that!)

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Caption 33 [es]: Ziggy ahora tiene trece años, Afra tiene dos años y medio.
Caption 33 [en]: Ziggy is thirteen years old now, Afra is two and a half years old.

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Yasmil Marrufo - Rumba en mi Corazón

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

The talented Yasmil Maruffo has composed for, written for, and backed musicians ranging from Phil Collins to Ricky Martin. Yasmil wrote the music for Rumba en mi Corazón, and he co-wrote the lyrics with Servando Primera. Servando and his brother Florentin made it a hit. Here we catch a rare glimpse of Yasmil performing for a small group of friends.

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Caption 23 [es]: Que mi vida, sin ti, no tiene sentido
Caption 23 [en]: That my life, without you, makes no sense

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