Difficulty: Intermediate
Venezuela
On this special edition of "Rhythm Trivia," "Popular Dance" is the category. Will the enthusiastic caller be able to identify the dance being danced? You too are invited to participate!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Venezuela
Can you guess the name of the percussion instrument used to play the rhythmic pattern in Cuban rumba? Let's see if you, and today's participant on "Rhythm Trivia," can come up with the correct answer!
Difficulty: Advanced
Venezuela
This time, the Your Music team will interview a very special and animated guest named Ángel Meléndez, who, in addition to being their friend, is a journalist, soccer fan, and sports commentator.
Difficulty: Advanced
Venezuela
As the interview with radio personality Ángel continues, we will learn more details about his tastes in his youth as well as his current profession.
Difficulty: Advanced
Argentina, Venezuela
On this edition of "Tu Música" (Your Music), Yasmina and José Luis welcome the music group El Ensamble Latino (The Latin Ensemble), which is made up of members of many nationalities. Let's hear about how they came together.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Argentina, Chile, Venezuela
Tu Música continues with this interview with the music group El Ensamble Latino, which, at the time of the interview, had been together for only four months and managed to combine diverse music styles from the cultures of Argentina, Chile and Venezuela.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Venezuela
In this interview conducted by Yasmina and José outside of the Tu Música (Your Music) radio show studios, we will learn more about the musical history of Venezuelan artist Néstor Rojas, a member of the group El Ensamble Latino (The Latin Ensemble).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
Just over a quarter of Mexico’s 127.5 million people are aged 18-24, and as such the “youth vote” could easily make or break any candidate in Mexico’s upcoming election on July 2. Patterned after the “Rock the Vote” campaign in the USA, Tu Rock Es Votar is running a television, radio and web campaign that hopes to improve voter turnout in the Mexican youth population despite a general desencantado (“disenchanted”) attitude found amongst all eligible voters.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
Tu Rock Es Votar, a.k.a. TREV, continues its efforts to rally Mexico’s youth to get out and vote come election day. It’s something of an unspoken secret that TREV’s organizers tend to lean to the left, but they strive to make the ads non-partisan.
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.
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.
Difficulty: Advanced
Colombia
A pair of down-and-out criminals set their sights on an ambitious, vulnerable young woman.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
A young blind woman, Laura, begins a radio interview about how she acquired her seeing eye dog, Zazen, and how he helped her at her recently secured job in telemarketing.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
As thugs plot to sell her beloved guide dog, Laura recalls how she trained him.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Via a radio interview in the aftermath of the abduction of her beloved seeing eye dog, Zazen, a young blind woman, Laura reveals her determination to work and contribute to society in the best manner possible.
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