Gerald's Spanish Language Blog August 2003 Archive

Reader's Digest, which publishes its Selecciones edition in Spanish, is going into the Spanish-language movie business. The magazine is partnering with a TV production company to produce Selecciones at the ... Read More

When Spanish writers or speakers need a word their language doesn't have, these days they often turn to English to borrow one. But occasionally they turn to French. A case ... Read More

This week the United States marks the 40th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech. King is also beloved in the Spanish-speaking world. Read ... Read More

If you start hearing Spanish coming from your TV in the next few days, it may not be because you have it tuned to a Spanish-language network. NBC says it ... Read More

Just a dozen years ago, there was no locally produced Spanish-language television in the capital of the United States. Nationally, there wasn't much in terms of Spanish-language media — a ... Read More

Quechua, an indigenous language of South America, could be close to extinct by 2030 as Quechua speakers increasingly use Spanish, mathematical models indicate. Two U.S. researchers, Daniel Abrams and Steven ... Read More

Peter Miguel Camejo, a Green Party Venezuelan-American, appears to be the first — and so far the only — candidate for governor of California to launch a Spanish-language Web campaign. ... Read More

Spanish should be a second common language in the United States — not just a language for immigrants but a prestigious second language that all sorts of Americans speak in ... Read More

The AltaVista search engine has introduced a toolbar that can be used with Internet Explorer to provide near-instant translations between Spanish, English and several other languages. Once the free toolbar ... Read More

Gabe Gardner is the only member of the U.S. men's volleyball team who speaks Spanish, and he says the language came in handy while the team was at the recently ... Read More

Now that you know English and Spanish, what should be the next language you learn? Participants in our forum seem to lean toward learning French, Italian or one of the ... Read More

From our forum: If you receive TV by satellite, it's possible that your programming package has Spanish lessons and/or Spanish-language programming at no additional charge. Find out more...

If you've read the article on this site about online translators, you know that I haven't been impressed enough to recommend them. I last did a review of the translation ... Read More

Portuñol, a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese, is being used more and more in Brazil, much as Spanglish is frequently used in the United States. One example of popular usage ... Read More

A mariachi band was asked recently by a city official of a Los Angeles suburb not to speak in Spanish between songs during an upcoming summer concert series. The employee ... Read More

Learning Spanish by oneself while using a computer isn't my idea of the most fun or even the most effective way, but if you must learn by using software you ... Read More

Authorities in Chile have made progress in their crackdown on Harry Potter y la orden del fénix, the bootleg Spanish translation of the most recent book in the Harry Potter ... Read More

A writer for Spain's ABC isn't happy with organizers for an upcoming international event in Catalan-speaking Barcelona, whom she accuses of butchering the Spanish language on its web site and ... Read More

High school students are better off if they study a foreign language, regardless of what they're looking for in terms of a future career. A foreign language can provided advantages ... Read More

What are Spaniards reading this summer? Many of the same books people in the rest of the world are reading. According to a recent survey of Spanish booksellers, the top ... Read More

Sometimes learning a foreign language is essential for the international businessperson. The prospect of learning a foreign language used to conjure up images of repetitive classes and boring rote learning. ... Read More

From the forum: "I usually find Spanglish quite amusing, and actually enjoy using words like e-mail and Internet in Spanish. But I don't like Spanglish when it seems unnecessary, when ... Read More

U.S. Hispanics who watch or listen to Spanish-language news are more likely to find the news accurate than those who watch or listen to the news in English, a new ... Read More

Head to Florida and listen on the radio for the Spanish-language broadcast of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and one of the color announcers you will hear is Enrique Oliu. ... Read More

A newspaper war is brewing in Texas — or perhaps that should be called una guerra de diarios. Knight Ridder, a major U.S. newspaper chain, has announced it will expand ... Read More

El rodaje de Zapata, una película sobre el líder revolucionario mexicano Emiliano Zapata, ha comenzado. La película será el más caro en la historia del cine mexicano. Lee más... (Fuente: ... Read More

If you calculate all the animal fat and oil consumed by Spaniards, then applied American standards of eating healthy, you'd think the streets of Spain would be piled ten deep ... Read More

Do you have difficulty reading the previous item, about bootleg copies of Harry Potter selling in Chile? If so, you might benefit from expanding your vocabulary. One way is by ... Read More

Ejemplares pirata del libro Harry Potter y la orden del fénix en español han aparecido en Santiago, Chile. La versión ilegal que ya circula a unos 12.000 pesos (alrededor $17 ... Read More