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...snowboarding;” a Chinese teenager “yao mai yi ge DVD” (wants to buy a DVD). The globalization of English is, it seems, unstoppable. In response, political institutions around the world are attempting to halt English’s spread. The Real Academia Espa??ola (RAE)—the Spanish institution that publishes the “official” Spanish dictionary—refuses to recognize words that “rupture the linguistic system in its totality” or “endanger the language’s unity...
...beautiful youngsters step on the stage clad in Spanish-like garb, the room went silent. The pair strikes their first pose and when Juan and Gennaro’s “Espa??a Cañí” starts playing, they begin a paso doble. With the man moving as the matador and the woman flowing as his red cape, the two weave a passionate dance of give and take, push and pull. It ends with a stellar lift as he raises her above his shoulders while her body is contorted into a ring-like shape...
...watched “Pan’s Labyrinth” (“El Laberinto del Fauno” in its native Spanish) the night before a Spanish final exam last semester, thinking a Spanish-language film would help me hablar espa??ol más mejor. But, since my shaky beginner skills couldn’t handle the added curveball of a Castellano lisp, I ended up reading the subtitles. The resultant experience felt more useful for my beloved English classes than for my Spanish, however, since it gave me an opportunity to revel in the beautiful...
...single cookbook that appears over a period of many years tells you how tastes evolve,” said Wheaton. “Cooking is essentially an international activity. It does not recognize political or language barriers.” How do you say red spiced chicken en espa?...
Columnist Belinda Luscombe addressed the decision of the organizers of the Madrid fashion shows to bar from the runways any model who falls below a certain weight [Oct. 2]. Viva Espa??a! Viva Madrid! I have never met a man or woman who thinks those gaunt and pathetically unappealing models, who look like something from the worst of the World War II POW camps, do anything for clothes, fashion or themselves. It's time we objected to the twisted concepts of the fashion-industry nitwits...