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How Spanish sounded across its history
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How Spanish sounded across its history

...de la Historia] Glosa emilianense, Codice 60, folio 72r, manuscript kept at the Real Academia de la Historia. Transcript Libro de buen amor Listen to a passage from El libro de buen amor (The Book of Good Love), written in 1330 by Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita (c. 1283–c. 1350), considered one of the masterpieces of Spanish poetry. ......
Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
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Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...de primero la sopa a la ensalada into separate words. Remember, when you're interacting with others in real life, they're taking clues and signals from you as much as you are from them. So don't be afraid to ask people to repeat, speak more slowly, or clarify the meaning of specific words. If you don't understand something, don't nod out of politeness. Let people know....
Beginners’ French: food and drink
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Beginners’ French: food and drink

...la viande, les poissons, le poulet, les … les fruits de mer … Interviewer Vous aimez la cuisine italienne ? Lionel Oui, beaucoup, surtout les spaghetti. Audio 1 Select the answer for Question 1 here All the interviewees like fish. True. False. a. True. b. False. The correct answer is a. Select the answer for Question 2 here Maryse, Philippe and Lionel like meat. True....
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France

...la plupart des familles françaises, on achète son pain tous les jours. La baguette traditionnelle est bien meilleure lorsqu’elle est fraîche, ou même encore chaude, et c’est pour cette raison que les Français vont à la boulangerie de leur quartier au moins une fois par jour. La baguette est toujours le type de pain le plus répandu, ......
Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?
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Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?

...Las lenguas indígenas engloban una visión única de la vida y del mundo. Al desaparecer, se pierde la cosmovisión y cosmogonía única de cada pueblo, perdiéndose una parte importante de la humanidad. The indigenous languages encompass a unique vision of life and of the world. Their disappearance would imply a loss of the unique world ......
Getting started with Spanish 3
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Getting started with Spanish 3

...Me pone con Luz Perales? Can you put me through to Luz Perales? ¿Puedo hablar con la señora Valle? Can I speak to Mrs Valle? ¿Con Ester García, por favor? With Ester García, please? TO ASK WHO IS CALLING OR SAY WHO IS SPEAKING: ¿De parte de quién? Who is calling? ¿Con quién hablo? Who am I speaking to? Soy Matilde Fernández. It’s Matilde Fernández. Habla Matilde Fernández (LAm). Matilde ......
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Teaching Languages for long-term memory
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Teaching Languages for long-term memory

...class to repeat chunks of language, building up to the whole sentence e.g. Je vais. à la piscine. Je vais. à la piscine. Je vais à la piscine. Then we check that pupils remember what the phrase means: ‘What does à la piscine mean?’ or ‘How do I say I go to the swimming pool?’ and we call on several pupils so that the class hears the phrases many times....
Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists
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Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists

...La Red Latinoamericana de Blogs de Ciencia nace con el propósito de reunir esfuerzos de divulgación científica realizada por blogueros de diversos países latinoamericanos que, desde sus distintas disciplinas e inquietudes, intentan reponer el valor de la ciencia en las redes sociales. ......