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        <title>A Spanish Titanic </title>
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&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span title="luxury cabins"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;Hola! And apologies for that extended delay. Things have been busier than we thought for the last few months. We hope you're still checking in from time to time for your dose of SNB, because our intention - really - is to deliver a post a week, so that you can keep up-to-date with both the Spanish news and the Spanish language it's written in. Just one change: if you'd like a copy of a printable PDF document of the day's post so you can use SNB on the move, just send us an email (riversfreddy (at) gmail.com) and we'll send you you one right back. Today's post is about a subject little-known even to many Spaniards: the case of the Spanish Titanic. Un abrazo, Freddy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="luxury cabins"&gt;NIVEL SUPERIOR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="luxury cabins"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="luxury cabins"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d8834012875670e24970c-pi" style="float: left;"&gt;&lt;img  alt="Principe-de-Asturias-ship" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e55347754d8834012875670e24970c " src="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d8834012875670e24970c-320wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Camarotes de lujo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="fine woods"&gt;maderas nobles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y millonarios exhibiendo su fortuna, pero también emigrantes &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="piled up in the wine cellars"&gt;hacinados en las bodegas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Un &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="shipwreck"&gt;naufragio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: 147 supervivientes de 600 pasajeros. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="It seems like"&gt;Parece&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; la historia del Titanic, pero no lo es. Es la tragedia del trasatlántico Príncipe de Asturias, el más grande, lujoso y moderno de su época en España. El 5 de marzo de 1916, cuatro años después del &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="sinking"&gt;hundimiento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; del Titanic, el &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="vessel"&gt;buque&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; español &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="hit"&gt;chocaba contra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; unos &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="reefs"&gt;arrecifes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; frente a las costas de Brasil. Hubo muy poco tiempo. En sólo diez minutos el Príncipe de Asturias se hundió por completo. Entre sus viajeros estaban Marina Vidal Castro, una de las primeras &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="businesswomen"&gt;mujeres comerciantes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de España, el abuelo decorador del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, la &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="wealthy"&gt;adinerada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; familia Chiquirrín…, y, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="it seems"&gt;según parece&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, oro, mucho oro para financiar la revolución mexicana de Zapata. La historia es &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="as true as it is unknown"&gt;tan real como desconocida&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="it shows"&gt;muestra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; mejor que muchos estudios las verdaderas relaciones entre el Viejo y el Nuevo Mundo en su época. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d88340120a6664508970b-pi" style="float: left;"&gt;&lt;img  alt="Libro-naufragio-novell" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e55347754d88340120a6664508970b " src="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d88340120a6664508970b-120wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Ha sido el periodista Francisco García Novell quien &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="has rescued it"&gt;la ha rescatado&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; tras años de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="here: research. It can also mean 'investigation'."&gt;investigación&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; en su libro Naufragio. Hemos podido ver las &lt;a href="http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/10/27/cultura/1256637476.html"&gt;fotografías &lt;/a&gt;del barco en el pasado y en el presente. Sus &lt;a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.elmundo.es/albumes/2009/10/27/barco/index.html"&gt;restos&lt;/a&gt; están localizados &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="a depth of only 45 meters"&gt;a sólo 45 metros de profundidad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="treasure hunters"&gt;cazatesoros&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; lo conocen bien, pero hay un problema: los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="sharks"&gt;tiburones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="despite them"&gt;A pesar de ellos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, cámaras españoles ya están grabando imágenes para un &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="documentary"&gt;documental&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; que veremos pronto en televisión.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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        <title>New SNB Post Shock! ...Life Ends, but the Words Keep On Coming...</title>
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        <published>2009-06-02T00:53:22+02:00</published>
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        <summary>For reasons beyond our control, SNB posts have been very few and far between recently - apologies for that. We-ll be aiming at one post a week for the next few weeks! (BTW, thanks to everyone who's emailed asking us...</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em><span title="It's true that">For reasons beyond our control, SNB posts have been very few and far between recently - apologies for that. We-ll be aiming at one post a week for the next few weeks! (BTW, thanks to everyone who's emailed asking us where we were - I'll reply to you all!) Today's post focuses on an increasingly significant (presumably because money-spinning) literary phenomenon - the posthumous publication of work by great writers, and a few examples we can look forward to. This late work may not always be up to the writers' finest standard, but it's always welcome. </span><span title="It's true that">Enjoy!</span></em></p><p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>Un saludo,</em></p><p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>Freddy</em></p><p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em mk_i="803" sth_t="0"><span mk_i="804" sth_t="0" style="font-size: 13px;"><strong mk_i="805" sth_t="0">(Hover your mouse over a word/phrase in bold for the English translation...)</strong></span></em><br /><strong><span title="It's true that" /></strong></p><p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong><span title="It's true that"><a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d8834011570a10cf6970b-pi" style="float: left;"><img alt="Benedetti" class="at-xid-6a00e55347754d8834011570a10cf6970b " src="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d8834011570a10cf6970b-200wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a> Es verdad que</span></strong> las obras <strong><span title="unpublished">inéditas</span></strong> no suelen ser ni
las más <strong><span title="polished">pulidas</span></strong> ni las más originales de los escritores. <strong><span title="Diary entries">Entradas de diario</span></strong>, correspondencia personal, papeles dispersos... Pero también es verdad que, para los <strong><span title="faithful">fieles</span></strong>, un nuevo libro de su escritor favorito es un regalo <strong><span title="unexpected">inesperado</span></strong>.</p>

<p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Un día después de la muerte de Mario Benedetti, sus lectores, que son muchos, <strong><span title="had breakfast">desayunaron</span></strong> con una noticia que <strong><span title="lessened their sense of loss">serenaba la pérdida</span></strong>: dos obras del escritor uruguayo, un libro de poemas y otro de textos breves, serían publicados <strong><span title="posthumously">póstumamente</span></strong>.</p>

<p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">El primero será publicado en septiembre de 2009; para el segundo, <strong><span title="nothing is known yet">aún no hay fecha</span></strong>. Pero lo importante es que, gracias al <strong><span title="efforts of the publishing houses">empeño de las editoriales</span></strong>, el <strong><span title="drip">goteo</span></strong> de obras inéditas <strong><span title="provides">proporciona</span></strong> <strong><span title="every so often">cada poco tiempo</span></strong> un nuevo y feliz <strong><span title="reunion">reencuentro</span></strong> con los autores <strong><span title="deceased">fallecidos</span></strong>.</p>

<p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d883401156fabb7e4970c-pi" style="float: left;"><img alt="Cortazar" class="at-xid-6a00e55347754d883401156fabb7e4970c " src="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d883401156fabb7e4970c-100wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 100px;" /></a> Por ejemplo, un volumen con textos inéditos de Julio Cortázar <strong><span title="will come out">saldrá</span></strong> en mayo al mercado editado por Alfaguara. <strong><span title="Meanwhile">Mientras tanto</span></strong>, al fallecido Roberto Bolaño le crecen los inéditos casi <strong><span title="at the same rhythm as his admirers">al mismo ritmo que los admiradores</span></strong>. A <em>2666</em> y <em>El secreto del mal</em>, publicados <strong><span title="a few years ago">hace unos años</span></strong> por Anagrama, <strong><span title="can be added">se le unen</span></strong> ahora tres nuevas novelas. Una de ellas, <em>El Tercer Reich</em>, se publicará en 2010.</p>

<p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Además el escritor británico de ciencia ficción J.G. Ballard falleció recientemente dejando inédita una obra <strong><span title="in which">en la que</span></strong> reflexiona sobre el cáncer de páncreas que lo mató. El libro se llama <em>Conversaciones con mi médico</em>, pero aún no hay fecha para su publicación.</p>

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        <title>Spain: Leading the Green Pack</title>
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        <summary>Welcome back after your Easter break - if you had one. Few would have predicted that Spain would one day find itself at the head of the renewable energy boom. But there she is, right up there with the big...</summary>
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&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d883401156f26d5cc970c-pi" style="float: left;"&gt;&lt;img  alt="Wind-energy-1" class="at-xid-6a00e55347754d883401156f26d5cc970c " src="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d883401156f26d5cc970c-300wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 330px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Welcome back after your Easter break - if you had one. Few would have predicted that Spain would one day find itself at the head of the renewable energy boom. But there she is, right up there with the big boys and being name-checked by Barack Obama. In fact, Spain might even have more energy than it knows what do do with. A green feel to our post today, with plenty of useful vocabulary. Enjoy!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Un saludo, Freddy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;em mk_i="803" sth_t="0"&gt;&lt;span mk_i="804" sth_t="0" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;strong mk_i="805" sth_t="0"&gt;(Hover your mouse over a word/phrase in bold for the English translation...)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;"España, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="Germany"&gt;Alemania&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="and. In lists like this, Spanish uses 'or' rather than 'and' before the final element."&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Japón &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="invest. Infintive: 'invertir'."&gt;invierten&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y están preparados para &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="be the leaders, lit. 'carry the leadership'"&gt;llevar el liderazgo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; en esta nueva industria". &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="Last January"&gt;El pasado mes de enero&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Barack Obama &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="gave"&gt;ponía a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; España como ejemplo de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="development"&gt;desarrollo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de las energías &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="renewable"&gt;renovables&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Durante los tres primeros meses del año, el consumo de la &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="so-called green electricity"&gt;llamada electricidad verde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="reached. Inf: 'alcanzar'"&gt;alcanzó&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; el 30% en España. La &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="figure"&gt;cifra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; es significativa, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="since, as"&gt;pues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; es el objetivo que la Unión Europea &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="set, established"&gt;estableció&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; en 2001 para 2010. En &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="the United States. Note the lack of the definite article in English. 'Internet' is also normally used without an article."&gt;Estados Unidos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;un 10%&lt;/strong&gt; de la energía es renovable. En el Reino Unido &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="it doesn't reach"&gt;no llega al&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; 5%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d88340115701d4e75970b-pi" style="float: left;"&gt;&lt;img  alt="Wind-energy2" class="at-xid-6a00e55347754d88340115701d4e75970b " src="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d88340115701d4e75970b-200wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 250px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Hay varios factores que explican los datos. El &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="growth"&gt;aumento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de las lluvias durante los meses de invierno &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="led to. Inf: 'provocar'"&gt;provocó&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; un 126% más de energía hidráulica. Los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="wind storms"&gt;temporales de viento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; provocaron &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="such an excess of wind energy. The beautiful word 'eólica' is the adjective of 'wind'."&gt;tal exceso de energía eólica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; que la compañía nacional Red Eléctrica desconectó un 40% de los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="mills"&gt;molinos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. No era posible absorber la electricidad que producían. Pero en este campo la energía solar es la número uno. España es el primer país de mundo, después de Alemania, en producción y consumo de energía &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="photovoltaic, capable of converting light into energy."&gt;fotovoltaica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;¿Cuáles son las razones de este desarrollo? Es, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="without doubt"&gt;sin duda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, una consecuencia positiva del &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="construction boom. Which is, without any doubt, now over in Spain."&gt;auge de la construcción&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;que ha vivido el país. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="the housing bubble burst"&gt;La burbuja inmobiliaria estalló&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, pero el avance tecnológico que &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="grew alongside it"&gt;creció con ella&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; continúa. España &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="is now looking at 40%"&gt;mira ahora al 40%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de consumo de energías renovables. Es el objetivo &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="fixed, set. Inf: 'fijar'."&gt;fijado&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; por la Unión Europea para 2020.&lt;/p&gt;

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        <title>Sevilla 2.0</title>
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        <published>2009-04-01T23:44:01+02:00</published>
        <updated>2009-04-01T23:45:07+02:00</updated>
        <summary>NIVEL INICIAL Welcome to April! Of all the places to be in the spring, Seville must be one of the finest, as the many visitors who flock to it from all over the world can testify. For most of the...</summary>
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 Welcome to April! Of all the places to be in the spring, Seville must be one of the finest, as the many visitors who flock to it from all over the world can testify. For most of the month of April, it seems, the city gives itself over to two great fiestas - the Semana Santa, or Holy Week festivities, and then the Feria de Abril - the April Fair. But don't despair if you can't make it this year, because a new initiative  means you can get it all on your computer. Lots of typical Spanish phrases today. Enjoy! <br /></em></p><p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>Un saludo, Freddy</em></p><p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em mk_i="803" sth_t="0"><span mk_i="804" sth_t="0" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong mk_i="805" sth_t="0">(Hover your mouse over a word/phrase in bold for the English translation...)</strong></span></em></p>

<p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Llega el mes de abril. Si vas a visitar España, <strong><span title="there's no doubt">no hay duda</span></strong>, <strong><span title="there's no place like Seville">no hay lugar como Sevilla</span></strong> <strong><span title="to welcome in the Spring. 'Para hacer' = 'to do'.">para dar la bienvenida a la primavera</span></strong>: buen <strong><span title="climate">clima</span></strong>, tapas exquisitas, dos de las fiestas más importantes del mundo y el <strong><span title="aroma of orange blossom. 'Azahar' is one of those beautiful Arabic words that has lingered on into modern Spanish - like 'azúcar' (sugar) and many others.">olor a azahar</span></strong> de los <strong><span title="orange trees">naranjos</span></strong> de la ciudad. Pero <strong><span title="don't worry if you can't">no te preocupes si no puedes</span></strong>. Sevilla es la primera ciudad 2.0. <strong><span title="By means of">Mediante</span></strong> este nuevo programa de su <strong><span title="Town Council">Ayuntamiento</span></strong> ya puedes acceder <strong><span title="easily">fácilmente</span></strong> a <strong><span title="everything that's happening there">todo lo que ocurre allí</span></strong>: comentarios, itinerarios, vídeos, visitas virtuales, noticias de televisión... Todo <strong><span title="apart from">menos</span></strong> las tapas y el olor.</p>

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 En el blog <a href="http://www.visitasevilla.es/blog">Visita Sevilla</a>, con versión también en inglés, puedes encontrar información interesante de la ciudad <strong><span title="beyond">más allá de</span></strong> los tradicionales <strong><span title="tourist information">contenidos turísticos</span></strong>. También es posible <strong><span title="to follow">seguir</span></strong> todos los comentarios <strong><span title="about it (Seville)">sobre ella</span></strong> en sus páginas específicas en Facebook y Twitter. Las mejores fotos están en Flickr. <strong><span title="If you want to take the typical bus tour">Si quieres dar el clásico paseo en autobús</span></strong><strong><span title="around its main landmarks"> por su zona monumental</span></strong>, puedes hacerlo en uno de los vídeos de la página de Sevilla en You Tube. <strong><span title="There you'll also find">Allí también encontrarás</span></strong> imágenes de la <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMMp2uTj0QU&amp;amp;feature=channel_page">Semana Santa</a>, una fiesta que <strong><span title="brings together- the infinitive is 'unir'.">une</span></strong> en la ciudad el espectáculo, la cultura y la religión. El canal de televisión online <a href="http://www.turismosevilla.tv/portada.html">Turismo Sevilla TV</a> ofrece pequeños documentales sobre la ciudad muy interesantes. <strong><span title="Many of them">Muchos de ellos</span></strong> tienen subtítulos en inglés. <strong><span title="It couldn't be any other way">No podía ser de otra manera</span></strong>, <strong><span title="we'll leave you with">nos quedamos con</span></strong> su invitación a la <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leo854u5bvQ&amp;amp;feature=channel_page">Feria de Abril</a>, la fiesta más estética del país: espectaculares <strong><span title="horse-drawn carriages">coches de caballo</span></strong>, <strong><span title="dresses">vestidos</span></strong> sensuales, música para el baile. <strong><span title="As we said. A very common expression for confirming something.">Lo dicho</span></strong>, <strong><span title="there's everything apart from">está todo menos</span></strong> el olor de las calles, el sabor de las tapas y la <strong><span title="joy, happiness. 'Alegría' is a word typically associated with the Andalusian, and Sevillean, character.">alegría</span></strong> de los sevillanos <strong>cuando llega el mes de abril</strong>.</p>

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        <title>America's Bride Comes to Valencia</title>
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        <summary>NIVEL INTERMEDIO We've been in Valencia this week, for the first and least-known of Spain's major annual fiestas, las Fallas (or Falles in the Valencian tongue). What an experience! Today's post, rather than simply report the facts, tries to give...</summary>
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&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NIVEL INTERMEDIO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d88340112798556ec28a4-pi" style="float: left;"&gt;&lt;img  alt="Fallas" class="at-xid-6a00e55347754d88340112798556ec28a4 " src="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d88340112798556ec28a4-300wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 300px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 We've been in Valencia this week, for the first and least-known of Spain's major annual fiestas, las Fallas (or Falles in the Valencian tongue). What an experience! Today's post, rather than simply report the facts, tries to give a sense of what this remarkable fiesta is all about, and what its connection this year was with the world of politics - and the credit crunch. This will be the first of SNB's reports from the fiestas of Spain as they come up through 2009. Today, lots of vocabulary relating to fiestas - and a smattering of Valencian, too. Enjoy! Un saludo, Freddy

&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="It always brings in the spring"&gt;Anticipa siempre la primavera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Es la &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="first"&gt;primera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de las grandes fiestas que &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="are held. The passive in English is often replaced by the so-called 'se' passive in Spanish."&gt;se celebran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; en España. Este año su tema, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="of course"&gt;cómo no&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, ha sido &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="the credit crunch, the economic crisis"&gt;las crisis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Hablamos de las &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6X_oUrTrok"&gt;Fallas de Valencia&lt;/a&gt;. Como cada año, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="on the 15th March. Spanish doesn't use a preposition as English does."&gt;el 15 de marzo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; se celebró la "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span .="" plantar="" title="setting-up night, the night when the monuments and figures are set up in the streets. The word comes from "&gt;noche de la plantá&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;". Los "falleros", miembros de las asociaciones que forman las "fallas" de la ciudad, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="together with"&gt;junto con&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; los artistas creadores &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="put into place"&gt;colocaron&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; los enormes monumentos, las "fallas". Más de 800 calles &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="closed-off"&gt;cortadas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; durante cuatro días &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="so that"&gt;para que&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; los valencianos y los turistas &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="can. This is the subjunctive form, after 'para que'."&gt;puedan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ver estas &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="cardboard works of art"&gt;obras de cartón&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; donde se parodia la &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="present time"&gt;actualidad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="But there's more"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d88340111690fd4cc970c-pi" style="float: left;"&gt;&lt;img  alt="Obama fallas" class="at-xid-6a00e55347754d88340111690fd4cc970c " src="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d88340111690fd4cc970c-200wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 250px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 Pero hay más&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: conciertos, fiestas nocturnas y, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="the most peculiar thing. Putting 'lo' before an adjective transforms it into a kind of abstract noun."&gt;lo más peculiar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, mucha &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="gunpowder"&gt;pólvora&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Los valencianos adoran la pólvora, su &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="noise"&gt;ruido&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ¡y &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="even its smell"&gt;hasta su olor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;! Durante los cuatro días que duran las Fallas hay &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="fireworks"&gt;fuegos artificiales&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; cada noche, como en muchas otras fiestas. Lo que es único en Valencia es la "mascletá". &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="What does it consist of?"&gt;¿En qué consiste?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Durante 10 o 15 minutos los valencianos &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="feel in an emotional state"&gt;sienten emocionados&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; una sucesión de explosiones de pólvora. Oyen el "ritmo" con &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="their mouths open. Spanish uses the definite article, rather than the possessive pronoun, when referring to parts of the body."&gt;la boca abierta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; para evitar problemas con los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="ears"&gt;oídos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y sienten el olor de este &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="spring ritual"&gt;ritual primaveral&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; con &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="strange"&gt;extraña&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; emoción. Es habitual ver &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="tears"&gt;lágrimas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; durante la "mascletá" más grande, la que se celebra en la Plaza del &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="City Hall"&gt;Ayuntamiento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Pero las lágrimas más tradicionales son las de la "fallera mayor", la &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="queen"&gt;reina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; anual de la fiesta, durante la &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2irfFUq6kyE&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;"cremá"&lt;/a&gt;. La noche del 19 de marzo el fuego &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="burns"&gt;quema&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; todas las fallas. ¿Interpretaciones? Todas. Ritos ancestrales mediterráneos, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="the death that the fire represents. The phrase is ambiguous - Spanish word order is very flexible. It could also mean (though it would be hard to make sense of it!) 'the death that represents the fire'."&gt;la muerte que representa el fuego&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, la renovación de la vida, la energía de los "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="throbbing explosions"&gt;latidos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;" de la pólvora...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;Este año los "ninots" protagonistas, las figuras que forman las fallas, han sido los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="politicians. 'Músico' = 'musician'."&gt;políticos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Hemos visto a los líderes europeos, Merkel, Sarkozy, Brown, Berlusconi y Zapatero, como una banda de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="The only difference is in the accent!"&gt;gángsters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de los años 20. También hemos visto a Obama como &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="America's bride"&gt;novia de América&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y a Fidel Castro &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="shooting"&gt;"disparando" a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Cristóbal Colón. Pero, sobre todo, mucha crítica a la corrupción y la &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="inefficiency"&gt;ineficacia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de nuestros representantes. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="After the laughter, the punishment"&gt;Después de la risa, el castigo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: el fuego.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The video below gives a flavor of what the mascletá of 2009 was actually like. Cover your ears...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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        <title>Leading the Way in Weddings</title>
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        <published>2009-03-14T10:27:24+01:00</published>
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&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;Hola!
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&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spain's sporting successes are well-known. Less so its business successes, one of which we report on today. Suffice it to say that if you're thinking of taking a stroll down the aisle, you could do worse than order your dress from Pronovia. Lots of wedding and business vocabulary in today's SNB mix. Enjoy!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Un saludo, Freddy &lt;br&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;em mk_i="803" sth_t="0"&gt;&lt;span mk_i="804" sth_t="0" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;strong mk_i="805" sth_t="0"&gt;(Hover your mouse over a word/phrase in bold for the English translation...)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d8834011168db0f9e970c-pi" style="float: left;"&gt;&lt;img  alt="Bodas" class="at-xid-6a00e55347754d8834011168db0f9e970c " src="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d8834011168db0f9e970c-200wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 120px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 Tenemos a Rafa Nadal, a Penélope Cruz. Son números uno españoles conococidos por todos. Pero, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="are there any more?"&gt;¿hay más?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Sí. Hoy &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="we're pausing (to look at)"&gt;nos detenemos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; en uno que no sufre la crisis
y que también &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="has plenty of. 'Sobrar' is a useful but tricky verb, with no real equivalent in English."&gt;va sobrado de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; glamour. Se llama &lt;a href="http://www.pronovias.com/"&gt;Pronovias&lt;/a&gt; y es la &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="leading company"&gt;empresa líder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; en &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="bridal gowns"&gt;vestidos de novia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; en el mundo, con un 5% de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="market share"&gt;cuota de mercado&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Su espectacular &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="growth"&gt;crecimiento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de los últimos años, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="around"&gt;en torno al&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; 25% anual, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="together with that of"&gt;junto al de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; otras empresas del sector &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="have made Spain. Note the 'de' before the noun, where there is no preposition in English."&gt;han hecho de España&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; el segundo país exportador de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="fashionable wedding wear"&gt;moda nupcial&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="behind only China"&gt;sólo por detrás de China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d883401127950560d28a4-pi" style="float: left;"&gt;&lt;img  alt="Keithrichards" class="at-xid-6a00e55347754d883401127950560d28a4 " src="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d883401127950560d28a4-120wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 ¿Cuál es la &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="key to its success"&gt;clave de su éxito&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? La idea del &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="luxury"&gt;lujo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; a precios &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="reasonable"&gt;razonables&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Lo vimos en la inauguración de su primera tienda en Nueva York el año pasado. Un edificio espectacular de siete &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="floors"&gt;plantas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; en el epicentro del lujo de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="the Big Apple (New York), a term popularized in the 1920s by the sports writer John J. Fitz Gerald. It may be of Afro-American origin."&gt;la Gran Manzana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, una fiesta &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="of the kind which make history. 'Historia', of course, means both 'history' and 'story'."&gt;de las que hacen historia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="celebrities of the first rank. 'Famoso' is one of many examples of an adjective being used as a noun."&gt;famosos de primera línea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: Ivana Trump, Martin Scorsese. Keith Richards... Y &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="on the shelves"&gt;en las estanterías&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; diseños para todos los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="tastes and pockets"&gt;gustos y bolsillos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, desde menos de 1.000 dólares hasta los exclusivos de Valentino o Elie Saab. Como en el caso de Zara, la tienda es fundamental, representa la imagen de la &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="brand"&gt;marca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Pronovias tiene 150 en 75 países del mundo. La democratización del diseño &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span title="has also reached"&gt;ha llegado también a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; las bodas.&lt;/p&gt;

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        <title>Spanish HistoryBites</title>
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        <published>2009-03-08T00:50:30+01:00</published>
        <updated>2009-03-08T00:49:48+01:00</updated>
        <summary>NIVEL INTERMEDIO I've always been fascinated by old newspapers. They tell us more about what lived history was like than any number of history books. Today, Spanish NewsBites reports on a new initiative which brings much of that newspaper history...</summary>
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            <name>Freddy Rivers</name>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d8834011168ca5b9e970c-pi" style="float: left;"><img alt="Atlas" class="at-xid-6a00e55347754d8834011168ca5b9e970c " src="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d8834011168ca5b9e970c-250wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 150px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">
 I've always been fascinated by old newspapers. They tell us more about what lived history was like than any number of history books. Today, Spanish NewsBites reports on a new initiative which brings much of that newspaper history into our own homes. Meanwhile, we present a pioneering 'Chronological Atlas' which provides a history of Spain from its origins until now in well-written, bite-sized pieces - a bit like those you're about to read, in fact. Every self-respecting Spanish-language library should have one of these 'atlases' - though, let's be honest, it doesn't come cheap. Enjoy! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Un saludo, Freddy

</span></em></p><p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong><span title="What did the first feminine publications in Spain talk about?"><a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d8834011168ca5c17970c-pi" style="float: left;"><img alt="Pensatriz" class="at-xid-6a00e55347754d8834011168ca5c17970c " src="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d8834011168ca5c17970c-120wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;" /></a>
 ¿De qué hablaban las primeras publicaciones femeninas en España?</span></strong> <strong><span title="About how much hair sweats under a wig">De cuánto suda la cabeza bajo la peluca</span></strong>, de la dificultad de <strong><span title="positioning">colocar</span></strong> el sombrero y las <strong><span title="jewels">joyas</span></strong> sobre la cabeza, de los <strong><span title="fans">abánicos</span></strong>... Es La <a href="http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?path=1075914&amp;ocultarCabecera=S"><span title="Salamanca Thinker. 'Pensatriz' is a feminine term for 'thinker', 'pensador', which doesn't appear in Spanish dictionaries. Salamantina is the adjective for someone or something from Spain's old university city of Salamanca.">Pensatriz Salmantina</span></a>, día 16 de marzo de 1777, la publicación <strong><span title="oldest">más antigua</span></strong> que podemos consultar en la nueva <a href="http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/en/estaticos/contenido.cmd?pagina=estaticos%2Fpresentacion"><span title="Virtual Library of Historical Press">Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica</span></a>, presentada esta semana por el Ministerio de Cultura español. Será un <strong><span title="free luxury">lujo gratuito</span></strong> para <strong><span title="curious people. Spanish converts adjectives into nouns like this much more commonly than English.">curiosos</span></strong> e <strong><span title="researchers. But 'investigar' also means 'investigate'.">investigadores</span></strong>, que podrán ver más de 2.000 publicaciones y <strong><span title="four and a half million. Note the different word order in Spanish.">cuatro millones y medio</span></strong> de páginas en <strong><span title="computer screens">las pantallas de sus ordenadores</span></strong>. La historia de España entra <strong><span title="in this way">así</span></strong> en <strong><span title="the Internet">la Red</span></strong> <strong><span title="via">a través de</span></strong> sus <strong><span title="newspapers">periódicos</span></strong> desde finales del siglo XVIII hasta 2005.</p>

<p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Más historia. Por 95 euros <strong><span title="you can now buy">ya se puede comprar</span></strong> el nuevo <a href="http://www.atlasache.es/ver_seccionFija.aspx?id=2">Atlas Cronológico de la Historia de España</a>, publicado por la Real Academia de la Historia. <strong><span title="We are talking about">Se trata de</span></strong> un libro de grandes dimensiones, donde aparecen los 14.000 <strong><span title="historical facts">hechos históricos</span></strong> más importantes de la historia española, desde la prehistoria hasta 2008. Pero <strong><span title="the most interesting stuff. If you take an adjectice like 'interesante' and put 'lo' in front of it, you convert it into an abstract noun.">lo más interesante</span></strong> estará en la Red. <strong><span title="Each, every">Cada</span></strong> libro tiene una <strong><span title="exclusive card with passwords">tarjeta exclusiva con claves</span></strong> para <strong><span title="access">acceder a</span></strong> sus contenidos, que <strong><span title="will continually be updated">se actualizarán continuamente</span></strong> <strong><span title="according to the newest research">según las nuevas investigaciones</span></strong>. Una Wikipedia especializada, <strong><span title="erudite, learned">erudita</span></strong> y visualmente muy atractiva.</p>

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        <title>Spanish BookBites</title>
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        <published>2009-03-04T22:50:11+01:00</published>
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        <summary>Hola! We've added a new poll to the left column down there. If you're a regular visitor to the site, please give it one quick click to help us make SNB a better place to be. Gracias, Freddy NIVEL INICIAL...</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Hola! We've added a new poll to the left column down there. If you're a regular visitor to the site, please give it one quick click to help us make SNB a better place to be. Gracias, Freddy

</span></p><p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong>NIVEL INICIAL</strong></p><p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>Today, two major Spanish-language publishing initiatives. The crisis may have led to the closure of two of New York's Spanish-language bookstores, but don't worry - Spanish will find its way into our homes via other routes, as an exciting new project by one major publisher proves. Meanwhile, a major new transnational dictionary is being prepared which will show us that, though the original home of the language of Cervantes is naturally enough Spain, more and more of it is coming out of Latin America. A must-read for anyone serious about the language. Happy reading!<br /></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Un saludo, Fredd<span style="font-style: italic;">y</span></span></em><em><br /><br /></em><em mk_i="803" sth_t="0"><span mk_i="804" sth_t="0" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong mk_i="805" sth_t="0">(Hover your mouse over a word/phrase in bold for the English translation...)</strong></span></em></p>

<p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong><span title="First it was"><a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d883401127921dcf028a4-pi" style="float: left;"><img alt="GabrielGarciaMarquez" class="at-xid-6a00e55347754d883401127921dcf028a4 " src="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d883401127921dcf028a4-250wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 150px;" /></a>
 Primero fue</span></strong> el <strong><span title="Prize">premio</span></strong> Pulitzer al dominicano <a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/spanish_newsbites/2008/12/learn-spanish-2.html">Junot Díaz</a>, <strong><span title="afterwards">después</span></strong> el <strong><span title="sales phenomenon">fenómeno de ventas</span></strong> de la novela <em>2666</em>, de <a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/spanish_newsbites/2008/07/roberto-bolao.html">Roberto Bolaño</a>, recomendada <strong><span title="even by">incluso por</span></strong> Oprah Winfrey en su programa y su<a href="http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/readingroom/200811_omag_book_bolano"> revista</a>. <strong><span title="After the closure">Tras el cierre</span></strong> de Macondo y Lectorum, las dos librerías de español clásicas de Nueva York, el futuro <strong><span title="looked dark">parecía oscuro</span></strong> para sus <strong><span title="readers">lectores</span></strong>. Pero el español <strong><span title="is driving forward">empuja con fuerza</span></strong> en <strong><span title="the United States. Spanish cannot omit the article, but it can also be used, as we see later in the article.">Estados Unidos</span></strong>. Cada año se venden más de 100.000 <strong><span title="copies">ejemplares</span></strong> de las <strong><span title="works">obras</span></strong> de Gabriel García Márquez (left) en su lengua. La demanda <strong><span title="is growing. The present simple tense can be used in Spanish where the continuous would be used in English.">crece</span></strong> y <strong><span title="it will do so even more">lo hará más</span></strong> en el futuro. <strong><span title="Despite">A pesar de</span></strong> la crisis del sector, Random House, una de las grandes <strong><span title="publishing houses">editoriales</span></strong> norteamericanas, <strong><span title="has seen the business opportunity">ve el negocio</span></strong>. Su reciente asociación con la española Vintage Español <strong><span title="will create">creará</span></strong> <strong><span title="every year">cada año</span></strong> 65 nuevos títulos en <strong><span title="the language of Cervantes - an often-used euphemism for Spanish.">la lengua de Cervantes</span></strong> para su venta en los Estados Unidos. Federico García Lorca <strong><span title="and. Spanish uses 'o' rather than 'y' when giving lists of examples.">o</span></strong> Pablo Neruda son algunos de sus primeros autores.</p>

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 "Chocolate", "patata", "tomate"... Son <strong><span title="words or expressions in Latin American Spanish">americanismos</span></strong> conocidos <strong><span title="known by">por todos</span></strong>, pero <strong><span title="there are many more">hay muchos más</span></strong>. ¡Entre 90.000 y 100.000! En ellos <strong><span title="are working">trabajan</span></strong> en esta semana en Sevilla los expertos de todas las <strong><span title="language academies. There are 22 of these throughout the Spanish-speaking world.">academias de las lenguas</span></strong> de España y Latinoamérica. Será el futuro <em>Diccionario de Americanismos</em>, un <strong><span title="project. Beware the slight but tricky difference in spelling!">proyecto</span></strong> que la <a href="http://www.rae.es/rae.html">Real Academia Española</a> <strong><span title="has had since the 19th century. The present tense can sometimes be used where Spanish would use the perfect tense.">tiene desde el siglo XIX</span></strong>. <strong><span title="It will be presented">Se presentará</span></strong> en marzo de 2010 en la ciudad <strong><span title="Chilean. Unlike English, Spanish does not use capital letters before nouns and adjectives of nationality, days of the week, and months.">chilena</span></strong> de Valparaíso, durante el V Congreso Internacional de la Lengua.</p>

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        <title>50 Years of Viña del Mar</title>
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        <summary>NIVEL INTERMEDIO It's Latin America's best-known music event, and its 50th anniversary of awarding prizes to songs of frankly varying quality has just finished. The country which has supplied most winners is Chile, which is perhaps unsurprising since that's where...</summary>
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<p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em><a href="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d883401127916b85e28a4-pi" style="float: left;"><img alt="Viña-del-mar" class="at-xid-6a00e55347754d883401127916b85e28a4 " src="http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/.a/6a00e55347754d883401127916b85e28a4-300wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 300px;" /></a>
 It's Latin America's best-known music event, and its 50th anniversary of awarding prizes to songs of frankly varying quality has just finished. The country which has supplied most winners is Chile, which is perhaps unsurprising since that's where Viña del Mar is, but it's Italy which has the second highest number of winners - including Domenico Protino's 2008 victory. Spanish NewsBites reports on a festival that looks like it's here to stay. Here's to the next 50! Watch out for lots of handy subjunctive forms in the song in the video we've embedded in </em><em>today's entry, </em><em>uanes' </em><em>'A Dios le pido'.</em></p>

<p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>Un saludo,</em></p>

<p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em>Freddy</em></p><p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><em mk_i="803" sth_t="0"><span mk_i="804" sth_t="0" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong mk_i="805" sth_t="0">(Hover your mouse over a word/phrase in bold for the English translation...)</strong></span></em></p>

<p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Felicidades. <strong><span title="It's been. In Spanish, the plural verb corresponds to the number of years - 'Ha sido un año'.">Han sido</span></strong> 50 años, 50 <strong><span title="festivals. 'Edición' is often used to refer to a regularly-repeated public event: 'Participará en la próxima edición de los Juegos Olímpicos' = 'She will compete in the next Olympic Games.'">ediciones</span></strong> donde <strong><span title="there have been lights and shadows. 'Ha habido' is the present perfect tense of 'hay', 'there is'.">ha habido luces y sombras</span></strong>. Gracias, <strong><span title="above all">sobre todo</span></strong>, a la <strong><span title="live transmissions">difusión en directo</span></strong> de las <strong><span title="Tv stations">televisiones</span></strong>, el <a href="http://festival2009.canal13.cl/2009/html/Esp/index.html">Festival de Viña de Mar</a>, en Chile, es hoy el <strong><span title="musical event">acontecimiento musical</span></strong> más importante de Latinoamérica. Mucho más que las canciones del <strong><span title="competition">concurso</span></strong>, las <strong><span title="performances">actuaciones</span></strong> de las grandes estrellas son el <strong><span title="main course">plato fuerte</span></strong> y la <strong><span title="key">clave</span></strong> del <strong><span title="media success">éxito mediático</span></strong> del Festival.</p>

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 En la edición de este año, <strong><span title="brought to a close">clausurada</span></strong> el pasado 28 de febrero, Argentina ha sido el país ganador con la canción "Ayer te vi", de Emiliano del Río. Pero la imagen del día fueron las <strong><span title="tears">lágrimas</span></strong> de emoción de Marc Anthony en el concierto final. <strong><span title="There was a bit of everything">Hubo de todo</span></strong>: el pop de los británicos Simply Red, las canciones clásicas del español Joan Manuel Serrat, el guitarrista Carlos Santana y el <strong><span title="social commitment. 'Compromiso' is thus a false friend.">compromiso</span></strong> del colombiano Juanes. <strong><span title="We'll leave you with">Nos quedamos con</span></strong> su <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCrKllZvkWI">"A Dios le pido"</a>. <em>(The singing starts at 1:21.)</em></p>
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</p><p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><font class="txt_1"><strong><span title="That my eyes may awaken. 'Despierten' is the first of many subjunctive tenses used in the song.">Que mis ojos se despierten</span></strong><br />
con la luz de tu mirada, yo<br />
<strong><span title="I ask God">a Dios le pido</span></strong>.<br />
Que mi madre <strong><span title="doesn't die. Another subjunctive.">no se muera</span></strong><br />
y que mi padre me recuerde<br />
a Dios le pido.<br />
Que te quedes a mi lado<br />
y <strong><span title="that you never leave me again. And another!">que más nunca te me vayas</span></strong><br />
a Dios le pido.<br />
Que <strong><span title="my soul doesn't rest. Yet another subjunctive.">mi alma no descanse</span></strong><br />
<strong><span title="when it has to do with loving you">cuando de amarte se trate</span></strong>,<br />
a Dios le pido<br />
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Por los días <strong><span title="that I have left">que me quedan</span></strong><br />
y las noches que <strong><span title="that have still not arrived">aún no llegan</span></strong>, yo<br />
a Dios le pido.<br />
Por los hijos de mis hijos<br />
y los hijos de tus hijos,<br />
a Dios le pido<br />
Que mi pueblo <strong><span title="not spill so much blood">no derrame tanta sangre</span></strong><br />
y se levante mi gente,<br />
a Dios le pido.<br />
Que mi alma no descanse<br />
cuando de amarte se trate, <br />
a Dios le pido.<br />
<br />
Un segundo más de vida para darte<br />
y <strong><span title="deliver my whole heart up to you">mi corazón entero entregarte</span></strong>.<br />
Un segundo más de vida para darte<br />
y <strong><span title="at your side">a tu lado</span></strong> para siempre yo quedarme<br />
un segundo ms de vida, yo...<br />
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A Dios le pido<br />
que si me muero sea de amor<br />
y si me enamoro sea de vos,<br />
y <strong>que de tu voz sea este corazón</strong>.<br />
Todos los días<br />
a Dios le pido<br />
que si me muero sea de amor<br />
y si me enamoro sea de vos,<br />
y <strong><span title="that your voice be of this heart">que de tu voz sea este corazón</span></strong>.<br />
Todos los días<br />
a Dios le pido,<br />
a Dios le pido...<br />
y a tu lado para siempre yo quedarme<br />
un segundo más de vida, yo...<br /></font></p><p style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><font class="txt_1">(Repite)
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        <title>Spanish NewsBites February RoundUp</title>
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        <published>2009-03-01T13:08:52+01:00</published>
        <updated>2009-03-01T13:18:00+01:00</updated>
        <summary>Bienvenido, and thanks for visiting! Well, what have we learned over the last few updates from Spanish NewsBites? Well, we've learned a bit more about one of the characters in Pedro Almodóvar's new movie, due in March; about the incredible...</summary>
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