Soap operas (a piece of a speech)

Soap operas

I’m going to tell some things about soap operas that I think all of you already know.
Well, there are many kinds of soap operas, but if you know little about the plot/don't know the plot of each one of those, basicaly they are the same thing, specially mexican ones.
You always see the same characters, for example:
The female protagonist (the good one) always, as a rule, starts as being a cute but poor and dirty girl, or a very ugly but inteligent girl, and in the end she will be pretty and powerful. Her name will be something like Maria Guadalupe, Maria de Los Angeles, Maria Juana, Maria Soledad and she will always ask The Virgin of Guadalupe for help.

Then, the male protagonist is a tall, good looking guy with a lot of money and every girl wants to be with him, but for a reason he falls in love with the poor or the ugly girl. He usually has a long name like Jose Manuel Alejandro, Luis Miguel Roberto or Eduardo Jesus Alonso, and a last name like Montenegro, Montalvo, or something like that.

And then, the villain is the bad girl who usually is the mother or mother in law of the male protagonist, or his ex girlfriend that is always is hotter than the female protagonist.

Now, what is likely to happen in a soap opera:
1 the characters die at least 3 or 4 times
2 somebody loses their memory
3 the bad girl pretends to be pregnant by the male protagonist
4 the female protagonist is the lost daughter of a rich family
5 the female protagonist’s son is kidnapped
6 the maid hears a secret and is murdered
7 the characters speak alone/to themselves
8 in the end bad people get crazy and poor

Well, there are others soap operas like the ones in schools with problematic guys, girls with short skirts and boys with tattoos, motorcycles or something like that, and other ones with gangsters and sluts, but the agurments are almost the same that I said before.

Soap operas (part of a speech)

Soap operas
I’m going to tell you some things about soap operas that i think all of you may already know.
There are a lot of many kinds of soap operas, but if you think a little about the plot (the argument) of each one of those, basically they are all the same, thing; especially the Mexican ones.
You always see the same characters, for example:
The female protagonist (the good one) always, as a rule, starts been as a cute but poor and dirty girl, or a very ugly but inteligent girl, and but in the end she will be preatty beautiful and powerful. Her name will be something like Maria Guadalupe, Maria de los angeles, Maria Juana, or Maria Soledad, maria juana,oh, and she always ask for help to the virgin of Guadalupe for help.
Then, The male protagonist he is a tall and good looking guy with a lot of money, and every girl wants to be with him; but for any some reason he falls in love with the poor or the ugly girl. He usually has to have a long first name like Jose Manuel Alejandro, Luis Miguel Roberto, or Eduardo Jesus Alonso, and a last name like Montenegro, Montalvo, or something like that.
The villain the bad girl which use to be is usually either the mother or the mother-in-law of the male protagonist, or his ex-girlfriend which who always is hotter than the female protagonist.
Now, what this is what always happens in a soap opera:
1 The characters die at least 3 or 4 times.
2 Somebody loses their memory.
3 The bad girl pretends to be pregnant by the male protagonist.
4 The female protagonist is the lost daughter of a rich family.
5 The female protagonist’s son is stolen kidnapped.
6 The maid hears a secrect and then she is murdered.
7 The characters speak alone talk to themselves. [This is to explain the plot.]
8 In the end, the bad people gets mad become angry and poor.
There are anoter soap operas like the ones set in a schools with problematic guys, girls with short skirts and boys with tatoos and motorcycles or something like that, and others ones with gangsters and sluts, but the agurments main plots are almost always the same. that I said before.

Except Mujeres asesinas, but that was supposedly based on real events. I liked the one where the cocinera murdered her landlord who was forcing her to have sex with him because she couldn't pay her rent, and then she made him into carne asada, which everyone in the village said was delicious.

Telenovelas are a good way for extranjeros to learn Spanish, for just the reasons you described. The plots are always the same, the characters speak clearly and they repeat themselves often, there are close-ups of the face, so you can see the lips while the characters speak, etc. Did you know that gorillas prefer soap operas to most other programs?