Spanish México

El Ángel de la Independencia

In questo primo episodio vi leggo una delle mie poesie preferite, intitolata "Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale". L'autore della poesia è Eugenio Montale (1896-1981).
L'argomento trattato in questa poesia è l'amore provato da Montale per sua moglie, scomparsa da poco. L'amore si mischia al dolore e al malinconico ricordo di quella che è stata la loro vita quotidiana.

Leggo la letteratura italiana per te

Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale

[ — Audio description, listen and read along for greater understanding. — ]
As flores são bonitas e coloridas.
Elas crescem nos jardins.
Algumas flores são pequenas e outras são grandes.
As rosas são vermelhas.
As margaridas são brancas e amarelas.
As flores precisam de sol e água.
As pessoas gostam de flores.

PORTUREAD - Listen to small texts and conversations samples in portuguese!

As flores  — SMALL TEXT A2-B2 LEVEL.

I talk about the phenomenon of trying to fit in despite how expensive it can be. 

Random Thoughts

Keeping Up with the Jones

Vocabulary:
to be fired- when someone loses their job
the word "nipote" in Italian has 4 meanings: nephew, niece, grandson, granddaughter
to support- to assist or help someone
to put up with- to bear with something unpleasant
Mary- woman's name
Merry- happy (used in the phrase "Merry Christmas" in the U.S.)


Learn English with Stories

Real examples of language misunderstandings

You will meet a Malayalam word of fifteen letters and your instinct will be to panic. By the end of this class your instinct will be to take it apart from the right-hand end — and you will usually be able to.

Linguists sort languages by how they package meaning into words. Isolating languages keep one meaning per word — Mandarin, Vietnamese. Fusional languages fuse several meanings into one ending you cannot cut apart — Latin, Russian, Arabic. Agglutinative languages string together clearly separable pieces, each with one job. Malayalam is the third kind.

That is why learning Malayalam quietly makes Japanese and Turkish less alien afterwards — same mechanism, same logic.

Why the pieces do not always look how you expect. Malayalam — Manglish — English:

സന്ധി — sandhi — "junction": the sound changes where two morphemes meet. Sanskrit made a science of it; Malayalam inherited both the phenomenon and the name.

മരം → മരത്തിൽ — maram → maratthil — tree → in the tree. Not മരംഇൽ. A ത്ത appears at the join.
പുസ്തകം → പുസ്തകത്തിൽ — pusthakam → pusthakatthil — book → in the book
സ്ഥലം → സ്ഥലത്ത് — sthalam → sthalatthu — place → at the place
ഭക്ഷണം → ഭക്ഷണത്തിന് — bhakshanam → bhakshanatthinu — food → for the food

Learn that one pattern and long words stop being walls.

Slow and clear, for English speakers, heritage learners and the Malayali diaspora.

What is the longest Malayalam word that has stopped you? Post it and I will take it apart.

Malayalam Grammar Made Obvious | Cases, Verbs and Tenses

Why Malayalam Words Are So Long | Learn Malayalam #339

You will know of some rare combinations of foods in Colombia

1. Aguadepanela con queso

2. Cuajada con Melao

3. Chocolate con queso

4. Changua

5. Bocadillo con queso

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Colombia

Las combinaciones de comida más extrañas de Colombia

You will know of some Colombian superstitions


Víspera de Año Nuevo

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Monserrate

Mariposas 

Dinero

¡Una mano que ayuda!

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Las supersticiones más conocidas de Colombia

En el episodio de esta semana te voy a hablar de algunas curiosidades sobre España que no son muy conocías.

Espero que, como siempre, disfrutes el episodio y aprendas algo nuevo. Si es así, por favor, no te olvides de dejar una valoración al podcast en la plataforma donde lo estás escuchando, ya que eso me ayuda a llegar a muchas más personas.

También, tengo curiosidad, ¿conocías las cosas que te cuento en el episodio? ¿Conoces alguna otra cosa curiosa sobre España?
