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  Joseba Basabe October 11, 2025 at 12:37pm

  A bit more about bullfighting in Spain today, and how it seems that at least for the foreseeable future it´s here to stay: https://www.thelocal.es/20251011/inside-spain-dont-expect-bullfight...

  Inside Spain: Don't expect bullfighting to be banned anytime soon

  In this edition of Inside Spain, we look at how the ruling Socialists have turned their backs on the possibility of removing bullfighting's protected…
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  David Paul Appell October 8, 2025 at 11:21am

  DPA How do you feel about the centuries-old tradition of bullfighting? It´s not purely Spanish/Hispanic - it´s also practiced in Portugal and southern France, but in forms that aren´t lethal to the bull. I went to corridas in Madrid (and later in Mexico City) when I was a teenager, and apart from the fact that I simply didn´t find it that exciting, I also hated that the bull was usually killed, which struck me as highly unfair. There´s been controversy here in Spain which basically boils down to animal welfare vs. tradition, and it´s banned in some localities and regions such as the Canary Islands and Catalonia, but it still has plenty of followers here. The English-language version of Málaga-based Diario Sur recently ran an article surveying the state of the debate: https://www.surinenglish.com/lifestyle/bullfighting-spain-an-abhorr...

  

  Bullfighting in Spain, an abhorrent torture of animals or a tradition of cultural importance: who s…

  Activists claim there is growing opposition against the bullfight, while packed bullrings seem to indicate it still has strong support
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  Ahmed Abbas October 6, 2025 at 12:08pm

  Here´s an interesting quick comparison from Duolingo on Spanish in half a dozen Hispanic countries: https://blog.duolingo.com/spanish-dialects/

  

  How different are Spanish dialects around the world?

  There’s just 1 word to describe them all: chévere! Or chido, or padre, or copado, or…
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  Maria de los Angeles October 5, 2025 at 10:04am

  Growing up in Miami with Cuban parents, I know a little something about the music of the Spanish Caribbean, but I still learned a lot from this pretty in-depth (actually, sometimes frankly a bit *too* in-depth) look at the various music forms of the Spanish Caribbean. So if you´re a little hazy on the differences between salsa, rumba, son, merengue, bachata, and so forth, check this out! https://musicsoflatinamerica.org/sections-chapters/cuba-and-the-his...

  Cuba and the Hispanic Caribbean
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  Jorge Carlos Tejada Sobrino December 28, 2024 at 8:59pm

  I listen to a fair amount of Spanish-language pop music but even I haven´t heard of some of these... https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-spanish-languag...

  The Best Spanish-Language Songs of 2024

  Here are some of the hits we loved this year, including releases by Karol G, Myke Towers, Ela Taubert, Floyymenor, and more.
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  José Balido April 12, 2023 at 5:56pm

  Hey, did anyone catch this piece in the New York Times about New Mexico's particular form of Spanish, dating back to its time as part of the Spanish Empire and then Mexico from 1598 to 1846? Maybe not, because it's behind a pay wall, but here it's reprinted by Yahoo News. Fascinating - a lot I did not know! https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-losing-form-spanish-spoken-115607576....

  

  New Mexico Is Losing a Form of Spanish Spoken Nowhere Else on Earth

  QUESTA, N.M. — When the old regulars gather at Cynthia Rael-Vigil’s coffee shop in Questa, a village nestled in the snow-capped Sangre de Cristo Moun…
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  María José December 20, 2022 at 3:09pm

  From the interesting and sometimes provocative, travel-oriented website FarandWide.com, which focuses on cultures, people and off-the-beaten-path places, here's a though-provoking (if very superficial) rundown and ranking of 21 countries where Spanish is spoken, with - spoiler alert - the best to visit listed as my own country, Spain, and the worst as the USA (below even Venezuela and Equatorial Guinea!), See if you agree with some of these assessments: https://www.farandwide.com/s/spanish-speaking-countries-e721b685ff2...
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  David Paul Appell August 13, 2011 at 8:08pm

  Now on our blog: top ten reasons to learn Spanish.
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  John Kipper January 3, 2011 at 5:53am

  Hola a todo mundo, ho recibido este chiste en mi email esta noche y me parece muysimpatico! Spero no ofender a nadie!!!

   

  A un hombre de unos 70 años le está entrevistando un periodista en plena calle.  El hombre entrevistado se expresa del siguiente modo:   
  

  Soy hijo de exiliados.
  Hasta los 27 años y poco antes de la transición no pude volver a España porculpa de Franco.
  A mi padre, pobrecito, no sabíamos ni dónde enterrarlo.
  Mi madre estuvo muchos años en silla de ruedas.
  Ahora tengo 70 años.Hace meses me sacaron el 30 % de un pulmón.
  Mi mujer es inmigrante, tengo tres hijos con ella.
  De los tres sólo trabaja una, la del
  medio,... pero no cobra nada.Todos, incluidos los nietos, viven de mi
  asignación.
  La mayor se acaba de divorciar. Mi yerno se daba a las drogas y al alcohol y
  la ha dejado con dos niños.
  El pequeño de mis hijos aún no se ha ido de casa y además se ha casado con
  una divorciada y la ha traído a vivir con nosotros. Esa señora antes
  trabajaba, tenía muy   buen puesto, pero desde que vino a mi casa ya no
  hace nada.
  Ahora tienen dos niñas que también viven bajo nuestro techo.
  Y para colmo este año, con lo de la crisis, casi no nos hemos podido ir
  de vacaciones y si me apuras... ni he podido celebrar que España ha ganado el
  Mundial.
   
  El periodista pone los ojos muy redondos y comenta:
  
  Majestad, sinceramente, no creo que su situación sea tan mala!!!
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