Spanish We Do

What can you learn about the Spanish language from a guy that arrived in Costa Rica knowing zero Spanish and lived there for 16 years?

And yes; he did learn Spanish.

Michael Jenkins is a journalist from the United States, long-time student and lover of the Spanish language, currently back in the US and working as Accounts Manager for The McCalmon Group.

This is the second episode with Michael, the first non-native speaker of Spanish I have in the show AND he’s also the first client brave enough to accept the invitation.

¡Vamos, Michael!

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How a two-week vacation to Costa Rica turned into a stay of 16 years and an eternal love for Costa Rica’s culture, people, food, and the Spanish language.

Michael Jenkins is a journalist from the United States, long-time student and lover of the Spanish language, currently back in the US and working as Accounts Manager for The McCalmon Group.

This episode is a first in a couple of aspects. Michael is the first non-native speaker of Spanish I have in the show AND he’s also the first client brave enough to accept the invitation.

¡Gracias, Michael!

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The "personalities” and accents in Spanish-speaking countries.

Are people from Spain always angry? Obviously not. Then, why do Latin Americans might sense anger when people from Spain speak?

We get the answer from a native of Spain who lived in the United States for five years and learned this and so much more sharing with Spanish speakers from all countries.

Clara González Tosat is a journalist native of Spain who spent five years in the United States teaching Spanish and also working with Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University doing research about the usage of Spanish in the US, with her particular focus on digital news and radio stations.

We also talk about personalities and stereotypes from different Spanish-speaking countries, the Latinx movement and her academical and personal view about US Spanish being a type of Spanish in its own right.

You can reach out to Clara via her Twitter account @Clarita_Wba

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Clara González Tosat is a journalist native of Spain who spent five years in the United States teaching Spanish and also working with Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University doing research about the usage of Spanish in the US, with her particular focus on digital news and radio stations.

How and when did she --born raised in Spain-- discover that other types of Spanish existed? How did she feel about it? Was there any emotional meaning attached to accents from other countries being Spain the "inventor" of the Spanish language?

And what does the Colombian soap opera Pasión de Gavilanes have to do in all of this?

You'll also find out how one particular Spanish verb can save your life in Spain and get you killed in Latin America --if said to the wrong person; if you say to the right person, you might get a happy memory out of it!

This is part 1 of my conversation with Clara, where we focus on the Spanish language itself. For part 2, we'll go into cultural differences, stereotypes and particular behaviors among Spanish-speaking countries; always a revealing --if not risky-- subject.

You can reach out to Clara via her Twitter account @Clarita_Wba

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Spanish We Do is hosted by José Erre and it's a production of SpanishWeDo.com; a translation and localization team for text, subtitles and voice-over from English into Spanish and Spanish into English.

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This is an episode about stereotypes about and from Paraguay; and we also touch on the subject of teaching Spanish.

How do Paraguayans see themselves and how other countries see them? What do Paraguayans think about Argentinians? What do Argentinians think about Paraguayans? These and other insights come up during the second part of my conversation with Alejandra Acuña Balbuena (@aleacu_a on Twitter), born and raised in Paraguay, who has lived in Norway and is currently teaching Spanish at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Part 1 of this conversation approached the Spanish language itself in Paraguay and its differences from other types of Spanish.

In this episode, you’ll also find out how to play piano in Spanish! --not a joke; not fully a joke, at least.

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Paraguay, right in the middle of South America, is a country with two official languages: Spanish and Guaraní. We’ll find out how that particularity has affected the way the Spanish language is spoken in Paraguay and how Alejandra Acuña, my guest today, manages that when teaching Spanish at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

In this episode, you’ll also find out how Spanish can save you from bad luck on a Friday the 13th!

Alejandra Acuña Balbuena (@aleacu_a on Twitter), born and raised in Paraguay, has also lived in Norway and the US. She has a dual degree in Environmental Sustainability and Italian, and is currently seeking an interdisciplinary approach to studying Latin America.

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This is part 2 of our approach to Spanish language and culture from Argentina looking out with Barbara Tartabini.

Spanish dubbing, how media influences language, how Argentinian mothers know their kids might be watching too much TV and also the very mysterious case of Sesame Street!

Bárbara Tartabini is an Argentinian immigrant in A Coruña, Spain. She's a language enthusiast who studied psychology for several years. Former radio host, actress, comedian at heart. All around drama queen --her words! Loving friend, feminist, cat lover.

After 10+ years working for US based companies such as Oracle, IBM, Western Union, Bárbara made a 180° turn and dedicated herself to teaching English, first as a conversational mentor and currently,, as the owner and director of The Treehouse English for Kids, "where we learn by playing and laughing".

If you live in A Coruña or its surrounding areas and want to kids to learn English, check out https://thetreehouse.es/ or find it on Instagram as The Treehouse English

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Spanish We Do is hosted by José Erre and it's a production of SpanishWeDo.com; a translation and localization team for text, subtitles and voice-over from English into Spanish and Spanish into English.

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Argentinian Spanish is it's own thing; how? How different is it from neutral Spanish? (If such a thing exists!)

In this conversation with Bárbara Tartabini we talk about the differences between the way Argentinians and the rest of Latin Americans speak; how that so called "neutral Spanish" is less foreign to Argentinians that we might believe --they're sort of bilingual from the cradle regarding those two types of Spanish.

Bárbara Tartabini is an Argentinian immigrant in A Coruña, Spain. She's a language enthusiast who studied psychology for several years. Former radio host, actress, comedian at heart. All around drama queen --her words! Loving friend, feminist, cat lover.

After 10+ years working for US based companies such as Oracle, IBM, Western Union, Bárbara made a 180° turn and dedicated herself to teaching English, first as a conversational mentor and currently,, as the owner and director of The Treehouse English for Kids, "where we learn by playing and laughing".

If you live in A Coruña or its surrounding areas and want to kids to learn English, check out https://thetreehouse.es/ or find it on Instagram as The Treehouse English

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Spanish We Do is hosted by José Erre and it's a production of SpanishWeDo.com; a translation and localization team for text, subtitles and voice-over from English into Spanish and Spanish into English.

You can also find us on Twitter

@JoseErre

@SpanishWeDo

How a wrongly chosen hashtag that no one caught can make you a trending topic --in the worst of ways!

How can such a blunder happen when Kamala Harris, democratic vice presidencial nominee as of August, 2020, has Spanish-speaking members in her team --or so everyone thought!

Alicia Civita, seasoned journalist, expert in Latin American culture inside the US and our own CCO (Chief Cultural Officer) tries to explain how something like this can happen. You can reach via Twitter @aliciacivita

Spanish We Do is hosted by José Erre and it's a production of SpanishWeDo.com; a translation and localization team for text, subtitles and voice-over from English into Spanish and Spanish into English.

You can also find us on Twitter

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This is the most interesting and the most dangerous part of my conversation with the journalist Jose Baig, who has lived and worked in 10 different countries, most of them Spanish-speaking countries, but also in the US, the UK and the Netherlands.

We talk about stereotypes and cultural differences among Spanish-speaking countries and how those differences are perceived.

Do you have a generalized idea of Spanish-speaking people? Well, if so, this is going to be fun.

And you’ll also hear about José Baig’s project called La Cocinita de Papá --Dad’s Little Kitchen-- which I think you’re going to love.

Spanish We Do is hosted by José Erre and it's a production of SpanishWeDo.com; a translation and localization team for text, subtitles and voice-over from English into Spanish and Spanish into English.

You can also find us on Twitter

@JoseErre

@SpanishWeDo