Proyectos

Most interesting to me was how similar each Spanish speaking country is to one another. I found it very interesting that such an overwhelming amount of countries celebrate Quinceañeras.

Proyecta

The most interesting thing I learned from the projects is that in most Spanish speaking countries soccer is the most played sport of the countries.

Poster Project

I learned a lot from the presentations of the different Spanish countries. The most interesting fact was in some Spanish countries it is considered as polite if you arrive at an event 30 or more minutes late. In America if you are late it is very impolite.

Proyectos

I thought one of the most interesting facts was about the country of Chile. In their country, people are 50% less likely to have HIV/AIDS versus the United States of America. I also thought it was really interesting that Chile's flag looks almost identical to the flag for Texas, USA. Overall learned a lot about different Hispanic cultures from around the world.

Proyectos

It was interesting to learn about holidays in Spanish-speaking countries. Some of the customs were very similar to our customs here in the U.S., but some were very different. The most interesting fact I learned was that Colombians eat twelve grapes on New Year's Eve for good luck.

The most interesting fact I found was that in Ecuador no matter where you live you can pick any school you want to go to, no matter how far away it is. In the United States we do not get to choose what school to go to, it depends where we live at. 

Proyectos

One of the most interesting facts I learned from the projects is that in one of the Spanish countries it is considered rude to show up on time. It is more formal to show up half an hour or forty five minutes late. In the United States this would be considered extremely rude.

Proyectos

All the projects on Spanish speaking countries were very interesting. One of the best things I liked about Spain was that in most traditional areas, after lunch time at around 3pm, they have a siesta. I think that a siesta after lunch could benefit everybody.

Proyectos

The most interesting thing I learned from the poster projects was that across many of the Spanish speaking countries, there are many shared customs that are the same. For example, a girl's quincinera is the equivalent of an American Sweet Sixteen, however it is always a big celebration.

Proyectos

After viewing the Spanish-speaking country posters, share your thoughts with your classmates. What was the most interesting cultural information you learned?

Seble Solomon - Mi Rutina Diaria

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1753497-mi-rutina-diaria?playlist_direction=forward

Thomas Corcoran - Mi Rutina Diaria

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1753478-composition-speaking-assignment-two

Rutina Diaria

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1743261-compisition-2

rutina diaria

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1743081-rutina-diaria

Mi Rutina Diaria

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1743034-mi-rutina-diaria

Mi Rutina

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1742913-mi-rutina

Kimie Powell Audio Boo

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1742156-reflexive-verbs

Audio Boo

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1741570-reflexive-verbs

Mi Rutina Diaria

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1739924-spanish-speaking-assignment-2-mi-rutina-diaria

Mi Rutina Diaria

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1738836-mi-rutina-diaria

 Day of the Dead

 Voy a la fiesta con mis amigos.

En el día de las brujas, yo como mi favorita chocolate.

La Comida

Durante las vacaciones en Perú, voy a visitar de las ruinas incas de Machu Picchu y toman el sol en la playas de Lima. Yo como mucho pescado con las verduras, y escabeche de pescado con pan. Bebo agua con el desayuno, el almuerzo, y la cena.

 Voy a la fiesta con mis amigos.

Peru

Yo quiero ir a la playa en Perú. Perú es hermoso. Me gusta comer. Yo voy al resturante. Para el desayuno me voy a comer pan tostado con queso. Para el almuerzo me voy a comer la ensalada con pollo. Para la cen me voy a comer los espaguetis. Yo bebo agua con cada comida. 

Vacaciones de Peru

Para mis vacaciones de Peru, visito la selva amazónica porque es muy hermoso. También visito Cordillera de los Andes. Y como ceviche y como lomo saltado. Yo también bebo café Peruano es muy importante porque café Peruano es muy delicioso.






  

La Comida

Voy a Peru en el verano. Visito Machu Picchu y saco fotos. Como el ceviche y el arroz en Peru. Bebo mucho agua y un poco refresco.

La próxima semana, voy a visitar Perú. Voy a visitar los templos de Pachacamac, un sitio arqueológico. Para el desayuno voy a comer fruta y beber té. Para el almuerzo voy a comer yuquitas rellenas y fruta. Voy a comer las empanadas de queso y verduras para la cena. Para el almuerzo y la cena, voy a beber agua.

Yo voy hacer un viaje Peru. Voy a vistiar a la playa. Voy nadar y comer comida. Comer arroz y pollo. Comer sopa de pollo. Beber aqua y refresco.

La comida

Using food vocabulary we learned and cultural information about Perú, describe your plans during a trip to Peru. ¿Qué vas a hacer durante el viaje? ¿Qué vas a comer? ¿Qué vas a beber? Include a photo.

https://audioboo.fm/Seble63

Thomas Corcoran Audioboo

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1672180-speaking-assignment-1

Michael White - Audioboo

 

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1657764-speech-assignment-1

https://audioboo.fm/users/1826228/boos

Austin Burdette

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1658291-austin-burdette-spanish-speaking

 

https://audioboo.fm/alexsmith

https://audioboo.fm/timberlab

https://audioboo.fm/ashleymorris4

Las descripciones

You are thinking about trying an online dating service, and you must record a detailed description of yourself for other prospective daters. Be sure to include a description of your physical, as well as, your personality traits.

Guillermo del Toro

     Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican filmmaker who began making films when he was only eight years old in his home town of Guadalajara. He struggled long and hard to succeed, laboring on ten short films, none of which brought him fame. When he was 34 years old he was finally given an opportunity to make a major film when the American company Miramax gave him $30 million dollars to shoot a script he wrote called Mimic. During the shooting of this film his father was kidnapped in Mexico and held for ransom. It was an extremely stressful time for del Toro, and once his father was safely returned it was decided that the entire family would have to move from Mexico to prevent further ransom attempts. According to del Toro, there is not a day that goes by where he does not think about his forced exile from his home country. To date he has made a number of hugely successful films, including Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Blade II, and most recently, Pacific Rim.

Manny Pacquiano By Marvin Bethel

Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao
Was born December 17, 1978 he is a professional boxer and a politician. Born in Kibawe, Bukidnon, Philippines. Manny is the first eight-division world champion and was the first to in four different weight classes win the lineal championship. He is know for being the longest rated pound for pound boxer. Besides boxing, Manny has done music recording, participated in acting and politics. In May 2010 he was chosen to be in the House of Representatives in the 15th Congress of the Philippines he is representing the province of Sarangani.

Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek is an Mexican
American actress, director, and producer born September 2, 1966 in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico.

She attended Mexico City Universidad Iberoamericana, where she decided to pursue acing afterwards. 

 Her first title role was a Mexican soap opera(telenovela) called Teresa in 1989.

 
By the age of 24 years old, she would move to Los Angeles, CA where would later be picked up by famous producer, writer, and director Robert Rodriguez.
She co-starred in his film Desperado alongside Antonio Banderas in 1995.

In 1997, she would later co-star in another romantic comedy film alongside Mathew Perry called Fools Rush In. She would also co-star in 1999 with Will Smith in the movie Wild Wild West.

In 2000 she founded her own Latin-themed production company, Ventanarosa. From 2006 to 2010, she was an executive producer for the television show Ugly Betty. Recently she has co-starred in two comedy films, Grown Ups, and Grown Ups 2 alongside Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, and Kevin James.

She is an active philanthropist for increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination towards immigrants. In 2005, she even testified on before the U.S. senate committee  on reauthorizing judiciary support on the Violence Against Women Act. In 2010 she received an award from the VH1 Do Something Awards for her humanities work., and continues to work with others to spread female empowerment.

Sidney M. Gutierrez

Sidney M. Gutierrez was the first U.S.-born Hispanic astronaut. He logged over 488 hours in space and overall logged over 4,500 hours flying time in approximately 30 different types of airplanes, sailplanes, balloons, and rockets. He received several awards including the National Defense Service Medal, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, two NASA Space Flight Medals, and the 1990 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Award.

During his time at the United States Air Force Academy, he was a member of the National Collegiate Championship Air Force Academy Parachute Team and had a Master Parachutist rating.

He was selected by NASA in 1984 and became an astronaut in 1985. On his first assignment he served as commander for the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory. After completing that assignment, he served as an action officer for the Associate Administrator for Space Flighty at NASA Headquarters. He contributed to the recertification of the Space Shuttle Main Engines, Main Propulsion System, and External Tank in 1986 and 1987. In 1988 he became the Astronaut Office lead for Shuttle software development, verification, and future requirements definition. He supported the launches of STS-28, 20, 32, 33, and 34 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in1989. He was the pilot on STS-40 in 1991 and was the spacecraft commander on STS-59 in 1994. In 1992 he became the Astronaut Office Branch Chief for Operations Development. Gutierrez retired from the U.S. Air Force and NASA in 1994.

Gutierrez currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Texas-New Mexico Power Company and Goodwill Industries of New Mexico. He’s a member of the New Mexico Space Center’s Governor’s Commission, the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, the Air Force Association, the U.S. Air Force Academy Association of Graduates, and the Society of Space Explorers.

Jose' Ignacio Barraqur - ophthmologist

My famous Spanish person is Jose' Ignacio Barraqur. He was a famous ophthmologist and is considered the founding father of our modern day Lasik surgery. His refractive techniques were developed and tried in the 1950s.

 Shakira was born in Colombia on February 2, 1977. Her father is Labanese so she shows her Latina and Arabic culture. She is famous for a Latina singer and dancer. Some of her famous songs are "Hips Don't Lie" and "Whenever WhereverShe won two Grammy Awards and seven Latin Grammy Awards.Shakira contribution to society to help displaced children in her country to go to school and get their basic needs.

Aaron Michael Hernandez was a Pro Bowl New England Patriot Tight end, who played college football at the University of Florida. He was drafted by the Patriots in the fourth round of the NFL 2010 season. In his second NFL season he was selected to play in the pro bowl. But on August 23, 2013 Hernandez was indicted by a grand jury for the murder of Odin Lloyd, and is currently a suspect for other murders in Florida and Massachusetts.

Selena Quentanilla- Perez

Selena was a Hispanic American singer, songwriter, and fashion designer. She was born in Texas to a Mexican father and a half Cherokee mother. Her father being a musician, her love for performing blossomed at age nine when her father made Selena and her siblings into a musical group (with Selena as the lead vocalist). Because her schooling interfered with her music career, Selena's father removed her from school when she was in eighth grade (she got her high school diploma independently years late).

In 1987, she won Female Vocalist of the Year at the Tejano Music Awards- she won that award eight consecutive times after 1989. "Como La Flor", a song written by her brother, lander number six on the U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Tracks and paved the way for her Mexico tour in 1992. In 1993, the  album "Live!" won Selena her first Grammy for Best Mexican American Album of the Year. Also in 1993, Selena opened her first boutique in her hometown in Texas. She made Yolanda Saldivar head of the store because Yolanda was responsible for the success of Selena's fan club.

In 1994, "Amor Prohibido" became one of the best selling Latin albums and certified 20x platinum (selling two million copies). After all of her success, she was referred to as "The Queen of Tejano Music" and the Mexican Madonna. EMI Records believed Selena had reached her peak with the Spanish market and began crossing her over to a solo American pop artist. Simultaneously, Selena's family noticed that there was money missing from an account associated with the boutique. The family confronted Yolanda Saldivar and fired her from her position. Weeks later, Yolanda asked Selena to meet her alone in a motel room (Yolanda carried a rifle with her to the motel). On March 31, 1995, Selena was killed by Yolanda Saldivar in a motel room in Texas, she was only twenty-three years old. Her death shocked the nation and two weeks after the murder, Governer George W. Bush named April 16 "Selena Day" in Texas.

Roberto Clemente is a famous baseball player from Puerto Rico. He played 18 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates where he won 12 Golden Glove awards. He also won the National Leagues Most Valuable Player Award (1966) and the World Series MVP (1971). He died in a plane crash giving supplies to Earthquake victims in Nicaragua. Clemente was the first Latin American accepted into the MLB Hall of Fame.

Alex Rodriguez, or A-Rod, is a famous hispanic baseball player. He was born in New York but his family is from the Dominican Republic, and he spent some of his childhood growing up there. He is currently a star player for the New York Yankees, and he is a 3x MVP and the youngest MLB Player to hit 600 career home-runs.

Hispanic Heritage Month

To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15) and to recognize the presence of latinos in the United States, choose a famous hispanic person and share information about him/her. Where is he/she from? Why is he/she famous? What are his/her contributions to society? Write in YOUR OWN WORDS and include a photo.

Spain

 

 

Spanish is the official language of Spain, but there are also many co-official languages. In Galicia, they speak Galician. In Cataluña, Catalan and Aranese are spoken. In Euskera, they speak Basque, the only non-romance language with an official status in Spain. There are also many unofficial languages and dialects such as Aragonese, Asturian, Leonese, Extremaduran, Occitan, and Fala.

Learning About Spain

I learned that Spain's National Holiday is on October 12th, because that was the same date Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas. I also learned that businesses usually stay open from 9AM to 8PM Monday through Saturday, but are usually closed in the afternoons. However, most big businesses will stay open.

Spain

Many foods were brought to the new world from Spain. The Spaniards imported some foods such as tomatoes, potatoes, avocados, tobacco, and cacao to Europe. These words originated from Spanish words which is why they all end in "o" when translated to English.

Spain - Bull Fighting

Bull Fighting in Spain

Spain has a long history with bull fighting and has become a tradition for the country weather people like it or not. Some consider the sport to be barbaric and others consider it art. Matadors are in competition for trying to fight the bull and can often run a high risk of falling victim to the strength of the animal.If the matador does arise to defeat the bull, than they are celebrated by a overly cheerful audience of people whom throw roses and hats into the arena for the victory. Bull fighting has a rich history in being held historically in Roman style amphitheaters. This sport over all has been seen as a true show of man vs. beast. 

This flag represents Spain. The yellow symbolizes generosity and the red shows bravery and strength.

España

The cultural focus of Capítulo 1 is the country of España. Share with your classmates something you learned about the culture of Spain after watching the videos on Myspanishlab, reading the textbook, and exploring other resources. Include a picture.

  

Las presentaciones

Introduce yourself to the class. Tell a bit about yourself and your reasons for studying Spanish. What are your goals? What are the benefits of speaking Spanish?

¡Bienvenidos a la clase español!

We are going to use this platform to share information about the Spanish language and culture. We are also going to practice writing in Spanish and connect and collaborate with our classmates. I hope you are ready to begin studying Spanish.