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NEWS ABOUT: Spanish

Spanish stories: 11 news summaries

Hotel Owner Forces Latino Employees to Change Names

NM innkeeper forbids speaking Spanish

Oct 26, 09 2:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - A hotel owner who demands that Latino workers change their names to Anglicized versions and not speak Spanish in his presence is causing a stir in New Mexico. Larry Whitten laid down the law: Martín (mahr-teen) and Marcos are now just Martin and Mark, and employees he considered insubordinate... More »

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Iraq • New Mexico • racism • Latinos • Spanish • Hispanic • cultural heritage

(Newser) - Dozens of carefully buried human sacrifices have been found in a coastal Inca site in Peru, reports the Telegraph. Most of the dead are teenage girls, and one appears to have been pregnant. The bodies, which still contain skin and hair, all bear signs of knife slashes along the neck.... More »

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archaeology • Peru • Machu Picchu • South America • Spanish • Inca • human sacrifices • archaeologist

Basque Separatists Hand Over Power After 30 Years

After 30 years, separatists lose power in Spanish region

May 5, 09 7:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Security has been ramped up in the Basque region of Spain today as it prepares for the inauguration of its first non-separatist government in 30 years. Spain's national left- and right-wing parties have come together to form a unity coalition, ending decades of rule by Basque separatists. The terrorist group... More »

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Spain • Basque • ETA • separatists • Spanish • Basque separatists • Popular Party • Socialist Party of Spain

A Rose by Any Other Name Might Smell
... Manly?

Language influences perception, study finds

Apr 6, 09 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Think of the Golden Gate Bridge. Would you describe it as fragile, elegant, and slender? Or strong, dangerous, and sturdy? When they pictured a bridge, a group of German speakers offered the first group of words, while Spanish speakers offered the second, NPR reports. The difference, believes the psychologist behind... More »

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gender • study • psychology • language • German • Spanish

 Tom's Geography Needs Work 

Star confuses Brazil with Spain

Feb 6, 09 12:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Tom Cruise is on a roll with the gaffes as he promotes Valkyrie in Rio de Janeiro, the New York Post reports. First the star tried to be cute by saying hola and gracias to reporters—forgetting that Brazilians speak Portuguese, not Spanish. Cruise also said he loves Brazil for... More »

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film • Tom Cruise • Germany • Brazil • Valkyrie • Rio de Janeiro • Spanish • samba • actor • tango • Portuguese

OPINION

Xmas Spirit Translates Better in Foreign Tongue: Keillor

Writer 'feels the religious fervor' at Spanish mass

Dec 24, 08 7:14 PM CST
(Newser) - Garrison Keillor is no Scrooge, but can find it hard to get the Christmas spirit, he writes for Salon. In New York for “the general dazzlement and variety,” and a holiday unbound by obligations of small-town homogeny, Keillor finds Yuletide spirit in a Spanish-language mass at St. Patrick’... More »

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Christianity • New York • Mass • holiday • Spanish • Christmas • Garrison Keillor

ANALYSIS

 Latino Voters: Four Myths 

They don't want Spanish-language ads—and they will vote for a black guy

Jun 30, 08 3:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pundits are way off on Hispanic voters, writes Arian Campo-Flores in Newsweek. Four common misconceptions:
  • Immigration is everything. A recent survey showed that education, health care, the economy, and crime were more important in the demographic. Recent immigrants are most likely to care about immigration—and least likely to
... More »

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immigration • Barack Obama • Spanish • swing voters • the Hispanic vote • George W. Bush

Miami Needs to Study Spanish

International financial hub finds Latinos' language skills lagging

Mar 3, 08 1:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Miami's role as an international city—the "financial hub of Latin America," as one businessman calls it—is threatened by its residents' declining Spanish skills, the Miami Herald reports. Many descendants of the Cuban entrepreneurs and businessmen who flooded South Florida in the '60s and '70s speak only... More »

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Miami • language • Latinos • immigrant • Spanish • Hispanic • Cuban Americans • bilingual education

Immigrant Kids Talk the Talk: 90% Master English

Fluency makes dramatic leaps across generations

Nov 30, 07 5:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Although many Spanish-speaking immigrants who moved to America know little English, that's not true of their children and grandchildren, according to a new Pew survey. Only 23% of first-generation immigrants said they were competent in English, but 88% of second-generation and 94% of third-generation residents said they can carry on... More »

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immigration • language • English • Latinos • immigrant • Spanish • bilingual education

Arabic, Asian Languages Gaining More US Students

Arabic enrollments grew 126.5% from 2002 to 2006

Nov 14, 07 10:00 AM CST
(Newser) - American students are studying Arabic and Asian languages more than ever before, according to a Modern Language Association survey. Spanish has been the most studied language since 1995, still with more than 50% of students, but Arabic is fastest-growing, jumping 126.5% from 2002 to 2006—making up 1.5%... More »

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language • Chinese • Koreans • Spanish • Arabic • Modern Language Association

Dems' Miami Debate Makes Foray Into Spanish

First presidential debate translated live on Univision

Sep 10, 07 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democratic hopefuls took part in a Spanish-language debate in Miami yesterday, having questions translated UN-style from Spanish to English, and answers back again into Spanish. Though he'd agreed to the ground rules, bilingual contender Bill Richardson couldn't resist  asking in Spanish if he could continue in Spanish, and Sen. Chris... More »

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Latin America • Bill Richardson • Democrats • immigration reform • Cuba • Univision • Miami • presidential debate • voters • debate • Chris Dodd • language • Spanish • Election 2008 • bilingual education

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