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Los Beneficios Profesionales de Hablar Español en los Estados Unidos *MI CUENTO* - Capítulo 8

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Los Beneficios Profesionales de Hablar Español en los Estados Unidos *MI CUENTO* - Capítulo 8

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No hay duda que en esta época, hay mucha demanda para candidates de trabajo que son bilingües en los Estados Unidos. Hay relevencia infinita en nuestra sociedad, el videa explica, para personas bilingües hoy en día, principalmente porque nuestro país es la seguna más grande del mundo en términos de número de hablantes de español. Por eso, mi cuento ha llegado a ser. Decidí aprender Español porque algún día, quiero que llegar a ser un médico, y es mi creencia que mis habilidades en Español no solamente lo van a hacer más fácil ganar aceptación en un colegio de medicina, pero estas habilidades van a ayudarme servir muchas más comunidades y personas, especialmente las de las que hablan totalmente, o en la mayoría parte, el español.

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Speaking Spanish in the US: The competitive edge

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In the United States, bilingual (English/Spanish-speaking) professionals are in increasingly high demand in fields such as public health, business, criminal justice, social services, translation/interpretation among others. If you are pursuing one of these majors you can enhance your studies and give yourself a competitive edge in the job market by learning Spanish.

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El Español - ¿Una Lengua Extranjera? - Capítulo 8 

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El Español - ¿Una Lengua Extranjera? - Capítulo 8 

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¿Es el Español todavía considerado como una "lengua extranjera"? Según este artículo desde Huffington Post, es posible que no, por 9 razónes que son tratadas en este artículo. La más interesante, posiblemente, es como el punto de la existencia de muchos lugares y calles con nombres con influencia hispánica es hecho. Aquí en la ciudad de Austin, esta información es tan relevante, y es visible por toda la área del centro de Austin, con nombres como "Lavaca", "Guadalupe", "San Jacinto", y muchas otras. Por eso, el español continua vivir con mucho felicidad en los Estados Unidos, y con cada día, la lengua está llegando a ser un lenguaje más doméstico en vez de un lenguaje extranjero.

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Anyone who's ever enrolled in a Spanish class knows that schools generally refer to it as a "foreign language." Most of us repeat the phrase uncritically, as if it were actually true. But is it?

Take a look around. Spanish isn't "foreign" to the United States, at all. The names of many of our states and cities are Spanish - a testament to the fact that Spanish-speakers colonized many areas that later became part of the United States before English-speakers. Many of us use Spanish words when speaking English, often without being aware of what we're doing. According to a 2013 Pew report, Spanish is the second-most spoken language in the country and many people, both immigrant and native-born, were raised speaking it.

When you really think about it, Spanish is no more "foreign" to the United States than English. Still not convinced? Allow us to break it down for you a bit. Here are nine reasons why Spanish is really is not a foreign language in the U.S.

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Here's Why Spanish Isn't Really A Foreign Language In The U.S.

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Anyone who's ever enrolled in a Spanish class knows that schools generally refer to it as a "foreign language." Most of us repeat the phrase uncritically, as if it were actually true. But is it? Take a look around. Spanish isn't "foreign" to the United States, at all.

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La Situación Real y Política del Español en los Estados Unidos - Capítulo 8

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La Situación Real y Política del Español en los Estados Unidos - Capítulo 8

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Este artículo desde "The New York Times" trae a luz la realidad de Español en los Estados Unidos, a pesar de que el aumento de políticas que sugieren un ambiente en contra de la inmigración y las culturas hispánicas. Hay muchas analogías y estadísticas presentes en este artículo que apoyan el tema del éxito del Español en los Estados Unidos. El autor cita instancias sobre todo el país de las que el Español está sobreviendo en nuestras fronteras, en una manera muy optimista y con mucha esperanza.

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At the same time, more than 20 states have enacted laws making English the official language, President Trump won the election with a platform that included building a border wall, and his push for new limits on legal immigration would require that applicants speak English to obtain legal residency green cards.

Juan Rodríguez, 44, a Colombian immigrant who owns La Reina, a Spanish-language radio station in Des Moines, said it was an "extremely uncertain time" for some Spanish speakers, particularly undocumented immigrants who are trying to be seen and heard less often now that the president has made deportation a priority.

"But that fear doesn't prevent us from living our lives in Spanish," Mr. Rodríguez added. "Iowa may be an English-only state, but it's also our state."

Throughout the world, the position of English as the pre-eminent language seems unchallenged. The United States projects its influence in English in realms including finance, culture, science and warfare.

But on a global level, Mandarin Chinese dwarfs English in native speakers, ranking first with 898 million, followed by Spanish with 437 million, according to Ethnologue, a compendium of the world's languages. Then comes English with 372 million, followed by Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Portuguese and Russian.

Immigration from Latin America bolstered the use of Spanish in the United States in recent decades, but scholars say other factors are also in play, including history, the global reach of the language, and the ways in which people move around throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

Authorities in parts of the United States have repeatedly argued for curbing the spread of Spanish, like the former Arizona schools chief who said all Spanish-language media should be silenced. A judge pushed back this week against that official's drive to also ban the state's Mexican-American studies program, saying the ban was "motivated by racial animus."

Linguists trace some of the coveted vibrancy that Spanish now enjoys to decisions made well before Spain began colonizing the New World in 1492.

As the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes explained in "The Buried Mirror," his book about the Hispanic world, the 13th-century Spanish king Alfonso X assembled a cosmopolitan brain trust of Jewish intellectuals, Arab translators and Christian troubadours, who promoted Spanish as a language of knowledge at a time when Latin and Arabic still held prestige on the Iberian Peninsula.

Alfonso and his savants forged Spanish into an exceptionally well-organized language with phonetic standards, making it relatively accessible for some learners. They are thought to have hewed to a policy of "castellano drecho" - straight or right Spanish - imbuing the language with a sense of purpose.

Even today, Spanish remains mutually intelligible around the world to a remarkable degree, with someone, say, from the Patagonian Steppe in Argentina able to hold a conversation with a visitor from Equatorial Guinea, one of Africa's largest oil exporters.

Drawing on entropy, a concept from thermodynamics referring to disorder, Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow, the Canadian authors of a 2013 book charting the evolution of Spanish, describe the degree to which Spanish is spread out geographically over a wide array of countries.

By this measure, Mandarin ranks low on the entropy scale since most of its speakers live in the same country. English boasts greater entropy, but Spanish, the majority language in more than 20 countries, ranks first, followed by Arabic.

Rivaling Spain and parts of Latin America, the United States exemplifies how the movement of people throughout the Spanish-speaking world is taking the language in new directions.

In metropolitan Los Angeles, an area with more than 4 million Spanish speakers - more than Uruguay's entire population - linguists say that a new dialect has coalesced as different types of Spanish come into contact with one another. And here in New Mexico, an influx of Mexican and Central American immigrants is nourishing and reshaping a variant of Spanish that has persisted since the 16th century.

Ojos Locos, a cavernous sports bar in Albuquerque, offers a glimpse into how Spanish is changing. Like El Super, it's part of a chain founded in the United States aimed at the Latino market.

"What's a sports cantina without delicious authentic Mexican comida - mas tacos, mas wings y mas cerveza," Ojos Locos explains on its website. Such servings were in abundance on a recent Sunday when Mexico's national soccer team played against Jamaica, and mexicano Spanish seemed to be the venue's dominant language.

But some tables were effortlessly mixing English and Spanish, especially those where children were accompanying their parents, while others, including tables of mixed-ethnicity couples, cheered, conversed and cursed (Mexico lost, 1-0) over their frozen margaritas almost entirely in English.

The ways in which families use languages at the dinner table also show how Spanish is evolving.

In the Nava family, which moved to New Mexico from northern Mexico more than 20 years ago, the grandparents passionately debate in Spanish the performance of their football team, the Dallas Cowboys.

But when their adult children talk to one another, it's in Spanglish. And the language of their grandchildren? Mainly English, with a sprinkling of Spanish words here and there.

"Our real communication is in Spanglish," said Cindy Nava, 29, a policy analyst at the New Mexico Legislature who arrived in the United States at the age of 7. "But we still recognize the importance of speaking Spanish correctly."

Irking some grammarians, Spanglish is indeed gaining ground, evident in the way characters in telenovelas are speaking, Daddy Yankee's reggaetón lyrics or ads like the Wendy's commercial in which sweethearts bond over bacon cheeseburgers served on buns of "pan de pretzel."

Ilan Stavans, a professor of Latino culture at Amherst College who has translated classics like Cervantes's " Don Quixote" and Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince" into Spanglish, argues that we are witnessing "the emergence of something totally new, not in any way pure, a mestizo language."

Long before Mr. Trump was elected, the growth and durability of Spanish had caused concerns, leading to "official language" laws that in some cases limit the use of any language other than English in government offices and documents, and in other cases are largely symbolic.

Rosalie Porter, who came to the United States from Italy as a child and is now the chairwoman of an organization seeking to end bilingual education and declare English the official language of the United States, said, "When I was an immigrant child, my language was not politically correct."

"Today it's different," said Ms. Porter, whose group, ProEnglish, was founded by John Tanton, a Michigan doctor who started a handful of organizations seeking to restrict immigration. "Immigrants enjoy a lot more visibility" she added, emphasizing that she understood the business reasons behind the growth of Spanish-language media.

Even apart from political efforts, the continued growth of Spanish in the United States is not assured. Linguists have documented how new generations of Latinos around the country are steadily shifting to English, just as descendants of other immigrants have done.

But if the past is a guide, Spanish will continue to evolve and endure.

"In many places in the U.S., English and Spanish are in bed with each other, a contact that is both generative and exciting," said Junot Díaz, the writer who masterfully explores the immigrant experience in the United States, largely through the travails of his Spanglish-speaking Dominican protagonist, Yunior.

"For many of us," he went on, "Spanish is our path to love, and as history has proven no one can legislate away love."

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Spanish Thrives in the U.S. Despite an English-Only Drive

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At the same time, more than 20 states have enacted laws making English the official language, President Trump won the election with a platform that included building a border wall, and his push for new limits on legal immigration would require that applicants speak English to obtain legal residency green cards.

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El español en los Estados Unidos es caracterizado por muchas cosas y influencias, incluyendo las de las estrellas y celebridades estadounidenses. Es claro que estas personas, más notable la Famosa Beyoncé, ha realizada esta importancia y los gran números de español en los Estados Unidos. Por eso, ella convertió algunas de sus canciones más famosas en versiones en español, como "listen" a "oye", "Irreplaceable" a "irreemplazable", y esto en el video, "If I Were a Boy" a "Si yo Fuera un Chico". Por esto, es obvio que Beyoncé desea y espera que ella pueda alcanzar una audiencia más grande por tocar los corazones y mentes de la población hispánica en los Estados Unidos, y también el mundo.

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Music video by Beyoncé performing Si Yo Fuera Un Chico. (C) 2008 SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

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La Estudia de Ladino (Judeao-Español) - Capítulo 7

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La Estudia de Ladino (Judeao-Español) - Capítulo 7

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¿Qué es Ladino? Ladino significa la misma cosa como Judeao-Español, o este tipo de español que es especial a los judíos de Europa y en todo el mundo. Este sito de Web contiene mucha informarción muy importante en relación a la historia, origen, desarrollado, y existencia real de español en el mundo hebreo. Hasta que su creacción en la época de los Reyes Católicos (Ferdinand y Ísabel de España), este dialecto de español ha evolucionado en algo que hoy en día todavía es en práctica por miles de judíos.

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Judeo-Spanish -- also known as Ladino -- mixes 16th-century Spanish, Hebrew, Turkish and other languages.

Judeo-Spanish (JS) is a language of Hispanic stock spoken and written by Jews of Spanish origin. Its phonology, morphology, and lexicon derive, for the most part, from pre-16th-century Spanish, and, as with other Jewish languages, the influence of Hebrew is felt, particularly in lexical areas associated with religious observance and practice, and, more restrictedly, in affective and taboo uses of Hebrew words and concepts.

Through contact with the languages of those Mediterranean countries in which the Jews settled after their expulsion from Spain in 1492, a number of lexical items, as well as a smaller number of morphological and syntactical elements, have entered the language from Turkish, Arabic, French, and, to a lesser extent, Italian.

The Expulsion From Spain

Upon leaving Spain whole communities of Jews headed east through Italy to the lands of the Ottoman Empire at the invitation of Sultan Bayazid, and important centers, which survived until the Second World War, grew in present-day Turkey, Greece, Israel, and Egypt, with smaller ones in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, and the island of Rhodes. Their speech is described by linguists as eastern JS.

For a century or so prior to the Expulsion, persecuted Spanish Jews also found shelter in North Africa, and speech communities grew along the northern coast of Morocco. The speech of this region, which bears a marked resemblance to its eastern counterpart both phonetically and in the retention of Old Spanish lexemes, is denominated western.

The 20th-century witnessed the annihilation of many of the eastern Mediterranean communities as a result of Nazi persecution, and in the late 1950s the fear of persecution also threatened many of the Moroccan communities. And so, with the displacement and dispersal of the old JS-speaking communities from their traditional centers, largely towards Israel but also to Europe, North and South America, speakers came into contact with, and eventually adopted, the language of their new surroundings.

Naming Ladino

A current debate on JS nomenclature raises some interesting points about linguistic evolution and linguistic consciousness. In the eastern Mediterranean the language is referred to by a variety of names. In general, two persons who speak the same language do not feel the need to identify to one another the language they are speaking; however, the need for identification does arise when they come into contact with non-native speakers. This could well explain why, following the break-up of traditional communities in the eastern Mediterranean in the early 19th century, the language is confusingly referred to by a variety of names.

Spanyol is perhaps the most commonly used among speakers of the language, with its unmistakable reference to their linguistic and cultural origins. Its widespread use is confirmed by the Modern Hebrew coinage Spanyolit (Spanyol + Heb. suffix for forming language names), the name by which the language was referred to until quite recently in Israel. Ladino, probably the earliest attested name, has the widest currency today, and certainly so in Israel where the largest speech-communities in the modern world are to be found. The term has another application which is discussed below.

The names Judezmo and Judió/Jidió, which are registered in some 19th- and early 20th-century communal publications, clearly have the function of underlining a Jewish identification among speakers. Judezmo is the Spanish word for "Judaism", and, for this reason, is used by certain scholars today who wish, on ideological grounds, to draw a semantic equation between Judezmo and Yiddish; however, it seems rather late in the day to rename the language. Faced by this terminological plurality, scholarship has generally opted for the more descriptive and neutral "Judeo-Spanish."

In the western Mediterranean, the language is frequently referred to as hakitia (formed on Moroccan Arabic haka "to converse" + diminutive suffix), although it is interesting to note that with the renewed impact of Modern Spanish in this area in the 19th century, the term is reserved by speakers to describe an artificial language of humor which abounds in archaic forms of Spanish and Hispanicized Arabisms, or else to the language as spoken in some distant past. However, though it is more similar to Modern Spanish than its eastern counterpart, the language continues to preserve many characteristic features.

Up to the beginning of the 20th century the language was almost always written in Hebrew characters using the standard Hebrew alphabet with some modifications, mostly in the form of diacritical marks, to accommodate Hispanic phonemes. The earliest texts appeared in "square" characters either with or without vowels, but the bulk of printed material is in a cursive (rabbinic) script. Some early manuscripts preserve a cursive script known as solitreo, which is still in use among native speakers in personal correspondence, for example.

Origins of Ladino

Two views about the origins of JS prevail. One holds that Jews in medieval Spain spoke the same language as their non-Jewish contemporaries, while drawing on Hebrew terms to express religio-cultural concepts not current in Spanish (for example, Shabbat), and preserving, at the same time, a number of archaisms. The language thus acquires a separate linguistic identity only after 1492.

The second view, which is gaining greater currency, maintains that JS, while being essentially a form of spoken medieval Spanish, had linguistic features of its own long before 1492, owing not merely to the presence of Hebrew words, but also to the peculiar sociolinguistic conditions which affected Jewish communities during their long history in the Iberian Peninsula, and to the greater linguistic receptivity by Jews to the waning Arabic culture. Thus the Arabic borrowing ahad ("the first [day]") is retained for "Sunday" in preference to the Spanish domingo (from Latin dies Dominicus "the Lord's day"), with its Christian connotation; ahad appears in medieval texts and continues to be in use in both eastern and western JS.

Ladino Literature

The first editions of the JS Bible translations appeared in the 16th century, although these are believed to reflect an earlier tradition elaborated by the Spanish Jews long before their expulsion. The language of these texts is usually referred to in scholarship as Ladino: it is characterized by an artificiality which permeates, especially, the lexicon and syntax, and which is the result of a method of translation where the strictest adherence to the Hebrew original is the rule. It is generally accepted that these texts do not reflect the spoken language, although clearly they share common features with it.

Two centuries later, the first complete Ladino translation of the Old Testament in Hebrew characters (1739-45) was edited in Constantinople by Abraham Assa, and editions of it continued to be produced throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This highly literal method of translation was so widely accepted that it was even adopted by Christian missionaries in 1873 in their JS Bible translation.

The same method is also reflected by translations of liturgical works which first appeared in the sixteenth century and have continued to do so up to the present. Among them are the Ladino translations of the daily and festival prayerbooks, manuscript fragments of which date from before the Expulsion, the Haggadah, and the Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Patriarchs, a talmudic book]. Halachic [Jewish legal] literature dating from the 16th century also displays this translation language and incorporates much Hebrew phraseology; however, the language does not show the same degree of rigid adherence to Hebrew as that found in the Ladino Bible and liturgical translations. Among these is a selection from Yosef Caro's Shulhan Arukh [a major code of Jewish law] entitled Shulhan Hapan im (Salonica, 1568).

The reader of JS, as opposed to Ladino, literature may be struck by the fact that the language he is reading reflects a spoken rather than a literary variety. The sensation is of a strong tradition of oral literature, which is eventually committed to paper. A notable case is that of the traditional ballads known as romances, which comprise many medieval Spanish examples of the genre, as well as more recent ones based on the traditional model. But JS texts in Hebrew characters also number among the earliest witnesses of Spanish literary activity. The kharjas incorporated into the poetry of such major figures of the Golden Age of Hebrew verse in Spain as Yehudah Halevi in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, are an example of this as is a fifteenth-century fragment of an early JS poem on the biblical story of Joseph, Coplas de Yocef.

The best-known and most widely translated JS work of the post exilic period is the Me'am Lo'ez (1730), which was begun by Yaacov Khuli and continued over a long period, in series form, by a number of different authors writing under the same title. A midrashic work, the Me'am Lo'ez is structured mainly on the Pentateuch and spans the sources of Jewish thought. The beginning of the 19th century saw the growth of a secular literature, which was popular, for the most part, and included a sizable corpus of original compositions such as novels, short stories, plays, and popular histories as well as adaptations of major European novels of the period, where the impact of French on JS is significantly felt. This is also observed in the JS press which began to flourish in the eastern Mediterranean at the same time; only a small number of newspapers continue to appear today.

There can be no doubt, therefore, as to the slow disappearance of JS as a spoken language. Traditional linguistic registers are gradually being overtaken by those of the co-territorial languages, and the language is no longer transmitted to succeeding generations in the normal manner.

Today, only small clusters of native speakers, usually of an advanced age, are to be found scattered around the globe. However, although the spoken language may have been the principal vehicle for the transmission of JS culture up to now, as the language "dies," more and more people seem to be taking to the pen in order to write in and about it.

At first sight this may appear paradoxical. However, a spoken language looks partly to the written word for conservation, and this becomes, in turn, a different vehicle for the transmission of a culture and guards against its annihilation.

Reprinted with permission from The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture:From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Edited by Glenda Ambranson (Blackwell Publishers).

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Judeo-Spanish -- also known as Ladino -- mixes 16th-century Spanish, Hebrew, Turkish and other languages. Judeo-Spanish (JS) is a language of Hispanic stock spoken and written by Jews of Spanish origin.

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Tagalog - El Español de Las Filipinas - Capítulo 7

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Tagalog - El Español de Las Filipinas - Capítulo 7

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Muchas personas no saben sobre la historia de español en Las Islas Filipinas. Esta época empezó, no sorprendemente, con las esfuerzos de colonización de España en los siglos XVI-XVII. Después de esto, español llegó a ser la lengua oficial del país hasta el año 1987, cuando la lengua oficial se convertió a inglés oficialmente en el gobierno. Hoy en día, solamente 2,500 personas todavía matienen fluencia en español en Las Filipinas. Sin embargo, gracias a la evolución por muchos y muchos años, un dialecto está en existencia se llama Tagalog, que es muy similar a español en sonido y estructura. Muchas personas en Las Filipinas son fluyente en Tagalog, y como resultado, estas personas pueden entender, leer, y escribir español sin problema. Yo he visto en vivo con uno de mis amigos que es de Las Filipinas, y puede charlar conmigo en español/Tagalog porque de las similiaridades de los dos.

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As typhoon Haiyan, or Yolanda, as it's called in the Philippines, has swept through this Asia-Pacific island country, it caused massive destruction with as many as 10000 feared dead. With the prayers and relief coming to the Philippines from all over the world, we thought it would be a good idea to mention something not so many know about.

As Spanish speakers and language learners, we usually keep the list of Spanish speaking countries in mind. Yet, not all of us know that until relatively recently, Philippines used to be a Spanish speaking country, too. Philipino, or Tagalog, one of the two official languages (the second official language is English now), bears a lot of similarities with the Spanish pronunciation and vocabulary.

Spanish was introduced in the Philippines after 1565, when the Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi sailed there from Mexico and founded the first Spanish settlement on Cebú. As the colonial rule was established, the first printing press founded and the first books released were in Spanish. In the 17th century, Spanish religious orders founded the first universities in the Philippines, some of which are considered the oldest in Asia (University of Santo Tomás in Manila and the University of San Carlos in Cebú). During colonial rule through Mexico City, Spanish was the language of education, trade, politics and religion, and by the 19th century, it became the country's primary language, although it was mainly used by the educated Filipinos.

In the 19th century, a Spanish decree introduced a system of public education, creating free public schooling in Spanish. Shortly, this island nation, the Philippines had a prominent group of Spanish-speaking scholars and thought leaders, many of whom participated in the Philippine Revolution and later in the struggle against American occupation. In 1899, the First Philippine Republic established Spanish as the country's official language, with both the constitution and the anthem written in Spanish. However, the independent republic itself didn't last long.

As a result of the Spanish-American war, Spain ceded the islands to the United States. Under U.S. rule, the English language began to be promoted instead of Spanish, and the use of Spanish promptly declined. The 1950 census stated that Filipinos who spoke Spanish as a first or second language made up only 6% of the population. And another 40 years later, in 1990, the census reported that the number had dwindled to just 2,500.

Spanish lost its official status in 1987, and was dropped as a college requirement, remaining an optional course. Today, it is a required subject in only some academic institutions, such as the University of Santo Tomás in Manila and the University of San Carlos in Cebú.
Former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, a third-language Spanish speaker, introduced legislation to re-establish the instruction of Spanish in 2009. Today, the language is still spoken by Filipino-Spanish families, mainly concentrated in Metro Manila, Iloílo and Cebú. Yet, despite government promotions of Spanish, less than 0.5% of the population are able to speak Spanish at least proficiently.

While the Spanish language has never been 100% accepted by the Philippines population, it is still reflected in the country's culture and art, and has contributed a number of words and expressions in Tagalog, Cebuano, and other Philippine languages. Here's to hopes and prayers for this island nation recovering from the terrible tragedy.

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Did you know? Philippines Used To Be a Spanish Speaking Country, Too | Learn Spanish Blog

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As typhoon Haiyan, or Yolanda, as it's called in the Philippines, has swept through this Asia-Pacific island country, it caused massive destruction with as many as 10000 feared dead. With the prayers and relief coming to the Philippines from all over the world, we thought it would be a good idea to mention something not so many know about.

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El Contraste entre Español en Latinoamérica y España - Capítulo 7

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El Contraste entre Español en Latinoamérica y España - Capítulo 7

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Es decir, no hay duda que los contrastes mas profundos en el mundo de español pertienen a España y Latinoamérica. Este video de YouTube trae a luz algunas de las diferencias lingüsticas más evidentes usando una manera muy chistosa (pero informativa) en un estilo de marionetas. Las diferencias no solamente son contenidas en la pronunciación y accento durante de hablar o charlar en la lenguaje, pero también en la gramática (vos/vosotros/tú) y el vocabulario--donde hay muchas palabras diferentes que signfican la misma cosita.

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Are There Differences Between Spanish In Latin America And Spain?

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El Español Colombiano - Sofía Vergara - Capítulo 7

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El Español Colombiano - Sofía Vergara - Capítulo 7

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Uno de los disalectos más profundos en la lengua española es la del Colombia. La estrella más conocida con este dialecto es la hermosa Sofía Vergara, Covergirl, madre en "Modern Family," etc. Este video es crucial para entender el significado de este español. Cuando escuchar a las frases fáciles habladas por Sofía, el énfasis en las vocales con mucho esfuerzo es tan evidente--especialmente cuando dice Sofía "cUER-po de mis PE-chos". A veces, a causa de este accento, es muy difícil entender exactamente que dice ella sin repetir. También, toma nota del inglés de Sofía, específicamente el estrés de las vocales en la misma manera como sus palabras en español. Por eso, en un ambiente de hablantes de inglés, es tan fácil determinar la origen de una persona colombiana basada en sus pronunciaciones de vocales en palabras. �

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Ellen is Sofia Vergara on The Ellen Degeneres Show

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Ayuda Con Organizar El Vocabulario/Principales - Capítulo 6

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Ayuda Con Organizar El Vocabulario/Principales - Capítulo 6

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Con todos los elementos de semántica vienen mucho vocabulario y términos que son necesarios de aprender. Como hemos visto, hay muchos ejercicios en el libro de texto que se mandan un entendimiento de estas palabras de semántica. Hay muchas categorías de estas palabras, que incluyen conceptos y definicioines básicos, las relaciones semánticas, los roles semánticos, los actos de habla, las clasficaciones de los actos de habla, los máximos, y finalmente los tipos de Deixis.

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Para Estudiar la Semántica Flashcards | Quizlet

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Start studying Para Estudiar la Semántica. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools.

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¿Por qué inglés es la lengua más difícil para aprender? La semántica--los homófonos - Capítulo 6

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¿Por qué inglés es la lengua más difícil para aprender? La semántica--los homófonos - Capítulo 6

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Hay muchas razones porque inglés es tan difíficil aprender para las personas que no son hablantes nativos de la lengua, pero muchas de estas razones pertienen a los elementos semánticos. Uno de estos elementos son los componentes de lingüistica, específicamante, los homófonos. Claro, hay homófonos en español, pero hay muchos más en inglés, y como es demostrado en la canción de Veggietales del video, hay palabras en inglés que pueden tener 2, 3, o más significados. Palabras como two/to/too, plane/plain, knead/need, etc, son ejempos principales de este principal muy confuso.

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VeggieTales: School House Polka - Silly Song

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Prueba de Personalidad Basado en Selección en Semántica - Capítulo 6

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Prueba de Personalidad Basado en Selección en Semántica - Capítulo 6

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Aquí hay una prueba una poquita larga de personlidad que usa la selección de palabras del participante basado en los principales de semántica, o el significado de la palabra dada. Para elaborar, el participante puede aprender su personalidad respectiva desde las 16 personlidades posibles solamente basada en sus asociaciones propias a palabras dadas en la prueba. Es claro que cada persona tiene pensamientos y significados diferentes a la misma palabra, solamente a causa de la evolución de la semántica durate de tiempo. Este fenómeno es visto aquí en esta prueba donde personas dicen sus significados propios de la misma palabra.

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You may have heard of the Chinese military treatise: Sun Zi Art of War, written by the Chinese philosopher Sun Zi around the 4th to 5th century B.C. Possibly one of the most popular saying from the Chinese strategist goes "Know Yourself, Know Your Opponent; Hundred Battles, Hundred Won". Which means to say, he who knows the other side (the enemy or opponent) and knows himself will not be defeated in a hundred battles.

True enough, your psychological mind do affect your decision. Not just in the context of war, but also in the field of business and everyday life. Understanding yourself is the first step to finding wisdom, greater opportunities to making the right decisions.

The 16 personality types

Over the years, numerous psychological tests have been developed by researchers all around the world, including the clinical diagnostic tool, The Word Association Test, by psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.

One of the most popularized personality test is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), an introspective self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. It is based on the typological theory proposed by Carl Jungwho had speculated that there are four principal psychological functions by which humans experience the world - sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking - and that one of these four functions is dominant for a person most of the time. ( Wikipedia)

Twinword Mind

Based on a similar concept as the MBTI test but on a different science, Twinword Mind uses Twinword's Word Graph technology to provide three types of easy yet precise psychological tests.

The free word association test works by generating a stimulus words list, whereby participants are required to give an intuitive answer in the form of a word.

The word choice test requires participant to choose their preferred word between two given words.

The slider test requires participant to choose their preferred word on a measurable scale between two given words.

Applications

Twinword Mind's psychological tests can be utilize as a pre-hiring candidate assessment, helping hiring managers to understand if candidate's personality fits into the company culture, and if specific traits required of the position is present. Doubling up, the test can also be taken by the candidate himself, as a career counseling guide to find out what kind of jobs are suitable for his/her personality type.

Other applications of Twinword Mind's psychological tests in business context include: Team building, Leadership training, Executive coaching, Personal development and even Marketing.

Personal and leisure uses include: Marriage counseling, Speed dating personality matches, and etc. (Yes, we suppose Tinder could do with some additional personality information for user profiles!)

Did you know?

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You may have heard of the Chinese military treatise: Sun Zi Art of War, written by the Chinese philosopher Sun Zi around the 4th to 5th century B.C. Possibly one of the most popular saying from the Chinese strategist goes "Know Yourself, Know Your Opponent; Hundred Battles, Hundred Won".

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La Semántica de "Who's on First" - Abbott and Costello - Capítulo 6

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La Semántica de "Who's on First" - Abbott and Costello - Capítulo 6

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Este video de un sketch chistoso y clásico desde Abbott and Costello es un buen ejemplo de los principales de la semántica--o la interpretación y significado de palabras en la lingüistica. El chiste entero gira alrededor de la idea de la diferencia/similitud de "who" en inglés, que significa 'quien' y también 'who', o el nombre de la persona en cuestión. Este concepto presentado en este video pertiene al concepto principal de semántica en el caso de tratar los significados de la palabra 'who' (preposición y sustantivo, respectivamente) en una manera muy chistosa.