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Last Saturday Ibérica, Canary Wharf held the first in a short series of wine tastings for Vamos. And what an experience it was. Not just because of the great wines and delicious food, but also because of what we learnt about wine and wine-making and the geography of Spain. Our ‘Wine tour around Spain’ took us on a virtual tour across Spanish wine-making regions Penedes, Galicia, Rueda, Rioja and Catalonia from where we tasted sparkling, white and red wines along with…
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Venezuela, en crisis política Juan Guaidó, autoproclamado presidente interino de Venezuela, se reunió ayer con el líder opositor Leopoldo López en la embajada española en Caracas. El activista Leopoldo López fue liberado de su arresto domiciliario a primeras horas de la mañana el 30 de abril y buscó refugio en la embajada española tras comparecer con el líder opositor Juan Guaidó pidiendo a los venezolados una rebelión para derrocar al presidente Nicolás Maduro. Hablando con los periodistas, dijo que había…
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So finally 28th April arrived last Sunday! It was in all Spanish peoples’ agenda for the last month – another Spanish general election for the third time in just 3 and a half years, not great news for the stability of the country. Probably that was the reason why everybody was saying that these were the most important elections in many years. You have to bear in mind also two things to put elections in context: First, the current government…
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Cervantes Theatre’s third annual New Spanish Playwriting season has launched this month, and it is full of great opportunities for you to continue learning Spanish while you discover Spanish culture. First up, The Reality (in Spanish, La Realidad), written by Denise Despeyroux and translated by Sarah Maitland. Performances will be in English and Spanish until the 18th of May. The Reality tells the story of two twin sisters who attempt an awkward exercise of pretending to be someone else, taking…
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This week’s misunderstood expression is “ser más chulo que un ocho“, meaning, literally, ‘to be cooler than an eight’. The actual meaning, however, is ‘to be a show-off’. I know what you are thinking: why would number 8 (in Spanish, ocho) be related to being cool… or a show-off? Keep reading to find out! To understand this expression, we first need to understand the meaning of chulo. Chulo (or chula) is an adjective that, in Spain, can mean ‘cool’, ‘cute’…
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Have fun learning Spanish as we upload the A1 and A2 episodes of Cava Baja, our cartoon soap in Madrid.
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