#spanishlanguage — Public Fediverse posts

#MyDearestSenorita tells an intersex story with love and kindness. #Movie #SpanishLanguage #LGBTQIA https://oldaintdead.com/my-dearest-senorita-a-sensitive-intersex-story/

I have a love-hate relationship with Anki.

I've been using it for ages. If I look on my file system, the oldest Anki related file that I have is from 2008... and I'm sure I started using it before this.

I love Anki's repetition method.

I hate its drill sergeant mentality.

"What? You *think* you little worm can go on vacation? Wait until you come back. I'm going to have you do a marathon 24-hour session, maggot!"

😩

"What are you talking about, man? You just don't get the Anki philosophy, man!"

No, I do get it.

I think the return on investment is the best when you are a rank beginner.

Recently I've given up using those sophisticated Spanish decks. First, they all contain mistakes, some worse than others, and there's the problem of synonyms. The more complex the idea expressed by a sentence, the more ways there are to express it. In English, think about the difference between "he hit me in the face" and "he punched me in the face." In most situations, these mean exactly the same thing.

I'm still using Anki for Spanish, but it is in a reduced capacity. I have a deck for conjugations that I created from a database, and I have a deck of "useful expression," also created by me. That's it.

My main Spanish practice now is to listen to songs in Spanish. I go over the lyrics. I make notes about those expressions I don't readily understand, and I listen to the songs over and over.

I expect I'm going to start a musical thread in the fediverse, in Spanish of course, about the songs that I pick. I'll edit this message with a link when I do this.

ETA: here is the link:

https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/@yourautisticlife/116460307552678712

#Anki #LanguageLearning #songs #musics #SpanishLanguage

I have a love-hate relationship with Anki.

I've been using it for ages. If I look on my file system, the oldest Anki related file that I have is from 2008... and I'm sure I started using it before this.

I love Anki's repetition method.

I hate its drill sergeant mentality.

"What? You *think* you little worm can go on vacation? Wait until you come back. I'm going to have you do a marathon 24-hour session, maggot!"

😩

"What are you talking about, man? You just don't get the Anki philosophy, man!"

No, I do get it.

I think the return on investment is the best when you are a rank beginner.

Recently I've given up using those sophisticated Spanish decks. First, they all contain mistakes, some worse than others, and there's the problem of synonyms. The more complex the idea expressed by a sentence, the more ways there are to express it. In English, think about the difference between "he hit me in the face" and "he punched me in the face." In most situations, these mean exactly the same thing.

I'm still using Anki for Spanish, but it is in a reduced capacity. I have a deck for conjugations that I created from a database, and I have a deck of "useful expression," also created by me. That's it.

My main Spanish practice now is to listen to songs in Spanish. I go over the lyrics. I make notes about those expressions I don't readily understand, and I listen to the songs over and over.

I expect I'm going to start a musical thread in the fediverse, in Spanish of course, about the songs that I pick. I'll edit this message with a link when I do this.

ETA: here is the link:

https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/@yourautisticlife/116460307552678712

#Anki #LanguageLearning #songs #musics #SpanishLanguage

I have a love-hate relationship with Anki.

I've been using it for ages. If I look on my file system, the oldest Anki related file that I have is from 2008... and I'm sure I started using it before this.

I love Anki's repetition method.

I hate its drill sergeant mentality.

"What? You *think* you little worm can go on vacation? Wait until you come back. I'm going to have you do a marathon 24-hour session, maggot!"

😩

"What are you talking about, man? You just don't get the Anki philosophy, man!"

No, I do get it.

I think the return on investment is the best when you are a rank beginner.

Recently I've given up using those sophisticated Spanish decks. First, they all contain mistakes, some worse than others, and there's the problem of synonyms. The more complex the idea expressed by a sentence, the more ways there are to express it. In English, think about the difference between "he hit me in the face" and "he punched me in the face." In most situations, these mean exactly the same thing.

I'm still using Anki for Spanish, but it is in a reduced capacity. I have a deck for conjugations that I created from a database, and I have a deck of "useful expression," also created by me. That's it.

My main Spanish practice now is to listen to songs in Spanish. I go over the lyrics. I make notes about those expressions I don't readily understand, and I listen to the songs over and over.

I expect I'm going to start a musical thread in the fediverse, in Spanish of course, about the songs that I pick. I'll edit this message with a link when I do this.

ETA: here is the link:

https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/@yourautisticlife/116460307552678712

#Anki #LanguageLearning #songs #musics #SpanishLanguage

‘Alexandra for Reina Hispanoamericana’: Alex Eala impresses Pinoys with Spanish skills

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://interaksyon.philstar.com/celebrities/2026/04/23/312443/alex-eala-impresses-spanish-skills/

‘Alexandra for Reina Hispanoamericana’: Alex Eala impresses Pinoys with Spanish skills

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://interaksyon.philstar.com/celebrities/2026/04/23/312443/alex-eala-impresses-spanish-skills/

Musical Interlude: A random thought brought this wonderful song to mind...a Spanish-language hit from the 70s, it's a passionate love song declaring that the subject is all that gives the singer life and hope. It's a gloriously primal song...but just a damn good song even if you don't understand the words.

"Eres Tú," performed by Mocedades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKp5PMIUdTM

#MusicalInterlude #Mocedades #SpanishLanguage #Eurovision #DamnGoodSong #Nostalgia

Senator Padilla to Deliver Spanish Response to State of the Union Address

Senator Alex Padilla will give the Democratic Party's Spanish response to the State of the Union address. This is the first time.

#PadillaResponse, #StateOfTheUnion, #DemocraticParty, #SpanishLanguage, #USPolitics

https://newsletter.tf/senator-padilla-spanish-response-state-of-union/

For the first time, a Democratic Senator will give the response to the State of the Union in Spanish. Senator Alex Padilla will speak.

#PadillaResponse, #StateOfTheUnion, #DemocraticParty, #SpanishLanguage, #USPolitics

https://newsletter.tf/senator-padilla-spanish-response-state-of-union/

#Firebreak has danger and suspense as a forest fire threatens a family with a missing child. #SpanishLanguage #movies https://oldaintdead.com/firebreak-spanish-thriller/

https://www.storyangles.com/challenges
Real-life conversations, essential phrases, and guided practice for beginners.

#spanishteacher #spanishlanguage #spanish #StoryAngles #languagelearning #language #program #SelfInstruction

https://www.storyangles.com/challenges
Real-life conversations, essential phrases, and guided practice for beginners.

#spanishteacher #spanishlanguage #spanish #StoryAngles #languagelearning #language #program #SelfInstruction

August 2023

Harrowgate, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#iphonephotography #iphoneography #streetphotography #harrowgate #harrowgatephiladelphia #philadelphia #philly #pennsylvania #tile #tileart #spanishlanguage

#SheWalksInDarkness #movie #SpanishLanguage A woman goes undercover in the ETA separatist movement.
https://oldaintdead.com/she-walks-in-darkness-courage-undercover/

The amount of badly translated to Spanish interfaces I see online is very high. The translation of "open" as in "to open" is "abrir", not "abierto", and so on (my mail service is asking me if I want to "vacío" my spam folder). I guess most companies machine-translate everything nowadays and don’t pay anyone to check afterwards, even for the most basic things. #translation #machineTranslation #ux #ui #spanish #spanishLanguage

#WhenNoOneSeesUs #review today. This #SpanishLanguage #TV is a complex mystery story.
https://oldaintdead.com/when-no-one-sees-us-mystery-series-from-spain/

#WhenNoOneSeesUs is a #mystery #TVseries from Spain. #review today. #SpanishLanguage
https://oldaintdead.com/when-no-one-sees-us-mystery-series-from-spain/

#MidnightFamily #review #TV #SpanishLanguage Take an exciting ride with a family of paramedics who have a private ambulance service.
https://oldaintdead.com/midnight-family-mexican-series-about-a-family-of-paramedics/

#MidnightFamily is action packed and based on truth. It tells the story of a family running a private ambulance service in Mexico City. #Review #TV #SpanishLanguage
https://oldaintdead.com/midnight-family-mexican-series-about-a-family-of-paramedics/

The Houston Astros are expanding their number of Spanish-language TV broadcasts this year, with a slate of 26 games between June 24 and the end of the regular season in September.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/sports/2025/06/18/524293/houston-astros-expanding-spanish-language-tv-broadcasts-on-space-city-home-network/

#Houston #Local #News #Sports #CableTV #HoustonAstros #LosAstros #SpaceCityHomeNetwork #SpanishLanguage #SpanishLanguageBroadcasts

#InTheSummers #review touching #movie about a family during three summers. #Transgender #SingleParent #streaming #SpanishLanguage #DirectedbyWomen

https://oldaintdead.com/in-the-summers-three-family-summers-with-dad/

#TheLadysCompanion is a comedy of manners among the upper crust in Spain. #review #SpanishLanguage #TV #Streaming
https://oldaintdead.com/the-ladys-companion-period-comedy-from-spain/

My Journey into Spanish

Learning Spanish: As a beginner, I’ve been primarily using Duolingo and occasionally Dots for a change in pace. I’m eventually planning to transition more to Babbel, and when I’m more comfortable with vocabulary and basic grammar, I’m planning to go to Pimsleur (will also look more into Memrise and Teuida as well.)

Click the link for info on the most popular language programs along with a list of helpful resources

#Spanish #SpanishLanguage #Duolingo #Babbel #Pimsleur #Spain #PuertoRico
https://neurodoctor.com/2025/04/03/my-journey-into-spanish/

#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert

Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?

Ratón de ferretería
* Ratón de ferretería (English: Hardware Store Mouse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat%C3%B3n_de_ferreter%C3%ADa
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rat%C3%B3n_de_ferreter%C3%ADa

#1980s #Spanishlanguage #Venezuelan #Films

#LuccasWorld tells a story of determined love from a mother who feels responsible for her son's illness. #movies #SpanishLanguage #streaming #TV #review

https://oldaintdead.com/luccas-world-review-a-determined-mother-gives-her-all/

#LGBTQ related #Wikipedia article created 5 hours ago

Juegos de amor y poder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juegos_de_amor_y_poder
Juegos de amor y poder is an upcoming Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Bardasano for TelevisaUnivision

#Televisa #Spanishlanguage #Upcoming

#UnitedStates presidency has removed #Spanish-language version of its website, as it did in 2017 under first Trump term. Though #English is primary language of US govt, the country has no official national language, and Spanish is second-most-spoken. https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-spanish-language-website-62224890c5b05c8ce0878358ba4a5266

#officiallanguage #languagepolitics #geography @geography #EnglishLanguage #SpanishLanguage #hispanoablante #LatinAmerica

I decided to improve my Spanish, yes.

But I'm doing it on Hard Mode.

The custom flashcards that I create are English-Spanish. Oftentimes, it would be so much easier to have them be French-Spanish.

Those who know French and Spanish will tell you that the two are much closer together than English is to either of them.

#SpanishLanguage #EnglishLanguage #FrenchLanguage #flashcards #HardMode

I've watched the first two episodes of Bandidos.

Pros:

* The subtitles are following the Spanish rather closely compared to other things I've watched. That's a major plus.

* I'm not bored.

Cons:

* It is full of plot holes.

* The guys that are staffing the security at the museum in the first episode would put Stormtroopers to shame with their stupidity.

#Bandidos #SpanishLanguage #MexicanTVShow #TVShow

#TheRedVirgin #review. Based on a true story. #DirectedbyWomen #movies #SpanishLanguage

https://oldaintdead.com/the-red-virgin-review-the-hildegart-rodriguez-story/

#TheRedVirgin, a Spanish film about a real child prodigy, is today's #Review. #movies #streaming #SpanishLanguage #DirectedbyWomen #AlbaPlanas

https://oldaintdead.com/the-red-virgin-review-the-hildegart-rodriguez-story/

Around these here parts, we say:

I'd like the check.

In French, we can say:

Je voudrais l'addition.

In Spanish, I have:

Me gustaría la factura.

(Note that in French, we can also say la facture instead of l'addition.)

Why can't we agree on what to call that slip of paper?

#EnglishLanguage #FrenchLanguage #SpanishLanguage

English: I'd like to make myself a cup of cocoa.

Spanish: Me gustaría hacer caca en el coche.

#SpanishLanguage #cocoa #caca #MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels #translation

Okay... so I was on the verge of being fluent in Spanish during my teens.

Then I did not use it for a number of years.

Then my brother got married in Mexico. So I learned enough, for travel. I remember asking our taxi driver "Es posible comer en el coche?"

Then I did not use it for a number of years.

Now, I can utter some word, but sentences are difficult. It is pitiful.

Does anyone have references to TV shows in Spanish that are hopefully not too sucky. I've just put on a telenovela and within 5 seconds I was laughing at it, not with it.

For the record, I used Friends to polish my English.

It would be preferable if the accent and vocabulary is one I'm likely to encounter in the US.

#AskFedi #SpanishLanguage #spanish #español

I love how the logo of the recent Manila Spanish Film Festival organized by the #InstitutoCervantes leans into how #Tagalog has nearly ⅓ of its vocabulary coming from Spanish, including the key word “pelikula” from “película”. Even the other “film” loanword “sine” comes from “cine”. (Interestingly, the word “sinehan”, for “theater” or “movie house”, combines the Spanish loanword with the locative Tagalog suffix “-an”.)

🧵 1/3

#SpanishLanguage #linguistics #loanwords #films #movies #Philippines

The Love Bugs celebra el amor por la naturaleza y la naturaleza del amor.

Para los grados 3-5.

https://journeysinfilm.org/product/the-love-bugs/

#Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #ElementarySchool #PrimarySchool #Spanish #SpanishLanguage #Español #Documentary #SocialEmotionalLearning #Etymology #Bugs @education @edutooters
2/7

#OnTheFringe (#EnLosMárgenes) takes a global problem and narrows it down to 3 particular cases in Spain. Penelope Cruz leads. #Movies #Review #SpanishLanguage https://oldaintdead.com/on-the-fringe-evictions-and-loses-galore/

#OnTheFringe, a story about people on the margins of society in Spain (and everywhere!) stars Penelope Cruz. #Review #Movies #SpanishLanguage
https://oldaintdead.com/on-the-fringe-evictions-and-loses-galore/

Penelope Cruz stars in this Spanish film about people on the margins. #OnTheFringe #Movies #Review #SpanishLanguage #ForeignFilms
https://oldaintdead.com/on-the-fringe-evictions-and-loses-galore/

#PlazaCatedral, #SpanishLanguage #Movie from Panama. Serious drama with sad ending, #Review https://oldaintdead.com/plaza-catedral-touching-drama-from-panama/

#PlazaCatedral from Panama is a touching story about grief and connections. #MovieReview #SpanishLanguage
https://oldaintdead.com/plaza-catedral-touching-drama-from-panama/

#SpanishLanguage shows are always a hit on my blog. Here's a review of the Mexican series #Triptych, which is a fast-paced thriller of a mystery. #TVSeriesReview #DirectedbyWomen #WrittenbyWomen
https://oldaintdead.com/triptych-an-intense-thriller-from-mexico/

#TheMetalDogArticleList
#BraveWords
THE ROLLING STONES Release New English And Spanish Language Lyric Videos For "Angie"
The Rolling Stones have released new lyric videos for their hit, "Angie", originally featured on the band's 1973 album, Goats Head Soup. The videos, in English and Spanish, can be viewed below: Variety is reporting that almost 60 years since first...

https://bravewords.com/news/the-rolling-stones-release-new-english-and-spanish-language-lyric-videos-for-angie

#RollingStones #Angie #EnglishLanguage #SpanishLanguage #LyricVideos #NewVideos #RocknRoll

Misinformation Swirls in Non-English Languages Ahead of Midterms - More multilingual fact-checking groups are pushing back against misleading translations, ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/business/media/midterms-foreign-language-misinformation.html #right-wingextremismandalt-right #congressionalhispaniccaucus #rumorsandmisinformation #midtermelections(2022) #languageandlanguages #vietnamese-americans #conspiracytheories #asian-americans #spanishlanguage #socialmedia #elections

There's a new account called SigueFedi which is like FediFollows but in Spanish!

SigueFedi suggests useful Spanish-language accounts and instances on Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube and elsewhere on the Fedi.

You can follow at:

➡️ @fediverso

(I don't have any connection to SigueFedi, by the way. They're an independent account but with a similar task.)

#SigueFedi #Fediverse #Spanish #Español #Espanol #SpanishLanguage