Spanglish

Spanglish Helps U.S. Born Latin Artists Win Fans Over

AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Cultura, Video, Pitbull, Leila Cobo, Spanglish, Latin Billboard Awards, Latin Billboard, Romeo Santos, Prince Royce, Cross Over Musicians, Latino Voices News

MIAMI -- For years, Latin music acts typically had two routes to U.S. success – sing in English, or build a Latin fan base with Spanish-language...

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Advertisers Act To Engage With Rapidly Changing Hispanic Consumers

Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Video, Hispanic Marketing, Latino Marketing, Spanish, Spanglish, Acculturation, Assimilation, Latino Prosperity, Slidepollajax, Latino Voices News

It's not new news that the U.S. Hispanic population represents important sales and marketing opportunities. With Latino purchasing power surpassing $1...

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Ask A Mexican: Spanish Slang Edition

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Ask a Mexican, Spanglish, Spanish, Bilingualism, Latino Voices News

Wake up and smell the tacos, cabrón, and learn español from mi column. Bilingualism is a wonderful thing, and studies are continually showing it leads to bigger brains and healthier sex lives.

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Telemundo Speaking Spanglish?

NYTimes.com | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Spanglish, Spanish, Cristina-Saralegui, Cultura, Telemundo, Latino Voices News

Telemundo has long trailed its rival Univision in their competition for Hispanic television viewers in the United States. But as the number of second-...

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The Power of Spanglish to Make us Laugh

Mariela Dabbah | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Funny, Spanglish, Grammar, Cultura, Bilingualism, Latino Politics, Bilingual Mistakes, Latino Voices News

Regardless of where you stand on the Spanglish debate, for those of us who live in both languages there comes a time when you will inevitably put your foot in your mouth. The truth is that if you only speak one language you save yourself all of this trouble. But then again, you don't get all the benefits of being multilingual and multicultural.

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Valuing Both Breadth and Depth in Language Education

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Immigration, Bilingual Education, Language, Education, Education Reform, Children, Spanglish, Education News

An Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, Ramón Martinez studied the ways sixth grade students combined English and Spanish in everyday conversation. Then he asked them why they did so.

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On Being Latino With a New York Accent

Virginia Sanchez-Korrol | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Latino, Mestiza, El Barrio, Sofrito, Spanglish, Piragua Ices, Foo-Foo, Mulata, Lower East Side, Mofongo, DREAM Act, Mangu, Puerto Rican, Latinidad, Mavi, Latinismo, New York News

The term, Latino, a word that describes the blending of Hispanic and American cultures, conjures up a myriad of vibrant images. In my mind, the word even has color.

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Why I Love Being Latino in the United States

Lance Rios | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Latinos, Spanglish, Spanish, Marc Anthony, Minorities, Latino Voices News

We are no longer a group that can be ignored, dismissed, or continually misunderstood. Our culture will tie into the thread of what it means to be an American, and to that I say "salud."

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Porque Because: Harry the Dirty

Bill Santiago | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Spanglish, Cultura, Spanish Language, English Language, Telefutura, Latinos, Clint Eastwood, Latino Voices News

There's no doubt that writing 'ja ja ja' instead of 'ha ha ha' significantly boosts your Latino Index score. It might even make up for the fact you can't play soccer.

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Movie Review: How Do You Know

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Rudd, Broadcast News, How Do You Know Movie Review, Tony Shalhoub, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Terms of Endearment, The Simpsons, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, How Do You Know, Movie Reviews, As Good as It Gets, Spanglish, Marshall Fine, Reese Witherspoon, Jack Nicholson, Owen Wilson, James L. Brooks, Entertainment News

The world is divided between givers and takers - you know who you are - who often get matched up with each other in the same unfortunate ways as the c...

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In Search of LA: Music -- The Real Deal: Heidy Flores of Los Hollywood

Jim Stevenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Hollywood, Marcos Mondragon, San Diego, Heidy Flores, Gwen Stefani, Spanglish, Latina Music, Rock/Pop, Border Music, Radio Hit Singles, Video, Los Angeles News

Heidy Flores and her band Los Hollywood have been together three years and released just one five-song EP. But I'm ready to call this one: this girl should be a star.

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Ilan Stavans' Magnum Opus: After 13 Years, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature Is Here

Joshua Kors | Posted 05.25.2011

I make my books for elite audiences, mainstream audiences, families in the barrio. That's not a contradiction. It's a full life.

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Meet the Amazing Aroon Shivdasani of NYC's Indo-American Arts Council

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Indo-American Arts Council founder and executive director Aroon Shivdasani has lived all over the world but has called New York home for about half he...

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Ajami: You're Not in "Exodus" Anymore

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: La, Spanglish, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Ajami, Latinos, Jewish State, Pulp Fiction, Israel, Palestine, Brand Israel, Exodus, Crash, Anglos, Beduim, Entertainment News

Ironically, Ajami introduce American viewers to a new brand of Israel/Palestine that seems to reflect the political, social and cultural realities of this region more than the fantasies being concocted by the PR geniuses.

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Cutting to the Chase

Robin Lakoff | Posted 11.17.2011

It seems obvious that people create shortened forms to save time. And yet, most often, we don't save that much time and may run the risk of endangering intelligibility.

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Chinglish and the Beijing Olympics: No More Stir-fried Wikipedia?

Megan Berry | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Beijing Olympics, China, Spanglish, Chinglish, English, Healthy Living News

Bad English translations from Chinese have long been a comic favorite. One I like is a menu that offers stir-fried Wikipedia (does it let you edit your own meal?). Another great one I recently came across is a Chinese restaraunt called "Translate Server Error". Oops.

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