On Wednesday, New Mexico gubernatorial candidates held a debate in Spanish demonstrating a trend that highlights how important the Hispanic vote is to this year's elections.
On Thursday, Puerto Rico Sen. Antonio Fas Alzamora released a proposal to make Spanish the official language of the U.S. commonwealth, making English a secondary language.
The Spanish singer also talks about how he plans his concerts. Before winning big at the Premios Juventud, Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias revealed his latest webisode of "The Freakout Diaries.
Plus, find out what the beauty queen is up to these days. Miss USA 2014 Nia Sanchez has not only won the crown; she also has gained the support of the Latino community.
He was known as an experienced skydiver. Dario Barrio, a Spanish television chef, died on Friday after his parachute failed during a wing suit jump. The "Everyone Against the Chef" host collided with a cliff face during the "International Air Festival" in the Sierra Segura mountain range, according to The Independent.
Spanish-language Latina Hope classes are equipping Hispanic women in South Texas with the necessary tools required to launch their own craft businesses, also helping those with pre-existing craft businesses to function more professionally.
The artist sang a Spanglish version of "Habla Blah Blah." Listen to it here. Gloria Trevi is known for several things -- having crazy hair at a point in her life and wearing crazy outfits -- but she's not known for singing in English.
With so few elite centers in today's NBA, Marc Gasol can show viewers why he is the best in the game. Standing at over 7 feet tall out of Barcelona, Spain, Gasol leads one of the leagues No. 1 ranked defense.
Fernández-Armesto drafted the book with the intention of filling in gaps, integrating Latin history and American History, and providing a prospective that would "go beyond the traditional, from east to west, sea-to-shining-sea narrative."
The closure of Latino news sites questions the strategy and viability of targeting Hispanics with their own sites compared to reading English-language or general market news sources. Considering that Hispanics are such a large and growing market of United States media consumers, what went wrong?
“Just sound it out” is a strategy that’s been long employed in the United States when coaching children in elementary education through reading sessions. However, this process does not translate to Spanish. Stanford University produced a new study that suggests that learning to read words in English isn’t the same as how Spanish-speakers learn to read words in Spanish, particularly in Mexico.
The share of Hispanics that speak Spanish fell to 78% in the 2000s, and the numbers continue to descend. While at the same time non-Latinos have seen the benefits of the Spanish-language, and continue to seize opportunities to learn it; and, non-Latinos will potentially govern the language if Latinos lose interest in it.
The Obama administration has made it their mission to attract Latinos to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment marketplace; hosting outreach events, launching Obamacare health fairs and releasing Spanish-language advertisements -all with the promise of assisting the demographic that claims the highest number of uninsured individuals in the nation. However, there have been ongoing enrollment obstacles for those who seek coverage -particularly for individuals who speak little to no English.
"Spanglish" has been called English's assault on the Spanish language; an implementation of English in routine speech or writing of Spanish-speakers that leads to the invention of words and phrases that don't exist in English or Spanish. This upsets purists, who see the infiltration of English vocabulary, particularly in the United States, as blatant Americanization of the Spanish language. Spanish and English are used interchangeably, within the same sentence -and the bilingual splicing of words is not unheard of. It has become a part of daily life, Latino American culture, and is promoted through major media outlets. Spanish words sometimes replace their English counterparts, and English words have crept "into everyday speech in Spain and Latin America, spreading to advertising, movies, and the other media of popular culture."
Controversy seems to follow Spanish King Juan Carlos these days. Controversy seems to follow Spanish King Juan Carlos these days. He was once considered among the world's most popular monarchs.
With a major winter storm hitting the Northeast, New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio kicked into full-on work-mode soon after he was sworn into office by former President Bill Clinton, who administered the oath of office at a ceremony outside City Hall on Jan. 1, 2014.While he addressed the public about school closings and road conditions, and shoveled his own driveway in Brooklyn on his third day as mayor, he also made an effort to address the Latino community in Spanish.
Nearly one-third of Texans who are 5 years and older speak Spanish at home, according to the 2000 census. And, for children younger than five years old, the percentage is much higher. Naturally, conversational habits used in the home, such as speaking Spanish, continue when in school. Nonetheless, some educators don’t like students speaking Spanish in the classroom for an invariable number of reasons. In fact, one middle school principal, Amy Lacey, in Hempstead, Texas, went as far as to tell students that they could not use Spanish in the classroom; which directly led to the principal being suspended with pay.
Check the job listings on Craigslist, Idealist, Monster.com and Linkedin, and you will find postings that indicate: "Spanish Speaker Needed," "Spanish Fluency Preferred" or "Native speaker of fully fluent in Spanish requested." There's no doubt that the language is in great demand; however, the people who natively speak it, simply are not.
