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15 unusual facts about spanish language


Afinidad

Afinidad means affinity in Spanish.

Asháninka language

Literacy rates range from 10% to 30%, compared to 15% to 25% literacy for the second language, Spanish.

Blanco y Negro

Blanco y Negro ("Black and White" in Spanish) can refer to

Corto

the Spanish translation meaning short, curt, brief, narrow, skimpy, scanty, timid, stumpy, or bashful.

Demographics of Bolivia

The Spanish, Quechua, Aymara, Guarani languages, as well as 34 other native languages are the official language of Bolivia.

Fiestas Patrias

Fiestas Patrias is a Spanish phrase meaning "Patriotic Holidays" or "National Holidays".

Guillermo Posadas

He composed the Mexican folk song Noche Feliz (Happy Night), recorded by the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso and sung in Spanish.

La sonrisa etrusca

The book La sonrisa etrusca ("The Etruscan Smile") originally written in Spanish was written by the Spanish economist and writer José Luis Sampedro in 1985.

Langostino

Langostino is a Spanish word with different meanings in different areas.

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In Cuba and other Spanish-speaking Caribbean islands, the name langostino is also used to refer to crayfish.

Languages of Peru

In Peru, the most common language is Spanish, which is spoken by the majority of Peruvians (83.92% of the total population).

Otaran

Otaran surname appears in Turkish and Spanish although there is no direct family relation between each other.

PR-72P-class corvette

Pennant numbers were originally P-101 to P-106, but were later modified to CM-21 to CM-26, where CM stands for corbeta misilera, Spanish for guided missile corvette.

Santa Cruz de las Flores

Santa Cruz de las Flores is Spanish for "holy cross of the flowers"

Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna

Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna we Wrocławiu (English: Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław, German: Philologische Hochschule in Breslau, Spanish: Escuela Superior de Filologia de Wrocław) was founded in 2002 as a non-state college.


Amina Alaoui

Amina went to school at Lycée Descartes and studied philology and Spanish and Arabic linguistics at the University of Madrid and the University of Granada.

Amit Offir

On 2013 Amit's books were translated to other languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and many more.

Arpan Sharma

Arpan Sharma (born 1997) is a British polyglot who at the age of 10 could speak 11 languages: English, Hindi, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Tamil, Swahili, Polish, Thai, Welsh and Sanskrit.

Asturian language

::The Asturian language also received much of its lexicon, from languages as Castilian, French, Occitan or Galician.

Barcelona Zoo

Barcelona Zoo (Parc Zoològic de Barcelona in Catalan, Parque Zoológico de Barcelona in Spanish) is a zoo in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Blanco y Negro Records

Blanco y Negro Records (Spanish: "White and Black"), a subsidiary of WEA Records Ltd., was established in 1983 by Geoff Travis of Rough Trade Records and Mike Alway of Cherry Red.

Campillos International Piano Competition

The Campillos International Piano Competition (Spanish: Concurso Internacional de Piano de Campillos) is a Spanish annual professional piano competition held in Campillos, Málaga.

China Today

It is published in Chinese language, English, Spanish, French, Arabic, German and Turkish, and is intended to promote a positive view of the People's Republic of China and its government to people outside of China.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

The book was adapted for the big screen in the Spanish language film: Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987), an Italian-French-Colombian co-production, directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Ornella Muti, Rupert Everett and Anthony Delon.

Chrysopogon aciculatus

Common names include amorseco (Spanish, "dry love") (not to be confused with the amor seco tree, Alchornea glandulosa), lesser spear grass, Mackie's pest, pilipiliula, and grama-amorosa (Brazilian Portuguese).

Conectiva

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

Demographics of Guatemala

Though the official language is Spanish, it is often the second language among the indigenous population.

Demographics of Suriname

Dutch (official), Sranan Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population), Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Javanese, English (widely spoken), French due to cultural influence from French Guiana, Portuguese and Spanish.

División Minúscula

División Minúscula (Spanish for "Minuscule Division") is a Mexican rock band from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, which is becoming increasingly popular in Mexico and gradually making an impact on the U.S. Latin alternative scene.

Dominican Spanish

Dominican Spanish is Spanish as spoken in the Dominican Republic, a Caribbean country, and throughout the Dominican diaspora, which is found mostly in the United States, chiefly in New York City, Boston, and Miami.

Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield

The DVD was released on March 6, 2007 as Video Premiere and special features include audio commentary, still gallery, various audio and display options, Spanish subtitles, English closed captions and trailers for Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave to the Grave, the After Dark Horrorfest, Silent Scream, Open Water 2: Adrift, Black Dahlia, and Saw III.

El Factor X

The winner of season one was Julio César Meza from solo-singers-aged-25+ category; the runners-up were Enygma (group made up of Ricardo García, Manuel Peña, Germán ‘Tito’ Núñez and Iván Peña) from vocal groups category and in third place was the controversial reggaeton-singer Farina (full name Pao Paucar Franco) from the solo-singers-aged-25-and-over category, famous for her quote Yo soy Farina! (from Spanish: I am Farina)

Enrique of Malacca

Italian historian Antonio Pigafetta, who wrote the most comprehensive account of Magellan's voyage, named him "Henrique" (which was Hispanicized Enrique in official Spanish documents).

Francisco Espoz y Mina

In 1825 Espoz y Mina published A Short Extract from the Life of General Mina, in Spanish and English, in London.

Giulia Marletta

Marletta was an Executive Producer of the 3D character animated Spanish language film Donkey Xote co-produced with Filmax Animation in Spain.

Guanaja

In later years Cayman Islanders settled in the Bay Islands, which explains the diffusion of Spanish and English language.

Indigenous Dialogues

Esperanto was chosen rather than a major national language such as English because it is nationally neutral and relatively easy to master, while still backed and proven by an existing infrastructure—over a century of Esperanto culture—and its surface similarities to major European languages facilitate the learning of regional and world languages such as English, Spanish, or Russian.

International Poetry Festival of Medellín

The International Poetry Festival of Medellín (Spanish:Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín) is an annual festival held in Medellín, the second-largest city of Colombia.

International Wrestling Revolution Group

International Wrestling Revolution Group (Grupo Internacional Revolución in Spanish) is a Lucha Libre promotion based in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, Mexico.

Kanda University of International Studies

Other departments include Chinese, Spanish, Korean, International Communication, and Languages and Culture.

KLBD

The station broadcasts a Spanish Christian music format and is owned by The Worship Center of Kingsville.

La Jerga: Periodismo Gonzo Independiente

La Jerga: Periodismo Gonzo Independiente (Independent Gonzo Journalism) is a free, bilingual (Spanish and English), gonzo newspaper established in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico in April 2003, that has been publishing consistently monthly for the past four years.

Laura's Happy Adventures

Many different language versions of the game were produced, including Spanish, French, German and even British English.

Linguatec

:The Voice Reader text-to-speech program reads in twelve languages: German, British English, American English, French, Quebec French, Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Czech, Chinese.

Los Arlequíns

Los Arlequíns (Spanish for "The Harlequins") was a Mexican professional wrestling group, called a stable, who worked as a rudo (term used for wrestlers who portray the "Bad guys") faction.

Matthew Raymond-Barker

Raymond-Barker is a student, studying French and Spanish at the University of Bath and was in France for a period of six months to improve his French language skills at University of Toulouse.

Mérida State Symphony Orchestra

The Mérida State Symphony Orchestra (Spanish: Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado Mérida or OSEM) is a symphony orchestra based in the Venezuelan city of Mérida.

Oceano, California

"Océano" (with accent) is the Spanish word for "ocean", but the toponymic name is written without it.

Open University of Catalonia

The UOC offers graduate and postgraduate programs in Catalan, Spanish and English in fields such as Psychology, Computer Science, Sciences of Education, Information and Knowledge Society and Economics.

Paterna International Piano Prize

The Paterna International Piano Prize (Catalan: Premi Internacional Pianístic de Paterna, Spanish: Premio Internacional Pianístico de Paterna) is a biennial piano competition in Paterna, Valencia, Spain.

Paulo Freire University

The Universidad Paulo Freire (Spanish: Universidad Paulo Freire (UPF)), located in Managua, Nicaragua, with branches in Diriamba, Río San Juan and Matagalpa.

Peter Nolasco

Saint Peter Nolasco (1189–1256), Pere Nolasc in Catalan, Pierre Nolasque in French and Pedro Nolasco in Spanish, is a Catholic saint, born at Mas-des-Saintes-Puelles, Languedoc, today's France, although some historians claim he was born in Barcelona (see Encyclopædia Britannica).

Pimpinela Escarlata

His ring name is Spanish for "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and is taken from the fictional character of the same name.

Radio Bulgaria

In 2004, Radio Bulgaria broadcasts to Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America on short and medium wave in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Albanian and Turkish.

Rafael Barrett

Rafael Barrett, complete name Rafael Ángel Jorge Julián Barrett y Álvarez de Toledo, (Torrelavega, Spain, January 7, 1876 – Arcachon, France, December 17, 1910) was a Spanish writer, narrator, essayist and journalist, who developed most of his literary production in Paraguay, becoming an important figure of the Paraguayan literature during the twentieth century.

Reina King

Reina and her sister have similar names: Reina and Regina both mean queen, in Spanish and Latin, respectively.

San Juan de la Rambla, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

San Juan de la Rambla (first part Spanish for Saint John) is a municipality in the northern part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

St. Louis Jesuits

In addition, some hymns have even been translated into other languages such as Chinese, French, German, Korean, Polish, Spanish and Vietnamese, and have garnered wide acceptance in those areas as a result.

The Conversation with the Man Called Al-Mu'tasim

The Conversation with the Man Called Al-Mu'tasim: A Game of Shifting Mirrors is a non-existent novel supposedly by an Indian writer named Mir Bahadur Ali, referenced in the story The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim by Jorge Luis Borges (title in Spanish: El acercamiento a Almotásim).

Unified Trade Union Sub Federation of Peasant Workers of Ancoraimes – Tupak Katari

Unified Trade Union Sub Federation of Peasant Workers of Ancoraimes - Túpak Katari (in Spanish: Sub Federación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Ancoraimes Túpak Katari) is a trade union in Ancoraimes, La Paz Department, Bolivia.

Vicio Latino

The chorus was sung in Spanish by female vocalists, while male vocals were sung in an invented language imitating English language phonetics of the US Funk singers (somewhat like the later hit Asereje by Las Ketchup, or previously Tom Tom Club's "Wordy Rappinghood").

Victory Cross

The Victory Cross (Asturian and Spanish: Cruz de la Victoria) is an early 10th century Asturian Christian ornamented processional cross, which was, as an inscription says, made in 908 in the Castle of Gauzón (Avilés, Spain).

WMYA-TV

For two weeks after that, it broadcast a "nightlight" service in the form of a continuously repeating short program about installing digital television converter boxes, alternating between English and Spanish versions, before finally shutting down its analog signal completely.