Visual Link Spanish(TM) Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 26

Current # of Subscribers: 181,641

This issue:
1. Testimonial
2. Weekly Spanish Lesson - “Colors”
3. Words of the Week
4. Ask Dave Section - “Which Accent in Spanish?”
5. Culture Lesson - “Strike! - (¡Huelga!)”
6. Responses to Past Newsletters

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Visual Link Spanish(TM) Testimonial –
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Dear David,

I can’t tell you how impressed I am with your Visual Link Spanish program. It is easy, engaging, effective, and, most of all, fun. As a teacher myself (MA Secondary Ed - 35 years experience teaching HS and Jr.HS), I congratulate you on a superb program focusing on a most common sense way to learn a language.

Sincerely, David Steigerwalt - Venice, FL

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Weekly Spanish Lesson—Colors
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For this week’s lesson, click below to learn some basic Spanish colors. You’ll hear María from Mexico and learn with a fun, interactive format.

To check it out, click here: http://www.learnspanishtoday.com/learn/colors.htm

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Words of the Week
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Taken from our complete CD-ROM course —–

Monday / Where do you live? / ¿Dónde vive?
Tuesday / I live in… / Vivo en…
Wednesday / Do you speak Spanish? / ¿Habla español?
Thursday / I speak a little.. / Hablo un poquito
Friday / It doesn’t matter / No importa
Saturday / I don’t think so / No creo
Sunday / Just kidding / Estoy bromeando

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The Official “Ask Dave” Section —–
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Question

I dont know exactly which accent your course teaches in spanish?

Answer

The course uses a woman’s voice from Mexico. However, the words in the course have been carefully selected and are recognized in just about any country you go to.

Hopefully that answers your question.

Hasta luego,

Dave

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Culture —– Strike! - (¡Huelga!)
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Here in the U.S., you hear about strikes every so often in the news. Every few years there’s a professional baseball or basketball strike. Occasionally in the newspaper, you hear about other types of labor strikes; however, they are nothing compared to amount of strikes in certain regions of Latin America.

Government-sponsored universities seem to get hit the worst. Many of them have strikes on a fairly regular basis. This can be very difficult for a person trying to get their degree in a specific period of time.

Personally, it took me about six years to get my four-year degree here in the U.S. only because I was running a business full-time, working full-time, and a full-time husband and father. My wife took a picture of me at graduation and I had a daughter in each arm.

In regions of Latin America, it can take this long or longer to graduate from public colleges or universities because of all the strikes. It is my understanding that most private universities have few to no strikes, but they also cost a lot more and are usually harder to get into.

Strikes are so prevalent that some universities, like the UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), actually have a “General Council on Strikes” to deal with the strikes and make information about the strikes available to students.

Moral of the Story: It is good to learn about the culture of others and the situations they have to deal with. This can help us to have more empathy for our international friends and what they have to go through. It can also be an interesting topic of conversation when meeting people from Latin America.

To all of our subscribers out there, if you have any more information about strikes in Latin America, especially with universities, please write in and let us know. Also, as usual with our international subscribers, please let us know what strikes are like and how long it takes to get through college/university in your countries.

Sneak peek at next week: “How Ugly is Ugly?”

¡Hasta luego! (”Until later”)

David S. Clark — President / Director
Visual Link Spanish(TM)
Fun, Interactive Spanish Courses
http://www.learnspanishtoday.com
dave_c@learnspanishtoday.com

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Responses to Past Newsletters
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Response #1

Hi Dave, I have been reading the Newsletter from your site for some time. It’s really interesting. I have something to share with you.

You mentioned how the Latin American eat every part of the cow and also the chicken feet in the Newsletter. It may sound weird to the American and European but to me, a Chinese, it’s perfectly fine. We love to eat all the “strange” part of animals including pigs, cows, chicken etc. I don’t think my ancestor eat these stuff because they’re too poor. The Chinese (long long ago) believe that pigs are the best tonics. They think the brain of the pig is good for human’s brain and the legs is good for human’s legs and so on.

And if you want to know the word the Muslims say when someone sneezes, it’s “Alhamdu-Lillah”. It means “All praise be to Allah”. This is said by the person who sneezes. When you see someone else sneezes, you should say “Yar-Hamuk-Allah”. It means “May Allah Bestow His Mercy On You”.

And in my country (I actually live in Malaysia, not China. Many Chinese migrated to Malaysia to work for the British mining company when the British is ruling Malaysia. My great grandfather is one of them.) , it’s rude to point at people with the forefinger and of course worse if you use the middle-finger. But it’s alright to point at someone with your thumb. You should do it with the other four fingers closed and your thumb lying on the bent forefinger and being the highest of all.

Thanks for the wonderful Newsletter.

~fallingtinkerbell~

Response #2

Dave,

My husband and I have been living in Chile for 2.5 years and we have found that many people will say “whiskey” vs. “cheese” when smiling to take a photograph. Whiskey is whiskey in Spanish and it provides the right ending for a smile:)

Tracy

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