It’s one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.
Other dances are like languages, like French or Spanish, but my steps are slang, and slang is always changing.
I love the song ‘El Rey.’ And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I’d never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.
Italian football’s different to Spanish and German, but it’s only different and not inferior.
I mean, people don’t know what race I am. They never know if I’m Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.
Good movies are my weakness. I have seen several international movies ranging from English to Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese.
I get better coverage on my Spanish stations than I do on my English stations.
I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.
If you analyze the German league, the Spanish league, the Italian league, there are two or three teams that stand out above the rest, and the other teams have a regular level.
I must confess, my Spanish is not so good – except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.
Comcast is a big voice: they have a tremendous voice across America; they’re a tremendous voice in Spanish and English, and they have a tremendous voice in Washington.
The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.
When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.
That, to me, is the real crossover: a mainstream artist singing in Spanish.
Spanish is my first language.
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these ’50s and ’60s tapes, tapes of that music.
I was at Edinburgh doing history of art, Spanish and Arabic. I was originally supposed to do Italian instead of Arabic but when I went to see one of the lecturers they told me I should really do something more curveball. So I did.
I think that’s something that we as black people in this country have been robbed of. I compare it to my brother’s wife, who is Hispanic. She was born in America but her parents are from Honduras. She speaks Spanish. She knows the culture. But most black people, we were robbed of that. We don’t know our heritage.
‘Don Quijote’ by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. Such a classic!
God has a kingdom. It’s made up of citizens: some black, some white, some red, yellow, Spanish backgrounds. His intention was never that the individual uniqueness would cause them to lose sight of the flag flying over them – the flag of the cross.
Probably 60% of my followers are from Argentina, so I tweet more in Spanish.
I am 100% proud Puerto Rican but have lived two-thirds of my life in the United States. So, there will be some things I write in English, but my main way of conversing with my audience is in Spanish because, at the end of the day, I’m a Latino.
I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don’t have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.
As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it’s not easy trying not to be hot-headed.
I am happy to play Barcelona in a one-off game, in a neutral venue. Why? Because Spanish teams are tricky.
My French is terrible, and my Spanish is even worse. I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German, it’s very clear what they’re saying. It’s easier to repeat.
I prefer to play in Spain than in the Premiership. Spanish football is more like my qualities.
I believe that the kids are innocent victims in this. We spent money educating them. Many of them don’t speak a word of Spanish, and we’re thinking of deporting them. That doesn’t make sense.
Even when we were under the Spanish flag, we had a movement that just wanted assimilation into Spain, a movement of autonomy – which has been the majority always – and a movement for separation. In that sense, Puerto Rico’s political reality is very different from any place I know in the whole world.
The only consistent hobby I’ve had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I’m looking for the next job.
Remember that our Spanish conquerors, for their own benefit, deliberately created an oppressed underclass whose collective psyche became rooted in passivity and underachievement.
Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.
My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn’t very good, but my pronunciation isn’t terrible.
‘The Lair of the White Worm’ is quite a strange film. It’s difficult to be good when you’re saying lines that have been translated from Spanish to English by someone who speaks French.
I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.
In the heart of the desert and founded by the first Spanish Conquistadores, Las Vegas has become the entertainment capital of the world, with more than 30 million visitors a year.
Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what’s going on in the ‘hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he’s speaking Spanish, and he’s speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.
The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.
My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I’m very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
It’s strange that we don’t see more English players going to the Spanish league.
There are a lot more teams in the Spanish league, and the biggest transformation came in the English women’s league when the amount of teams got cut down.
I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.
My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.
I want to invite the mainstream into my world and to my sound and to what I’m doing. And I want mainstream artists to respect me and accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English. I want them to know that I can compete globally, with whomever, in Spanish.
One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn’t wavered since the ’50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.
We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.
Spanish League is very tough, especially away matches.
A brief experience with a Radcliffe girl got very bad very quickly. I was so destroyed by it that I left and went to Mexico for a semester, where I have cousins. I learned how to speak Spanish, which was really important for my life. It was wonderful going to Mexico, learning another culture and a language.
From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.
When my blood pressure goes up, my Spanish stuff kicks in.
I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedral that I once went to for a wedding.
I remember a kid throwing an orange at the back of my head in Spanish class and calling me four-eyes, and I remember saying, I said, ‘That’s true, and I have two more eyes than you.’ I felt like it was better. If I have four eyes, I’m twice as good as you.
We have to change the way we coach kids in the long-term so that by the time they hit 16, they are better than the Spanish, French, and German players. That is the big challenge, but the No. 1 criteria for me has always been how you are technically judged, from the age of eight, not size or power.
My parents raised my brother and me with two cultures, American and Spanish, and I feel a true sense of belonging to both.
I’d say that Spanish football is probably the best I’ve seen.
