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Welcome to the Esperanza Education blog! Here you will find regular posts from our teachers that explore diverse aspects of language, learning, and culture. We share our experiences as language learners and teachers, tips and resources for learning specific languages, travel and cultural advice, and more. We are a diverse group, each with our own interests and background, so expect to find an eclectic selection of entries. Enjoy! Disfruta! Amusez-vous! Divirta-se! Tadını çıkar! !التمتع به


Spanish Social Justice Subjunctive Sentences

January 29, 2014
by Nicki Benson
español, grammar, subjunctive, vocabulary
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Zapata Quote
How to Make the Spanish Subjunctive a Little More Relevant I have written before about how to teach social justice through grammar lessons. Today’s lesson is on the subjunctive in Spanish. Most English speakers groan at the mention of the dreaded “subjunctive”, that
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A região Sudeste do Brasil

January 27, 2014
by Yane Brogiollo
Brasil, Brazil, cultura, culture, português
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Parque do Ibirapuera
Composição da região Sudeste Mesmo sendo a segunda menor região em termos de área, a região Sudeste é o centro vital do Brasil. Entre outros dados significativos, hospeda as maiores cidades, possui a maior densidade populacional, os melhores portos e utiliza 85% do total da energia el
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Hashtags, Please!

January 24, 2014
by Roma Ilnyckyj
grammar, punctuation, social media
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Hashtag
Not just word evolution—now it’s punctuation’s time I’m not super huge into social media. I use my Twitter account to follow others and but I rarely tweet, and my Facebook account is much the same: I love following people, but I don’t really love having my own stuff
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Learning New (Old) Vocabulary with Cri-Cri

January 22, 2014
by Heather Escobar
bilingual children, culture, language play, music, vocabulary
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The Language of Los Abuelos Francisco Gabilondo Soler, better known as Cri-Cri El Grillito Cantor (Cri-Cri the Little Singing Cricket), was probably the most popular singer-songwriter of Spanish-language children’s music of the 20th century. I remember reading about Cynthia̵
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What is my listening problem?

January 20, 2014
by Mary Leighton
communication, listening, motivation
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I can speak Turkish. Why can’t I understand anything? These past few weeks I feel I can’t understand anything in Turkish. Meals are ordered, pleasantries are exchanged, buses are located, but as soon as someone speaks beyond a close range of familiarity, I become lost in a
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Duolingo: Language Learning, Gamified

January 17, 2014
by Nicki Benson
language play, learning on your own, technology, vocabulary
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Duolingo
A Great Supplement for Language Learners My partner, Gabe, is here with me in Peru. He had never studied Spanish before coming here and enrolled in classes when we first arrived. But the classes were too expensive for us to maintain long-term so Gabe has had to find other ways to impr
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A região Sul do Brasil

January 15, 2014
by Yane Brogiollo
Brasil, Brazil, cultura, culture, português
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Fundação Iberê Camargo
Um país de diversidades O Brasil é o país mais extenso da América do Sul, o terceiro maior das Américas e o quinto maior do mundo. Além disso, é um país que foi influenciado por diferentes povos e culturas.  Assim é fácil deduzir que o Brasil apresenta uma enorme diversidade, de norte
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Travel to China: Three-Month Countdown

January 13, 2014
by Roma Ilnyckyj
China, language play, motivation
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Lake in China
Why China? and the struggle for answers Only three months until I leave for China, which means it’s time for a countdown post. I was planning on sharing my preparation checklist, but then I decided that’s boring (I need to get a visa and some travel insurance and go to the travel clin
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Songwriting in Translation

January 10, 2014
by Heather Escobar
culture, español, listening, music, translation
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Multilingual Musicians Before I met my wife she already had pretty good conversational English which she learned from English music and through working in the service industry in a town with a lot of foreign visitors. She is also a musician – a very talented singer and now also
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Interview with a Multilingual Person: Jordi

January 08, 2014
by Mary Leighton
additional language, collaboration, self-directed learning
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After the popularity of the first two interviews in this series, with Maria in Vancouver and Jeremy in Berlin, I am happy to introduce open-minded, open-hearted, and multilingual Jordi. A Barcelona-born cultural explorer in Turkey In spring 2013, Jordi began traveling around the world
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