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[MorkTheFiddle]

I went on to watch the new season of Club de Cuervos, saw this advertised, and got hooked on it instead. It's four movie-length segments, a detective show in Cuba. It's rather gritty, and the language is definitely thickly Cuban

What precisely makes the language "thickly Cuban"? Some years ago I listened for a few months to a talk show hosted by a Cuban named Rolando Barral (I think). He spoke very fast (for my ears), and I seem to remember his dropping final s's. Is that what you mean by Cuban accent? Or is it more (or also) a matter of vocabulary?

[Systematiker]

I went on to watch the new season of Club de Cuervos, saw this advertised, and got hooked on it instead. It's four movie-length segments, a detective show in Cuba. It's rather gritty, and the language is definitely thickly Cuban

What precisely makes the language "thickly Cuban"? Some years ago I listened for a few months to a talk show hosted by a Cuban named Rolando Barral (I think). He spoke very fast (for my ears), and I seem to remember his dropping final s's. Is that what you mean by Cuban accent? Or is it more (or also) a matter of vocabulary?

It's accent, vocabulary, and (compared to the choices made in the Spanish-language subtitles) particular grammar preferences.

[MorkTheFiddle]

It's accent, vocabulary, and (compared to the choices made in the Spanish-language subtitles) particular grammar preferences.

I see. Thanks for your reply.

[Keth]

¡Buenas tardes a todos y feliz año nuevo! (I know it's a bit late, but I arrived yesterday from a week-long trip, so... )

Since tomorrow is 'El día de los Reyes Magos' here in Spain, I thought that it'd be a good idea to share with you a short and easy article about the story of this celebration and the typical elements which are associated with it. Enjoy it!

https://www.guiainfantil.com/navidad/reyesmagos.htm

These two are more difficult but really interesting:

http://www.abc.es/20110105/archivo-hist ... 51253.html
https://www.euroresidentes.com/navidad/ ... -magos.htm

PS: If you need help with any vocabulary/grammar point within this text feel free to send me a private message.

[Spoonary]

¡Buenas tardes a todos y feliz año nuevo! (I know it's a bit late, but I arrived yesterday from a week-long trip, so... )

Oh don't worry, it's never too late! A customer said "Happy new year" to me at work today

[Spoonary]

Reading garyb's log, I saw that he has been watching Aquí no hay quien viva recently.

If you have never heard of/seen this series, I heartily recommend it to each and every one of you. It's a Spanish sitcom that several users of this forum have used in the intermediate plateau stages of their Spanish learning as they have found it to be particularly accessible for what it is, full-speed, extremely natural castellano. It's also great fun, of course

For me, watching this series marked a pivotal moment in my learning of Spanish, when I started to understand the more subtle jokes therein without too much effort. When I started watching the series I had to rely on visual clues to figure out what was going on, so this was a big deal.

You can find the whole series on youtube, I believe, so what are you waiting for?

[Brun Ugle]

Reading garyb's log, I saw that he has been watching Aquí no hay quien viva recently.

If you have never heard of/seen this series, I heartily recommend it to each and every one of you. It's a Spanish sitcom that several users of this forum have used in the intermediate plateau stages of their Spanish learning as they have found it to be particularly accessible for what it is, full-speed, extremely natural castellano. It's also great fun, of course

For me, watching this series marked a pivotal moment in my learning of Spanish, when I started to understand the more subtle jokes therein without too much effort. When I started watching the series I had to rely on visual clues to figure out what was going on, so this was a big deal.

You can find the whole series on youtube, I believe, so what are you waiting for?

My Italki tutor already recommended it to me a couple of months ago. I've been planning to watch it, but first I wanted to finish the Argentinian telenovela I was watching and then there was a Danish series I had to watch and now I have to finish my German telenovela, but soon...

So that's two recommendations and I can confirm that it is on YouTube. I've already explained what I'm waiting for.

[kunsttyv]

I have seen the first five episodes from the first season. It feels like my comprehension of spoken Spanish should improve a lot by watching this series. The last episode was much easier to follow than the first one, but that might just be due to the characters and setting being more familiar. Most of all, it's really fun to watch, and I don't really notice that I'm trying to learn Spanish, I just concentrate on the episode. The super fast colloquial speech is refreshing, and it's hard to go back to slowed down learners materials after this.

[Spoonary]

In the interest of getting some conversation going, what series/tv shows are you all watching/have you watched in Spanish?

I haven't watched enough Spanish TV for my liking and I need recommendations for February, when I'll be going all out to bring Spanish firmly back into my life, so fire away!

[Tillumadoguenirurm]

Sandokan!