music
October 23, 2009
If you’re going to explain to students the difference between que and lo que and expect that to do the trick, good luck. I don’t think I’ve ever taken the time to explain the difference in my class, but it’s interesting to see how students use it just with input. For a more focused approach, […]
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October 20, 2009
Subjunctive by reason of indefinite or negative antecedent… doesn’t that sound fun? This is my story for this reason of subjunctive. We do this in the spring semester of Spanish 2. Our principal wakes up in the morning and goes to school. He asks the woman at the front desk, “I’m looking for the student […]
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October 11, 2009
My October playlist
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These are the songs I’ve downloaded this month: REIK: Llegó tu amor, Noviembre sin ti TOMMY TORRES DUET WITH JESSE & JOY: Imparable LUIS FONSI: Llueve por adentro, Quien te dijo eso LA QUINTA ESTACIÓN WITH MARC ANTHONY: Recuérdame (Fabulous duet but too sensual for my class) JUANES: Lo que me gusta a mí JESSE […]
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September 25, 2009
The website of the Latin Recording Academy has undergone a serious makeover, and I have to say it is COOL. More importantly, the nominations for the Latin Grammys are out!! This is an important way for me to see what’s new and what’s popular-I’m always embarrassed at how few names I even recognize on the […]
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September 24, 2009
Certain things are super easy to find songs for. Reflexives. Present tense, particularly yo y tú. Preterite yo y tú. That’s about all love songs do, right? Talk about you and me in the past, lol. But the other day my colleague asked if I knew of any songs for 3rd-person preterite, and that was […]
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September 20, 2009
This is the presentation I did for the fall conference of the Kentucky World Language Association. And here is the handout.
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September 20, 2009
Found Juanes on Twitter
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You should follow Juanes on Twitter! He’s tweeting right now about his ground-breaking concert for peace at the Plaza de la Revolución in Cuba. He’s @juanestwiter; note that there’s only one ‘t’ in the middle of twiter.
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August 29, 2009
I blogged about my favorite 5a Estación song, La Frase Tonta de la Semana, here and here. The second time I reported that the music video had been taken down for violation of copyright. Good news, Sony BMG has the videoclip oficial up on the La Quinta Estación YouTube channel, along with the duet with […]
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July 14, 2009
Fonseca is a fun singer, another Colombian (they can seriously turn out some people with rhythm, eh?) with some great songs for teaching. Of course our favorite in my class is the ‘dancing firemen song’ “Hace tiempo,” which I blogged about here, but another one I like to use is “Te mando flores”, with its […]
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June 30, 2009
A song for your hip-hop fans
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David Bisbal collaborated with reggaetón stars Wisin & Yandel on a unity-themed song called Torre de Babel. You can see the official music video here. Also, with reggaetón you never know, but I read through the lyrics and didn’t see anything offensive, but you might want to take a look because while I’m familiar with most […]
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June 19, 2009
A new group on my radar
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Yesterday I was watching the Today Show (while feeding Zoe, our morning ritual) and caught a segment on a group I never heard of but who apparently won a grammy. They’re called Ozomatli and they sing a lot in English, some in Spanglish, and some in Spanish. I found this song on YouTube: La Gallina […]
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April 6, 2009
As I wrote in this post, No Me Doy por Vencido by Luis Fonsi is a recent favorite of mine, and Fonsi himself is quickly climbing my list of faves, particularly because of how much he loves his wife and is devoted to her, and refuses to fall into the seductive/hunter/lust-after-these-other-bellezas trap often laid for […]
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