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Translation Nation #1: Pobre diabla llora y llora

July 8th, 2008 donomar, letra, lyrics, musicvideo, performance, reggaeton, spanish, translationnation, video | No Comments »

Translation Nation #1: Pobre diabla llora y llora

Don Omar at Fenway Park, 5 July 2008
This week’s installment of Translation Nation is dedicated to el rey (de melodrama), Don Omar. The king put on quite a dynamic performance at Boston’s Latino Family Festival; inadvertently clowning Luny Tunes for their lame no-show from the weekend before. He […]

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Translation nation #0: La temperatura sube sube sube

June 30th, 2008 español, letra, lyrics, salsa, spanish, translation, translationnation | No Comments »

My 7th grade Spanish teacher taught me many important things such as the meaning of “me gusta twinkies” and how to sing simple songs en español (”Un perro grande tengo yo / y se llama BINGO”). However, she also perpetrated one of the greatest disservices of my K-12 career when she told me that translating […]

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So many synonyms

May 10th, 2008 awesome, español, slang, spanish | 2 Comments »

Ana, mi profesotica, creó un colección de palabras que significan “awesome” en español. Mira…

YAY!!! K GUAY!!!!
chévere
chiva
tuanis
padre
bakan
Chido
La raja
De a cachimba
Cojonudo
del one!
un siete
el descueve
legal

Disfrutalas, amigos!

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