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Spanish Language and other languages spoken in Spain

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Spanish language is the second more spoken

language after Chinese and before English. This is due to the fact that a bif part of the American continent, except for the USA, Canada, Brazil was

colonized by the Spaniards.

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Spanish languageSpanish language or Castilian language is a Romance language from Iberian peninsula

It´s mainly spoken in Spain, Latin America, the USA and Guinea. Spanish, as the other Romance language comes from

Latin

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Spanish Literature

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It is the most important work of the Spanish Literature. The first part was published in 1605 and the second part in 1615. It was written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The novel is about the story of a man who goes crazy because of reading many books about knights and he lives many adventures together with his servant Sancho Panza

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FAMOUS SPANISH WRITERS

Rafael Alberti Antonio Machado Federico

García Lorca

Lope de Vega Quevedo

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SPANISH GOLDEN CENTURY

• Spanish Golden Century is the age we associate with a great peak in Spanish culture. It is the period from the Reinassance to the Baroque (between XVI and XVII centuries): Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Garcilaso de la Vega, Fray Luis de LeónOther less known authors are :Francisco de Terrazas, Gregorio Silvestre, Cristóbal de Castillejo, Luis de Ullua Pereira y Juan del Encina

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SPANISH NOBEL PRIZES

 

José Echegaray (1904) Jacinto Benavente (1922) Juan Ramón Jiménez (1956)

Vicente Aleixandre(1977) Camilo José Cela (1989)

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WHAT SPANISH YOUNG PEOPLE READ

• Spanish young people usually read romantic novels, such as the Blue Jeans trilogy: Songs for Paula / Do you know I love you? / Shut me up with a kiss

• They also read books such as 50 shadows of Grey, 3 metres above heaven, from Federico Moccia or The name of the wind, de Patrick Rothfuss.

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MUSIC

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MUSIC IN SPAIN

• Rock music

• Pop music

• Rap music

• Heavy music

• Pachanguera music: Reggaeton

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Rock music

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POP MUSIC

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RAP MUSIC

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HEAVY MUSIC

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PACHANGA

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Twitter is the most social network used by young people, singers, footballers

People usually express here theirr feelings and ideas, and share phoytos or videos they like.

Facebook in our country is mainly used by adult people, although young people use it to play games.

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WhatsApp es used for instant messages with your mobile phones. With WhatsApp you can send images, sounds, voice , contacts and other files

You can also keep group conversations.

Skype is a programme similiar to Messenger where you can make videocalls, have a conversation, etc…

You can also make group videocalls and send siles

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tuenti is a Spanish social network: it allows the user to create their own profile and add other users as friends, share videos, photos and messages.

You can keep videochats and you can also keep group conversations.

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SPORTS

Spanish

Sportsmen/women

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Rafael NadalRafael Nadal Parera (Manacor, Mallorca, 3th june 1986), is a well known Spanish tennis player. He is the fourth tennis player in the world ranking ATP.He is considered the best tennis player from all the times in clay court, and one of the best in the history of tennis.He has won 12 Gran Slam titles: Roland Garros, 7 times (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 y 2012), Wimblendon championship (208 and 2010) 1 Open Australia (2009) and Open USA.

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Fernando AlonsoFernando Alonso Díaz (Oviedo, España, 29 de julio de 1981) is a car racing pilot . He has won twice the World Car Racing Championship, Formula 1, in 2005 and 2006, and he has been second in 2010 and 2012, and third in 2007.He has competed with Minardi, Renault, McLaren and Ferrari teams.Alonso is the fifth pilot with more victories in the fhistory of Formula 1.Among his awards we mention: 3 German Great Prize, 3 Europe Great Prize, 2 Monaco Great Prize, 2 Italia Great Prize, 2 Japan Great Prize an 1 Spain Great Prize

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Marc y Pau GasolMarc Gasol Sáez (Barcelona, 29 de enero de 1985) is a Spanish bastkeball players who plays in Memphis Grizzlies, in NBA.

Pau Gasol Sáez (Barcelona, 6 de julio de 1980 is a Spanish basteball player who plays in Los Angeles Lakers. He is the second basketball player who plays in NBA, after Fernando Martin, and he was the first chosen to play an All-Star Game in NBA (Houston 2006) and being classified for the playoffs (with Memphis Grizzlies in 2003-04).

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SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM Spanish footbal team is the tean formed by Spanish nationality football players and they represent the Spanish Federation of Football from 1920 in the official competitions organized by UEFA and FIFA.The team is populary known as LA ROJA (the red) . This name was given by the national coach Luis Aragonés.

They have partici30pated in 13 editions of the World Cap. In Sothafrica they were Footbal World Champions

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