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1 day ago · Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language speakers.
2 days ago · Latin America [c] is a collective region of the Americas where Romance languages —languages derived from Latin —are predominantly spoken. [4] . The term was coined in France in the mid-19th century to refer to regions in the Americas that were ruled by the Spanish, Portuguese, and French empires.
1 day ago · In many Latino (also called Hispanic) youth subcultures, it is common to mix Spanish and English to produce Spanglish, a term for code-switching between English and Spanish, or for Spanish with heavy English influence.
2 days ago · The veteran singer reveals in a documentary that she was abused by her father, that she started therapy when she was 16 years old, and that she was hooked on anxiolytics. ‘I am over 80 years old and I wanted to leave something truthful,’ she tells EL PAÍS. The best news stories, features and interviews about culture from EL PAÍS.
4 days ago · With over 85,000 entries and almost 200,000 definitions, including many referring to terms from Latin America and the Philippines, the DRAE also gives indications of usage and historical significance. An essential online reference tool for anyone working with the Spanish language.
May 1, 2024 · The Hispanic Review. A quarterly journal devoted to research in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures, Hispanic Review has been edited since 1933 by the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. The journal features essays and book reviews on the diverse cultural manifestations of Iberia and Latin America ...
5 days ago · Antonia Novello (born August 23, 1944, Fajardo, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican-born physician and public official, the first woman and the first Hispanic to serve as surgeon general of the United States (1990–93). Antonia Coello suffered from a painful colon condition from birth until she underwent corrective surgery at age 18.
