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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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anish language
Spanish 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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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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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 León
Other 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 20
shadows de Grey, 3 metres above
heaven, from Federico Moccia or The
name of the wind, de Patrick Rothfuss.
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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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Rafael Nadal
Rafael 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 11 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 Alonso
Fernando 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 Gasol
Marc 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 TEAMSPANISH 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
