Paraguay adopts its second language

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In September 1991, two German hikers found a dead body while walking through Europe’s Ötzal Alps. It turned out to be a perfectly preserved 5,000-year-old mummy. The archaeologist Konrad Spindler inspected the body along with the assemblage of items recovered from the gravesite. ...  Show more

In this episode we introduce artificial languages: a group of languages spoken, among other places, on Avatar's Pandora, or Tolkien's Middle-Earth. But the first stop of our trip is actually in Eastern Europe, where Esperanto was created in 1887. In the second part of the episode ...  Show more

In May 2019, twenty Paraguayan soccer players traveled from their hometown to Asunción, the nation’s capital, to play the most important game of their lives. Led by their captain, José Elías Argaña, they were the first indigenous team to qualify to Paraguay’s national soccer leag ...  Show more

<span lang="es" xml:lang="es">Hoy nuestro saludo es  un «¡Japy Verá!» desde Asunción, la ciudad capital de Paraguay. Situada en la región Oriental del país, Asunción tiene una historia rica y fascinante. Fundada el 15 de agosto de 1537 por Juan de Salazar de ...

Spanish Conversations for Beginners on Youtube If you’re new to learning Spanish, listening to native speakers converse with each other is one of the most effective ways to improve your skills. In this article, we’ll eavesdrop on a conversation between Lizbeth from Mérida, México ...  Show more