The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) convened a Congressional Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Caucus briefing on October 4, 2017, at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. The focus of the briefing is to inform policy makers and their staffs about the value and impact of HSIs while encouraging more members of Congress to join the HSI Caucus.
Bilingual people may be better equipped to learn new languages than those who only speak one language, according to a study published in the academic journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. The research points to a distinct language-learning benefit for people who grow up bilingual or learn another language at an early age.
Top 5 Easy-to-read Spanish Books for Spanish Learners. Know that feeling of satisfaction when you finally begin a conversation in Spanish?. Have you experienced the pleasure of understanding movies or songs in Spanish?. Or do you finally understand who’s dating who in the dramatic world of telenovelas?
Educators believe teaching in two languages can be key to student success. When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its-kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population.
Even though it seems that almost all films that make it to the movie theaters are based on previously published books, the adaptation of literary works is still a road that offers plenty of room for exploration. While in the United States 70 percent of feature-length movies are adaptations of novels, in Spain that percentage stops at 8 percent, well behind France (30 percent) and Latin America (8 to 10 percent).
Lumen, one of the many editorial labels of the Penguin Random House group, recently announced in a memo that their editorial director Silvia Querini will be replaced on January of next year by the Argentinian Maria Fasce.
The Galician writer has received the prize thanks to 'Poemar o mar' (Poetry or The Sea), the collection of poems with which he has brought to a conclusion his trilogy on the sea, and which has been illustrated by Xan López Domínguez.
What follows is a preliminary glance at the main conclusions of the third edition of the “Bookwire Report on the evolution of e-book sales in Latin America and Spain," prepared by Dosdoce.com in collaboration with Bookwire.es, ....
Argentinian writer Mariano Quirós (1979) was the winner of the XIII Tusquets Editores Prize for Best Novel of 2017. A jury led by Juan Marsé and composed of Almudena Grandes, Antonio Orejudo, Daniel Ruiz García (the previous year’s winner) and publisher Juan Cerezo decided by a majority vote to award the prize to Una casa junto al Tragadero (A house next to the Tragadero).
Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS), present the free weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US market for week 37 of 2017 (week ending 9/17/2017)
