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Cuban Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as it is spoken in Cuba.As a Caribbean variety of Spanish, Cuban Spanish shares a number of features with nearby varieties, including coda weakening and neutralization, non-inversion of Wh-questions, and a lower rate of dropping of subject pronouns compared to other Spanish varieties.
Maestra is a 33-minute documentary film directed by Catherine Murphy, about the youngest women teachers of the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign. In 1961, Cuba aimed to eradicate illiteracy in one year. It sent 250,000 volunteers across the island to teach reading and writing in rural communities for one year. 100,000 of the volunteers were under 18 ...
The Spanish language was introduced to the Caribbean in 1492 with the voyages of Christopher Columbus. It resembles the Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands, and, more distantly, the Spanish of western Andalusia. With more than 25 million speakers, Spanish is the most widely spoken language in the Caribbean Islands.
Already in the 1990s of the twentieth century, Radio Taíno's programming modernized its style and to guarantee a wider coverage they decided that the English language should be present. [ 2 ] On Radio Taino there is a considerable presence of Cuban music, although songs from the Latin American, Caribbean or Anglo-Saxon repertoire are also ...
The Academia Cubana de la Lengua (Spanish for Cuban Academy of Language) is an association of academics and experts on the use of the Spanish language in Cuba. It was founded in Havana, on May 19, 1926. It is a member of the Association of Spanish Language Academies
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Spanish language literature began in the Cuban territory with the Spanish conquest and colonization.The conquistadors brought with them cronistas who recorded and described all important events, although they did so with the Spanish point of view and for the Spanish reading public.
Around 2004, Modelo Cubano de Educación Bilingüe, an experimental project to teach deaf children Cuban Sign Language as their first language and Spanish, particularly in its written form, as their second language, emerged in three deaf schools in Cuba. This marked the beginning of having Cuban Sign Language be taught in most deaf schools.