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Good Morning, Little Countess. Good Morning, Little Countess (Spanish: Buenos días, condesita) is a 1967 Spanish musical comedy film directed by Luis César Amadori and starring Rocío Dúrcal, Vicente Parra and Gracita Morales. [1] A man hires a woman to pretend to be a countess and pose as his girlfriend to impress his visiting parents.
Approximate area of Rioplatense Spanish (Patagonian variants included). Rioplatense Spanish (/ ˌ r iː oʊ p l ə ˈ t ɛ n s eɪ / REE-oh-plə-TEN-say, Spanish: [ri.oplaˈtense]), also known as Rioplatense Castilian, [4] or River Plate Spanish, [5] is a variety of Spanish [6] [7] [8] originating in and around the Río de la Plata Basin, and now spoken throughout most of Argentina and Uruguay ...
These can be used in oral or written Spanish. Buenos días. To be used from when you wake up to Noon or 1pm. Equivalent to good morning. Buenas tardes. To be used from Noon or 1pm up to the sunset. Equivalent to good afternoon. Buenas noches. From the sunset to the moment that you go to bed. Equivalent to good evening and good night. Formal ...
Chamorro has many Spanish loanwords and other words have Spanish etymological roots (such as tenda 'shop/store' from Spanish tienda), which may lead some to mistakenly conclude that the language is a Spanish creole, but Chamorro very much uses its loanwords in an Austronesian way (bumobola 'playing ball' from bola 'ball, play ball' with ...
Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de Mayo (pronounced [ˈsiŋko ðe ˈmaʝo] in Mexico, Spanish for "Fifth of May") is an annual celebration held on May 5 to celebrate Mexico 's victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, [1][2] led by General Ignacio Zaragoza. Zaragoza died months after the battle from an illness, however, and a ...
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (/ ˈ b ɔːr h ɛ s / BOR-hess; [2] Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ⓘ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.
The compadre (Spanish: [komˈpaðɾe], Portuguese: [kõˈpaðɾɨ], literally "co-father" or "co-parent") relationship between the parents and godparents of a child is an important bond that originates when a child is baptised in Iberian, Latin American, Filipino Christian and Indian Christian Brahmin families. The abstract nouns compadrazgo ...
Bernie Taupin. Producer (s) Gus Dudgeon. " Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters " is a song written by English musician Elton John and songwriter Bernie Taupin, and performed by John. It was released on the 1972 album Honky Château. The lyrics conveyed Taupin's take on New York City after hearing a gun go off near his hotel window during his first visit ...