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Spanish language heritage in Florida dates back to 1565, with the founding of Saint Augustine, Florida. Spanish was the first European language spoken in Florida. In 1821, [16] after Mexico's War of Independence from Spain, Texas was part of the United Mexican States as the state of Coahuila y Tejas. A large influx of Americans soon followed ...
Dreaming of You became the first predominantly Spanish-language album to top the Billboard 200 and was the best-selling Latin album of 1995 and 1996. [6] [7] [8] Selena's fourth studio album, Amor Prohibido, has sold more than 1,246,000 copies and is the fourth best-selling Latin album in the United States. [4]
A recording of the sibilants, as they would have been pronounced in medieval Spanish (archived 28 February 2009) A History of the Spanish language (sample from the second edition, 2002), by Ralph Penny; Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española (in Spanish)
Different etymologies have been suggested for the term español (Spanish). According to the Royal Spanish Academy, español derives from the Occitan word espaignol and that, in turn, derives from the Vulgar Latin * hispaniolus ('of Hispania'). [21] Hispania was the Roman name for the entire Iberian Peninsula.
How have you been?" You don't have to reinvent the wheel or be particularly profound to restart a conversation with someone you haven't spoken to in a while. Simple and friendly might do the trick.
An AOL reader asks, "what do you tell potential employers in an interview when they ask the question, "What have you been doing all this time while laid off?"
Santiago Ramón y Cajal fathered modern neuroscience and was the first person of Spanish origin to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1906). This is a list of inventors and discoverers who are of Spanish origin or otherwise reside in continental Spain or one of the country's oversees territories.
Mi Reflejo (English: My Reflection) is the second studio album and first Spanish-language album by American singer Christina Aguilera.It was released on September 12, 2000, as a joint effort between RCA Records and BMG U.S. Latin. [2]