(speaking spanish) (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> these are the spanish influences. >> (speaking spanish). >> they adapted to the style of this type of music (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> these are just simple spoons, kitchen spoons. (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> and here we have our principle instrument. >> (speaking spanish). >> the name of this instrument is called cajon. >> (speaking spanish). >> in certain places in africa this instrumentality existed. >> (speaking spanish). >> and the percussionist will play with their hands and their feet. >> (speaking spanish). >> with the african slave trade he used to be in the ports. this type of boxes. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they were sit over these big boxes and play over them. >> (speaking spanish). >> but for the blacks these type of instruments were not allowed to be played because they were too loud and for the church they will provoke movement that was not appropriate. >> (speaking spanish). >> they could also work as a form of communication with the drumming patterns. >> (speaking spanish). >> this was wha

. >> (speaking spanish). >> (inaudible). >> (speaking spanish). >> yeah it does. >> (speaking spanish). >> (inaudible). >> (speaking spanish). >> but it will change, yes, of course if you do that. >> (inaudible). >> well, -- (speaking spanish). >> (speaking spanish). >> it's a type of plywood, so this one in particular -- yeah. >> (speaking spanish). >> (inaudible). >> (speaking spanish). >> in the language it's called dulo. >> (speaking spanish). >> yes? >> (inaudible). >> (speaking spanish). >> yeah. >> (speaking spanish). >> (laughter). >> yes. >> (inaudible). >> in the 16th century, about 1500. yeah. >> (inaudible). >> no. no, no, just you have to leave this room thinking we did not kill anybody for that. yes, you had a question? >> (inaudible). >> yeah. well, yes, there are -- in cities like the northern part and lima there are certain districts like -- certain ones and the capital and to the south of lima the district there and to the south almost border to chile there is a community that is unknown that we are doing research right now on it. yes, the value there and with chile

and the spanish speaking is low. we do want to reach that are monolingual in the mission district especially because we have soldiers over there but it is very hard when a monolingual comes, and there's no one they can speak a language. it is important to have someone appointed who speaks spanish. >> supervisor kim: we have heard from other shelter monitoring people as well. thank you so much for both be here. supervisor avalos. >> what has been the history of anyone on the committee can speak spanish? is that an ongoing problem? >> it has been an ongoing problem. we were fortunate to have a woman who was one of the initial people appointed in the community who served for almost three terms, six years. she was bilingual, not latina. we have had one member who served for about a year and a half who is latino, whose spanish was a little bit better than mine but in no way fluent. we have one member who speak spanish. m she has been instrumental with clients who come in to take complaints, but also going into the field o

he is spanish and irish together. if we look at the history of the irish in cuba, most of the irish to went to cuba in the 18th and 19th centuries arrived from spain, some of them with the spanish royal armies; other irish influx arrived from the u.s. for the construction of railroads used to transport sugar cane to the sugar plantations. that was at the end of the 19th century. and then at the beginning of the 20th century, we're talking 1902, 1910, before odono that i mentioned before, this man who gave his name to -- he was very proud of this lighthouse. the cubans offer hospitality to general alexander alejandro o'reilly. he rose through the ranks of the spanish army. the spanish sent alexander o'reilly to cuba to form a militia. he was appointed governor of louisiana and head of the army later on. he arrived in august, 1769, and took formal possession of louisiana for spain. think of new orleans and cuba, in particular havana, governors there were also in cuba so there was all this traveling from one city to anot

. >> >> [speaking spanish] let's hear it for pablo sandoval . [cheers and applause] [speaking spanish] ,. >> what's up san francisco? [cheers and applause] >> [speaking spanish] >> love you guys. [cheers and applause] >> [speaking spanish] >> all right. let's hear it for pablo and marco. [cheers and applause] >> well, like many fans i'm also a fan of baseball. when we're not broadcasting we're traveling with the team. i also enjoy watching the teams on tv and listening to these guys. let's hear it for them. [cheers and applause] >> all right. how's everybody doing? good? are we ready to make some noise? seriously. i am serious. now, how does that home run call go? do you all remember? right. can you help me out? "he hits it high. he hits it deep, and he hits it -- very good. all right. let's do a couple of practice runs before we start eliminating some cities. all right. let's do a pablo sandoval home run. pablo, give me a fake swing. he hit its high. he hits it deep and he hits it -- already. let's do one more. jeremy, are you ready? take a swi

(speaking spanish) (speaking spanish). >> what he is saying that thanks to the bant. bante he got funding for of the peru vaifian culture and got approved. >> (speaking spanish). >> okay. >> good. (speaking spanish). >> so we have a variety of instruments -- that we're going to be showing you. >> (speaking spanish). >> the name of the instrument is called tale boheha. >> (speaking spanish). >> it was a time in peru when the africans were prohibited from playing or making instruments. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they were forced to make their own instruments. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they use the surroundings and big jars and they used to have water or other type was drinks. >> (speaking spanish). >> covered with leather skin. >> (speaking spanish). >> and they make the drums. >>. >> (speaking spanish). (drums)

if i go out and my spanish is muy mal, i can give the document in spanish and i can write comments later and have them translated later. to do the effective job we want to increase the capacity of spanish-speaking people on the committee. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> supervisor kim: so at this time i'm going to call forward the applicants. we do have a number of applicants, 15 applicants for six seats. i'm going to limit your time to two minutes; i apologize but i want to get through this in a timely manner. i will call two names at a time. the first is adalene tony. >> hello. nice to see you all today. my name is -- antonio, i work at the coalition of homelessness. i just moved last week. i've been homeless since i was 15, i'm now 20, five years. my daughter is 15 months old; she was born homeless; i speak spanish, french, portuguese. i can help in that area. having lived in the shelter i do think there's certain things that need to be changed. staff and cleanliness - i just feel that everybody deserves the right to have comfortable, safe environment to live in especially with their c

the spanish spoken by a narrator... narrador: aquí está carlos. carlos también tiene una esposa. se llama gloria. carlos y gloria tienen dos hijos: una hija, juanita y un hijo, carlitos. narrator: and the spanish spoken by raquel as she reviews major and minor highlights of the episode. fernando tiene cuatro hijos: una hija, mercedes y tres hijos, ramón, carlos y juan. while you will probably understand most or all of the spanish spoken by the narrator and by raquel during her review segments you are not meant to understand word for word

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but when i was in college, i got exposed to pan spanish for spanish speakers. that's what i took the classes and i said, i'm going reclaim my native tongue. i tbli english because it's so natural to me that i don't have to think about the language vocabulary as i'm writing. the times when i have tried to write in spanish i have to pick up the dictionary every single minute. and it pulls me out of the story because i have to think about the vocabulary. so as a comprise, i write everything in english then i go my own translations. so i translated a couple hundred mountains myself and "distance between us" will be published in spanish next year. i did the translation also. >> do your novels sell well in the spanish language? >> my novels don't sell as well in spanish as they go in english. i think that's the case for most folks that are published here in spanish that the spanish -- books don't have the same kind of stuff as the english books. i think part of that is because, you know, people can -- the readers for spanish books can afford to buy -- can't afford to

. >> >> [speaking spanish] let's hear it for pablo sandoval . [cheers and applause] [speaking spanish] ,. >> what's up san francisco? [cheers and applause] >> [speaking spanish] >> love you guys. [cheers and applause] >> [speaking spanish] >> all right. let's hear it for pablo and marco. [cheers and applause] >> well, like many fans i'm also a fan of baseball. when we're not broadcasting we're traveling with the team. i also enjoy watching the teams on tv and listening to these guys. let's hear it for them. [cheers and applause]

constitution and the spanish prime minister. has said he will fight it but some elements of the spanish media are actually saying that after mass could find himself arrested so nothing is clear cut at the moment and even though opinion polls do suggest that the majority of people are in favor of independence there is a strong lobby who are against separatism and their arguments are based on the economy too they say that if catalonia is forced withdraw from spain it would businesses here would lose the spanish market but they could also lose the european union market because catalonia they fear could be forced to drop out of the e.u. and then reapply for membership which could be a long and lengthy process of the rim many arguments good arguments for and against these are issues that catalans of how to mull over over the last few weeks but today they do have to make their minds up and we should get a result later this evening. well for more on this developing story let's talk to alice and pollutes she's economist at the universit

. >> >> [speaking spanish] let's hear it for pablo sandoval . [cheers and applause] [speaking spanish] ,. >> what's up san francisco? [cheers and applause] >> [speaking spanish] >> love you guys. [cheers and applause] >> [speaking spanish] >> all right. let's hear it for pablo and marco. [cheers and applause] >> well, like many fans i'm also a fan of baseball. when we're not broadcasting we're traveling with the team. i also enjoy watching the teams on tv and listening to these guys. let's hear it for them. [cheers and applause] >> all right. how's everybody doing? good? are we ready to make some noise? seriously. i am serious. now, how does that home run

this is the way you had the only way you spanish states. well you got the chance would be actually preventing dick corley of the verandah because once by i work hard on the democratic. process and really interesting here thoughts thank you very much indeed for joining us and r.k. spokes person at the european partnership for independents joining us there in boston thank you. syrian rebels looking to overthrow president assad to receive serious backing this week the european union welcomed the new syrian opposition group the national coalition as a legitimate representative of the country's people although e.u. ministers stopped short of official diplomatic recognition which must be decided by each member state france and turkey with the first powers to give the new rebel alliance a stamp of approval with britain following suit soon after turkey is now pushing for nato to deploy patriot missiles along its border with syria to defend itself russia and iran are among the countries strongly opposing the move as a possible first step towards a n

but when i was in college i got exposed to spanish for spanish speakers, and that's when i took those classes and i said i'm going to reclaim my native tongue. but i write in english because it's so, it's so natural to me that i don't have to think about the language, the vocabulary as i'm writing. but when i've tried to write in spanish, i have to pick up the dictionary every single minute and i just completely pulls me out of the story because i have to think about the vocabulary. so as a compromise i write everything in english, and then i do my own translation. so i translated "across a hundred mountains" myself, and then "the distance between us" will be published in spanish next year, and i did the translation also. >> do your novels sell well in spanish when? >> not as was the do in english but i think that's the case for most books that are published here in spanish, and that the spanish books don't have the same kind of selling aspect as english books. i think part of that is because people, the readers for spanish books can't afford to buy a book and they don't access to the