To language learners...

Are you thinking about learning a new language? Maybe, you should see this video because you have to know that... you can learn a new language in one year!! 

The Lernen to Talk Show

This is what it looks like to learn a language in one year. from Mickey Mangan on Vimeo.

Bloomsday

Ah, June 16...the day on which Irish author James Joyce set his epic novel Ulysses. The weighty tome (all 700 or so pages of it) takes place over the course of just one day - June 16, 1904 - as the main character, Leopold Bloom, wanders the streets of Dublin, thinking deep thoughts and meeting all sorts of folk. If you want to know more about Bloomsday, you can visit the James Joyce Centre in Dublin or read more in English Teacher.

National Gallery of Art

If you're an art fan, check out this great link from the National Gallery of Art in Washington. They have made more than 25,000 works of art available to view in high resolution online! Do you have a favourite artist? Tell us about them here! 

HyperGrammar

Here's a useful grammar course from the University of Ottawa in Canada. It has useful exercises on building phrases, building clauses, building sentences writing paragraphs as well as lots of general grammar and punctuation activities. If you want to work on your writing, check it out!

 HyperGrammar

 

English pronunciation and sounds

Here you have a new video about the pronunciation of short /I/. It is made by Úrsula Kirsten Torrado (University of Vigo and Centro de Linguas)

Galician Literature Day: Roberto Vidal Bolaño

The Galician Literature Day (also known as Día das Letras Galegas) is a holiday in Galicia and is celebrated on May 17th  each year. It was created in 1963 to commemorate the 100 years since the publication Cantares Gallegos, by Rosalía de Castro. The publication of  Cantares gallegos marked the start of the cultural renaissance of the Galician language, known as the Rexurdimento. This annual celebration was introduced by Galicia’s Royal Academy (Real Academia Galega).

 In 2013, Galician Literature Day is dedicated to playwright and actor Roberto Vidal Bolaño (Santiago de Compostela, 1950 - Santiago de Compostela, 2002). He was one of the greatest architects of the professionalization of the Galician theater and he started in the theater world with the Group Antroido. He wrote drama,  worked  visual arts and made television scripts for TV Galician and Spanish. He was also one of the first directors who participated in the institutional theater with CDG (Centro Dramático Galego). 

The work of Roberto Bolaño Vidal  is marked by the aesthetic of defeat  and the critique of modernity. Our author defended a recovery of the popular culture, but cultivated the historical theater too. His works collected and mixed aesthetic currents of realism, symbolism, surrealism and expressionism. They are pieces where we can see  the dialogue with the public. Its production is characterized by a commitment to the country and the language

RVB highlighted as an actor, director, producer and illuminator. Some of his works are:

Agasallo de sombras
Animaliños
As actas escuras
Bailadela da morte ditosa
Cochos 
Criaturas
Daquel Abrente
Días sen gloria
Doentes
Laudamuco, Señor de Ningures
Rastros 
Saxo Tenor
Touporroutou da lúa e do sol

 Many cultural events take place on 17th May all around Galicia, particularly in Santiago de Compostela.

Mother's Day - Mothering Sunday

Mother's Day is the first sunday of May in Spain. It is a day when children give presents, flowers, and home-made cards to their mothers. In this BBC's link, you can know more about the history of this celebration.

Mothering Sunday

And now, let's watch a video on the history of Mother's day in the USA (celebrated on the second Sunday of May).