Spanish
- Literature
The Multiple Spanishes of Cusco
Cusco embraces stupendous linguistic complexity. The street vendors may speak to you in English or Japanese depending on how they…
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How do You Say Mall in Spanish, a Complaint
While sipping my hot coffee in La Bondiet Café in Cusco on the Ave. of Culture in the neighborhood of…
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How is Formal Spanish so Central in Cusco?
The tall hills and mountains around Cusco look dry and burned by frost, and augury of winter that is coming…
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The Trickster and the Thief, Failures of Translation
The word trickster draws people in English with its ideas of play and even joy. It seems relatively innocuous to…
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Love as Spanish Changes
We are promiscuous with the word love in English. We apply it to people, animals, things, and even abstract objects…
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How does a potato taste? What words do you use?
Delicious Huatia Baked Potato How do you describe the taste of a good potato? Or the meat that is by…
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Globe Trotting Sweet Potatoes
Boiled Sweet Potato Everyone in the United States will eat something Peruvian this Thursday, though they may not know it.…
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Opposites Meet in Family, the Living and the Dead in Cusco
Day of Dead in Almudena Cemetery The living and the dead come together in a feast, one day for each.…
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Doña Pepa’s Turrón Rules Peru This Month
October is a month of processions, masks, creole music, and Doña Pepa’s Turrones. This desert is just as historical as…
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The Hero and Rebel Túpac Amaru Honored Today
Cuzco joins together in honoring one of its great heroes and most painful historical events today. On the 18th of May…
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