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L’Addio a Napoli (Teodoro Cottrau, composer) In my book Love Songs in Spanish for Enjoyment and Learning I placed most of the tangos at the end of the book and at the very end of the book I included a song in Italian, L’Addio a Napoli. This might seem a strange thing to do but here’s what I was thinking: the dominant theme of many Argentine tangos is nostalgia and Italians were the main national group who emigrated to Argentina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.... https://lovesongsinspanish.wordpress.com//a-neapolitan-em/

1. Tanto tiempo disfrutamos de este amor, For so long we enjoyed this love, 2. nuestras almas se acercaron tanto así our souls became so close this way 3. que yo guardo tu sabor that I keep (still have) your taste 4. pero tú llevas también sabor a mí. but you too carry my taste with you. 5. Si negaras mi presencia en tu vivir... https://lovesongsinspanish.wordpress.com//a-remarkably-be/

This post is taken from chapter one of my recently published Home Study Projects and New Ideas for English Language Arts. In chapter one students learn how to write a movie report (For a movie report on Casablanca written by one of my students see my post of May 13, 2020.) Once students have have been taught what to look for in a movie I show them passages from five books that were made into movies.... https://lovesongsinspanish.wordpress.com//show-students-t/

A CLOSE LOOK AT A FAMILIAR ARIA LA DONNA È MOBILE: WHAT DO THE WORDS MEAN? I have taken the following passage from my book Operatic Italian. Everyone is familiar with the aria La Donna è Mobile from Verdi’s Rigoletto. What do the words in Italian really mean? How are they different from the translations that have been made of this aria?... https://lovesongsinspanish.wordpress.com//what-is-the-duk/

This blog entry contains the first review of my new book (Home Study Projects and New Ideas for English Language Arts). The review appeared in The Canadian Teacher Magazine (winter 2021) Below this review I have included chapter summaries of the book plus twelve sample pages. If you would like to receive a sample chapter from Home Study Projects... https://lovesongsinspanish.wordpress.com//the-first-revie/

A GREAT SONG FROM MEXICO: NOCHE DE RONDA Here is another beautiful song from my book Love songs in Spanish for Enjoyment and Learning. Follow the words as you listen to the music. If you like Noche de Ronda you probably will like some of my previous blogs: Granada (Feb. 6, 2016); Angelitos Negros (Feb. 6, 2016); Y (April 14, 2016); ... https://lovesongsinspanish.wordpress.com//noche-de-ronda-/

Today’s blog contains a few paragraphs from my new book, Teaching English with Multi-Media and Audio-visual Resources. It will contain eight chapters; the following has been taken from the chapter on using musicals. This book should be available in about a month (June, 2018) 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Objectives of this chapter 2 Students’ performance evaluation 3 Why teach the musical? [ 648 more words ] https://lovesongsinspanish.wordpress.com//using-musicals-/

The following paragraph is an excerpt from my book, Love songs in Spanish for Enjoyment and Learning. (see www.godwinbooks.com) I had just analyzed Hey! as sung by Julio Iglesias. Hey! is a gem of a song about an embittered man who can’t quite extricate himself from the spell cast on him by a Narcissistic woman. As I was writing about it Aznavour came to mind (funny how that works) and I could hear him singing Yesterday when I was young, which is the English version of the original French song, Hier encore. It too is bitter-sweet. [ 713 more words ] https://lovesongsinspanish.wordpress.com//a-great-bitter-/

I am back to blogging, which I enjoy. I ran a blog for about a year (two years ago) but fell out of the habit of blogging. I now think the main reason I stopped is that my blogs had been too long and had taken too long to write. I had learned to scare myself. Maybe I had set myself too high a standard. [ 345 more words ] https://lovesongsinspanish.wordpress.com//a-great-movie-o/