Wednesday, February 15, 2006 

Spanish cinema

Spanish cinema is among the most outstanding European cinema industries. During the 90's famous Spanish movies where filmed, such as “Belle époquedirected by Fernando Trueba, winner of the Oscar to the best foreign film in 1992.

During the last couple of years of Spanish cinema industry, the most famous Spanish film director has been Pedro Almodóvar, author of films such as “Todo sobre mi madre” (All about my mother), showing his view of the gay world, or “Hable con ella” (Talk to her) in which a male nurse falls in love with his female patient, both films have won Academy Awards. We cannot forget other films by Almodóvar such as “Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios” (Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown) or “Tacones lejanos” (Far heels)

Spain counts with other popular film directors such as Fernando León de Aranoa, very concerned with social matters such as unemployment, which is actually the central argument in his movie “Los lunes al sol” (Mondays on the sun) or prostitution, in his latest film “Princesas” (Princesses)

Also the young director Alejandro Amenábar, winner of the Oscar prize to the best foreign film with “Mar Adentro” (the Sea Inside). Other famous movies by Amenábar are: “Tesis” (Thesis), “Abre los ojos” (Open your eyes), whose English version, Vanilla Sky, was played by Tom Cruise or “Los Otros” (the Others) with Nicole Kidman.

As for Spanish actors, one of the most popular is undoubtedly Antonio Banderas. He arrived in the US with the film “los Reyes del Mambo Tocan Canciones de Amor”, and reached popularity with the film Too Much. He is still one of the most popular actors of Hollywood, as we can see in his last movie The legend of el Zorro.
Another outstanding Spanish actor is Javier Bardem, twice nominated to best actor by the Academy.

Among Spanish female actresses we may talk of Penélope Cruz, whose fame arrived with films such as Vanilla Sky, La Mandolina del Capitán Corelli or Gothika. Penelope was also popular due to her romance with Tom Cruise and she is still working on several new projects for movies.

Source: spanish-teaching.com
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 

How to type Spanish assends in computer

We all know how to write Spanish. then what about typing in computer ?

Computer supports English as its primary language. What about Spanish characters?

Almost many characters are basically has the same as English except accents and 2 special symbols(Inverted exclamatory and Question mark).

In computer we can type Spanish in 2 ways.

1) Changing the Language.

2) Use Alt key combination

We will see the 2nd way of doing, because it is very easy. Another way, we will see in future article.

All you want to know is.

Alt key and 4 numbers to type a character. It looks slightly tedious, but easy.

Capitals with accents:
Alt + 0193 is Á
Alt + 0201 É
Alt + 0205 Í
Alt + 0211 Ó
Alt + 0218 Ú

Small letters and frequently used punctuation marks:
Alt + 0225 á
Alt + 0223 é
Alt + 0237 í
Alt + 0243 ó
Alt + 0250 ú
Alt + 0252 ü
Alt + 0241 ñ

Alt + 0161 ¡ (upside down exclamation mark)
Alt + 0191 ¿ (upside down question mark)

Press your alt key without leaving the alt key type other number

Example:

Doing Alt + 0225 will type á !

That’s all.

Most fonts follow this format. If for some reason, these combinations
give you something else, try dropping the first zero.
Apologies if someone has already posted this previously.

Have fun with Spanish.



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