Nostalgia de la Luz

Film NightSpanish

5 Jul

Written By Sean Price

Tonight’s film comes from Chile.

Nostalgia de la Luz (2010)

Whether you’re learning Spanish or just looking for something to watch, Nostalgia de la Luz is a moving documentary.

The documentary covers two different searches in Chile’s Atacama Desert : one by women looking for the remains of loved ones murdered by the dictatorship of General Pinochet, and one by astronomers researching the history of the cosmos.

If you’re learning Spanish, the following videos discuss the CIA-backed coup that brought Pinochet to power in 1973, and the atrocities committed during his regime :

Dictaduras Latinoamericanas : Chile - Canal Encuentro

La Dictadura Chilena : El Golpe de Estado de 1973 - Historias Para Un Cafe

If you’re learning Spanish and would like to keep track of the news, four of the best news sources in Latin America are teleSUR, Página12, El Faro, and La Jornada :

El Faro Radio (SoundCloud)

La Jornada

La Jornada (YouTube)

La Jornada (Facebook)

La Jornada (Instagram)

La Jornada (Twitter)

If you’re unsure when and how to use subtitles, advice can be found here :

How to Use Subtitles to Learn a Language

If you’re interested in learning Spanish, there’s a How to Learn Languages guide :

How to Learn Spanish

Take care, and enjoy the process!

Chile

Sean Price

This article was written by Sean Price, the Founder of How to Learn Languages.

When he's not teaching English as a foreign language, he creates eBooks and Courses that make learning languages affordable and enjoyable for anyone.

He learnt French in 2018 during a study abroad year at the Sorbonne, before completing a degree in History at the University of Leeds with First Class Honours in the summer of the following year.

During his final year, he taught himself Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan, as part of dissertation research into fascism in Europe during the 1930s.

Although he says ‘learnt’ and ‘taught himself’ in the past tense, he also says one of the joys of learning a language is that there’s always more to learn.

More recently, he's been teaching himself German, Mandarin Chinese, and Russian.

Since moving to Vietnam to teach English in 2022, he's been enjoying learning Vietnamese. In less than one and a half years learning Vietnamese, he was able to achieve Level 5 (the highest being Level 6) of the official Vietnamese proficiency exam of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities at the National University, Hanoi (Trường Đại học Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn - Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội).

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Nostalgia de la Luz

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