Ya no estoy aquí

Tonight’s film comes from Mexico!

Ya no estoy aquí (2019)

Whether you’re learning Spanish or just looking for something to watch, Ya no estoy aquí is an interesting film.

After a mix up with a cartel, the leader of a band of teenagers has to flee Monterrey for the United States, leaving behind his friends, city, and the music they all love - Cumbia rebajada. Dancing alone in New York, he longs to be reunited with his friends.

If you’re learning Spanish, the following videos are interviews with the cast and crew, as well as a discussion about the film between Mexican directors Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón :

Entrevista crew ‘Ya no estoy aquí’ - 1

Entrevista crew ‘Ya no estoy aqui - 2

Ya no estoy aquí : Una coversación entre Guillermo del Toro y Alfonso Cuarón

If you’re interested in learning more about Cumbia rebajada, the following articles are a starting point, covering the music genre and the urban culture it’s part of - Kolombia :

Cumbia rebajada

Kolombia

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 :

teleSUR

teleSUR (YouTube)

teleSUR (Facebook)

teleSUR (Instagram)

teleSUR (Twitter)

Página12

Página12 (YouTube)

Página12 (Facebook)

Página12 (Instagram)

Página12 (Twitter)

El Faro

El Faro (YouTube)

El Faro (Facebook)

El Faro (Instagram)

El Faro (Twitter)

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!

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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