http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/08/100th-birthday-cantinflas-mexico-icon/ Raising bilingual and bicultural kids Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:12:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/08/100th-birthday-cantinflas-mexico-icon/#comment-29184 Sue Valencia Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:56:28 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=13791#comment-29184 We all grew up watching Cantinflas movies! Especially the black and white ones… those are the best!
Mi suegra tells us that in 1965, she spent a whole year in Spain and she would go to the movies with her family to watch Cantinflas. Well, you couldn´t hear the dialogues because the laughter was so loud! So she had to watch the same movie over and over (no problem!) just to get the idea of what he was actually saying. LOL!

]]> http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/08/100th-birthday-cantinflas-mexico-icon/#comment-29085 BethO Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:09:47 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=13791#comment-29085 Not only are Cantiflas pictures very enjoyable for all generations, for non-native speakers they’re also a great way to take Spanish to the next level, with the way people really talk, idioms and humor. Somehow a lot of humor doesn’t hold up when you have to slow it down and actually translate it in your brain, but Cantiflas’ jokes are always worthwhile to push rewind until I understood it!!!

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