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Spanish also shares many similarities with French and Romanian
Spanish is a relatively inflected language, featuring 2 genders and around 50 conjugated forms per verb, but limited noun and pronoun declension
With a population of around 106 million people, Mexico is the most populated Spanish-speaking country in the world
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El Real Madrid C.F. es el club más famoso del mundo del fútbol. Oficialmente se fundó hace más de cien años en 1902. El uniforme del equipo es de color blanco, por eso se les conoce como el Equipo Blanco.
El equipo ha conseguido muchas victorias y trofeos, entre los más importantes:
- Ha ganado 29 veces la Liga nacional.
- Ha sido 7 veces Campeón de Copa y 9 Campeón de Europa.
- Una vez ganó la Supercopa de Europa.
- Obtuvo 2 Copas de la UEFA.
- Ganó 3 Copas Intercontinentales.
- Ha sido ganador 7 veces en la Supercopa.
- Logró 2 veces la Copa Latina.
Con todos estos éxitos y su manera de jugar, el Real Madrid ha llegado a tener mucha fama y prestigio deportivos.
Una de las figuras más representativas para la historia del Real Madrid es Santiago Bernabéu.
Entró a formar parte del equipo cuando era niño. Fue subiendo escalones y llegó a desempeñar funciones de entrenador, secretario y por último, presidente, puesto que ocupó desde 1943 hasta 1978. Durante todo este tiempo, aumentó el patrimonio del Club y construyó el estadio que lleva su nombre.
También fue uno de los impulsores de la Copa de Europa.
Bernabéu tenía una gran capacidad para seleccionar jugadores, el más famoso de todos fue el de Di Stéfano.
En la actualidad, muchos jugadores de fútbol conocidos en todo el mundo forman parte del equipo: Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham, Roberto Carlos, Raúl Gonzalez, Michael J. Owen
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Cambridge is an old English university town, with a population of around 110,000; 22,000 of whom are students. For its size, Cambridge has an unusually diverse ethnic population, mainly due to the attraction of the university to those from overseas. The city was first founded back in Roman times as a useful place for a military outpost from which to defend the river Cam, and is covered in beautifully-restored old buildings which form the colleges of the historic university, as well as many museums and, more recently, many high-tech businesses in the series of science parks and other developments in and around the city.
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