{"id":234,"date":"2011-06-09T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T22:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2013-08-19T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T15:06:12","slug":"south-american-pop-culture-leaves-me-baffled-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/south-american-pop-culture-leaves-me-baffled-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"South American Pop Culture Leaves Me Baffled (II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After that I starting watching the TV a bit more closely but have to confess that I understood very little. I realised at this point that beginning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">learn Spanish<\/a> is not enough. If you want to live in a foreign country you have to learn the culture. There are some things which the locals take for granted which a new comer simply has no way of knowing.<br \/>\nI can\u2019t really use the same excuse for my next problem. A few of us went to the cinema to see the film Ciudad De Dios. I have to confess that I was completely lost and told one of my friends that I couldn\u2019t understand a word of it. He pointed out that as the film is Brazilian they were speaking Portuguese instead of Spanish. I had been so busy trying to make out what they were saying that I hadn\u2019t even noticed the Spanish subtitles down at the bottom of the screen.<br \/>\nAfter that I tried listening to the radio but was even more lost than with the TV. Without some sort of image to cling onto I had no idea what was going on. I remember listening to a news bulletin at one point and thinking it was the result of football match. After a few minutes I realised that they were actually talking about a war somewhere and ended up being convinced that it was really an election going on. 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