Spanish language day
Thursday, June 18, 2009 @ 1:38 AM
Next Saturday (20 th of June), it will be celebrated "The Day of the Spanish Language" ("El Dia del Español"). Perhaps you do not know that we are 450 millions of persons, who speak Spanish, all over the world.
In relation to that celebration, some people are being asked about their favorite spanish word and, in that sense, this morning, at National Radio, Ian Gibson (an Hispanist of Irish origin. In 1975, he took up his residence in Spain and, in 1984, he got the Spanish citizenship, I think in Granada) answered that his favorite spanish word is: "La Mancha" (an Arabic word which means: A tall plain = llanura alta), because the famous book "Don Quijote de la Mancha" starts with that word: "In a place in La Mancha, whose name I do not want to remember....." ("En un lugar de La Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme.....").
"The Windmills of La Mancha, Spain", by Jim Linwood, at www.flickr.com