Spain

Spain is a country of 47 million people in southwestern Europe, on the Iber­ian Peninsula. The main language of Spain is, unsurprisingly, Spanish but there are also a number of regional languages with official status in their respective areas, including Catalan, Galician and Basque. I wrote my honours thesis about children’s experience of the Spanish Civil War in Bar­ce­lo­na, and the way the war was remembered during and after the Franco dictatorship.

Wiki

• 2022-12-08: 🪴 Marcos Ana: Marcos Ana (1920–2016) was a Spanish anti-fascist poet who was imprisoned for 23 years (1939–1962) during the Franco …
• 2022-12-08: 🪴 Franco dictatorship: The Franco dictatorship was a fascist dictatorship that ruled over Spain between 1939–1975, following its victory in the …
• 2022-02-02: 🪴 Llívia: Llívia is an enclave in the Pyr­en­ees, legally part of Spain, but surrounded by French territory. Llívia residents …
• 2022-01-31: 💬 Occitano-Romance: The Occitano-Romance languages are a subfamily of the Romance languages that straddles the border between Spain and …
• 2022-01-31: 💬 Astur-Leonese: Astur-Leonese is an Ibero-Romance language with a few hundred thousand speakers that is usually known by the name of one …
• 2022-01-31: 💬 Extremaduran: Extremaduran is an Ibero-Romance language spoken in the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura along with adjoining …
• 2022-01-31: 💬 Ibero-Romance: The Ibero-Romance languages are a subfamily of the Romance languages which originated in the Iberian Peninsula. Its most …
• 2022-01-29: 💬 Aragonese: Aragonese is a Romance language spoken by about 12,000 people in the northern part of Aragón, in Spain. It is usually …
• 2020-06-13: 💬 Spanish: Spanish (also known as Castilian) is the most widely spoken of the Rom­ance languages, with an estimated 483 million …
• 2020-06-12: 💬 Catalan: Catalan belongs to the Occitano-Romance branch of the Romance langua­ges. It is largely spoken in eastern Spain, …
• 2020-06-12: 🪴 Mallorca: Mallorca is the largest of the Balearic Islands in Spain, with a population of about 900,000 people. Its capital city is …

Links

• 2021-10-04: 💬 Link: ““Los insultos y las conversaciones en catalán nos suenan a broma””

Book Reviews

• 2022-10-22: 📚 Book review: The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson (★★★½)
• 2014-05-26: 📚 Book review: Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas (★★★★)
• 2014-03-20: 📚 Book review: The Body Hunter by Najat El Hachmi (★★★½)
• 2014-01-04: 📚 Book review: Amb ulls de nena by Encarnació Martorell i Gil

Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.