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Authentic extensions

After the scaffolded work, send students to copyright-clean native-speaker resources that extend the scenario into the open web.

AudioPublic domainAP

García Márquez · Discurso Nobel «La soledad de América Latina»

The full Nobel acceptance speech: rhetorical structure, magical-realist framing of Latin American history, formal academic register. Use after la-carta-de-motivacion as a model of how formal Spanish can be both elevated and politically charged. Excerpt the first 4 minutes for an AP-rubric-friendly listen.

Origin: Stockholm, 1982
Length: 32 min · transcript also available
License: Public domain

Attribution

Gabriel García Márquez, «La soledad de América Latina», discurso de aceptación del Premio Nobel de Literatura, Estocolmo, 8 de diciembre de 1982. Nobel Foundation, dominio público.

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VOA Noticias · Crisis del agua en Bolivia

VOA Noticias regularly covers Bolivian water-rights stories with clean Spanish journalism. After el-podcast-sobre-el-agua, this is the authentic counterpart: real news Spanish, real Bolivian voices, public-domain so we can host and re-edit clips. Search the VOA Noticias archive for «agua» + «Bolivia».

Origin: Washington DC + corresponsalía Bolivia
Length: 3 min · search «crisis agua bolivia» on voanoticias.com
License: US federal government (public domain)

Attribution

Voice of America Noticias (Voanoticias.com), US Agency for Global Media. Material producido por el gobierno federal de los Estados Unidos, dominio público.

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José Eustasio Rivera · La vorágine (LibriVox)

Colombian regional novel about Amazonian extraction. Pairs with the el-podcast-sobre-el-agua scenario as historical antecedent: same political-environmental concern, almost a century earlier, in literary register. Excerpt the opening 200 words.

Origin: Colombia, 1924
Length: 12 hr full audiobook · use short excerpts
License: Public domain

Attribution

José Eustasio Rivera, «La vorágine» (1924), audiolibro de LibriVox. Texto y grabación en el dominio público.

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