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Ruth Kunstadter celebrates the chispa (spark) of Spanish language and Latino cultures and explores language and culture issues affecting us all.

 

 

Ruth Kunstadter

 

La Tertulia, a blog on language, culture, politics and lots of music! - Live life with Sabor Latino!

 

Spanish Trip with a Twist

- using the local Latino community to create a Spanish immersion trip

 

Race, Politics and the Middle School Cafeteria

- Which "cafeteria table" should our bilingual and biracial candidates choose?

 

Foreign Language Teachers: A Call to Action in the Immigration Debate
© Language Magazine, June 2006, Vol 5, No. 10 (PDF)

 

Raising bilingual kids in a monolingual society, published in Multilingual Living Magazine, January/February 2007*

 

Improve your Spanish with Telenovelas!  5 Easy Tips for Improving your Spanish without ever entering a classroom*

 

Which language should my child take?*

 

Ruth interviews Colombian singer-songwriter Soraya about her new album only months before she tragically passed away from breast cancer. From the premier issue of Cuerpo magazine.

 

Ruth reviews "Loosing my Espanish" by H.G. Carrillo in Cuerpo Magazine

 

Ruth's review of the blisteringly funny and brutally honest breakthrough bilingual memoir, "Killer Crónicas: Bilingual Memories", by Susana Chávez Silverman

 

Ruth Kunstadter and Liz Sandra Contreras present "Let's Get the 'Foreign' Out of Foreign Language Teaching: Promoting Local Multiculturalism in the Foreign Language Classroom", at the conference "Beyond Borders: Global Change and Education in Action, New York University, March 30, 2007

 

And keep your eye out for "The Bilingual Soul", Ruth's upcoming anthology about the dual soul of being bilingual.

 

 

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