As my ninth graders were working today, I started playing Spanish music in the background. I put on an RBD song to see if they would like it. RBD is a Mexican pop group that also starred in a soap opera called “Rebelde.” A few notes into the song, a Bosnian student stood up and yelled, “YO SOY REBELDE!” As this was not on the vocabulary list, I was impressed.
Miss Jill: How do you know about RBD?
Bosnian: I go to my country every summer and the television shows there are terrible. No one watches anything Bosnian.
Miss Jill: So, they watch Spanish soap operas?
Bosnian: Yes, everyone loves them. My cousins watch so many that they speak Spanish fluently.
I guess that I should let the BYU Spanish Department know that Sarajevo is an underrated, yet very viable option for their study abroad programs.
There was a hole in the wall in Provo when I was there that we could get extra credit in a class for watching the Spanish soaps there. That was an awesome teacher.
ReplyDeleteas if Mexican operas were that great anyway. Bosnian television must be really bad then.
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