Radio: Let's Learn Spanish

Would "the big cockroach" be la cucaracha grande? If it would, it'd be a dandy name for some of the hotels I've stayed in in my time.

Is that the same con that's in chile con carne, the popular Mexican blue plate special?

What do these babies do in the plural?

Last week banter like this was making language teaching great fun for teacher and pupils alike. The Spanish lessons were being given by radio and their popularity was zooming. Some 4,500 listeners had written to Manhattan station WQXR for Spanish-English word lists accompanying the...

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