Chile Forum

Hey, don't tell all my secrets.

Yea, I have a Google news rss feed setup in my browser with the key term "Chile".

I also read Spanish / watch the local news when I am in the mood for talking heads (man can they spend hours talking about nothing).

Here's the feed I'm using to get Chilean news from Chilean media:
http://news.google.com/news?ned=es_cl&t ... output=rss

I agree about the subscrption price of Santiago Times, they are a bit steep. I do buy either the El mercurio or La Tercera when I come into town so that I can practice reading Spanish and try to catch up on the regional news. Both would be considered politically right leaning papers. I do use Google news and search on Chile when I want to read news pertaining to Chile in English.
I also subscribe to Direct TV to catch up on global news with my choices being CNN, Bloomberg Financial and speaking about fair and balanced, Fox News. I really do miss MSNBC.

There are few channels I don't miss. I don't miss the stock pumping and dumping on CNBC. If you followed their advice over the last 10 years, you are likly applying for a job as a greeter at Wall Mart today.

I do get Fox on sat, which unfortunately is often the best source for domestic U.S. coverage you can get on sat in Chile. CNN international is mostly jibberish and runs nothing but advertising of their own shows. Bloomberg I enjoy, but they do very little outside the financial news. CNN in spanish is fairly good, but heavy on the Latin American stories.

Dagny wrote:I just subscribed to Santiago Times Online in order to beef up my knowledge of current events in Chile. . . . (as I don't yet read Spanish). . . .

Try reading "emol" online. It's simpler than you might think -- Spanish may be the easiest of the world's great languages to learn -- and your childhood French (or Italian, or Latin, or any other Romance language you studied) will help you more than you might think. The pictures on the website might help, too.

After all, if you intend to become part of Chile, you really do need to learn Spanish eventually.

Lunkey wrote:take one look at their pricing structure and you'll know they don't have the sharpest knives in the drawer working there:
$9.99/month = $120/year
OR
pay a year in advance for $175. . . .

What, you don't find $55.12 a small price to pay for single-payment billing? It is, after all, less than a fifty-percent premium!

RWS wrote:Spanish may be the easiest of the world's great languages to learn -- and your childhood French (or Italian, or Latin, or any other Romance language you studied) will help you more than you might think. The pictures on the website might help, too.

After all, if you intend to become part of Chile, you really do need to learn Spanish eventually.

Oh, we're learning. Rosetta Stone really works, in our opinion. The price is steep, but it is accessible to children and adults alike. Plus my 3 year old plays with neighborhood kids from all over Latin America and I'm stumbling along in conversation with the parents. It is easy, but I keep tripping up and confusing myself with my high school French and the limited German I speak!

At least I'm learning how to be a humble gringa, the parents think my attempts are quite humorous! They also think its crazy that we're planning on leaving the states for South America. Most of them were born in Central America and didn't have an easy time getting to the US.

Dagny wrote:Oh, we're learning. Rosetta Stone really works, in our opinion. . . .

Good for you! Conversation helps, too, though speaking with the ill-educated may impair more than aid.

Dagny wrote:. . . . . Most of them were born in Central America and didn't have an easy time getting to the US.

If they're like most Mexicans and other Latin Americans in my state, here in southern New England, they came illegally. You, by contrast, respect the law and people of the country you're headed to, and thus from the first should benefit rather than help destroy its society.

Best wishes.

With the growing interest in Chile and an ever increasing english speaking community ,i think we can all agree that another news source is well over due.
Other than that,you have no option but extra spanish classes.

RWS wrote:

Dagny wrote:Oh, we're learning. Rosetta Stone really works, in our opinion. . . .

Good for you! Conversation helps, too, though speaking with the ill-educated may impair more than aid.
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does the damage from speaking with the ill-educated apply only to learning language? Or should I
just stop talking to the majority of public school graduates? ONLY KIDDING -

Dagny wrote:

RWS wrote:

Dagny wrote:Oh, we're learning. Rosetta Stone really works, in our opinion. . . .

Good for you! Conversation helps, too, though speaking with the ill-educated may impair more than aid.
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does the damage from speaking with the ill-educated apply only to learning language? . . . .

By no means! Haven't you considered election results over the past few . . . hmm . . . generations?

This note just arrived. Times must be hard, they're offering a $25 discount (but still more than the month/month cost of $9.99).
I won't be renewing.


Dear Santiago Dagny

Thank you for your one month-subscription to The Santiago Times.

Although your subscription is about to end, we would be delighted to keep you
on board as a subscriber by inviting you to extend your subscription for a
full year.

If you decide to extend for a full year, your one year subscription will
only cost you US$150 instead of the normal charge of US$175.

Send me a confirmation note, after paying through PayPal to publisher@santiagotimes.cl, so that you
can continue reading the ST each day.

The Santiago Times depends on readers like you to keep us working as a
free and independent media.

Best regards,



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