Dear Members,

While looking for materials and working on bringing a little bit of thanksgiving to my Spanish and Portuguese Classes, I have found a lot of translated materials which doesn’t show any identity with Hispanic Heritage, they were just empty translations of English materials.

That made me reflect about culture and how you can’t acurately translate culture and heritage because it is something unique.

I have then decided to bring songs, stories and TPR activities which carried the symbol of Thanksgiving, as an act of saying thanks, avoiding bizarre translations of Mayflower poems and turkey hunters named Pedro; we sang and acted row, row your boat in Spanish with the little ones, we learned food vocabulary while having a thanksgiving meal and we played bingo with items they usually eat on Thanksgiving and more…..

My main objective with my class was to show the children and adults who take classes at my company and with me, the true meaning of saying Thanks, Gracias, Obrigada…..

We finished each class with a drawing or card, made in class, which said thank you to somebody they loved. The children and adult really enjoyed the class!

Thank you for reading our Blog and Happy Thanksgiving!!

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Claudia Krusch

Director of CK Translations and EasyLearnPrograms

Dear Members,

Looking at the leaves falling and the brown and orange tones make me think about fall in Brazil, in my city, Salvador…..we basically have two seasons rain and sun seasons, no fall or winter…we can go to the beach in the winter…..where I used to live is in the 80s in the winter!! If you travel down south, you will enjoy colder temperatures, but not like the US and Europe and other countries in South America!!

I remember looking at the leaves turning brown for the first time when I moved and thinking….they don’t turn brown in Bahia……

Fall in Northeast Brazil is a time for rain, lots of fain, but no drastic changes in the landscape…..our fall starts in March, by the way!!

Fall is one of my favorite seasons, when I have a chance to enjoy apple cider, to make my favorite soup or pie and smell the crisp air….

To celebrate the differences between the fall I have decided to include a song and a recipe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO9BRj3lGuw

Brigadeiro

Ingredients:

I can of condensed milk

2 tsp of chocolate powder

1 tsp of butter

Mix the ingredients and bring them to cook at low temperature until boils, stirring. Then, when it is loose on the pan, it’s ready. Spread butter on a plate and pour the mixture. Cool it for two hours and make little balls. Pass them on confectioners sugar or jimmies.

My mom makes them white and brown and attach the two balls, making a casadinho.

You should try, yummy, gostoso!!

Bom Outono! At a praxima!!

Claudia Krusch

CK Translations LLC