Community Practice Two

            For my second community practice I did research on Spanish music. One of my favorite Spanish artists is Prince Royce. I learned about him in a high school Spanish class and ever since I’ve enjoyed his music. One of the songs I listened to was “Corazon Sin Cara”. I thought it would help my Spanish speaking if I looked up a translation of the lyrics in English, so I can compare the words I did and didn’t recall from class. I learned that the translation of the song title was “Heart without a Face”. I thought that this was an interesting title, and that the song has a great meaning and message behind it. I recognized the words “gordo” and “flaca” from the song and realized Prince Royce was singing to a female and telling her he didn’t care if she was fat or thin, none of that matters to him. I looked up the meaning behind the line “Y el amor vive an el alma” because some words stuck out to me such as vive, and amor. I learned some new Spanish from this line and discovered that the line means “And love lives in the soul”. After listening to the song and reading the Spanish lyrics I realized that it is easy to figure out what the artist is saying from looking at all of the cognates that are similar to English words such as perfecto, and importa. I would definitely be interested in listening to more Spanish music after doing some research on Spanish artists.