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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 7h

Depende del grado de confianza que tengas con ella/él.

Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 1d

Seen today at the movie theater in Vienna, Austria. It's again the time of the year when #Mexican motifs pop up in the most unlikely places. #Mexico #Dayofthedead

Visto hoy en el cine en Viena, Austria. Es la época del año cuando los motivos mexicanos aparecen por doquier. #México #Díademuertos

A soda plastic cup with motifs related to the Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 2d

#Spanish #langsky

The sentences below are 100% correct. The conjugated verbs “fueres”, “fuere” and “vieres” are examples of the Future #subjunctive tense. It has almost disappeared in modern Spanish, although it can still be found in very formal texts. Non-natives do not need to master it.

Two examples of Spanish Future Subjunctive, a verbal tense that is uncommon but used in very formal language.

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 2d

#Fotovorschlag
'Farbe: Orange'

Baum im Herbst. #Wien

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 5d

Remains of the Mary Rose - Henry VIII’s warship that sunk in July 1545 at the Battle of the Solent. Raised in 1982, the ship is located and preserved at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard site. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #MaryRose #Portsmouth

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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 5d

news.ku.dk/all_news/202...

Researchers on the verge of solving Mexican mystery

Christophe Helmke and Magnus Pharao Hansen have taken the first steps toward solving a major archaeological mystery surrounding the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. Until now, the language of Teot...

news.ku.dk

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 9d

#nature #fauna #Mexico

Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · Mar 15

The tiny #teporingo (Romerolagus diazi), zacatuche or volcano rabbit is endemic to the slopes of four volcanoes in Central #Mexico. It normally lives above 2,800 mts. Unfortunately the teporingo is an endangered species due to overgrazing and fragmentation of its habitat.

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 9d

#langsky #Spanish #Mexico #Spain #MexicanSpanish

Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · May 24

#langsky

With 132 M inhabitants, #Mexico is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, but there there are lots of differences with European #Spanish. The chart below shows some different words used for the same things in Mexico and Spain.

#Spanishlanguage #languages

A chart shows some of the differences in vocabulary between Mexico and Spain. In Mexico, "jugo" is "juice" and in Spain they call it "zumo".

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 10d

#United2026 #FIFAWorldCup #Mexico #Canada #USA #trionda #WorldCup

Football Rankings @footrankings.bsky.social · 10d

⚽️ adidas TRIONDA, official match ball for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, has been released!

🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇸 TRIONDA can be translated as 'three waves', celebrating host nations.

🍁🦅⭐️ TRIONDA includes maple leaf for Canada, eagle for Mexico and a star for United States.

📸 @adidasfootball

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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · Aug 31

The FBI returned to Mexico a 500-year-old manuscript page signed by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. The manuscript was initially stored in Mexico’s national archives, but archivists microfilming the collection in 1993 found that 15 pages had gone missing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

FBI returns stolen document signed by conquistador Hernán Cortés to Mexico

US officials did not say who had the 16th-century page that was missing from Mexico’s archives for decades

www.theguardian.com

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 17d

Italy's 2 euro coins feature Dante Alighieri.

Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 17d

Just unveiled by #FIFA: the 2026 World Cup mascots are Maple the Moose (🇨🇦), Zayu the Jaguar (🇲🇽) and Clutch the Bald Eagle (🇺🇸).

#United2026 #FIFAWorldCup #Mexico #Canada #USA #WorldCup

Mascots of World Cup 2026: Maple, Zayu and Clutch.

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 22d

www.newsweek.com/mexico-touri...

Mexico sees tourism boom as US sees sharp decline

Canadian travelers have flocked to Mexico in recent months after the U.S. introduced sweeping tariffs against their country.

www.newsweek.com

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 22d

Por lo menos no es una de Benedicto...😕

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 25d

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 25d

¡Ese disco es un clasicazo! ¡Una joya!

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · Sep 9

Elite Roman family's ancient treasure unearthed in ruins of fire-scorched dwelling
nypost.com/2025/09/09/l...

Elite Roman family’s ancient treasure unearthed in ruins of fire-scorched dwelling

Archaeologists in Romania have unearthed an elite Roman family’s ancient treasure, buried for centuries beneath the remains of a millennia-old city.

nypost.com

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 27d

#langsky #English #Spanish #German

Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 27d

Duolingo’s user data reveals a few nice insights into the travel preferences of people around the world as well as the simple need to speak English to keep up with the modern world.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 28d

The cleaning of the world’s largest #Roman floor mosaic, covering around 1050 sqm. It was discovered during the construction of a hotel in Antakya/Turkey. The shifting of the ground during an earthquake has caused a a ripple effect.
Dating 4th c. AD. 🏺#mosaicmonday

📷 www.ntv.com.tr/galeri/sanat...

A person cleans a large ancient mosaic floor inside a modern building, carefully working on the patterned geometric tiles. The mosaic features intricate designs in multiple colors, while contemporary railings and walkways are visible in the background.

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 29d

#langsky #Italian #Spanish

Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · Mar 1

#languages #languagelearning #falsefriends

Among the difficulties often found by learners of closely related languages are the "false friends", similar words whose meaning is different in each language.

Here is a selection of common "false friends" in #Spanish and #Italian .

#español #italiano

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · Sep 13

Map showing countries where #Cinépolis has theaters. Cinépolis is a cinema theater chain, originally from the #Mexican state of #Michoacán and is currently present in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.

Image by Black Maps.

Map of countries with Cinépolis cinema theaters. Cinépolis is a Mexican theater chain from the state of Michoacán.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Sep 12

Babylonian map of the world (© The Trustees of the British Museum) and c. AD 1620 Portuguese map of Basra, Iraq (© Hugo Refachinho / CC BY-SA 4.0). Despite both depicting the Shaṭṭ al-ʿArab river, they are completely different, showcasing maps' subjectivity

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Clay tablet engraved with cuneiform writing and what may be the world's first map: a geometric design made up of circles and triangles representing cities, territories, kingdoms, rivers and an ocean.

Illustrated map depicting a large river with several islands. On its banks are several walled defensive structures and palm trees.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Sep 6

Timeless humour!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA.
📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

#Archaeology

The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus pen, one below the other. The knib to the left. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The four images show the four lines of inscribed text which read:

‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi
gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’

‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift
with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give)
as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’

The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · Sep 7

Göttweig Abbey, close to Krems (Lower Austria) and founded by Altmann, Bishop of Passau in 1083.

Stift #Göttweig, in der Nähe von #Krems, #Niederösterreich, gegründet im Jahre 1083 durch den Bischof von Passau, Altmann.

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · Sep 7

#langsky #Spanish

It's September 7th and, in the #Spanish speaking world, this is the song you have to listen to... September 7th by #Mecano, a huge hit back in 1991.

Es de nuevo el 7 de septiembre y esta rola ("canción" en México) de 1991 no puede faltar. #7deseptiembre

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