Comments | jessi_in_spain: Japan!

jessi_in_spain

Japan!

Jul 29, 2005 22:12

Hi Everybody! I'm just back from studying abroad in Madrid, Spain, and
after my semster, I was able to backpack through Europe for a couple of
weeks, so I have travelled in Italy, France, England and Poland as
well. Anyway ... New to this community ( Read more... )

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bg9249 July 30 2005, 06:56:36 UTC

you know that a couple of the RA's from last year went to Japan, and they got a good deal...I'll ask them about their trip...

jessi_in_spain July 31 2005, 05:27:25 UTC

Thanks, Mel!

crizzles September 30 2005, 16:58:29 UTC

Hey! I found your LJ by typing "spanish politics" in LJ interests. I have a couple questions for you if you don't mind!!

Do you know of any well established newspapers in Spain that are published in English? And would they have been around in the 1980's.. particularily when the debate about Spain joining the EU would have been hot? I am really in need of some public opinion polls (or official government documents).

I am a Canadian University student doing a paper on Spain's reasons for entering the EU. I don't speak Spanish (yet, lol, after I master French!!) but my roomate/cousin does, so if something really good/relevant was published in Spanish I could get it translated.

Sorry for just invading your LJ and asking you all this, hope you don't mind me asking!

Good luck with your Japan trip.. I have an aunt who is teaching there but I don't see her often.

jessi_in_spain September 30 2005, 21:36:09 UTC

I don't mind helping at all. Ummm ... the biggest problems with finding information like that is the papers were owned by the government until well into the 1980s, and anything before 1975 was heavily controlled by Franco and his regime. You're best bet for a conservative opinion would be ABC, and the more liberal one would be "El Mundo." Both *do* publish in English and have been around a long time, but I believe they only translate one paper a week, and it may be hard to find the English translation that far back, especially if you are searching the internet. Key terms to look into though in Spanish would be "Constitutio'n Europa" and "Union de Europa". (Constitution has an accent over the O, but I am at work and don't have an international keyboard here ( ... )