A few days ago I tried to make posts in both English and Spanish but I couldn’t, for some reason that I wasn’t able to see.

In the beginning, I thought it was a post limit size issue because when I tried to add the Spanish version in the same post where I put the English version, almost all the words in Spanish got deleted.

The problem was that the website was using charset iso-8859-1, so I had to change it to UTF-8 and it worked fine.
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For those of you who like to practice English, I would like to suggest for you to visit http://www.blabbinit.com, a website with various spoken podcasts in American English. The podcasts include corresponding texts for better understanding when you listen. Some extracts from a few of my songs are also at the beginning and end of each podcast.

Podcasts Para Practicar Inglés

Para los que quieren practicar Inglés, les sugiero visitar http://www.blabbinit.com, un website con varios podcasts hablados en inglés americano, los cuales incluyen el texto correspondiente al podcast específico para un mejor entendimiento al escucharlos. Además se escuchan unos extractos de un par de mis canciones al comenzar y al finalizar los podcasts.

Since I am doing an album that has 2 versions, or basically 2 albums, one in English and the other in Spanish, I have been looking for other artists that have done the same thing, making an album in English and then later another version of the same album in Spanish, or vice-versa. I haven’t been able to find really many who have done this.

One example of this is an album that David Lee Roth did in 1986 “Eat ‘Em and Smile“. He later made a Spanish version “Sonrisa Salvaje“. Continue reading