Asturian-American Migration Forum

Hola Rene, Galguera Sobrino son apellidos muy llaniscos, deber haber varios cientos de personas con estos apellidos. Hay una pequeña villa a casi un kilometro de la Villa de Llanes, que se llama La Galguera ¿no sabes de que pueblo eran tus abuelos? Hi Rene, Galguera Sobrino are typical surnames from...

Collacios, una verbena per guapa, el Morru en Llanes, primer Sabadu dempues de la Guia.

My frinds, a very nice celebration, the Morru in Llanes, first Saturday after [Holy Virgin of] la Guia.

Hi everybody, long time I don't post messages in this forum, busy with college essays. I hope everybody is fine. I just wanted to make a brief comment regarding billinguism. Nationalism, languages, culture etc are man-made, same as good manners. I find it too rude if I ask a question in castellano ...

Yesterday, Tower Hamlets employees were on alert. One of the bombs was in between the boundaries of Tower Hamlets and City of London, in Aldgate. More than 200 admissions to the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. Ayeri, los funcionarios de Tower Hamlets tuviémos na lerta. Una delas bombas tevo llu...

Hi Olga, welcome to this forum. You grandparents surnames are very common in Spain, not only in Asturias. Peñafonte looks like Galician, rather than Asturian. You mention someone called 'Roxo'. In Asturian, a 'Roxu' is a someone (male) with ginger hair. Do you have any idea which town they come fro...

Rafa was not very good at drawing. We told him that it would be very helpful if he put some music to his goats. The goats would give more milk. So there he went up the mountains with his radio... Rafa nun era mú buenu col dibuxu. Dixímos-y que era mano santu poneyos música a las cabras. Las cabras ...

Hola Enedina, bienvenida a este foro.

Hi Enedina, welcome to this forum.

Un colláciu dela escuela, Rafa, entrugáron-y cuálas eren las 3 partes principales del cuerpu humanu. Elli dixo: 'Pantalón, camisa y camisón'. Tiníamos 10/11 años. One of my schoolmate, Rafa, was asked to say the 3 main parts of the human body. He answered: 'Trousers, shirt and petty coat'. We were a...

Rafaelín yera delos del barriu del Ribayu, sacábanos dos años, trabayaba nel monte cuidando las cabras o diba a la madera. Jezo la primera comunión con nós; paezía un rapaz per grande, pero yera un buenón, siempre difindía a los nenos na escuela. Rafaelin was from the Ribayu neighbourhood, he was t...

Asturias has three languages: Castillian, Asturian and Galician. Galician is spoken in the western and southwestern counties. There are magazines and newspapers in Asturias written in Galician; also there are literary awards for poetry, novel, theatre and short story. Asturias tién tres llinguas: c...

Hi MJ, welcome to this forum. I feel very proud of being Asturian, though I was born in Mexico! As with many other Asturian people, I do not feel a conflict being Asturian, or Mexican or Spaniard. The good thing is that you could hold any passport but at the same time feel very Asturian. Hola MJ, b...

I can't say whether it's true or not. But I would give Jose the benefit of the doubt. He says that it took months to return home. As he couldn't read nor speak Castellano, he got lost. He spent some weeks in a Basque-speaking province, probably Alava (Araba), begging to get some money to return to ...

Nos años 40 y 50 joi facil que daquellos con disminucines psíquicas jacieran el serviciu militar. Los padres de Jose morrieren cuandu la guerra, elli tenia una hermana. Jose ganabase'l sustentu de criau pelos pueblos de Llanes. It is not uncommon that people with learning disabilities were called t...

Avelino jablaba de Castiella qui yera cualesquier sitiu que nun jora Asturias, Galicia, Pais Vascu y Catalunia. Tolas provincias que jablaben castellanu. Nunca jomos de saber per onde andebo ta que topó con otru llugariegu per Catalunia. Avelino mentioned Castilla as any territory that was not Astu...

Avelino yera un paisanu del mio pueblu. Nun baxaba nunca del valle, diba comu munchu a Posada de Llanes, al mercau los vienres. Tinia las vacas nel monte, diba tolos dias monte arriba col su perru, Pirulo. Avelino was a countryman from my village. He never left the valley, but to attand the weekly ...