¡Hola domingo!
What better way to celebrate Sunday than with a beautiful and uplifting song. This particular song has an usual genesis. The singer is Elena Iturrieta, better known by her stage name ELE. The song is called Volverán esos momentos ("Those times will return") and it entered the hearts and minds of the Spanish public when it was featured on a television advert for a bank. But the song has resonated so much with the lived experience and the hopes of the Spanish people that it has taken on a life of its own. So if you will forgive this inadvertent advertising (other banking services are available!), listen to this uplifting song:
You can read the back story and also the full lyrics in this artice:
Listen out for these lines (the associated grammar points are included):
Lo difícil que es ganarlo y lo sencillo que es perderlo
What's hard is to earn it, and what's easy is to lose it.
Esto pasará seguroThis is sure to pass.
Este no es nuestro destino.This is not our destiny.
Lo importante aquí es que nadie se quede por el camino What's important is that no one be left behind (Lit: left behind on the path/trail).
Saludos a todos,
Shui
