The annual Wisconsin State Spanish Pronunciation Contest Championships is becoming a tradition in South Milwaukee. For those not familiar with it, it’s a contest where students study a bit of text; this year and last year, it was a fragment of a poem, and they practice pronouncing it exactly correctly.
Today on the podcast, we will hear from four students who participated and got a first or second-place medal for their mastery of the poem. Then we’ll hear from Cheryl Caruso on three decades of teaching a global language – Spanish – and how, during her career, language education is taught and how students are different today than before.