El Taller Latino Americano Workshop; 2710 Broadway, 3rd floor; 212-665-9460; www.tallerlatino.org El Taller, which translates to "place of work," has created a unique way of teaching Spanish, and calls its style "the acoustic method." You won't find workbooks and vocabulary quizzes here – instead (without ever speaking a word of English) students sign and paint their way towards fluency. "

El Barrio/East Harlem, New York – The RaÍces Latin Music Collection is pleased to announce that it has received a donation of materials related to the activities organized and produced by and at El Taller Latino Americano (The Latin American Workshop) from its founding in 1979 until the present. Included in the gift are close to 2,000 LPs, press materials, pictures and artifacts that document the enormous vitality and contributions that El Taller Latino Americano has made to the cultural life of New York City.

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Angelo Romano holds out two fists. He waits. Though this Spanish artist speaks no English, the message is clear: Pick one.

In each hand he holds a small, flat square of blue plastic painted with a tiny, cartoonish angel. It's his trademark to give out these pocket-size protectors to everyone he meets.

Both Angelo, whose works have been shown in galleries throughout the city, and his game of pick-an-angel have become fixtures at El Taller Latino Americano, a Harlem language/cultural center that offers Spanish, music and dance lessons and also functions as a gallery and performance space.

El Taller, which translates to "place of work," has created a unique way of teaching the Spanish language, and calls its style of instruction "the acoustic method."

You won't find workbooks and vocabulary quizzes in the classes at El Taller. In the classrooms of El Taller's Harlem loft space, hung with Angelo's rainbow-painted crucifixes and angels, students are singing and painting their way toward fluency.

By integrating artists like Angelo, and also music, instructors steep their students in not only the melodic pronunciation of the words – which can be tricky for beginners – but also the cultural roots of the language."

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El Taller Latino, a community center of sorts just blocks from Columbia, inspires a special devotion in its constituents. "Esta es la biblia del universo," artist Herberto Turrizo said, as he poured himself a cup of Colombian coffee. The bible of the universe.

El Taller Latino, a community center on Broadway, provides a warm and eclectic haven for art and Latin American culture.

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Angelo Romano holds out two fists. He waits. Though this Spanish artist speaks no English, the message is clear: Pick one.

In each hand he holds a small, flat square of blue plastic painted with a tiny, cartoonish angel. It's his trademark to give out these pocket-size protectors to everyone he meets.

Both Angelo, whose works have been shown in galleries throughout the city, and his game of pick-an-angel have become fixtures at El Taller Latino Americano, a Harlem language/cultural center that offers Spanish, music and dance lessons and also functions as a gallery and performance space.

El Taller, which translates to "place of work," has created a unique way of teaching the Spanish language, and calls its style of instruction "the acoustic method."

You won't find workbooks and vocabulary quizzes in the classes at El Taller. In the classrooms of El Taller's Harlem loft space, hung with Angelo's rainbow-painted crucifixes and angels, students are singing and painting their way toward fluency.

By integrating artists like Angelo, and also music, instructors steep their students in not only the melodic pronunciation of the words – which can be tricky for beginners – but also the cultural roots of the language."

Read the rest here (along with photos and video)>>>

One oasis is the funky El Taller Latíno Amerícano (2710 Broadway at 104th St, third floor). This "workshop" offers Spanish classes, concerts and art exhibits, and the small staff conducts sessions at local med schools so that doctors in Hispanic neighborhoods of northern Manhattan and the Bronx can communicate with their patients. The center seems minuscule in a sector where everything is big, including the mega-Gristede's."