Spanish

Ana-Belén Redondo-Campillos, a UC Berkeley lecturer of Spanish and Catalan, is worried the campus will cancel her classes.

I would hope that UC Berkeley would recognize the importance of supporting language learning and choose instead to invest in the diversification and cultural awareness of its students.

The juxtaposition between the canon-fortified, rustic Old Town and the new, sleek high-rise hotels just across the bay is synonymous with the locals and the tourists.

This is the second in a series of photo essays on the immigrant experience at UC Berkeley.

Women on Lower Sproul shared personal stories, read poems and sang songs about female empowerment in multiple languages Wednesday as part of the global women’s strike for International Women’s Day.

Agrodolce, a new Sicilian-style restaurant, is under construction and expected to open in early September on 1730 Shattuck Ave. at the former location of Cafe Gratitude, in Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto.

When I realized I would be spending the summer in Spain, I was beyond overjoyed. Since high school history class, I have been curiously attracted to the Spanish Empire, and my memories of earlier visits are varnished in a sentiment of young love. Although I have spent less than a week in Granada, I have already realized that studying and admiring Spain from afar (especially from America) could only cultivate a naive infatuation rather than genuine admiration. Being here has exposed me to the cultural multiplicity of Spain, and I have developed a more mature appreciation of the country because everywhere you walk in Granada exposes a little more of its true beauty.

A lot of international students choose to go by an English name. I used to have one for my English class in high school, too. For a reason I cannot articulate, however, I chose not to use it.

In a Berkeley cafe, bustling on a Tuesday night, two men lingered over a word: bonito. Bonito means baby, one of them suggested. The other one hesitated — not quite. Bonito is beautiful, he explained. Baby is bebé. And if one wants to admire one of these miniature humans: bonito bebé, beautiful baby.