As I work both with Megan’s ‘home learning’ and ‘putering’ on the computer changing this blog, I have really enjoyed listening to a local Cuenca radio station called Cosmos 97.3 FM Stereo.
For better or worse, I don’t understand the Spanish commercials, but the radio station plays quite a few 1940s-70s English songs. Just heard one by John Denver about an hour ago. Also plays a fair amount of instrumental songs. Very mellow station to have in the background and I get to tune my ear to hearing Spanish.
Almost forgot to mention that suddenly, without any warning, the station goes off-the-air and all you hear is either static or another station. I don’t exactly know why – maybe the station is enduring an Ecuadorian ‘power outage’. After awhile turn on the radio and everything is OK.
The image on the right is a display of all the radio stations here in Ecuador. Quite a few, but it seems that they are owned my only a few companies. (If you click on the image, it will open a new window with the webpage with the slideshow. Go to the 4th image.)
Tags: Cosmos, Cuenca, Learn Spanish, radio
