Media from Around the World - 2015

[livingdeb]

I've made some real progress in experiencing media from around the world this year. Not counting little articles and video clips from my Spanish class and Facebook, it looks like I've experienced media from 22 of the 203 countries on my list. This is better than I expected. I expected to "visit" maybe five or ten countries. And it's not just fun or silly stuff, nor is it just very serious stuff. And it's not just easy countries, either.

Below is a brief summary. I'll write more about what I liked and what I learned about each part of the world in separate posts later.

Africa
Congo, Democratic Republic of (previously Belgian) - two nonfiction books, one fiction book (that I can remember--I feel like I read more than that)
Congo, Republic of (previously French) - one fiction book

The Americas
Argentina - two movies
Brazil - two fiction books
Chile - one fiction book
Colombia - one fiction book
Mexico - one fiction book, one nonfiction book, two movies
Peru - one fiction book

Asia and Oceana
Australia - a movie and a TV show
Bhutan - four nonfiction books, four fiction books, one movie
China - one fiction book
India - one movie
Japan - one documentary
Korea, South - one movie
Russia - one children's fiction book
Thailand - two fiction books (in a series)
Turkey - one fiction book (also set partly in Lebanon and Syria)

Europe
France - two fiction books and one TV show
Norway - one fiction book
Scotland - one fiction book
Spain - one children's nonfiction book, two movies
Sweden - five fiction books (in a series)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Wow! Now that sounds like a fun challenge! You've already crossed Chile off your list, but that reminds me that CatMan and I read 3-4 books by Isabel Ayende and we just loved her! They were significantly more difficult than Harry Potter of Corazon Salvaje though, so you might want to wait a while before tackling them in Spanish, but she's a wonderful author!

Trying to think of anything else... CatMan's been trying to get me to watch a bunch of movies on martial arts "IP Man" and something else. I'm not a big fan of martial arts so I haven't made myself watch them yet but he says they're wonderful. I did watch Frida recently... does that count?

The other one that's been on my list forever is to watch the Seven Samuri. I think it's a looooong movie though, so it might be a while!

Are you gonna continue this one into the new year? It sounds like fun!
:-)
Cat