{"id":9052,"date":"2013-06-10T12:40:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2013-06-10T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:23:20","slug":"montreal-gazette-review-julie-barlow-and-jean-benoit-nadeau-follow-up-their-exploration-of-french-with-the-story-of-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/montreal-gazette-review-julie-barlow-and-jean-benoit-nadeau-follow-up-their-exploration-of-french-with-the-story-of-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"The Montreal Gazette Reviews The Story of Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julie Barlow and Jean-Beno\u00eet Nadeau follow up their exploration of French with The Story of Spanish<\/h4>\n

By Marian Scott, The Gazette<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Story of Spanish<\/i><\/p>\n

By Jean-Beno\u00eet Nadeau and Julie Barlow,\u00a0<\/i>St. Martin\u2019s Press, 496 pages, $31.99<\/i><\/p>\n

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Photo: Pierre Obendrauf, The Gazette<\/p><\/div>\n

Montreal journalists Julie Barlow and Jean-Beno\u00eet Nadeau are the husband-and-wife team who authored The Story of French (St. Martin\u2019s Press, 2006), an award-winning biography of the language of Moli\u00e8re. Now they are back with The Story of Spanish, a popular history that recounts how an obscure dialect of Latin spoken in northern Spain crossed the sea to become the world\u2019s third most spoken language.<\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s six books also include the best-selling Sixty Million Frenchmen Can\u2019t Be Wrong, which explains the French penchant for everything from street protests to five-course meals.<\/p>\n

As part of their three years of research for The Story of Spanish, Barlow and Nadeau moved with their twin daughters, then 6 years old, to a suburb of Phoenix, Ariz., at the height of debate over a 2010 state law that gave police unprecedented powers to track down and detain undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n

The authors are already planning upcoming books on Arabic and Mandarin, as well as a travel book focusing on French conversation.<\/p>\n

The Gazette sat down with Barlow and Nadeau to explore The Story of Spanish. Read the whole article \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julie Barlow and Jean-Beno\u00eet Nadeau follow up their exploration of French with The Story of Spanish By Marian Scott, The Gazette The Story of Spanish …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,84,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9052"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9100,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions\/9100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}