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Here we have hilarious cartoons about the Spanish real society. Thus, you can learn and practice Spanish language as well as enjoying. Learning Spanish can be funny!

Play on words
Learn to understand, understand to learn: A play on the words “caer” and “disparar” / “fall” and “to fire/shoot up” which describes the most important news of the past few days in Spain: the stock exchange index gets weaker and the Spanish King dropped of his horse into the dirt.
At the same time the risk premium, “la prima de riesgos”, decreases and the grandchild of the King hurts hisself by a shot into his foot.

Fundraising
Learn to understand, understand to learn:The thief uses expressions on economic technocrats in his assault on a citizen, as the authorities used to justify tax increases of any kind.

Embezzlement of public money
Learn to understand, understand to learn: The cartoon criticizes the misappropriation of public money by politicians. Specially, the mother of a conventional thief blames his son for not becoming politician, with that profession can "earn" more.

Debts consequences
Learn to understand, understand to learn: The balloon criticizes the high indemnities the banks and saving banks pay to the previous people in charge who had to leave their jobs. Thus, this behaviour is compared with the captain whom left the ship before being sunk.

An excess of classics (Wikipedia)
Learn to understand, understand to learn: Football matches between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona are known as the classics. Press stylized them as matches of the century, but the numerous encounters between both teams in the League, Cup, the Super Cup and the Champions League lead to a glut and downgrading.

Crisis consequences
Learn to understand, understand to learn: The balloon criticizes the economic situation. Lots of workers have different jobs to keep on living. The Santa Claus’ reindeers also have one. Santa Claus has to give presents to the children as well as giving babies. As it is said: “babies come from Paris”.

A new financial system (Wikipedia)
Learn to understand, understand to learn : With the crisis in Spanish savings banks had to become banks to ensure solvency. The cartoon shows a set of these words, the client being equally insolvent.

Santa Claus y the Wise Men are in crisi (Wikipedia)
Learn to understand, understand to learn : This year due to the crisis, Santa Claus will arrive riding a donkey and only two of the three Wise Men will be able to come sharing a camel. Gaspar will be a victim from a layoff.

Generic medicines (Wikipedia)
Learn to understand, understand to learn : the balloon talks about the new Spanish law in which the doctors are obligated to prescribe generic medicines to reduce the medicines' cost. The pacient receives a medicine in the form of a brick which contains wine instead of alcohol.

The crisis debt (Wikipedia)
Learn to understand, understand to learning: there are two idioms written in the poster ("bajarse los pantalones" means yo have to surrender without any complaint and "apretarse el cinturòn" means to save as much as possible). So you cannot take your trousers off and belt-tightening at the same time. This show us the contradiction in the public account law.

The duchess of Alba gets married again (Wikipedia)
Learn to understand, understand to learning: Florentino Pérez, the famous president of Real Madrid football team cannot achieve the proper titles although he did his best. That is why the Hola magazine that belongs to the yellow press suggests him to marry the duchess of Alba since she is very famous noble who has many titles.

Protests of 15 M (Wikipedia)
Learn to understand, understand to learning: the test expresses that students nowadays have to get more qualifications than before and they cannot find any job according to their background education.