"Elefantes" is a popular Hispanic

Hispanic

Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...

 children's song similar to the American

United States

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 song "99 Bottles of Beer

99 Bottles of Beer

"99 Bottles of Beer" is a traditional song in the United States and Canada. It is popular to sing on long trips, as it has a very repetitive format which is easy to memorize, and can take a long time to sing. In particular the song is frequently sung by children on long bus trips, such as class...

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In Education

Many students in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 I and II classes learn this song to help with their vocabulary and grammar.

• In Spanish I, the counting part of the song may help.
• In the case of the words veía, araña, and resistía, the tildes (accent marks) help the students with their accents and how to pronounce the words when they are present.
• The verbs ir and caber are irregular in the preterite tense, so the teacher may tell the students to sing the song as if it happened last week.
• Many young ESL
  ESL
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   students, or even grown immigrants, learn the song to help with their English.

Cultural references

There is a popular commercial shown on Latin American television (primarily Telemundo

Telemundo

Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

) for the Ford Focus that shows some men dressed in elephant suits in the car singing the song. When they arrive at a party, they realize that the invitation said elegante and not elefante.

External links

• A website with an interactive lyrics section and music EnglishSpanish
• Favourite Children's Songs From Around the World