So I'm trying to learn more about Telenovelas.  I have a little knowledge, but I'd like to learn more.  Any chance you know anything about them?
I know a bit; A Telenovela is a type of limeted run television soap opera.
The ones I know of are all spanish speaking.  Are there ones that aren't, or would those just be called soap operas at that point?
No they are primarily produced in spanish and latin america. Yes they would just be considered Soap Operas in english.
OK.  Are they a big thing in spanish countries?  They aren't that important in the US, but you seem to hear more about them as Telenovelas.
In Spain they are actually referred to as "Culebrones"
Interesting!  That's good to know!  Do you think they'd be good for learning spanish, or would they move too fast to be understandable?
the soap opera familiar to the English-speaking world. The significant difference is their series run length; telenovelas tell one self-contained story, typically within the span of a year or less whereas soap operas tend to have intertwined storylines told during indefinite, continuing runs. This makes them shorter than most other television series, but still much longer than a miniseries. This planned run results in a faster-paced, more concise style of melodrama compared to a typical soap opera. Episodes of telenovelas usually last between 30 and
where I think we really learn about race across the divisions that we have.
And so I really resolved from some lessons out of my experience that I wanted to try to keep it at a storytelling level and follow the stories wherever they went. I just didn't know that there would be so many of them or that they would be from such broad context; that I'd be chronicling King's relationship with Rabbi Abraham Heschel or something like--you know, these are things that I didn't--had no way