3.7.1

Customs & Festivals

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Las Costumbres y Las Fiestas - Customs and Festivals

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Key vocab

  • Una corrida - a bullfight.
  • La Nochevieja - New Years Eve.
  • El Día de Muertos (🇲🇽) - All Souls' Day (Mexico).
  • El Día de Reyes - 6th January.
  • La Semana Santa - Easter week.
  • La Navidad - Christmas.
  • El Año Nuevo - New Year.
  • Los Reyes Magos - Three Kings.
  • La Nochebuena - Christmas eve.
  • Un villancico - A Christmas carol.
  • Un gaucho - a cowboy.
  • El mariachi - Mexican music singer.
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Las costumbres y las fiestas

  • El Día de Muertos se celebra en todo México, el primero y el 2 de noviembre
    • All Souls' Day is celebrated all over Mexico (🇲🇽), on the first and 2nd of November.
  • Creo que la costumbre de la tauromaquia es crueldad hacia los animales.
    • I think that the custom of bullfighting is animal cruelty.
  • Siempre hay fiestas para celebrar el Año Nuevo.
    • There are always parties to celebrate the New Year.
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La Tomatina

  • ¿Quieres ir a la Tomatina?
    • Do you want to go to the Tomatina? (A tomato throwing festival).
  • Sí, quiero ir, pero lo que más me gustaría hacer es los encierros de San Fermín.
    • Yes, I want to go, but what I would like to do most is the running of the bulls in Pamplona.
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Las costumbres españolas

  • ¿Qué sabes de las costumbres españolas?
    • What do you know about Spanish customs?
  • No sé mucho, sin embargo dicho eso, me encanta la costumbre de la siesta.
    • I don't know much, but having said that, I love the custom of siestas.

Regular AR Verbs in the Preterite Tense

To form the preterite tense of regular AR verbs, remove the AR and add the correct endings for each person. Here is the example with 'hablar' (to speak, talk):

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