6.1.3

Customs

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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 guacho - 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.

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