Coffee Break Spanish Espresso 005 – Día de los Muertos

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🗓️ 1 November 2014

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Coffee Break Spanish Espresso we’re focusing on a cultural aspect: in many Spanish-speaking places around the world this time of year is an important time for remembering friends and relatives who have passed away. In this episode we’ll be looking at some of the traditions – and vocabulary – surrounding El Día de los Muertos. In the Subjunctive of the Week section, Fernanda looks at esperar que, and this week’s quotation comes from Chilean author Isabel Allende.

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0:00.0	Coffee Break Spanish espresso Episode 5
0:10.8	Hola a todos, welcome back to the Coffee Break Spanish espresso in which we are bringing
0:14.9	you a quick shot of Spanish to help you keep thinking about the language on a regular
0:18.9	basis. Thanks again for all your messages this week. In particular, we'd like to say
0:24.0	thanks to Ishmarbla on iTunes who gave us a fantastic 5 star review saying, I love
0:31.2	this so much and it's really helped me. It feels like I have my own teacher.
0:35.3	Well, thank you Ishmarbla, we are delighted that you feel that way. We'd also like to
0:39.6	say ol'ah to Feli from Switzerland who told us main can dies the podcast. Estoy escutando
0:45.8	en el Codse y estoy cantando, subjuncto va, the week, estethene. It's fantastic to know
0:51.6	that you're all enjoying the espresso and please do keep your comments, reviews and emails
0:55.9	coming. Okay, let's get on with the episode and this time we've got something a little
1:00.3	special for you.
1:07.6	This week we're focusing on an aspect of culture rather than language. This episode will
1:12.6	be released on the 1st of November which is an important day around the Spanish speaking
1:18.4	world. It's known in Mexico as el día de los muertos or el día de muertos. But the Catholic
1:24.2	festivals of all saints, todos los santos and all souls, los fieles de funtos, are also
1:31.4	celebrated in most other Spanish-speaking countries. Since the coffee-pixpanish espresso is all
1:37.2	about helping you increase your vocabulary and about building your awareness of all things
1:41.6	Spanish, we thought it would be useful to look at some words and phrases traditionally
1:45.8	associated with this time of the year. In Mexico el día de los muertos es a time when
1:51.4	people come together to pray for their family members and friends who have died. Some
1:56.2	families will build a private altar known as el altar de la offrenda, the altar of
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