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Duolingo Spanish Podcast - Costumbres - Casitas in the Bronx

Leonor Torres finds a sense of community and a way to preserve customs from Puerto Rico at El Flamboyan garden and its casita in the Bronx, but it almost gets destroyed. A transcript of this episode is available at <a href="https://bit.ly/3K3yUC0" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3K3yUC0</a>.

Costumbres - Casitas in the Bronx

Most of us never have to think about those rules, but the hidden hand of language guides

nearly every interaction we have with other people, determining whether we connect, entertain,

confuse, insult, or dazzle the people we communicate with.

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The way we can use it to create both distance and understanding.

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It's the end of October and Leonor Torres heads over to her community garden for the

Members of local gardens from across Leonor's neighborhood are showing off their biggest

There's a squash as long as a man's leg, enormous eggplants or bitting genus, and all sorts

There are 50 or 60 people, all of them bring their vegetables because we do competences.

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0:00.0	Language supposedly has all these rules.
0:04.8	Most of us never have to think about those rules, but the hidden hand of language guides
0:08.6	nearly every interaction we have with other people, determining whether we connect, entertain,
0:14.2	confuse, insult, or dazzle the people we communicate with.
0:18.1	In Radio Lingo, a new podcast from Duo Lingo in Crooked Media, we explore how language shapes
0:23.9	our world and how our world shapes language.
0:27.2	I'm Amadella Yuckbure.
0:28.9	I'm an audio journalist and James Beard Award-winning writer.
0:32.0	I am an awe-void language.
0:33.9	It's complexity and it's simplicity.
0:36.1	The way we can use it to create both distance and understanding.
0:39.6	I'm going to be your guide.
0:41.6	Join us as we take you on a linguistic journey.
0:44.7	From Crooked Media in Duo Lingo, this is Radio Lingo.
0:48.9	New episodes of Tuesdays on your favorite podcast apps.
0:57.4	It's the end of October and Leonor Torres heads over to her community garden for the
1:03.0	annual Harvest Festival.
1:05.7	Members of local gardens from across Leonor's neighborhood are showing off their biggest
1:10.5	and strangest vegetables.
1:13.5	There's a squash as long as a man's leg, enormous eggplants or bitting genus, and all sorts
1:20.7	of colorful peppers and tomatoes.
1:24.5	There are 50 or 60 people, all of them bring their vegetables because we do competences.
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Costumbres - Casitas in the Bronx

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