Costumbres - Chapitas in Venezuela

Duolingo Spanish Podcast

Duolingo

Education, Society & Culture

4.4 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Growing up in Venezuela, Gyorgy Aponte played a makeshift version of baseball, “chapitas,” using bottle caps and a broom. With his family and baseball buddies dispersed around the world, he decides to pass on the custom to his son in Canada.

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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, the new podcast from Duo Lingo and Crooked Media, we explore how language
0:23.6	shapes our world and how our world shapes language.
0:27.2	I'm Amadella Yuckwer.
0:28.4	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.
0:41.4	Join us as we take you on a linguistic journey.
0:44.7	From Crooked Media and Duo Lingo, this is Radio Lingo.
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0:53.7	It's 1989 on a hot day in Maracay, a small town on the coast of Venezuela.
1:03.3	And 11-year-old Georgie Abonte wants to spend the whole day at his cousin's house.
1:09.3	My cousin and I can go to the river or the beach with our parents, but we don't want
1:16.5	us.
1:17.5	We have a better plan.
1:20.6	Their plan is to play their favorite game.
1:23.5	They step outside and take their positions.
	...

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