El Canal de Panamá

Simple Stories in Spanish

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🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The Panama Canal plays a critical role in today’s global commerce, but it almost didn’t happen. A group of French engineers led by Charles De Lesseps spent nine years in Panama excavating earth to no avail. Later, Theodore Roosevelt took up the canal dream. Another 10 years of hard labor resulted in the engineering feat that is the Panama Canal.This story is told in the third person and the past tense. Important vocabulary in the story includes: “obreros” (workers), “esclusa” (canal lock), “t...

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0:00.0	Ola and bienvenidos this episode of the simple stories in Spanish.
0:06.8	The Panama Canal plays a critical role in today's global commerce. But it almost didn't happen. A group of French engineers,
0:19.5	led by Charles de Lisepss spent nine years in Panama excavating earth to no avail.
0:31.4	Later Theodore Roosevelt took up the Canal Dream.
0:37.0	Another 10 years of hard labor resulted in the engineering feet that is the Panama Canal.
0:47.0	This story is told in the third person and the past tense. Important vocabulary in the story includes
0:57.0	O'Bereros, workers, exclusive a canal lock, Tratado, Treaty, and a lot of numbers like Mil,
1:11.0	thousand and sientos, hundreds.
1:15.0	I hope you enjoy.
1:17.0	The Canal of Panama.
1:19.0	The Kinsé de Agosto de Mille,
1:27.0	Novecientos, Kathorsse,
1:30.0	Unos Ocenta kilometers of Agua, combiaro on the world.
1:38.0	The Canal of Panama,
1:41.0	Abrillo a passo entry the Oso-S pacifico and Atlantic.
1:48.0	Reducing the time necessary
1:52.0	to transport our bienes for Agua.
1:57.0	Aura,
1:58.0	Quaranta Barcos, passing for the canal,
2:02.0	Cada, dear. pass on the
2:05.0	the canal, the gournada a sea the existence of the
2:09.0	of the existence of the canal
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