El mate de hoy (Mate of Today)
Duolingo Spanish Podcast
Duolingo
4.5 • 14.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Uruguay consumes more mate than any other country in the world. But for a hundred years, almost all of that mate has been imported. Now, Rodrigo Patrón is trying to bring back mate production in Uruguay, in a way that respects both the environment and the famous tea’s origins.
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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. |
| 0:48.9 | New episodes of Tuesdays on your favorite podcast apps. |
| 0:55.6 | It's early 2016 on Rocha Mountain in Uruguay. |
| 1:00.5 | Rodrigo Patron and a group of friends are combing the peak, crossing rocks, slopes, and the |
| 1:06.4 | valleys carved by streams. |
| 1:10.0 | Rodrigo stops every now and then to carefully examine flowers and bushes. |
| 1:15.2 | I'm looking for a tree in particular and I'm convinced that it's here to find it |
| 1:22.7 | and I'm sure that it's here to find it. |
| 1:29.7 | The tree Rodrigo is looking for used to be very, very common in South America and is widely |
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