El toreo de hoy (Bullfighting of Today)
Duolingo Spanish Podcast
Duolingo
4.5 • 14.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Juan Pablo grew up fascinated with bullfighting, a tradition in his home country of Spain. But when he discovers recorte — the art of bull dodging — he sees it as a thrilling, more humane alternative. He throws himself into the dangerous sport, risking his life every time he faces a bull.
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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 of 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 and Duo Lingo, this is Radio Lingo. |
| 0:48.9 | New episodes of Tuesdays on your favorite podcast apps. |
| 0:54.4 | Hey listeners, a quick word on the Spanish spoken by this week's storyteller who comes |
| 0:58.7 | from Spain. |
| 1:00.3 | The Z is pronounced like the TH in the English word THINK. |
| 1:06.0 | So instead of Gabesa, you'll hear... |
| 1:09.1 | Gabesa. |
| 1:10.1 | Sometimes the letter C can also be pronounced like that. |
| 1:14.4 | Also the J is often pronounced like, so instead of Hamas, you'll hear... |
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