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Simple Stories in Spanish

La celebración de Día de Muertos en México

Simple Stories in Spanish

Small Town Spanish Teacher

Education, Spanish, Language Learning, Stories, Fiction, Practice, Arts, Listening, Learning, Language

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This fourth season of Simple Stories in Spanish is focusing on celebrations. The celebration of Day of the Dead, or Día de Muertos, is a bright, colorful festivity to remember and honor those who have passed away. To celebrate deceased ancestors, graves are cleaned and decorated, altars with offerings of food and drink are constructed, and faces are painted to make the dead feel comfortable and welcome as they visit the land of the living for the day. Today’s podcast will focus on how Day of ...

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Ola, and good veneidos this episode of simple stories in Spanish.

0:06.4

The celebration of Day of the Dead, or a Diad de Muertos, is a bright, colorful festivity to remember and honor those who have passed away.

0:16.0

To celebrate deceased ancestors, graves are cleaned and decorated,

0:21.0

altars with offerings of food and drink are constructed. and and welcome as they visit the land of the living for the day.

0:34.8

Today's podcast will focus on how Day of the Dead is celebrated in Mexico.

0:39.7

Next week's episode will explore the Day of the Dead celebrations in Guatemala.

0:44.6

Some words that will help you understand this story better include

0:49.2

Los Muertos meaning the dead Muere, which is death.

0:55.0

Vida, which is life.

0:57.0

Semperusel, meaning marigolds.

1:01.0

Beelas, which are candles, calaberas, meaning skulls, and mundo, which means world.

1:11.4

I hope you enjoy learning about the

1:13.4

idea of mirtos in Mexico.

1:17.4

The idea of mirtos, tine a

1:19.4

an history of larga.

1:21.4

For meles of years, the inhabitants of Mexico,

1:25.8

unrave on his ancestors.

1:28.0

I grew in that had a type of

1:32.4

of Vida, despoise. that has a tipo of

1:33.0

been of the moorte.

1:36.0

Crayan that his ancestors existin in other

1:42.1

world, the world of the world of the

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