La Fiesta de Santo Tomás
Simple Stories in Spanish
Small Town Spanish Teacher
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ola, and I've been veneidos this episode of Simple Stories in Spanish. |
| 0:05.0 | St Thomas or Santo Thomas is the patron saint of Chichikastenango, Guatemala. |
| 0:12.0 | The locals celebrate their patron saint with a variety of dances. |
| 0:17.2 | Each dance has its own origin and theme, although with some similarities. The dancers wear bright costumes and |
| 0:25.2 | they also wear realistic-looking masks that cover their whole face with a painted one. |
| 0:31.0 | Here are a few words to help you understand this story better. |
| 0:36.1 | Bile and Dansa both mean dance. By larynise means dancers. Jeva means wears, and Mascara means mask. |
| 0:47.0 | I hope you enjoy learning about the fiesta de Santo Thomas. |
| 0:52.0 | In Guatemala A A is a city that is a yama chichich-castenango. |
| 0:58.0 | It's a bit complicated pronunciate |
| 1:00.0 | chichich-casteango, the the Gente local simply said, Chichich. |
| 1:05.0 | Chichich is a city historically important. |
| 1:10.0 | It was a place special for the mias. |
| 1:13.0 | D'Echo, the liberal, Popol-Bu, |
| 1:16.0 | is staba in Chichichich-Casteango. |
| 1:19.0 | The popol-Bu is a liberal sagrado of the mias that explains the creation of the |
| 1:26.2 | mundo and of the humans. Chichitam bien is famous for your mercado. |
| 1:32.4 | The mercado. |
| 1:33.0 | The mercado of Chichi is a norme. |
| 1:37.0 | No is a mercado of all of the days. |
| 1:41.0 | The mercado occurs the wayes and domingos. Los Angeles. The Mercado occur |
| 1:43.0 | those Huees and Domingos. |
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