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Simple Stories in Spanish

La Fiesta de Santo Tomás

Simple Stories in Spanish

Small Town Spanish Teacher

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

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This fourth season of Simple Stories in Spanish is focusing on celebrations. ¡Hola y bienvenidos a este episodio de Simple Stories in Spanish! Saint Thomas, or Santo Tomás, is the patron saint of Chichicastenango, Guatemala. The locals celebrate their patron saint with a variety of dances. Each dance has its own origen and theme, although with some similarities. The dancers wear bright costumes and they also wear realistic looking masks that cover their whole face with a painted one. Th...

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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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