La Leyenda del Quetzal - updated

Simple Stories in Spanish

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🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This seventh season of Simple Stories in Spanish is updating some of my favorite episodes. Today’s remake is from Season 3, episode 5: La Leyenda del Quetzal. In the middle of the Guatemalan flag there is a beautiful green bird with a bright red chest and a long flowing tail. It is the quetzal, a symbol of liberty and a nahual, or spirit guide, of the Maya and Quiché people. There are many legends surrounding this stunning and elusive bird and today’s story shares one of them. This...

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0:00.0	Ola and bienvenidos this episode of Simple Stories in Spanish.
0:06.0	Today's remake comes from the legends of season 3.
0:11.0	In the middle of the Guatemalan flag there is a beautiful green bird with a bright
0:19.2	red chest and a longawal, long, flowing tail.
0:24.9	It is the Ketsal, a symbol of liberty and a knawal or spirit guide of the Maya and Kiche people.
0:35.0	There are many legends surrounding this stunning and elusive bird,
0:42.0	and today's story shares its origin.
0:47.0	In today's remake, I changed the story from the present to the past tense.
0:54.0	Important vocabulary in the story includes
0:58.0	Thribu, tribe, Casique, chieftain,
1:02.0	Gereros, warriors, Pecho, chest, and the verbs Iba was going,
1:11.7	Era was, and Fue, which can mean was or went, depending on the context.
1:20.0	I hope you enjoy this remake of the Lallanda del Ketsal.
1:27.0	Enlah Gengla de Guatamala, Abia Una
1:31.5	Una Thri tribut kiche.
1:34.0	Los quiche's
1:35.0	erran personas fuertes.
1:38.0	Erran personas intelligents.
1:42.0	Los kiche's personas Intelligentes
1:47.7	Los Quiches are an personas valientes
1:49.2	A. The leader of the tribut
1:51.2	to nia the titula of Casique.
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