Shakespeare en la montaña

Duolingo Spanish Podcast

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4.5 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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When Nicolás Barreto went up the mountains of Venezuela for the first time, he was chasing after a girl. There he worked alongside her for a month putting together a play that would inaugurate the highest theater in the country. He came down from that mountain transformed, filled with a love he wasn’t expecting.

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0:00.0	This is a love story that didn't end as I expected.
0:07.0	That's Nicolás Barreto.
0:12.0	The setting of his story is the Paramo, or High Moreland, at the end of the Andean Mountain
0:17.1	Range in Venezuela.
0:19.1	It's the highest and coldest region of this otherwise tropical country.
0:24.8	His trip to that remote place, in 1997, was going through a woman.
0:34.2	Nicolás and the woman he was chasing, went there to put on a play, specifically the
0:39.5	comedy full of love, magical places, and unexpected situations.
0:45.6	Little did Nicolás know then that the play's themes would make their way into his real life.
0:52.8	The landscape of that mountain is transformed into a different person, but not in the way
1:00.1	it is.
1:04.1	Welcome to the Duolingo Spanish podcast.
1:06.9	I'm your host, Martina Castro, and each episode we bring you fascinating first person
1:12.2	stories from Spanish speakers across the world.
1:16.3	The storyteller will be using intermediate Spanish, and I'll be chiming in for context
1:21.0	in English.
1:22.2	These are not language lessons.
1:24.6	They're real life lessons through language.
1:32.2	Before Nicolás took his trip up to the Paramo, he was an unmotivated university student
1:37.3	in Caracas, Venezuela.
1:39.6	He was 21 years old, and his only interest was music.
1:43.6	Well, music and Erika.
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