Tejiendo un legado (Weaving a Legacy)

Duolingo Spanish Podcast

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4.4 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In El Salvador, waist loom weaving is a revered craft, historically undertaken by women — until Ronald Vega had to take over the job from his sick mother, becoming the first man in his family, and his country, to practice this ancestral technique.

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0:00.0	Hello listeners. For this special season of the Duolingo Spanish podcast, we are revisiting some of our favorite stories from indigenous communities across Latin America.
0:12.3	Today, we'll travel to El Salvador to hear an episode from May 2020.
0:17.8	It features Ronald Vega, who became the first man in his family to practice his
0:23.2	community's ancestral art of weaving. Keep listening to hear his story and stay tuned until
0:29.4	the end for a special note from me. Now, on to the episode.
0:38.8	28-year-old Ronald Vega starts his workday with a ritual.
0:43.9	At home in Panchimalko, a city nine miles from the capital of El Salvador, he picks up his
0:50.3	craft loom. It's a weaving device made of pieces of wood and some thread. He ties one end to a hook
0:57.6	on the wall, attaches the other end to his waist, and then he starts to weave, or tejere.
1:06.3	I nace in a family of women that dedicated all her
1:11.3	life to take
1:12.3	artisanalely.
1:14.3	The mother of my
1:15.0	ex-a-vuela,
1:16.0	my tatar-a-a-a-
1:16.6	Angela,
1:18.3	was the first
1:19.2	that learned
1:20.2	this office.
1:22.2	She was
1:22.8	she was
1:22.9	her own
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