Told Faster: La Llorona

Simple Stories in Spanish

Small Town Spanish Teacher

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

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Scary stories exist in every language, in every country. In the Spanish speaking world, none is more well known or widespread than the story of the weeping woman, La Llorona. La Llorona haunts rivers and lakes as she searches for her drowned children. If she can’t find them, she might just grab you. This story is told in the third person using the present and past tenses. Important vocabulary in the story includes: “tiene miedo” (is scared), “niño” (child), “mujer” (woman), “hombre” (man), ...

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0:00.0	Hello, and bienveninos to this episode most rapid of simple stories in Spanish.
0:05.7	Scary stories exist in every language in every country. In the Spanish-speaking world,
0:11.6	none is more well-known or widespread than the story of the weeping woman, La Girona.
0:17.9	La Girona haunts rivers and lakes as she searches for her drowned children. If she can't
0:24.6	find them, she might just grab you. This story is told in the third person using the present
0:32.9	and past tenses. Important vocabulary in the story includes,
0:39.6	Tieni Mido is scared,
0:42.0	Niño, child,
0:44.8	Ijos, sons or children,
0:46.9	Mujer, woman,
0:50.6	ombre, man, and Rio, River.
0:56.0	I originally released this episode four and a half years ago in season three.
0:59.1	Today, I am going to retell it faster.
1:02.5	I will include a link to the original episode in the show notes.
1:05.4	I hope you enjoy, La Jorona.
1:09.4	A little bit hard.
1:10.9	No, there's sol, the moon and the
1:11.3	stars
1:11.7	brillian in
1:12.4	the
1:12.6	sea.
1:13.5	The
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