Un cuento de invierno

Simple Stories in Spanish

Small Town Spanish Teacher

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🗓️ 12 December 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This sixth season of Simple Stories in Spanish is inspired by requests from my listeners. Today’s story comes from a request for winter-themed vocabulary. Luisa loves winter. She loves everything about winter including frost, snow, ice, and hockey. But it is December in Canada, and it still hasn’t snowed. Will Luisa be able to make snow angels, snowmen and snow forts? She wishes on a falling star that winter will come - and it does! This story is told in the the present tense. Repeated words ...

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0:00.0	Hello, and bienvenidos to this new
0:03.2	Temporada of Simple Stories in Spanish.
0:07.3	Season 6 will be full of stories focusing on vocabulary and themes
0:12.3	requested by you, my listeners.
0:16.6	Today's story has been requested by a fellow Spanish teacher
0:20.6	who wants a story focused on winter vocabulary before winter break.
0:26.4	As it just snowed for the first time this season at my house, it seems like the perfect time to present
0:34.4	a quento de Invierno.
0:38.5	The word for winter is
0:41.2	Invierno.
0:43.0	However, in more temperate
0:44.8	Hispanic countries that don't
0:46.9	experience winter, such as
0:48.9	Costa Rica, Invierno,
0:51.9	is the term used to refer to
0:54.1	the rainy season.
0:56.5	Important vocabulary in this story includes
0:59.7	Invierno, winter,
1:02.8	Nieve, snow, yellow, ice,
1:07.5	Escarcha, frost, buffufanda, Scarf, and Cae Falls.
1:15.5	I hope you enjoy.
1:17.2	Un Quinto de Invierno.
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