It’s time for Halloween en español! 👻
In this fun episode, you’ll learn essential Halloween Spanish vocabulary, from calabazas 🎃 and esqueletos 💀 to disfraces and dulce o travesura.
You’ll also hear a short listening activity about how people celebrate Halloween, followed by a simple breakdown in English to help you understand every word.
Perfect for beginner Spanish learners who want to boost their listening and learn seasonal words.
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Marco
Episode Transcript
It's time for Hello and Spanish kital majamo Marco Ferro,
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your vampire Spanish teacher. In this episode, you'll learn Halloween
vocabulary in Spanish, common decorations, how to say costume, trick
or treat, and some traditional activities people do to celebrate. Ready, first,
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you'll hear a short audio about what people do on Halloween.
Pay close attention to the words that describe decorations and activities.
Here we go, land noted, the blue has halloween, cicelevra
to los agnos, el trentino, toure and estadosunidos, lahinte the corasus,
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cassas con escalatos, calavasas aranyas, murcielagos, eutrus, figoras, loninos, jevan
this fraces it be then dulces e las casas de
lavescendario aeus goldpean la puertasus, vecinos, otkan el timbre guandoona
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persona salle descenda, DULs travelsa a sundia, moue de vertio. Okay,
let's break it down. Let's start with decorations. What things
do people used to decorate their houses. Take a few
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seconds to think, let's see and feel free to repeat
after me to practice lahente the coda sus cassas, cone is, scaltos, skeletons,
calabasas pumpkins, aranias spiders, and more celagos bats and yes,
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more celago is a long one. I fan fact about
bad in Spanish that it contains all five bugles are
a e o oh more ce lago. Now let's look
at some burds from the audio. I started with say
celebra from the verb celebr to celebrate. How about you
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celeves Halloween. Leave a comment with your answer another verb
they cod are to decorate, they godar la chen the
codra sus cassas. Next one jevar to work, Los nignos
jevan these fraces. And if jevar means to wear, what
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do you think this frasis means any ideas Los nignos
jevan these fraces, what can it be? Well? From the context,
this races is costumes and thus a great example of
learning vocabulary from the context instead of a dictionary, an
important skill to develop in your Spanish language journey. Next
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up to car la puerta to knock on the door,
and to car el timbre to ring the bell. And finally,
did you hear the phrase for trick or treat. Let's
hear that again in Spanish is dule say oh, travelsura
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or sometimes dolce or trocco. Is it all too difficult?
No worries. You'll find the transcript and the summary on
my block at latinele dot com directly, isn't the description?
And now that you know the words, let's listen to
the audio from the top. Lanoe de brujas Halloween, cicelevra
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to los agos, el trentino, toure estadosunidos, lahente the cora
sus cassas con escalatos, calavasas aranyas, murcielagos etrusphivoras, loninos jevan
this fraces it be then dulces e las casas delvers
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in dario a us goldpan la puertasus vecinos out can
el timbre quandoona persona salle listen du travel sodasundia moodey vertio.
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