October 27, 2025 • 7 mins
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In the 90s, a mysterious creature terrified rural communities across Latin America with its eerie method of killing livestock.
Farmers from various countries reported finding dead animals with their bodies completely intact but drained of every drop of blood...
What was this monster?
In this episode of Speaking Spanish for Beginners, we explore the legend of el Chupacabras while helping you improve your Spanish skills. ¡Vamos!
📚 Study along with the transcript on our blog ⬇️
https://latinele.com/el-chupacabras-spanish-horror-tale/
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In the 90s, a mysterious creature terrified rural communities across Latin America with its eerie method of killing livestock.
Farmers from various countries reported finding dead animals with their bodies completely intact but drained of every drop of blood...
What was this monster?
In this episode of Speaking Spanish for Beginners, we explore the legend of el Chupacabras while helping you improve your Spanish skills. ¡Vamos!
📚 Study along with the transcript on our blog ⬇️
https://latinele.com/el-chupacabras-spanish-horror-tale/
🎧 Join our Spanish Beginner Supporters Club and get access to 100+ exclusive episodes to boost your español with confidence.
❤️ If you enjoy the show, leave a five-star review and share it with your amigos :)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A mysterious creature that sucks the blood from farm animals
in rural areas. Tools want to know more about this
terrifying creature, Let's find out in this new episode of
Speaking Spanish four Beginners. Gital Mayo Marco, your Spanish teacher
(00:31):
from Sylvania. This is a special episode to celebrate home
and for that you learn about al chupacavaras an all
the scary vocabulary you need to describe this monster en espanel.
Are you ready for this? Yes. In the nineties, a
(01:00):
mysterious creature attacked from animals and sucked older blood, leaving
the bodies intact El tuba Cavadas. To learn more about
this creature, we'll first listen to its story en Espanol,
then explain some important vocabulary, and finally we'll listen to
(01:23):
the story again. Ready, mamos, el tuba cavadas is sunakriatura,
misteriosa is monstroka, dene i baby, lasgre los animalis lestori
debacadas in Pisa, elosao noventa, in Puerto Rico, in estempo
(01:46):
mucho granjidos and quentra animal mortos and so campos conelcuerpo
conplto pedos in sangre i defadanteesidias sori comoz to pacas
alguna personas this es umpero grande odra's personas this in
(02:09):
case commund reptil hianti condemned tsaphilaos kislavas to kris Israel.
Let's go over some Ki vocabulary to help you understand
the story better. Feel free to repeat after me when
I say the words in Spanish to practice your pronunciation.
(02:32):
Let's get started. I talk about una criatura miss teriosa,
a mysterious creature. Una criatura miss teriosa. And what does
this creature do? Attacka the naughty. The very here is attackar,
meaning to attack. It's a regular verb, and that's why
(02:56):
it's conjugated as attacka in the third person. At taka
they note like riatura attaka. They note. And this creature
also beavy las angre belos animalis. It drinks the blood
of animals. The verb here is be bear, to drink,
(03:19):
also a regular verb. Baby las agre delos animalis and
sangre means blood. He say ah ane he ere he
sangri and here is a fan fact. The word to
pavas is a combination of tupar, which means to suck,
(03:44):
and cabras, meaning goats, So two pack cavarras roughly translates
to the gold sacker. I don't know if that's a
scary name in English, but there you go. Another fan fact.
There was a similar creature reported in Tennessee in the
thirties that also attacked animals, so Tennessee might be the
(04:09):
land where a tupa cavras comes from. Let's continue with
two important prepositions used in the audio, cone and sin.
The farmers found the animals connel querpo con plato, which
means with a full body, but sceine sangri without blood,
(04:32):
so con means with un sin means without conelquerpo con plato,
pedro scene sangre cone and sin. And finally, let's review
some description vocabulary. At the end of the audio, I
(04:53):
mentioned um pero grande ipelulo a big hairy dog. Gna
means big and peludo means harry. Some people also describe
el tubacadas as until hiante condeentes a philados, a giant
(05:14):
reptile with sharp teeth. Hiante means giant and afi lado
means sharp a f a e l a R. The
oh afi lado really scary. And now that you know
the vocabulary, let's listen to the audio again. El tubacadassuna
(05:42):
criatura misteriosa is monstroe e baby las de los animalis
let's story. Tubacadas in Pisa, elosa noventa in Puerto Rico,
in tempo muto grand head, in quent animal murto and
(06:02):
so campos conelquerpo con plato peros in sangre i defendant
cidias so the comus lacavaras alguna personas dinkies um pero
grande pelo Odra's personas this in case communrectil Hianti condemned
(06:26):
t safilados. He is el tubacavaras to grise Israel. What
was it issue this time? You can find the transcript
on my blog at www dot Latin l dot com,
where I also provide the summary of this episode. Check
the link in the episode description and that miss amigos.
(06:50):
That's all for today. Gracias pescuchar speaking Spanish for beginners.
If you enjoy this podcast is recommended to a Spanish
beginner friend or leave a five star review in your
favorite listening app. And if you are not sure where
to start your Spanish adventure, I've created a mini course
(07:11):
called Spanish Kickstart your First five Lessons an Espanel. It
includes five videos with daily study reminders via email and
study guys to help you through your first week n espanel.
And the best part is completely free for listeners of
this podcast enrolled at my website at www dot Latin
(07:33):
la dot com. Last Spanish DA's Kickstart or check the
link in the episode description. Ktainas Onda the Medal ah
Dacha
A mysterious creature that sucks the blood from farm animals
in rural areas. Tools want to know more about this
terrifying creature, Let's find out in this new episode of
Speaking Spanish four Beginners. Gital Mayo Marco, your Spanish teacher
(00:31):
from Sylvania. This is a special episode to celebrate home
and for that you learn about al chupacavaras an all
the scary vocabulary you need to describe this monster en espanel.
Are you ready for this? Yes. In the nineties, a
(01:00):
mysterious creature attacked from animals and sucked older blood, leaving
the bodies intact El tuba Cavadas. To learn more about
this creature, we'll first listen to its story en Espanol,
then explain some important vocabulary, and finally we'll listen to
(01:23):
the story again. Ready, mamos, el tuba cavadas is sunakriatura,
misteriosa is monstroka, dene i baby, lasgre los animalis lestori
debacadas in Pisa, elosao noventa, in Puerto Rico, in estempo
(01:46):
mucho granjidos and quentra animal mortos and so campos conelcuerpo
conplto pedos in sangre i defadanteesidias sori comoz to pacas
alguna personas this es umpero grande odra's personas this in
(02:09):
case commund reptil hianti condemned tsaphilaos kislavas to kris Israel.
Let's go over some Ki vocabulary to help you understand
the story better. Feel free to repeat after me when
I say the words in Spanish to practice your pronunciation.
(02:32):
Let's get started. I talk about una criatura miss teriosa,
a mysterious creature. Una criatura miss teriosa. And what does
this creature do? Attacka the naughty. The very here is attackar,
meaning to attack. It's a regular verb, and that's why
(02:56):
it's conjugated as attacka in the third person. At taka
they note like riatura attaka. They note. And this creature
also beavy las angre belos animalis. It drinks the blood
of animals. The verb here is be bear, to drink,
(03:19):
also a regular verb. Baby las agre delos animalis and
sangre means blood. He say ah ane he ere he
sangri and here is a fan fact. The word to
pavas is a combination of tupar, which means to suck,
(03:44):
and cabras, meaning goats, So two pack cavarras roughly translates
to the gold sacker. I don't know if that's a
scary name in English, but there you go. Another fan fact.
There was a similar creature reported in Tennessee in the
thirties that also attacked animals, so Tennessee might be the
(04:09):
land where a tupa cavras comes from. Let's continue with
two important prepositions used in the audio, cone and sin.
The farmers found the animals connel querpo con plato, which
means with a full body, but sceine sangri without blood,
(04:32):
so con means with un sin means without conelquerpo con plato,
pedro scene sangre cone and sin. And finally, let's review
some description vocabulary. At the end of the audio, I
(04:53):
mentioned um pero grande ipelulo a big hairy dog. Gna
means big and peludo means harry. Some people also describe
el tubacadas as until hiante condeentes a philados, a giant
(05:14):
reptile with sharp teeth. Hiante means giant and afi lado
means sharp a f a e l a R. The
oh afi lado really scary. And now that you know
the vocabulary, let's listen to the audio again. El tubacadassuna
(05:42):
criatura misteriosa is monstroe e baby las de los animalis
let's story. Tubacadas in Pisa, elosa noventa in Puerto Rico,
in tempo muto grand head, in quent animal murto and
(06:02):
so campos conelquerpo con plato peros in sangre i defendant
cidias so the comus lacavaras alguna personas dinkies um pero
grande pelo Odra's personas this in case communrectil Hianti condemned
(06:26):
t safilados. He is el tubacavaras to grise Israel. What
was it issue this time? You can find the transcript
on my blog at www dot Latin l dot com,
where I also provide the summary of this episode. Check
the link in the episode description and that miss amigos.
(06:50):
That's all for today. Gracias pescuchar speaking Spanish for beginners.
If you enjoy this podcast is recommended to a Spanish
beginner friend or leave a five star review in your
favorite listening app. And if you are not sure where
to start your Spanish adventure, I've created a mini course
(07:11):
called Spanish Kickstart your First five Lessons an Espanel. It
includes five videos with daily study reminders via email and
study guys to help you through your first week n espanel.
And the best part is completely free for listeners of
this podcast enrolled at my website at www dot Latin
(07:33):
la dot com. Last Spanish DA's Kickstart or check the
link in the episode description. Ktainas Onda the Medal ah
Dacha
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