✨ What do Latinos sing during Christmas?
In this festive episode, you’ll discover three famous Spanish Christmas carols: Feliz Navidad by José Feliciano, Campana sobre Campana, and Noche de Paz.
A fun way to enjoy the holidays while keeping up with your español.
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Episode Transcript
Hello, Spanish beginners, this is Latin American Santa. I'm not
a bad hombre. Are you ready to learn some Spanish?
Hey the Latin lover or should I say Latin la
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lover go moteva me and Marco and I'm the host
of this podcast created in Latin America for Spanish beginners
looking to get into the holiday spirit. We're also practicing
Spanish this season. Then this is the perfect episode for you.
You will learn about three of the most popular carols
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that you can sing and practice your Spanish while having
some holiday fun. Least those bada can tari brendere y bamos.
Why Carol's beyond sequels in this episode, Well, the lyrics
are relatively simple and they have a very catchy tune.
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The perfect combination to learn Spanish and have a lot
of fun. Let's have a look at the first beyond sequel,
felice Navidad. That's the name, felis Navidad. Any ideots what
phelis Navidad means kiss significa phelis Navidad. I'll give you
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a few seconds to think of your answer. Well, phelis
Navidad significa Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Pelis Navidad easy to remember,
and that's the name of the carol. Will listen. I'll
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just play a short fragment. I don't want to have
any copyright its you were getting sued. It's just with
the purpose of teaching Spanish. Let's listen then.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
That This carol is a classic and it's perfect for
Spanish beginners because the lyrics are very simple.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
All it says is felice navidad prospero ago prosperous year.
If fairly see that happiness, and here you can expand
your vocabulary. Felie is an adjective to describe the mood
of a person your story. Felice and fairly see that
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is the noun the concept. Fairly see that, So felice
is related to fairly see that laugh, fairly see that.
If you were ever wondering about what the lyrics of
Felis Navidad said, there you have the explanation. I think
this song is also popular in the United States. If
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you didn't know about this, carol is Felie Navidad by
Jose Feliciano. Our next carol is Campana soubet Campana. Maybe
that name doesn't bring any Christmas bell hmm. I'll splain
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some of the key Spanish words and phrases in the
chorus so you can understand the lyrics better. Just the chorus,
because this one has some more complex lyrics compared to
Felis Navidad, but the chorus is simple. Let's listen blein
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campanas the villain kaleos so let's Concain wavers metries. Okay,
Berlin is Bethlem in Spanish Berlen the place in the
Bible where is believed Jesus was born. Also Berlin conman
in Spanish nativity scene. In some countries they talk about
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ah Berlen i um Berlene e la plaza. There is
a nativity scene in the plaza on Berlin. In the
sense of the song is referred clearly to the place Berlein. Campanas,
the Berlin campanas. What is campanas campanas is Bell's say
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ah amy p r a h s campanas guillos and
here let's do Concain weavers metries. In that fragment there
is a verb related to music to carl quilos and
hellis token that the angels play. They play the bells
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last campanas to card last campanas. You can use to
card with any instrument you play. We don't say Hugard
on instrumental espanel. That's a very common confusion. We say
to garden instrumental And in this case Los Angeles token
last campanas, So once again blain campanas de vilain key
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Los Angeles tokan and then key nevas. Metra is nuevas
any u a ube r s is an old fashioned
world for news. Last nuevas the equivalent of titans, the
glad titians last buenous nuevas. So when the angels play
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the bells, the person is asking what are the glad
titans angels? That's what the person is asking there. Keen
Weaver's metra is and this is something very common in
Biyan sequs carols, enoban sequels, I baalavras and teas. There
are old fashioned words balavdras and tea wa was and
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I think it's the same in English Merry Christmas and
not happy Christmas. You see, because normally this song has
been passed on from generation to generation. Keen Weaver's metra is,
what news are you bring in? Oh you're welcome, You're welcome.
I'm really glad to tell you my talent. And that's
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the chorus of Campana. Sovety campana And finally, a classic
among classics, not the pass. Not sure what this carol is.
You probably recognize this tune, uh huh silent night, but
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the lyrics in Spanish are not the exact translation, not
war by word. Let's listen and review the vogeap no
no them okay, so no the past, peaceful night. That's
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how we say it in Spanish, peaceful night, not the past,
no the more in this case love night. As Spanish speakers,
we had to do that to the song. We are
more spicy Latinos. It's not holy night, it's naughty. They
are more men. The rador meaning everything sleeps around in
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a way, the sense of all is come, all is
bright is kept in the song, just expressed differently to
feed the rhythm and tune of the song. So to
do everything sleeps in their redor in the redor means
around And it's not very common nowadays. So that's why
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some carols have changed into already door around, already door.
So I'll sing the most current version. No the bas okay,
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what time? No the bas No there moremel Sorry, for
breaking your glasses and that's all for today. Glassias put
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