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December 9, 2025 3 mins
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🎄 How do you say Christmas in Spanish? 

In this Spanish Quickie, you’ll learn essential Navidad vocabulary, from árbol de Navidad to Papá Noel, with a short listening activity.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Swimmarco your Latinos Spanish teacher. Today's Spanish quiki It's all
about Christmas. Vocabulary in spanisha navidenias in Espanol. Are you
ready for a Christmas quikie? First, let's listen how Christmas
is celebrated. Pay close attention to the words about Navidad.

(00:24):
Here we go. La Navidad is so celebration, but a
compatir cola familiar. La tente pone larval de Navidad is
a coda, la casa ina ia cola familiar, sinco de Decembre,
ninos al reglos the papan oil flies. Navidad too fast.

(00:48):
Let's break it down. First, Navidad is Christmas in Spanish. Navidad,
La cente pone a larval de Navidad, el vol navidad
that's to put up the Christmas tree. The goda la
casa does dey corate the house, La sena cola familia

(01:12):
that's family dinner, and ninos after regalos theanoel kids open
gifts from Santa. Reglos is gifts regalos now here is
an important cultural fact. In some regions in the Spanish
speaking world, Santa is called Papanoel or Santa Claus. In others,

(01:34):
gifts come from El Nino, Jesus, Baby Jesus. And if
you go to Chile, they referred to Santa as Elbejo
pa Cuero. But don't worry if you can remember any
of those names. Papanoel is understood everywhere. And finally, feliz Navidad.

(01:56):
That's how we say Merry Christmas. Repeat after me, fair
listen with that move in and now let's listen again
with your new book up in mind. Bamus learna with
that is soon a celebra soon, but a compartir. Cola familiar.

(02:16):
La Navidad is a coda la casa ina I w
a cola familiar. Yelvinco dembnos a reglos the papane oil
feles Navidad still tricky, don't worry. The full transcript with
the translation side by side and flash cards is available

(02:39):
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