Books, Earth and Spanish / 5 minutes of Spanish- English version+ Podcast

 

How are you? Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where you are or what time you're listening.

Welcome to five minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week.

Thank you for being here for a new episode of 5 minutes. On a very special day, it's Spanish Language Day and also Book Day.

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Yes, it is a very special day. Long live the Spanish language! Or the Spanish language and books in all languages.

Idioma- language

Día del Idioma español- — Spanish Language Day

And it's also World Book Day!

Why is it World Book Day?

Well, on April 23rd, in 1616, Cervantes and Shakespeare died, as did Inca Garcilaso de la Vega of Peru. Other authors in other years also died or were born on this day; in honor of all of them, the UN establishes the commemoration.

So, let's read today! In fact, today, Wednesday, we have another Reading Club session for our Spanish Club: SpanishUP2U.

This workshop is coordinated by Arabela Espinosa De los Monteros, a Spanish in Cabo teacher since 2016. And it's been running for 5 years.

5 years is easy to say, but it's 5 years. They've read many, many books, including 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.

Congratulations to Arabela and all the participants—great readers! If you like Spanish and also reading, SpanishUp2U is for you. In fact, we have two workshops: one for advanced reading and another in which we read shorter stories, and it's for intermediate or even beginner students.

And yesterday was Earth Day, a day to take care of our planet.

What did you do for the earth yesterday, Eduardo? Oh, I know you watered the plants and bought two beautiful Hoja Santa plants, our favorite herb.

Hoja Santa is the topic of another podcast. What did you do, Malena, to honor the earth yesterday?

I picked up trash in the plaza and walked barefoot for a bit; here in Los Cabos, that's easy...

Caminar descalzo/a - to walk barefoot

Levantar basura - to pick up trash

Let s start with the worls tierra. Empezamos con la palabra tierra. "Tierra" significa earth o land.
Then we have more like. Y de aquí vienen muchas otras, como terrestre — terrestrial —, por ejemplo, un animal terrestre. for example, a land animal.

Also earthly, which means you deal with earthly things; the earthly is the opposite of the spiritual. The Church talks a lot about the earthly, and since we're talking about it, let's remember Pope Francis, a Latin American, Argentine pope who died on Monday.

Cosas terrenales - Earthly things

Terreno - piece of land.

Y territorio, que es como una zona, un área. — territory

verything comes from the "earth"! Now let's talk about Spanish.

More than 595 million people in the world speak Spanish.

Oh! It's the second most spoken language in the world by number of native speakers.

And it's the second most used language on the internet, after English.

¿Lo sabías? Spanish is the second most used language online. Por eso es tan importante estudiar español.

And we're here to help you study Spanish and read good books in Spanish. Happy Book and Spanish Language Day!

And happy Earth Day (even though it was yesterday).

See you soon!

Bye, bye.