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  Trabajador How about! Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on where you are or what time are you   listening to us. In these 5 minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week we are going to talk about a simple and everyday topic: the work. We are at the end of April and in almost all Spanish-speaking countries May 1st is celebrated as Labor Day. Why this day? Because it commemorates the strike of the workers of some factories in Chicago and the death of some of them in these events. In the nineteenth century (19th century=SXIX) conflicts between workers and employers were very common and unions were not legal. Here we go to the words related to work: The verb is to work (trabajar) and those who work are workers (trabajadores). The noun or noun: work .El trabajo La huelga- strike El sindicato - union Derechos laborales- labor rights Mercado laboral o mercado de trabajo - labor market If we continue with a little bit of history... all over Latin America at the...

  Cumplir con el trabajo How are you? Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on where you are or what time you are listening to us. Thank you very much for being with us and listening to us until the end.   Cliquea aquí In these 5 minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week we are going to talk about cumplir which means to accomplish or achieve a goal. Cumplir comes from the Latin: complere which is to complete or fill something. When do we use this verb? It is a verb that is used a lot and it changes its meaning depending on the context in which we apply it, almost every day we use it in some way. That is why we are going to see many verbs in English that are translated as cumplir in Spanish: fulfill, meet, comply accomplish, acchieve, obey, follow. Wow, so many verbs! But, at least cumplir is a regular verb, ending in ir like escribir, so it meets the same endings: yo cumplo/ tú cumples; él / ella /usted cumple / nosotros cumplimos / ellos/ ellas ...

  Hello, how are you? Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, depending on where you are or what time you are listening to us. Thank you very much for being there listening to this podcast We hope you finish listening to it because we are going to have fun with the words and their uses. And we're going to speak in Spanish because that's how we practice, do you like it? Today I was waiting all morning at the vaccination center and I thought of this verb, to wait. How original, isn't it? Esperar in English means "to wait" but also, "to hope". Esperé unas dos horas en el Centro de Salud para vacunarme. I waited about two hours at the Health Center to get vaccinated. ¡Esperamos que no borres este podcast! We hope you do not delete this podcast How do we recognize when we speak of esperar as to wait or esperar as to hope? By the context and by the intention of the speaker. Let's see when we use it. 1 What are you standing...

  Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on where you are or what time you listen to us. Thank you very much for being there listening to this 5-minute Spanish podcast in the middle of the week. Today we are going to talk about a very common verb in everyday language that has several uses. We are short on time because we have to take care of our 4-month-old granddaughter, so let's get to the point. Ah! Today we are going to take care of her, how nice, I am going to walk with the stroller. Yes, it's a good way to take care of the weight and exercise. You know what our verb is: cuidar - to care. The pronunciation and spelling may seem a little weird. You know that the letter C has different sounds C followed by the a, ca /k/ – calor – hot By the e, ce /s/ – cena- dinner By the i, ci /s/ – cine- movie By the o, co /k/ - colchón- matress And by the u, cu /k/ - cuchara- spoon The c followed by 2 vowels Cua- /k/ cuando- when Ciu- /s/ ciud...