¡No te desveles! /Don´t stay awake- 5 minutes of Spanish_ English version + Audio

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The important thing is to understand the context and achieve communication by looking for similar words and cultural elements. What do we have today?

Today we are going to talk about something that happens to us sometimes, we can't sleep and we have insomnia.

It is a reflexive verb desvelarse (stay awake or have insmonia), let's say: yo me desvelo y tengo que levantarme (get up), tú te desvelas y cuentas ovejas (count sheeps), ella se desvela y toma un té de tila.

She gets awake and drinks a tila tea.

 It always has to take the reflexive pronouns: me, te, se, nos, se.

 

The English translation would be stay awake, be vigilant.

 

 

In Mexico the verb is used in the sense of going to bed late, that is, you go to a party and you sleep late.

 

Me desvelé anoche fuimos a cenar con amigos y nos quedamos hablando y se hizo tarde.

 I stayed up late last night we went to dinner with some friends and then we started talking and it was late.

In this sense, it's good to stay awake once in a while!

And where does that word come from?

It comes from the Latin word vigilare, which is related to vigil, to be without sleep during the time destined to sleep.

From there comes the word candle or candle.

 

There is another meaning which is to discover something hidden

It is rarely used, in the case of a ceremony it is said that a commemorative statue is going to be unveiled. In this case the English translation is reveal.

 

Do you always get to sleep or do you sometimes get unveiled?

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A good way to stay awake is to occupy your mind and learn new things.

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Related to seguir is the noun or noun:

Seguimiento, for example a doctor follows up on a patient, i.e. he sees how he is doing, if the medicine he prescribed is working for him or not, etc.

Seguimiento, por ejemplo, un doctor hace el seguimiento de un paciente, es decir, ve cómo le va, si el medicamento que recetó le sirve o no, etc

 

And a teacher follows up on a student

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