Literary calaveritas / Read your own calaverita! 5 minutes of Spanish & Podcast

 

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Thank you very much for being here participating in this podcast about Spanish, a language that we love and that today summons us. I am Eduardo Satorno, Spanish teacher at SpanishUp2U and manager of Unique Trips, your travel agency.

 

I am Malena Algorta, Spanish teacher at Spanish in Cabo and at SpanishUp2U. If you want to know more about your Spanish practice site click here and you will see all the podcasts, videos and lessons we have for you, so you can master Spanish. We are in 5 minutes of Spanish and this is episode number 123.

 

Welcome! Thank you for being with us week after week, for your comments, for listening and participating in this family that is Spanish in Cabo. Once again we will be speaking in Spanish, if you need the English version click on the image of the Catrina that, on a day like today, November 2nd, is celebrating.

 

The Catrina is one of the Mexican symbols of death. In Mexico the celebration of Day of the Dead is different from the rest of the Hispanic world.

 

But this podcast is more than two years old, we already talked about the verb to die, and the vision of death in Mexico that comes from the Mayas and Aztecs, here we leave you the links or links, so you can review them .... what is today's topic?

 

Let's talk about the literary calaveritas, let's read some of them and celebrate this colorful and particular day in Mexico.

 

What are literary skulls?

 

Literary calaveritas are traditional compositions easy to make and write in verses and rhymes. Generally, they use a funny and ironic tone to talk about a person who may be alive or deceased.

 

They are very important in the Mexican tradition, aren't they?

         

Yes, especially in these days in Mexico when altars are built to remember the dead of the family, remembering the good things they did in life.

 

When did these literary calaveritas begin to be written?

 

Some say they begin in the 19th century. However, others think that they come from colonial times, that is, the 17th century. Creoles dissatisfied with the Spanish rulers wrote these humorous and sarcastic verses, in the form of an epitaph (a text written to honor a deceased person) to criticize the authorities.

 

They were censored, I imagine.

 

Obviously, they were banned for many years, but luckily the tradition survived to our days.

 

Are we going to read some calaveritas in these 5 minutes?

 

Yes, let's read some verses. In 2015 Monica Borbolla wrote some very funny ones and others are from this year.

 

This is the greeting left by the Grim Reaper to the students, written by Monica Borbolla.

 

A Spanish in Cabo arrives A "chorro de "gabachitos" (a bunch of "gabachitos")

enter without knowing the language and leave "fluiditos" ...

It is not at all usual to write English Verses to Death

But this time it's OK

Because in Spanish in Cabo they become Mexican

 

If you want to learn Spanish Come and ask for our service

We will teach you how to do it

and you will show us you can make it!!!!

 

What does gabachos mean?

 

It is the way the Spanish referred to the French. It was in a derogatory way. In Mexico they used to call them Americans.

 

And in 2022, what does La Parca tell us?

 

The made-up and very determined bony woman

today she is going to take a Spanish class

She is already determined to study Spanish in Cabo

Be careful, don't make her angry.

 

As she enters, she greets Alan, who is focused on his computer.

You're early, says Flaca, what happened to you? I'll take you with me!

Alan says Hello Mrs. Skinny, let me have a little more if you allow me.

To your networks I can add, a very cool Instagram, to capture more people.

 

And to those of you, who are listening,

la huesuda is going to tell you

I'm not going to take you,

You look very attentive, and

I don't want to bother you.

 

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Bye bye.

Feliz Día de Muertos