Mexican Revolution- Our vocabulary for the Revolution - 5 mintues of Spanish (English version) + Podcast

In this episode we talk about the vocabulary of a historical process like the Mexican Revolution. No, don't worry, it's not a history class.

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What is our topic today?

 

November 20th is celebrated in Mexico the Mexican Revolution Day, it is a very important date and there are many celebrations and festivities....

 

Malena I remind you that this podcast is for Learning Spanish not history....

 

I know, that's why in this podcast 170 we are going to talk about the vocabulary of the Revolution, the words related to this long process.

 

Revolución is a cognate with English all words ending in “tion” in English correspond with the suffixes “coin” in Spanish. 

 

In both English and Spanish, they refer to the result of an action. In Spanish they are always feminine words.

 

La acción – the action

La acusación – the acusation

La atención- the attention

La contradicción - the contradiction

La explotación - the exploitation

La liberación - the liberation

La población - the population

 

In the plural they also lose the accent: “La opción – las opciones”.

 

Let's go to the Mexican Revolution, which is the topic.

 

Yes, it was one of the first social revolutions of the 20th century. It was an armed movement led by Francisco I. Madero against Porfirio Diaz who remained in power for more than 30 years.

 

Porfirio Diaz found out that Madero wanted the presidency and imprisoned him. Madero escapes and from the United States, from San Antonio Texas, he sends a communiqué inviting the people to rise up in arms and this happens on November 20, 1910.

 

And the Revolution begins and will end 10 years later in 1920.

 

It is a long and very complicated process.

 

Los logros y los cambios para México fueron muchos. Se promulga una nueva constitución, la de 1917. Se nacionalizan el suelo y el subsuelo mexicano. / The achievements and changes for Mexico were many. A new constitution of 1917 was enacted. Mexican soil and subsoil were nationalized.

 

Hay una reforma agraria que termina con el latifundio. Se reparten las tierras a los campesinos. /

There is an agrarian reform that puts an end to the latifundia. Land is distributed to the peasants.

 

The “educación pública” is reformed. This doesn't need translation, does it? Educación pública.

 

Se nacionaliza el petróleo. / Oil is nationalized.

 

Mejoran las condiciones de los trabajadores y se cran los sindicatos. / Workers' conditions are improved and unions are created.

 

November 20 is a public holiday and there are parades in memory of the revolution.

 

desfiles- parades

 

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