The habit of wearing costume on Halloween /La costumbre de llevar disfraz el Día de Brujas - 5 minutes of Spanish + Podcast (English version)

 

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Disfraces / costumes

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What is our topic today?
 
We are going to comment on two words that are heard a lot in these days of late October and early November and that can confuse students of Spanish as a second language or Spanish as a foreign language (ELE).
 

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Are they false friends?

 

Not exactly, in this podcast 169 we are going to talk about the words: costumbre and disfraz.

 

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In Mexico we have the custom of eating Pan de Muerto or sugar skulls on the Day of the Dead. Let's remember that Pan de Muerto is a sweet bread that is a traditional food on these days.

And sugar skulls are Little sugar skulls. I think the word costume is confused with costumbre.

That's right, let's go to the translations:

Costumbre - habit

Disfraz- costume

What is costumbre?

Custom is a set of practices or habit that are acquired through repetition and constancy. They can be of a person or of a society.

It is what distinguishes one community from another. For example, millennials have the habit of interacting on social networks, Tik Tok, Facebook, etc.

Only millennials?

Well, actually, everyone in at least one part of the world.

When does a habit become a tradition?

If you have a custom for a long time, it becomes a tradition.

Are there good habits and bad habits?

Good habits are for example sleeping eight hours, eating healthy, do you know any other good habits?

Bad habits are the opposite, eating junk food, throwing plastic into the sea and everything related to a disorganized life.

 

The other word is disfraz, which in English is costume.

 

The word costume derives from the verb to disguise and linguists do not agree on the origin of this word. It seems to come from the Latin, desfrezar, to disguise, to hide traces.

 

Children wear a costume on Halloween. Children wear a costume on Halloween.

 

Mario tried to disguise his jealousy, but it was more than obvious.   Mario tried to disguise his jealousy but it was obvious.

On the Day of the Dead there is a catrinas parade, i.e. the girls go out painted and dressed up as catrinas. On the Day of the Dead there is a catrinas parade, that is, the girls come out painted and dressed as catrinas.

 

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