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November 20 is the official Mexican Revolution Day, but it’s celebrated as a public holiday on the third Monday of November. Revolution Day commemorates the start of the Mexican Revolution, which began in order to overthrow the dictator Porfirio Diaz in 1910. The revolution lasted 10 years.

Se suele cantar corridos en el Día de la Revolución. Ballads are usually sung on the Mexican Revolution Day.

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Hello Listener,

Today, we have 3 ways to help you FULLY understand Spanish conversations…simply by listening and reading along. In fact, it works so well, it’s almost like cheating.

Imagine listening to a new Spanish conversation: Oh! A word you know! Tons of words you don’t know. And…you’re lost. But, what if you had the lines and translations – everything that’s being said – to read along with? Simply by listening and reading along…

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oficina de correos: post office

Here are some words picked by Alex:

• paquete: parcel
• buzón: mailbox
• dirección: address

Learn more words about post office!

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curanderos: healers

Healers, or Shamans are called in Spanish curanderos or brujos. People think they can cross over to and manipulate the spiritual world, either for good or for evil. It is believed that diseases are caused by a disequilibrium, and that in order to heal them, shamans have to enter into a trance in order to travel to the spiritual world.

Here’s an example of it used in a sentence:

El curandero compró hierbas en el mercado. (The healer purchased herbs in the market.)

Want to learn more about Mexican culture?
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Hello Listener,

How easy is it to forget new Spanish words and phrases?

First you learn ‘em. Two days later, you forget ‘em.

Stopping to note them down takes a lot of time. You can write every word down on 100s of flashcards or in a notebook. That’s the time-consuming part of the battle. But wait! You STILL have to review them all!

So here are 5 ways to never forget new Spanish words with the Word Bank.
It’s your personal, ever-growing collection of vocab. Come across a new word in a SpanishPod101 lesson? Want to master specific vocab list? Save ‘em with 1 click and review ‘em in 1 spot – the Word Bank.

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1) Never Forget New Words from Lessons. You’re listening (or watching) a SpanishPod101 lesson. And you come across a new word. But hearing it once isn’t enough. Find the word in the lesson’s vocabulary review list and click on “Add to Word Bank” to save it.

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2) Save New Words or Phrases from Vocab Lists. Know those “Free Spanish Bonus” word and phrase lessons we send out? You can save these to your Word Bank as well for future review. Select your words, click on “Add Selected Words” and choose “Word Bank.” Done!

3) New! Review Quickly and Easily. Ready to review? You’ll find all your saved words in the Word Bank. We’ve updated it so it’s a lot cleaner and easier on the eyes. Review the words and meanings at a glance. You can also hear the native audio pronunciation.

And, you can even enlarge the words as you hover over them.

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With the SpanishPod101 Word Bank, a Premium Study Tool available for our Premium and Premium PLUS learners, you can…

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This is your personal, ever-growing collection of words. Save with 1 click, review them all in 1 spot and never forget Spanish words again.

Stay tuned for even more great learning tools and features to come!

To your fluency,

Team SpanishPod101

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Speaking is usually the #1 weakness for all Spanish learners. This is a common issue among language learners everywhere. The reason for this is obvious: When language learners first start learning a language, they usually start with reading. They read online articles, books, information on apps and so on. If they take a class, they spend 20% of their time repeating words, and 80% of the time reading the textbook, doing homework or just listening to a teacher. So, if you spend most of your time reading instead of speaking, you might get better at reading but your speaking skills never grow. You get better at what you focus on.

So if you want to improve you speaking skills, you need to spend more of your study time on speaking. Here are five tips to help you get started:

1. Read out loud
If you’re listening to a lesson and reading along, read out loud. Then re-read and speed up your tempo. Do this again and again until you can speak faster. Try your best to pronounce the words correctly, but don’t obsess about it. Read swiftly, emote and put some inflection on the sentences. Reading aloud helps to train the muscles of your mouth and diaphragm to produce unfamiliar words and sounds.

2. Prepare things to say ahead of time.
As you may know from experience, most learners run out of things to say. But, if you prepare lines ahead of time, you won’t be at a loss for words in conversations. This will help you not only to learn how to say the words, but how to say them in the right context. A good way to prepare yourself before conversations is with our Top 25 Questions Series, which teaches you how to ask the most common conversational questions, and how to answer them, in Spanish:

Click here to learn the top 25 Spanish questions you need to know.

3. Use shadowing (repeat the dialogues as you hear them).
Shadowing is an extremely useful tool for increasing fluency as well as improving your accent and ability to be understood. Shadowing helps create all the neural connections in your brain to produce those words and sentences quickly and accurately without having to think about it. Also, as mentioned in tip #1, shadowing helps develop the muscle memory in all the physical parts responsible for the production of those sounds. Depending on what your primary and target languages are, it’s quite likely that there are a lot of sounds your mouth just isn’t used to producing. Shadowing can be done, for example, when watching TV shows or movies or listening to music.

Each one of our lessons begins with a dialogue. Try to shadow the conversation line by line, and you’ll be mastering it in no time.

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4. Review again and again.
This is the key to perfection, and we can’t emphasize it enough. Most learners don’t review! If you review and repeat lines again and again, you’ll be speaking better, faster and with more confidence.

5. DON’T BE AFRAID TO MAKE MISTAKES!
You’d be surprised by how many people try to avoid talking! The more you speak, the faster you learn – and that is why you’re learning Spanish. Practice speaking every chance you get: whether it’s ordering coffee, shopping or asking for directions.

farmacias: pharmacies

Mexican pharmacies or farmacias sell most of their medicines without a prescription or receta; only specific medications such as antibiotics or drugs that cause dependence cannot be bought over-the-counter.

Other drugs that require prescriptions in many other countries but are not heavily regulated can be bought over-the-counter in Mexico, such as antidepressants, birth control pills, and heart medications. This setup led to an array of medication use problems, including irrational medication use, over- or under-dosage.

Here are the useful phrases that you can use at a Mexican pharmacy.

1. ¿Tiene este medicamento? (Do you have this medication?)
2. ¿Necesito receta? (Do I need a prescription?)
3. ¿Puedo hablar con el farmacéutico? (May I speak to the pharmacist?)

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