Learn Spanish words about Christmas
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| Hi everyone, I am Rosa and this is Spanish weekly words holiday’s edition. I'm about to discover what holiday we'll be talking about today. So it is Christmas! Yay! |
| 1. Navidad "Christmas" |
| So during Christmas Day, we have, like, dinner with the family normally. we eat a lot, we don't normally give our presents on Christmas Day, because we have the three wise men in January. we eat a lot of seafood but it depends on each family, there's no like something very traditional, like the turkey, for example, in America for Thanksgiving dinner. |
| Durante la Navidad puedo ver a toda mi familia "I can see my whole family during Christmas.” |
| 2. Árbol de Navidad "Christmas tree" |
| So we normally have a Christmas tree inside the house, and then the three wise men like leave their presents there, normally with a great deal with some lights or figures. |
| Este año no tuvimos árbol de Navidad. "This year we didn't have a Christmas tree.” |
| 3. Belén "Nativity scene" |
| So almost in most houses we build these the nativity scenes, with little figures, and there are, like on Christmas markets in the cities you can find a lot of these figures to do your own nativity scene. There are also competitions of huge nativity scenes, it's interesting like some of them are very original. |
| Mi belén sólo tiene cinco figuras. "My nativity scene only has five figures." |
| 4. Turrón "nougat candy" |
| Which is a Christmas sweet, similar to marzipan or nougat, it can be of chocolate with some, like, nuts, or it can also be an almond turrón, kind of like a nougat, so it's thick, has a lot of sugar, but it's super traditional during Christmas. |
| Cuando empiezo a comer turrón de almendra, no puedo parar. "When I start eating almond turron, I cannot stop.” |
| 5. Lotería de Navidad "Christmas lottery" |
| There are children singing the numbers of the lottery. |
| Nunca he ganado nada en la lotería de la Navidad "I've never won anything in the Christmas lottery" |
| So this is the end of today’s Spanish Weekly Words Holiday Special, today we talked about Christmas. Please tell me how you celebrate Christmas in your country, I hope you like this video. Thank you for watching, don’t forget to check the site, bye! |
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