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Víctor en España - La fiesta de Sant Magí

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Spain, Venezuela

Every August, the city of Tarragona celebrates the Sant Magí festival. Let's listen to retired social education professor Joan Martínez Manet tell us the fascinating story behind this celebration.

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Caption 115 [es]: A partir de aquí, esta agua se convierte en un agua milagrosa,
Caption 115 [en]: From here, this water becomes a miracle water,

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Víctor en España - Vida y legado de Antonio Gaudí - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Venezuela

In this third video about Antonio Gaudí, Víctor talks to us about yet another one of his architectural masterpieces: Casa Batlló.

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Caption 44 [en]: they do themed parties,
Caption 44 [es]: hacen fiestas temáticas

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Víctor en España - Vida y legado de Antonio Gaudí - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Venezuela

In part two of his series about the Catalonian architect Antonio Gaudí, Víctor takes us to the El Raval neighborhood, where he will talk to us about one his greatest structures: Güell Palace.

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Caption 14 [es]: Eusebio Güell era algo así como parecido a la familia Médicis
Caption 14 [en]: Eusebio Güell was something like the Medici family

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Sonido Babel - El cuatro venezolano - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

In this episode of Sonido Babel [Babel Sound], we are introduced to Venezuela's national instrument: the cuatro, which can be heard in almost all Venezuelan folk music.

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Caption 8 [es]: a partir de principios del siglo dieciséis:
Caption 8 [en]: starting from the beginning of the sixteenth century:

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Sonido Babel - El candombe de Uruguay

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Uruguay, Venezuela

What is candombe? In this episode from Sonido Babel [Babel Sound], we'll travel to Uruguay to find out more about this musical style that is influenced by more than twenty different African cultures as well as the indigenous Charrúas and Guaranis, the Spanish, and the Portuguese.

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Caption 60 [es]: y el candombe es como el latido de mi tierra.
Caption 60 [en]: and candombe is like the heartbeat of my land.

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Venezuela - La tradición de los quince años - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

As the fifteenth birthday of young girls in Venezuela and most other Latin American countries marks a special rite of passage into womanhood, it is traditional for the family to throw them a big birthday bash.

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Caption 49 [es]: quienes a partir de ese momento se integran a la celebración
Caption 49 [en]: who starting from that moment join the celebration

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Instrumentos musicales - Ocarinas

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

It's your opportunity to learn how to make some beautiful ocarinas. Their sound is so sweet!

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Caption 57 [es]: y a partir de ahí, bueno calibrar los orificios, eh...
Caption 57 [en]: and starting from there, well, to calibrate the orifices, um...

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Javier Marin - Artesano Venezolano - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Venezuela

As an artesan, Javier Marin works with a variety of materials, employing many techniques to create his pieces. He has been kind enough to take the time to explain some of these materials and processes. Javier’s father, in the days well before email, used to transmit telegraph messages via morse code in the building adjacent to where his son now works.

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Caption 19 [es]: parecido a una jeringa.
Caption 19 [en]: that looks like a syringe.

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