Home Sweet Home
Home sweet home! 🏡 There’s no place quite like it, even if keeping it clean and tidy isn’t always our favourite thing to do! This week, Silvia and I get together for a fun podcast 🎧 where we chat about household chores, sharing which ones we don’t mind doing and which ones we’d happily avoid!
And while we’re on the subject of home, why not brush up on your Spanish vocabulary with a handy gapfill exercise all about the different rooms in a house? You’ll soon be able to describe your home to others ¡sin problemas!
Of course, not every home is picture-perfect, so we’ve also got a fun Spanish expression for those moments when everything is in complete chaos — a great one to add to your repertoire if you want to sound more like a native speaker!
And before you settle down and make yourself comfortable, we’d like to remind you about our mystery challenge coming up from December 1st! This time, we’d like to introduce you to Lucía, our narrator.
So, make yourself at home, get cosy and enjoy another week of Spanish learning!
¡Vamos allá! 😉
Real Spanish, Real voices 🎧
Palabras al vuelo Ep.7: Tareas domésticas
Join us for a relaxed chat about household chores! Do you prefer dusting, or are you more of a mopping person? Perhaps there’s one chore you actually enjoy doing… or would you rather avoid them all?
Palabras al vuelo Ep.7: Tareas domésticas 🎧
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¿Conoces esta expresión?
“Tener la casa patas arriba”
Tener la casa patas arriba literally means to have the house legs up and is used when your home is in complete chaos or a total mess.
Maybe you haven’t had time to clean or tidy up lately, you’ve just moved in and there are still unpacked boxes everywhere, or you’re in the middle of some home renovations.
Whatever the reason, everything seems to be out of place, and there’s plenty of tidying up to do! Until you get things back in order, you probably won’t be too keen on having visitors over…
Patas arriba is also useful beyond the home for something being turned upside down or thrown into disorder.
Por ejemplo:
.– Con los niños de vacaciones, tengo la casa patas arriba.
-With the kids on holiday, the house is in complete chaos.
– Perdona el desorden, ¡tenemos la casa patas arriba!
– Sorry about the mess, our house is a complete tip!
Meet Lucía
Las doce campanadas starts on the 1st of December
Lucía is 20 and lives in Madrid with her grandparents, Ramón and Carmen. Abuelo Ramón has just turned 85, and most of the family came for the weekend.
Every New Year’s Eve, they count down to the new year using his old pocket watch, which is always two seconds fast, and eat the traditional 12 grapes. Now everyone has gone home, and the watch has gone from its drawer.
From the 1st of December you’ll follow Lucía in Spanish, one short episode a day, and help her find out who took it.
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That’s all for this week! We hope you’ve enjoyed making yourself at home with our Spanish activities. Keep practising, stay curious and remember, there’s always room for a little more Spanish in your life! 🏡✨
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¡Hasta lueguito! 👋
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