Spanish Culture Podcast
In our “Hola Culture” podcast series, you’ll listen to Kwiziq teachers Inma and Silvia‘s light-hearted chats in Spanish about fun and interesting topics that are focused on useful and interesting vocabulary.
To help you practise your listening skills, these podcasts will often be accompanied by some useful vocabulary and interesting links to explore the topic further! We encourage you to try our related exercises to have the full learning experience.
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🎧 Today’s podcast: El Camino de Santiago 🎧
Today’s podcast features a relaxed chat where Silvia tells Inma about some curiosities she’s just learned about El Camino de Santiago. The Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James, is a famous network of pilgrimage routes that lead to the city of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people walk the Camino for religious, cultural or personal reasons. Along the way, pilgrims enjoy beautiful landscapes, visit historic towns and meet people from all over the world.
Follow our conversation and give us your thoughts on this topic.
📚 Vocabulary
Here are some of the most interesting words, verbs and phrases used in our podcast:
- el Camino de Santiago = the Camino de Santiago / the Way of St. James
- información curiosa = interesting / fun facts
- rutas diferentes = different routes
- el Camino francés = the French way / the French route
- una caminata larga = a long walk
- ¿Cuanta gente hace el camino cada año? = How many people walk the Camino every year?
- la Edad Media = the Middle Ages
- red social europea = European social network
- empujar una silla de ruedas = to push a wheelchair
- hacer malabares = to juggle
- Finisterre = Finisterre (or Fisterra, the official Galician name)
- el fin del mundo = the end of the world
- ¡te vas a reír! = you’re going to laugh!
- perderse = to get lost
- equivocarse de ruta = to take the wrong route/path
- hablar con desconocidos = to talk to strangers
✏️Practise More!
Try these awesome Kwiziq activities to practise more about el Camino:
Fill-in-the-blanks:
Recomendaciones para El Camino de Santiago (B2) (stem-changing verbs in the subjunctive)
Dictation: (Premium subscribers only)
Tarta de Santiago (A1)
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Author info
After working in the travel industry for ten years in Seville, Inma moved to the UK to give a little twist to her life. Since then she's been teaching Spanish as a foreign language to adults for over 15 years in different settings, private lessons, secondary schools and online. Inma is a coffee lover and also loves exploring new places with her family in beautiful Warwickshire, where she lives.
Silvia is a multilingual educator with expertise in English, French, and Spanish, and a passion for helping students excel in language learning. After gaining extensive international teaching experience in the UK and other countries, Silvia returned to her hometown of Vitoria in 2019. Since then, she has been sharing her knowledge and love for languages with learners of all levels. With over a decade of experience, Silvia’s creative and dynamic teaching methods make language acquisition both fun and accessible.