Spanish Conversation 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.
To help you practice your listening skills, these podcasts will often be accompanied by some useful vocab, grammar lessons and interesting links to go further!
We encourage you to try our related exercises to have the whole experience.
Don’t forget to comment and share your thoughts. We love to hear those!
🎧 Today’s podcast: El Día del Padre & San José 🎧
In today’s podcast, Inma and Silvia will talk about this important day in Spain and Latin America. They’ll explain why Father’s Day is celebrated on March 19th in many Spanish-speaking countries and how it is connected to San José, the father of Jesus.
Follow our conversation and give us your thoughts on this topic.
📕 Some useful vocabulary
Here are some of the key words from the podcast to help you get confident in this topic:
- una fecha = date
- el extranjero = abroad
- felicitar = to congratulate
- echar humo = to give off smoke / to be furious (literally “to throw smoke”)
- un dos por uno = a two-for-one (deal)
- el patrón = patron saint
- carpintero-a = carpenter
- el apodo = nickname
- padre putativo = putative father / alleged father
- estar de acuerdo= to agree
- abreviar = to abbreviate
- ¡qué curioso! = how curious / that’s curious / how interesting
- hace frío = it´s cold / rude
- caer en [date] = to fall on [a date]
- unas tortitas = some pancakes
- dispositivo = device
- ¡no me digas! = no way! / you don’t say!
- pasar el día en familia = to spend the day with family
🧠 Interesting grammar from our podcast
We have highlighted some interesting grammar points from our podcast and added them to a shared notebook. You can click “Test your knowledge” to quiz the selected grammar topics that appear on the following sentences:
Grammar from El Día del Padre & San José podcast.
– En España, por ejemplo, lo celebramos el 19 de marzo, que coincide con el Día de San José
– Además, San José es el patrón de los padres y de los carpinteros.
– En República Dominicana se celebrará el 26 de julio, así que algunos padres tienen que esperar
un poquito más para recibir su regalo.
– Seamos sinceras, ¿cuáles son los regalos más típicos en este día?
– Si eres padre, esperamos que tengas un día fantástico.
✏️ Practice More!
Try these awesome Kwiziq activities to practice more on Father’s Day:
Reading and Listening activities:
● Día del Padre en México (B2)
Fill-in-the-Gaps:
● El Día del Padre (A2 – Ser & Estar)
Dictation: (Premium subscribers only):
● Papi te quiero (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.