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: Quiz sobre Semana Santa 🎧
Today’s podcast features a 10-question quiz about Easter. Share your answers in the comments, the correct answers will be posted in the next few days!
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:
- el capirote = pointed hood
- el nazareno = penitent taking part in a Holy Week procession
- el costalero = person who carries the float in a Holy Week procession
- los pasos = religious floats carried in processions
- cargar sobre los hombros = to carry on the shoulders
- la procesión = procession
- Domingo de Ramos = Palm Sunday
- Jueves Santo = Maundy Thursday
- Viernes Santo = Good Friday
- Domingo de Pascua = Easter Sunday
- las torrijas = Spanish-style French toast
For a list full of Easter vocabulary, here’s where you want to click: Easter Vocabulary
🧠 Interesting grammar from our podcast
We have highlighted how to ask questions from our podcast and added them to a shared notebook. You can click “Test your knowledge” to quiz the selected grammar topics that appear in the following paragraph: #kwiziq – How to ask questions 1.
– ¿Cómo se llaman las personas que cargan los pasos sobre sus hombros en muchas procesiones de España?
– ¿Qué día comienza oficialmente la Semana Santa?
– ¿De qué suelen estar hechas esas alfombras?
✏️ Practice More!
Try these awesome Kwiziq activities to practice more on Easter:
Gapfill exercise:
● La Semana Santa latinoamericana en cifras (B1)
Writing challenge: (Premium subscribers only):
● Easter riddle (A2)
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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.