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.
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🎧 Today’s podcast: Don Quixote 🎧
Today’s podcast features one of the most beloved characters in Spanish literature: Don Quixote. Listen to Inma chatting about Don Quixote and Sancho, the two main characters of Miguel de Cervantes’ famous novel from the 16th century. Did you know that in the 70s Spanish kids really enjoyed a cartoon on TV about Don Quixote’s adventures?
Share your thoughts in the comments; have you ever heard of Don Quixote de la Mancha?
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📕 Some useful vocabulary
Here are some of the key words from the podcast to help you get confident in this topic:
- Don Quijote = Don Quixote
- Sancho Panza = Sancho Panza
- Dulcinea del Toboso = Dulcinea from Toboso
- un hidalgo = nobleman
- libros de caballerías = chivalric novels
- pasar por dificultades = to go through hard times
- publicarse = to be published
- girar en torno a… = to revolve around…
- un caballero andante = a knight-errant
- una injusticia = injustice
- su fiel escudero = his faithful squire
- la ilusión = hope
- los sueños = dreams
- el sentido común = common sense
- los dibujos animados = cartoons (TV)
🧠 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 in the following sentences: #kwiziq – Grammar from Hola Culture Episode 9 Don Quixote podcast
- Miguel de Cervantes fue un escritor español del siglo XVI, que tuvo una vida bastante complicada.
- Decide salir al mundo a vivir aventuras y a luchar contra las injusticias y a defender a los más débiles.
- Sancho es práctico, sencillo y tiene los pies en la tierra.
- Lo bonito de todos estos personajes es cómo reflejan las distintas formas de ver el mundo.
✏️ Practice More!
Try these awesome Kwiziq activities to practice more on Don Quixote:
Gapfill exercise:
● La ruta de don Quijote (B2 – relative pronouns/adverbs)
Dictation: (Premium subscribers only):
● El personaje de Sancho Panza (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.