La Erizada

"La Erizada" has been shared to the blog from the Spanish reading practice section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills.


Spanish online reading and listening practice – level C1

Sea urchins are an important part of the carnival celebrations of Cádiz and they play the starring role in the gastronomic feast known as La Erizada. Find out more about this spiky seafood and practise relative pronouns and relative clauses followed by El Infinitivo or El Indicativo.
The speaker in this video has a typical accent of Cádiz, which is in Andalusia. You will note that the endings of many words are not pronounced. You can read more about some of the pronunciation and grammatical phenomenons of this speaker in the following articles:

Exercise: Erizada

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