Newsletter: Semana Santa

✝️ Semana Santa

 

 

Easter is the perfect time to explore Spanish through culture and this week we are giving you a set of activities to help you do just that.

Start with our podcast 🎧 and test your knowledge with a fun quiz 🤓, build your vocabulary with a very useful list and its word game,  and finally, read and listen to our bilingual text to see how Easter traditions come to life in different places.

Whether you have a few minutes or a bit longer, there’s something here to help you practice and feel more confident using Spanish.

¡Que disfrutes de la Semana Santa!

Real Spanish, Real voices 🎧

Semana Santa Quiz

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In episode 8 of our Hola culture series, Silvia and I bring you a fun Easter challenge. You’ll follow a short quiz with 10 questions all about Semana Santa, a great way to learn and review key vocabulary.

Grab a pen and play along as you listen. Choose the correct answer for each question: a, b, or c. See how many you can get right!

Want to compare your answers? Share them in the comments on our blog and we’ll let you know how you did.

Hola Culture Ep 8 Semana Santa Kwiz Podcast 🎧

After listening, take it a step further. If you’d like to practice asking questions in Spanish, try our interactive shared notebook designed to help you build your skills:

Looking for more? Explore other podcast episodes and discover new topics at your own pace. And feel free to share your suggestions. We’d love to hear what you want to learn next..

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Spanish Vocab Boost

Easter Vocabulary A2

Do you know how to talk about Easter in Spanish? Build your confidence with this handy list of essential Easter vocabulary.

A2  Easter Vocabulary in Spanish

El Domingo de Ramos es mi día favorito de la Semana Santa.
Palm Sunday is my favorite day at Easter.

Ayer vi tres procesiones con muchísimos nazarenos.
Yesterday I saw three processions with lots of nazarenos.

Don’t forget to give the word game at the bottom of the list a try to help memorizing them.

Read along with us

 Bilingual text with audio

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Easter traditions can vary depending on where you live. In these three personal stories, you can read and listen to what people enjoy most about Easter in their own countries.

B1  Tres formas de celebrar la Semana Santa

We have lots of free reading activities if you’d like to explore other interesting topics and keep learning.

Take me to your leader

 March Leaderboard Top 3

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Let’s hear it for our top three Kwizers on the March Spanish Leaderboard!

You’ve shown real dedication to your Spanish 👏 👏 👏.

Congratulations to S F, William C and Bernd E!

¡Fantástico! 🎉

Hurray for Weekend Workout Friday!

Special treat for Premium subscribers

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Friday is Weekend Workout day – a special treat just for our Premium subscribers , with fresh dictations and writing challenges to boost your listening and writing skills.

This week’s theme is Easter.

Here’s a writing challenge for our free users: What a fright! (level C1)

Not Premium yet? Now’s a great time to upgrade! You’ll get these Weekend Workouts every week, plus unlimited kwizzes and multiple notebooks to help you stay organised and make progress faster.

Note: We send dictations and writing challenges by email, which you can opt into or out of. To check your email preferences, please click “unsubscribe or modify your communication preferences” at the end of this message, and make sure there’s a check next to System Communications in order to receive exercises every week.

Don’t stop here! Keep exploring more Easter content going to our Social Media: Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.

¡Feliz Pascua! 👋

Author info

Inma Sánchez

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.