Search

Home > freetalk Podcast > #6: New Year's Eve in the US (and in Mexico)
Podcast: freetalk Podcast
Episode:

#6: New Year's Eve in the US (and in Mexico)
Category: Education
Duration: 00:34:24
Publish Date: 2015-12-30 18:00:00
Description:

You may celebrate it or not but, to quote Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are A-changin'" and tomorrow we will start a new year, (at least chronologically speaking). 

For a lot of people a brand new year brings along a wide array of possibilities, and to celebrate that they do a lot of different things, and those differences are quite noticeable between America and Mexico, and on this episode I tell you a few.

Show Notes:

• In Mexico we have a lot of superstitions to make sure that the new year starts off the right way. Red and Yellow underwear is a must.

• We have great dinners on December 31st and we usually spend New Year's Day locked down inside our houses.

• Just as in Christmas' Eve, New Year's Eve is full of fireworks around here.

• We eat a grape for every second left of the old year, as we make a wish for the coming year.

• A word on Pronunciation: when we change nouns for pronouns, the intonation moves to the action. Example: in the sentence dogs eat bones, dogs and bones is the new information and they are stressed. But if we say: They eat them (they = dogs & them = bones) the intonation moves to the verb. They eat them.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!

   

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or on Stitcher, give us a review and send me your questions for the section #3 of the Podcast

Don't forget to leave a comment. If you liked this podcast, please tell your friends. Sharing is caring! 

See you on the next episode.
Total Play: 0

Some more Podcasts by Alan Hernández

10+ Episodes
Hablando de ..