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The Chupacabras: Latin America's Most Famous Monster · Spanish for Beginners with Marco

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  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of El Chupacabras? A mysterious creature
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  Speaker 1: who attacks animals and drinks their blood. To celebrate Halloween,
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  Speaker 1: today's episode explores one of the most famous legends from
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  Speaker 1: Latin America. You'll first hear a short audio describing what
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  Speaker 1: El Chupacabras is like and what it does. And then
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  Speaker 1: we'll break down the key vocabulary in Espanol. And if
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  Speaker 1: the episode feels too difficult, don't worry. The free transcript
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  Speaker 1: is available at latinele.com. You'll find the link in the
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  Speaker 1: show notes. Ready for El Chupacabras? Yes! Vamos! In the 90s,
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  Speaker 1: a mysterious creature attacked farm animals and sucked all their blood.
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  Speaker 1: leaving the bodies intact. El chupacabras. To learn more about
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  Speaker 1: this creature, we'll first listen to its story in Spanish. Then,
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  Speaker 1: I'll explain some important vocabulary. And finally, we'll listen to
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  Speaker 1: the story again. Ready?¡ Vamos! El chupacabras es una criatura misteriosa.
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  Speaker 1: Es un monstruo que ataca de noche... y bebe la
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  Speaker 1: sangre de los animales. La historia del chupacabras empieza en
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  Speaker 1: los años 90, en Puerto Rico. En ese tiempo, muchos
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  Speaker 1: granjeros encuentran animales muertos en sus campos, con el cuerpo completo,
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  Speaker 1: pero sin sangre. Hay diferentes ideas sobre cómo es el chupacabras.
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  Speaker 1: Algunas personas dicen que parece un perro grande y peludo.
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  Speaker 1: Otras personas dicen que es como un reptil gigante con
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  Speaker 1: dientes afilados.¿ Qué es el chupacabras?¿ Tú crees que es real?
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  Speaker 1: Let's go over some key vocabulary to help you understand
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  Speaker 1: the story better. Feel free to repeat after me when
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  Speaker 1: I say the words in Spanish to practice your pronunciation.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get started. I talk about una criatura misteriosa, a
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  Speaker 1: mysterious creature. Una criatura misteriosa. And what does this creature do?
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  Speaker 1: Ataca de noche. The verb here is Atacar, meaning to attack.
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  Speaker 1: It's a regular verb and that's why it's conjugated as
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  Speaker 1: ataca in the third person. Ataca de noche. La criatura
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  Speaker 1: ataca de noche. And this creature also bebe la sangre
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  Speaker 1: de los animales. It drinks the blood of animals. The
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  Speaker 1: verb here is beber, to drink. Also, a regular verb.
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  Speaker 1: Bebe la sangre de los animales. And sangre means blood. S-A-N-G-R-E. Sangre.
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  Speaker 1: And here is a fun fact. The word tupacabras is
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  Speaker 1: a combination of tupar, which means to suck, and cabras,
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  Speaker 1: meaning goats. So, Tupacabras roughly translates to the goat sucker.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a scary name in English,
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  Speaker 1: but there you go. Let's continue with two important prepositions
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  Speaker 1: used in the Oreo, con and sin. The farmers found
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  Speaker 1: the animals con el cuerpo completo, which means with a
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  Speaker 1: full body. But, Sin sangre. Without blood. So, con means
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  Speaker 1: with and sin means without. Con el cuerpo completo, pero
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  Speaker 1: sin sangre. Con and sin. And finally, let's review some
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  Speaker 1: description vocabulary. At the end of the Oreo, I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: un perro grande y peludo. A big hairy dog. Grande
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  Speaker 1: means big and peludo means hairy. Some people also describe
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  Speaker 1: el chupacabras as un reptil gigante con dientes afilados. A
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  Speaker 1: giant reptile with sharp teeth. Gigante means giant and afilado
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  Speaker 1: means sharp. A-F-I-L-A-D-O. Afilado. Really scary. And now that you
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  Speaker 1: know the vocabulary, let's listen to the Oreo again.¡ Vamos!
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  Speaker 1: El chupacabras es una criatura misteriosa. Es un monstruo que
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  Speaker 1: ataca de noche y bebe la sangre de los animales.
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  Speaker 1: La historia del chupacabras empieza en los años 90 en
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  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. En ese tiempo, muchos granjeros encuentran animales muertos
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  Speaker 1: en sus campos, con el cuerpo completo, pero sin sangre.
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  Speaker 1: Hay diferentes ideas sobre cómo es el chupacabras. Algunas personas
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  Speaker 1: dicen que parece un perro grande y peludo. Otras personas
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  Speaker 1: dicen que es como un reptil gigante con dientes afilados.¿
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  Speaker 1: Qué es el chupacabras?¿ Tú crees que es real? Was
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  Speaker 1: it easier this time? You can find the transcript on
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  Speaker 1: my blog at www.latinele.com where I also provide the summary
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  Speaker 1: of this episode. Check the link in the episode description.
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  Speaker 1: And that, mis amigos, that's all for today. Gracias por
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  Speaker 1: or with the link in the show notes. Soy Marco Fierro.
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  Speaker 1: Hasta la próxima. Chao, chao.