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Pan de Muerto 🇲🇽 Mexico's Famous Day of the Dead Bread · Spanish for Beginners with Marco

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  Speaker 1: This might be the most heavy metal name for a bread.
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  Speaker 1: El pan de muerto. A traditional sweet bread enjoyed during
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  Speaker 1: el día de muertos in Mexico. And in today's episode,
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  Speaker 1: you'll learn more about this famous Mexican food. You'll discover
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  Speaker 1: the ingredients of el pan de muerto, description of the
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  Speaker 1: shape it has, and the meaning behind its design.¿ Listos?¡ Sí, señor!¡ Sí, señor!¡ Vamos!
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  Speaker 1: El Día de Muertos se celebra en México el primero
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  Speaker 1: y dos de noviembre. During the celebration, families often build
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  Speaker 1: altars to honor loved ones who have passed away. And
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  Speaker 1: among the offerings, you'll often find pan de muerto. But,¿
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  Speaker 1: qué es el pan de muerto? You'll listen to a
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  Speaker 1: short interview excerpt in which a Mexican teacher explains this
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  Speaker 1: traditional bread. Let's listen and then we'll break it down.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. El pan de muerto.¿ Qué es el
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  Speaker 1: pan de muerto?
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  Speaker 2: Es un pan de naranja, de asar, pero sabe a naranja.
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  Speaker 2: Y tiene una forma característica, es redondo. Y encima tiene
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  Speaker 2: unas como bolitas que simbolizan también ciertas cosas. Tiene una
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  Speaker 2: bolita más grande en el centro que es como el
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  Speaker 2: Simboliza el cráneo de, pues, de un esqueleto. Y las
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  Speaker 2: otras bolitas están como en cruz. Entonces, simbolizan también como
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  Speaker 2: los huesitos.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's break it down. Did you catch the ingredients?
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  Speaker 1: Let's listen to that specific part again.
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  Speaker 2: Un pan de naranja o de asar, pero sabe a naranja.
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  Speaker 1: Los ingredientes son naranja o... Azar. Naranja means orange. Naranja.
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  Speaker 1: And azar is the blossom of the orange tree. So,
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  Speaker 1: orange flower is often used to give pan de muerto
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  Speaker 1: its distinctive flavor. Entonces, el pan de muerto lleva naranja
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  Speaker 1: o azar. So, despite its spooky name, pan de muerto,
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  Speaker 1: the bread of the dead is very sweet. And what
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  Speaker 1: about the shape? Did you catch that? Let's listen again.
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  Speaker 2: Y tiene una forma característica. Es redondo.
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  Speaker 1: Got it? Es un pan redondo. Redondo means round. Redondo.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, you can become un poco redondo if you
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  Speaker 1: eat too much of it. And finally, the bread has
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  Speaker 1: decorative elements that represent different things. This is probably the
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  Speaker 1: trickiest part of the audio. Let's listen again.
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  Speaker 2: And on top it has some balls that also symbolize
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  Speaker 2: certain things. It has a bigger ball in the center
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  Speaker 2: that symbolizes the skull of a skeleton. And the other
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  Speaker 2: balls are like in a cross shape. Entonces, simbolizan también
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  Speaker 2: como los huesitos.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get it? The bread has bolitas. Bolitas means
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  Speaker 1: little balls. Bolitas. There's one larger ball in the center.
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  Speaker 1: Una bola grande en el centro. Esa bola representa un cráneo.
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  Speaker 1: Cráneo means skull. The bone of the head. Un cráneo.
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  Speaker 1: And the other small pieces represent los huesos, the bones,
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  Speaker 1: los huesos. So the bread symbolizes people who have passed away.
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  Speaker 1: And the wrong shape is often associated with el círculo
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  Speaker 1: de la vida, the circle of life. And now that
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  Speaker 1: you know the vocabulary, let's listen to the interview fragment
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  Speaker 1: one more time.
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  Speaker 2: Vamos.
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  Speaker 1: El pan de muerto.¿ Qué es el pan de muerto?
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  Speaker 2: Esto. Un pan de naranja, de asar, pero sabe a naranja.
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  Speaker 2: Y tiene una forma característica, es redondo. Y encima tiene
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  Speaker 2: unas como bolitas que simbolizan también ciertas cosas. Tiene una
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  Speaker 2: bolita más grande en el centro que es como, simboliza
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  Speaker 2: el cráneo de, pues, de un esqueleto. Y las otras
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  Speaker 2: bolitas están como en cruz. Entonces, simbolizan también como los huesitos.
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  Speaker 1: Is it your time? I really hope so. I'll leave
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  Speaker 1: the full interview in the show notes in case you'd
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  Speaker 1: like to learn more about El Día de Muertos and
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  Speaker 1: the traditions surrounding the celebration. And that's all for today.
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  Speaker 1: Gracias por escuchar Spanish for Beginners. I really hope you
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed learning about Pan de Muerto. A cool thing about
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  Speaker 1: learning Spanish is that it helps you understand experiences like
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  Speaker 1: this on a deeper level. Whether you're visiting Mexico during
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  Speaker 1: El Día de Muertos, exploring a market in Peru, or
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  Speaker 1: the show notes. Soy Marco Fierro.¡ Hasta la próxima!¡ Chao, chao!