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Speaker 1: In this episode, we'll dive into an artist's search for
Speaker 1: inspiration amidst the festive wonders of a bustling Christmas market.
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Speaker 5: El la place, madova de vida, color, unlemente ils, elisipa, yelbugisio, festivo, resonnava, pordo,
Speaker 5: quire entre, la multitude, unhoven artista, jamado, alvaro, camnava, conuna,
Speaker 5: mees claden tusiadad, alvaro vava, se manas, buscuando na chispad
Speaker 5: in spira, sion parasu, proxima, exposition, sinem bargo, al mira,
Speaker 5: rasol reddor sentiake to do ramasl keesus propiacidas, the corraciones brigentes, esculturae, maderata, javasa, mano, pintura,
Speaker 5: gen av and cadarim condel mercado, sucrason, sen co po call,
Speaker 5: pensari algun dia, arria, creralvot and significativo, the sidido and
Speaker 5: contra respostas, alvaro po de di cava, toda retablo ola
Speaker 5: the ju alvaro conuna son risa, mabli tu stravajos, son
Speaker 5: impressionantes keta in spira elartesano, unreddad, conuna son risa calida, respondio,
Speaker 5: las historias, cada pisa historia denvestro, pueblo, the nvestras, traditions, pensativo, alvaro,
Speaker 5: a gradeco, lombre, sigillo, caminando, mentras, observava, las familias, capa
Speaker 5: savan alvo, courio en un momento, bon mnoda, maintena, peeno,
Speaker 5: regalo a su madre, losjos de la madres, egado de lamas, felisidad, Viennese, instante,
Speaker 5: al Varo, Cinthiona, chispa, the comprehension La simple vegesa de
Speaker 5: la more familiar and navidad es lokell the villa captura, connel, carrassola,
Speaker 5: tiend rapido, s santo, numbanco, cerca del centro de la
Speaker 5: plaza is a cosuquadern de boseetos, mentral, zumbido del mercado, continuavas,
Speaker 5: l reddor, alvaro and pesad bujar figuras familiar, sunidas, abrasadas
Speaker 5: por la LUs de las luses, Navidenias, concada traso, sentia
Speaker 5: utevol villa, den sentido, las connection sumanas esus momentos and
Speaker 5: sigios peru profundos lea estado, buscando, geno de moosioni, confienza renovada.
Speaker 1: Alvaro spoke, sunva sa.
Speaker 5: Ye la marqueella navidad amedida kells also called tava las
Speaker 5: luses li neva la plaza, contos rados alvaro se levant
Speaker 5: con de termination, savie proposio, claro yenes instante, elbodicioso, mercado
Speaker 5: de la Placea de maggio, se convitio and el punto
Speaker 5: de partida parasunova ventura creativa.
Speaker 1: Let's take another lesson. Listen closely to any parts you
Speaker 1: may have missed. E la calurosa tard de visimbre la
Speaker 1: placea de maggio, sa genava de vidai color. On the
Speaker 1: hot December afternoon, the plaza the Maja was filled with
Speaker 1: life and color.
Speaker 5: Unde filline terminable de lusses navidnes parava rem ILOs, pustos,
Speaker 5: el mercado frecient do tipo diadornos siez.
Speaker 1: An endless parade of Christmas lights twinkled joyfully, and the
Speaker 1: market stalls offered all kinds of ornaments and crafts. E
Speaker 1: ladies tava in pregnado de la roma resistible del turripan
Speaker 1: yel bugisio festivo resonnava pordo kier. The air was imbued
Speaker 1: with the irresistible aroma of Cheripan, and the festive hustle
Speaker 1: and bustle resonated everywhere Entre.
Speaker 5: La multitu ujovenartiste la mado, alvaroca minva conuna mees clad
Speaker 5: in tusien sieda.
Speaker 1: Among the crowd, a young artist named Alvaro walked with
Speaker 1: a mix of enthusiasm and anxiety. Alvaro jevava semanas busca
Speaker 1: dona chispas piracion parasu proxima exposition. Albaro had been searching
Speaker 1: for a spark of inspiration for his next exhibition for weeks.
Speaker 5: Signe margo, al mire rasol revedur, Cynthia keramasrihinl q sus
Speaker 5: propia sides.
Speaker 1: However, looking around, he felt that everything was more original
Speaker 1: than his own ideas.
Speaker 5: De corracentes escultura mara tae rasa manoi pintura zavan carincon
Speaker 5: del mercado.
Speaker 1: Shiny decorations, handmade wooden sculptures and paintings filled every corner
Speaker 1: of the market soukasun senko hipocl pincers undel raria creralvot significativo.
Speaker 1: His heart sank a bit at the thought of whether
Speaker 1: he would ever manage to create something so meaningful.
Speaker 5: De ciddo and contra respostas. Alvaro devi cava tola retablo.
Speaker 1: Determined to find answers, Albero approached a stall where a
Speaker 1: craftsman dedicated all his attention to a retableau ola the
Speaker 1: ju Alvaro conuna sondrisa mabli hello, said Alvaro, with a
Speaker 1: friendly smile. Tustra va jusson impressionandis your work is impressive?
Speaker 1: Kitin spira, what inspires you?
Speaker 5: Elerte senoureveda conuna sondrisa calida presponvio la cistorias.
Speaker 1: The craftsman, an elderly man, with a warm smile, responded
Speaker 1: the stories cueva.
Speaker 5: Pia sa tune storia dino denstrastrades.
Speaker 1: Each piece has a story from our village, from our traditions, benzativo,
Speaker 1: Alvaro rad lombre silloka minando. Thoughtfully, Alvaro thanked the man
Speaker 1: and continued walking Mira las families kipavan alvo courio. As
Speaker 1: he watched family strolling, something happened in.
Speaker 5: Momento bionomia mene regalo madre.
Speaker 1: In a moment he saw a child excitedly giving a
Speaker 1: small gift to his mother Lo.
Speaker 5: So jozella madre se de la maze felicidad Viennese instante
Speaker 5: Alvaro sintia chispa de com princion.
Speaker 1: The mother's eyes filled with tears of happiness, and in
Speaker 1: that instant Albero felt a spark of understanding.
Speaker 5: La simple vellesa de la morfamiliar re na videre eso
Speaker 5: re lo kel de ville captura.
Speaker 1: The simple beauty of family love at Christmas. That was
Speaker 1: what he needed to capture. Conel corras, la tiendo rapido
Speaker 1: say sinto numbanco cerca del centro de la plasa iacosuqua
Speaker 1: dno de voseetos. With his heart racing, he sat on
Speaker 1: a bench near the center of the plaza and took
Speaker 1: out his sketch book Mintra delsunvido del mercado continua alvar
Speaker 1: As the buzz of the market continued around him, Alvaro
Speaker 1: began to draw fiuras familiar sunidas avrasavas pur la lu
Speaker 1: de las luses na vivemias family figures united, embraced by
Speaker 1: the bright glow of the Christmas lights, Concada traso, Cinthia,
Speaker 1: kelvin sentido. With each stroke, he felt his art starting
Speaker 1: to make sense again.
Speaker 5: Las connexun sumnas issus momento sen sios peru profundos le
Speaker 5: si ca viestado vuscando human connections.
Speaker 1: Those simple yet profound moments were the essence he had
Speaker 1: been searching for. Geno de mossnicnfiensa renovada, Alvaro supo quesunvaaria
Speaker 1: ye la morque finella na vida.
Speaker 4: Phil.
Speaker 1: With emotion and renewed confidence, Albaro knew that his new
Speaker 1: series would be a tribute to the joy and love
Speaker 1: that defines Christmas. Amevid kel soul les luva la pla
Speaker 1: sa condos albarovanninacion. As the sun set and the lights
Speaker 1: outlined the plaza with golden hues, Albaro stood up with determination.
Speaker 1: Savie ke propos cro yennesin stante elbrcao de la pla,
Speaker 1: sa de maggio se conviti and el punto de partida
Speaker 1: paras Venturaretiva. He knew his art had a clear purpose,
Speaker 1: and in that moment, the bustling market of the Placa
Speaker 1: de Majo became the starting point for his new creative adventure.
Speaker 3: Today's vocabulary words are coming up right after this commercial break.
Speaker 3: Here are today's vocabulary words, first in Spanish, then in English.
Speaker 1: Platardi plat lat the afternoon, blah plasa, la plasa, la blasa,
Speaker 1: the square, kill this, phey ill this phey ill, this
Speaker 1: pheely parade, El roma, l roma e laroma, aroma, bla
Speaker 1: multi tooth la, multi tooth la, multi tooth crowd. El artista,
Speaker 1: el artista e l artista artist helenusiasmo el entusiasmo Ellen Tusiamo, enthusiasm,
Speaker 1: plans sia, lancia, that lance, sad, anxiety, pla chispa, la chispa,
Speaker 1: la chiesepa, spark, proshima, roxima, proxima nextlexposition, lexposition, lex posision, exhibition, lartesano, elartesano, elartesano, craftsman,
Speaker 1: el retablo, el retablo, el retablo, retablo, el regalo, el regalo,
Speaker 1: el regalo, gift, plas lagrimas las, lagrimas las lagrimas tears.
Speaker 1: Pla felicidad, la felicidad, la felicidad happiness, plac comprension, lacombrencion,
Speaker 1: la comprension, understanding, El quaderno DeVos, el quaderno, DeVos, el
Speaker 1: cuaderno de voetos, sketchbock, el zumbido, el zumbido, el zumbdo bus,
Speaker 1: el traso, el traso, l raso, stroke plus connexiones sumanas,
Speaker 1: plas connexiones, sumanas, las connexiones sumanas, human connections, ply censia,
Speaker 1: ply censia, liceensia, essence, geno de emosion, geno de emosion,
Speaker 1: geno de emocion, filled with emotion. Pla confienza, la confienza,
Speaker 1: la confianza confidence, El proposito, el proposito, el proposito, purpose,
Speaker 1: elo caso, elocaso, elo caso, sunset, plostnos los tonos, los
Speaker 1: tonos use plave terminacion, la ve terminacion, la ve terminacion determination,
Speaker 1: plav in, toura creativa, lave in to recreativa, love, indura, creativa,
Speaker 1: creative adventure, elmericado, elmericado, elmeercado market.
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