Damiana
Rui- Estamos a fazer este vídeo We're making this video
- para falar um pouco sobre a tradição do Halloween, to talk a little about the tradition of Halloween,
- ou o Dia das Bruxas, or Witches' Day,
- em Portugal e no Canadá. in Portugal and Canada.
- Então, da minha experiência, So, from my experience,
- agora vemos muita coisa, muita tradição, now we see a lot of things, a lot of tradition,
- que eu acho que foi importada da América do Norte. which I think was imported from North America.
Premium Members get access to this episode's entire transcription, as well as hundreds more!
Vocabulary
a abóborapumpkin a aranhaspider assustadorscary os avósgrandparents broaa type of Portuguese cornbread a centopeiacentipede desaparecerto disappear o Dia das BruxasHalloween, Witches' Day Dia de Todos-os-SantosAll Saints' Day doçurasweetness o fatosuit, costume a frutafruit os frutos secosnuts, dried fruits mascararto masquerade a máscaramask as nozesnuts, walnuts pagãpagan patapaw, hoof, foot of an animal a travessuramischief, trick, prank
Expressions
Doçura ou travessura!Trick or treat!
Premium Feature: Smart Review
With a Premium Subscription, you can save these phrases to Smart Review, and use spaced repetition to commit them to long-term memory.
Premium Feature: Episode Quizzes
With a Premium Subscription, you can take episode quizzes to challenge your comprehension skills and track your progress!
Comments
Halloween became popular in Europe with the privatization of television and the start of TV channels for children. Advertisers began marketing Halloween to sell more merchandise. And the TV stations promoted Halloween to get more advertisers. This is true, I worked with TV stations at the time in Europe.
Hallowe’en was a popular festival in Wales when I was growing up in the 1960’s and 70’s. The focus was on apples – with games, like eating apples on strings, or “bobbing” apples in a bowl of water. We did not have pumpkins, but would carve out a smaller, hard vegetable called a swede (turnip-like), and put a candle inside: