Cognates
información
What is information?
The number of letters that the Spanish alphabet contains
What is 27?
El Día de los Muertos is celebrated on these 2 days every year?
What is November 1st and 2nd?
Listen
What is escucha?
Of the word la fecha or la tarea, the one you may be assigned nightly
What is "la tarea"?
acción
What is action?
The additional letter that the Spanish alphabet contains over our English Alphabet.
What is ñ?
These fragrant yellow-orange flowers are known to attract the souls of the dead to the celebration.
What are marigolds?
"May I go to the bathroom?" in Spanish.
What is "Puedo ir al baño?" ?
"It's nice to meet you" in Spanish
What is "Mucho gusto".
aniversario
What is anniversary?
What a mayúscula is.
What is a capital (letter)?
Name one of two animated movies about El Día de Los Muertos.
What is "Coco" or "The Book of Life?"
What "levanta la mano" means
What is raise your hand?
And you? /What about you? (informal)
What is ¿Y tú?
erupción
What is an eruption?
These two letters are in the Spanish Alphabet but are not used in Spanish words.
What are K and W?
This is what an ofrenda is.
What are little altars set up in memory of a loved one?
What "Cuándo es el almuerzo?" means.
What is "When is lunch/lunchtime?"?
"Hace buen tiempo" may be a good response to this question for "What's the weather like?" in Spanish
What is "Qué tiempo hace"?
A word that looks like a cognate but actually really isn't. It will have a different meaning altogether.
What is a "false cognate"?
These 3 letters used to be in the Spanish Alphabet but then were removed in 1994 by the Spanish Royal Academy.
What are ch, ll and rr?
The monarch butterflies (mariposas) come to the Día de Muertos celebration every year. It is said that they carry the _____of the dead on their wings.
What are souls?
The term to tell someone to "sit down"
What is "Siéntate?"
Studying a language can help delay the onset of the symptoms for this disease by 5 or so years if it runs in your family
What is "dementia/Alzheimer's"?