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Learn Spanish with StoriesAuthor: Lingo Mastery Spanish
Learn Spanish with Stories is the number one podcast for upper beginner to intermediate Spanish learners. The main objective of this podcast is to give students fun and interesting stories from Latin America to help students with Spanish immersion. You can read while you listen if you head over to podcast.lingomastery.com to find the transcript. Language: en-us Genres: Education, How To, Language Learning Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Afro-Bolivians: The Roots That Remain in Los Yungas (Afrobolivianos, Raíces que Permanecen en Los Yungas)
Episode 6
Tuesday, 10 November, 2026
We are often quick to classify people by a small group of ethnicities (as well as 'races', though this term is less used) - but the reality is that there many more than we are aware of. In this episode, you will learn about the magic of one of the world's most obscure of these peoples.Far out in Bolivia, near a place known as the "Road of Death", lies the Yungas region, where the descendants of a mixture of African slaves and local indigenous peoples came to form a new group named Afro-Bolivians.Working hard on the Potosà mines, which we recently covered, they built a functional society that exists until today, and which is still ruled, to this day, by a king(!)Interested in learning more? Check out this week's episode of the Learn Spanish with Stories podcast.Transcript of this episode can be found here: https://podcast.lingomastery.com/listen/7079
