Skip to content
Skip to main content
header search
Thinklore
Menu
sticky search

Un Día En Español 2: My Pet Armadillos

Subscribe to Un día en español: A Spanish learning podcast on
Apple  Spotify  Google or wherever you listen. See all episodes here.

Episode 2: My Pet Armadillos

Julio and his family live in a part of Mexico with lush rainforests and incredible wildlife. His dad rescues animals from the dangers of the highway, including two armadillos, Chato and Chebo. On this day, these two troublemakers brought total chaos to Julio’s household.

Want to test your skills by listening to the episode entirely in Spanish? Get the monolingual version here.

Key Vocabulary

hermoso/a  beautiful 
el jardín  the garden 
la mascota the pet 
el loro  the parrot
el mapache  the raccoon 
la tortuga the tortoise 
el cocodrilo  the crocodile 
la madriguera  the burrow 
res  beef 
enojado/a  angry 
volver loco a alguien  to drive someone crazy 
por eso that‘s why 
llover  to rain
almorzar  to have lunch 
el salón  the living room 
el grito  the scream 
la escoba  the broom 
tener miedo  to be scared 
estar harto/a to be sick and tired 
por supuesto  of course 
el refugio de animales  the animal shelter 

Dynamic Transcript

Show Notes

Un día en español is produced by the language experts at Babbel. The show is hosted by Sebastian Escobar. Editing and sound design by Iván Simonovis Pertiñez. Our producers are Elin Asklöv, Carmela López, Dylan Lyons, Andy Nielsen and Madeleine Townsend-Clark. Our executive producers are Jen Jordan and Daniel Meehan. Special thanks to Julio Ferrer for sharing his story on this episode.

Want to let us know what you thought of the episode? Send us an email at [email protected]. Make sure to subscribe to Un día en español wherever you get podcasts, and please rate and review us if possible. You can find future episodes of the show here (or on your preferred podcast platform). Thanks for listening!

More exciting content