{"id":51,"date":"2008-10-17T22:51:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T03:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2009-02-10T19:09:21","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T00:09:21","slug":"halloween-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/foreign-language-instruction-for-children\/halloween-in-spanish","title":{"rendered":"Halloween in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Members,<\/p>\n<p>After searching for info on some sites and contacting my Mexican and Spanish Translators, I have reached the confusing conclusion that there isn&#8217;t and there is Halloween in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish speaking countries used to celebrate that date as Dia de Los Muertos,\u00a0 Dia de las Brujas, Dia das Bruxas&#8230;&#8230;..offering celebrations in honor of the dead. Nowadays, the tradition has changed in many countries and the trick or treat has been incorporated&#8230;.Dulces o travesuras&#8230;.and other ways of saying it!<\/p>\n<p>The modern world linked us through the Internet, linking our cultures, costumes and more. Even in Brazil, where this wasn&#8217;t a date celebrated at all, the Halloween has slowly taken over, at first in English Private Schools, now in other Schools&#8230;..costumes and dancing are no longer a Carnival privilege, costumes and dancing have been brought to October, which is also celebrated in Brazil as the Children&#8217;s month.<\/p>\n<p>My nephew Daniel asked for a spiderman costume to wear at his school party and looking for the costume, while planning Spanish Speaking Halloween Classes, brought all those issues and research around this theme.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia has a good article on it. I would definitely recommend it!<\/p>\n<p>No matter what your tradition is, Halloween for the kids is about having fun and bringing their fantasies to life, whether you have a princess, a pumpkin, x-man or a transformer, let and encourage children to expose their fantasies to day dream and most of all, be happy!!<\/p>\n<p>Please contact me if you wish to have a copy of my lesson plans for ages 14m up to 10 years old on Spanish Halloween and links and videos to be used in class or at home.<\/p>\n<p>Spooky Saludos,<\/p>\n<p>CLaudia Krusch &#8211; Director<\/p>\n<p>CK Translations LLC<\/p>\n<p>www.easylearnlanguages.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Members, After searching for info on some sites and contacting my Mexican and Spanish Translators, I have reached the confusing conclusion that there isn&#8217;t and there is Halloween in Spanish. The Spanish speaking countries used to celebrate that date as Dia de Los Muertos,\u00a0 Dia de las Brujas, Dia das Bruxas&#8230;&#8230;..offering celebrations in honor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,8],"tags":[75,4,76,77,78,43,34],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-language-instruction-for-children","category-portuguese-language-discussion","category-teaching","tag-candy","tag-children","tag-class","tag-costume","tag-halloween-in-spanish","tag-music","tag-spanish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}