![]() Martina: Bienvenidos and welcome to the Duolingo Spanish Podcast-I'm Martina Castro. Y también cambió la calidad de la salud materna en mi país. Linda: Esa experiencia me dio una idea que cambió la dirección de mi carrera profesional para siempre. As the granddaughter of a traditional Guatemalan healer, she had long been searching for a way to unite the best parts of traditional and modern medicine. Martina: The experience was a turning point for Linda. Esto es porque, en Guatemala, especialmente en las áreas rurales, las personas prefieren la medicina tradicional a la medicina moderna. Linda: En ese momento, yo me di cuenta de que solo las tenían ahí para que llegaran más pacientes. They were treated more like janitors than healthcare professionals. Martina: Some of the parteras were asked to sweep the floors, pick up the garbage, even to mop up the rooms after a delivery. ![]() Linda: Yo vi que la mayoría de los trabajadores en el hospital trataba mal a las parteras, incluso los doctores y las enfermeras. She was pleasantly surprised that in this one there was a space reserved for traditional midwives, but her initial excitement didn't last long. Martina: Linda's job was to evaluate the quality of public hospitals in all of Guatemala. Ahí las parteras podían ayudar a las mujeres antes, durante y después del parto, con la supervisión de un médico. Linda: A diferencia de una maternidad común, en ese hospital había una sala grande con unos sillones. It was in Sololá, in the west of the country. ![]() She had been working for the Ministry of Public Health in Guatemala for almost two years-when she first visited a hospital with a room for parteras, or traditional midwives. Linda Valencia came across something she had never seen before in her line of work. This episode touches on topics related to reproductive health and contraception. Thanks, and we hope you enjoy today's episode.Ī quick note to any parents listening with children. Also, Tinycards has a deck for each episode as it comes out.Martina: Hey listeners! When this episode was made, we had to record at home to protect everyone's safety, so you might notice a slight difference in sound quality. All the same, Duolingo mentioned that other languages would be added if the podcast was well received, like Duolingo Stories.Īt the bottom of the transcripts there is a vocabulary list. This is due to the fact that at the time of their release (and today), the Spanish for English, and French for English courses on Duolingo were easily the largest courses for English speakers on the site. French įrom 18 June 2019 to 30 July 2019, Duolingo released 6 French Podcast episodes.Ĭurrently this feature is only available in Spanish and French. That’s partly because of something that happened just before his departure, something that changed his life forever: the kidnapping of his aunt. In 1996, Luis von Ahn left Guatemala to study in the United States and never moved back. She never quite understood that period in his life, until she took her own trip to Cincinnati, Ohio. But while Carolina felt distant from her dad, he in turn was close with an American couple who hosted him when he was an exchange student to the U.S. He was withdrawn and not very affectionate a military man who loved reading American books. Growing up in Ecuador, Carolina Loza-León didn’t feel particularly close to her father. One day, he decided it was time to make the trip his own. So when he first read Jack Kerouac’s novel, “On the Road”, he dreamed of crossing the United States from coast to coast as the main characters in the book had. ![]() But six months later, she returned home having only accomplished one thing: to get scammed by a woman whose name would forever be etched in her memory - Helen Brown.įabián Mauricio Martínez discovered his love for travel through his other passion - literature. But the real surprise wouldn’t come until she returned home to Chile.Īctress Trinidad Piriz traveled to Berlin to study theater, hoping to fall in love and improve her quality of life. She wasn’t prepared for the culture shock she’d face there. María Elizabeth Soto had never traveled to Asia before her office sent her on a three-week business trip to China. Decades later, Herrscher returns to the islands to confront his memories and ends up making an unlikely friend. Roberto Herrscher was one of the many Argentinians who fought against Great Britain in the Falklands War in the 1980s. Belén was ready for an adventure… But the one that awaited her in Buenos Aires would turn out very differently than what she had imagined." "When Belén Fernández Llanos turned 28, she decided to move from Chile to Argentina with her boyfriend of ten years to start a new life together. ![]() In this first episode, we head to Veracruz, México to hear how Rodrigo Soberanes managed to meet his childhood hero. As of 6 January 2020, there are 44 Spanish Podcasts. ![]()
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