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My goal with this newsletter is to share useful Spanish, cultural references, and a short practice so Spanish can become part of your day, not something extra on your to-do list.

In today’s email:

Last Sunday, I watched what, in my opinion, was an amazing performance by Bad Bunny during the Super Bowl halftime show.

Did you watch it?
You can reply at the end of this email 👇

I’m from Venezuela 🇻🇪, and our culture is very similar to Puerto Rico’s. That’s why so many details in this performance felt very familiar to me.

Here are a few things he showed on stage:

🍧 Piraguas (shaved ice) — in Venezuela, we call it cepillado
🁓 Dominoes — my dad used to play almost every weekend
💒 A real wedding on stage — this was amazing!
🔌 Blackout scenes — a reference to Puerto Rico’s energy crisis, something I deeply relate to since the first thing the Maduro regime neglected in Venezuela was the electric grid.

My favorite moment: A kid asleep on plastic chairs, suddenly woken up by the music.

Growing up in Venezuela, this was very real for me:

🪑 Las sillas de plástico en el patio - Plastic chairs in the patio
🎺 La música a todo volumen - Music playing very loud

That reference really relates to how many Latinos grew up.

Here are a few viral moments you can watch. Don’t try to understand everything. Just listen and notice familiar words.

This is what the person officiating a wedding says in Spanish.
Very similar to an American wedding ceremony.

Do you recognize any words here?

👉 Watch “La escena de la Boda”

This moment became very viral.

It shows a kid asleep on plastic chairs, woken up by the music — something very common in Caribbean culture.

“Todos hemos sido ese nene alguna vez.”
(We’ve all been that kid at some point.)

👉 Watch my favorite part

In this short clip, you can see great references to Puerto Rican and Latin culture:

👉 Can you catch all the references above?

Sing along with the lyrics below:

Here’s a great 1-min short with all the best moments by WatchMojoespanol:

Practice with these 20 expressions you’ll hear in many Bad Bunny songs:

Choose 2 or 3 expressions, read the examples, and listen for them the next time you hear a Bad Bunny song.

Gracias por leer y por hacer del español parte de tu día.
Poco a poco, todo suma.

Aejandro Nuñez
Founder, Vokally
Be vocal in a new language