Natal

Olá! Welcome to the Portuguese from Portugal podcast. Today we have a slowly spoken article for you to help you to learn and comprehend the Portuguese language. Enjoy it! Natal. Natal ou dia de Natal é um feriado e festival religioso cristão que se comemora anualmente a 25 de dezembro. É o centro das festas de fim de ano e da temporada de férias, sendo no cristianismo o marco inicial do ciclo do Natal, que dura...

12 dias. Originalmente destinada a celebrar o nascimento anual do Jesus Sol do Solstício de Inverno, a festividade foi ressignificada pela igreja católica no século iii para estimular a conversão dos povos pagãos sob o domínio do império romano e então passou a comemorar

o nascimento de Jesus de Nazaré. Embora tradicionalmente seja um dia santificado cristão, o Natal é amplamente comemorado por muitos não cristãos, sendo que alguns de seus costumes populares e temas comemorativos têm origens pré-cristãs ou seculares. Costumes populares modernos, típicos do feriado, incluem a troca de prendas, a ceia de Natal, músicas natalinas...

festas de igreja, uma refeição especial e a exibição de decorações diferentes, incluindo as árvores de Natal e os presépios. Além disso, o Pai Natal... É uma figura mitológica popular em muitos países, associada com as prendas das crianças. A troca de prendas e muitos outros aspectos da festa de Natal envolvem um aumento da atividade económica entre cristãos e não cristãos. A festa tornou-se um acontecimento significativo e um período-chave de vendas para as empresas.

O impacto económico da comemoração é um fator que tem crescido de forma constante ao longo dos últimos séculos em muitas regiões do mundo.

Hi everyone, my name is Rita, I'm from Portugal and I'm here today with a new article. The new article is about Natal, Christmas, and I'm here today with my co-host James. As usual, together with James... James, I will read the article and I will help James with his pronunciation and also with words that he may not understand. Shall we get started, James? Yes, yes, I'm ready. Yeah, good. Thank you. So the first paragraph. Do you understand, James? Yes. Very clear to me.

and a Christian Religious Festival, que se comemora, that is celebrated, anualmente, a 25 de Decembro. Exactly. And if you're listening to this right when we recorded, this is going to be yesterday. Yeah, it's true. Exactly. Very good. O centro das festas do fim do ano e da temporada de férias. E da temporada de férias, sendo no cristianismo o marco inicial do ciclo do Natal que... Dura 12 dias. Muito bem. A data é o centro das festas de fim de ano.

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Yeah? Yes. Sendo, no Christianismo, for the Christians, being for the Christian, for the Christianism, o marco inicial. Marco inicial is something that starts. Something that starts for other events to come. Do ciclo de Natal. So that begins with the Christmas cycle. Que dura doze dias. And lasts for 12 days. For 12 days. If I'm not mistaken, until the three kings, the sixth. Okay. Which is 12 days, right? I think so. Yeah. Good. Next.

originalmente destinada a celebrar o nascimento anual do Deus Sol no solstício. De inverno. A festividade foi resignificada pela igreja católica. no século III para estimular a conversão dos povos pagãos sob o domínio do Império Romano e então passou a comemorar o nascimento de Jesus de Nazaré. Ok, this talks about the regions. É originalmente destinada a celebrar o nascimento anual do sol, do Deus Sol, do solstício de inverno. O que é que percebes aqui?

What did you understand? So originally this date was to celebrate the starting of, no. Yeah, the Nascimento. It's like the start. The annual start of the winter solstice. Exactly. Deus do Sol, the god of sun, but for the winter solstice. A festividade foi re-significada. Re, it comes from the Latin, do it again, something that started a new thing. Significada.

new signification signifies meaning um so basically the church on the the third third century got this e para estimular a conversão dos povos pagãos the folks that weren't religious and the word subdominio do imperio romano yeah that were uh dominio is something that is when is Other folks are under your, like, depend on you, yeah? So these pagãos didn't believe in any God in particular.

And they were under the jurisprudition of the Roman Empire. And the Catholic Church, Igreja Católica, got this celebration. started to be the celebration of the the burning of the Jesus of Nazareth okay any questions James here it's clear Oh, that's okay. That's done. Okay, good. Next. amplamente comemorado por muitos não cristãos, sendo que alguns de seus costumes populares e Temas comemorativos têm origens pré-cristais ou séculares. Muito bem, percebeste?

Embora tradicionalmente seja um dia santificado Christian day, like religious day. The Christmas is celebrated by many people that are not Christian. Sendo que alguns dos seus costumes populares... Not costumes as a costume. Yeah, customs. Customs, yeah. E temas comemorativos and commemorative themes related with Christmas. I had his... pre-christian and secular origins so even though today's still a christian day

There are some activities and themes related with Christmas that are pre-Christian. That's why... many non-christian people celebrate Christmas. And we will see some things, some activities. Okay.

Costumes populares modernos típicos do feriado incluem a troca de prendas, a ceia de Natal, músicas natalinas, festas da igreja, uma refeição especial e a exibição de decorações. Diferentes, incluindo as árvores de Natal e os précipios. Muito bem. Percebeste alguma coisa, James? Você entendeu? These customs, the modern customs, and the typical ones, I guess, to celebrate the day are the giving of presents. Exchange.

Seja de Natal? I don't know. Seja de Natal is on the Christmas day. You eat all together. Which actually is not Christmas day in some countries. It's on the 24th. Okay. Seja. Yeah. Normally Seja is later. Okay. Not like 8 o'clock or 7, like 10 o'clock and so on. There are places in Portugal, for example, they have the Seiya de Natal at midnight after the church and they have the dinner at 8 o'clock.

Okay. Yeah. Seja is like a late... Supper. Supper. Exactly. Supper. Correct. Christmas Supper. So the music then? Muzikas Natalinas? the festas de igrejas or church festivals and this uh refeição is a meal like it's something special for example in portugal some regions most of Portugal it's bacalhau. But some regions it's Turkey, other regions it's octopus.

it's always something special and not only the main dish but the sweets, rabanadas, it's like a french toast with some cinnamon and and porto wine is all special in that night whatever you eat is special yeah great uh And also these decorations, different types of decorations, like on the Christmas tree. Exhibition. Exhibition. To show the show of the Christmas decorations, including... Então, em Portugal...

So we have the Christmas tree and next to it we have Jesus, Mary, the three kings on the side with a little, I don't know in English how you say.

with a little the cribs maybe the crib is what the baby sleeps in yeah but that's it okay yeah it's basically where you show the the jesus in his script okay yeah you build a little house next to the nativity scene the nativity scene exactly so you have the tree yes yeah and the nativity scene with the creep the baby in the creep the jesus and mary and so on a little version of it okay so i can to continue yeah please

O Pai Natal é uma figura mitológica popular em muitos países. Países. Países. Associada com as prendas das crianças. So, essentially saying that this Father Christmas is a mythological figure that's popular in many countries. And it's associated with giving of presents to children. Exato, associada com as prendas das crianças. Muito bem, James. Último parágrafo, por favor. e muitos outros aspectos da festa de Natal, envolvem um aumento da atividade econômica.

Entre cristãos e não cristãos, a festa tornou-se um acontecimento significativo. É um período chave. E um período chave de... Well, now it's not story anymore. It's the present. The economical side. Exactly. The economical side of it, which I found also interesting in terms... of knowledge for people, although everyone knows that, como troca de prendas e muitos outros aspectos da festa de Natal envolvem um aumento da atividade económica.

the exchange of presents and other aspects of the Christmas. like buying sweets yes the food the food the decorations the lights everything is financial economical involve involves Um aumento da atividade económica entre cristãos e não cristãos. A festa tornou-se um acontecimento significativo. has become a significative event e um período-chave de vendas para as empresas. Periodo-chave is a crucial period of time.

So the people know, those who have companies, shops and so on, they know that will be a boom of people. And you see that everywhere in Europe. It doesn't matter, Portugal, Germany, England, and so on. Everywhere in the week before Christmas is full of people. It affects the sellings, of course, which is good for those who are getting the money.

and also for those who are buying because they are changing presents they get presents yeah it's a financial time of the year as well okay yeah da comemoração é um fator que tem crescido de forma constante ao longo dos últimos séculos. em muitas regiões do mundo. variable, fator variable, that has growth in a normal manner, em termos de forma constante, ao longo dos últimos séculos.

throughout the last centuries, in many regions of the world, in different parts of the world. Obviously in Africa, I guess, some parts of Africa don't have this economic impact as in Europe.

and other continents. But, you know, that's how it is. Good. Thank you, James. Merry Christmas. Feliz Natal. Feliz Natal to everyone who are listening to us. Feliz Natal a todos! I hope you like this time of the year and I hope you like our... set of articles that we will launch throughout this year and if you want to give us some feedback It's really appreciated. You can find our email under our website, portuguesefromportugal.com. And once again, Feliz Natal! Feliz Natal! Adeus! Tchau!

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