{"id":3296,"date":"2015-05-05T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T18:55:23","slug":"the-surprisingly-american-history-of-cinco-de-mayo-interactive-spanish-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2015\/05\/05\/the-surprisingly-american-history-of-cinco-de-mayo-interactive-spanish-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surprisingly American History of Cinco de Mayo [Interactive Spanish Lesson]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may be more than happy to throw back a margarita and enjoy some delicious Mexican food on Cinco de Mayo (and we don\u2019t blame you!), but do you know what actually happened on the 5<sup>th<\/sup> of May? Contrary to popular belief, Cinco de Mayo is <em>not<\/em> Mexico\u2019s Independence Day and it has actually become far more popular in the United States than in Mexico. Want to know why? <strong>Learn more about the holiday and celebrate in style with some Spanish holiday vocabulary in our interactive <a id=\"cincodemayoenglish_link\" href=\"http:\/\/tplsites.s3.amazonaws.com\/courses\/mini_lessons\/Cinco_de_Mayo\/unit1.html\">Cinco de Mayo Spanish Lesson for Beginners<\/a>\u00a0and our full-immersion <a id=\"cincodemayospanish_link\" href=\"http:\/\/cloudfront.transparent.com\/courses\/mini_lessons\/Cinco_de_Mayo_Spanish_Immersion_Version\/unit1.html\">Cinco de Mayo Spanish Lesson for Intermediate Learners<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3297\" style=\"width: 569px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a id=\"cincodemayoenglish_image\" href=\"http:\/\/tplsites.s3.amazonaws.com\/courses\/mini_lessons\/Cinco_de_Mayo\/unit1.html\" aria-label=\"Cinco De Mayo Vocabulary 1024x579\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3297\" class=\"wp-image-3297 \"  alt=\"cinco de mayo lesson\" width=\"559\" height=\"316\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/04\/cinco-de-mayo-vocabulary-1024x579.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/04\/cinco-de-mayo-vocabulary-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/04\/cinco-de-mayo-vocabulary-350x198.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/04\/cinco-de-mayo-vocabulary-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/04\/cinco-de-mayo-vocabulary.jpg 1671w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">English-Spanish Beginner Course<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a id=\"cincodemayospanish_image\" href=\"http:\/\/tplsites.s3.amazonaws.com\/courses\/mini_lessons\/Cinco_de_Mayo\/unit1.html\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3307\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudfront.transparent.com\/courses\/mini_lessons\/Cinco_de_Mayo_Spanish_Immersion_Version\/unit1.html\" aria-label=\"Cinco De Mayo Spanish Lesson 1024x522\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3307\" class=\" wp-image-3307\"  alt=\"Spanish Immersion Course\" width=\"590\" height=\"301\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/05\/cinco-de-mayo-spanish-lesson-1024x522.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/05\/cinco-de-mayo-spanish-lesson-1024x522.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/05\/cinco-de-mayo-spanish-lesson-350x178.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/05\/cinco-de-mayo-spanish-lesson-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/05\/cinco-de-mayo-spanish-lesson-1536x783.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/05\/cinco-de-mayo-spanish-lesson.jpg 1595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spanish Immersion Course<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Interested in using this technology in your own classroom? Want to bring language learning to your customers or employees? Learn more about Transparent Language Online for\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/education\/language-learning-online.html\"><strong>schools<\/strong><\/a><strong>,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/libraries\/language-learning-online.html\"><strong>libraries<\/strong><\/a><strong>,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/corporate\/language-learning-online.html\"><strong>corporate organizations<\/strong><\/a><strong>, or simply\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:edsales@transparent.com\"><strong>contact us<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/05\/cinco-de-mayo-spanish-lesson-350x178.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/05\/cinco-de-mayo-spanish-lesson-350x178.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/05\/cinco-de-mayo-spanish-lesson-1024x522.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/05\/cinco-de-mayo-spanish-lesson-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/05\/cinco-de-mayo-spanish-lesson-1536x783.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/05\/cinco-de-mayo-spanish-lesson.jpg 1595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>You may be more than happy to throw back a margarita and enjoy some delicious Mexican food on Cinco de Mayo (and we don\u2019t blame you!), but do you know what actually happened on the 5th of May? Contrary to popular belief, Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico\u2019s Independence Day and it has actually become&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2015\/05\/05\/the-surprisingly-american-history-of-cinco-de-mayo-interactive-spanish-lesson\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[520016,542993],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-learners","category-learning-material-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}