每日英语听力 Day 20

welcome to the listening time podcast hey everybody this is corner and you are listening to the episode 133 of the listening time podcast i hope you all doing excellent and i want to wish you the->a merry christmas around this time when this episode is released i think christmas will be in about a week if i am not mistaken and that is actually the topic of today’s episode we are gonna talk about christmas and specifically what christmas is like in the us.

i am sure that a lot of you are interested in this topic this is a really big deal in the us the christmas season is rally important and it is very unique in this contry so i am happy to talk about that today i am sure i’ve mentioned certain aspects about christmas in other episode but i want->wanted to do a full episode dedicated to this topic today so hopefully it wull be interesting and educational for you.

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okay let us talk about christmas in the us first of all i want to mention that christmas is ususlly considered by most people to be the most important holiday in the us i’ve already mentioned this in the episode about thanksgiving but i want to repeat it here today thanksgiving is not the most important holiday in the us but for some reason a lot of people from other coutries think of->\ this. they think that thanksgiving is the most important holiday here but most people would think christmas to be the most important holiday so there are a lot of reasons for this of course at the heart of christmas is the religious aspect of the holiday the reason why christmas is exist->exists right? it is to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ right? so Christians in the us will really value christmas because it is the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior right? there is a huge reason to celebrate if you are a Christian but even you are not a->religious this holiday is probably still the most important one throughout the year because it is become a holiday that most people celebrate whether or not they regard the religious aspect of it so it is still big just in the->society beyond just the religious population so there is the religious significant->ce the reason for the holiday obviously however it is also a really big holiday for other people for other reasons as well and we have the->a whole season around christmas there is the christmas season so the whole month of December is special in the us this month feels different it looks different it is sound different you can tell that is the christmas season any time in December and i will talk a little more about that in just a minute but yeah we have the->a whole season around the->\ christmas that is how significant this holiday is and of course it is a really big family holiday usually this is the day when you eat together with your family and you eat together and you have this time as a family like thanksgiving thanksgiving also has that aspect as well but christmas does too and for me christmas is->has more of that it is on another level so christmas is really significant for its->it is family aspect as well. and we have a christmas culture i would call it in the us we have the->a whole culture that is releted to this holiday so there are a lot of things that are specific to christmas that suddenly appear around this time of year and a lot of things become different and people do different things they even act differently sometimes arount this season so there is a whole seperate culture when it comes to christmas.