A consejo is “a piece of advice” and the verb aconsejar is “to advise.” Here in the Don Quijote classroom, we take a look at the grammar and language involved when doling out recommendations, suggestions, and the like, in Spanish.

The Spanish cooking show, ¡Cómetelo! [Eat it Up!], seeks to teach its viewers about their land through its gastronomy. Today, on its quest to make broccoli soup, the program takes us to the charming town of Castril in southern Spain where many crops are grown including this nutritional powerhouse.

The Spanish cooking show, ¡Cómetelo! [Eat it Up!] continues as our Spanish chef begins to show us how to make broccoli soup in a very animated fashion.

Behold our lively Spanish chef as continues the broccoli soup-making process.

Our animated chef continues to demonstrate the process of making broccoli soup, along with some homemade croutons as a garnish.

Chef Enrique promises his viewers to take their suggestion of proposing an hors d'oeuvre or two to serve with his broccoli soup. But first, he has to finish his enthusiastic soup-making demo.

In this segment, the chef shows us how to make the creamy broth in his cream of broccoli soup.

Cata and Cleer teach us how to order food at a restaurant.

Having just returned from her trip to Madrid, Ester, a teacher at El Aula Azul, shares with Idoia many of the wonderful things she did in the Spanish capital.

Two teachers at El Aula Azul (The Blue Classroom) language school converse about their coworker, Anastasia's extremely unlucky day! You might note that the Spanish spoken in Spain tends to employ the present perfect tense [i.e. "I have eaten"] more frequently than English-speakers or Spanish-speakers from other regions would to describe occurrences that took place in the recent past, most typically on that day.

A teacher at El Aula Azul [The Blue Classroom] is having a birthday and is excited to share with us a wish she plans to make for the coming year.

Professor Idoia from El Aula Azul teaches us the most common Spanish verbs for making wishes and encourages her students to make wishes of their own.

Now that we know how to make wishes on our birthdays, Idoia from El Aula Azul teaches us how to make wishes on others' behalf.

In order to make wishes for other people, we need to use the subjunctive mood. Idoia from El Aula Azul will teach us a trick for conjugating -er verbs in the present subjunctive.

Idoia from the El Aula Azul continues to explain to us how to conjugate -ar, -er and -ir verbs in the subjunctive mood, as well as introducing us to the word "ojalá" [let's hope], which is always used with the subjunctive.