Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Mexico
Let’s keep learning the Chilango slang. Ciudad de México, also knows as El Distrito or el D.F. is home to around 21 million people. Of course, they have to set themselves apart from people coming from other cities, and that’s why they created their own words, their own expressions. We went to share and learn with this nice construction crew, all of them very proud of being Chilangos.
Difficulty:
Advanced
Mexico
En route, Juan and friends tell about working far from home. Not only are there financial obstacles, there are cultural differences as well that lead to some misunderstandings. Americans don’t quite understand the saying Mi casa es su casa. Pay attention the next time someone from Mexico tells you there’s a party at your house!
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Ecuador
Kowy takes us to the Cheese Fair in Cayambe, Ecuador, where the Copa America of Cheese is held to choose the best among the many types of cheese presented. Let’s find out about many of their interesting ingredients and preparations.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
In this first episode of Kikiriki Notizine (a news and magazine show), we'll meet its reporters and characters, who will introduce the topics they are going to speak about.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
A water shortage at Kikiriki Notizine causes chaos among the staff.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
Of all things, the citizens choose water balloons to protest the water shortage about which their mayor speaks- and he does not seem to have the best ideas about saving water either!
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
When Jaz interviews Moses in the desert about water conservation, the advice she receives is of truly biblical proportions.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
Yas presents the current top three musical hits to distract herself and her comrades from the unbearable heat.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
There seems to be no end in sight for the water shortage as the bids for the last bottle of water reach unconscionable extremes.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
The Kikiriki crew experiments with "Animal-ji," a new and mysterious game.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
The Kirkiri crew debates over animal rights and feelings.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
A truck strike on the coast has had travelers trapped for more than five hours in sweltering heat with no water in sight. So, why is the vendor there selling illegal animals instead of water?
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
The Kikiriki crew continues with their mission to gather a plethora of exotic animals.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Dominican Republic
19 year old Kat de Luna was born in the Bronx and raised in the Dominican Republic where she received operatic vocal training. Relocating to the States as a pre-teen, she entered and won a Karaoke contest where the legendary Cuban salsero Rey Ruiz gave Kat advice that she carries with her today, “nobody knows you better than you do, and no one can help you if you can’t help yourself.”
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Spain
The game of brisca uses 40 cards known as the “Spanish deck.” One aspect of play involves using body language to reveal your hand to your partner. This is why the gentleman says “we blink an eye and we do like this…” He is making a joke about this body language/cards relationship when he says “your head aches when you have the ace of oros.”
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