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.

Sometimes when we give advice it seems a little presumptious to tell people outright what we think they should do. It’s a little smoother to instead say what we would do if we were in their place, “I would watch more Spanish videos (if I were you).” Let’s have a look at how we do this in Spanish.

Nothing’s better in the morning than a good breakfast and a good lesson! Let’s start this Yabla day with Marta and Ivana, a young lady who’s as sweet as can be.

What do we do in the middle of the day? What about eating? A good lunch could easily become the highlight of the day. What are our Spaniard friends eating?

Our friends from Spain keep sharing their rutina diaria with us, and we can see one thing that’s really important to them: food. They eat all the time! Maybe that’s why they look so happy!

Silvia from San Sebastián shares her daily routine with us. She leads a very active lifestyle that includes a meal with her parents, work at a Spanish language academy for foreigners (El Aula Azul), a drink with friends, and even some quality time with her cats!

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.

Ester from El Aula Azul demonstrates some simple addition problems in Spanish.

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

In addition to continuing his demonstration of how to make scrumptious broccoli soup complete with croutons, our chef shows us some of the attractions in Castril, the charming southern Spanish town where a lot of broccoli is grown.

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.

Silvia from El Aula Azul demonstrates the difference between the simple present and present progressive tenses in Spanish through examples employing our daily activities.

Our chef continues his detailed demonstration of how to make broccoli soup.

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

Our chef gives us a few ideas about how to make the cream part of the cream of broccoli soup even creamier!

Watch as the chef puts the finishing touches on his cream of broccoli soup.

Chef Enrique puts the final touches on his broccoli soup.

Karla and Isabel teach us how to rent a room in a shared apartment located at a Spanish-speaking country in which we would like to live for a period of time.

In search of a room to rent, Isabel goes to meet with Karla, who is renting one out in a shared apartment. Isabel is delighted both with the place and the prospect of living with roommates of different nationalities.

Karla and Isabel teach us how to order the various varieties of coffee in Spanish as well as telling us about some of coffee's benefits.

Karla and Isabel tell us about the many activities they enjoy doing in their spare time.

Clara explains a bit about the weather in Spain and how we might speak about it during different seasons and/or weather conditions.