Difficulty: Intermediate
Venezuela
Karina gives a summary of the two startup companies she has previously spoken about and gives us some helpful advice about small changes we can make in our daily lives to help the environment.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Carlos keeps teaching us more environmental terms, which he will reinforce by reciting a typical paragraph we might hear during a news segment on the environment.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Venezuela
Karina García, a Venezuelan chemical engineer living in Barcelona, talks to us about her project Baobab, which aims to make money while helping the planet. Let's hear more!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
In this episode of News Vocabulary, Carlos focuses on commonly used environmental terms, explaining their meanings and giving us examples in context.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Ecuador
Jaime Santa Cruz takes us to the nursery that bears his last name, "Vivero Santa Cruz," where one can find a variety of plants and trees for every taste.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Venezuela
Karina García, a Venezuelan woman living in Barcelona, tells us about her startup, Mandarina Care, whose mission is to limit consumption of microplastics, chemicals, and toxic and carcinogenic substances with her lines of organic solid cosmetics.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ecuador
Let's visit a forest with Cristina, where she'll teach us a lot of basic, nature-related vocabulary!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Ecuador
Cosmetologist Alejandra Zavala breaks down for us the process of making the organic soaps that her company, Micha Cosméticos (Micha Cosmetics), offers and tells us their benefits for the skin.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ecuador
From Otavalo, Ecuador, our friend Ñusta takes us to the Peguche Waterfall, a site of enormous touristic, ritual, and spiritual importance that is associated with a fascinating legend.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ecuador
The owner of the Tarpuy nursery near Otavalo, Ecuador, tells us about some of the different plants, pots, and prices they offer as well as a bit of her philosophy regarding their care.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ecuador
Welcome to Tarpuy, a nursery near the city of Otavalo that launched during the pandemic to grow and sell cacti, succulents, and other types of plants that are thought to help people to connect to themselves and nature.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Peru
Soaring through the skies of South America, the Andean condor is a symbol of freedom. However, when Virginia from Peru visits a captive condor at a zoo in Berlin who appears to be a bit down, she decides to try to cheer him up by playing a beautiful tune for him.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Guatemala
Hilda Velásquez, a young Guatemalan woman living in Berlin, Germany, shares with us her experience climbing one of the tallest volcanoes in Guatemala: Acatenango.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ecuador
In part two of Darwin's tour of the Guayllabamba Zoo, a refuge for wild animals that have been victims of illegal trafficking or domestication, he focuses on the aviary, the herpetarium, and the farm, among other areas for fascinating exotic animals.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ecuador
Darwin takes us on a tour of the Guayllabamba Zoo, a refuge for wild animals that were trafficked or domesticated illegally. In this first part, he'll show us the areas for felines, monkeys, and birds.
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