Ester, a teacher at El Aula Azul, believes that reading is one of the most important tools for acquiring vocabulary and understanding language structures. In this video, she recommends to us some of her favorite books for lower-level Spanish students.

In this last installment of this series on chess, Carlos teaches us a few tactics, among which is the famous "queen's gambit," like the title of the popular Netflix series.

In part three of Carlos' series on chess, he explains some important aspects of the game, including a popular opening move, as well as the Spanish words for terms like checkmate, castling, and stalemate.

Silvia tells us about the active volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma as well as some interesting facts about volcanoes you might not know, including the types of particles they expel and some different types of eruptions.

Having learned about the rook, the knight, and the bishop, let's now see how to place and move the remaining pieces: the king, the queen, and the pawn.

If you like chess, this lesson is for you! In this first part, we'll learn not only some of the most important Spanish chess-related vocabulary, but also how certain pieces move.

In honor of the Day of the Dead, Meli teaches us how to make squishy sugar skulls and pumpkins.

José Carlos, a Guatemalan who has been living in Berlin for the past ten years, will share with us some typical expressions from his home country.

Cleer and Lida continue their game of questions and answers about different topics.

Lida and Cleer continue with their question and answer game. What else will we discover about the girls' lives?

In this fun, new educational game, Lida and Cleer take turns asking one another random questions.

Ana Carolina gives us an introduction to a topic that terrorizes many Spanish students: verb conjugation!

Ana Carolina tells us about some typical symbols of Christmas in her home country of Ecuador, where, in spite of its tropical location, it's quite common to see depictions of snow!

The best cure for "lovesickness" is to find someone compatible with you. In this video, Doctor Advice from El Aula Azul will help Ander discover who his ideal partner is as they practice using the subjunctive.

In another great session with El Aula Azul's Doctor Advice, her patient Ander will teach us how to use the subjunctive tense when we talk about feelings that other people or situations provoke in us.