Meli teaches us how to make "papel picado" [perforated paper] banners to decorate the altars to the dead set up to honor and remember those who have passed away during the celebration of the "Día de los muertos" [Day of the Dead], a holiday celebrated in Mexico on November 1st and 2nd.

Carolina explains the particular contexts in which one should use either "personaje" or "carácter" as a translation for the English word, "character," the difference between the Spanish words "de" and "dé," and, some different ways of expressing the date in Spanish depending upon the situation.

It's Cleer's first day at her new job and a workload already awaits her.

Cleer awaits a phone call from Lida to find out whether or not she got the job for which she recently interviewed.

Cleer attends her first post-college interview for a marketing position.

Freshly out of college, Cleer Oviedo sets up an interview for a potential marketing job.

Carolina teaches us about disjunctive and copulative conjunctions- ways to express "or" and "or else"- in Spanish.

Carolina explains about the gerund verb form in Spanish and some mistakes that native English speakers commonly make when employing it.

Carolina explains to us about the gerund, the form of a verb which expresses an action in progress.

Natalia from Ecuador explains to us those adverbs that describe the order in which a sequence of events take place.

Cleer, a professional makeup artist from Colombia, takes us step by step through the makeover she is giving her friend, Catalina, in preparation for her job interview.

Carolina concludes her lessons on participles by discussing double participles, which are those that have two different accepted conjugations.

Carolina explains some common mistakes her students make when forming certain verb participles.

In contrast with regular participles, irregular participles are those whose endings don't follow a specific pattern. Carolina explains more.

A participle is a personal form of a verb in which the verb becomes an adjective without totally losing its verb characteristics or nature. Carolina explains more about them.