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El Aula Azul - Conversación: Un día de mala suerte

Difficulty: Intermediate

Spain

Two teachers at El Aula Azul (The Blue Classroom) language school converse about their coworker, Anastasia's extremely unlucky day! You might note that the Spanish spoken in Spain tends to employ the present perfect tense [i.e. "I have eaten"] more frequently than English-speakers or Spanish-speakers from other regions would to describe occurrences that took place in the recent past, most typically on that day.

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Caption 54 [es]: pues, vamos a poner la denuncia de las dos cosas.
Caption 54 [en]: well, we're going to file the report for both things.

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Clase Aula Azul - El verbo parecer - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Spain

Parecer means "to seem," and when used with indirect object pronouns (me, te, etc.), can be used to express an opinion. When El Aula Azul's Ioia asks, "Cristián, ¿qué te parece San Sebastián?" a translation might be, "Cristian, how does San Sebastian seem to you?" Or, more commonly stated, "Cristian, what do you think of San Sebastian"?

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Caption 10 [es]: Podéis hacer muchas cosas en San Sebastián después de la clase, ¿mmm?
Caption 10 [en]: You can do many things in San Sebastian after class, hmm?

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Club de las ideas - Seguridad en internet

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Spain Andalusia

As kids spend ever-increasing amounts of time on the internet at the expense of other activities, are they really aware of its risks? A Spanish teacher tries to educate them as well as their parents.

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Caption 56 [es]: Pues, muy bien porque así nadie podrá ver cosas tuyas que tú no quieras.
Caption 56 [en]: Well, very good because that way no one can see things of yours that you don't want.

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Club de las ideas - La biblioteca

Difficulty: Advanced

Spain Andalusia

The Ideas Club asks some high school students from Cordoba about the advantages of studying at the library vs. at home and for their suggestions on how to improve libraries.

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Caption 94 [es]: que se... deja las cosas pero se va
Caption 94 [en]: they... they leave their things but they leave

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Club de las ideas - La escuela que queremos

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Spain Andalusia

Italian thinker and educational psychologist, Francesco Tonucci, holds a meeting in Seville to ask students to provide feedback about what would constitute an ideal school. Tonucci believes strongly that it is the responsibility of the teachers and educational institutions not only to ask but to try to implement students' suggestions.

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Caption 49 [es]: Por lo cual, es... son cosas gordas, son cosas importantes.
Caption 49 [en]: Therefore, it's... they are heavy things, they are important things.