As the fifteenth birthday of young girls in Venezuela and most other Latin American countries marks a special rite of passage into womanhood, it is traditional for the family to throw them a big birthday bash.

Luis receives a class in the basics of astrology, a science which utilizes the location of the planets when individuals are born and may help us to make decisions about specific aspects of our lives during specific periods.

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

Carolina explains how the press and social media often use an abbreviated form of the passive voice to save space as well as how the pronoun "se" can be used to formulate sentences in the passive voice that emphasize what is sold or offered as opposed to the person selling or offering the service or merchandise.

The hostess of "Sin Desperdicio" interviews the members of the music group, Heaven Rays, the first place winners of its recent contest, who try to create a rock/heavy metal fusion with a positive message.

Carolina explains in greater detail how the passive voice is expressed in different verb tenses.

Jaime Garbet gives a radio interview on the one-year anniversary of his magazine, "Falcon Total," which focuses on the Falcon State in Venezuela, particularly renowned for its Kiteboarding World Championships.

Carolina teaches us how to transform sentences from the active to the passive voice in Spanish with several accessible examples.

Carolina gives us an introduction to the passive voice in Spanish.

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

Cata from Colombia and Zoraida from Venezuela team up to teach us the various tenses of the verb "pensar" ("to think") with many illustrative examples.

An animated Venezuelan bartender gives us a live piña colada-making demonstration.

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

There are three types of demonstrative adjectives depending upon the distance that exists between the object or objects that they qualify in relation to the person who speaks. Carolina explains further.

Carolina teaches us some contrasting Spanish adjectives to describe people's moods and personalities.