Legend has it that in the Dominican Republic, there are shapeshifting beings known as "bacás" that one must watch out for when acquiring new land or property. Let's learn more about these terrifying creatures.

Now that you've learned a bit about how set phrases convey something beyond their word-for-word meaning, let's learn a bunch more that came up for Silvia during her week!

Enjoy another walk through the fields with pig brothers Piggeldy and Frederick. This time, Piggeldy wants to know how to get to Pig Bay, which sounds like an ideal place for them. Or is it?!

Silvia provides us with another colorful explanation of yet another emotion: euphoria! Let's join her in exploring this feeling while analyzing an illustration that depicts it.

You can find this song, "El primer Noel" (The First Christmas) by popular Guatemalan artist Gaby Moreno on her Christmas album Posada. Enjoy the official video of this enchanting tune in which the singer's voice combines sweetly with her piano's delicate notes.

In this video, Cleer recites the poem "Árbol de Navidad" [Christmas Tree] by Chilean author Roberta Meza Fuentes. Enjoy!

This time, Silvia talks about solitude, pointing out that it is one thing to be alone and quite another to feel alone. Let's listen to her insight about this difference.

What means of transportation do you know in Spanish? Silvia will teach you a plethora of transportation-related terms as well as the various categories they can be grouped into.

In part two of this lesson on transportation, we will continue to learn the Spanish names for many additional means of transportation as well as the overarching groups into which they fall.

In this episode of her series on emotions, Silvia focuses on insecurity, an emotion that we've all surely experienced at some point. Let's delve a bit deeper into some possible reasons why.

Personal satisfaction is an emotion that most of us like to feel. Let's join Silvia in exploring this emotion more thoroughly.

Let's learn more set phrases with Silvia! This time, Silvia shares with us a recent conversation with her sister-in-law that contains a couple of interesting ones, the meanings of which might not be so easy to guess!

Silvia continues the story about her brother's experience at a repair shop, introducing us to new new Spanish idioms and challenging to us include them in a scenario of our own.

Enjoy yet another walk through the fields with pig brothers Piggeldy and Frederick. This time, Piggeldy wants to know what bees are!

This time, Silvia will deal with an emotion that entails respect and appreciation for others' actions or qualities. Can you guess which one it is?