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Polbo - Yo era tan cool

Difficulty: Newbie

Puerto Rico

Los integrantes de Polbo” solían tocar covers de los sesentas en bares de mala muerte” en Yabucoa mientras estudiaban una carrera en física en la Universidad. Con el tiempo empezaron a escribir sus propias canciones y bueno, tuvieron su gran momento de fama cuando fueron nominados al Grammy Latino en la categoría “Best Rock”.

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Aprendiendo con Silvia - Verbos de cambio - Part 4

Difficulty: Beginner

Spain

Silvia teaches us several common Spanish expressions, many of them quite entertaining, that feature the verbs of change that she has previously taught.

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Caption 10 [es]: o me puedo poner mala si estaba sana y me enfermo,
Caption 10 [en]: or I can get sick if I was healthy, and I get sick

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Aprendiendo con Silvia - Significados, usos y expresiones con "quedar" - Part 4

Difficulty: Beginner

Spain

Continuing with her series about the many meanings of the verb "quedar," Silvia focuses on one that is synonymous with "suiting" or "flattering" someone or something, as well as another that entails "fooling" or "kidding around." Let's explore these meanings with a multitude of example sentences.

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Caption 55 [es]: Es un pequeño engaño, sin mala intención,
Caption 55 [en]: It's a little trick, with no ill intent,

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Pigueldito y Federico - El cielo - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Latin American Neutral Spanish

Piggeldy and his big brother Frederick set out to find out where the sky begins! Will they?

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Caption 34 [es]: "Esto es mala suerte", constató Federico.
Caption 34 [en]: "This is bad luck," established Frederick.

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Extr@: Extra en español - Ep. 6: El día de la Primitiva - Part 3

Difficulty: Beginner

Spain

Lola and Ana fantasize about everything they will do with the prize money from Lola's winning lottery ticket. What could possibly get in their way?

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Caption 36 [es]: La mala noticia es que su resguardo ganador
Caption 36 [en]: The bad news is that her winning ticket

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Extr@: Extra en español - Ep. 6: El día de la Primitiva - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Spain

Today is the day of "La Primitiva" [the Spanish lottery], and superstitious Lola has a few rituals she must follow in order to increase her perceived chances.

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Caption 40 [es]: Porque ese color me trae mala suerte
Caption 40 [en]: Because that color brings me bad luck,

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El Aula Azul - Adivinanzas de colores - Part 1

Difficulty: Newbie

Spain

Guess the colors of the things Idoia and Ester from El Aula Azul are describing, and learn some vocabulary in the process!

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Caption 17 [es]: de los gatos que dan mala suerte.
Caption 17 [en]: of the cats that cause bad luck.

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Carlos y Xavi - Part 2 Ustedes y Vosotros

Difficulty: Beginner

Colombia

While in Colombia, the second person plural pronoun, "ustedes," is typically used to address more than one person as "you," both formally and informally, in Spain, "vosotros" is much more commonly used on an informal basis. Carlos and Xavi provide us with several examples of how the same idea would be expressed using either "ustedes" or "vosotros."

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Caption 17 [es]: Tiene sus cosas buenas y alguna mala,
Caption 17 [en]: It has its good things and some bad,

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El Aula Azul - La Doctora Consejos: El pronombre "se"

Difficulty: Beginner

Spain

Through an entertaining dialogue between Doctor Consejos [Advice] from El Aula Azul and her patient, Ander, about his terrible week, we see several examples of the "no fault construction" with the impersonal pronoun "se."

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Caption 24 [es]: Qué mala suerte, ¿verdad, Doctora?
Caption 24 [en]: What bad luck, right, Doctor?

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El Aula Azul - La Doctora Consejos: Hay y estar

Difficulty: Beginner

Spain

Doctor Consejos [Advice] de El Aula Azul listens to and interprets her patient, Ander's strange dream. Listen closely in order to gain a better understanding of how "hay" [there is/are] and "estar" [to be] are used in Spanish.

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Caption 25 [es]: que tienes una muy mala relación con tu madre.
Caption 25 [en]: that you have a very bad relationship with your mother.

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Extr@: Extra en español - Ep. 1 - La llegada de Sam - Part 5

Difficulty: Beginner

Spain

Pablo tricks Sam into saying and doing things to annoy the girls, until they finally make a drastic decision.

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Caption 37 [es]: ¡Mala suerte!
Caption 37 [en]: Bad luck!

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Ariana - Cita médica

Difficulty: Newbie

Spain

When Ariana wakes up feeling ill, she has to make an appointment with her general practitioner. What will he prescribe?

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Caption 3 [es]: He pasado una mala noche.
Caption 3 [en]: I've had a bad night.

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Aprendiendo con Carlos - América precolombina - El mito de Bochica

Difficulty: Beginner

Colombia

Carlos closes his series on pre-Columbian America by sharing with us the myth of Bochica, a God thought to be responsible for several natural phenomena.

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Caption 28 [es]: llegó al país de los Muiscas una bella pero mala mujer llamada Huitaca,
Caption 28 [en]: a beautiful but evil woman named Huitaca arrived in the country of the Muiscas,

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Carlos comenta - Confidencial - Vocabulario y expresiones

Difficulty: Beginner

Colombia

Carlos enlightens us about several words and expressions that come up in the series, "Confidential: The King of Cons," some of which are quite particular to Colombian Spanish.

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Caption 16 [es]: o a una persona de la cual tenemos una muy mala impresión.
Caption 16 [en]: or to a person of whom we have a very bad impression.

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Clara explica - El tiempo - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Spain

Clara continues telling us about how to talk about the weather in Spanish with examples of sentences that might be used when it's snowy, foggy, windy, sunny or rainy.

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Caption 41 [es]: No hay ninguna estación mala.
Caption 41 [en]: There is no bad season.

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