Difficulty: Beginner
Colombia
Carlos explains the four groups into which Spanish words are classified depending upon which of their syllables is accented as well as the rules regarding written accents.
Difficulty: Beginner
Spain
Spanish singer Huecco performs his 2011 hit, "La brújula" ("The Compass"), from his album, "Dame vida" ("Give Me Life").
Difficulty: Beginner
Colombia
Carlos continues his series on accentuation by teaching us a few more rules regarding accent placement.
Difficulty: Beginner
Colombia
Carlos gives us some preliminary rules about how to divide Spanish words into syllables.
Difficulty: Beginner
Venezuela
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.
Difficulty: Beginner
Colombia
In this second part of his lesson about accentuation, Carlos explains to us about monosyllabic, disyllabic, trisyllabic and polysyllabic words.
Difficulty: Beginner
Spain
Watch Spanish pop band La Oreja de Van Gogh's music video for "El primer día del resto de mi vida" (The First Day of the Rest of My Life).
Difficulty: Beginner
Colombia
As an introduction to our lesson about accentuation, Carlos explains some different ways in which the word "accent" may be used.
Difficulty: Beginner
Cuba, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 and famed Cuban singer-songwriter, Silvio Rodriguez, team up to bring us this tune about how love can turn one's world around. Its charming video won the 2015 Latin Grammy award for Best Short Form Music Video
Difficulty: Beginner
Ecuador
Jullia introduces us to a wide variety of fruits cultivated in Ecuador and beyond, some of which are familiar to us and other, more exotic ones that probably aren't.
Difficulty: Beginner
Colombia
Lida and Cleer teach us to make Colombian buñuelos, a type of fritter eaten particularly during the Christmas season.
Difficulty: Beginner
Colombia
Christhian presents us with his rendition of "Temblando" by "Hombres G."
Difficulty: Beginner
Brazil, Colombia, Puerto Rico, USA
Bacilos was a Latin pop band founded in Miami and comprised of members from Puerto Rico, Brazil, Colombia and the United States. "Mi Primer Millón" ("My First Million"), a song about their desire to make it in the music business, won the Latin Grammy for Best Record in 2003.
Difficulty: Beginner
Ecuador
Elsa Diaz, the owner of an indigenous clothing shop in Otavalo, Ecuador, explains a bit about what she has to offer.
Difficulty: Beginner
Colombia
Colombian singing sensations Shakira and Carlos Vives teamed up in 2016 for "La Bicicleta" ("The Bicycle"), a song which earned Latin Grammy Awards for Song of the Year as well as Record of the Year.
Difficulty: Beginner
Ecuador
Mauricio Cordoba, a licensed optometrist from Otavalo, Ecuador, gives us some useful tips about how often to get our eyes checked, what to keep in mind when purchasing glasses, etc.
Difficulty: Beginner
Ecuador
Julia and Pipo talk about their Christmas traditions- or lack thereof- and how the meaning of Christmas seems to have changed in modern times.
Difficulty: Beginner
Venezuela
Carolina teaches us about disjunctive and copulative conjunctions- ways to express "or" and "or else"- in Spanish.
Difficulty: Beginner
Venezuela
Carolina explains about the gerund verb form in Spanish and some mistakes that native English speakers commonly make when employing it.
Difficulty: Beginner
Colombia
Cleer and Lida demonstrate how to book a hotel room.
Difficulty: Beginner
Venezuela
Carolina explains to us about the gerund, the form of a verb which expresses an action in progress.
Difficulty: Beginner
Ecuador
Natalia from Ecuador introduces us to the largely indigenous and extremely fascinating city of Otavalo, considered to be the "intercultural capital" of Ecuador.
Difficulty: Beginner
Venezuela
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.
Difficulty: Beginner
Ecuador
Natalia from Ecuador explains to us those adverbs that describe the order in which a sequence of events take place.
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