Difficulty: Intermediate
Ecuador
Susana introduces us to the star dish at the establishment where she has been cooking for more than twenty years: Peruvian ceviche! Let's learn what ingredients it contains and how she prepares it.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Soledad teaches us the Spanish equivalent of the English expression "to hit rock bottom" and tells us an anecdote based on someone who had that experience.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
This time, Fermín and Manuel's animated conversation about soccer incorporates a lot of instances of the imperfect tense, which they will subsequently explain in depth.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Although social networks have been put to many positive uses, they can also have a toxic effect on young people in particular due their unrealistic depiction of people's daily lives. Let's hear Soledad's perspective on this topic.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
This time, Beatriz talks to us about some interesting Spanish expressions that use weather-related terms to describe circumstances, attitudes, and/or feelings.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Fermín and Manuel's lively conversation continues, in which they incorporate many examples of verbs in two past tenses, the preterite and the present perfect, and furthermore reveal a trick for knowing when to use each.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
Tacos are a tasty dish that are known and made all over the world. In part two of this video, Karla will teach us more interesting facts and misconceptions about this fabulous traditional Mexican food.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Now, Carlos' Uncle Fredy will show us how to make an "año viejo" doll from old, no-longer-used clothing, which will ultimately be burned as part of a Colombian tradition that represents "out with the old, in with the new."
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
In part two of her lesson on polysemic words, Beatriz focuses on Spanish words for animals that can also have quite different meanings.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Fermín meets up with Manuel in hopes of planning an excursion to watch a soccer match together as they used to do in the past. And speaking of the past, try to pay close attention to their use of the different past tenses in their conversation.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
What world-famous Mexican dish can be eaten in every city in the world and throughout Mexico at any time of the day? Why tacos, of course, and our friend Karla will talk to us about many well-known varieties.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Carlos and his Uncle Fredy talk to us about the tradition of the "año viejo" in Colombia. Literally meaning "old year" (and also the name for the "New Year's Eve" holiday), an "año viejo" is symbolic doll that can represent a multitude of themes and especially the leaving behind of the sorrows, failures, and suffering of the year that is ending in order to kick off a better New Year.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Polysemic words are terms that have two or more meanings and can occasionally give rise to some amusing misunderstandings! Beatriz introduces us to several in the Spanish language with a plethora of examples to make their different meanings more clear.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Venezuela
Bread of the Dead is a traditional bread that is made in Mexico for the Day of the Dead. Let's learn more about it as well as Luis Alfaro's experience aboard a boat, where a workshop was given to learn how to make it.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Have you ever had a situation in which you planned and planned to have a super fun night with friends, and it turned out to be the total opposite? Or, on the other side of the spectrum, a spontaneous, unplanned day that turned out to be one of your best ever? Soledad talks to us about this interesting phenomenon.
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