Sometimes if you’re sitting at home, depressed, stewing in a pot of emotional turmoil and angst, really the best thing to do is just go out and shake it! (P.S. If your boss looks like she’s taken the bullet train to Splitsville, we strongly suggest you don’t mention it… especially if you are looking for her to sign off on your French classes!)

The cocktail party effect explains our ability to isolate a solitary voice amidst a sea of yappers, music and crowd noise. Let’s meet our ladies at the disco, where background noise and the effects of actual cocktails upon speech put our own c.p.e. skills to the test. (This one is hard, use the SLOW button!)

Elena is absolutely certain she will not be calling Mariano, her estranged, cheating boyfriend. She professes this fact repeatedly. But when Vero drops by, still tipsy from the club, discussion of lonely reality has its effect. She breaks down and picks up the phone…

Elena claims she only wants to tell Mariano about the bills, but if you believe that we’ve got a bridge in Uruguay we’d like to sell you. Mariano, well, he just doesn’t seem to be able to say the right thing. Hombres.

In the parish of Eugenio Espejo, canton of Otavalo, Ecuador, there is a natural viewpoint with a particularly special tree called "El Lechero" [The Milkman]. Cristina will tell us about the fascinating legend behind it.

Let's visit a forest with Cristina, where she'll teach us a lot of basic, nature-related vocabulary!

Let's join Cristina to learn more about some of the many uses of the frequently-employed Spanish words "buen" and "bueno."

Cristina tells us about one of the thousand most used words in the Spanish language: the word "nuevo." Let's listen to some examples of the many situations in which we can use this word.

Cristina tells us about articles in Spanish, which are words that modify and provide more information about nouns and must agree in terms of gender and number. Let's learn the difference between definite and indefinite articles and see some examples.

Did you know that Spanish is one of the most spoken languages in the world? To help you to continue to improve yours, let's join Cristina in this video where she will talk to us about some of this language's most common phrases.

In this video, Cristina teaches us some of the most common formal and informal ways to say hello and goodbye to people in Spanish.

Have you ever been in a South American market? Cristina takes us on a tour of a typical market in Otavalo, Ecuador, where you can buy all of the products in the food pyramid as well as some traditional Ecuadorian items.

From Ecuador's Mindalae Ethnohistorical Museum of Crafts, Cristina explains to us a bit about Ecuador's history as well as its indigenous peoples, for whom the close connection between human beings, nature, and the spiritual world is of the utmost importance.

Cristina takes this opportunity to talk to us about the importance of first aid and goes over a number of related topics such as the difference between an emergency and a matter of urgency.

Today, Cristina is going to teach her neighbor, and all of us, the correct process for doing laundry in a washing machine.