Welcome to this series about Spanish news vocabulary in which Carlos will teach us frequently-used words related to international relations and politics, finance, economics, the environment and more. The focus of this first episode will be international relations and politics.

In part two of this series, Carlos focuses on several terms related to international policy, more specifically conflicts and other problems in the international arena.

In the third part of this series, Carlos reviews many of the oft-heard news terms that we have learned thus far in the context of two texts similar to those we might hear on a news report.

Carlos introduces us to several business and finance-related terms. Let's learn their meanings as well as hearing them in plenty of example sentences that are similar to those we might hear or see in the written or spoken news.

Carlos teaches us additional financial vocabulary with lots of useful example sentences to heighten our understanding.

In part three of his series on financial vocabulary, Carlos discusses some terms related to the stock market, complete with a brief text to review them in context.

Carlos teaches us Spanish vocabulary and definitions for some of the most important economic terms there are with plenty of example sentences to help us to understand them better.

Carlos explores some additional economic terms in the second part of this video, concluding the lesson with a text to review the words we have learned thus far.

In this episode of News Vocabulary, Carlos focuses on commonly used environmental terms, explaining their meanings and giving us examples in context.

Carlos keeps teaching us more environmental terms, which he will reinforce by reciting a typical paragraph we might hear during a news segment on the environment.

In this song, the Cuban group Warapo sings about a fiery woman who does what she wants to without caring what others think. Not unlike Frank Sinatra, she does it “her way” (a su manera).

William Bonilla is a good friend of ours who invited Yabla to his apartment to share his points of view about his musical career. Here, he talks about his beginnings.

Willy learned to play guitar mostly by himself, but he soon discovered the importance of having people to share his passion with. Then he talks about how New York changed his musical tastes.

Colombian musician, Willy, continues to explain to us about his creative process as well as what music means to him.

In the fourth and final part of his interview, Colombian musician, Willy, explains what he feels making music requires and how it it enriches his life.