Difficulty: Beginner
Guatemala
Let's hear a creepy urban legend from Guatemala: El Sombrerón, whose protagonist has a very strange fascination.
Difficulty: Beginner
Nicaragua
Let's find out about "La Carretanagua," a terrifying Nicaraguan legend that continues to be passed down from generation to generation.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Peru
In the last video in this series, Irwin shows us how the watercolor painting's third wash is used to add its final details and effects.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Peru
In part two of this series on water color painting, Irwin shows us how he paints his pieces' second wash as well as what details he typically adds and what he prefers to leave to the viewer's imagination.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Peru
Irwin Bruno, a Peruvian watercolor artist who lives in Berlin, shares with us a bit about his life and technique.
Difficulty: Beginner
Dominican Republic
Do you know what a "ciguapa" is? Let's let Kata tell us the details of this urban legend from the Dominican Republic.
Difficulty: Beginner
Guatemala
The legend of "La Llorona" (The Weeping Woman) is very famous in Mexico and other Latin American countries. Do you want to know more about this spooky and tragic story?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
In this final part of this video about the Day of the Dead celebration in Berlin, Adriana explains how Mexicans prefer to celebrate death with humor, fun performances, and revelry.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Chile
Originally from Chile, renowned rock and metal musician Mauricio Nader relocated to Berlin, where he is currently finishing his degree. Today, he will tell us about one of the musicians he most admires: world-famous Chilean piano player Claudio Arrau, who also moved to Berlin as a young artist.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
Manuel Guarneros was the famous Mexican singer Chavela Vargas' main guitar player. In this video, he'll share with us his perception about various Mexican accents and slang as well as performing for us a piece of the popular polka song "El barrilito" [literally "The Little Barrel"], which is known in English as Beer Barrel Polka.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
In part two of this video about the Day of the Dead celebration in Berlin, Adriana explains the elements that an offering to the dead contains, from sugar skulls to copal to music.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
With roots in the world of theater in her home country of Mexico, Adriana Barrera moved to Berlin, Germany for love. The annual Day of the Dead celebration, which she will explain to us in detail, is one way in which Adriana and an association of fellow Mexicans in Berlin are able to maintain and raise awareness about aspects of the Mexican culture.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
In honor of the Day of the Dead, Meli teaches us how to make squishy sugar skulls and pumpkins.
Difficulty: Beginner
Colombia, Venezuela
In the ballad "Será" [It will be], famed Venezuelan vallenato singer Jorge Celedón and Latin Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Franco De Vita team up to sing about love.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ecuador
Claudia, a painter and fine and visual artist, explains to us the importance of being able to express herself through her art and how she began to paint for others on commission as well as creating her own brand of "Capullu" caps.
Difficulty: Beginner
Ecuador
In the second part of this lesson on art materials, Luana covers supplies like adhesive tape, scissors, and an array of pens and pencils.
Difficulty: Beginner
Ecuador
Let's learn the names of various art materials with Luana! We'll start with the different kinds of pencils we can use depending on the effect we wish to achieve.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Venezuela
In this third part of the series on the Venezuelan cuatro, Leonardo Lozano shares with us the names and functions of some of the parts that comprise it.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Venezuela
In this second part of our series on the Venezuelan cuatro, musician Leonardo Lozano explains to us how the manner in which this traditional instrument is played varies between geographical regions.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Venezuela
In this episode of Sonido Babel [Babel Sound], we are introduced to Venezuela's national instrument: the cuatro, which can be heard in almost all Venezuelan folk music.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ecuador
From Otavalo, Ecuador, Blanquita Arias shows us the different components of the indigenous clothing from her community, which is most typically worn to attend weddings.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Puerto Rico, Venezuela
In this episode of Sonido Babel, we'll learn about plena: a musical genre from Puerto Rico that is played with a multitude of different instruments and deals with a plethora of topics from religion, events, recipes, advice, and even superstitions.
Difficulty: Beginner
Colombia
Cleer's daughter Lía recites for her a beautiful poem entitled "A mamá" [To Mom] by Mogollón and Solano.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Venezuela
Babel Music introduces us to the quitiplás, a fascinating musical instrument from Mestizo America that is made of bamboo and comes in different sizes and pitches.
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