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Costa Rican English teacher Jessy Chavez talks about what she does for work and shares with us her perspective and approach for teaching English being a native Spanish speaker.
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Costa Rican cycling enthusiast, Eliécer González, talks to us about the benefits of riding a bike.
The is the second part in a series about cycling.
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Native Spanish speaker originally from the Dominican Republic, America, talks to us about how Mother’s Day is celebrated in her native country.
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In this Spanish listening practice, Eliecer, an English teacher from Costa Rica, talks to us about how he developed a passion for bike riding.
This is the first of a series of audios.
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In this Spanish listening practice, my friend and co-teacher from Costa Rica talks to us about what she likes to do in her free time.
Having trouble figuring out how gustar and other verbs like it work? Check out this post for an explanation and practice quiz.
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If you’re looking for an explanation of how the verb “gustar” works in Spanish – you’re in the right place.
My Grandma Likes to Read
Recently, a Spanish learner posted a question on the Facebook page “Learning Spanish” about why her answer to a Duolingo exercise was incorrect:
Here was my response:
Let’s take a deeper look into my explanation for how we talk about things we like in Spanish.
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Today is two for Tuesday – for the beginners, an introduction from Jessy, one of my English co-teachers from Costa Rica.
For those listeners who are more advanced, a message from my Colombian friend, Melissa, explaining what “bodega” refers to in Colombia.
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This is the final audio in the series where my friend, Dayana, from Colombia talks about her business project, getting healthier and going to the gym.
In this message, Dayana talks about being called in to help out at her old job and what that job entails. It’s an interesting mix of more specific vocabulary and high frequency phrasal units like “por decirlo así”.
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Hilda was one of my host moms when I was serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica.
She is a very hard worker and takes great pride in her amazing garden, which provides a variety of fruits and vegetables for the family.
In a recent conversation, I told Hilda that I had been working for a landscaping company and started dating a Brazilian woman.
Her response exposes a commonly held belief in her community related to work in the United States.
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You’ve just broken your language app streak record and are feeling confident about your upcoming vacation in Mexico.
After all, you are able to understand the majority of the Spanish you hear on the app and have even ventured onto YouTube and watched hours upon hours of videos from your favorite Spanish learning channels.
And then you step off the plane and hear this:
…and meet reality head on. Between the speed, regional accents and slang there seems to be a decent sized gap between the Spanish spoken in language learning materials and that spoken on the street.
I’ve created this group to help close that gap.
