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Destinos is the best video series teaching Spanish ever. PBS aired these 52 episodes back in ’92 or so. Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish Destinos teaches speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in Spanish. This telenovela, or Spanish soap opera, immerses students in everyday situations with native speakers and introduces the cultures, accents, and dialects of [...]

A short clip from the movie “Despardo” with Salma Hayek & Antonio Banderas. The clip as subtitles and the Spanish is easy to understand. I suppose you can get a few phrases out of it. The website at the end isn’t working anymore.

CNN Democratic Debate Austin, Texas Feb. 21, 2008. The question from Univision. There are 30 million people in the United States that speak Spanish. Hillary says that English should be our common unifying language, but that’s not always the case, more and more employers are preferring candidates that are bilingual. [kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/N4z74ALt7TU" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" [...]

This happens to be the course I use Learning Spanish Like Crazy. Click here at the end to see the website if you want.

This is more immersion and not so much instruction. There music videos, Spanish speakers talking about various subjects, news and drams videos. Completely in Spanish. There are subtitles in Spanish and English below the video. You have the option of hiding one or both languages and just listening. The video player has the regular pause, [...]

A short tour of Miraflores Peru an upscale shopping and business district. Concerts in the park with an amphitheater. The video gives a tour of each area within Miraflores and views from the walking paths above the cliffs overlooking the ocean. Really incredible scenery. Miraflores, dubbed ‘Heroic City’ (Ciudad Historica) in 1881 after the Battle [...]

A cute cartoon with a Spanish narrator along with Spanish and English subtitles. The narration is completely in Spanish and the subtitles are highlighted in different colors. So, you know the purple Spanish word is the same Purple English word. I wish I could find more of these.

A video lesson about Spanish Reflexive Verbs. This is in addition to my other post about reflexive verbs here. Learning Spanish Reflexive verbs seems a little more difficult for some people. Here’s a better explanation about the grammar of reflexive verbs from a Professor with an entire Youtube series on Spanish grammar. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/zln5sxVp-D0" width="425" [...]

A short video about Costa Rica from Travel Video Store. It’s actually just a short teaser to buy their longer videos of other people vacationing in Costa Rica. Kind of short, but the scenery of the rain forest and other sights are pretty good along with some facts about Costa Rica. [kml_flashembed movie="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-214638720212143219" width="400" height="326" wmode="transparent" [...]