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Intermediate LowLa canción del momento.
A viral song lyric splits the internet. Camilo Marín's «Saudade en Brooklyn» includes one line that fans cannot agree on: «Yo sé bailar en dos idiomas pero te extraño en uno solo.» The IG comment thread is full of takes. You read the thread, decide which reading is best supported, and write your own one-line interpretation.
Intermediate HighEl hilo que se viralizó.
An Instagram comment thread on a viral video by a young Mexican-American creator. Standard Spanish, slang, code-switching, regional vocabulary. You decode the register of each speaker and write a reply that fits.
AdvancedEl podcast sobre el agua.
A 90-second clip from the podcast «Cuencas» where journalist Daniela Mamani frames a story about a community water dispute in the Cochabamba valley. The Spanish is fast, Andean, journalistic. You interpret her thesis, notice how she builds the argument, and write a 200-word response that engages her claims rather than summarizing them.
APEl correo de admisiones.
An email arrives from a fictional Mexican university admissions office asking three specific questions about your goals and background. You read it, notice the formal register conventions, and draft a reply that hits every AP Email Response rubric criterion.
APLa carta de motivación.
Your friend Daniela sent you a draft of her motivation letter for the Patria Grande scholarship and asked for feedback. The letter has strong moments and obvious register slips. You read it, mark the formal-register violations, decide which sentences to keep, and write the rewrite she actually needed.
APEl tutor académico.
Your AP Spanish tutor, Dr. Vargas, texts in formal register. Every reply is in usted, every sentence punctuated, no abbreviations. You need to reschedule a session and send him a draft of your AP Presentational essay. The whole exchange is a 90-second register stress-test that the AP exam will not give you but real academic life will.
APLa instalación en el museo.
A curator at the Museo Tamayo writes to AP Spanish students inviting them to engage with a new installation. Her email is not neutral. It describes the work, but it also frames how to read it. You interpret the curatorial argument, notice the moves that elevate description into interpretation, and write a 200-word response that argues with the curator rather than parroting her.
Intermediate MidLa Amazonía, que se deforesta cada minuto.
An adapted journalistic passage on Amazon deforestation anchors an 18-minute environmental scenario. You watch a DW Documental segment on indigenous peoples' struggle to protect the rainforest, study a 2020 Amazônia Real aerial photograph of burns in Rondônia, and read how a 7-million-km² forest is being cleared at the rate of thousands of square kilometers per year. The grammar focus is the impersonal se construction (se deforesta, se talan, se llegará) plus future tense (perderá, tendrán que): the canonical register of environmental journalism in Spanish. Same three-channel feedback architecture; B1-B2.
Intermediate HighEl último colectivo
A branching night-in-the-city GAME: it's late in Buenos Aires, the march is over, and you've missed the last bus. Read the bus schedule to know your options, assemble a polite reply from word tiles, collect words into your Lexicón and clues onto a case board, and find one of four endings. Every gate is comprehension of rioplatense Spanish (vos commands + subjunctive advice).