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Intermediate Mid–HighLa llamada de la abuela.
An 80-second voice message from your fictional Oaxacan abuela. You interpret what she actually asked, notice the subjunctive forms she used, decide which recommendations fit her values, and write her back.
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 MidUna marcha que se escuchó en todo el continente.
A Spanish-language article on the Argentine Ni Una Menos movement is the anchor for an interpretive read, a noticing move on imperfect subjunctive in demand clauses (exigieron que el Estado aplicara la ley), structured-input drills, and a 70-word written response. The same three-channel feedback architecture as the rest of the library (mechanical rubric, self-assessment, exemplars) applied to a social-justice text instead of a personal narrative.
AdvancedLas madres que marcharon todos los jueves.
An adapted encyclopedic passage on the Madres de Plaza de Mayo anchors a 20-minute scenario on Argentine historical memory. You watch a Canal Encuentro segment, study the photographic symbol of the white pañuelo, and read about how fourteen mothers turned a banned plaza into a movement. The grammar focus is the imperfect subjunctive in past noun clauses (exigieron que apareciera) and in relative clauses describing the unknown (madres que buscaban hijos que hubieran sobrevivido). Same three-channel feedback architecture as the rest of the library (mechanical rubric, self-assessment, exemplars) at a B2-C1 register.
Intermediate MidInti Raymi, que regrese el sol sobre Sacsayhuamán.
An adapted passage on Inti Raymi anchors a 17-minute scenario on Andean festival tradition. You watch a DNews segment on the 2025 Cusco celebration, study a CC photograph of the ceremony at Sacsayhuamán, and read how a pre-Columbian Inca ritual was reconstructed in 1944 and now draws thousands every June 24. The grammar focus is the present subjunctive in wishes and ritual invocations (que viva el Sol, que regrese el Inca, que las cosechas prosperen), distinct from the past-tense demand subjunctive drilled in the social-justice scenarios. Same three-channel feedback architecture, B1-B2.
Intermediate MidEl milagro forestal de Costa Rica, contado al revés.
An adapted passage on Costa Rica's reforestation success anchors a 17-minute environmental scenario, the deliberate counterpoint to la-amazonia. You watch a France 24 Español segment on the country's climate-policy reputation, study a Wikimedia Commons photograph of the Monteverde Cloud Forest, and read how a country that lost three-quarters of its forest cover by the 1980s has recovered to 52-60% today through the Pago por Servicios Ambientales (PSA) program. The grammar focus is the conditional + counterfactual subjunctive: «si Costa Rica no hubiera creado el PSA, no habría recuperado los bosques»; «otros países podrían replicar el modelo si quisieran». Same three-channel feedback architecture; B1-B2.
AdvancedPedro Páramo, el pueblo al que se va buscando a un muerto.
An adapted passage on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo (1955) anchors a 20-minute scenario on the foundational text of Latin American modernism. You watch a Spanish-language news interview on the novel's recent surge in the United States, study a CC photograph of the white arcades of Comala in Colima, and read how a son who goes looking for his father finds a town where everyone is already dead. The grammar focus is the subjunctive in adjective clauses: the form Spanish reaches for whenever the thing you are describing is sought, hypothetical, or does not exist: «un pueblo que tenga vida», «nadie que esté vivo». Same three-channel feedback architecture as the rest of the library.
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).