¡Cuéntame! | Learn Spanish with Comprehensible Input
Marta Ruiz Yedinak
Marta Ruiz Yedinak, a Spanish National Board Certified Teacher, uses basic to intermediate level Spanish to tell stories and talk about everyday topics. Second language acquisition takes place through comprehensible input, and when the topics are interesting and compelling to the learner, it happens almost without awareness. Sit back, enjoy, and improve your Spanish listening skills! Join the Facebook group for collaboration!
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Jun 15, 2024 • 8min
166. Guanacaste
Marta talks about the province of Guanacaste, in Costa Rica, and the origin of its the name. Transcript here!
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Apr 8, 2024 • 10min
165. El eclipse
Marta is excited because tomorrow there will be a total eclipse! She explains the general idea of how eclipses happen, and also how important it is to watch them properly. Transcript here
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Mar 13, 2024 • 7min
164. ¡Costa Rica!
Marta is about to travel to Costa Rica with her students! She shares some of the facts about this beautiful country.
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Mar 6, 2024 • 8min
163. La envidia
Marta talks about envy, and proposes 4 ideas to turn it into something positive. Transcript here
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Feb 29, 2024 • 7min
162. Los celos
Marta talks about jealousy, and how it can be a destructive emotion. Transcript here
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Jan 17, 2024 • 7min
161. Los malentendidos
Marta talks about misunderstandings, and how she deals with them in her life.
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Jan 2, 2024 • 8min
160. La depresión posvacacional
Marta talks about the apathy and lack of energy that follows the Christmas break, and shares her strategies to overcome it.
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Dec 23, 2023 • 8min
159. El Día de la Virgen: ¿Manipulación?
Marta talks about how skeptical people who don't believe that there was a miracle in the story of Juan Diego and la Virgen de Guadalupe. Instead, they think it was all a trick from the Spanish Catholic Church to help the evangelization of Mexico.
This is the last of three episodes dedicated to the Day of our Lady of Guadalupe. If you haven’t listened to the previous two, it is recommended to do it before you listen to this one, because here we have vocabulary and ideas that have been covered before, and your comprehension will not be easy without the previous knowledge. Transcript here!
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Dec 19, 2023 • 7min
158. El Día de la Virgen: La celebración
Last episode, Marta talked about the origins of the Day of our Lady of Guadalupe, in Mexico. Today, she is talking about how it is celebrated. It is for students at the novice-mid and above levels, because of length of sentences, uses of tenses and variety of vocabulary. Transcript HERE
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Dec 17, 2023 • 7min
157. El Día de la Virgen: La historia
Marta talks about the history behind the celebration of La Virgen de Guadalupe, on December 12th in Mexico. This episode is for novice-high as it has a variety of new vocabulary, different tenses and conjugation forms.
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