David Alexander Cantu
208 episodes listed below
Real classroom Spanish, corrected in motion.
Spanish Lessons turns a class into audio, with an instructor guiding learners through practical Spanish sentence by sentence. The focus stays close: pronouns, past tenses, gerunds, feelings, personality words, and the tiny word-order choices that trip people up.
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Spanish Lessons captures Spanish learning as it actually sounds inside an instructor-led class. It is not sleek. That is the point. The show follows learners as they read prompts, try answers, miss details, correct themselves, and slowly turn grammar into speech. Episodes often begin with a target structure, then move quickly into examples and back-and-forth practice. One lesson may compare past-tense forms. Another may work through si and cuando, or the difference between estar hablando and llevar hablando. The instructor keeps the rhythm practical, moving between Spanish and English when a concept needs a quick handhold. Corrections arrive fast, but they are usually close to encouragement. A learner says dame, te lo voy a dejar, or siempre está bebiendo café, and the class pauses just long enough to notice where the pronoun goes or what the construction really means. Then it moves again. The vocabulary is everyday and useful: coats, gloves, combs, scissors, nail polish, family routines, class atmosphere, feelings, personality traits, and future hopes. The show is especially interested in the middle zone where a learner can understand a rule but still needs help producing it out loud. That gives the episodes a lived-in texture. There are false starts. There are repeated words. There are small detours into why cómo eres and cómo estás are not the same question. Emily, María, and Ricardo appear in the available episodes, helping make the lessons feel participatory rather than abstract. The show works best for students who like hearing grammar corrected in context instead of memorizing it silently. It is also useful for learners who benefit from English glosses alongside Spanish prompts. The pacing is brisk, but the material stays patient. Each class builds from short questions into usable sentences. The result is a warm, functional practice room where Spanish gets built, fixed, repeated, and used.
Made for: Best for A1-A2 Spanish learners who want guided speaking practice, grammar repair, and bilingual explanation. It especially suits students who learn by hearing mistakes corrected in context.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its live-class texture: learners produce imperfect answers, and the instructor turns them into usable Spanish on the spot. It favors repetition, correction, and practical sentence-building over polished scripted lessons.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Interactive classes turn grammar corrections, repetition, and everyday conversation into an audible record of Spanish taking shape.
Spanish Lessons lets the work of learning remain audible. The host teaches through interactive classes, moving between Spanish and English as learners answer questions, test constructions, make mistakes, and try again.
A kitchen command turns "peel the potatoes" into the grammar drill you might actually remember.
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A practical imperfect-tense class with clear repetition and useful examples.
The class stays centered on the preterito imperfecto, grounding the grammar in past descriptions and habitual actions so the forms feel concrete. Weather examples, repeated verb patterns, quick English glosses, and small corrections give it a steady, usable shape.
A spoken guide to pronoun placement that reinforces the core pattern through repetition.
This lesson frames Spanish personal pronouns as a matter of placement, moving from me gusta and dame to te lo voy a dejar and te lo estoy buscando.
Kitchen commands make the Spanish imperative easy to hear and repeat.
A kitchen lesson turns into a clear, hands-on drill in the Spanish imperative. The class keeps circling back to everyday commands and uses them in ways learners can hear and repeat: wash your hands, add water to the meat, serve the soup hot, drink it.
John McWhorter and co-hosts trace English etymology, grammar shifts, and idiom origins episode by episode.
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Practical English through Spanish-speaking mistakes.
The class returns to the pretérito imperfecto and keeps it practical.
This episode is a Spanish A2-level lesson focusing on conditional constructions with 'si' and 'cuando' and introducing gerund forms like 'estar + gerundio' and 'llevar + gerundio' through interactive activities and examples.
This episode explains the difference between using 'estar + gerund' and 'llevar + gerund' in Spanish to express habitual versus continuous actions at an A2 level.
This is a Spanish A2-level lesson focusing on temporal expressions like 'hace...
The class focuses on personal pronouns in everyday Spanish.
A Spanish lesson where the teacher introduces personality vocabulary and a test to practice describing oneself.
Este episodio enseña vocabulario en español sobre estados de ánimo y sentimientos a nivel A2, con ejercicios prácticos para construir frases.
A Spanish teacher guides students through combining different past tenses in a conversational practice session.
A Spanish teacher leads a lesson on verb tenses, starting with present simple, using examples and repetition.
This episode teaches the Spanish imperfect tense for habitual past actions through examples and repetition.
A Spanish lesson teaching vocabulary related to literature, reading, and books.
The class opens with the Spanish imperative and frames it as the verb mode for orders, instructions, requests, and advice.
This Spanish lesson focuses on teaching the differences between ser and estar, particularly for describing states of mind and conditions in present and past tenses.
A Spanish teacher leads a class reviewing the imperfect tense, describing the world today with student participation.
A Spanish teacher guides students through practicing present progressive verb forms with interactive Q&A.
A Spanish teacher leads a lesson on expressing plans and intentions using future tense and other tenses, with vocabulary practice.
A Spanish teacher reviews comparative and superlative structures with students through examples and repetition.
This episode teaches how to form questions using the imperfect tense in Spanish, focusing on regular past actions.
A Spanish teacher guides students through a conversation practice using expressions to agree or disagree.
A Spanish lesson teaching vocabulary related to travel and tourism, with pronunciation and grammar tips.
A Spanish lesson teaching how to ask and answer questions about past experiences using the past tense.
A Spanish teacher leads a lesson on restaurant vocabulary and expressions of preference and frequency.
A Spanish language lesson teaching vocabulary related to parties and celebrations through interactive repetition.
A Spanish teacher leads students in conjugating the verb 'ver' across different tenses, using movies as a theme.
A Spanish teacher leads a class discussion on examples of culture, eliciting words like art, music, and traditions from students.
A Spanish teacher guides students through a conversational practice exercise using questions about daily routines.
A Spanish teacher guides a student through a conversation about free time activities, with repetition and correction.
A Spanish lesson teaching possessive adjectives through discussion of cultural customs.
This episode is a basic Spanish class where the teacher engages students in a game to list verbs, focusing on foundational verbs like Ser, Llamarse, Tener, and Trabajar.
This episode is a basic Spanish group lesson where students practice asking and answering questions about food preferences like rice, pizza, and drinks.
This episode is a Spanish conversation class where students discuss their leisure activities and free time, including hobbies like music, yoga, reading, and movies.