LRI #104: La Esperanza

Steve is an orphan in Havana who drives a cocotaxi by day and fights enemies as a superhero by night. His eight cats aren't making his secret double life any easier. In this episode of Listen Read Interact, learn Spanish through a humorous story with guided reading, vocabulary, and listening activities at listenreadinteract.com. Produced with support from:Angela | Paradero desconocido (Parts Unknown) | $50 Resources for this episode: Show Notes + Related Activities Support the Show Free Course for True Beginners: START HERE Telling Time in Spanish Minicourse What's your proficiency level in Spanish? Free Quiz Online Spanish Lessons and Classes: Tacoma Language Academy listenreadinteract.com

In this episode of Listen Read Interact, we explore La revelación, a humorous short story in Spanish for beginner and intermediate learners. Resources for this episode: Show Notes + Related Activities Support the Show Free Course for True Beginners: START HERE Telling Time in Spanish Minicourse What's your proficiency level in Spanish? Free Quiz Online Spanish Lessons and Classes: Tacoma Language Academy listenreadinteract.com

In Phase 4 of the CI Immersion system, we transform co-created oral stories into written readings that extend comprehensible input, introduce new language, and deepen learners’ understanding. Resources for this episode: Show Notes + Related Activities Support the Show Free Course for True Beginners: START HERE Telling Time in Spanish Minicourse What's your proficiency level in Spanish? Free Quiz Online Spanish Lessons and Classes: Tacoma Language Academy listenreadinteract.com

Nicolás and Javier follow a new clue to the library of Santa Lucía del Monte, where they hope to find the missing half of an ancient map. But Daniel Rojas, the town's police commander, is determined to stop their investigation. As the mystery of the lost Aztec gold deepens, Nicolás must decide how far he's willing to go to uncover the truth. Resources for this episode: Show Notes + Related Activities Support the Show Free Course for True Beginners: START HERE Telling Time in Spanish Minicourse What's your proficiency level in Spanish? Free Quiz Online Spanish Lessons and Classes: Tacoma Language Academy listenreadinteract.com

Nicolás and Javier are getting closer to finding the missing half of an old treasure map. But Sheriff Daniel Rojas seems determined to keep them from uncovering the truth. What does he know about the hidden Aztec gold? And what really happened to Nicolás's ancestor, Tomás Salgado, more than a century ago? In today's episode of Lo que esconde el monte, the mystery deepens. Resources for this episode: Show Notes + Related Activities Support the Show Free Course for True Beginners: START HERE Telling Time in Spanish Minicourse What's your proficiency level in Spanish? Free Quiz Online Spanish Lessons and Classes: Tacoma Language Academy listenreadinteract.com

A teacher-facing episode where I detail the storytelling phase of the CI Immersion system of language acquisition. Resources for this episode: Show Notes + Related Activities Support the Show Free Course for True Beginners: START HERE Telling Time in Spanish Minicourse What's your proficiency level in Spanish? Free Quiz Online Spanish Lessons and Classes: Tacoma Language Academy listenreadinteract.com

In Chapter 7 of Lo que esconde el monte, Nicolás and Javier uncover a new connection between Tomás Salgado and Zacarías Rojas. As Nicolás finally reveals more about the letter and map he inherited, the search takes an important turn. Resources for this episode: Show Notes + Related Activities Support the Show Free Course for True Beginners: START HERE Telling Time in Spanish Minicourse What's your proficiency level in Spanish? Free Quiz Online Spanish Lessons and Classes: Tacoma Language Academy listenreadinteract.com

In Chapter 6 of Lo que esconde el monte, the mystery continues as the search for answers around the old map, Tomás Salgado, and the hidden treasure becomes more complicated. Resources for this episode: Show Notes + Related Activities Support the Show Free Course for True Beginners: START HERE Telling Time in Spanish Minicourse What's your proficiency level in Spanish? Free Quiz Online Spanish Lessons and Classes: Tacoma Language Academy listenreadinteract.com

Javier travels to Toluca to visit his elderly grandmother, Lupita, whose memory is beginning to fade. Just as he is about to leave, an old photograph on her wall catches his attention and opens a window into Santa Lucía’s past. Resources for this episode: Show Notes + Related Activities Support the Show Free Course for True Beginners: START HERE Telling Time in Spanish Minicourse What's your proficiency level in Spanish? Free Quiz Online Spanish Lessons and Classes: Tacoma Language Academy listenreadinteract.com

Nicolás heads into Santa Lucía del Monte to buy food and supplies, but a simple stop at a local gas station turns tense when he meets Daniel Rojas, the town’s suspicious police commander. Daniel immediately takes an interest in the stranger, and when something unexpected falls from Nicolás’s wallet, the encounter becomes much more dangerous. Resources for this episode: Show Notes + Related Activities Support the Show Free Course for True Beginners: START HERE Telling Time in Spanish Minicourse What's your proficiency level in Spanish? Free Quiz Online Spanish Lessons and Classes: Tacoma Language Academy listenreadinteract.com