WHAT IS UNA BUENA NOTICIA?
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Una Buena Noticia is a multi-level Mexican Spanish podcast which aims to help beginner students hear real stories, real slow; intermediate students understand more complex ideas, a bit faster; and advanced students enjoy a quality, good news podcast.
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Brought to you by Spanish With A Gringo, season 1 of Una Buena Noticia was written and narrated by Profe Zach and his friend Lucía from Argentina. There were also guest narrators in several of the episodes.
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The Una Buena Noticia podcast aims to chronicle the successes, break-throughs and triumphs of everyday Gringos and Latinos, while at the same time offering students and teachers access to a transcription, translation, vocabulary and comprehension questions.
HOW TO LISTEN
Una Buena Noticia is available on all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Apple.
EPISODIOS
The Barn House Community
Cassidy-Porter Whistman loves animals. Like, a lot. So when she settled down in her hometown only to realize that cats were overpopulating the streets of Phoenix, she set out to do something about it.
Zara Rutherford
Since she was little, Zara Rutherford dreamed of flying across the world. But she never realized that her seemingly simple goal would bring so much change to women in aviation.
Donovan Carrillo
For more than 30 years, Mexico had gone without a figure skater—male or female—in the Olympics. But in Beijing in 2022, Donovan Carrillo set out to make history in a country not well known for this sport.
Jadyn Ocampo
Raised in a family of educators, Jadyn Ocampo used her high school service project to help teachers struggling with student debt. What started as a simple idea soon became something much bigger.
Laura Cuaya
For most of us humans, we can learn another language with hard work and dedication...but what about dogs? For months, the neuroscientist Dr. Laura Cuaya used MRIs to find out if man's best friend could understand another language.
Santos Tuz
When he was young, Santos Tuz found himself speaking with his grandmother a lot, but not in Spanish. Coming from the region of Yucatán, they spoke the indigenous language of Maya. But as Santos soon found out, the language was disappearing; so he decided to do something about it.
BEGINNER
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- Present tense only
- Slow reading spead
- Easy sentence structure
- Some reflexive verbs
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- Past tense heavily included
- Some commands
- Moderate reading speed
- Not as word-for-word English as the beginner version
ADVANCED
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- Conditional tense
- Future tense
- Subjuntive included
- Natural reading spead
- Native structures and phrasing
LISTEN NOW!
Una Buena Noticia is available on all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Apple.