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Our latest podcast - LTS Spanish Languages - is a series of 17 short movies on what it means to be Latino in modern America. The episodes have been split into Intermediate and Advanced based on the complexity of the topic and language.
The topics include Immigration, Aspirations, Family, Identity and Freetime.
We hope to release an episode a week and you can stay up to date with our Spanish podcasts by subscribing to the LTS Spanish podcast RSS feed or subscribe through iTunes.
In addition you can choose to watch and share the videos on YouTube.
Listen to previous audio files in our podcast archive and if you want to create your own podcast we show you how in our step-by-step guide to Podcasting.
LTS Spanish Language 17: Aspirations - Unfair judgments
Eduardo Reyes feels it's unfair when people make assumptions about him because he was accepted at a prestigious state university while some of his friends will attend local community colleges.
LTS Spanish Language 16: Aspirations - Forced into tracks at school
Eduardo Reyes describes being a newly arrived student at an overcrowded high school where he was placed in a vocational track because he wasn't fluent in English, despite his own abilities and aspirations.
LTS Spanish Language 15: Family - Roots in Mexico
Her mother is from Puebla and her dad is from Oaxaca. Nancy Sanchez shares a taste of growing up with these distinct regional cultures and even languages in the house.
LTS Spanish Language 14: Family - Indigenous family from Oaxaca
Nancy Sanchez's family is from Oaxaca, one of the few places in Mexico that still has a strong indigenous community, and she shares what it's like to be part of this unique culture and language.
LTS Spanish Language 13: Identity - Being gay and Latino
Ricardo Avalos talks about the difficulties of being Latino in the US, the difficulties of being gay in the US, and the even bigger challenges of being a gay Latino here.
LTS Spanish Language 12: Identity - Hispanic means from Spain, Chicano is universal
Victor Sanchez, who is bicultural from El Salvador and Mexico, explains why he chooses to call himself Chicano as a way of bringing all of his rich heritages to light. Chicano is no longer what it used to be, an insulting term for Mexican Americans.
LTS Spanish Language 11: Lifestyle - Tattoo
Victor Sanchez tells us why his Harry Potter tattoo means so much to him and why he has to hide it from his family who disapprove of tattoos, especially his mother who fears tattoos are dangerous gang symbols.
LTS Spanish Language 10: Lifestyle - Everyone’s the same here
His high school and neighbourhood in suburban Los Angeles are 95% Latino, so Victor Sanchez is looking forward to finally being in a more diverse community when he goes to college.
LTS Spanish Language 9: Immigration - Crossing illegal borders
Victor Sanchez describes the harrowing business of sending money back to relatives in El Salvador so they can pay illegal 'coyotes' to smuggle them across borders, first to Mexico and then to the US.
LTS Spanish Language 8: Aspirations - Returning to work in my community
When she finishes college, Elvira Vivanco plans to return home to her traditional Los Angeles neighborhood to support the community that gave her so much.
LTS Spanish Language 7: Lifestyle - Gentrification changes my neighbourhood
While Santa Monica is world famous for being an upscale beach area in Los Angeles, for Elvira Vivanco it's where her traditional Pico neighbourhood is disappearing with the rising costs.
LTS Spanish Language 6: Freetime - Football!
Evelyn Torres loves football, whether playing on her team or at home with her family glued to the TV screen watching Las Chivas, their powerhouse team from native Guadalajara.
LTS Spanish Language 5: Freetime - A Favorite Mexican Festival
Evelyn Torres describes the nine-day posadas festival in December, where Mary and Joseph search for a place to give birth, and tells us why it's one of her very favorites.
LTS Spanish Language 4: Family - Language preserves culture
Ricardo Avalos is proud of his Salvadorean roots and knows that speaking Spanish is the best way of passing this on to his children one day.
LTS Spanish Language 3 : Immigration - Language barriers in the playground
Salvadorean Nancy Arévalo remembers what it was like to be in a new country where she didn't speak either English or the Mexican Spanish spoken by everyone else in the playground.
LTS Spanish Language 2: Immigration - Being left behind
Four-year-old Nancy Arévalo's parents left her in El Salvador and her 17-year-old sister became her mother. Then she had to leave that mother behind when her parents managed to bring her to the US six years later.
LTS Spanish Language 1: Identity - Being Chicana
Elvira Vivanco explains how Chicano or Chicana, once a derogatory term used for Mexican-Americans, has been embraced by Latinos as a way to capture her cultural and political identity.More podcasts for teachers and learners
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