Newsletter: ¡Cumpleaños feliz!

¡Cumpleaños feliz! 🎉

Is your birthday today, this week, or sometime next month? If so ¡Felicidades! No matter when you celebrate, I’ve put together some fun activities to help you get into this festive topic. You’ll practice expressing dates, using pensar to talk about your plans, and exploring the world of quinceañeras – a tradition still thriving across Latin America.

To top it off, we’ve recorded a mini-podcast where Silvia and I share our native perspectives on birthday customs and traditions.

¿Cuándo es tu cumple?

Your focused learning plan in one place

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First, learn the basics of saying when your birthday is and how to express dates in general with our lesson:

A1 Expressing dates in Spanish

From pastel to regalo, this list covers all the essential birthday words and phrases:

A1/A2 Birthday vocabulary

And, everyone has plans for their birthday, don’t you think? Well, here’s a useful lesson where you can learn how to use pensar just for this purpose:

C1 Pensar + infinitive to express intention

Then, click on our reading and listening exercise about one of the most popular celebrations in Latin America: the quinceañeras:

B2 Mi fiesta de quinceañera

Finally, listen to our mini-podcast for a natural, native conversation on the topic of birthdays:

Birthday vibes

Remember, you can keep practicing other interesting topics with more reading and fill-in-the-blanks activities.

Hurray for Weekend Workout Friday!

Special treat for Premium subscribers

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Friday is Weekend Workout day – a special treat just for our Premium subscribers, with fresh dictations and writing challenges to boost your listening and writing skills.

This week’s theme is Birthdays.

Here’s a writing challenge for our free users: My name is Lola (level A1)

Not Premium yet? Now’s a great time to upgrade! You’ll get these Weekend Workouts every week, plus unlimited kwizzes and multiple notebooks to help you stay organised and make progress faster.

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Author info

Inma Sánchez

After working in the travel industry for ten years in Seville, Inma moved to the UK to give a little twist to her life. Since then she's been teaching Spanish as a foreign language to adults for over 15 years in different settings, private lessons, secondary schools and online. Inma is a coffee lover and also loves exploring new places with her family in beautiful Warwickshire, where she lives.