Newsletter: ¡Fiesta Nacional!

¡Fiesta Nacional! 

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It’s time to celebrate Mexican Independence Day, so we’ve packed the week with everything you need to join the fiesta. Kick things off with a mini-podcast that unpacks the real meaning behind El Grito de Dolores. Then jump into hands-on activities, cultural insights and language challenges that bring the celebration to life.

Learn the story. Feel the energy. Live the language. 🇲🇽🎉

Real Spanish, Real voices 🎧

Mexican Independence Day Chat 

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Silvia, Inma and Daniela (our very own Mexican Kwiziq expert!) chat about Mexican Independence Day – how people celebrate, what it means and some personal takes. It’s short and full of natural Spanish!

Give it a listen and tell us what you think!! 

Fiesta de la Independencia de México – mini-podcast 🎧

Read along with us

 Bilingual text with audio

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Explore La fiesta de la Independencia in this bilingual reading and listening activity! Practice the preterite, the imperfect, spot Roman numerals and pick up cultural insights along the way.

A2 La fiesta de la Independencia

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Recordar: does it really mean “to record”? 

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What does recordar really mean? Do you know? 

It’s not what it looks like… Find out with these very useful lessons that we put together in our shared notebookRecordar / Acordar(se) 

Premium users can add this to their saved notebooks. Find out more about our great Notebooks feature ✏️ 

Do you want to learn about other lookalikes?

False Friends

Mind the Gap “___” 

Fill-in-the-gaps exercise: recordar, acordarse,  acordar

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Time to put into practice what you’ve learned about these two very Spanish verbs. And what better way than with this fill-in-the-gaps exercise, based on a family’s thoughtful reflections on how they celebrate Independence Day?

C1 Una historia para recordar

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 National Celebrations.

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.

Note: We send dictations and writing challenges by email, which you can opt into or out of. To check your email preferences, please click on communication preferences and make sure there’s a check next to System Communications in order to receive exercises every week.

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¡Hasta luego!  👋

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.