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    • Amazing 6 and 7 year old ‘Salsa’ dancers!
    • Salsa at 79 years old!
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    • Los ojos y el pelo
    • ¿Tienes animales en casa? Quiz about pets.
    • ¡Conéctate! Quiz for Spanish vocabulary to do with computers.
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    • Spanish Verbs – estar, ser, tener, haber, hacer, ir, venir, decir, poder, dar, ver, saber
  • Games
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      • Spanish Greetings with Sesame Street
      • Spanish Colours (Song)
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      • Meet Silvio de Nicaragua
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      • Meet Jose from Nicaragua
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      • Donde Viven Los Monstruos (Audio Exercise)
      • Taking a Taxi
      • Meet Dina from Nicaragua
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      • Meet Ximena Sophia Martinez Lara
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      • Learn a little more about Silvio
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    • Ser & Estar – two of the hardest Spanish verbs to master
    • Spanish Pronominal Verbs (sometimes aka Reflexive Verbs)
    • Verb Comparisons
      • Ir vs irse
      • Aguardar vs Esperar
      • Ocurrir vs Ocurrirse
      • Saber vs Conocer
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      • Olvidar vs Olvidarse
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    • Conjugations
      • Stem Changing IR Verbs (Present & Preterite)
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    • Surfing Terms in Spanish
    • Spanish Vocabulary for things around the home and colours as adjectives
    • How to remember in Spanish acordarse vs recordar
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