Estos son los vientos más fuertes del mundo

There are no subtitles in real life, so you won’t have the luxury of reading along as you chat with someone!

Try training your ear to pick up on natural, quick speaking. Pay attention to body language and facial expressions for context clues when you’re not sure what’s being said.

Click or tap any word in the transcript to reveal its translation, definition, and part of speech.

Selecting a word also jumps the video to that moment, so you can hear it in context.

You can't pause a conversation to check a dictionary, so use context clues for tricky words! Familiar words can also change meaning depending on how what's happening in a conversation.

This conversation happens in a specific social context. Below you can see the setting, audience, and interaction the speakers were in — use it to understand why things were said the way they were.

Social norms help to determine what the 'right' and 'wrong' thing to say in a particular situation is. By reading the room, you can say something in the most appropriate way.

Saying the 'right' thing not only helps to fit in, but means you'll speak with a consistent tone and style!

As the video plays, follow along with the waveform to visualize the speaker's tone and see where different sounds disappear with fast, natural speech.

Understanding the way words are pronounced in a fluid phrase compared to isolated on a page ("I don't know" versus "ahdunno") is key to understanding what you hear and speaking naturally.

It's not just what we say, but how we say it; emotion, personality, and meaning is expressed via pitch, volume, and pace of speech.

Now that you’ve made it through the lesson, watch the video once more to see how much more nuance and detail you can pick up.

After having studied vocabulary, situation, and speaking in depth, this final review should come to you more easily.