Is 10 Years Ago in Mexico (Intermediate Interviews) good for learning Spanish?

Yes, at intermediate level. Easy Spanish films unscripted street interviews with ordinary people and adds subtitles in both Spanish and English, and this video, recalling life ten years ago in Mexico, gives you real speech with real support.

Level

Intermediate

Format

YouTube

Why it works for learners

Scripted courses rarely prepare you for how people actually answer a question: with hesitation, restarts and fillers. These interviews do. Different speakers answer the same prompt, so you hear key words repeat in several voices. It is made for learners only in its subtitles and editing, because the speech itself is natural. Looking back ten years is also handy practice for past tenses used by ordinary speakers.

What makes it hard

Speakers vary greatly in speed, accent and clarity, and a street recording can be noisy. Stacked subtitles tempt you to read English the whole time. You may find some people easy and the next person almost impossible, which is normal here.

How to use it

Watch once reading only Spanish subtitles, covering the English if you can. Replay without looking at the screen. Then answer the same question aloud yourself. Pick out how each speaker talks about the past and copy one sentence.

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