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We love Destinos.  If you don’t know it…. well, you’re going to love it too.  It’s a telenovela.   Okay…. it’s a soap opera.  But it’s a really interesting one designed to help high school and college students learn Spanish.  The problem is that you either have to just catch on your local PBS station or buy it.  And how do you know you want to buy it if you haven’t seen it.

Well, good news!  You can watch it online - for free.  It’s more or less aimed at teachers, and all 52 episodes are represented.  It’s great.  You don’t have to just hope you can catch it on your local PBS station.   Here’s a link that will take you to the Page.

There’s more…..  Here is a link to a Study site.  It has a series of short tests for each episode.  When you go to the site, look in the upper left hand corner for a little pull down box.  Click it open to Episode one (you may have to download a media windows plug-in to play it).  Once Episode One is open, that same pull down box will have a list of tests.  Pick one.  They’re all short.

And still more….. Our old friend Wikipedia has a great synopsis of Destinos.  It tells the plot, eveything you want to know about every character, links to all the places to which they travel, and even a little trivia.

If you want an in depth summary of each episode, go to Helpful Notes.

Need more?  Here’s a Review.  And here’s Our Own Review that we did about a year ago.

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