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.
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Destinos is terrific. I first saw it being run as a series on PBS, and you can still see it occasionally on tv somewhere.
Basically it’s a telenova. Well… basically it’s a soap opera designed to teach Spanish. It follows the adventures of Raquel Rodriguez, an L.A. detective who is hired by a Mexican family to follow a mysterious letter to find a long lost love of the dying family patriarch. Her pursuits take her to Mexico, Spain, Argentina and Puerto Rico, so you get to hear native speakers in several countries (with their separate accents).
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