El Español Hace Click: El diario de Ashton en Colombia

Learn real Colombian Spanish by living a story, not by memorizing rules.

Ashton is an American engineer who moves to Medellín for work with three words of Spanish: hola, gracias and cerveza. He's polite, organized... and a little too cold for Colombia. Then he meets Lina, the brilliant and very direct leader of his project, and her father, Don Daniel, a man of few words who watches everything.

This is Ashton's diary. You'll go with him from the airport to his first day at the office, a long Sunday lunch with a Colombian family, the Comuna 13, Guatapé, the coffee region, Bogotá, the Llanos and Cartagena. Page by page, you'll watch his Spanish (and his heart) change.

What's inside:

• 12 chapters that grow with you, from A1 to B2
• English notes in the margin for tricky words, so you never get stuck
• A Culture Click in every chapter: why Colombians say things the way they do
• 10 key words per chapter, quick comprehension questions and answers
• A 120-word dictionary of real Colombian expressions
• Simple illustrations that help you understand without translating
• 59 pages, PDF, instant download

Written by Profe Barbas, a Colombian filmmaker who teaches Spanish through comprehensible input on YouTube (@ProfeBarbas). If you enjoy the videos, this is the same idea on paper: real situations, real Spanish, and that moment when you stop translating and the Spanish finally clicks.