Tentáculo

16/08/2026

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxyMUk2Ol98FITA8HSBbhtgbd1BCuZ_vHH?si=bxB8uUzyhkvLhhtV

Taking a pause — but I'll be back. These past six months have taught me so much — the slides, the editing, the thumbnails, the music that connects us across ...

09/08/2026

🌎 New Spanish lesson — Chapter 20 of our Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish series is live!
Today we're mastering the verb ESTAR: how to say where you are AND how you feel in Spanish. These are the questions that start real conversations, whether you're traveling, relocating, or connecting with your comunidad.
What's inside:
🎵 Bad Bunny's "Estamos bien" (Music helps your brain remember)
🗣️ Speaking practice with location vocabulary & feelings adjectives

Created for learners who want real-world Spanish, not just textbook drills.

¿Dónde está usted? Tell us in the comments. ☺️ 👇

Learn the Spanish verb ESTAR in the present tense — full conjugatio...

03/08/2026

This song is a full lesson on Ecuadorian culture! 😍

¡Bienvenidos a "ECUADOR DE FIESTA"! ❤️💛💙Hoy tengo la enorme alegr...

01/08/2026

¡Hola, amigos! 🌎I just uploaded Chapter 19 of our Spanish lesson series — a week late (summer vacation!), but packed with good stuff.
🎵 Conjugating CANTAR & OÍR in past tense — patterns that unlock dozens of verbs
🪘 Authentic Puerto Rican bomba music — drums, dance, and a melody to help you remember how to say, "I heard."
🗣️ Spin & Speak challenges so you build confidence speaking out loud
💬 Dialogue practice with real Ecuadorian context.
🙌🏽 And a cultural note I feel strongly about: using USTED in Latin America. If you're living in Ecuador, navigating paperwork, building relationships with neighbors, this one distinction matters.
This is real Spanish you can use. 💪
¡Adelante! 🐙

Learn Spanish past tense with two essential verbs: CANTAR (to sing)...

30/07/2026

Chapter 19’s lesson of Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish will be on YouTube on Sunday. In the meantime, here’s a one-minute quiz to practice conjugating -ER and -IR verbs in the simple past tense in the singular forms we’ve learned. Can you do all 41 verbs before the timer runs out? 🤓😜
Heads up—There’s another checkpoint quiz coming up after chapter 20. 🥸You can do it!

Can you keep up? ⏱️ 41 Spanish past tense verbs in 60 seconds!Thi...

27/07/2026

I posted this announcement regarding this week's Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish lesson our on our YouTube community tab a few days ago, bur realize I probably should have posted it here too! So sorry!t's been a long weekend traveling from Ecuador to California this weekend! Here's a pic from this morning after an overnight layover in Panama and some nice shots of Manta and Bahía de Caráquez yesterday. Poco a poco vamos re-activando este proyecto de Tentáculo. ¡Gracias por su paciencia!

Here's the post on YouTube:
¡Hola! I'm so sorry to announce that there won't be a new lesson this Sunday. These are my last few days on the coast of Ecuador, soaking up every moment with Roberto and the family as well as visiting my favorite beaches within the Parque Nacional Machalilla. I'll be flying through Panama on Saturday and Sunday, so Chapter 19 will be ready for you by Tuesday morning.
Thank you for your patience and for being part of this journey with me.
Keep studying our text, Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish. There's another checkpoint quiz after Chapter 20, so be sure you can conjugate our verbs in the past tense at the speed of "the blink of an eye," and review our cognate patterns. Listen to our Songs to Practice Spanish Playlist too!
💛 Nos vemos muy pronto.

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxxmUL94003Do4bvj1xLZ1iQn3vG60oz30?si=hQd9i4pfSQduUt_b

23/07/2026

Y de repente las conchas en la playa empezaron a correr! 🤩🌊💛💙❤️

19/07/2026

Have you listened to ska en español? The song clip in today's lesson has 8 verbs saying what WE did in the past tense while getting to know someone at a party. You get practice with -AR, --ER, and -IR verbs all in the same song and acquire real vocabulary you can use. Check it out!

In this Spanish lesson, you'll master two powerful past tense endin...

17/07/2026

Buena canción para empezar el día. 💖🤩

Jorge Celedón - Esta VidaMi más reciente video: https://manodeobr...

12/07/2026

Today's song comes from Argentina 🎵🇦🇷
Piero de Benedictis — known simply as Piero — wrote "Tomamos un café" in the late 1960s. And I'll bet most Spanish speakers have sung his most famous song, "Mi viejo," on Father's Day. In Chapter 17, we use his song to lock in the plural past tense: -AMOS (we) - because when you hear tomamos un café… hablamos del amor in a melody, your brain holds onto the grammar without trying.
¡Nos vemos! ☕
https://youtu.be/qDvirR_T7SI?si=8CJ0p-QC75oGHEQY

Did you know that one Spanish verb ending works in both the present...