{"id":3542,"date":"2015-08-17T07:50:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T11:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:46:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T18:46:40","slug":"custom-spanish-lessons-viva-la-tomatina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2015\/08\/17\/custom-spanish-lessons-viva-la-tomatina\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Spanish Lessons: Viva La Tomatina!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year on the last Wednesday of August, the streets of Bu\u00f1ol, Spain run red. Fear not, it\u2019s only tomatoes, thrown around as part of a massive tomato fight known as La Tomatina.<\/p>\n<p>True story. This is the kind of stuff that brings the Spanish language and culture to life; the stuff both students and teachers wish they could find in their textbooks. And we\u2019re bring it to you in two interactive Spanish lessons powered by Transparent Language Online.<\/p>\n<p>Beginners can get a taste of La Tomatina in the <a id=\"tomatina-beginner-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tplsites.s3.amazonaws.com\/courses\/mini_lessons\/Viva_La_Tomatina\/UnitPlayer.html\">Beginner Spanish-English Version<\/a>, focused on building basic Spanish vocabulary relating to the celebration. More seasoned Spanish learners can dodge flying fruits in the <a id=\"tomatina-intermediate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tplsites.s3.amazonaws.com\/courses\/mini_lessons\/Viva_La_Tomatina_Full_Immersion\/UnitPlayer.html\">Intermediate Spanish Immersion Version<\/a>, featuring native audio and more advanced learning activities that focus on using the language in context.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want to keep learning with Transparent Language Online? Sign up for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/personal\/transparent-language-online.html\">free trial<\/a>!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Interested in using this technology in your own classroom? \u00a0Learn more about Transparent Language Online for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/education\/language-learning-online.html\">schools<\/a>\u00a0or simply\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:edsales@transparent.com\">contact us<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3543\" style=\"width: 523px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a id=\"tomatina-intermediate-image\" href=\"https:\/\/tplsites.s3.amazonaws.com\/courses\/mini_lessons\/Viva_La_Tomatina_Full_Immersion\/UnitPlayer.html\" aria-label=\"Tomatina1 1024x630\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3543\" class=\"wp-image-3543\"  alt=\"tomatina1\" width=\"513\" height=\"316\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina1-1024x630.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina1-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina1-350x215.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina1-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina1.jpg 1175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Learn about La Tomatina entirely in Spanish in the Intermediate lesson!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3544\" style=\"width: 523px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a id=\"tomatina-intermediate-image\" href=\"https:\/\/tplsites.s3.amazonaws.com\/courses\/mini_lessons\/Viva_La_Tomatina_Full_Immersion\/UnitPlayer.html\" aria-label=\"Tomatina2 1024x629\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3544\" class=\"wp-image-3544\"  alt=\"tomatina2\" width=\"513\" height=\"315\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina2-1024x629.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina2-1024x629.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina2-350x215.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina2-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina2.jpg 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Use Spanish in context in the Intermediate lesson!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3545\" style=\"width: 523px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a id=\"tomatina-beginner-image\" href=\"https:\/\/tplsites.s3.amazonaws.com\/courses\/mini_lessons\/Viva_La_Tomatina\/UnitPlayer.html\" aria-label=\"Tomatina3 1024x631\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3545\" class=\"wp-image-3545\"  alt=\"tomatina3\" width=\"513\" height=\"316\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina3-1024x631.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina3-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina3-350x216.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina3-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina3.jpg 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Get an introduction to La Tomatina in the Beginner lesson!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3546\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a id=\"tomatina-beginner-image\" href=\"https:\/\/tplsites.s3.amazonaws.com\/courses\/mini_lessons\/Viva_La_Tomatina\/UnitPlayer.html\" aria-label=\"Tomatina4 1024x631\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3546\" class=\"wp-image-3546\"  alt=\"tomatina4\" width=\"516\" height=\"318\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina4-1024x631.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina4-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina4-350x216.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina4-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina4.jpg 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Focus on learning new vocabulary in the Beginner lesson!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina4-350x216.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina4-350x216.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina4-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina4-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/08\/tomatina4.jpg 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Each year on the last Wednesday of August, the streets of Bu\u00f1ol, Spain run red. Fear not, it\u2019s only tomatoes, thrown around as part of a massive tomato fight known as La Tomatina. True story. This is the kind of stuff that brings the Spanish language and culture to life; the stuff both students and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2015\/08\/17\/custom-spanish-lessons-viva-la-tomatina\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[520016,542993],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-learners","category-learning-material-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4617,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions\/4617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}