7 Songs That Will Transform Your Spanish: Celebrating 7 Years of Learn Spanish con Salsa ♫ 237

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Hola, como estan?

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I'm your host Tamara Marie and I'm coming to you on a Thursday This is different than our normal Tuesday Podcast and you might be wondering why?

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Well today is the seventh anniversary of the start of our podcast Learn Spanish Con Salsa So I wanted to release a special episode today to celebrate our seven years and also to share with you seven songs That will transform your Spanish Entonces, vamos a empezar.

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Let's get started Bienvenidos Welcome to the Learn Spanish Con Salsa Podcast The show for Spanish learners that love music, travel, and culture Close your grammar textbooks, shut down the language apps, and open your ears to how Spanish is spoken in the real world Let us show you how to go from beginner to bilingual Here's your host certified language coach Tamara Marie Hola y bienvenidos al episodio 237 Welcome to episode 237 of the Learn Spanish Con Salsa podcast I am super excited to celebrate our seven year anniversary episode with you and on this date 15th of January El 15 de Enero En 2019 Hace siete años Empezamos este podcast Learn Spanish Con Salsa And I am very excited to share with you seven songs that will transform your Spanish and These are songs that have been featured on the podcast or a part of one of our courses on our platform of Spanish Con Salsa So I wanted to offer you something very special.

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I'm gonna share with you why these songs are important and More interesting how they can help you transform your Spanish and really take it to the next level Now I'm offering something special to all of the members of our Spanish fluency club as well as those of you who are supporters of the podcast so if you signed up as a Supporter of the Learn Spanish Con Salsa podcast you'll also get free access to our special Seven year anniversary lessons.

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So for every song that I mentioned in this episode, I will be releasing a class really or a course like a mini course to go along with every song so that you can review the Vocabulary the lyrics the grammar and the conversational phrases that you can get from each song Now if you are no longer, I'm sorry If you are not yet a member of the Spanish fluency club, this is a great time to join You can go to Spanish Con Salsa comm slash join So if you're listening to this on the 15th of January in 2026, we will be starting a new set of Group classes every week in a few weeks.

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So if you're interested in that go to Spanish Con Salsa comm slash join And if you are listening to this after that date Make sure you still go and sign up for our our waitlist So you'll be notified be one of the first people to know when we open up our next round of groups We usually do these in about 12 week cycles So you can get through a full 90 days to get to your next level of conversational fluency But if you're on our waitlist, then you'll know if we have any spots to open before then So Spanish Con Salsa comm slash join and as an added bonus You will also get access to the special seven mini lessons that I'm releasing to celebrate seven years of the learn Spanish Con Salsa podcast Something else that I wanted to share with you.

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Is that in these mini lessons not only am I including?

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The songs and the song lyrics like normal, but I'm also adding in some exclusive interviews with the artists behind these songs So I think it's really great.

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So you can get a sense of one the difference between how Spanish sounds when someone is singing versus when they're just having a normal conversation and I love the interview format for that because it's much more natural than Giving a speech or when an artist is on stage You really get to know a little bit about the artists about the music and the culture So each mini lesson will also have an exclusive interview with the artists and it will have the full transcript as well as some lessons To go along with that to really help you understand more about what they're talking about and more about the music So again, if you're no if you're not yet I keep saying no longer But if you are no longer a member of the Spanish fluency Club and you used to be then how's a great time to rejoin?

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Us you can go to Spanish Con Salsa comm slash join and also if you're a podcast supporter so if you signed up to get transcripts and of the pay of the podcast And you signed up at learn Spanish Con Salsa comm slash support Then you will also be getting an email with Access to all of these mini lessons that are going to go along with this episode Alright, so now let's get to it.

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I want to share with you the seven songs that will really transform your Spanish And these are songs that are meaningful to me in one way or another And I'll be explaining that why I chose these songs, but also, you know as always I'm looking for you know How do you get the value out of this?

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How do you really begin to learn how to speak Spanish in your day-to-day life as well as learn a little bit about the culture?

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About the people who speak the language.

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So that is the focus and the main reason why I've chosen these songs So let's go through the seven songs that will transform your Spanish The first one and this should be no surprise if you've been listening to the podcast for a while The song BB and maybe that by Marc Anthony, this was one of the first songs that I Actually started teaching with and people really really enjoyed it.

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I love this song for a couple of reasons one It's a great song to dance to it has a great message.

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It's all about just living your life and Even when there's things that are bothering you or things that are worrying you are stressing you out That you have a way of just kind of moving forward, so I love this song because Of that message because of the music behind it And also if you're learning Spanish, the chorus is very easy to learn so the song we beer me be that is to live my life or just live my life and The chorus it says boy.

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I hear boy.

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I like that which is I'm going to laugh.

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I'm going to dance Maybe it'd be be that la la la la so live my life So basically, I'm not gonna stop enjoying myself just because I'm going through something and I really enjoy this because it's a great Way to practice your pronunciation of this simple future.

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So that's when you use the verb ear plus ah and The infinitive form of any verb and you can say I am going to do anything that you know The verb form for so for example Boy, I buy that is I'm going to dance so any verb that you learn you don't have to even know how to conjugate it if you can say boy ah and That verb then you don't really need to learn a lot more than that.

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So boy a comer I'm going to eat boy.

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I got me now.

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I'm going to walk boy.

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I try my heart.

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I am going to work So it's a very very easy easy thing to learn and the more verbs you learn The more things you can say I am going to do so very very simple And again, I'm going to include these in the show notes as well.

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So if you go to learn Spanish guansalce.com 237 for our 7-year anniversary episode you also get a list of these songs in a link so you can listen to the songs as well But if you want those many lessons again, you have to make sure you're in our membership or signed up as a show supporter the next song on my list is Pedro Navarra by Ruben blades and I really like this song because for me when I was first learning I loved listening to it because Ruben blades He is a Panamanian artist.

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He speaks very clearly He's very slowly especially in this song he's telling a story So for me, even though you know starting now a lot of the vocabulary was a bit difficult The song seemed very long to me at the time because it's just he's telling a story So it's one line after another after another and the story is also kind of interesting So if you know the meaning of Navarra and I'll put that on the show notes page or you can look it up But it kind of gives it away.

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But when I first started I had no idea what that meant And all I knew was the song started out with this drumbeat and it was like it just drew you in It was like, okay.

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I wonder what happens and It starts out poor nice Keena.

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Don't be a hobby.

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Oh, no, we pass out So poor nice Keena is like on the corner They'll be a hobby.

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Oh, so the old neighborhood No, we pass out.

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So I saw him pass by so he's he's seeing someone and he says Cornell to bow You can a los guapos.

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I'll tell me not.

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So with the swagger that Guapos is like guys, right?

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They have when they're walking So this this verb or this word to bow is one of those fun words that you you're not gonna really find in a standard Dictionary.

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I remember hearing it too with Celia Cruz as a Negra tiene to bow and it's one of those things like I do think swagger might be like the best way to translate it But it's one that there's not a really good standard English definition for or a very good standard Spanish explanation It kind of has a feeling to it and just hearing those first two lines.

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I was like, oh, I want to know what happens Who is this Pedro Navarra and what is happening on this corner?

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And why is he walking with swag?

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Like who is this, dude?

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so I really love it for that reason and it also It's interesting to follow the plot and really try to figure out what's happening So this is a great combination of both music and storytelling Which if you know anything about learning right both of these are just heighten your ability to learn one because it sparks your interest too because there's a narrative and as human beings we love stories and The third reason is because it has a rhythm it has a beat to it So all of these made it was a very addictive song for me to listen to and I really wanted to figure it out So Pedro Navarra has one I'm definitely going to be including So that you can watch the video So one thing that's great about the song if you listen to it at first if there's something that you're not catching if you watch the video even without the transcription or the the lyrics You'll get an idea of what he's talking about because you're actually watching them act it out So in the videos kind of old-school will admit the songs a bit of a classic.

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So you see the video It's not great resolution but I am going to include it in the show notes that you can check it out as well and see if that helps you kind of figure it out and then from there you can go to our mini lesson and actually dive into it and I have a really great interview with Ruben blades where he talks about you know, how to pronounce his name It's like this controversy.

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Is it blades?

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That sounds very Anglo Saxon or English or is it blah this right?

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Cuz that's how you pronounce it in Spanish So he answers that question, which I thought was really interesting because I used to confuse me a lot too when I first started So Pedro Navarra is is my second choice for a song that would definitely transform your Spanish The third song on my list it's another one that's very commonly talked about I think now I think when we first started this podcast, there weren't a lot of people talking about learning Spanish with music But I don't know if we started a trend but definitely a lot more people are talking about learning with music People are putting out all sorts of like apps and courses and things But I think the thing that those different approaches miss is that while it's great just to get the lyrics We're really big on conversation and connection So actually talking to people about the songs learning what's really behind them instead of just saying oh I hacked this song and you know, I learned the lyrics so I know what they're talking about It's usually not that easy to just read the lyrics We provide a lot of context in our learn Spanish with music course where we go into you know, some of the backgrounds on exactly what is meant in Each song and how it's relevant to the culture and it's also a great way to improve your conversation skills Because you have something interesting to talk about But in any case I have seen this song pop up because a lot of people Seem to have found it all of a sudden Especially when it comes to learning one particular type of grammar that a lot of learners of Spanish find difficult so the song is ojalá que llueva cafe by Juan Luis Guerra and He's a Dominican artist and this song because I guess ojalá is in the title It's sort of obvious that the subjunctive is going to be used And it's in the title because llueva is the subjunctive form of to rain or you'll there so The thing I love about the song will be on the fact that it's a nice use of the subjunctive or el subjuntivo Which if you're more of a beginner you might not be as familiar with it But the subjunctive is is not a verb tense.

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A lot of people get that confused It is a grammar subject, but it's not a verb tense.

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It's actually it's actually called a verb a verb mood Which I think is kind of interesting.

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So What it really means is that?

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It doesn't mean like oh I am talking about the past or the future or or the present It really means that I'm talking about something.

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I'm not sure about Like this is not a fact.

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This is something that is an opinion.

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It's a desire.

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It's a wish.

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It's a doubt It's a prediction like all of these things Trigger the use of the subjunctive and it's almost just a way of saying like I'm not really sure But this is what I think But this is what I suspect or this is what I want to be true So that's I think why it throws people off because in English, we don't really have a way to qualify something Except maybe with tone of voice or something like that, but we don't have a specific, you know mood to use But in any case the other thing about the song that's great.

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Is that it's it's talking about The country that the artist is from so he's from the Dominican Republic and He's talking about the people who live in the countryside and how he just hopes that they have Abundance really so that's the meaning of oh hello cage.

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You have a cafe.

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You might be thinking.

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Why does he want it to rain coffee?

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Am I translating that wrong?

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No, it's actually like let it rain coffee.

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Like I hope it rains Coffee in the countryside, so oh hello cage.

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You have a cafe in El Campo And he says cake.

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I go when I go.

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I said oh they do kite day So it's made a downpour of yucca and and tea fall So again, these are all things that you probably are thinking.

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Why would I want that falling from the sky?

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But it's kind of like an English we say raining cats and dogs.

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That doesn't make sense either But in this case, it's actually much more poetic He's talking about things that sustain people right coffee is a crop that makes money as well as you know Get you up in the morning Yucca is a root vegetable.

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It's very common in the Caribbean in Latin America And it's something that really does like stick to your your ribs as they say like it's it's a it's something if you eat if You have a lot of it You're not gonna go hungry So it's it's a it's really a poetic song and it does help you get used to understanding how The subjunctive is used because a lot of the things he is saying are wishes things that he wants to happen for his people and He's using the subjunctive to do that All right song number four switching gears from the more poetic to the more well I guess the song is also poetic but it's also moving from the subjunctive to a different verb tense and this one is interesting because While we made me be that uses the simple future like boy.

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Yeah, it would be a boy by that There actually is a future tense conjugation in Spanish as well and you probably won't hear it used as commonly But in this particular song, there are so many uses of the future tense.

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Not just with regular verbs, but also with irregular verbs and It's also just a great song like all these songs if I didn't love the music it wouldn't be worth talking about But this song is as the noche barro lean Rodriguez and this one I believe we actually covered in our Spanish fluency club in one of our members classes But this song It's called tonight.

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So as that no chase tonight, and it's full of like things.

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He's saying he's gonna do So it uses that future tense Conjugation and like the irregular verb I said, which is a regular in almost every tense in The future tense it actually turns to a day so if I want to say I will I will do or I will make something I would say a day and In this song he says they are a tan feliz.

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They are a tan feliz.

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So I will make you so happy Okay, no cap.

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Oh, that's over that.

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Okay.

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No cap.

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Oh, that's over that So that you will never forget Esta noche tonight So this boat the Ross is also the verb for there in the future tense another irregular verb and it's both the Ross And in the song, I believe You probably don't hear that s pronounced as firmly because around me is also from Dominican Republic and if you're familiar with Caribbean Spanish a lot of times that last s and the word does get dropped So when you're hearing this song, it might sound like you saying for that But it is, you know both are asked because he's talking directly to someone so again another great song I will definitely include this as well in the show notes learn Spanish guansasa.com slash 237 And I think you would love this song as well It's a it's a fun song and it's the most I think I've ever heard the future tense used in In one song and this song is also bachata.

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We forgot to mention the genre All right Moving on to song numero cinco This song now, this is a rare one.

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This is going to be probably the only time one of the few times That you will hear me mention a song by an artist from Mexico because now that I don't like Mexico I mean, I do get food food poison every time I go there, but aside from that I don't necessarily have anything against Mexico.

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I just it's just not a place I've I've spent a lot of time in and it's not the music that I connect with.

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I'm much more.

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I prefer the Caribbean But this one song by an infamous Mexican artist which anyone who is from anywhere in Latin America probably knows this artist even if they're not from Mexico And he actually passed away a few years ago But the song is called array which is the king and The artist is Vicente Fernandez Okay, so I will tell you the story about why the song Like it really isn't there really isn't a lot about grammar in this song necessarily It is a pretty short song.

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It's a song where You're you're going to to learn some, you know some phrases for sure But the thing that I like about it Is that it's just one of those Quintessential, I don't know.

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It's not really a party song that you dance to but it's a song that everybody knows It doesn't really matter exactly where they're from.

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Like I said, most people in Latin America are very familiar with this artist Also because Mexico is so big they do have a lot of media that goes throughout Latin America So even if you know, you know someone that's not from Mexico, they're probably familiar with this artist in this song But yeah, I my memory of the song is being at a party where everyone knew the words and We would just everyone would kind of sing along with the song.

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It's one of those songs that You just kind of think of a guy down on his luck So the guy that's at the bar, you know, he's shutting the bar down.

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He doesn't leave And he's telling you a story about his life That's what this guy reminds you of but it's it's one of those kind of songs, but it doesn't sound super whiny He says like Con dinero y sin dinero.

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So with money or without money.

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I go siempre lo que quiero.

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I Always do what I want And you say me palabras la ley It's just like my word is law, you know So the whole song he's saying despite all these things that are going on in his life.

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He will always be the king so So anyway, this is again probably one of the rare ones on this list But it's mainly just because it's just one of those songs that everyone knows and if you're familiar with Vicente Fernandez Then it's just connecting with the part of Latino culture that most other Latinos are going to know about All right.

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We're almost at the end.

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So Cancel number six song number six Again, this one should be no Surprise to anyone who listened to this podcast in the beginning It was one of the first songs that I featured on the podcast and I think it was one of the most popular Videos actually posted on YouTube as well at the time And I think it's because the song just blew up and I love this song because it features the drumroll The diminutive right so the diminutive is what I call I Guess it's like cute language.

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So like in English, it might be something like a nickname So example, John would be Johnny and Spanish would be Juan would be Juanito So it's that it's that sort of thing.

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It's like how you know, instead of saying dog we'd say doggie, etc So I love this song because well one it was just a super popular song It was Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee if you remember when this song came out I say siete años is a song despacito and the title of the song has a diminutive so the word is actually despacio which means slow but despacito, it's like a little slowly, right and There's so much diminutive in this song like the part where it says pasito a pasito suave suavecito Los vamos pegando poquito a poquito So that pasito is actually paso which is like step so step by step But a little step by little step pasito a pasito and then suavecito is like smooth but like a little smooth Y nos vamos pegando.

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It's like we are getting closer poquito a poquito Which you probably are very familiar with that but it actually comes from poco which is little y poquito is like a little bit So again, and also just a great song so despacito definitely on the list is probably gonna be episode one or two Of the podcast in our feed, but I'll also link to that episode as well If you want to kind of for nostalgic purposes revisit that song It's so funny how nostalgic can just be like seven years ago now all right, and finally the seventh song that I have that will Transform your Spanish if you're not familiar with this song, I definitely recommend you add it to your playlist and This is a song by a group from one of my favorite places on the planet It's El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico and the song is called No Hago Mas Nada No Hago Mas Nada But if you are familiar at all with Puerto Rican Spanish, you know that they don't pronounce it that way It says No Hago Ma Na Ma Na so sometimes that s is it disappears or it's kind of like a aspiration like uh, right so No Hago Ma Na and that nada That da also drops.

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So it's not No Hago Mas Nada.

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It's No Hago Mas Na and I love this song because It just puts you in this I'm ready to go to the beach I'm ready to do absolutely nothing.

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I need a break and I am NOT ashamed about it this song is also if you if you're looking for the grammar side of it, it does use a lot of Reflexive verbs to discuss your daily routines.

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So this guy is talking about his daily routine I will warn you it is not a very ambitious routine He says me levanto por la mañana so me levanto comes from levantarse which is to get up So me levanto is I get up right por la mañana is in the morning And he says me doy un baño y me perfumo Me doy un baño y me perfumo So I give myself a bath and I put on cologne Our perfume right, but he's a guy so we would call it cologne and He says, you know, you may come on when they say, you know, you know, I go mad now So again, not a very ambitious routine.

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He's like so I eat myself a good breakfast or and I don't do anything else.

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No hago mas nada.

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I don't do anything else so Again just a great song if you just if you want a song You want to just go to the beach or you can't make it to the beach right now?

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And you want to feel like you're on the beach.

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This is definitely one.

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I will listen to And again, just a great song great There's also great music to it.

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It's a good song to dance to but I you know again I prefer to just kind of sit on the beach with it with a nice cold drink and relax And that is the mode that that song puts me in so That is it.

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Those are the seven songs that will transform your Spanish.

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So as a review we have a beer me Vida by Marc Anthony Pedro Navarra by Ruben blades Ojalá que lleva cafe by Juan Luis Guerra Esta noche barro lindo Rodriguez El Rey by Vicente Fernandez Despacito by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee Y no hago mas na by el gran combo de Puerto Rico so these songs were my milestones, but I hope that you have discovered some of your own and If you haven't yet check these songs out, maybe it's time to add them to your playlist So we do have a playlist of all the songs We've featured on the podcast about the years and actually someone asked this question our Facebook group recently So I will actually include also the link to the playlist with the songs from the podcast So our Spotify playlist in the show notes as well so that you can also I just kind of pull it up and kind of play these songs in the background or while you're driving while you're working out Taking a walk or hopefully on the beach at some point so learn Spanish con salsa comm slash 237 and I will include a link to the playlist a link to every single song here if we've covered it on the podcast I'll link it to that episode as well and don't forget if you are a member of the Spanish fluency club Or if you want to become a member and you're thinking, you know, I really want to practice my Spanish I love listening to the podcast.

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I love listening to music in Spanish.

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I love doing activities on my own You know, maybe you're talking to chat GPT.

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Maybe you're on an app still.

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I don't know But the whole reason that you're learning Spanish, I hope is because you want to get fluent Which means that you want to talk to real people, you know I know it's you know This is an age where it does get a bit scary when people are taking companionship in You know sort of bots I guess more than than humans But I really think that if you're listening to this and you you're learning the language you are taking the step that you want to Connect with other people who speak that language.

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So the Spanish fluency club is a great way to do that It's a way to do that in community with other people who are on the same journey who want to be fluent in Spanish It's guided by our team of Certified language coaches that are also native Spanish speakers and Our team is super friendly.

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I know a lot of people will say, you know, I'm comfortable.

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I'm on Duolingo I'm on level 479 or whatever, you know, I'm comfortable with that.

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I'm not ready to talk to anyone yet I can't say how many times I've heard someone say, you know, I'm learning Spanish, but I'm just not ready When are you gonna get ready?

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Right.

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The only way that you're going to become fluent is by practicing and the only way to do that is to rip off the band-aid You know start the conversation and I'm telling you one of the best ways to do that is in a supportive community With people who are not going to judge you and think that you're too slow or you're making mistakes or or you're saying something wrong our team Is very welcoming.

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So if you haven't up until this point had an opportunity to even look into the Spanish fluency club, or you just don't have anyone to talk to In Spanish for people that make you feel comfortable or people that will actually guide you to improve your Spanish and not to say Oh, you're doing great or oh, don't even try.

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I don't understand you, right?

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You'll actually be coached along the process in our fluency club So if you enjoy learning with other people Then I think that this might be something you want to check out Like I said, we will be starting our new rounds of group classes in a few weeks So you can go to SpanishGuanSalsa.com Join if you're interested in that and you'll also get our seven mini lessons that we will be releasing Throughout the next few weeks.

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We already have the first two ready to go We're going to be releasing those and you'll only get access to the mini lessons Which remember they also include exclusive artist interviews with with all of the artists for each of these songs with the explanation the transcript with some great fun games and things you can use to practice your Spanish to really make sure you're Learning the vocabulary and training your ear to understand how Spanish is spoken by real people If you sign up as a supporter of our podcast learn SpanishGuanSalsa.com support You'll get access to our seven mini courses as well as transcripts that we have available from all of our episodes of the podcast Particularly the ones that are in Spanish Or if you're in our Spanish fluency club, you also get free access to this right away So SpanishGuanSalsa.com join if you want to really push yourself to the next level and in the next 90 days Get yourself to the next level of conversational fluency SpanishGuanSalsa.com join As always, I hope something you've heard in this episode has helped you go one step closer from Spanish beginner to bilingual Thank you for listening to the Learn Spanish GuanSalsa Podcast at LearnSpanishGuanSalsa.com