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The Columbia Corpus of Conversations for Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language website contains video recordings of natural conversations among Spanish speakers to be used as language sources in the teaching and learning of the language. The recordings were made by approaching speakers in public places or taking advantages of meetings among family and friends, without a script or any other constraint.

Below each video recording, on the same page, there is a brief description (DESCRIPCIÓN), an orthographic transcription (TRANSCRIPCIÓN), a list of interesting language elements that appear — ¿QUÉ VAMOS A ENCONTRAR? (“what will we find?”) — and specific activities for that video — ACTIVIDADES — with indication of the language level of the students with which we see it appropriate to use them.

The videos are categorized according to the language level of students, the number of participants in the videos, the country of origin of the speakers, their professions, the relation among them, and their topics of conversation. Each of these categories can be accessed in the menu on the upper right corner of the page.

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