Would you like to improve your Spanish? We made a program to help you do that, if you are already speaking and understanding some Spanish.

While we were in Mexico making a video about Mexican children, we happened to meet a woman who taught English at the University of Guanajuato, and she invited us to come speak English with her students.

They were delightful, bright, full of hopes and dreams—and we spontaneously came up with the idea of making another video, which turned out to be Mexican Pizza.

We decided to shoot part of it in the restaurant next to our hotel -- but when we got there with the students, the restaurant was full of visiting Russians in town for a dance performance. A background of Russian conversation wasn't quite the soundtrack we had in mind!

The students took us to an outdoor cafe that was even better.

Mexican Pizza: Lively Conversations in Spanish. VHS, 24 minutes, high school, college, and adult. Booklet included. Internet special, $25.

Train your ear as you follow the spontaneous conversation of a group of vivacious students. Several University of Guanajuato students stroll to an outdoor cafe, where they order pizza, tell jokes, and talk about their lives.

This video is a tool for learning Spanish as people really speak it.

You can watch one of the six sections, then read the Spanish transcript and English translation in the accompanying booklet. When you watch the section again, notice how much more you can follow.

This program is intended for both individual and classroom use, at intermediate and advanced levels.