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Are you looking for a fun, summer, appropriate way to practice your Spanish? Well, look no further because I'm hosting a summer book club and I really want you to be part of it. Here's all the info you need to participate. What book are we reading? La Casa and Mango Street. The book is about 100 pages and book club will run for all of July and August. That's nine weeks, so we'll be reading about 10 to 12 pages each week. Book club meetings will take place on Tuesdays at 8pm Eastern. If you can't join live, the meetings will be recorded and posted the next day on the platform. But this book club goes beyond the weekly meetings. Each week you can also participate in two challenge series that's going to help you work through the book, get more out of it, and improve your Spanish. In the first day of the weekly challenge, I'll be posting discussion questions which we'll also be using to guide our discussions during the book club meetings so you can post an audio or a video of yourself responding to those discussion questions. The second day of the challenge for each week, I'm going to encourage you to read a bit out loud from that week's assigned reading. Read a couple paragraphs, post an audio or a video, and you can even use that space to share some of the new vocab you've learned from that week's reading. What level is this for? Definitely intermediate and advanced students. Beginners will have a really hard time reading any novel in Spanish because of lack of vocab and lack of knowledge of different tenses and grammar. How will the book club meetings be run? We'll have a half an hour discussion in Spanish using those discussion questions that I've posted in the challenge. You guys will have had a full week to have looked at and digested those questions to be able to come prepared to the meeting to share some of your responses in Spanish. Then we're going to give about 15 to 20 minutes for grammar review. If you have any questions about why is the sentence set up this way? Why is this verb like this? I'm happy to help clarify and answer those questions for you. That section of the class will be done in English for clarity's sake. And finally, for any students who aren't quite ready to jump into the discussion section of the class, I'm going to leave the last 10 to 15 minutes for those students to practice using some of the new vocab they've learned from the past week's reading. They can share sentences that they've come up with to practice that vocab so that they're still working on producing Spanish, but in the way that's appropriate for their level, which might not be being able to speak on the spot. And I understand that beyond the weekly challenges and book club meetings, you'll also have access to summaries, vocab lists, and the discussion questions, as well as getting support from your fellow book club members and from our team of Spanish teachers. At the moment I'm recording this, we have less than two weeks before our first book club meeting. So don't dilly dally. Get on it so that you can start your reading. Reading those first about 10 pages to be prepared for our first meeting on July 2nd. And finally, I'd like to leave you with this thought. As somebody who has done what it is you are trying to achieve, let me tell you that if you wait until you're ready, you'll never, ever start. You'll never take that next crucial step on your Spanish journey if you wait until you're ready. Trust me, guys. I was not ready to start teaching yoga in Spanish when I moved to Puerto Rico, but I was hired the day after I took my first class because the studio was in desperate need of teachers. It was hard. I didn't do well for the first couple months, but you know how I got better was by showing up week after week and doing it. You cannot get better at something you avoid doing. If you want to start enjoying reading in Spanish, you have to take the first step. This first book might be challenging for you. Like I said, it's short. We're taking on about 10 pages a week, only 100 pages in total. Nine weeks to get through the book, plus questions and vocab lists to help support you. This is the ideal way for you to tackle your first novel in Spanish. Don't sit around and go, I don't know. I don't know. I'm gonna think about it. Maybe the time will pass, our first meeting will come around and it'll be hard for you to catch up if you're already a couple weeks behind. The link to sign up is right there in the podcast description. I've also included a page with more information. It's just all of what I've already shared in this episode. I hope to see you there.