Love this. I purchased the bonus material but as someone else posted the site is down. I emailed them and received a response stating that they resolved the issue. Unfortunately despite being able to open the site, i receive a server error when I try to log in. I emailed again but am waiting on the second response😔

Great stuff! Does anybody know what happen to them? Their website is down and they haven’t put anything new out in a while.

Hi there I love this podcast and wanted to purchase the bonus materials but every link I find to the website gives me a 404. Anyone know what’s happening?

instead of learning which spanish words i don’t know, or studying spanish sentence structure by reading the spanish transcript, i am forced to read a translation in english. this is not good for language learners. reading while listening is much more beneficial, especially for intermediate or advanced, we really don’t need the english. it’s frustrating because the dialogue would be so so helpful otherwise, and ive heard that reading english while hearing spanish is actually BAD for language learners. please change !!

Love it

I have been learning Spanish for months and listened to many podcasts and this is by far the best. I just moved to Mexico City and the slang has been very helpful. I do wish the episodes represented a more diverse range of Mexicans. All of them are handymen, cooks, mechanics, illegal immigrants. Sometimes I feel like the podcasts portrays Mexicans as more poverty stricken and is seen through a very privileged white family perspective (fixing their garden, doing their hair, fixing their car, cooking for them, taking care of their kids). I know so many Spanish speakers in Mexico and America who live such a diverse amount of ways. We should certainly be practicing and preparing to meet people not just so we can get the service we want out of them but so we can build relationships and friendships on equal footing with Mexican natives.

These are great bite sized episodes. I enjoy the use of slang of colloquial phrases. I bought the bonus materials as well and found them useful and a good value.

This girl pronounces words like a typical white girl.

Great show, I listened to all the episodes and want more. Super helpful and easy to digest.

I’ve learned more daily Mexican Spanish from this podcast than any other. I love how they break down the expressions and fully explain what is happening with the language. More please!

Very insulting to hear. All the English speakers are in dominate right position and all Spanish speakers subordinate wrong do-ers. Take for example car crash, spanish speaker is unemployed, uninsured, non citizen and accident faulted person. All of the check boxes, really? Car wasnt loaded with people or vegetables? The roles could be easily be reversed on the script. Also a Sad story of personal strife too. Where is the english speaker sad story. English speaker can be unemployed, uninsured, college student, on probation, or narcotics addicted. Lazy and/or unimaginative and/or lack experience or plain racism. Who runs this podcast? Do you really expect this low from all Spanish speakers? If this is all one should expect from Spanish speaker , then it is no wonder laws and justice cannot be just. Who try’s when media, podcast and English speakers hear or reinforce this stuff. I can’t imagine how Afrikaans or Cantonese podcast describe situations. Dry cleaning or whatever storylines…. Consider Interesting story lines. Visit Mexican dentist, or doctor , Asking for job from Spanish speaking manager, discussing matters with Mexico president, telling English speaker restaurant issues with ice tea and or Spanish speaker manager telling English speaker to get moving. Laying off english speaker worker. Or flip roles at every self interest intuition. Is it ridiculous to interact with Spanish speaker in dominate position? If Spanish speaker is docile and self deprecating then the English speaker can equally express common traits like arrogance , egocentric, exaggeration, over spending in Amazon, being cheap on paying living wage to a citizen, or Karenism. Air out dirty laundry equally. Is it you cannot imagine or you won’t do it? Can you address in follow up podcast ?

I really appreciate this show because it requires understanding real people speak in a real way. This is clearly harder than listening to teachers speak in a studio, and is very helpful as the hosts talk through the conversation at the end of the show. Keep ‘em coming!

This podcast is exactly what I have been looking for! I get bored after a while of most podcasts that are in the very typical “talk about a topic for half an hour” style. Because this is real conversation, it feels so much more functional and entertaining to listen to! I like that there’s a story and it feels like I’m listening to a tv show. Thank you for continuing this!

I’ve listened to a lot of Spanish podcasts and this one is by far the best one for Latin American Spanish. Instead of focusing just on a lesson that is hard to remember you get to hear real conversations and have the subjects explained clearly. Excellent work.

I just finished listening to my first episode, and as an advanced intermediate Spanish speaker, I found the handyman episode to be incredibly helpful. I appreciate that there’s a tiny bit of English during the dialogue to help me along, but that the language used by the Mexican speaker is authentic and not dumbed down. I also found the discussion in English in the last part of the podcast to be extremely helpful and informative. I’m looking forward to digging deeper into this podcast. Thank you so much for all the effort you have put into it, and also for the audio quality. There are so many podcasts I abandon because of poor audio quality even though their content is good, so that was refreshing.

Everything is wonderful except for Michael.

Really enjoyed listening to these shows. I learned a lot of words I wouldn’t have known otherwise. I really hope they make more in the future! In the meantime I may have to get the extra stuff off their website. Highly recommend if you’re Spanish is decent but you want to understand more everyday people, especially if you live where most Spanish is Mexican Spanish!

Thank you for producing this podcast! It was absolutely amazing! Please do more of those. I’ve learned so much!

This is my favorite Spanish podcast. I almost exclusively converse with Mexican Spanish speakers when I am communicating in Spanish. This podcast gives you the tools to sound way more natural and also to understand a lot of the phrases and words we might hear that don’t exactly translate well but are commonly used in slang. It even has an entire episode on curse words! My Mexican friends have been really impressed and find it quite hilarious when I use some of the new phrases and words I’ve learned. And there’s some Mexican culture thrown in as well. This is not for beginners and there is not much actual vocabulary or grammar taught. But, if you have a decent handle on the Spanish language and want to converse more fluidly with Mexican people this is the podcast for you. I also find it very helpful when listening to the dialogue portions that it switches back from the native speaker to Micheal who is near fluent but still has the slight American accent and speaks a little slower. It gives my brain a chance to catch up in between the smooth rapid dialogue of the native. Que padre!

Really enjoyed this podcast and look forward to the next season!

I listened to all the episodes in my prep to move to Mexico. The show is better produced than any other Mexico Spanish learning podcast I could find; the repetition/review and focused topics on Mexican Spanish slang and culture was really helpful. I was already an intermediate Spanish speaker who had gotten rusty, but even newer Spanish speakers will get a lot out of this show.

I loved this format. When is it coming back? Been over a year.

I love this podcast! The episodes are short enough to listen to while you walk the dog, and contain a wonderful combination of things you hear a lot, words you should know but don’t, and, most importantly, vocabulary and phrases for common situations. I highly recommend spending the $49 to purchase the entire package. The study guides cover different ways to say the same thing (for example, asking a stranger to take a picture of you or your family), and you can use the different examples to create drills to practice. Fantastic learning tool!

The format keeps you tuned in unlike many other podcasts where i find myself drifting off. Love this podcast just waiting for the new season now

I haven’t encountered a format like this before. It’s very interesting and effective. I love hearing real Spanish with the cultural and usage discussion at the end. I think it’s very good that the guy speaks English then but she responds in Spanish. The context helps me understand what she’s saying.

This podcast has helped me so much with my Spanish listening comprehension. This is also an incredible resource for learning everyday phrases used in Mexico.

Thank you for making my Spanish so enjoyable! I love the people of Mexico. After all, my grandmother was born there <3 I feel like I am there when I listen each morning to your podcasts.

This is a great podcast because it teaches you a lot of phrases and idioms that are used by Mexican Spanish speakers that you don’t find elsewhere. I have been learning Spanish for about 4 years now and have since gotten engaged to someone from Mexico. I can confirm that based on the way my fiancé and her family speak, the lessons and phrases talked about in this podcast are extremely relevant to the way people actually speak in Mexico. La neta!

As a native English speaker living in Mexico City I love these podcasts!!! I learn so much. And I can relate to many situations that Paola shares. Gracias!!

Fun to listen to and I feel like this is what I'll be listening to on the airplane the next time I take a trip anywhere in Latin America. I also really like that it foucses on Spanish from Mexico because most of the people I use my Spanish with are from Latin America.

I loved the lessons and format. Lovely way to improve my spanish and get ready for a trip!

I've just started listening to Doorway to Mexico and I'm already hooked! Even though I'm still new to learning Spanish, I love hearing the dialogues and listening to the Spanish teacher Paulina, whose voice sounds like Salma Hayek and makes me feel like I'm chatting with a fun friend, not a teacher. The format is unique, too: a long dialogue that's set in a coffee shop or whatever, with Paulina's student Michael and his family trying to communicate with locals on a trip to Mexico (so it's an 80/20 blend of Spanish and English in some cases), followed by a discussion between Paulina and Michael (and sometimes Julie, his wife, who doesn't speak any Spanish, asking about cultural differences, etc.). The discussion is cool because Michael asks grammar questions in English, trying to figure out the differences and nuances in the words, slang, idioms and grammatical choices that Mexicans may use (compared with the Castellano Spanish that most kids learn in high school, or with American English), then Paulina answers him almost exclusively in Spanish. Even though I don't speak Spanish (yet!), I found myself listening more intently and comprehending what she was saying. I haven't bought the upgrade to the "bonus" materials yet, because I'm not at the level or point where I think I can fully appreciate them yet. But still, I'm considering it because it's clear Doorway to Mexico wants their audience to truly play with the language and excel in communicating with Mexican or Latin American people in a culturally sensitive way. In short: Great podcast! I can't wait for new episodes!