Best shows and podcasts to learn Spanish

The lead is a bit delulu, but she says out loud the things the rest of us are afraid to say, so you may well feel connected to her. A fun way in if you've never heard the Argentine accent before.

Start here if you want to get your ear used to the Mexican accent. The family is funny and sarcastic, and the vocabulary they use is genuinely useful.

Ideal for natural, everyday Spanish and for picking up how real conversations actually run. Drama and comedy at the same time.

The pick for Spanish from Spain, and a rom-com: the conversations sound genuinely natural, and the stories the friends get into are the good part.

Modern slang and faster, casual Spanish, aimed squarely at Gen Z. If you like secrets, drama and teen life, this is the one.

Netflix's Argentine sci-fi hit: a deadly snowfall hits Buenos Aires and a group of survivors bands together. Great contemporary Rioplatense.

Santiago's own podcast, made for learners from B1 up: where Spanish came from, Argentine insults, Borges, El Quijote, football. Culture and literature without the classroom stiffness.

One host, one topic a video, covered in real depth: Argentine history, world events, public debates like the abortion law and euthanasia. His Spanish is careful and formal, good for building vocabulary at B1.

Wildly popular Argentine channel telling curious geography and history stories with clear, well-paced narration, friendlier for learners than the dramas.

A young Argentine who rode Buenos Aires buses and trains end to end, and now looks for the same underside in other countries: crime, drugs, the parts nobody puts on a postcard. Street Rioplatense at full speed.

Dark comedy starring Guillermo Francella as a Buenos Aires building superintendent who quietly rules his tenants' lives.

Cult Argentine series about a team who stages elaborate cons to solve ordinary people's problems, packed with everyday Rioplatense slang.

All the drama around a hugely famous Mexican singer. The vocabulary sits a step above the rest of these, but it's interesting and juicy enough to pull you through.

Migue Granados sits down with one guest an episode, a surgeon, a sex worker, an astronaut, and just talks. Informal, funny, and packed with Rioplatense slang.