The best Latin American Spanish YouTube channels

With around 1.6 million subscribers, this is the channel most beginners land on, and it deserves the reach: Ana explains one grammar point or vocabulary set per video, in English early on and increasingly in Mexican Spanish later. Uploads have slowed to roughly one every month or two, but the back catalogue is a complete beginner grammar course in itself. Best used as targeted explanation when something confuses you, not as a curriculum to work through in order.

A learner-and-native couple talking naturally about culture, travel and language, with dual subtitles that let you dial the support up or down. Colombian Spanish is famously clear, which makes this a good first 'real conversation' channel. Uploads stopped around two years ago, so treat it as a finished archive rather than an active channel — the roughly 200 videos still stand up.

Diego and Efra run two shows in parallel: Cafecito con Mextalki tells Mexican legends and stories slowly for beginners, and Cheleando con Mextalki is the two of them talking at natural speed with all the slang left in. Between them they cover the gap most Spanish material skips — the point where you can follow a lesson but not a conversation. Audio is free; transcripts, the conversation club and the courses are paid.

One of the few consistently good intermediate podcasts in Mexican Spanish, hosted by a couple who talk about food, slang, travel and culture without dumbing the pace down much. The weekly episodes are free; Patreon members get reviewed transcripts, vocabulary guides and bonus advanced episodes. Note the old howtospanish.com domain has lapsed and is now a parking page — howtospanishpodcast.com is the live site.