Learning Spanish with Popular Songs 🎵

Buika - No Habrá Nadie En El Mundo

                  "No habrá nadie en el mundo"
                  (There won't be anyone in the world)
              

Grammar: Simple Future (haber) ➔ habr

Andrea Bocelli & Nicole Scherzinger
No Llores Por Mí Argentina

                  "No llores por mí Argentina"
                  (Don't cry for me Argentina)
              

Enrique Iglesias - Súbeme La Radio

                  "Súbeme la radio, que esta es mi canción"
                  (Turn up the radio, because this is my song)
              

José José - Espera Un Poco

                  "Espera un poco, un poquito más"
                  (Wait a little, just a little bit more)
              

Andrea Bocelli - Quizás, Quizás, Quizás

                  "Quizás, quizás, quizás"
                  (Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps)
              

                  "Estás perdiendo el tiempo pensando"
                  (You are wasting your time thinking)
              

Rolando Alarcón - Si Me Quieres Escribir

                  "Si me quieres escribir ya sabes mi paradero"
                  (If you want to write to me, you already know my whereabouts)
              

Julieta Venegas - Limón y Sal

                  "Yo te quiero tal y como estás"
                  (I love you just the way you are)
              

Llorona (Coco)

                  Ayer lloraba por verte, hoy lloro porque te vi
                  Yesterday I was crying to see you, today I cry because I saw you
              

Mariachi Song

                  Me gusta cantar
                  (I like to sing)
              

                  Me gusta tocar guitarra
                  (I like to play guitar)
              

                  No me faltan... Ni el dinero
                  (I am not lacking... not even money)
              

Luciana Pereyra - No Habrá Testigos

                  "No habrá testigos"
                  (There will be no witnesses)
              

                  "Aléjate, olvídame, será mejor"
                  (Walk away, forget me, it will be better)
              

Nicky Jam - El Perdón

                  Dime si es verdad
                  (Tell me if it is true)
              

                  Me dijeron que...
                  (They told me that...)
              

                  Dicen que...
                  (They say that...)
              

Marc Anthony - Vivir Mi Vida

                  "Si así es la vida, hay que vivirla"
                  (If life is like that, you have to live it)
              

                  "Voy a vivir mi vida"
                  (I am going to live my life)
              

Alejandro Sanz - Despedida

                  "Una vez más, apaga las luces y canta conmigo así me olvido de la despedida."
                  (One more time, turn off the lights and sing with me so I forget the farewell)
              

Rosario - Como Quieres Que Te Quiera

                  "Como quieres que te quiera"
                  (How do you want me to love you)
              

Shakira - Espero

                  "Espero que no esperes que te espere"
                  (I hope you don't expect me to wait for you)
              

Juanes - La Camisa Negra

                  Hoy sé que tú ya no me quieres, 

                  Today I know that you no longer love me,

                  Lo que ayer me supo a gloria hoy me sabe a pura... 

                  What yesterday tasted like glory to me today tastes like pure...

                  ¡Qué mala suerte la mía!
                  (What bad luck of mine!)
              

Vocabulary Note: The verb saber has two meanings: to know and to taste.
• sabe = he/she/it knows
• sabe a / sabe como = tastes like

Juan Luis Guerra - Ojalá Que Llueva Café

                  "Ojalá que llueva café en el campo"
                  (I wish it would rain coffee in the countryside.)
              

Focus: Ojalá que + subjunctive, Weather expressions, Wishes and hopes.
This song is one of the most used classics among Spanish learners to practice subjunctive examples.

Diego Torres - Color Esperanza

                  "Saber que se puede"
                  (To know that it is possible.)
              

Focus: Imperatives, Motivation vocabulary, Positive expressions, Infinitives.
This song is frequently used in Spanish classes to teach motivation and daily expressions.

Juanes - A Dios Le Pido

                  "A Dios le pido que te quedes a mi lado"
                  (I ask God that you stay by my side.)
              

Focus: Pedir que + subjunctive, Wishes and desires, Emotional language.
The most important teaching point of this song is the repetitive use of the "pedir que + subjunctive" structure.

Enrique Iglesias - Bailando

                  "bailar contigo"
                  (to dance with you)
              

Focus: bailar + con + persona.
This is a simple daily-life pattern: quiero bailar contigo, voy a bailar contigo, me gusta bailar contigo.

Jennifer Lopez - Qué Hiciste

                  "¿Qué hiciste?"
                  (What did you do?)
              

                  "Ayer arruinaste..."
                  (Yesterday you ruined...)
              

                  "Mañana no recordaré..."
                  (Tomorrow I will not remember...)
              

Focus: past and future in one song.
hiciste and arruinaste are past forms. recordaré is a future form. This makes the song useful for comparing completed past actions with future statements.

Luis Fonsi - Échame La Culpa

                  "Échame la culpa"
                  (Blame me)
              

                  "No eres tú, soy yo"
                  (It is not you; it is me)
              

Focus: the verb ser in real speech.
eres = you are. soy = I am. The contrast no eres tú / soy yo is a memorable way to review two essential present-tense forms of ser.