“Nuevos Destinos: Spanish in Review” is a groundbreaking and highly effective immersion course explicitly designed for intermediate learners. It is praised for its natural, fast-paced dialogue and is considered by educators to be a masterclass bridging foundational Spanish and true conversational fluency. You will find that it teaches rich, authentic conversational structures rather than stilted, beginning-textbook rules. The series shares a deeply dedicated and nostalgic fanbase with the original Destinos masterwork.

The program was developed by Cynthia B. Medina in collaboration with WGBH Boston, McGraw-Hill, and the Annenberg/CPB Project. Her driving vision and core philosophy was to provide a rigorous, context-driven grammar overview through a captivating narrative lens. By keeping the story moving at a much more rapid, native conversational pace, she sought to deepen listening comprehension, expand vocabulary, and review advanced grammatical tenses naturally through complex human dialogue and legal plot twists. Although the series was produced in 1997, its language-acquisition concept remains timeless, engaging, and exceptionally effective.

Para empezar, lee la carta de Raquel Rodriguez.  En la carta, Raquel escribe de una investigación que tuvo lugar (took place) hace cinco años. También te informa que vas a saber más de esa investigación. ¿Qué crees que va a pasar? ¿Te va a contar toda la historía del caso? ¿Van a aparecer (appear) personajes de esa investigación? ¿Va a surgur (arise) un nuevo caso? No sé, pero “Enjoy the journey!”