Learn Spanish with The House of Flowers
Yes, The House of Flowers is a B1-level pick for Spanish learners. A witty Mexican dark comedy about a wealthy family, with everyday domestic dialogue and lots of repetition of family and emotion words. Comedy timing gives you natural, reactive speech.
Key takeaways
- The House of Flowers is a B1-level pick for Spanish, best suited to intermediate learners.
- A witty Mexican comedy with everyday family vocabulary that repeats and sticks.
- It runs 3 seasons, 33 episodes, so its vocabulary recurs enough that finishing it builds real Spanish listening.
- Against the 27 other Spanish titles in our difficulty index, it is easier than 19 of them.
- Expect everyday Spanish such as familia and flores.
- Watch it with Spanish subtitles rather than your own language, which the research links to the biggest listening gain.
- Difficulty
- B1 (moderate)
- Best for
- intermediate learners
- Format
- TV series
- Length
- 3 seasons, 33 episodes
- Original audio
- Spanish
- Genre
- comedy, drama
- Platform
- Netflix
- Relative difficulty
- Easier than 19 of 27 other Spanish titles we rate
- In our index
- 1 of 28 Spanish titles
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Spanish words you'll hear in The House of Flowers
- familia
- family
- flores
- flowers
- dinero
- money
- mentira
- lie
- querida
- dear, darling
Go deeper: more Spanish from The House of Flowers
- la florería
- the flower shop
- Latin American term; Spain uses floristería. The family business the show is named after
- las apariencias
- appearances
- guardar las apariencias = to keep up appearances, the family's obsession
- el chisme
- the gossip
- very common in Mexico; echar el chisme = to spill the gossip
- el escándalo
- the scandal
- what the de la Mora family is always trying to avoid
- la reputación
- the reputation
- central to a comedy about a family desperate to look respectable
- la amante
- the mistress, the lover
- el amante for a man; the second family is a driver of the plot
- la herencia
- the inheritance
- who inherits the business is a running conflict; heredar = to inherit
- el velorio
- the wake, the funeral vigil
- Latin American term; the series opens around a death in the family
- las deudas
- the debts
- the hidden money troubles behind the wealthy facade; singular la deuda
- no manches
- no way, come on (literally: don't stain)
- extremely common Mexican exclamation of disbelief; softer than the profane version
- híjole
- wow, yikes, oh no
- classic Mexican interjection for surprise or dismay
- quedar bien con alguien
- to stay on someone's good side
- to make a good impression; what everyone tries to do socially
- sacar los trapitos al sol
- to air the dirty laundry (literally: to take the little rags out into the sun)
- idiom for exposing family secrets, exactly what the show does
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Frequently asked questions
- Is The House of Flowers good for learning Spanish?
- Yes, especially for intermediate learners who want Mexican Spanish. The domestic comedy keeps vocabulary everyday and repetitive, which aids memory.