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Learn Spanish with Live Lingua
Need to learn Spanish quickly? Join Ray on his quest to improve his Spanish in these quick mini-episodes as he walks you through and breaks down real-world Spanish conversations. Brought to you by LiveLingua.com.
Episodes
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua7.10: Asking for a lower prices
Here is your chance to practice. We're going to put you into a (hypothetical) situation in this exercise. The seller is going to give you a price for an item…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua7.9: Asking "Why so expensive?"
Now we're going to actually give you the skills (and the terms behind those skills) to negotiate like an experienced market shopper in Latin America. If an…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua7.8: Asking "How much for these or those?"
The third part of our "negotiating" series will make you a master negotiator at Latin American markets (after a bit of practice, of course). The final thing we…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua7.7: Asking "How much for that?"
Here we are going to build on what you learned in the past 7th episode to boost your negotiating skills even further. In the previous episode you learned how…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua7.6: Asking "How much for this?"
Like all things in Spanish, the gender used when negotiating is very important. After listening to this 6th episode. You will know how to ask how much…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua7.5: Asking what the souvenir is made of
When you are interested in buying something, you may also be interested in what the product is made of. The most commonplace situation where this can apply is…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua7.4: Vocabulary of different types of souvenirs
This 4th episode is all about vocabulary. You'll learn the Spanish words for many common items that you'd shop for at a market, like souvenirs, plates, dolls…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua7.3: Cultural and language notes - Negotiating for souvenirs
This 3rd episode is an overview of cultural notes to be aware of before going to a market in Latin American countries. It also covers things to be aware of…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua7.2: Conversation - Negotiating for souvenirs
This 2nd episode is a conversation between Mr. Jacobs and a seller in a souvenir shop. You will hear the basics of a negotiation in Spanish. Mrs. Jacobs asks…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua7.1: Negotiating for souvenirs
Welcome to Unit 7 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. In this unit you will learn how to ask for some common souvenir items by name, understand what material…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua6.9: Unit 6 review
This 9th episode is a quick recap of Unit 6 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spanish.
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua6.8: Visualization Practice - Shopping in a Market
This 8th episode is a visualization exercise of what you've learned in Unit 6 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. Imagine you are in a Latin American market…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua6.7: Conversation - Shopping in a Market (Review)
This 7th episode reviews the conversation that you heard at the beginning of this unit, and helps to bring it together into a complete conversation. You should…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua6.6: Ask for a specific amount (in numbers) of a product
In this 6th episode we'll learn how to ask for a specific number of a product. You'll learn how to use a complete sentence to put in your order, and learn what…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua6.5.2: Asking for a specific weight of a product
In this 5th episode we'll learn how to ask for a specific weight of a product. You'll learn how to ask for and understand these weights using the Metric…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua6.5.1: Ask the price of a product in a market
Here, you will practice using the vocabulary you learned in the last m-episode and make it practical to use. After hearing the word for a product in English…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua6.4: Produce in the market in Spanish
This 4th episode covers some basic products in the market. We're going to say them in English and in Spanish so just repeat them both out loud until you…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua6.3: Cultural and Language notes - Shopping in a Market
In this 3rd episode you'll learn the cultural notes necessary for a proper trip to the market. Most countries in Latin America measure things in the metric…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua6.2: Conversation - Shopping in a Market
This 2nd episode is a conversation between Laura Ramirez and a seller at a market. Miss. Ramirez is buying her weekly groceries. Don't worry if you can't…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua6.1: Shopping in a Market
Welcome to Unit 6 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. In this unit we are going to teach you how to: Ask for specific produce and meat products in a market…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-16: Unit 5.5 review
If there are any parts you are still not clear about just replay this episode and the entire unit until you understand everything.
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-15: Visualization Practice - Taking a taxi
This 15th episode places you in three common scenarios you will face when taking a taxi or an Uber in Latin American countries. See if you can converse your…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-14: Conversation - Taking a taxi (Review)
Let's listen again to the first conversation you heard. You should now be able to understand it. If there are any parts you don't understand, go back to those…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-13: Bring it all together - Taking a taxi
This 13th episode brings together everything you have learned so far in Unit 5.5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. We'll give you phrases in English, and you…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-12: Answer - How many bags do you have?
To finish off your initial conversation with a taxi driver, let's let the driver know how many pieces of luggage you have. This m-episode will teach you how to…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-11: Negotiating a price with a taxi driver
This 11th episode is designed to help you learn how to negotiate a lower price for your taxi rides. You could also negotiate a higher price, if you so desired…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-10: Bring it all together - How near or far is a location
Now let's practice what you've learned about distance, but put everything into full sentences. When asking how near or far a location is, you can use the word…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-9: Vocabulary- Distance words
Now that you know how to ask your driver how to get to a location, let's learn how to ask how far, or close the location is. This 9th episode covers basic…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-8: Telling a driver where you want to go
Let's learn how to tell a driver where you want to go. In Spanish, when you are telling somebody you want to go to a place, you use the word: "A". We'll…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-7: Answer - Are you free at a specific time of day?
This 7th episode covers how to answer if someone asks you if you are free at a specific time of the day.
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-6: Ask - Are you free at a specific time of day?
Now let's put all of this information about times and dates together to learn how to ask if somebody is free at a certain day and time.
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-5: Times of the day in Spanish
This 5th episode is all about time. If you want to talk about a certain time of the day or week, such as the afternoon or this weekend, here are the phases you…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-4: Vocabulary - Days of the week in Spanish
This 4th episode covers the days of the week in Spanish. This is useful if you want to arrange a taxi or any other event for a future day.
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-3: Cultural & language notes - Taking a taxi
This 3rd episode covers cultural and language notes regarding taking a taxi or a ride-share in Latin American countries.
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-2: Conversation - Taking a taxi
This 2nd episode is a conversation between Laura Ramirez and a taxi driver. Mrs. Ramirez is trying to get to her hotel and must negotiate the price. Don't…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5-1: Objectives - Taking a taxi or an Uber
Welcome to Unit 5.5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. In this unit you will learn how to: Say the day of the week and time of day, ask a cab driver if they…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.14: Unit 5 review
This 14th episode is a quick recap of Unit 5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spanish.
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.13: Visualization Practice - Buying tickets for public transportation.
In this 13th episode, you have the chance to work through a visualization practice to help you learn how to purchase bus, train, and airplane tickets, how to…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.12: Conversation: Buying tickets for public transportation (Review)
This 12th episode revisits the conversation that you heard in Unit 5.1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. By now, you should be able to understand everything…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.11: Bring it all together - Buying tickets for public transportation
This 11th episode puts together everything you've learned in this unit and the previous units of the LiveLingua Spanish Podcast. You'll practice with complete…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.10: Buying a bus, plane, train ticket
This 10th episode teaches you to ask for a ticket to a specific destination from a teller. We're going to use some phrases you can use on any type of…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.9: Ask: "When does the bus, train, plane arrive?"
This 9th episode covers how to ask what time a train, bus, or airplane arrives at its destination, and how to understand the reply that you will receive. In…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.8: Ask: "When does the bus, train, plane leave?"
This 8th episode covers how to ask what time a train, bus, or airplane departs from the terminal, and how to understand the reply that you will receive. In…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.7: Telling time in Spanish (Part 2).
Now that you know how to say and understand the hours, let's focus a bit on the minutes. In Spanish, you can say the minutes after the hours, just like in…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.6: Telling time in Spanish (Part 1)
Now let's combine the numbers you learned in the previous episode so you can tell the time. When telling time in Spanish all you need to do is start the…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.5: Bring it all together – Numbers in Spanish.
This m-episode brings together all of the information you have learned in the previous four episodes of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast, and helps you learn…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.4: Numbers from 10 to 999,999.
Here you'll learn a basic formula for saying and reading all Spanish numbers between 10 and 999,999. You'll also gain basic information on how to tell time in…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.3: Cultural and language notes – Buying tickets for public transport
In this 3rd episode you will learn how to understand information about public transportation in Latin American countries. For example, we'll cover what someone…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.2: Conversation. Buying tickets for public transportation.
This 2nd episode is an introductory lesson on how to buy a bus ticket at a terminal or station in Latin America, speaking in Spanish. You'll hear a…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua5.1: Objectives. Buying tickets for public transportation.
Welcome to Unit 5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. If you're going to be traveling between cities in Spain or Latin America, chances are you're going to be…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua4.10: Unit 4 review
This 10th episode is a quick recap of Unit 4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spanish.
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua4.9: Visualization practice - Asking for directions
In this 9 thepisode, you have the chance to work through a visualization practice to help you learn how to ask for directions in Spanish, and how to locate…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua4.8: Conversations – Asking for directions (Review)
This 8th episode walks you again through the first conversation you heard at the beginning of Unit 4. You should now be able to understand all of the…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua4.7: Saying "thank you", "I don't understand," and "More slowly, please"
If you're asking for directions in Spanish, there's generally two things that can happen after they're given to you. You can either say "thank you" and be on…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua4.6.2: Bring it all together - Understanding directions
This 6th episode brings together all of the information you have learned so far in Unit 4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. We review asking for directions…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua4.6.1: Direction words in Spanish
This 6th episode covers basic words people use to give directions. Knowing this vocabulary is critical, not only if you want to give directions, but actually…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua4.5: Ask: "Where is…"
After learning the vocabulary in the last episode for some common locations in Spanish, this 5th episode puts it into a complete sentence. You'll learn how to…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua4.4: Location vocabulary in Spanish
This 4th episode walks you through the vocabulary for some common locations you would need to get to when you're traveling in Latin America. You'll learn about…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua4.3: Cultural and language notes - Asking for directions
This 3rd episode covers cultural notes regarding directions, as specific to Latin American countries. You'll learn how to understand key differences and…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua4.2: Conversation - Asking for directions
This 2nd episode is a short conversation about how to ask for directions in Latin American countries. You may not understand all of it yet, but after working…