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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 Lingua1.11: How To Introduce Your Family Members
May I introduce you to my husband.\n\nIf you are introducing a person by their first name, without including their title, you add an 'a' before the…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua1.10: Vocabulary – Family Members
For better or worse, we may actually have to introduce members of our family to the people we meet in Latin America or in Spain — this may be more embarrassing…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua1.9: Asking People How They Are Doing
In this section, we're going to learn how to say "How are you?" in different circumstances. Now, this might sound simple — but in Spanish, we have both formal…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua1.8: Introducing Yourself + Others
Yo soy el Señor Jack Smith.\n La doctora Jane Sánchez -> Yo soy la doctora Jane Sánchez.\n\nRun through the practice exercises in our blog post after listening…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua1.7: On The Fly: Practicing Greetings + Honorifics
Buenos días, señora. \n Afternoon – Doctor Ramírez -> Buenas tardes, doctor Ramírez (where it is implied that Dr. Ramírez is a man).\n\nWhen you hear the time…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua1.6: Combining Greetings and Honorifics
What we're going to do in this section is bring it all together! We're going to combine what you've learned in the past few episodes about greetings and…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua1.5: Honorifics in Spanish
Welcome to episode 1.5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. In this m-episode, we are going to learn about honorifics in Spanish. I'll be honest — when I…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua1.4: How To Say Good Morning, Good Afternoon, and Good Evening
¡Buenos dias! In this episode, we're going to learn how to say Good Morning (hint: we just did!), Good Afternoon, and Good Evening in Spanish. In order to say…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua1.3: Language + Cultural Notes
In this episode we're going to go over some basic language and cultural notes for the Spanish language. When you're learning another language, one of the most…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua1.2: A Conversation To Introduce Yourself & Others
Conversations — the vehicle of language. Being able to properly introduce yourself is akin to hopping into the vehicle. This audio and text guide will show you…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua1.1: Introduction + Objectives
Welcome to the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast! This unit is made up of 15 episodes that take from 1 to 5 minutes. That way, you can go back and review the parts…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua10.13: Unit 10 review
This m-episode is a quick recap of Unit 10 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spanish.
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua10.12: Visualization - At Restaurant (Ordering Food)
This m-episode is a visualization practice that picks up where the visualization practice of Unit 9 leaves off. It continues the dining experience through…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua10.11: Conversation - At Restaurant (Ordering Food) review
In this m-episode, you will listen again to the first conversation you heard. You should now be able to understand it. If there are any parts you are still not…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua10.10: Bring It All Together - Ordering at a restaurant
This m-episode brings everything you have learned in the past few episodes together. Listen to the material in English and say it in Spanish. The first run…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua10.9: Ordering your meal
This m-episode moves on to the good stuff -- how to order a meal in Spanish. When a waiter is ready to take your order, they will typically say something like…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua10.8: Asking if a dish has specific ingredients (gluten, peanuts, meat, shellfish, etc).
This one is for those with dietary restrictions and their travel companions. One of the difficulties when traveling to a foreign country, if you have dietary…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua10.7: Asking what a dish is made of
One of the difficulties when traveling to a foreign country, if you have dietary restrictions or food allergies, is finding food to eat. In this m-episode…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua10.6: Vocabulary - Ingredients in dishes
If you are traveling to a place you have never been before, you may run into dishes you don't know. In these cases you may want to ask what is in the dish…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua10.5: Ordering your steak – well done to rare
If you are going to order steak in Latin America they will probably ask you how well you would like it cooked. This m-episode will teach you how to order your…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua10.4: Different foods in Spanish
While the variety of food you can try when traveling around Latin America and Mexico is almost limitless, there are some staple dishes that you can see almost…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua10.3: Cultural and Language Notes - At Restaurant (Ordering Food)
This m-episode covers the cultural notes surrounding dining in Latin American countries. You'll learn about common dining times and customs, and things to…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua10.2: Conversation: At Restaurant (Ordering Food)
The best way to get familiar with how to dine at a Latin American restaurant is to dive into conversation. You'll do just that in this m-episode, a…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua10.1: At Restaurant (Ordering Food)
Welcome to Unit 10 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. Objectives. In this unit you will learn how to ask for the menu, understand when the waiter asks what…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua9.11: Unit 9 review
This m-episode is a quick recap of Unit 9 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spanish.
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua9.10: Visualization - At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks).
This m-episode is a visualization practice that will help you imagine yourself dining at a restaurant in a Latin American country -- can you successfully ask…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua9.9: Conversation - At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks) review
In this m-episode, you will listen again to the first conversation you heard at the beginning of Unit 9. You should now be able to understand it. If there are…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua9.8: Putting it all together - At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks).
This m-episode brings together everything you have learned so far about dining in a restaurant in Latin America. We'll form more of a realistic situation with…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua9.7: How to say "I/We don't want anything to drink"
Now let's learn how to say "no" when a waiter asks you if you would like something to drink. If you don't want to order anything to drink then you would use…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua9.6: Ordering a drink - At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks)
In this m-episode you will learn how to order drinks in Spanish at a restaurant in Latin America. When ordering a drink you would use the phrase: Tráigame un X…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua9.5: Types of drinks in Spanish
In this m-episode you will learn about the types of drinks at a restaurant in Spanish. There are many different types of drinks in Latin America. You can find…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua9.4: Asking for a table for your party - At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks)
When you enter a restaurant, one of the first things you will be asked is how many people are in your party. To answer the phrase you would use say the…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua9.3: Cultural and Language Notes - At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks)
This m-episode covers common cultural notes related to dining at restaurants in Latin American countries. You'll learn how to address the waitstaff, how to…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua9.2: Conversation: At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks)
Here you will experience a common restaurant situation in Spanish. This is a conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs and a waiter at a restaurant. They have…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua9.1: At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks)
Welcome to Unit 9 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. In this unit you will learn how to ask for a table based on your party size, understand the waiter when…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.15: Unit 8 review
This m-episode is a quick recap of Unit 8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spanish.
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.14: Visualization: Shopping in a department store
This is a visualization practice that helps you imagine you are in a Latin American department store. You want to try on some clothing, but first you need to…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.13: Conversation - Shopping in a department store (review)
This m-episode reviews the conversation you heard in Unit 8.1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. By now, you should be able to understand the entire…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.12: Bring it all together - Shopping in a department store
This m-episode puts together everything you've learned about trying on items in a department store, asking for them based on specific sizes, colors, and other…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.11: Letting people know an item is too big or too small
So you tried on the item and now you want to let the clerk know how well it fit. First you would tell them if it even fits or not, before asking to try on…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.10: Asking to try an item on
This m-episode teaches you how to ask to try on an item in Spanish. If you like an item but want to try it on, there are two ways to ask. You can do it by…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.9: Asking for a specific size of clothes or shoes
You'll learn how to ask for specific items in the right size for you (or someone else) in this m-episode. Like the rest of the world, in Latin America the item…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.8: Ask for a specific item for a specific person
This m-episode brings together all you have learned in the last four m-episodes. Say the following in Spanish. The first time through we will only say the…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.7: Buying items for other people
Sometimes you need to buy items for people other than yourself. Let's practice telling the clerk who you are buying the items for. This m-episode teaches you…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.6: Ask for specific items
This m-episode builds on the previous two episodes. You'll learn how to ask for specific items in specific colors, properly. The m-episode covers common…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.5: Items found in department stores
You'll learn how to say the names of many common items found in department stores in this m-episode. There is some overlap in items found in a department store…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.4: Colors in Spanish - Shopping in a department store
This m-episode is a basic introduction to the common colors in Spanish. You'll learn how to apply them to shopping in a department store, and how to ask for…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.3: Cultural and language notes - Shopping in a department store
Here you'll learn the common cultural notes to be aware of before shopping in a Latin American department store. You will learn how to ask whether or not you…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.2: Conversation: Shopping in a department store
This m-episode is an introduction to shopping in a department store. You'll hear a common conversation that might take place between two people in the store…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua8.1: Shopping in a department store
Welcome to Unit 8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. In this unit you will learn how to shop in a department store, and we'll also cover basic vocab for…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua7.14: Unit 7 review
This m-episode is a quick recap of Unit 7 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spanish.
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua7.13: Visualization practice - Negotiating for souvenirs
This is a visualization practice that helps you imagine you are in a Latin American market. You come across one or more souvenirs you want to buy, and decide…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua7.12: Conversation - Negotiating for souvenirs (review)
What happens when the conversation flows back and forth during a market negotiation? After practicing through this m-episode you will be able to successfully…
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua7.11: Bring it all together - Negotiating for souvenirs
This m-episode brings together everything you have learned about negotiating for souvenirs in Latin American markets. By now, you should have the terms and…
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 m-episode to boost your negotiating skills even further. In the previous episode you learned how to…
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 m-episode. You will know how to ask how much something…
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…