Learn Spanish with Live Lingua

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 about the cost and material used in some of the souvenirs and tries to negotiate a lower price.

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 an item is made from, and negotiate a lower price.

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.

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. Try to visualize these three scenarios and picture how the conversation would go. If you're in a place that allows it, try to have this conversation out loud.

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 now be able to understand all of it. If there are parts of it that still aren't clear, just review the episodes in this unit as many times as you need.

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 to expect in return from the seller at a market in Latin America. If you need to refresh your Spanish numbers, please review Units 2.5 and 5.4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.

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 system, the primary unit of measurement used in Latin America. If you need to refresh your Spanish numbers, feel free to review episodes 2.5 and 5.4.

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. Ask the price for a specific amount – in kilograms – for each product, confirm you want to purchase the product and pay the amount requested for the product.

If there are any parts you are still not clear about just replay this episode and the entire unit until you understand everything.

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 way through them. If not, review the earlier m-episodes in this unit until you can.

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 13 episodes and repeat.

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, but who are we kidding?

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 "Queda."

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 explain.

This 7th episode covers how to answer if someone asks you if you are free at a specific time of the day.

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 would use.

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.

This 3rd episode covers cultural and language notes regarding taking a taxi or a ride-share in Latin American countries.

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 are free, bargain with them over the fare, and understand if they ask if you have any luggage.

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.

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 ask when a bus, train, or plain arrives, and how to ask when one will depart.

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 that is said -- if not, go back and review some of the previous episodes until you have it down.

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 sentences, and work on comprehending common responses you may receive to questions.

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 transportation, so you don't have to worry about the type of vehicle you are going to be using when using these phrases.

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 Spanish you ask "when does x leave for y?", where "x" is the vehicle (bus, plane, train) and "y" is the location you want to go to.

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 sentence with "Son las" and add the number, unless it is 1:00, where you would say '"Es La."

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 how to memorize it and use the skills in daily conversation while in a Latin American country.

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 Spanish, using the numbers we cover in this episode. Episode 2.5 may be a helpful preview.