Learn Spanish with Live Lingua
Learn Spanish with Live Lingua is a language-learning podcast hosted by Ray, who is working to improve his own Spanish. In short mini-episodes he walks listeners through real-world Spanish conversations, breaking them down piece by piece so the vocabulary and phrasing are easy to follow. The show is produced by LiveLingua.com, an online Spanish-tutoring service, and is aimed at beginners and intermediate learners who want quick, practical practice. Episodes are designed to be listened to on the go, making them a convenient supplement to regular study.
Episodes
7.10: Asking for a lower prices
7.9: Asking "Why so expensive?"
7.8: 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 need to add, building on the last two 8th episodes, is asking for multiple items, or items that are plural by nature (like shoes or earrings).
7.7: 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 to ask "How much for this?" Now, we are going to learn how to ask for an item that is farther away from you by asking "How much for that?"
7.6: 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 something costs, while referring to it in the correct gender so as to show proper respect and knowledge of your subject.
7.5: 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 with jewelry. This 5th episode will teach you how to ask what something is made of, and how to understand the answer.
7.4: 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, and more. In the accompanying blog post, there are matching exercises to help you memorize each of the items.
7.3: Cultural and language notes - Negotiating for souvenirs
7.2: 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 about the cost and material used in some of the souvenirs and tries to negotiate a lower price.
7.1: 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 an item is made from, and negotiate a lower price.
6.9: 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.
6.8: 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. 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.
6.7: 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 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.
6.6: 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 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.
6.5.2: 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 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.
6.5.1: Ask the price of a product in a market
6.4: Produce in the market in Spanish
6.3: Cultural and Language notes - Shopping in a Market
6.2: Conversation - Shopping in a Market
6.1: 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. 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.
5.5-16: 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.
5.5-15: 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 way through them. If not, review the earlier m-episodes in this unit until you can.
5.5-14: 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 13 episodes and repeat.
5.5-13: Bring it all together - Taking a taxi
5.5-12: Answer - How many bags do you have?
5.5-11: 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, but who are we kidding?
5.5-10: 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 "Queda."
5.5-9: Vocabulary- Distance words
5.5-8: 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 explain.
5.5-7: 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.
5.5-6: Ask - Are you free at a specific time of day?
5.5-5: 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 would use.
5.5-4: 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.
5.5-3: 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.
5.5-2: Conversation - Taking a taxi
5.5-1: 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 are free, bargain with them over the fare, and understand if they ask if you have any luggage.
5.14: 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.
5.13: 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 ask when a bus, train, or plain arrives, and how to ask when one will depart.
5.12: 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 that is said -- if not, go back and review some of the previous episodes until you have it down.
5.11: 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 sentences, and work on comprehending common responses you may receive to questions.
5.10: 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 transportation, so you don't have to worry about the type of vehicle you are going to be using when using these phrases.
5.9: Ask: "When does the bus, train, plane arrive?"
5.8: 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 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.
5.7: Telling time in Spanish (Part 2).
5.6: 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 sentence with "Son las" and add the number, unless it is 1:00, where you would say '"Es La."
5.5: 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 how to memorize it and use the skills in daily conversation while in a Latin American country.
5.4: 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 Spanish, using the numbers we cover in this episode. Episode 2.5 may be a helpful preview.
5.3: Cultural and language notes – Buying tickets for public transport
5.2: Conversation. Buying tickets for public transportation.
5.1: Objectives. Buying tickets for public transportation.
4.10: 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.
4.9: 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 common tourist sites in Latin American countries such as hotels, restaurants, the bus station, and the airport.
4.8: 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 conversation on how to ask for directions in Spanish. If there's are any parts that's still not clear, feel free to review this unit as many times as you need.
4.7: Saying "thank you", "I don't understand," and "More slowly, please"
4.6.2: 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 in Spanish, and how to locate common sites that tourists visit in Latin American countries.
4.6.1: 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, if you want to understand what people in Spanish speaking countries say when they give you the answer to the question ¿Dónde está? that you learned in the previous episode.
4.5: Ask: "Where is…"
4.4: 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 asking for directions to places like airports, bus stations, hotels, restaurants, and more common tourist sites.
4.3: Cultural and language notes - Asking for directions
4.2: 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 through Unit 4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast, you will be able to ask for, and understand, directions in Spanish.
4.1: Asking for directions
If you're traveling to a Spanish-speaking country, or if you're traveling anywhere, you probably need to ask for directions. This 1st episode is an introduction to the topic, and covers basic information on getting around in Latin American countries.
3.17: Unit 3 review & congratulations
This 17th episode summarizes everything you have learned in Unit 2 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast, and offer a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spanish.
3.16: Visualization Practice – Work and family
3.15: Conversation – Talking about work and family
This 15th episode contains a thorough conversation about work and family in the Spanish language. You should be able to understand what is being said, and be able to apply the questions and answers to your own personal situations regarding employment and family.
3.14: Bring it all together – Talking about work and family
3.13: Saying "Goodbye" in Spanish
Like in English, and many other languages, there are many ways to say "goodbye" in Spanish. Here are a few of them you can use in most situations. We'll cover the most common ways to say goodbye, and explain the situations in which you'd want to use each one.
3.12: Answer "Where do you live?"
3.11: Ask "Where do you live?
When asking someone where they live, the correct question based on the number of people and whether the situation is formal or informal. This 11th episode will teach you how to ask, and the cultural notes associated with the question.
3.10: Bringing it all together – do you have children
3.9: Indicating the genders of your children
Once someone knows that you have children, they will likely ask whether they are boys or girls. This 9th episode teaches you how to answer that, including what to do if you have multiple children who are of different genders.
3.8: Answer, how many children do you have?
This 8th episode will teach you how to answer when someone asks you about how many kids you have. For this you will need to remember the numbers from 1-10 you learned in Episode 2.5, which you can skip back to review if necessary.
3.7: Do you have kids (formal vs informal)
Like most circumstances in Spanish the way you ask if somebody has children depends on the number of people you are speaking to and whether you are in a formal or informal setting. This 7th episode covers both situations.
3.6: Ask what you do (formal vs informal)
When you ask somebody what they do for a living, there is a small variation on the way you ask the question depending on whether you are being formal or informal. It also varies depending on whether you are talking to an individual or to a group. We cover both in this m-episode.
3.5: Saying your profession in a complete sentence
3.4: Professions in Spanish
This 4th episode teaches you how to say some basic professions in Spanish. Of course, this is not an exhaustive list and you may need to look up how to say your profession. Some can be pretty complicated!
3.3: Work & family language and cultural notes
In Latin America, it is actually unusual for somebody to ask what you do when you first meet. The first question you get is usually about your family -- it will more likely be about whether you are married or have children. This m-episode covers work and family cultural notes.
3.2: Conversation about work & family
This 2nd episode is a basic overview of how to talk about work and family in Spanish. It is a conversation between Mrs. Laura Ramirez & Michael Smith. They have just met and are getting to know each other.
3.1: Talking about work & family
This 1st episode is an introduction to Unit 3 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. In this unit, you will learn how to -- Talk about your family, explain what you do for work, ask people about their employment, and say goodbye and end conversations.
2.22: Review + Congratulations
Here we summarize everything you have learned in Unit 2 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast, and offer a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spanish.
2.21: Visualization Practice
This 21st episode is a visualization practice, which covers everything you have learned in Unit 2. We review the conversations and information and provide visual exercises for you to do to make sure you have memorized it all.
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