Learn Spanish with Live Lingua

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 m-episodes and repeat.

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

This m-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 m-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 m-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 m-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 m-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 m-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 m-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 m-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, plain, train) and "y" is the location you want to go to.

Now let's combine the numbers you learned in the previous m-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. M-episode 2.5 may be a helpful preview.