Learn Spanish with Live Lingua

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. You'll learn how to do that in this m-episode, including uncommon ingredients.

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 steak just how you like it, and know what to expect when the order is taken.

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 everywhere. You'll learn about these, and how to order them, in this m-episode.

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 avoid when eating out, along with tips to have the best experience possible.

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 conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs and a waiter at a restaurant. They are seated at a table and order their meal.

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 you want to order, ask what are certain dishes, and order your meal.

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.

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 for a table, peruse the menu, and order drinks? You should be able to, after reviewing the episodes in this Unit.

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 any parts you are still not clear about, just replay this episode.

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 entering, asking for a table, and ordering drinks, all in the Spanish language.

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 the phrase: No, no voy a tomar nada. If you are answering for two or more people you would say: No, no vamos a tomar nada.

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 por favor" -> "Please bring me a X," Where the X is the drink that you want. Remember that to change the gender of the word "un" (a) based on the gender of the drink.

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 the common ones found around the word along with types that are unique to the region.

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 following: A table for X people please -> Una mesa para X personas, por favor.

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 phrase common orders, and more that will make your dining experience easier.

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 just arrived and ask for a table and give their drink order.

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 they ask you what you want to drink, and how to order drinks.

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.

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 ask for it based on item description, its color, its size, and other factors. Practice in this m-episode.

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 conversation, and be able to make slight modifications to apply it to your personal shopping experience.

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 requests, and how to tell someone whether or not it fits. If you haven't grasped anything in this m-episode, go back and review the rest of this Unit.

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 another item of clothing or purchase the item you've tried on. You'll learn how to do these things in this m-episode.

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 specifically naming the item or you can refer to the item as "it", just like in English.

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 size can be described in two ways. A general size such as small, medium and large and a specific size like size 6 or size 10.  

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 English version so you have time to say it in Spanish. The second time through we'll say it in Spanish and English so you can see if you got it right.