Learn Spanish with Live Lingua

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 arrives at its destination, and how to understand the reply that you will receive. In Spanish, ask "when does x arrive?", where "x" is the vehicle, you just have to say "¿a qué hora llega "x"?

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 that you know how to say and understand the hours, let's focus a bit on the minutes. In Spanish, you can say the minutes after the hours, just like in English. This m-episode covers how to do that, and how to say the information in a sentence.

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.

In this m-episode you will learn how to understand information about public transportation in Latin American countries. For example, we'll cover what someone will reply when you ask them what time a bus leaves, and how to ask about the price of a ticket.

This m-episode is an introductory lesson on how to buy a bus ticket at a terminal or station in Latin America, speaking in Spanish. You'll hear a conversation between a purchaser and seller, and learn the basics of how to talk through the transaction.

Welcome to Unit 5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. If you're going to be traveling between cities in Spain or Latin America, chances are you're going to be using some kind of public transportation, whether it be buses, trains or planes. In this unit, we're going to work through some conversations on how to buy tickets for public transportation.

This m-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.

In this m-episode, 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.

This m-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 part that's still not clear, feel free to review this unit as many times as you need.

If you're asking for directions in Spanish, there's generally two things that can happen after they're given to you.  You can either say "thank you" and be on your way, or you can ask for a clarification. This m-episode walks you through both situations. Listen and repeat the following phrases in English and in Spanish.

This m-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.

This m-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.

After learning the vocabulary in the last episode for some common locations in Spanish, this m-episode puts it into a complete sentence. You'll learn how to specifically ask where something is, in the Spanish language.

This m-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.

This m-episode covers cultural notes regarding directions, as specific to Latin American countries. You'll learn how to understand key differences and nuances between asking for directions in English and asking for directions in Spanish.

This m-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.

If you're traveling to a Spanish-speaking country, or if you're traveling anywhere, you probably need to ask for directions. This m-episode is an introduction to the topic, and covers basic information on getting around in Latin American countries.

This m-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.

Let's make sure you are comfortable in a situation where you have to speak about your work and family. This is a visualization exercise that will help you become comfortable talking about these two very common conversation pieces, in Spanish.

This m-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.