Learn Spanish with Live Lingua

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 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.

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.

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.

When asking someone where they live, the correct question based on the number of people and whether the situation is formal or informal. This m-episode will teach you how to ask, and the cultural notes associated with the question.

Once someone knows that you have children, they will likely ask whether they are boys or girls. This m-episode teaches you how to answer that, including what to do if you have multiple children who are of different genders.

This m-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.

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 m-episode covers both situations.

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.

This m-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!

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.

This m-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.

This m-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.

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.

This m-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.

This m-episode reviews the first conversation we covered in Unit 2 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. By now, you should be able to understand the conversation and answer the questions for yourself! If not, time to review the previous episodes to get caught up.