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¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 7.12 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   What happens when the conversation flows back and forth during a market negotiation?   After practicing through this m-episode you will be able to successfully negotiate your way through a negotiation in a Latin American marketplace.   Let's get started!   ¡Empecemos!   To read the transcripts of thi...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 7.11 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode brings together everything you have learned about negotiating for souvenirs in Latin American markets.   By now, you should have the terms and sentence structure down to go to a market and come away with the things you want to buy.   Let's get started!   ¡Empecemos!   To read the trans...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 7.10 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Here is your chance to practice. We're going to put you into a (hypothetical) situation in this exercise.   The seller is going to give you a price for an item that you would like to buy. It costs too much -- and you should ask for a price 100 pesos less than the one offered.   Let's get started!   ¡...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 7.9 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Now we're going to actually give you the skills (and the terms behind those skills) to negotiate like an expertienced market shopper in Latin America.   If an item is more expensive than it should be, this episode will teach you how to talk it down to a more appropriate price.   Let's get started!   ¡...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 7.8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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 m-episodes, is asking for multiple items, or items that are plural by nature (like shoes or earrings)....

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 7.7 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Here we are going to build on what you learned in the past m-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?"   L...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 7.6 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Like all things in Spanish, the gender used when negotiating is very important.   After listening to this m-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.   Let's get started!   ¡Empec...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 7.5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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 m-episode will teach you how to ask what something is made of, and how to understand the answer.   Let's get started!  ...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 7.4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-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.   Let's get started!   ¡Empecemos...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 7.3 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode is an overview of cultural notes to be aware of before going to a market in Latin American countries.   It also covers things to be aware of, how to avoid paying more than you should, and common words and phrases that you'll hear along the way.   Let's get started!   ¡Empecemos!   To re...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 7.2 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Welcome to Unit 7 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   This m-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...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 7.1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   Let's get started!   ¡Empecemos!   To read the transcripts of this m-episode additional f...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 6.9 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-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.   Let's get started!   ¡Empecemos!   To read the transcripts of this m-episode additional free practice you can find it on our website here:   https:/...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 6.8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode is a visualization exercise of what you've learned in Unit 6 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. Imagine you are in 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 conversa...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 6.7 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-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's parts of it that still aren't clear, just review the episodes in this unit as many times as...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 6.6 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   In this m-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...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 6.5.2 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   In this m-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...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 6.5.1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Here, you will practice using the vocabulary you learned in the last m-episode and make it practical to use.   After hearing the word for a product in English, you'll learn to translate it into Spanish and add the phrase "¿cuánto cuesta un kilo de x?" in the front of it.   Let's get started!   ¡Empe...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 6.4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode covers some basic products in the market . We're going to say them in English and in Spanish so just repeat them both out loud until you memorize them.   Let's get started!   ¡Empecemos!   To read the transcripts of this m-episode additional free practice you can find it on our website...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 6.3 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   In this m-episode you'll learn the cultural notes necessary for a proper trip to the market.   Most countries in Latin America measure things in the metric system.   This means they use kilometers and meters when measuring distance, and kilograms and grams when measuring weight.     Let's get started!...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 6.2 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode is a conversation between Laura Ramirez and a seller at a market . Miss. Ramirez is buying her weekly groceries.   Don't worry if you can't understand it yet, we'll break it down and practice it in the episodes of this unit.   Let's get started!   ¡Empecemos!   To read the transcripts o...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 6.1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   Let's get started!   ¡Empecemos!  ...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5-16 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Congratulations.  You have made it to the end of Unit 5.5 of the Live Lingua Spanish podcast, brought to you by LiveLingua.com .  You should now be able 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  Understand if they ask if you ha...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5-15 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-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. Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!   To read the transcripts...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5-14 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!   To read the transcripts of this m-episode additional free practice you can f...