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¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5-13 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode brings together everything you have learned so far in Unit 5.5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   We'll give you phrases in English, and you translate them in Spanish.   The second time through, we'll give you the answer after we're done so you can make sure you got it right.    ...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5-12 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   To finish off your initial conversation with a taxi driver, let's let the driver know how many pieces of luggage you have . This m-episode will teach you how to do so.   Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!   To read the transcripts of this m-episode additional free practice you can find it on our web...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5-11 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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?   Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!   To read the transcripts of this m-episode additional free practice you can fin...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5-10 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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 get started!    ¡Empecemos!   To read the transcripts of this m-episode additional free practice you can find it on our w...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5-9 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Now that you know how to ask your driver how to get to a location, let's learn how to ask how far, or close the location is.   This m-episode covers basic vocabulary you can use to ask that, and to understand when they answer you.   Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!   To read the transcripts of this...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5-8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   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 5.5-7 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode covers how to answer if someone asks you if you are free at a specific time of the day.   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://www.livelingua.com/podcast/5-5-7-answer-are-y...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5-6 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Now let's put all of this information about times and dates together to learn how to ask if somebody is free at a certain day and time.   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://www.liveling...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5-5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!   To read the transcripts of this m-episode additional free practice you can find it on our we...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5.4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   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://www.livelin...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5.3 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode covers cultural and language notes regarding taking a taxi or a ride-share in Latin American countries.   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://www.livelingua.com/podcast/5-...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5.2 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode is a conversation between Laura Ramirez and a taxi driver. Mrs. Ramirez is trying to get to her hotel and must negotiate the price.   Don't worry if you don't understand it all yet, we're going to break it down bit by bit in this unit and practice everything.   Let's get started!    ¡...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5.1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Welcome to Unit 5.5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. This unit covers taking a taxi or an Uber in Latin America.   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 hav...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.14 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   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 5.13 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn 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.   Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!   To read the transcripts of th...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.12 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode revisits the conversation that you heard in Unit 5.1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   By now, you should be able to understand everything that is said -- if not, go back and review some of the previous episodes until you have it down.   Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!   To read...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.11 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!   To read the transcrip...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.10 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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"?   Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!  ...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.9 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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"?   Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!  ...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   Let's get s...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.7 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!   To read the tr...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.6 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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."   Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!   To read the tr...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This 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.   You're going to be a master of numbers in Spanish!...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!   To read t...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 5.3 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   Let's get started!    ¡Empecemos!   To read...