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¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 8.14 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn 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.   Let's get started!   ¡Empecemos!...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 8.13 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   Let's get started!   ¡Empecemos!   To read...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 8.12 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 8.11 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   Let's get started!   ¡...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 8.10 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.   Let's get started!   ¡Empecemos!   To read the tran...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 8.9 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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.     Let's ge...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 8.8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   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...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 8.7 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Sometimes you need to buy items for people other than yourself. Let's practice telling the clerk who you are buying the items for .   This m-episode teaches you just that. It may be helpful to review Unit 1.10 of the podcast if you struggle to remember how to say each family member.   Let's get starte...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 8.6 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode builds on the previous two episodes. You'll learn how to ask for specific items in specific colors , properly.   The m-episode covers common differences between English and Spanish, such as that in Spanish, the color goes after the item, no before, like in English.   Let's get started!...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 8.5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Welcome to Unit 8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   You'll learn how to say the names of many common items found in department stores in this m-episode.   There is some overlap in items found in a department store and those we went over in Unit 7, so please feel free to review that episode if you...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 8.4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Welcome to Unit 8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   This m-episode is a basic introduction to the common colors in Spanish.   You'll learn how to apply them to shopping in a department store, and how to ask for certain clothing items in a specific color of your choice.   Let's get started!   ¡Empe...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 8.3 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Welcome to Unit 8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.  

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 8.2 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Welcome to Unit 8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   This m-episode is an introduction to shopping in a department store.   You'll hear a common conversation that might take place between two people in the store.   Don't worry if you don't understand it all yet -- we'll get to that and by the end o...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 8.1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Welcome to Unit 8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   In this unit you will learn how to shop in a department store , and we'll also cover basic vocab for shopping and lifestyle excursions such as colors in Spanish, sizing of clothes, and how to ask to try on an item.   Let's get started!   ¡Empecem...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 7.14 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode is a quick recap of Unit 7 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 7.13 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This is a visualization practice that helps you imagine you are in a Latin American market.   You come across one or more souvenirs you want to buy, and decide that the price is too high .   So, you negotiate that price down successfully, and come away with your souvenirs.   Let's get started!   ¡Emp...

¡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...