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¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.18 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This episode covers how to tell someone where you are from.   We'll give you examples both for yourself, and for a group (in case you are traveling with friends or family, and need to answer for everyone).   Examples:   If you are answering just for yourself you would say: "Soy de"   If you are answe...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.17 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   There are three ways to ask someone in Latin America where they are from.   There are two ways to ask an individual -- a formal and informal way., and one way to ask a group. This m-episode covers all three situations and tells you how to ask where people are from. Examples: For somebody you know wel...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.16 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode uses what you learned in the previous exercises in this unit to translate the following English phrases into Spanish.   By the end of this, you should be able to answer a basic question about the weather in the place where you are from.   Enjoy this m-episode.  Let's get started.    Em...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.15 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   In this m-episode, we're going to ask you about the weather where you live, and you will learn how to answer the question for yourself and for a group.   We'll cover basic yes or no questions about the weather that people commonly ask about your hometown when they meet you.   Example:   If someone as...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.14 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   In this m-episode, we're going to learn how to tell the difference between a question and a statement in Spanish.   To ask somebody about whether it is hot or cold in a certain place you use the same phrase as you would if you were simply telling them the information.    This episode covers how to do...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.13 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode covers how to describe the weather in the place where you live.   This is a key way to note whether or not you like this place, and this episode covers basic conversation about the weather and how to answer people's questions about it.   Enjoy this m-episode.    Let's get started!    ¡...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.12 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   In this m-episode you will say some phrases using the material you've learned in the last few episodes.   The first time, we'll only say it in English to see if you can answer in Spanish yourself. The second time through, we'll say it in English and Spanish.   Using what you learned in the previous t...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.11 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   In this m-episode, we're going to cover how to talk about whether or not you like where you live , and how to answer that question both individually and for a group. You'll work through exercises and examples.   Enjoy this m-episode.  Let's get started.  Empezamos.   ----   To read the transcripts of...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.10 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   When asking if someone likes a country they are in, the way you ask varies slightly depending on whether you are asking an individual or a group of people.   Example:   For an individual, you say, "Le gusta . . ." This means "Do you like."   For a group, you would say, "Les gusta . . . " This m-episo...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.9 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Here, we bring together everything we've learned in Unit 2 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast so far.   You'll practice talking about where you live, using basic numbers and days, weeks, or months to describe.   Enjoy this m-episode.  Let's get started.  Empezamos.   ----   To read the transcripts of...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   In this m-episode we will make sure you have grasped what we've learned in this unit so far.   In this episode, we'll see how well you can answer questions about how long you've lived somewhere -- on the fly! We'll provide a time frame -- say, four months -- and you add "He vivido en Mexico" in front...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 1.4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode brings together the previous few. You'll learn how to tell people how long you've lived in a certain place, and how to understand how long they have lived where they live now.   We'll practice in a few different situations, and encourage you to review how to tell someone how long you've...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.6 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   In this episode, you will learn how to say the word "day(s)," week(s)," and month(s)," and similar terms in Spanish.   This is really important if you want to tell someone how long you've been somewhere, how long you're going to be somewhere, or find out how long other people have been in those locati...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Learning numbers in Spanish is probably one of the most valuable things you can do.   This is true whether you're just visiting a country and want to negotiate, or whether you're planning on living there long-term. In this m-episode we're going to learn the numbers 1 through 10.   You'll be counting t...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   Let's learn how to ask someone how long they have lived somewhere .   In this m-episode, we're going to give you a location and all you have to do is repeat it out loud by adding the words " Cuanto tiempo a vivido en . . . " to the beginning of each sentence.   For example, I have lived in Querétaro f...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.3 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   To understand a conversation in Spanish, you need to understand not only the language but also the culture. In this m-episode, we talk about the language and cultural notes that came up in the conversation you heard in the previous m-episode.   Enjoy this m-episode.  Let's get started.  Empezamos. To...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.2 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   In this m-episode, we take a look at a basic conversation in Spanish , in which two people discuss a location. That location is Boston, where a Mr. Michael Smith is from. This is a conversation between Mrs. Laura Ramirez & Michael Smith. Mr. Smith has recently moved to Mexico.   Enjoy this m-episode. ...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 2.1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.   ¿Ready to learn Spanish?   This m-episode welcomes you to Unit 2 of the Live Lingua Spanish podcast.   In this unit, you're going to learn how to reply when people ask where you live, count from 1 to 10 in Spanish, talk about how long you've lived somewhere, and how much you like (or don't like) living there.   Enjoy this m-epi...

Congratulations! You have made it to the end of Unit 1 of the Live Lingua Spanish podcast , brought to you by Live Lingua. You should now be able to: Greet others and respond to others when they greet you. Introduce yourself and others with you. Respond when others introduce themselves to you. If you are not confident with this yet, repeat this episode as many times as you need. If you want additi...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 1.14 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. In this m-episode, we are going to do visualization practice of introductions and greetings in Spanish to help you cement what you have learned in this unit. One of the best ways to practice Spanish is to visualize it. This is why you see boxers doing a visualization of their practice and shadowboxing. We're going to try the equ...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 1.4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. This is a m-episode will review what we've learned in Unit 1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. If you've listened to all of the other episodes of in this unit until now and have practiced the exercises, you should be able to get through every word of it now – even if you weren't able to when you started this course! If you list...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 1.12 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. Let's bring together how to do introduction is Spanish everything you've learned in Unit 1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. You learned how to say " Good Morning, " " Good Afternoon, " " Good Evening. " You also learned people's titles, and how to introduce the people in your family. Now, we're going to give you a few phrases...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 1.11 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. Let's practice introducing your family members in Spanish . To introduce others we will use the phrase ' le presento ' which means ' may I introduce you to '. This is followed by my ' mi ' if you are introducing a family member since you are implying a relationship with you. Example: Le presento a mi esposo -> May I introduce yo...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 1.10 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. For better or worse, we may actually have to introduce members of our family to the people we meet in Latin America or in Spain — this may be more embarrassing for some than for others! So in this episode, we're going to teach you the basic vocabulary words for family members in Spanish you need to do so. Say them out loud, both...

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 1.9 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. In this section, we're going to learn how to say "How are you?" in Spanish in different circumstances. Now, this might sound simple — but in Spanish, we have both formal and informal, and to add another twist in there, it's even more complicated when talking to a group of people. Asking " How are you guys? " or " How are you girl...