Learn Spanish with Live Lingua

This 2nd 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 of this unit, you will be shopping like a pro.

This 14th 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.

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.

What happens when the conversation flows back and forth during a market negotiation? After practicing through this 12th episode you will be able to successfully negotiate your way through a negotiation in a Latin American marketplace.

This 11th 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.

This 17th 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.

Let's make sure you are comfortable in a situation where you have to speak about your work and family. This is a visualization exercise that will help you become comfortable talking about these two very common conversation pieces, in Spanish.

This 15th 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.

This 14th episode is a review of how to talk about work and family in Spanish. We'll revisit the information we've covered in Unit 3 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast, and give you some exercises to practice what you've learned in common situations.

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.

Now that you know how to ask someone where they live, let's practice answering people when they ask where you live.  The answer can be as general as a country, or as specific as a street. After practicing this 12th episode, you will be able to tell someone where you live.

When asking someone where they live, the correct question based on the number of people and whether the situation is formal or informal. This 11th episode will teach you how to ask, and the cultural notes associated with the question.

This 10th episode brings together everything you have learned so far in Unit 3 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. You'll be able to practice asking and answering what you do for work, and how many kids you have, and will know the cultural notes to accompany the questions

Once someone knows that you have children, they will likely ask whether they are boys or girls. This 9th episode teaches you how to answer that, including what to do if you have multiple children who are of different genders.

This 8th-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 7th-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 6th-episode.

This 5th-episode teaches you how to explain what you do for work in Spanish. If someone asks your profession, you could give a one-word answer as we did in the previous m-episode. But in general, it would sound more professional if you could actually speak in full sentences. In this m-episode, we'll learn how to do that.

This 4th-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 2nd-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.

Here we summarize everything you have learned in Unit 2 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast, and offer a congratualtions on your hard work so far in learning Spanish.

This 21st-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.