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Welcome to the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast, a Spanish course in podcast form.

This podcast will teach you basic Spanish like how to introduce yourself and others, how to talk about what you do for a living, and how to order food in a restaurant.

For more, and to follow along with the exercises related to each episode, please visit our website at Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.

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Que tenga un buen día.

¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 1.1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.

¿Ready to learn Spanish?

This unit is made up of 15 episodes that take from 1 to 5 minutes.

That way, you can go back and review the parts that you’ve missed without having to go through a whole 45-minute class.

The goal of Unit 1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast is to learn how to introduce yourself and others in Spanish.

In this unit of the podcast, you’ll learn how to greet others, respond to others when they greet you, introduce yourself and others, and respond when others introduce themselves to you.

This episode introduces the podcast and its format, and will get you prepared for Unit 1, where you will learn how to introduce yourself and others in Spanish.

After listening to the episode, click here for free practice exercises.

Enjoy this m-episode.  Let’s get started.  Empezamos.

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Conversations — the vehicle of language. Being able to properly introduce yourself is akin to hopping into the vehicle.

This audio and text guide will show you how to do just that. This is a conversation between Ms. Laura Ramirez and her husband, Ray, who is an American that speaks a little bit of Spanish (yes, those are really our names!)

They’re meeting with someone called Miguel Gomez, and this episode is an introduction when they first meet. Then, the same conversation in Spanish. Don’t worry if you can’t understand it yet. We will break it down and practice it.

Enjoy this m-episode.  Let’s get started.  Empezamos.

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https://www.livelingua.com/podcast/1-2-introductions/

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¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 1.3 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.

¿Ready to learn Spanish?

In this m-episode, we’re going to go over some basic language and cultural notes for the Spanish language.

When you’re learning another language, one of the most important things to understand is that it’s not just about learning the words and vocabulary.

I know this from personal experience when I was learning Spanish — it’s about learning about the culture.

There are certain things that make sense to English speakers that aren’t done in the same way when you’re speaking Spanish.

An anecdotal story for me is that when I was first learning Spanish in Mexico, I would attempt to tell jokes. Even when I knew the words for the jokes, the jokes made absolutely no sense to the Mexicans. While I thought I was being hilarious, I was usually greeted with crickets.

Sadly, this hasn’t improved that much 10 years down the road, but I’m still working on it.

But that’s why it’s so important to listen to the sections and understand what we say. because that will make this unit and all future units in the Live Lingua Spanish Podcasts make sense.

Enjoy this m-episode.  Let’s get started.  Empezamos.

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https://www.livelingua.com/podcast/1-3-spanish-language-cultural-notes/

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¡Buenos días!  Welcome to episode 1.4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Spanish Podcast.

In this episode, we're going to learn how to say Good Morning (hint: we just did!), Good Afternoon, and Good Evening in Spanish. In order to say "Good Morning," you'd say: Buenos Dias

In order to say "Good Afternoon," you'd say: "Buenas Tardes" 

In order to say "Good Evening," you'd say: "Buenas Noches"

The one thing to pay attention to is the ending on the "Buenos," the "good" part. In the morning, it ends with an "-os," as the term is masculine.

In the afternoon and evening, it ends in "-as", as the term is feminine.

This is one of the most common errors I see people trying to learn Spanish make when they are trying to greet people in Mexico.

Enjoy this m-episode.  Let’s get started.  Empezamos.

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Welcome to episode 1.5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.

In this m-episode, we are going to learn about honorifics in Spanish.

I’ll be honest — when I started learning Spanish, I didn’t actually know what an honorific was.

It wasn’t until I started learning another language that I actually learned that that was the word we use for titles — such as Mrs., Mr., and Dr.

In this exercise, we’re going to learn some of these titles.

Side note — In Mexico and the rest of Latin America, they put a lot of emphasis on these titles. It’s very important that you call them Señor, Señora, Señorita.

If you know they have a college degree or a Masters, they even have a title for that — and you’re going to learn this in this episode.

It can be difficult for somebody who is not a native Spanish speaker to pick up on this in the beginning. But really put in the effort — in addition to the titles, you have to remember the gender.

Enjoy the m-episode.  Let’s get started.  Empezamos.

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https://www.livelingua.com/podcast/1-5-honorifics-in-spanish/ 

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¡Hola!  Welcome to episode 1.6 of the Live Lingua Spanish Spanish Podcast.

What we’re going to do in this section is bring it all together! We’re going to combine what you’ve learned in the past few episodes about Spanish greetings and honorifics.

In this m-episode we are going to practice a little bit. When you hear a phrase in Spanish, we want you to translate it into English.

Say it out loud if you can, because that’s one of the best ways to learn. Here are some examples: If we say, “Buenos Dias, Señor Smith.” You would say, “Good morning, Mr. Smith.”

If we say, “Buenas Noches, Licienciada Sanchez.” That translates to, “Good evening, Mrs. Sanchez,” but we’re also implying that Mrs. Sanchez has a Bachelor of Arts Degree.

Is that clear? Don’t worry if not, because we’re going to go through all of this and our exercises are pretty much the same — and you can repeat this episode as many times as you need.

Enjoy this m-episode.  Let’s get started.  Empezamos.

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¡Hola!  Welcome to m-episode 1.7 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast.

In this episode, we’re going to practice the Spanish greetings and honorifics you learned in the past episodes.

We’re going to do this by giving you the time of day and the subject of the conversation. Perhaps “married female” or “Dr. Ramirez.”

From that, we’re going to ask you to come up with the correct greeting for this person.

Example:

Morning – Married female -> Buenos días, señora.

Afternoon – Doctor Ramírez -> Buenas tardes, doctor Ramírez (where it is implied that Dr. Ramírez is a man).

When you hear the time of day and title of the person in English, create the greeting in Spanish. The first time through, we will only say the question so you can come up with the answer.

Then we will go through the questions a second time and include the correct answer in Spanish. Do try it the first time through yourself — you don’t want to just blindly repeat what we say!

Enjoy this m-episode.  Let’s get started.  Empezamos.

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https://www.livelingua.com/podcast/1-7-practicing-greetings-honorifics/

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