Learn Spanish with Live Lingua

10.13: Unit 10 review

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 13th episode is a quick recap of Unit 10 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Sp...

10.12: Visualization - At Restaurant (Ordering Food)

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 12th episode is a visualization practice that picks up where the visualization practice of Unit 9 leaves off. It continues the dining experience...

10.11: Conversation - At Restaurant (Ordering Food) review

26 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this 11th episode, you will listen again to the first conversation you heard. You should now be able to understand it. If there are any parts you ...

10.10: Bring It All Together - Ordering at a restaurant

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 10th episode brings everything you have learned in the past few episodes together. Listen to the material in English and say it in Spanish. The ...

10.9: Ordering your meal

24 Oct 2025

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This 9th episode moves on to the good stuff -- how to order a meal in Spanish. When a waiter is ready to take your order, they will typically say som...

10.8: Asking if a dish has specific ingredients (gluten, peanuts, meat, shellfish, etc).

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This one is for those with dietary restrictions and their travel companions. One of the difficulties when traveling to a foreign country, if you have...

10.7: Asking what a dish is made of

22 Oct 2025

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One of the difficulties when traveling to a foreign country, if you have dietary restrictions or food allergies, is finding food to eat. In this 7th ...

10.6: Vocabulary - Ingredients in dishes

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you are traveling to a place you have never been before, you may run into dishes you don't know. In these cases you may want to ask what is in the...

10.5: Ordering your steak – well done to rare

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you are going to order steak in Latin America they will probably ask you how well you would like it cooked. This 5th episode will teach you how to...

10.4: Different foods in Spanish

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While the variety of food you can try when traveling around Latin America and Mexico is almost limitless, there are some staple dishes that you can s...

10.3: Cultural and Language Notes - At Restaurant (Ordering Food)

18 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 3rd episode covers the cultural notes surrounding dining in Latin American countries. You'll learn about common dining times and customs, and th...

10.2: Conversation: At Restaurant (Ordering Food)

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The best way to get familiar with how to dine at a Latin American restaurant is to dive into the conversation. You'll do just that in this 2nd episod...

10.1: At Restaurant (Ordering Food)

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Unit 10 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. Objectives. In this unit, you will learn how to ask for the menu, understand when the waiter a...

9.11: Unit 9 review

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 11th episode is a quick recap of Unit 9 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spa...

9.10: Visualization - At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks).

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 10th episode is a visualization practice that will help you imagine yourself dining at a restaurant in a Latin American country -- can you succe...

9.9: Conversation - At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks) review

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this 9th episode, you will listen again to the first conversation you heard at the beginning of Unit 9. You should now be able to understand it. I...

9.8: Putting it all together - At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks).

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 8th episode brings together everything you have learned so far about dining in a restaurant in Latin America. We'll form more of a realistic sit...

9.7: How to say "I/We don't want anything to drink"

11 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Now let's learn how to say "no" when a waiter asks you if you would like something to drink. If you don't want to order anything to drink then you wo...

9.6: Ordering a drink - At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks)

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Please bring me a X,\" Where the X is the drink that you want. Remember that to change the gender of the word "un" (a) based on the gender of the dr...

9.5: Types of drinks in Spanish

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this 5th episode you will learn about the types of drinks at a restaurant in Spanish. There are many different types of drinks in Latin America. Y...

9.4: Asking for a table for your party - At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks)

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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9.3: Cultural and Language Notes - At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks)

07 Oct 2025

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This 3rd episode covers common cultural notes related to dining at restaurants in Latin American countries. You'll learn how to address the waitstaff...

9.2: Conversation: At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks)

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here you will experience a common restaurant situation in Spanish. This is a conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs and a waiter at a restaurant. T...

9.1: At Restaurant (Ordering Drinks)

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Unit 9 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. In this unit you will learn how to ask for a table based on your party size, understand the wai...

8.15: Unit 8 review

04 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 15th episode is a quick recap of Unit 8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spa...

8.14: Visualization: Shopping in a department store

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

8.13: Conversation - Shopping in a department store (review)

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 13th 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 ent...

8.12: Bring it all together - Shopping in a department store

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 12th episode puts together everything you've learned about trying on items in a department store, asking for them based on specific sizes, color...

8.11: Letting people know an item is too big or too small

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

8.10: Asking to try an item on

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 10th 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 ...

8.9: Asking for a specific size of clothes or shoes

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Americ...

8.8: Ask for a specific item for a specific person

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 8th episode brings together all you have learned in the last four episodes. Say the following in Spanish. The first time through we will only sa...

8.7: Buying items for other people

26 Sep 2025

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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 7th episode t...

8.6: Ask for specific items

25 Sep 2025

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This 6th episode builds on the previous two episodes. You'll learn how to ask for specific items in specific colors, properly. The m-episode covers c...

8.5: Items found in department stores

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You'll learn how to say the names of many common items found in department stores in this 5th episode. There is some overlap in items found in a depa...

8.4: Colors in Spanish - Shopping in a department store

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 4th 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 t...

8.3: Cultural and language notes - Shopping in a department store

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here you'll learn the common cultural notes to be aware of before shopping in a Latin American department store. You will learn how to ask whether or...

8.2: Conversation: Shopping in a department store

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

8.1: Shopping in a department store

20 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

7.14: Unit 7 review

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Spa...

7.13: Visualization practice - Negotiating for souvenirs

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, an...

7.12: Conversation - Negotiating for souvenirs (review)

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when the conversation flows back and forth during a market negotiation? After practicing through this 12th episode you will be able to s...

7.11: Bring it all together - Negotiating for souvenirs

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 11th episode brings together everything you have learned about negotiating for souvenirs in Latin American markets. By now, you should have the ...

7.10: Asking for a lower prices

15 Sep 2025

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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...

7.9: Asking "Why so expensive?"

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Now we're going to actually give you the skills (and the terms behind those skills) to negotiate like an experienced market shopper in Latin America....

7.8: Asking "How much for these or those?"

13 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 fina...

7.7: Asking "How much for that?"

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here we are going to build on what you learned in the past 7th episode to boost your negotiating skills even further. In the previous episode you lea...

7.6: Asking "How much for this?"

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Like all things in Spanish, the gender used when negotiating is very important. After listening to this 6th episode. You will know how to ask how muc...

7.5: Asking what the souvenir is made of

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

7.4: Vocabulary of different types of souvenirs

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 4th 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, plate...

7.3: Cultural and language notes - Negotiating for souvenirs

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 3rd episode is an overview of cultural notes to be aware of before going to a market in Latin American countries. It also covers things to be aw...

7.2: Conversation - Negotiating for souvenirs

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 2nd episode is a conversation between Mr. Jacobs and a seller in a souvenir shop. You will hear the basics of a negotiation in Spanish. Mrs. Jac...

7.1: Negotiating for souvenirs

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Unit 7 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. In this unit you will learn how to ask for some common souvenir items by name, understand what ...

6.9: Unit 6 review

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 9th episode is a quick recap of Unit 6 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Span...

6.8: Visualization Practice - Shopping in a Market

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 8th episode is a visualization exercise of what you've learned in Unit 6 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. Imagine you are in a Latin American...

6.7: Conversation - Shopping in a Market (Review)

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 7th episode reviews the conversation that you heard at the beginning of this unit, and helps to bring it together into a complete conversation. ...

6.6: Ask for a specific amount (in numbers) of a product

02 Sep 2025

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In this 6th episode we'll learn how to ask for a specific number of a product. You'll learn how to use a complete sentence to put in your order, and ...

6.5.2: Asking for a specific weight of a product

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this 5th episode we'll learn how to ask for a specific weight of a product. You'll learn how to ask for and understand these weights using the Met...

6.5.1: Ask the price of a product in a market

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here, you will practice using the vocabulary you learned in the last m-episode and make it practical to use. After hearing the word for a product in ...

6.4: Produce in the market in Spanish

30 Aug 2025

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This 4th episode covers some basic products in the market. We're going to say them in English and in Spanish so just repeat them both out loud until ...

6.3: Cultural and Language notes - Shopping in a Market

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this 3rd episode you'll learn the cultural notes necessary for a proper trip to the market. Most countries in Latin America measure things in the ...

6.2: Conversation - Shopping in a Market

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

 This 2nd episode is a conversation between Laura Ramirez and a seller at a market. Miss. Ramirez is buying her weekly groceries. Don't worry if you...

6.1: Shopping in a Market

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Unit 6 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. In this unit we are going to teach you how to: Ask for specific produce and meat products in a ...

5.5-16: Unit 5.5 review

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If there are any parts you are still not clear about just replay this episode and the entire unit until you understand everything.

5.5-15: Visualization Practice - Taking a taxi

25 Aug 2025

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This 15th episode places you in three common scenarios you will face when taking a taxi or an Uber in Latin American countries. See if you can conver...

5.5-14: Conversation - Taking a taxi (Review)

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let's listen again to the first conversation you heard. You should now be able to understand it. If there are any parts you don't understand, go back...

5.5-13: Bring it all together - Taking a taxi

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 13th 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 Englis...

5.5-12: Answer - How many bags do you have?

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

5.5-11: Negotiating a price with a taxi driver

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 11th 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 s...

5.5-10: Bring it all together - How near or far is a location

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

5.5-9: Vocabulary- Distance words

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 9th episode covers ...

5.5-8: Telling a driver where you want to go

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

5.5-7: Answer - Are you free at a specific time of day?

17 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 7th episode covers how to answer if someone asks you if you are free at a specific time of the day.

5.5-6: Ask - Are you free at a specific time of day?

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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.

5.5-5: Times of the day in Spanish

15 Aug 2025

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This 5th 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 ...

5.5-4: Vocabulary - Days of the week in Spanish

14 Aug 2025

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This 4th 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.

5.5-3: Cultural & language notes - Taking a taxi

13 Aug 2025

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This 3rd episode covers cultural and language notes regarding taking a taxi or a ride-share in Latin American countries.

5.5-2: Conversation - Taking a taxi

12 Aug 2025

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This 2nd 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. ...

5.5-1: Objectives - Taking a taxi or an Uber

11 Aug 2025

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Welcome to Unit 5.5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. In this unit you will learn how to: Say the day of the week and time of day, ask a cab drive...

5.14: Unit 5 review

10 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 14th 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 Spa...

5.13: Visualization Practice - Buying tickets for public transportation.

09 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this 13th episode, you have the chance to work through a visualization practice to help you learn how to purchase bus, train, and airplane tickets...

5.12: Conversation: Buying tickets for public transportation (Review)

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 12th 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 e...

5.11: Bring it all together - Buying tickets for public transportation

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 11th episode puts together everything you've learned in this unit and the previous units of the LiveLingua Spanish Podcast. You'll practice with...

5.10: Buying a bus, plane, train ticket

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 10th episode teaches you to ask for a ticket to a specific destination from a teller. We're going to use some phrases you can use on any type of...

5.9: Ask: "When does the bus, train, plane arrive?"

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 9th 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 rece...

5.8: Ask: "When does the bus, train, plane leave?"

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 8th 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 recei...

5.7: Telling time in Spanish (Part 2).

03 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 li...

5.6: Telling time in Spanish (Part 1)

02 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Now let's combine the numbers you learned in the previous episode so you can tell the time. When telling time in Spanish all you need to do is start ...

5.5: Bring it all together – Numbers in Spanish.

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This m-episode brings together all of the information you have learned in the previous four episodes of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast, and helps yo...

5.4: Numbers from 10 to 999,999.

31 Jul 2025

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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 tel...

5.3: Cultural and language notes – Buying tickets for public transport

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this 3rd episode you will learn how to understand information about public transportation in Latin American countries. For example, we'll cover wh...

5.2: Conversation. Buying tickets for public transportation.

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 2nd episode is an introductory lesson on how to buy a bus ticket at a terminal or station in Latin America, speaking in Spanish. You'll hear a c...

5.1: Objectives. Buying tickets for public transportation.

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Unit 5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. If you're going to be traveling between cities in Spain or Latin America, chances are you're go...

4.10: Unit 4 review

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 10th episode is a quick recap of Unit 4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spa...

4.9: Visualization practice - Asking for directions

26 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this 9 thepisode, you have the chance to work through a visualization practice to help you learn how to ask for directions in Spanish, and how to ...

4.8: Conversations – Asking for directions (Review)

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 8th episode walks you again through the first conversation you heard at the beginning of Unit 4. You should now be able to understand all of the...

4.7: Saying "thank you", "I don't understand," and "More slowly, please"

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you're asking for directions in Spanish, there's generally two things that can happen after they're given to you.  You can either say "thank you"...

4.6.2: Bring it all together - Understanding directions

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 6th episode brings together all of the information you have learned so far in Unit 4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. We review asking for di...

4.6.1: Direction words in Spanish

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This 6th episode covers basic words people use to give directions. Knowing this vocabulary is critical, not only if you want to give directions, but ...

4.5: Ask: "Where is…_"

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After learning the vocabulary in the last episode for some common locations in Spanish, this 5th episode puts it into a complete sentence. You'll lea...