Notes in Spanish Intermediate 4 - Fobias

Ben and Marina discuss phobias past and present. See notesinspanish.com for full details.

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Months of the Year, Seasons and Weather

Months of the year, seasons and weather are learned here with time to practice what you hear to get it right!!!

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Learn Spanish 4.12 - Relative Pronouns & Musical Instruments

The key to speaking like a native is longer sentences. Start combining independent phrases with relative pronouns while learning a few musical instruments.

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Christmas Traditions in Spanish - Speaking Countries

Learn the traditions and celebrations of Christmas in Spanish-speaking countries! Feliz Navidad!

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Spanish Wordz, daily Spanish vocab on Twitter

One of my 2010 New Year’s Resolutions is to expand my Spanish vocabulary. In the past, I’ve made a mental note or jotted down new, interesting words in my trusty Moleskine notebook. But in recent weeks I’ve come across some real gems and decided I would start tweeting a Spanish word daily. Don’t worry, I’ll [...]

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Learn Spanish 1.5 - Languages, Countries, and Regular AR and IR Verbs

Learn about your world! This lesson will teach you how to conjugate regular AR and IR verbs using language and country name vocabulary.

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Introduction #05 - Building Structures that Last - Dialogue

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Shopping at the Deli

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Notes in Spanish Intermediate 16 - Having a baby in Spain

Having a baby in Spain! See notesinspanish.com to download the accomapanying worksheet/transcript.

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Lesson #15 - Restaurants: Asking for the Check in Spanish

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At the Airport 2

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Learn Spanish 3.4 - Impersonal Hace in Past Times

Use one of your favorite and most useful verbs in Spanish, Hacer, to talk about the past tense using tenses you already know.

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Notes in Spanish Intermediate 11 - Quejas

Do people complain a lot in your country? Plus how to complain in restaurants and more... see notesinspanish.com for full details and the accompanying worksheet.

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Notes in Spanish 45 - El 600

Marina interviews her father about a classic piece of Spanish history hidden in the garage, and a trip he'll never forget... See www.notesinspanish.com for full details...

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A serious attempt will me made to get one done this weekend.

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Newbie Lesson #2 - How are you all? - Video Vocabulary

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Lesson #6 - How to ask ?Where is the Bathroom?? in Spanish

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Keith Lard Makes a Valuable Contribution

"I've been watching a lot of Friends dubbed into Spanish, which is good
because I already know who everyone is and what's going on because I've
seen most of them before in English. They do speak very fast, and the
deadpan delivery makes it hard to tell which bits are meant to be
funny, but the canned laughter helps. I'm picking up lots and lots of
little phrases and fragments, and I get excited when I understand a
whole chunk at once. I think there are two skills involved in
listening: the first is actually decoding a continuous stream of speech
into its component words, and the second is knowing what those Spanish
words mean. It's the first skill that really benefits from a lot of
listening. What used to be high-speed noise seems to magically
crystallise after a while into well-formed Spanish sentences. Even if
you don't understand the sentences completely, you can get valuable
context to help you guess the words you don't know.

And as he points out, you always get things in context. Certain phrases
and constructions crop up absolutely all the time, and you just learn
them as blocks or templates which you can use to build sentences. If
you start off by learning grammar, and you know past participles are
formed by taking the infinitive stem and adding '-ado' for -AR verbs
and 'ido' for -ER/IR verbs, you might have trouble remembering whether
it's 'he olvidado' or 'he olvidido' for 'I forgot'. You have to
remember which kind of verb the infinitive is and work forwards from
there, and you could still get it wrong. On the other hand, if you
listen to a lot of Spanish, you've probably heard people say 'he
olvidado' a million times, and you never once heard them say 'he
olvidido', so you just know.

It's this 'just knowing' which gives you a big confidence boost. Words,
phrases and sentences arrive in your brain fully-formed and correctly
pronounced, without you having to laboriously construct them from
grammatical rules and then double-check that all the adverbs agree and
so on. Similarly with listening comprehension, after a while you start
understanding things as blocks of meaning, not individual words.
Translating word by word into English is much too slow when people are
speaking at full speed - you need to hear the Spanish, understand
what's being said without mentally working out an English translation,
and immediately be ready to listen to the next bit.

It's a little bit Zen because you need to stop trying so hard to
understand and just let the sounds come in. I could liken it to Magic
Eye for the ears, because it's when you stop struggling and let your
subconscious brain get on with it that it suddenly happens. At first in
flashes, but then in bigger and bigger chunks until you can understand
whole sections of dialogue. When you're not focusing on mentally
translating into English, you've got time to absorb context and body
language and facial expressions which all help convey what's being said."

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NIS Int 027 - Los Tatuajes

Ben and Marina discuss a ban on Marines wearing tattoos and see how David Beckham has so much influence on the youth of today. See notesinspanish.com to pick up our transcript/worksheet.

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Pronunciation, pronunciation,
pronunciation...
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Beginners: When to use "Yo",
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Bad Editing on Really Learn Spanish 5

Having uploaded the last cast and having listened to it (in that
order!) I now realise how appalling the editing is - my apologies. I
will rerecord and re-edit it and upload it again at the same time as I
upload the next podcast.

One of my other options was to fix it straight away which would have
been the best but I have to go to work now and I anticipate a busy week
ahead. The other option I discarded was to upload it next weekend, for
example, but then people may think they've downloaded podcast no. six
and might be disappointed or angry or whatever at discovering all they
got was another version of no. five.

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First time meeting 2

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Learn Spanish 2.6 - The Preterit and Travels

Get ready to for story telling, globe-trotter! Next time you travel, you'll be able to tell everyone what you saw, what you did, and where you went using the simple past, or preterit, with some style.

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Learn Spanish 4.5 - Future Commands Using the Future Perfect

Giving future commands is a snap once you get a hang out the future perfect.

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NIS Int 033 - El Solitario

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Introduction #07 - A Living and Breathing Language - Lesson Guide

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Learn Spanish 4.14 - Spanish Gerunds

Gerunds in English and Spanish have very different roles and after this lesson, you will know how to use them correctly without sounding silly.

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Misbehaving Students 1

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Expressing Opinions 3

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SER: Audio Verb Drill

The complete set of conjugations of the verb SER is now available. It contains over 30 minutes of audio covering the present tense, preterite, imperfect past tenses as well as the present subjunctive and imperfect subjunctive conjugations. This podcast is the audio verb drill for the imperfect past tense of SER. Purchase the complete set [...]

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How to use the ReVerb Spanish Audio Verb Drills

Here is how to get the most out of the ReVerb Spanish audio verb drills: 1. First listen to the audio of Marie Soleil reading the verb conjugations and repeat the conjugations out loud. While you are doing this, do not read or look at the conjugations written down. The idea is to get your [...]

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Lesson #13 - Restaurants: How to Ask Permission to Smoke in Spanish

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Learn Spanish 2.13 - Negative Informal Commands in the Wilderness

Not all informal commands are alike, especially when you are talking about negative commands. Take a journey through the woods with me to learn all those "NO" rules you always hear when you go on a tour.

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Notes in Spanish Advanced 61 - Don Quijote

Ben and Marina discuss Spain's most famous literary figure. See notesinspanish.com for details and to download the full transcript/worksheet.

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Pronunciation of Vowels

This episode is to identify and practice correct pronunciation of vowels.

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At the Hospital 2

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gobierno: government

noun. Example sentence:El gobierno espa�ol transmite sus condolencias a Polonia.Translation:The Spanish Government passed its condolences on to Poland.

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NIS Int 018 - Harry Potter

Ben and Marina talk about the success of Harry Potter in the adult world... See notesinspanish.com for a full transcript/worksheet.

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Bad Editing on Really Learn Spanish 5

Having uploaded the last cast and having listened to it (in that
order!) I now realise how appalling the editing is - my apologies. I
will rerecord and re-edit it and upload it again at the same time as I
upload the next podcast.

One of my other options was to fix it straight away which would have
been the best but I have to go to work now and I anticipate a busy week
ahead. The other option I discarded was to upload it next weekend, for
example, but then people may think they've downloaded podcast no. six
and might be disappointed or angry or whatever at discovering all they
got was another version of no. five.

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Learn Spanish 4.4 - Giving Excuses with the Conditional Perfect

For those times when you just need a good excuse about what you would do if something else hadn't happened, take a look to learn all about the conditional perfect.

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Notes In Spanish 33 - Inmigracion

Marina y Ben hablan de la inmigracion

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SER vs. ESTAR: Adjectives that change meaning

If you?ve been studying Spanish awhile, you probably already know plenty about the Spanish verbs SER and ESTAR. But did you know that there are several adjectives that change their meaning, depending on which one of those verbs they?re attached to? For example, estar aburrido vs. ser aburrido is the difference between being bored or [...]

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Popular Phrases 1

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Learn with Pictures and Video S3 #4 - Top 20 Mexican Spanish Verbs 2

Learn Mexican Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! You are on your way to Mexico and are so excited to use your new Mexican Spanish language skills. You have learned a lot of vocabulary, and you are learning more Mexican Spanish every step of the way. Waiting to get there is more nerve-racking than wanting to speak [...]

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Meeting with Parents

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NIS Adv 066 - Las Tres "Erres"

Marina talks to Isabel, an expert in the conservation of natural resources. See notesinspanish.com for the transcript/worksheet.

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Lesson 4 :: Spanish audio course by Maria Fernandez - Spanish Bookworld

Contents: Lesson 4 - Dialog - Audio flashcards - Grammar - Pronunciation - Numbers - Listening and speaking drills - Role playing exercises - Quizzes - Learning tips - This Spanish course can be found at http://www.spanish-bookworld.com/mp3-spanish-course/lessons.html

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News #72 - Power Up Your Spanish Vocabulary with Gengo WordPower for iPhone, iPad and Android

Learning Spanish on the go - does that even work? It works only if you?re passionate! Master the 2000 Spanish core vocabulary with our WordPower App for iPhone/iPad/Android. WordPower has been upgraded to make it a breeze.
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Learn Spanish 4.5 - Future Commands Using the Future Perfect

Giving future commands is a snap once you get a hang out the future perfect.

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Really Learn Spanish - 5 (14:56)

Third Anniversary of the 48 Hour Coup in Venezuela
Dinner Table Conversation
Which Books to Read (following on from Podcast 1)
Dave Slusher has a Good Idea and an Invitation

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THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED

First Transcript:

Que hay una mano invisible: el mercado que todo lo arregla. Mentira,
mentira, mil veces mentira. Claro que hay otros caminos y en Venezuela
lo estamos demostrando.

He tenido que aguantar las más grandes presiones internacionales, pero
no me importa nada. Si algún día me toca bajar al quinto infierno para
defender el pueblo bolivariano de Venezuela pues me iré al quinto
infierno para defenderlo...

Second Transcript:

Quiero hacer un llamado, y esto es quizás lo más importante que yo quiero decir hoy. ¿Hoy es domingo, ya?
...
Domingo, ¿qué fecha?
...
Catorce de abril. Yo, pues he estado incomunicado en las últimas horas
y no tenía ninguna información, tenía una angustia muy grande. Y lo
primero y más importante que digo a todos los venezolanos es que
vuelvan a sus casas, que vuelva la calma.
Ustedes venezolanas, ustedes venezolanos que me adversan, pues
advérsenme. Yo no puedo... trataré de que ... de hacerlos cambiar, ojalá.
Pero ustedes no pueden adversar esta constitución. Porque esto es un
libro para todos, es como el Popul Vuh, aquel libro de los Maya. El
Popul Vuh, el libro de todos, el libro de la comunidad. Tienen que
reconocer todo esto.
Y sobre todo algo. Oye, no se dejen envenenar. No permitan que los envenenen, ¡con tantas cosas y tantas mentiras!

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Learn Spanish 2.6 - The Preterit and Travels

Get ready to for story telling, globe-trotter! Next time you travel, you'll be able to tell everyone what you saw, what you did, and where you went using the simple past, or preterit, with some style.

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Physical Feelings

Learn to say I'm hungry, I'm uncomfortable, I feel fine and much more in this lesson !! 

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Introduction #05 - Building Structures that Last - Review

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Learn with Pictures and Video S3 #5 - Top 20 Mexican Spanish Verbs 3

?You have just arrived in Mexico to learn Mexican Spanish, and it?s everything you thought it would be and more. People are speaking Mexican Spanish in shops and on the streets. Living abroad is not so different from home, only everywhere you go, you meet native Mexican Spanish speakers. Thank goodness you have picked up [...]

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Let's go Surfing!

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NIS Int 024 - Semana Santa

Ben and Marina discuss Easter in Spain. See notesinspanish.com for details and the transcript/worksheet.

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NIS Int 027 - Los Tatuajes

Ben and Marina discuss a ban on Marines wearing tattoos and see how David Beckham has so much influence on the youth of today. See notesinspanish.com to pick up our transcript/worksheet.

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NIS Beginners 008 - Discutir

Ben and Marina are arguing in Spanish so that you can too! See notesinspanish.com for more details and to pick up the accompanying worksheets.

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NIS Adv 085 - La de la verguenza

Fighting to pay in bars and restaurants in Spain, and never eating the last croqueta. See notesinspanish.com for a full transcript/worksheet.

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NIS Adv 070 - Los Toros

Marina and Ben discuss a new law in Spain aimed to protect some animals... but not all...See notesinspanish.com for more details and the full transcript/worksheet.

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Notes in Spanish Intermediate 4 - Fobias

Ben and Marina discuss phobias past and present. See notesinspanish.com for full details.

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Notes in Spanish Advanced 52 - La Pantalla

Are we slaves to all the screens in our lives? See notesinspanish.com for full details and accompanying worksheet.

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NIS Int 039 - Heroes

Ben and Marina talk about the TV show Heroes, and extraordinary changes that have taken place in the world in the recent past... See notesinspanish.com to pick up the accompanying worksheets.

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Learn Spanish 2.12 - Informal Commands in the Kitchen

Revisiting my favorite theme, food, this week you will learn how to understand and give formal commands so you can start making some delicious food from the recipes you find abroad.

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Learn Spanish 1.13 - Chores and Basic Commands

When you need something done and you don't want to do it yourself, you need to know how to tell other people to do it! Learn how to give basic commands using chores, hay que, and tener que.

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Lesson #5 - How to say Goodbye in Spanish

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Advanced Audio Blog S3 #7 - Pachamanca

Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! Your friend tells you in Spanish that it?s time for dinner. So you can help him cook, you head to the kitchen, but to your surprise, he doesn?t follow. Instead, he heads outside and grabs a shovel. You ask him in Spanish what he?s doing, and he says he?s digging a [...]

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Learn Spanish 4.1 - The Pluperfect on Survival

Learn how to relate what you had done before something else happened in the past using the Pluperfect (Past Perfect) while also learning how to tell your story of survival on a deserted island.

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NIS Adv 085 - La de la verguenza

Fighting to pay in bars and restaurants in Spain, and never eating the last croqueta. See notesinspanish.com for a full transcript/worksheet.

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SABER has 2 different meanings

Did you know that the Spanish verb SABER has two different definitions? The first meaning, you probably already know. Yes, saber means ?to know.? But there is another meaning to the verb that you may not have learned yet.� Saber also means ?to taste. ” So how do you distinguish between SABER when it means [...]

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Conocer vs. Saber, past tense

Everything that I?ve told you about CONOCER and SABER in an earlier post was related to the present tense of these verbs. When you use these verbs in the preterite past tense (el pret�rito indefinido) and the imperfect past tense (el pret�rito imperfecto) their meanings change once again. What’s the distinction between the preterite and [...]

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Dating and Love

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NIS Advanced 093 - Plagas

What happens when rats take over an entire region in India? See NotesinSpanish.com to pick up the accompanying transcript/worksheet.

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Greetings and Small Talk Conversation

Introductions, ask for and give your name, where you are from and exchange pleasantries. All with the convenience of building in time to practice what you hear!

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Really Learn Spanish - Podcast 3 (10:57)

Making mistakes
Some serious grammar!
Differences in Spanish across the world
Dave Slusher is back...briefly

Related links:
The Real Academia Española has an excellent query answering serviceDave Slusher leads a discussion on reading in Spanish

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NIS Adv 075 - Doreana y Argentina

Ben and Marina talk to their Argentinian friend Doreana about life in Argentina and Spain. See notesinspanish.com for the full transcript/worksheet.

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Notes in Spanish Advanced 60 - Fuegos Artificiales

Marina talks about an explosive New Years Eve that nearly ended in a riot!See notesinspanish.com for the full transcript/worksheet.

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At the Party 2

Learn "The party starts at 8" and more !

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Notes In Spanish 33 - Inmigracion

Marina y Ben hablan de la inmigracion

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Expressing Opinions 2

Check out our new app in iTunesSpanish2GoGreat information, great learning

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Greetings and Small Talk Conversation

Introductions, ask for and give your name, where you are from and exchange pleasantries. All with the convenience of building in time to practice what you hear!

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Christmas Traditions in Spanish - Speaking Countries

Learn the traditions and celebrations of Christmas in Spanish-speaking countries! Feliz Navidad!

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Learn Spanish 2.2 - The Informal Future and Holidays

Holidays are one the best reasons to learn a new language. Now you can talk about which places you are going to go and what you are going to see there using the informal future.

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Practice Conversation

Test your listening and speaking skill in this episode !

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Lesson #13 - Restaurants: How to Ask Permission to Smoke in Spanish

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Office Supplies

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NIS Int 031 - Las Compras

Do you hate shopping as much as Ben? See notesinspanish.com for the full transcript/worksheet.

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Video #2 - Video Vocab Lesson #2: Get Your Fruits! - Video Vocab

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Popular Phrases 3

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Grocery Shopping for Produce Items

Please go to www.myspanishconnection.com for the text to this episode!   Shopping for produce at the Grocery Store

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Pop Quiz !

Test your knowledge with this 10 question pop quiz!  For the written transcript of this podcast, please visit:  www.myspanishconnection.com/storeThanks for your continued support!

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Learn Spanish 4.5 - Future Commands Using the Future Perfect

Giving future commands is a snap once you get a hang out the future perfect.

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At the Restaurant 3

Learn "What do you recommend?" and more !

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Notes in Spanish 48 - Gitanos

Ben and Marina talk about the Gipsy population in Spain, the social problems they both face and create, and their contribution to Spanish culture. See notesinspanish.com for more details.

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Canci�n: Imag�name sin ti, de Luis Fonsi

Born in Puerto Rico, Fonsi and his family later moved to Orlando, Florida, during Fonsi’s early childhood. Around the time he was ten years old, Fonsi began to dream about becoming a member of Menudo, a Latin American boy band. While not being able to pursue that dream, he did, however, join many local boy [...]

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Notes in Spanish Advanced 53 - Dia de Todos los Santos

As people all over Spain gather at relatives' graves to celebrate All Saint's day, Marina and Ben take a walk in the park and discuss public holidays and strange naming conventions in Spain. See notesinspanish.com for full details and to pick up the worksheet and transcript.

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Expressing Opinions 4

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At the Party

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Introduction #05 - Building Structures that Last - Audio

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Notes in Spanish Intermediate 8 - Quiero Votar

Ben decides he would like to vote in Spain after all... See notesinspanish.com for full details and to get the accompanying transcript/worksheet

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NIS Adv 072 - Las Misses

Scandal in the Miss Spain competition! See notesinspanish.com for more details and to download the worksheet/transcript.

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Introducing Yourself

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Reading Signs Episode 1

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Learn Spanish 4.11 - Possessive Pronouns in the Lost & Found

Using possessive pronouns like mine, yours, his, hers, ours and theirs can certainly come in handy when cleaning up a room or going through lost and found.

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Learn Spanish 3.10 - The Conditional and Excuses

Excuses, excuses. But how are you going to give an excuse for what you "would" do without the conditional?

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NIS Int 039 - Heroes

Ben and Marina talk about the TV show Heroes, and extraordinary changes that have taken place in the world in the recent past... See notesinspanish.com to pick up the accompanying worksheets.

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Introduction #04 - Getting Your Feet Wet - Audio

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More Fun and Flirty!

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Learn Spanish 1.5 - Languages, Countries, and Regular AR and IR Verbs

Learn about your world! This lesson will teach you how to conjugate regular AR and IR verbs using language and country name vocabulary.

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Making Restaurant Reservations

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Introduction #04 - Getting Your Feet Wet - Lesson Guide

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A Trip to the Doctor

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Telling Time

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Learn Spanish 2.5 - The Morning Routine and Reflexive Verbs

Discussing differences in daily routines? Make sure you know your stuff when using reflexive verbs and pronouns!

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Pronunciation of Vowels

This episode is to identify and practice correct pronunciation of vowels.

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Lesson #4 - Basic Spanish Greetings

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NIS Beginners 020 - El Kindle

This week we discuss Amazon's Kindle, a revolutionary device that could change the way we read. See NotesinSpanish.com to pick up the accompanying transcript/worksheet.

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NIS Int 030 - La Familia Real

Are the Spanish interested in the birth of a new Royal baby? See notesinspanish.com for more details and to pick up the transcript/worksheet.

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Conocer vs. Saber, past tense

Everything that I?ve told you about CONOCER and SABER in an earlier post was related to the present tense of these verbs. When you use these verbs in the preterite past tense (el pret�rito indefinido) and the imperfect past tense (el pret�rito imperfecto) their meanings change once again. What’s the distinction between the preterite and [...]

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Courtesy Phrases

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Learn Spanish 2.6 - The Preterit and Travels

Get ready to for story telling, globe-trotter! Next time you travel, you'll be able to tell everyone what you saw, what you did, and where you went using the simple past, or preterit, with some style.

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Introduction #06 - Giant Steps - Audio

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Grocery Shopping for Produce Items

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Special Occasion Phrases

 


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Keith Lard Makes a Valuable Contribution

"I've been watching a lot of Friends dubbed into Spanish, which is good
because I already know who everyone is and what's going on because I've
seen most of them before in English. They do speak very fast, and the
deadpan delivery makes it hard to tell which bits are meant to be
funny, but the canned laughter helps. I'm picking up lots and lots of
little phrases and fragments, and I get excited when I understand a
whole chunk at once. I think there are two skills involved in
listening: the first is actually decoding a continuous stream of speech
into its component words, and the second is knowing what those Spanish
words mean. It's the first skill that really benefits from a lot of
listening. What used to be high-speed noise seems to magically
crystallise after a while into well-formed Spanish sentences. Even if
you don't understand the sentences completely, you can get valuable
context to help you guess the words you don't know.

And as he points out, you always get things in context. Certain phrases
and constructions crop up absolutely all the time, and you just learn
them as blocks or templates which you can use to build sentences. If
you start off by learning grammar, and you know past participles are
formed by taking the infinitive stem and adding '-ado' for -AR verbs
and 'ido' for -ER/IR verbs, you might have trouble remembering whether
it's 'he olvidado' or 'he olvidido' for 'I forgot'. You have to
remember which kind of verb the infinitive is and work forwards from
there, and you could still get it wrong. On the other hand, if you
listen to a lot of Spanish, you've probably heard people say 'he
olvidado' a million times, and you never once heard them say 'he
olvidido', so you just know.

It's this 'just knowing' which gives you a big confidence boost. Words,
phrases and sentences arrive in your brain fully-formed and correctly
pronounced, without you having to laboriously construct them from
grammatical rules and then double-check that all the adverbs agree and
so on. Similarly with listening comprehension, after a while you start
understanding things as blocks of meaning, not individual words.
Translating word by word into English is much too slow when people are
speaking at full speed - you need to hear the Spanish, understand
what's being said without mentally working out an English translation,
and immediately be ready to listen to the next bit.

It's a little bit Zen because you need to stop trying so hard to
understand and just let the sounds come in. I could liken it to Magic
Eye for the ears, because it's when you stop struggling and let your
subconscious brain get on with it that it suddenly happens. At first in
flashes, but then in bigger and bigger chunks until you can understand
whole sections of dialogue. When you're not focusing on mentally
translating into English, you've got time to absorb context and body
language and facial expressions which all help convey what's being said."

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Confronting Someone 2

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Traveling Abroad 3

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NIS Adv 086 - Feliz Navidad

Happy Christmas from Notes in Spanish! Today we have a special festive episode for you! See notesinspanish.com to pick up the accompanying worksheet.

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NIS Advanced 096 - Los Bomberos

Marta worked in a UK school for a while this year, and her experiences highlight just why the Brits can be uptight and the Spanish much more relaxed! It's all about the firefighters! See NotesinSpanish.com to pick up the accompanying transcript/worksheet.

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Newbie Lesson #3 - Who are you? - Video Vocabulary

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Working with Children 1

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NIS Adv 082 - Blog de la Miss

Ben and Marina talk to Arturo, who wrote the famous Blog de la Miss... see notesinspanish.com for details and accompanying worksheet.

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Lesson #9 - Learn Spanish Using Spanish With This Unbelievably Simple Phrase

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At the Movies 2

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Numbers 1 - 100

Hi everybody! Here are the numbers that we told you about on the central button of your iPod! 1-uno 2-dos 3-tres 4-cuatro 5-cinco 6-seis 7-siete 8-ocho 9-nueve 10-diez 11-once 12-doce 13-trece 14-catorce 15-quince 20-veinte 30-treinta 40-cuarenta 50

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Numbers 0 to 25 - Learning :: Spanish audio course by Maria Fernandez - Spanish Bookworld

Contents: Learning numbers 0 to 25 - Learning tips - Pronunciation tips - This Spanish course can be found at http://www.spanish-bookworld.com/mp3-spanish-course/lessons.html

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Spanish gerunds vs. English gerunds

In Spanish, gerunds are used to refer to an action in progress. There are 3 distinct gerund endings.� I know what I said in the “Andar vs. Estar” podcast but I was trying to keep things super simple. The Spanish gerund endings are: -ando (for verbs that end in -ar) -iendo (for verbs that end [...]

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Let's review !

A review of two episodes in this lesson ! 
Review Expressing Opinions 4 and Did you see that episodes?
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NIS Adv 085 - La de la verguenza

Fighting to pay in bars and restaurants in Spain, and never eating the last croqueta. See notesinspanish.com for a full transcript/worksheet.

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Notes in Spanish Intermediate 12 - Navidad

Everything you wanted to know about Christmas in Spain. See notesinspanish.com for the worksheet and transcript.

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Lesson #2 - How to Say ?You?re Welcome? in Spanish

Learn Spanish travel phrases with SurvivalPhrases.com! A little Spanish can go such a long way! Whether you’re traveling, visiting, or sightseeing, SurvivalPhrases.com has all the essential travel phrases just for you! Today we cover a high frequency Spanish phrase sure to be of use on your trip, travels or vacation to Spain.
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Keith Lard Makes a Valuable Contribution

"I've been watching a lot of Friends dubbed into Spanish, which is good
because I already know who everyone is and what's going on because I've
seen most of them before in English. They do speak very fast, and the
deadpan delivery makes it hard to tell which bits are meant to be
funny, but the canned laughter helps. I'm picking up lots and lots of
little phrases and fragments, and I get excited when I understand a
whole chunk at once. I think there are two skills involved in
listening: the first is actually decoding a continuous stream of speech
into its component words, and the second is knowing what those Spanish
words mean. It's the first skill that really benefits from a lot of
listening. What used to be high-speed noise seems to magically
crystallise after a while into well-formed Spanish sentences. Even if
you don't understand the sentences completely, you can get valuable
context to help you guess the words you don't know.

And as he points out, you always get things in context. Certain phrases
and constructions crop up absolutely all the time, and you just learn
them as blocks or templates which you can use to build sentences. If
you start off by learning grammar, and you know past participles are
formed by taking the infinitive stem and adding '-ado' for -AR verbs
and 'ido' for -ER/IR verbs, you might have trouble remembering whether
it's 'he olvidado' or 'he olvidido' for 'I forgot'. You have to
remember which kind of verb the infinitive is and work forwards from
there, and you could still get it wrong. On the other hand, if you
listen to a lot of Spanish, you've probably heard people say 'he
olvidado' a million times, and you never once heard them say 'he
olvidido', so you just know.

It's this 'just knowing' which gives you a big confidence boost. Words,
phrases and sentences arrive in your brain fully-formed and correctly
pronounced, without you having to laboriously construct them from
grammatical rules and then double-check that all the adverbs agree and
so on. Similarly with listening comprehension, after a while you start
understanding things as blocks of meaning, not individual words.
Translating word by word into English is much too slow when people are
speaking at full speed - you need to hear the Spanish, understand
what's being said without mentally working out an English translation,
and immediately be ready to listen to the next bit.

It's a little bit Zen because you need to stop trying so hard to
understand and just let the sounds come in. I could liken it to Magic
Eye for the ears, because it's when you stop struggling and let your
subconscious brain get on with it that it suddenly happens. At first in
flashes, but then in bigger and bigger chunks until you can understand
whole sections of dialogue. When you're not focusing on mentally
translating into English, you've got time to absorb context and body
language and facial expressions which all help convey what's being said."

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At the Airport 2

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Learn Spanish 3.6 - Por vs. Para

Get a handle on these two "for" prepositions and learn to use them like a pro.

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Learn Spanish 1.5 - Languages, Countries, and Regular AR and IR Verbs

Learn about your world! This lesson will teach you how to conjugate regular AR and IR verbs using language and country name vocabulary.

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NIS Int 033 - El Solitario

El Solitario was Spain's most wanted man for as long as anyone could remember, until his identity was revealed at last this summer... more details and worksheets are available at notesinspanish.com

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Lesson #8 - Use English to Your Advantage in Spanish

Learn Spanish travel phrases with SurvivalPhrases.com! A little Spanish can go such a long way! Whether you?re traveling, visiting, or sightseeing, SurvivalPhrases.com has all the essential travel phrases just for you! Today we cover a high frequency Spanish phrase sure to be of use on your trip, travels or vacation to Spain.
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