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

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - July 03, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
This 3rd episode covers cultural and language notes regarding taking a taxi or a ride-share in Latin American countries.

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5.5-2: Conversation - Taking a taxi

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - July 02, 2024 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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. Don't worry if you don't understand it all yet, we're going to break it down bit by bit in this unit and practice everything.

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

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - July 01, 2024 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 driver if they are free, bargain with them over the fare, and understand if they ask if you have any luggage.

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5.14: Unit 5 review

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 30, 2024 20:08 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 Spanish.

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5.13: Visualization Practice - Buying tickets for public transportation.

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 29, 2024 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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, how to ask when a bus, train, or plain arrives, and how to ask when one will depart.

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

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 28, 2024 12:00 - 57 seconds ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 everything that is said -- if not, go back and review some of the previous episodes until you have it down.

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

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 27, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 complete sentences, and work on comprehending common responses you may receive to questions.

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5.10: Buying a bus, plane, train ticket

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 26, 2024 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 transportation, so you don't have to worry about the type of vehicle you are going to be using when using these phrases.

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

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 25, 2024 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 receive. In Spanish, ask "when does x arrive?", where "x" is the vehicle, you just have to say "¿a qué hora llega "x"?

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

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 24, 2024 12:54 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 receive. In Spanish you ask "when does x leave for y?", where "x" is the vehicle (bus, plane, train) and "y" is the location you want to go to.

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5.7: Telling time in Spanish (Part 2).

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 23, 2024 12:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 like in English. This m-episode covers how to do that, and how to say the information in a sentence.

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5.6: Telling time in Spanish (Part 1)

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 22, 2024 12:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 the sentence with “Son las” and add the number, unless it is 1:00, where you would say '"Es La."

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5.5: Bring it all together – Numbers in Spanish.

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 21, 2024 12:47 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 you learn how to memorize it and use the skills in daily conversation while in a Latin American country.

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5.4: Numbers from 10 to 999,999.

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 20, 2024 12:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 tell time in Spanish, using the numbers we cover in this episode. Episode 2.5 may be a helpful preview.

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

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 19, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
In this 3rd episode you will learn how to understand information about public transportation in Latin American countries. For example, we'll cover what someone will reply when you ask them what time a bus leaves, and how to ask about the price of a ticket.

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5.2: Conversation. Buying tickets for public transportation.

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 18, 2024 12:00 - 59 seconds ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 conversation between a purchaser and seller, and learn the basics of how to talk through the transaction.

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4.10: Unit 4 review

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 17, 2024 12:00 - 59 seconds ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 Spanish.

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5.1: Objectives. Buying tickets for public transportation.

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 17, 2024 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 going to be using some kind of public transportation, whether it be buses, trains or planes. In this unit, we’re going to work through some conversa...

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4.9: Visualization practice - Asking for directions

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 16, 2024 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 locate common tourist sites in Latin American countries such as hotels, restaurants, the bus station, and the airport.

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4.8: Conversations – Asking for directions (Review)

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 15, 2024 12:00 - 42 seconds ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 conversation on how to ask for directions in Spanish. If there's are any parts that's still not clear, feel free to review this unit as many time...

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4.7: Saying “thank you”, “I don’t understand,” and “More slowly, please”

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 14, 2024 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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" and be on your way, or you can ask for a clarification. This m-episode walks you through both situations. Listen and repeat the following phrases ...

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4.6.2: Bring it all together - Understanding directions

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 13, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 directions in Spanish, and how to locate common sites that tourists visit in Latin American countries.

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4.6.1: Direction words in Spanish

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 12, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 actually, if you want to understand what people in Spanish speaking countries say when they give you the answer to the question ¿Dónde está? that ...

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4.5: Ask: “Where is…_”

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 11, 2024 12:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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 learn how to specifically ask where something is, in the Spanish language.

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4.4: Location vocabulary in Spanish

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 10, 2024 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
This 4th episode walks you through the vocabulary for some common locations you would need to get to when you're traveling in Latin America. You'll learn about asking for directions to places like airports, bus stations, hotels, restaurants, and more common tourist sites.

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4.3: Cultural and language notes - Asking for directions

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 09, 2024 12:00 - 58 seconds ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
This 3rd episode covers cultural notes regarding directions, as specific to Latin American countries. You'll learn how to understand key differences and nuances between asking for directions in English and asking for directions in Spanish.

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4.2: Conversation - Asking for directions

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 08, 2024 17:15 - 45 seconds ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
This 2nd episode is a short conversation about how to ask for directions in Latin American countries. You may not understand all of it yet, but after working through Unit 4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast, you will be able to ask for, and understand, directions in Spanish.

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4.1: Asking for directions

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 07, 2024 14:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
If you’re traveling to a Spanish-speaking country, or if you’re traveling anywhere, you probably need to ask for directions. This 1st episode is an introduction to the topic, and covers basic information on getting around in Latin American countries.

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3.17: Unit 3 review & congratulations

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - June 06, 2024 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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.

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1.11: How To Introduce Your Family Members

Learn Spanish with Live Lingua - April 24, 2024 12:05 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
Let’s practice introducing others.  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 to you. Example:  Le presento a mi esposo -> May I i...

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