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Early Intermediate Spanish Podcast 14 – Describing People

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The latest of our intermediate spanish lessons is all about describing people in Spanish. This is something we often do in conversation without even thinking about it. In Spanish, however, you need to understand how to structure your language to not only do it properly, but also without causing offence!

Here we explain how to structure your Spanish to best describe someone’s physique, personality and characteristics. This very much ties into previous lessons that covered the verbs ser and estar, so if you haven’t yet, have a listen to the ninth of our beginner’s podcasts on ser and estar as well as our previous early intermediate podcast on ser versus estar.

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Beginners Spanish Podcast 18 – Four Important Spanish Verbs

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In this Spanish lesson for beginners we help you learn four important Spanish verbs and their, at times, strange structures. You simply can’t get by without these ones! Listen in as we coach you step by step through their usage and help you become comfortable with their conjugations.

As always, please note that all the additional information and guidance can be found in the comprehensive Spanish help-sheets. They were written and designed especially with the learner in mind. You won’t be disappointed.

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Advanced Intermediate Spanish Podcast 19 – Difference between Saber and Conocer

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Do you know the difference between saber and conocer? Maybe you think you know these verbs already, however, like many areas of learning in the Spanish language, there are layers within layers of meaning for these two words.

Did you know that the verb saber can be used reflexively giving it another meaning?

Did you know that conocer doesn’t just apply to “knowing people and places”?

This is a wonderful, though admittedly often frustrating, part of learning a language. Many text books just cannot, or will not, delve into these more subtle areas of the Spanish language. But they’re there and we’re going to show them to you.

Listen in as we examine some of the more interesting meanings that you typically won’t find in the study books and help you use these two verbs, not only in their conventional sense, but also in the way only native speakers do. ¿Qué os parece?

The entire podcast is transcribed and translated to give you a full understanding of what we say. What is more, all the additional information and guidance can be found in our Spanish helpsheets that offer you practical examples and fun tests to check your understanding. Try our free samples to check their value for money.

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Advanced Free Spanish Lessons Online 18 – Momentos Reveladores

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Have you had an experience in your life that changed its entire course? ¿Has tenido lo que se llama ‘un momento revelador’?

In our journey through life many things happen to us, some of them “muy buenas” and others, “terriblemente malas”. Quite often, however, certain things happen to us that have a profound effect of how we see life.

Certainly, Cynthia and I have had many of those moments and in this podcast we share some of these with our listeners. Clearly, although these can be interesting to listen to, at the same time, they help you learn how to talk in the past about feelings and emotions.

As always, we have a full transcript and translation of all our free Spanish lessons online, including this one, in our comprehensive Spanish helpsheets, which have been developed to help you get the most out of our course.

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Early Intermediate Spanish Podcast 13 – Ser versus Estar

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To be, or not to be, that is the not the question. The real question is, which “to be” is it? In this free Spanish lesson, we take a look at ser versus estar.

Have you wondered which verb you use for the sentence: “The wall is green”?

Or what it means when a Spanish speaker says: “¡Qué guapa estás hoy!”?

Tune in as we take the mystery out of these fascinating verbs.

For more clear and concise information then why not try our comprehensive Spanish worksheets? They’ve been designed with you, the learner, in mind.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:35 — 9.7MB)