Day One Spanish | Beginner News-Focused Spanish Course
by LinguaWire · 20 episodes
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Spanish Day One is a 20-episode beginner Spanish podcast for absolute beginners who want to understand slow Spanish news. No prior Spanish is needed.In five minutes a day, learn the essential Spanish words, verbs, phrases, grammar patterns, and listening skills you need to start listening to our main podcast - LinguaWire A1 Spanish News. In that feed, we post a new episode every day discussing the latest real news stories, in simple A1 Spanish.This podcast is perfect for learners who are just beginning Spanish, learning Spanish for the first time, starting Spanish A1, and looking for slow, basic...
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9 min
Day 1: The new president is a lawyer
Day One Spanish takes you from absolute zero to being ready for our daily news podcast — LinguaWire A1 Daily Spanish News — in four weeks. Twenty episodes, eight minutes a day, wit…
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7 min
Day 2: The president is 62 and lives in the capital
Day One Spanish, episode two of twenty. Today you learn the verb tener (I have, you have, he has), the wonderful Spanish habit of HAVING your age instead of being it, the verb vivi…
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6 min
Day 3: The government, the police and the army are on the streets
Day One Spanish, episode three of twenty. Today is the day every Spanish learner remembers — the discovery that Spanish has TWO verbs for 'to be': ser for what something is, estar…
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6 min
Day 4: More than ten thousand people are at the demonstration
Day One Spanish, episode four of twenty. News runs on big numbers, so today you learn to build them: cien, mil, diez mil — and the lovely rule that Spanish never says 'one' hundred…
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6 min
Day 5: The doctors and the teachers are on strike
Day One Spanish, episode five of twenty — the week one finale. Today you learn the most reliable machine in the language: how Spanish makes plurals (add -s, or -es, and that's genu…
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6 min
Day 6: The election is on Sunday, and the polls are very close
Day One Spanish, episode six of twenty — week two, where the real news patterns begin. Today: election season. You learn why Spanish elections are always plural (las elecciones), t…
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5 min
Day 7: It's forty degrees in the south, and there is no rain
Day One Spanish, episode seven of twenty. Today, the weather — and one of the language's most charming habits: Spanish weather isn't being, it's MADE. Hace cuarenta grados — it mak…
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5 min
Day 8: The trains are full, and the airport is closed
Day One Spanish, episode eight of twenty. Strikes, storms, holidays - travel chaos is a permanent resident of the news, and today you learn its language: el tren, el aeropuerto, la…
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5 min
Day 9: Prices are high, and people have less money
Day One Spanish, episode nine of twenty. The cost of living is the story that never leaves the front page, and today you learn its vocabulary: los precios, el dinero, el euro, caro…
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6 min
Day 10: The national team plays tonight in front of 80,000 fans
Day One Spanish, episode ten of twenty — halfway, and the week two finale. Sport closes every bulletin, so today you learn its language: la selección (the national team), el partid…
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6 min
Day 11: The minister says: bread and milk are more expensive this year
Day One Spanish, episode eleven of twenty — week three begins, where the news starts talking. Today: decir, the verb to say, and its workhorse form dice — the single most journalis…
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6 min
Day 12: Thousands of people are coming to Spain for the festival
Day One Spanish, episode twelve of twenty. People in the news are always on the move, so today you learn the motion verbs: venir (to come — vienen, they come) and the most glorious…
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6 min
Day 13: The summit begins on Monday and ends on Friday
Day One Spanish, episode thirteen of twenty. News is a diary, so today you learn to read it: the seven days of the week (all defiantly lowercase — lunes, martes, miércoles...), the…
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6 min
Day 14: In the north there is no electricity, and the schools are not open
Day One Spanish, episode fourteen of twenty. Today, the art of saying no — and Spanish has made it almost insultingly easy: one word, no, placed before the verb, for everything. No…
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6 min
Day 15: Who is the new minister, and what does she want?
Day One Spanish, episode fifteen of twenty — the week three finale. Journalism is professional question-asking, so today you get the full kit: quién, qué, dónde, cuándo, por qué, c…
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6 min
Day 16: The president has said today: the war is over
Day One Spanish, episode sixteen of twenty — the final week begins, and it has one job: time travel. Today, the past arrives via the perfect tense: a little helper verb (he, ha, ha…
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6 min
Day 17: An earthquake has shaken the region in the night
Day One Spanish, episode seventeen of twenty. Breaking news is where your new past tense earns its keep. Today: two real disaster-story sentences - Un terremoto ha sacudido la regi…
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6 min
Day 18: The company is going to build a new factory and create 3,000 jobs
Day One Spanish, episode eighteen of twenty. Today you get the future tense - and it costs you nothing, because you already own all the parts. Spanish builds its everyday future wi…
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6 min
Day 19: The president, in Washington
Day One Spanish, episode nineteen of twenty - the penultimate episode. You can handle full sentences now; but open a news app and the first Spanish you see isn't full sentences, it…
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8 min
Day 20: Graduation : your first Spanish news bulletin
Day One Spanish, episode twenty of twenty - graduation day. No new vocabulary, no new grammar. Today we hand you a real Spanish news bulletin: four stories, ninety seconds, read th…