Spanish from Zero

Mar Olivares•spanishconmar.wordpress.com

¡Hola! Welcome to Spanish from Zero, a podcast for people who are just starting the amazing journey of Spanish learning. My name is Mar, and as a teacher who works with absolute beginners, I decided to create this series of really short and easy exercises for people who are completely new to the language. Cause even if you've started learning Spanish just a few weeks ago, it's never too early to start working on your listening skills!

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Listening practice for beginners • Occupations

¡Hola! Welcome to Spanish from Zero, a podcast for people who are just starting the amazing journey that is learning Español. Today we’re gonna practice talking about occupations. Here’s how it usually goes: • ¿Qué haces? (What do you do?) • Yo soy… (I am…) Note that in Spanish we tend to not use articles (a, an) when describing someone’s job title: Yo soy profesora. (Literally: I am teacher) The other thing we have to keep in mind whenever we’re describing someone is their gender. These are the...

Apr 26, 2022•6 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Listening practice for beginners • Asking for clarification

¡Hola! Welcome to Spanish from Zero, a podcast for people who are just starting the amazing journey that is learning Español. Today’s practice is focused on two really useful questions that are gonna help you get unstuck when you don’t know a word. If you want to use a word but you don’t know it in Spanish, you can ask: ¿Cómo se dice ___ en español? For example: How do you say “class” in Spanish? If you encounter a word in Spanish but you don’t what it means, you can ask: ¿Qué es ___? For exampl...

Mar 24, 2022•6 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Listening practice for beginners • Tener (to have)

¡Hola! Welcome to Spanish from Zero, a podcast for people who are just starting the amazing journey that is learning Spanish. Today’s practice is focused on the verb Tener (to have), although I’m only gonna use it with Yo ( yo tengo ) and Tú ( tú tienes ), so it’s really simple! I’m just gonna talk a little bit so you can practice some listening, and I’ll also ask some questions so you can try answering them out loud, saying what you can. If the audio is too hard, here are some hints that can he...

Mar 17, 2022•5 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Spanish listening practice • Ser (to be)

¡Hola! Welcome to Spanish from Zero, a podcast for people who are just starting the amazing journey that is learning Spanish. Today’s practice is focused on the verb Ser (to be). That is: I am, you are, she is, etc. The exercise is really simple. I’m gonna say a couple of sentences, but the subject is gonna be missing. And by subject, I mean the person . So for example, if I say “ am from Colombia”, the subject missing from that sentence is I . Your job is to figure that piece of the puzzle that...

Mar 14, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Spanish listening practice • Llamarse (to be called)

¡Hola! Welcome to Spanish from Zero, a podcast for people who are just starting the amazing journey that is learning Spanish. Today’s practice is focused on the verb Llamarse (to be called). Basically the verb that we use to talk about people’s names. The exercise is really short and simple! Your job is to find the mistakes in these sentences (only one of them is correct): Yo llamo Rafael Nosotros nos llamos Pedro y Juan Ella se llaman Claudia Tú te llamas Lucas Ellos se llama Ana y Sebastián Ho...

Mar 07, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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