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In this episode, Roy and Ania put together a complete personal introduction in Spanish. Roy practices answering a full set of personal questions: his name and surname (me llamo Roy, me apellido Coughlan), nationality (soy de Irlanda), age (cincuenta y tres años), profession (soy empresario), languages spoken (hablo español, inglés y polaco), and where he lives (vivo en Łódź, Polonia), before wrapping up with contact-style questions about phone number and email. By the end, Roy has a full self-introduction ready to use in Spanish.

🇪🇸 Perfect for: Beginners who want a simple template for introducing themselves fully in Spanish.

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 Hi, I'm Ania, founder of Teatro de Idiomas. Learning Spanish or Polish with us isn't just effective, it's fun, inspiring, and super exciting. We teach through Spanish, English, or Russian, so you can learn in a language you already feel comfortable with.

In this episode, Roy and Ania tackle the difference between tú (informal you) and usted (formal you) in Spanish, a distinction that doesn't exist in English. They introduce two new verbs, vivir (to live) and dedicarse (to do for a living), working through the full present tense conjugation of each. Roy then practices switching between informal and formal question forms, for example asking ¿cómo te llamas? with a friend versus ¿cómo se llama? with someone he doesn't know, along with ¿cuántos años tienes? versus ¿cuántos años tiene?, and ¿a qué te dedicas? versus ¿a qué se dedica?. It's a mental workout, but by the end Roy has a clear sense of when to use each form.

🇪🇸 Perfect for: Beginners ready to learn the tú vs usted distinction and start speaking with the right level of formality.

🔗 About Your Host (Roy Coughlan)

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🤝 Meet Your Co-Host — Ania, Teatro de Idiomas

 Hi, I'm Ania, founder of Teatro de Idiomas. Learning Spanish or Polish with us isn't just effective, it's fun, inspiring, and super exciting. We teach through Spanish, English, or Russian, so you can learn in a language you already feel comfortable with.

In this episode, Roy and Ania continue their conversational practice with a fresh round of everyday questions in Spanish. Topics range from possessions (¿tienes una bicicleta?, ¿tienes muchos libros?) to family size (mi familia es pequeña), nationality and culture (talking about Poland, Polish cinema, and its link to Łódź), and personal details like being a student, favorite books, dietary choices, and fears, including a fun mix-up between arañas (spiders) and ananas (pineapple). They also touch on well-known figures like Ed Sheeran to practice talking about where people are from, closing out the conversation-style format from the previous episode.

🇪🇸 Perfect for: Beginners continuing to build conversational confidence with everyday personal questions in Spanish.

🔗 About Your Host (Roy Coughlan)

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🤝 Meet Your Co-Host — Ania, Teatro de Idiomas

 Hi, I'm Ania, founder of Teatro de Idiomas. Learning Spanish or Polish with us isn't just effective, it's fun, inspiring, and super exciting. We teach through Spanish, English, or Russian, so you can learn in a language you already feel comfortable with.

In this episode, Roy and Ania put everything learned so far into practice through a series of everyday conversational questions in Spanish. They cover personality traits (¿eres una persona paciente o impaciente?), pets, general mood, siblings, friendships, and family, along with fun tangents about celebrities like Shakira and Enrique Iglesias. Roy also practices describing physical traits like eye color (a veces azul, a veces verde) and responds to a range of personal questions using the verbs and vocabulary built up across earlier episodes, wrapping up with a well-earned congratulations from Ania on how far his Spanish has come.

🇪🇸 Perfect for: Beginners ready to move from isolated vocabulary and verb drills into real conversational practice.

🔗 About Your Host (Roy Coughlan)

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In this episode, Roy and Ania tie together the verbs learned in previous episodes, estar and tener, to talk about feelings and sensations in Spanish. For feelings, they use estar, covering words like contento (content), alegre (cheerful), feliz (happy), triste (sad), preocupado (worried), enfadado (angry), enamorado (in love), serio (serious), aburrido (bored), and cansado (tired). For physical sensations, they switch to tener, working through tener frío (to be cold), tener calor (to be hot), tener dolor (to have pain), tener sueño (to be sleepy), and tener hambre (to be hungry). Ania also teaches Roy how to say lo siento or perdón for I'm sorry, before wrapping up with a question for listeners to answer in the comments.

🇪🇸 Perfect for: Beginners who've learned estar and tener and are ready to put them to practical use talking about feelings and physical sensations.

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In this episode, Roy and Ania cover the irregular verb tener, meaning to have. Ania walks Roy through the present tense forms: tengo, tienes, tiene, tenemos, tenéis, and tienen, then explains that tener is used to talk about possessions. They work through a range of practical examples, including tengo una tarta en la mesa (I have a cake on the table), tienes el móvil roto (your phone is broken), tengo unas gafas de sol (I have sunglasses), tiene dos gatos (he/she has two cats), tienes mucho dinero (you have a lot of money), tenemos frío (we are cold), and tienen deberes (they have chores), before Roy finishes by translating tengo dinero and no tengo el móvil on his own.

🇪🇸 Perfect for: Beginners ready to learn how to talk about possessions and a few common idiomatic uses of tener in Spanish.

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 Hi, I'm Ania, founder of Teatro de Idiomas. Learning Spanish or Polish with us isn't just effective, it's fun, inspiring, and super exciting. We teach through Spanish, English, or Russian, so you can learn in a language you already feel comfortable with.

In this episode, Roy and Ania introduce the verb estar, Spanish's other verb for to be. Ania walks Roy through the present tense forms: estoy, estás, está, estamos, estáis, and están, then explains the key distinction from the verb ser covered in an earlier episode: ser is used for things like nationality and profession, while estar is used for location. They practice with a series of example sentences, including la tarta está en la mesa (the cake is on the table), ahí están las sillas (there are the chairs), el baño está arriba (the bathroom is upstairs), and allí está mi libro (there is my book), giving Roy a clear, practical feel for when to reach for estar instead of ser.

🇪🇸 Perfect for: Beginners ready to tackle the classic ser vs estar distinction and start describing where things are located in Spanish.

🔗 About Your Host (Roy Coughlan)

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🤝 Meet Your Co-Host — Ania, Teatro de Idiomas

 Hi, I'm Ania, founder of Teatro de Idiomas. Learning Spanish or Polish with us isn't just effective, it's fun, inspiring, and super exciting. We teach through Spanish, English, or Russian, so you can learn in a language you already feel comfortable with.

In this episode, Roy and Ania cover a full set of vocabulary for workplaces and everyday locations in Spanish. They work through la panadería (bakery), el banco (bank), el hospital, la escuela (school), la farmacia (pharmacy), el teatro (theatre), el restaurante, el correos (post office), el taller (mechanic's shop), el tribunal (court), la comisaría (police station), la peluquería (hairdresser), la librería (library), el gimnasio, la zapatería (shoe shop), la oficina, el aeropuerto, and el supermercado. Ania then has Roy practice using the phrase yo voy a for I go to, building simple sentences like yo voy al gimnasio and yo voy al supermercado.

🇪🇸 Perfect for: Beginners looking to build a practical vocabulary set for talking about everyday places and errands in Spanish.

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🤝 Meet Your Co-Host — Ania, Teatro de Idiomas

 Hi, I'm Ania, founder of Teatro de Idiomas. Learning Spanish or Polish with us isn't just effective, it's fun, inspiring, and super exciting. We teach through Spanish, English, or Russian, so you can learn in a language you already feel comfortable with.

In this episode of Learn Spanish Podcast, Roy and Aña cover clothing and accessories vocabulary — from everyday basics like pantalones (pants) and camisa (shirt) to trickier ones like el jersey (sweater, with that easy-to-mispronounce "j" sound) and el bañador (swimming costume). Aña leads Roy through each word, they practice pronunciation together, and Roy puts it into practice describing what he likes to wear. A short, practical lesson you can repeat and practice on your own.

Vocabulary covered:

• Los pantalones — pants

🔗 About Your Host (Roy Coughlan)

🤝 Meet Your Co-Host — Ania, Teatro de Idiomas

Hi, I'm Ania, founder of Teatro de Idiomas. Learning Spanish or Polish with us isn't just effective, it's fun, inspiring, and super exciting. We teach through Spanish, English, or Russian, so you can learn in a language you already feel comfortable with.

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