This podcast, the latest of our free spanish lessons online, focuses primarily on what happens in Spain when you, or someone else, invites a person out for a drink or something to eat.

For anyone thinking of making some Spanish friends, then this podcast is a must! It could save you a lot of embarrassment and money. (I know this from painful experience. Gordon ☹)

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If we had a Euro for every time one of our students has said to us: “It’s the little words that cause me the most problems.” we’d be “forrados”!

You’ve probably seen al and del scattered about Spanish texts and wondered why.

Listen in to this intermediate Spanish lesson as we help you learn when and when not to use the only two contractions in the Spanish language.

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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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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.

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The present progressive in Spanish as a great tense to use but can often be misused and abused be unwary Spanish students who overwork it because of its easiness. Listen in as Gordon explains how he did that very thing.

In this podcasts we show you how Spanish speakers use this particular tense. Warning! It’s different to how English speakers use it.

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So far in our Spanish podcasts we’ve covered a wide range of vital areas of grammar and vocabulary. It’s time to do a bit of Spanish conversation practice. Don’t worry, we keep the pace just right for you. We recommend that you listen three or four times. There’s no hurry and the more you listen, the more you hear.

Listen in as we pull together all of the previous podcasts into a conversation. ¡Escucha!

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In this free Spanish lesson, we take a close look at hay vs estar. We’ve found that many students are very confused about how exactly these words should be used. One means “there is” while the other means “it is”.

When should you use one as opposed to the other? That’s just the question we’re here to answer.

If this has been a cause of confusion for you in the past, fret not, because this episode will help make everything clearer.

Don’t miss the simple tip that will ensure you’ll never get the choice of hay vs estar wrong again.

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In this free Spanish podcast come and join us and learn how to effectively use this mysterious “a” that you have probably seen or heard in so many Spanish sentences. The strange and yet fun thing is that despite the fact that this construction doesn’t exist in English, in Spanish, it is a must if you want to be respectful and speak accurately.

So let’s get to it and add another important skill to your Spanish repertoire.

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Some of our students who have been studying the language for years still have problems with using gustar in Spanish.

And it’s really no wonder!

It takes a few attempts at it before you can really get to grips with how it works. In this lesson we’re going to take a real in-depth look at this most useful verb gustar and help you feel much more at ease with using it.

Let us show you how to take control of a conversation. When talking with Spanish speakers, this is a must!

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Tener is one of the most used and valuable Spanish verbs to know and, it’s for this reason, that we’re taking an in-depth look at this word in this intermediate Spanish lesson.

The verb tener is no normal verb in Spanish. In fact, it works very hard in so many areas of the Spanish language that, unless you have a full grasp of what it can do, you simply won’t get the benefit out of it.

Join us to learn how to tell someone you are in a hurry, or what you’ve got to do. You just have to know this!

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