In this episode, you will listen to a short Spanish stand-up comedy monologue by Jonathan, who explores career choices, personal decisions, motivation, habits, and self-improvement through humour, irony, and wordplay, while helping you practise understanding spoken Spanish with jokes and rhythm, using past tenses to distinguish habits from completed actions, and learning vocabulary in natural, fixed phrases rather than word by word.

For an interactive word-by-word transcript, downloadable study guide, quizzes, and more, visit www.spanishreadingclub.co.uk.

In this episode, you will listen to an original story about Dolores and Juan, two people whose lives slowly change over time.

The story focuses on:

• Daily past routines

• Emotions and relationships

• Personal growth and change

While listening, you will practise:

• Reflexive and reciprocal se, get, become

• Past routines (past simple, would, used to)

• Vocabulary related to time, feelings, and life changes

For an interactive transcript, downloadable study guide, quizzes, and more, visit www.spanishreadingclub.co.uk

In this classic fairy tale, you’ll meet a poor but hardworking shoemaker whose life changes thanks to mysterious helpers who work while he sleeps. Through this traditional Brothers Grimm story, you’ll practise Spanish relative pronouns and review how they are used to describe people, places, time, and possession.

For an interactive transcript, downloadable study guide, quizzes, and more, visit www.spanishreadingclub.co.uk.

In this calm and nostalgic story, you’ll join Lucía as she walks along a quiet pier at sunset, where she reunites with Álvaro after many years apart. Through their reflective conversation, you’ll practise vocabulary related to the sea, emotions, and places in town, and review how to describe ongoing scenes and emotional states using the indicative, along with descriptive past actions in the imperfect.

For an interactive transcript, downloadable study guide, quizzes, and more, visit www.spanishreadingclub.co.uk

In this calm and tender story, you’ll meet Michi, a small grey cat who discovers a bright red ball in the garden. With clear narration and simple language, this episode is perfect for practising everyday Spanish verbs and reviewing how to describe actions using the present tense.

For an interactive transcript, downloadable study guide, quizzes, and more, visit www.spanishreadingclub.co.uk.

In this short fable, you’ll meet a little turtle who learns an important lesson about taking care of herself. With gentle forest sounds and clear narration, this story is perfect for practicing parts of the body vocabulary and reviewing Spanish past tenses.

For an interactive transcript, downloadable study guide, quizzes, and more, visit www.spanishreadingclub.co.uk.