3.6: Ask what you do (formal vs informal)

This 10th episode is a quick recap of Unit 4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spanish.

Welcome to Unit 5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. If you’re going to be traveling between cities in Spain or Latin America, chances are you’re going to be using some kind of public transportation, whether it be buses, trains or planes. In this unit, we’re going to work through some conversations on how to buy tickets for public transportation.

In this 9 thepisode, you have the chance to work through a visualization practice to help you learn how to ask for directions in Spanish, and how to locate common tourist sites in Latin American countries such as hotels, restaurants, the bus station, and the airport.

This 8th episode walks you again through the first conversation you heard at the beginning of Unit 4. You should now be able to understand all of the conversation on how to ask for directions in Spanish. If there's are any parts that's still not clear, feel free to review this unit as many times as you need.

If you're asking for directions in Spanish, there's generally two things that can happen after they're given to you.  You can either say "thank you" and be on your way, or you can ask for a clarification. This m-episode walks you through both situations. Listen and repeat the following phrases in English and in Spanish.

This 6th episode brings together all of the information you have learned so far in Unit 4 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. We review asking for directions in Spanish, and how to locate common sites that tourists visit in Latin American countries.

This 6th episode covers basic words people use to give directions. Knowing this vocabulary is critical, not only if you want to give directions, but actually, if you want to understand what people in Spanish speaking countries say when they give you the answer to the question ¿Dónde está? that you learned in the previous episode.

After learning the vocabulary in the last episode for some common locations in Spanish, this 5th episode puts it into a complete sentence. You'll learn how to specifically ask where something is, in the Spanish language.

This 4th episode walks you through the vocabulary for some common locations you would need to get to when you're traveling in Latin America. You'll learn about asking for directions to places like airports, bus stations, hotels, restaurants, and more common tourist sites.

This 3rd episode covers cultural notes regarding directions, as specific to Latin American countries. You'll learn how to understand key differences and nuances between asking for directions in English and asking for directions in Spanish.