5.12: Conversation: Buying tickets for public transportation (Review)

Welcome to Unit 5.5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. In this unit you will learn how to: Say the day of the week and time of day, ask a cab driver if they are free, bargain with them over the fare, and understand if they ask if you have any luggage.

This 14th episode is a quick recap of Unit 5 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spanish.

In this 13th episode, you have the chance to work through a visualization practice to help you learn how to purchase bus, train, and airplane tickets, how to ask when a bus, train, or plain arrives, and how to ask when one will depart.

This 12th episode revisits the conversation that you heard in Unit 5.1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. By now, you should be able to understand everything that is said -- if not, go back and review some of the previous episodes until you have it down.

This 11th episode puts together everything you've learned in this unit and the previous units of the LiveLingua Spanish Podcast. You'll practice with complete sentences, and work on comprehending common responses you may receive to questions.

This 10th episode teaches you to ask for a ticket to a specific destination from a teller. We're going to use some phrases you can use on any type of transportation, so you don't have to worry about the type of vehicle you are going to be using when using these phrases.

This 9th episode covers how to ask what time a train, bus, or airplane arrives at its destination, and how to understand the reply that you will receive. In Spanish, ask "when does x arrive?", where "x" is the vehicle, you just have to say "¿a qué hora llega "x"?

This 8th episode covers how to ask what time a train, bus, or airplane departs from the terminal, and how to understand the reply that you will receive. In Spanish you ask "when does x leave for y?", where "x" is the vehicle (bus, plane, train) and "y" is the location you want to go to.

Now that you know how to say and understand the hours, let’s focus a bit on the minutes. In Spanish, you can say the minutes after the hours, just like in English. This m-episode covers how to do that, and how to say the information in a sentence.

Now let’s combine the numbers you learned in the previous episode so you can tell the time. When telling time in Spanish all you need to do is start the sentence with “Son las” and add the number, unless it is 1:00, where you would say '"Es La."