5.5-3: Cultural & language notes - Taking a taxi

Now that you know how to ask your driver how to get to a location, let's learn how to ask how far, or close the location is. This 9th episode covers basic vocabulary you can use to ask that, and to understand when they answer you.

Let's learn how to tell a driver where you want to go. In Spanish, when you are telling somebody you want to go to a place, you use the word: "A". We'll explain.

This 7th episode covers how to answer if someone asks you if you are free at a specific time of the day.

Now let's put all of this information about times and dates together to learn how to ask if somebody is free at a certain day and time.

This 5th episode is all about time. If you want to talk about a certain time of the day or week, such as the afternoon or this weekend, here are the phases you would use.

This 4th episode covers the days of the week in Spanish. This is useful if you want to arrange a taxi or any other event for a future day.

This 3rd episode covers cultural and language notes regarding taking a taxi or a ride-share in Latin American countries.

This 2nd episode is a conversation between Laura Ramirez and a taxi driver. Mrs. Ramirez is trying to get to her hotel and must negotiate the price. Don't worry if you don't understand it all yet, we're going to break it down bit by bit in this unit and practice everything.

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.