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Day One Spanish | Beginner News-Focused Spanish Course
Spanish for absolute beginners — learn the basics you need to understand slow Spanish news.
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Day 1: The new president is a lawyer
08:30|Day One Spanish takes you from absolute zero to being ready for our daily news podcast — LinguaWire A1 Daily Spanish News — in four weeks. Twenty episodes, eight minutes a day, with Carlos and Lucía. In episode one you learn the verb ser (I am, he is, she is), the words el presidente and la presidenta, and two of the most charming quirks in the Spanish language: the pronouns that simply vanish, and the little word 'a' that Spanish refuses to say. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: La nueva presidenta es abogada.▶ Practice this episode free — lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/spanish/1🇪🇸 More free Spanish lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/spanishLearn Spanish for beginners · A1 Spanish podcast · real Spanish news made simple.#LearnSpanish #SpanishForBeginners #A1Spanish #SpanishPodcast #LanguageLearning
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Day 2: The president is 62 and lives in the capital
06:38|Day One Spanish, episode two of twenty. Today you learn the verb tener (I have, you have, he has), the wonderful Spanish habit of HAVING your age instead of being it, the verb vivir, and the ending pattern — o, es, e — that runs nearly every verb in the language. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: El presidente tiene sesenta y dos años y vive en la capital.▶ Practice this episode free — lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/spanish/2🇪🇸 More free Spanish lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/spanishLearn Spanish for beginners · A1 Spanish podcast · real Spanish news made simple.#LearnSpanish #SpanishForBeginners #A1Spanish #SpanishPodcast #LanguageLearningDay 3: The government, the police and the army are on the streets
05:58|Day One Spanish, episode three of twenty. Today is the day every Spanish learner remembers — the discovery that Spanish has TWO verbs for 'to be': ser for what something is, estar for where and how it is. You learn está and están, the plural words for 'the' (los and las), and the institutions that march through every big news day. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: El gobierno, la policía y el ejército están hoy en las calles.▶ Practice this episode free — lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/spanish/3🇪🇸 More free Spanish lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/spanishLearn Spanish for beginners · A1 Spanish podcast · real Spanish news made simple.#LearnSpanish #SpanishForBeginners #A1Spanish #SpanishPodcast #LanguageLearningDay 4: More than ten thousand people are at the demonstration
05:43|Day One Spanish, episode four of twenty. News runs on big numbers, so today you learn to build them: cien, mil, diez mil — and the lovely rule that Spanish never says 'one' hundred or 'one' thousand. You also meet más de (more than), la manifestación, and the two words for people — las personas and la gente, one of which is secretly singular. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: Más de diez mil personas están en la manifestación en la capital.▶ Practice this episode free — lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/spanish/4🇪🇸 More free Spanish lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/spanishLearn Spanish for beginners · A1 Spanish podcast · real Spanish news made simple.#LearnSpanish #SpanishForBeginners #A1Spanish #SpanishPodcast #LanguageLearningDay 5: The doctors and the teachers are on strike
05:24|Day One Spanish, episode five of twenty — the week one finale. Today you learn the most reliable machine in the language: how Spanish makes plurals (add -s, or -es, and that's genuinely it), the professions that fill strike season — el médico, el profesor — the phrase estar en huelga, and your first -ar verb, trabajar. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: Los médicos y los profesores están hoy en huelga.▶ Practice this episode free — lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/spanish/5🇪🇸 More free Spanish lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/spanishLearn Spanish for beginners · A1 Spanish podcast · real Spanish news made simple.#LearnSpanish #SpanishForBeginners #A1Spanish #SpanishPodcast #LanguageLearningDay 6: The election is on Sunday, and the polls are very close
05:12|Day One Spanish, episode six of twenty — week two, where the real news patterns begin. Today: election season. You learn why Spanish elections are always plural (las elecciones), the elegant rule that days of the week take no preposition (el domingo means ON Sunday), when events use ser and states use estar, plus votar, el partido and las encuestas. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: Las elecciones son el domingo y las encuestas están muy ajustadas.▶ Practice this episode free — lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/spanish/6🇪🇸 More free Spanish lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/spanishLearn Spanish for beginners · A1 Spanish podcast · real Spanish news made simple.#LearnSpanish #SpanishForBeginners #A1Spanish #SpanishPodcast #LanguageLearningDay 7: It's forty degrees in the south, and there is no rain
04:50|Day One Spanish, episode seven of twenty. Today, the weather — and one of the language's most charming habits: Spanish weather isn't being, it's MADE. Hace cuarenta grados — it makes forty degrees. Hace calor, hace frío. You also learn hay (there is) and no hay (there isn't), arguably the most useful little word of the month, plus the compass — el norte, el sur. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: Hace cuarenta grados en el sur y no hay lluvia.▶ Practice this episode free — lesson sheet + 10-minute homework:https://linguawire.com/dayone/spanish/7🇪🇸 More free Spanish lessons and daily A1 news:https://linguawire.com/spanishLearn Spanish for beginners · A1 Spanish podcast · real Spanish news made simple.#LearnSpanish #SpanishForBeginners #A1Spanish #SpanishPodcast #LanguageLearning