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Hello and welcome to Spanishpodcast. I´m Mercedes, from Barcelona. Today we are going to make a listening practice about uses of the “imperfect” tens in spanish that we saw deeply in episodes 32 and 33 with explanations and exemples that able you easier to understand it. Hola amigos, y bienvenidos a Españolpodcast. Soy Mercedes. En nuestro episodio de hoy vamos a llevar a cabo una práctica auditiva sobre diversas cuestiones de lenguaje, en español, pero enfatizando los usos (algunos de los que hemos visto) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo que, si recordáis, ya hemos estado trabajando en los episodios 32 y 33. Seguiremos repasando algunos de sus usos mediante multitud de sencillos ejemplos que os permitan asimilarlo y recordarlo fácilmente, así como en el seno de situaciones que os permitan, asimismo, generalizar su uso e incorporarlo a vuestro lenguaje habitual.

Hello and welcome to Spanishpodcast. I´m Mercedes, from Barcelona. Today we are going to learn and to review one of the uses of the imperfect tens in spanish, with explanations and exemples that able you easier to underestand it. Hola amigos, y bienvenidos a Españolpodcast. Soy Mercedes. En nuestro episodio de hoy vamos a aprender y a repasar el tiempo pasado del indicativo, llamado imperfecto. Vamos a abordar uno de sus usos y os vamos a proporcionar explicaciones sencillas que os permitan comprenderlo fácilmente, así como ejemplos que os permitan generalizar su uso e incorporarlo a vuestro lenguaje habitual.

Hello and welcome to Spanishpodcast. I´m Mercedes, from Barcelona. Today we are going to learn and to review expressions, verbs and specific vocabulary of the emotional language, the specific language when we have contradictions or doubts, when we want to express that we lost control of our relationship and how to express it. On the other hand, this week we start a new collection of photographs, the “Madrid Collection” where we include the first album named “Sceenes of Madrid” and we´re going to see la Plaza Mayor, the old Austrias´ Madrid, the Atocha station, we´re going to have an aperitif and to listen to a jazz performance in a public square and we´re going to have a coffee in the amazing Reina Sofía Museum Bar. We adore Madrid and we wish you see it with our own eyes, through our photos. We are going to give you some explanations in each photograph. Hola amigos, y bienvenidos a Españolpodcast. Soy Mercedes. En nuestro episodio de hoy vamos a aprender y a repasar expresiones, verbos, frases hechas y voc

Hello and welcome to spanishpodcast. I´m Mercedes. Today we are going to review all the common expressions we reviewed last weeks, verbs, specific vocabulary, idiosincrasic spanish speaking forms or expressions of soccer and we are going to extend their use to another contexts. We recommend you to see, to visit electronic adresses we give you at the bottom of our free pdf guide, about all kind of topics about Real Madrid and Barça, many fun and funny videos about the most strange goals fo history of soccer, videos about historic matches, oficial pages of our two star teams and the more special soccer match you´ve ever seen: a match among greeks and deutch players, a match done in the old times, by Monty Python. Hola amigos, y bienvenidos a Españolpodcast. Soy Mercedes. Hoy vamos a repasar todas las expresiones coloquiales que hemos revisado durante las últimas semanas, todos los verbos, el vocabulario específico que hemos trabajado y todas las expresiones típicamente idiosincrásicas de la jerga del españo

En nuestro episodio de hoy, en www.spanishpodcast.org, trataremos un tema que arrastra pasiones: un partido de fútbol entre dos grandes colosos del fútbol: el Fútbol Club Barcelona y el Real Madrid, o el Barça y el Madrid, para abreviar. En este duelo de titanes, trabajaremos y repasaremos todo el vocabulario referente al deporte rey en España, el fútbol; también el lengaje específico de los periodistas deportivos cuando narran un partido por radio o por televisión; y, cómo no, el apasionado y enfático lenguaje de nuestros amigos mientras ven el partido, divididos en aficionados del Barça y seguidores del Madrid. Hoy tendremos multitud de expresiones coloquiales, y algunas palabras…ciertamente altisonantes, por usar un término delicado. In our episode of today in www.spanishpodcast.org, we´re speaking about a very apassionated topic: soccer, “fútbol” in spanish language, a soccer match between two very great colossus of spanish soccer, the Fútbol Club Barcelona and the Real Madrid, or the Barça and the Madri

En nuestro episodio de hoy, en www.spanishpodcast.org, trataremos un tema que arrastra pasiones: un partido de fútbol entre dos grandes colosos del fútbol: el Fútbol Club Barcelona y el Real Madrid, o el Barça y el Madrid, para abreviar. En este duelo de titanes, trabajaremos y repasaremos todo el vocabulario referente al deporte rey en España, el fútbol; también el lengaje específico de los periodistas deportivos cuando narran un partido por radio o por televisión; y, cómo no, el apasionado y enfático lenguaje de nuestros amigos mientras ven el partido, divididos en aficionados del Barça y seguidores del Madrid. Hoy tendremos multitud de expresiones coloquiales, y algunas palabras…ciertamente altisonantes, por usar un término delicado. In our episode of today in www.spanishpodcast.org, we´re speaking about a very apassionated topic: soccer, “fútbol” in spanish language, a soccer match between two very great colossus of spanish soccer, the Fútbol Club Barcelona and the Real Madrid, or the Barça and the Madri

Hello everybody and welcome to spanishpodcast. This week we are going to review more examples of sentences with "que...+ subjunctive mood, present tens", and "¡Ojalá! + subjunctive mood". Our whole listening practice will be about different ways to express wishes with subjuntive present tens. In Photographs with Comments, in the Beijing Collection, this week: “The Summer Palace”, in Beijing, a great building for hollidays of emperors. Hola amigos, y bienvenidos a spanishpodcast. Esta semana vamos a repasar numerosos ejemplos de frases con "Que...+ subjuntivo, presente" y "¡Ojalá!+ subjuntivo" , tema que trabajamos en el episodio 29, titulado "¡Ojalá!", como expresión de deseos y estados de emoción. Toda nuestra práctica auditiva tratará sobre las diferentes formas de expresar deseos con el presente de subjuntivo. Si la semana pasada pudimos ofreceros El Templo del Cielo en nuestra Colección Pekín, esta semana hemos confeccionado un nuevo álbum para nuestras fotografías comentadas: El Palacio de Verano, u

En nuestro episodio de hoy, en www.spanishpodcast.org, trataremos un tema que arrastra pasiones: un partido de fútbol entre dos grandes colosos del fútbol: el Fútbol Club Barcelona y el Real Madrid, o el Barça y el Madrid, para abreviar. En este duelo de titanes, trabajaremos y repasaremos todo el vocabulario referente al deporte rey en España, el fútbol; también el lengaje específico de los periodistas deportivos cuando narran un partido por radio o por televisión; y, cómo no, el apasionado y enfático lenguaje de nuestros amigos mientras ven el partido, divididos en aficionados del Barça y seguidores del Madrid. Hoy tendremos multitud de expresiones coloquiales, y algunas palabras…ciertamente altisonantes, por usar un término delicado. In our episode of today in www.spanishpodcast.org, we´re speak about a very apassionated topic: soccer, “fútbol” in spanish language, a soccer match between two very great colossus of spanish soccer, the Fútbol Club Barcelona and the Real Madrid, or the Barça and the Madrid,

We are going to work a topic that most of you say us is difficult for you, you are worried about it and you need review it again and again, but…in a fun and interesting way: subjunctive mood, in the more known sentences and with the most famous song of Juan Luis Guerra (Ojalá que llueva café). This week we bring you a new album of photographs with comments about the chinese Great Wall and we explained you its story, evolution and legends about it and we share with you a very nice photographs of this universal building that is one of the most admired world heritage. Vamos a trabajar un aspecto que muchos de vosotros nos habéis comunicado que os preocupa, pero, como siempre, lo haremos de forma que lo paséis estupendo, como nosotros preparando este episodio. Hoy, el presente de subjuntivo en expresiones de deseo, así como en frases introducidas por “ojalá”; veremos también algún uso del subjuntivo en expresiones de finalidad. Además, ponemos a vuestra disposición un nuevo álbum de fotografías comentadas, esta

Inmersión 11. “Odio”. Listening practice 11th. Más ejemplos de los verbos “odiar”, “ no soportar”, “ no tolerar”, “no gustar nada”, “caer fatal” o “aborrecer”, trabajados en nuestro episodio nº 27. Inmersión 11. “Carta a los Reyes Magos”. Listening Practice 11th. Muchos más ejemplos del uso del subjuntivo que define personas, cosas o situaciones, trabajado ya en el episodio nº 28.

In our episode 28th , we are going to know the Reyes Magos tradition. It´s a spanish tradition similar to Santa Klaus tradition in other countries. The Reyes Night is the january 5th at night and in that night three Magic Kings leave presents for all spanish children. Some days before a spanish child, Pablo, is going to write a letter to the Kings and we can review one of the most usual subjunctive spanish verb form. In “Photographs with comments”, a new album of Barcelona collection: la Rambla de las Flores, de Barcelona. En nuestro episodio número 28, vamos a conocer la tradición de los Reyes Magos, en España. Una tradición similar a la de Santa Klaus en otros países. La noche de Reyes es la noche del 5 al 6 de enero, y durante esa noche, la leyenda dice que los Tres Reyes Magos de Oriente van con sus camellos y su séquito repartiendo juguetes por todos los hogares. Previamente, Pablo va a escribir una carta a los Reyes, y con ella vamos a aprender una de las formas más usadas del subjuntivo español. En

In our episode of today we included the most usual and used spanish verbs when we want to express an adverse opinion against something o someone. In our last episodes we reviewed some kind and accommodating verbs to express our opinion, but in this episode we are going to review some more strong verbs in order to express that anything doesn´t like us at all. In order to better exemplify it we tried a song of a rocker spanish singer (Carlos Goñi, group Revólver): Odio (Hate) where he is reviewing many things he hate, he can´t stand, he does not like at all, he detest, can not bear,…You have the electronic address in our PDF (www.spanishpodcast.org) where you can hear the song and see the videoclip in Youtube. (We thought you can be interested in review, in spanish, some tradicions linked to Christmas. It´s because we put a new album of photographs in www.spanishpodcast.org about a nice christmas market placed at the Cathedral Square of Barcelona where you´ll can see the Christmas Crib with a special characters

We are going to review formulas that be able us to explain our own opinions in a discussion or on the dialogue. These expressions allow to take part in few situations explaining the own point of view but without disqualify other people. Expressions that make you easier your dialogue fluency and it make you easier interchanging opinions in a kind and polite way. In this Listening Practice 10th we´re going to give you more exemples about that we worked in 25th and 26th episodes, examples arranged in diary situations where you are going to practice all these formulas in order to better express your personal opinion. In our collection of Barcelona we put an album of Photographs with comments about Las Ramblas of Our city, Barcelona. We toke photographs of the first and second part of the Ramblas: la Rambla de Canaletas and la Rambla de los Estudios, named to as a Rambla de los Pájaros.Don´t lose that because they are beautiful photographs with unmistakable scenes of La Rambla and with spanish reading to introdu

We are going to review today formulas that let us to explain our own opinions in a discussion or on a dialogue. These expressions allow us to take part in some situations explaining our point of view but without disqualifying other people. Expressions that make easier to interchange opinions in a polite way. Vamos a revisar hoy toda una serie de fórmulas que nos permitan expresar nuestras opiniones en un debate, en una conversación o en un diálogo. Expresiones que permiten intervenir exponiendo el propio punto de vista, pero sin descalificar los otros, facilitando la fluidez del intercambio de opiniones y asegurándonos de no provocar malestar en los demás por el hecho de dar contestaciones bruscas o expresar nuestro pensamiento de modo categórico.

We are going to review today formulas that let us to explain our own opinions in a discussion or on a dialogue. These expressions allow us to take part in some situations explaining our point of view but without disqualifying other people. Expressions that make easier to interchange opinions in a polite way. Vamos a revisar hoy toda una serie de fórmulas que nos permitan expresar nuestras opiniones en un debate, en una conversación o en un diálogo. Expresiones que permiten intervenir exponiendo el propio punto de vista, pero sin descalificar los otros, facilitando la fluidez del intercambio de opiniones y asegurándonos de no provocar malestar en los demás por el hecho de dar contestaciones bruscas o expresar nuestro pensamiento de modo categórico.

In the 22nd episode, Yolanda didn´t feel well, she felt dizzy, she had a fever, she had her nose blocked and she had a runny nose, she cough and she shivered. She had to go to the doctor to know what was the matter and to know what to do for feeling well herself. Yolanda went to consult to the doctor and she explained him their symptoms. There was an only diagnosis: she had a very important flu. The doctor recommended her medicines and adviced in order to she could recover herself and she could go back to the diary life. Now, in our Listening Practice 9, we can review all these situations around to have a flu, to go to to the doctor, take medicine, etc. in order you can automate a little these linguistics uses. Im 23rd and 24th episodes, Toni was crazzy for Alice but he was going through a personal crisis that was caused by a few changes in their life circumstances. He was suffering a kind of anxiety attack and he didn´t find answers to his new situation. Toni decided to visite to a psychoanalyst to try to f

Toni is crazzy for Alice but he´s going through a personal crisis that is caused by a few changes in their life circumstances. He´s suffering a kind of anxiety attack and he doesn´t find answers to his new situation. Toni decides to visite to a psychoanalyst to try to find out what´s the matter with his self and to know how to come up against this new life situation. Toni está loco por Alice, pero al mismo tiempo está pasando por una crisis debida al cambio de sus circunstancias vitales. Tiene ansiedad y no encuentra todas las respuestas. Se decide a visitar a un pscioanalista para intentar averiguar qué le está pasando y cómo tiene que enfrentarse a esta nueva situación en su vida.

Toni is crazzy for Alice but he´s going through a personal crisis that is caused by a few changes in their life circumstances. He´s suffering a kind of anxiety attack and he doesn´t find answers to his new situation. Toni decides to visite to a psychoanalyst to try to find out what´s the matter with his self and to know how to come up against this new life situation. Toni está loco por Alice, pero al mismo tiempo está pasando por una crisis debida al cambio de sus circunstancias vitales. Tiene ansiedad y no encuentra todas las respuestas. Se decide a visitar a un pscioanalista para intentar averiguar qué le está pasando y cómo tiene que enfrentarse a esta nueva situación en su vida.

Yolanda dosen´t feel well, she feels dizzy, she has a fever, she has her nose blocked and she has a runny nose, she coughs and she shivers. She has to go to the doctor to know what´s the matter and to know what to do for feeling well herself . Yolanda goes to consult to the doctor and she explains him their symptoms. There is an only diagnosis: she has a very important flu. The doctor recommends her medicines and advices in order to she can recover herself and she can go back to the diary life. Yolanda no se encuentra bien, está mareada, tiene un poco de fiebre, tiene la nariz tapada, tos y escalofríos. Tiene que ir al médico para saber qué le pasa y adoptar las medidas oportunas para volver a encontrarse bien. Va a la consulta de su médico de cabecera y le explica sus síntomas. El diagnóstico es seguro: tiene la gripe. El doctor le hace las recomendaciones oportunas para que pueda curarse y volver a la vida normal.

In the 20th episode, we go to the movies. We go to see a movie of with numbered movie tickets session. It´s saturday and we´ll have to queue up. Four friends meet to go to the movies and they talk about how organize them self : schedule, tickets, to meet,... Now, in our Listening Practice 8, we can review all these situations around to meet, to go to the movies, take movie tickets, etc. in order you can automate a little these linguistics uses. In our 21th episode, Ana has to go shopping. She wants to buy a special dress for the occasion, not very formal, not very conventional, but she wants it nice and elegant. Ana goes shopping with her friend Laura, who always advices her very well and she helps her to choose adequately. Firstable they look at shop windows of fashion boutiques, later both come into and Ana tries on few dresses. Few dresses aren´t nice for her but another ones fit her.Finally she takes a black dress which fits her great and which is the one suits her .Now, in our 8th Practice Listening we