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A conversational Spanish podcast
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Available Episodes (50)
One of the best ways to keep your Spanish skills sharp is to read in Spanish. And what better way to do that than to pick a story that youre already familiar with the plot and the characters.
This...
Listen to Part 1
Mr. Taylor, Part 2
By Augusto Monterroso
Contados meses más tarde, en el país de Mr. Taylor las cabezas alcanzaron aquella popularidad que todos recordamos. Al principio...
“Mister Taylor”
Escrito por Augusto Monterroso
-Menos rara, aunque sin duda más ejemplar -dijo entonces el otro-, es la historia de Mr. Percy Taylor, cazador de cabezas en la selva
This is the second part of an interview with Luis Rojas of Rojas Spanish. In this chat Luis shares his opinion of Pres. Barack Obama and we also talk a little about U.S. foreign policy...
This podcast is an introduction to my latest web project: ReVerb Spanish. If I do it right, it is going to help you review, relearn and remember the different meanings and conjugations...
(Almost) everything you ever wanted to know about Somalian pirates but were too afraid to ask.
Why are young Somalian men turning to piracy?
How much money does a Somalian pirate make?
What...
Another history podcast, this time about Leonardo da Vincis famous painting, The Last Supper.
Prof. John Varriano, whose research is what prompted me to do this podcast, is an art
Una charla con Luis, (uno de los lectores de Codys Cuentos) sobre la historia de Darwinismo en España.
If you look closely at the bottles label you can see the funny inscription ["Es...
Uno de los mecenas de arte y cultura españoles más importante en la historia no es un español ni un europeo sino un norteamericano filántropo llamado Archer Milton Huntington. Nacido...
Un cuento uruguayo, escrito por Horacio Quiroga
Click here for a Spanish-English glossary of some words in this story.
Cierta vez las víboras dieron un gran baile. Invitaron a las...
Although Horacio Quiroga wrote this story for kids, there are plenty of words in this tale that may be unfamiliar to even advanced Spanish speakers. Here are a few definitions. The
Here is a list of words and their meanings in English from the podcast Un día de estos. The following words are listed in order of their appearance in the story.
dentista sin título:...
Listen to the complete podcast. After the reading there is an analysis of the story that does not appear here on the blog. By the way, in this story, the word fresa means dentists drill...
Un cuento de Julio Cortázar
Nos gustaba la casa porque aparte de espaciosa y antigua (hoy que las casas antiguas sucumben a la más ventajosa liquidación de sus materiales) guardaba
Photo of Ávila, Spain
Matias, the superintendent of my apartment building, always has a smile and a positive attitude. He genuinely likes his job and helping people. When I initially...
Spanish author Miguel Aranguren looks for the silver lining in the current economic recession. The title Del solomillo a la sopa de ajos refers to the change in economic status of many...
Part 2 of a conversation with Mercedes León of SpanishPodcast.org. In this episode she talks about the development of her podcast for Spanish language learners and gives us some general...
In this interview with Spanish podcaster, Mercedes León, we talk about economic hard times in Spain, brought on by rampant real estate speculation. Later on in the conversation we switch...
A short story by Elena Poniatowska
Señorita:
A partir de hoy, debe usted borrar mi nombre de la lista de sus admiradores. Tal vez convendría ocultarte esta deserción, pero callándome,...
By Julio Cortázar
Había empezado a leer la novela unos días antes. La abandonó por negocios urgentes, volvió a abrirla cuando regresaba en tren a la finca; se dejaba interesar lentamente...
Cuban-American entreprenuer Carrie Ferguson Weir talks about growing up in two cultures: Anglo and Latino and also about her business, Los Pollitos Dicen, a T-shirt line for babies....
Yeah, this epi is long, long overdue. Sorry about that folks. This is (was?) part three of the trip to the U.S. with mi amiguete, David. In this episode we talk about seeing the Grand...
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes
PRIMERA PARTE
CAPÍTULO 1: Que trata de la condición y ejercicio del famoso hidalgo D. Quijote de la Mancha
En...
Mexican writer Juan Manuel Villalobos tells us about his experience being an immigrant in Spain. In an earlier podcast, episode 19, Juan Manuel talked about his novel La vida frágil...
Martín Ventolas 3 rules to remember about Spanish vowels:
They are short sounds
They are pure sounds
They start and end differently from English vowels.
Visit Martins blog, Spanish...
La yerba mate (An Argentine legend)
De noche Yací, la luna, alumbra desde el cielo misionero las copas de los árboles y platea el agua de las cataratas. Eso es todo lo que conocía de...
[See post to watch QuickTime movie]
Part 2 of Going 2 America
Above, video of Grand Central Station in Manhattan.
Below, view of Central Park from Top of the Rockefeller Center.
David...
La ciudad de Esteco era, según la leyenda, la más rica y poderosa de las ciudades del norte argentino. Se levantaba en medio de un fértil y hermoso paisaje de la provincia de Salta....
La noche de los feos
por Mario Benedetti
1.
Ambos somos feos. Ni siquiera vulgarmente feos. Ella tiene un pómulo hundido. Desde los ocho años, cuando le hicieron la operación. Mi asquerosa...
[See post to watch QuickTime movie]
David, el Cántabro, is back. This time hes going to talk about stereotypes that exist among the Spanish regarding mi pueblo, the United States, and...
In this podcast I chat with Maya Escobar, a performance artist from the U.S. Her culturally-diverse family background (Dad is Guatemalan and Mom is Jewish) has inspired her to create...
Heres Part 2 of my chat with Teresa Córdova from Middlebury College. In this podcast Teresa talks about the ways some American university students have found to work legally in Spain....
Todays episode of Spanish Pronunciation 101 is about Spanish consonant sounds that dont come naturally to English speakers. Martín Ventola, our Spanish instructor from Buenos Aires,...
Teresa Cordova, a coordinator for Middlebury Colleges program in Spain, talks about the benefits and challenges of studying abroad. Teresa is from Puerto Rico and a graduate of Tufts...
Codys Cuentos is my new podcast featuring childrens stories in Spanish. Cody, a mischievous, lovable puppy, serves as the mascot to this new program. Every month Cody and one of his...
The first step to improving your Spanish pronunciation is to isolate and eliminate the sounds from your native language (in my case, English) that dont exist in Spanish.
In this podcast...
Era un tipo guapo Santonni. Siempre con jeans y zapatillas blancas percudidas. Y siempre con esa mirada ausente, introspectivas, que tienes los ojos que no son verdes, ni azules, ni...
Juan Manuel Villalobos, a writer and journalist from Mexico City, talks about his novel, La vida frágil de Annette Blanche. Click here for more details.
Todays podcast is an introduction to a series of podcasts I plan to do with Martin Ventola, a Spanish teacher from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Martin has studied English phonetics, so
Remember that were in the U.S., Dante Celestino is told by his friends and neighbors when his daughter Emmita runs away.
Dante had told Emmita to date only respectable, Spanish-speaking...
Interview with Eduardo González Viaña, author of El corrido de Dante. Eduardo is from Peru and in this podcast he talks about the inspiration of this book and the current situation
Porque el mate no es solamente una bebida
by Javier Luis Guastavino (Read by Dolly from Uruguay)
El mate no es una bebida. Bueno, sí. Es un líquido y entra por la boca. Pero no
In this Spanish podcast, Gabriel Guillén tells us all about Blogs Exchange, a new web site that helps native Spanish and English speakers improve their respective second languages through...
In todays podcast I introduce you to The Mixxer, a language exchange web site. If youve never done an intercambio (a language exchange) I highly recommend it. Its an easy way to meet...
In today’s podcast, we hear from Kim Griffin, director of Middlebury College’s Spanish school in Spain. Middlebury is a U.S. college located in the state of Vermont. It offers both
In the second part of this Voices en Español interview, Javier Barros del Villar talks about the different styles of street art he found in Europe, specifically Austria, Hungary and...
Javier Barros del Villar from Mexico City talks about Arte Callejero, his Spanish-language blog. What started out as a hobby photographing images he saw on the streets of Mexico City,...
Transcripts of the first six Voices interviews (Cantabria, La Política, the Voiceover Artist, Raising Bilingual Kids, Parts 1 and 2), are now available in the Voices store. Only podcasts...
Lydia, my landlady, is back for another conversation about Spanish holidays. In this podcast, Lydia talks about the 6th of December, Spains Constitution Day, and tells us about the
My landlady Lydia tells us about some of the religious holidays in Spain and how things have changed and become more commercial over the years. She mentions Semana Santa but focuses...
