¡Hola! Welcome to Spanish from Zero, a podcast for people who are just starting the amazing journey that is learning Español. Today we’re gonna practice talking about occupations.  Here’s how it usually goes: • ¿Qué haces? (What do you do?) • Yo soy… (I am…) Note that in Spanish we tend to not use articles (a, an) when describing someone’s job title: Yo soy profesora. (Literally: I am teacher) The other thing we have to keep in mind whenever we’re describing someone is their gender. These are the most common word endings when it comes to occupations: • Gender neutral endings: ISTA:el ..read more

¡Hola!  Welcome to Spanish from Zero, a podcast for people who are just starting the amazing journey that is learning Español. Today’s practice is focused on two really useful questions that are gonna help you get unstuck when you don’t know a word. If you want to use a word but you don’t know it in Spanish, you can ask: ¿Cómo se dice ___ en español? For example: How do you say “class” in Spanish? If you encounter a word in Spanish but you don’t what it means, you can ask: ¿Qué es ___? For example: What’s “clase”? Ready to practice? In this episode I ask 12 of these questions for ..read more

¡Hola! Welcome to Spanish from Zero, a podcast for people who are just starting the amazing journey that is learning Spanish. Today’s practice is focused on the verb Tener (to have), although I’m only gonna use it with Yo (yo tengo) and Tú (tú tienes), so it’s really simple!  I’m just gonna talk a little bit so you can practice some listening, and I’ll also ask some questions so you can try answering them out loud, saying what you can. If the audio is too hard, here are some hints that can help you figure out what I’m saying:  ¿Tienes un ??  ¿Tienes un ??  ¿Tienes un ..read more

¡Hola! Welcome to Spanish from Zero, a podcast for people who are just starting the amazing journey that is learning Spanish. Today’s practice is focused on the verb Ser (to be). That is: I am, you are, she is, etc. The exercise is really simple. I’m gonna say a couple of sentences, but the subject is gonna be missing. And by subject, I mean the person. So for example, if I say “am from Colombia”, the subject missing from that sentence is I. Your job is to figure that piece of the puzzle that’s missing. Now, I know this sounds unnatural in English, but it's really common in Spanish! That’s w ..read more