Day One Spanish | Beginner News-Focused Spanish Course

Day 1: The new president is a lawyer

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:20:00 GMT

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, the words el presidente and la presidenta, and two charming quirks: the pronouns that vanish, and the little word 'a' that Spanish refuses to say. By the end you'll understand and say: La nueva presidenta es abogada. Your free lesson sheet and interactive homework are at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 2: The president is 62 and lives in the capital

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:19:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode two of twenty. Today you learn tener, the Spanish habit of HAVING your age instead of being it, the verb vivir, and the ending pattern — o, es, e — that runs through many verbs. By the end you'll understand and say: El presidente tiene sesenta y dos años y vive en la capital. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 3: The government, the police and the army are on the streets

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:18:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode three of twenty. Today you meet the famous Spanish split: ser for what something is, estar for where and how it is. You learn está and están, los and las, and the institutions that appear in big news days. By the end you'll understand and say: El gobierno, la policía y el ejército están hoy en las calles. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 4: More than ten thousand people are at the demonstration

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:17:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode four of twenty. News runs on big numbers, so today you learn cien, mil, diez mil, más de, la manifestación, and the two words for people: las personas and la gente. By the end you'll understand and say: Más de diez mil personas están en la manifestación en la capital. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 5: The doctors and the teachers are on strike

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:16:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode five of twenty. Today you learn Spanish plurals, the professions that fill strike season, estar en huelga, and your first -ar verb, trabajar. By the end you'll understand and say: Los médicos y los profesores están hoy en huelga. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 6: The election is on Sunday, and the polls are very close

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:15:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode six of twenty. Today is election season: las elecciones, el domingo, ser for events and estar for states, votar, el partido, and las encuestas. By the end you'll understand and say: Las elecciones son el domingo y las encuestas están muy ajustadas. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 7: It's forty degrees in the south, and there is no rain

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:14:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode seven of twenty. Today, the weather: hace cuarenta grados, hace calor, hace frío, hay and no hay, plus el norte and el sur. By the end you'll understand and say: Hace cuarenta grados en el sur y no hay lluvia. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 8: The trains are full, and the airport is closed

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:13:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode eight of twenty. Travel chaos is permanent news vocabulary: el tren, el aeropuerto, la estación, lleno, cerrado, abierto, estar for states, and adjective agreement. By the end you'll understand and say: Los trenes están llenos y el aeropuerto está cerrado. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 9: Prices are high, and people have less money

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:12:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode nine of twenty. The cost of living gives you los precios, el dinero, el euro, caro, barato, cuesta, más, menos, and the singular trick of la gente. By the end you'll understand and say: Los precios están altos y la gente tiene menos dinero. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 10: The national team plays tonight in front of 80,000 fans

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:11:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode ten of twenty. Sport closes every bulletin, so today you learn la selección, el partido, el gol, ganar, perder, esta noche, and your first stem-changing verb: jugar becomes juega. By the end you'll understand and say: La selección juega esta noche ante ochenta mil aficionados. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 11: The minister says: bread and milk are more expensive this year

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:10:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode eleven of twenty. The news starts talking with decir and dice, the colon trick for quotes, food basics like el pan and la leche, comparatives with más caro, and the famous oddball el agua. By the end you'll understand and say: El ministro dice: el pan y la leche son más caros este año. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 12: Thousands of people are coming to Spain for the festival

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:09:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode twelve of twenty. People are always moving in the news, so today you learn venir, vienen, ir, voy, va, van, a España, and nationality words like español, española, mexicano and argentina. By the end you'll understand and say: Miles de personas vienen a España para el festival. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 13: The summit begins on Monday and ends on Friday

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:08:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode thirteen of twenty. News is a diary, so today you learn the seven lowercase days of the week, empezar, empieza, terminar, ayer, hoy, mañana and la próxima semana. By the end you'll understand and say: La cumbre empieza el lunes y termina el viernes. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 14: In the north there is no electricity, and the schools are not open

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:07:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode fourteen of twenty. Today you learn the art of no: one little word before the verb, plus no hay, the required double negative, la luz for electricity, and emergency words like el fuego, la ayuda and el peligro. By the end you'll understand and say: En el norte no hay luz y las escuelas no están abiertas. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 15: Who is the new minister, and what does she want?

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:06:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode fifteen of twenty. Journalism is professional question-asking, so today you learn quién, qué, dónde, cuándo, por qué, cómo, the upside-down question mark, and querer, quiere. Today's sentence is: ¿Quién es la nueva ministra y qué quiere? Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 16: The president has said today: the war is over

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:05:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode sixteen of twenty. The past arrives with the perfect tense: haber plus a participle, ha hablado, ha comido, and the rebel participle dicho. You also learn la guerra and la paz. Today's sentence: El presidente ha dicho hoy: la guerra ha terminado. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 17: An earthquake has shaken the region in the night

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:04:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode seventeen of twenty. Breaking news tests your new past tense with two disaster-story sentences: Un terremoto ha sacudido la región esta noche. Muchas personas han perdido sus casas. You learn han plus a participle, un and una, sus, and disaster vocabulary. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 18: The company is going to build a new factory and create 3,000 jobs

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:03:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode eighteen of twenty. Today you get the everyday future with ir plus a plus any infinitive: va a construir, va a crear. You also learn la empresa, la fábrica and los empleos. Today's sentence: La empresa va a construir una nueva fábrica y va a crear tres mil empleos. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 19: The president, in Washington

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:02:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode nineteen of twenty. You can handle full sentences now, but headlines compress everything. Today you learn headline grammar: verbs vanish, a comma does their work, and three words carry a story. La presidenta, en Washington. You also learn la visita, la reunión and el viaje. Lesson sheet and homework at LinguaWire.com/DayOne.

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Day 20: Graduation — your first Spanish news bulletin

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:01:00 GMT

Day One Spanish, episode twenty of twenty — graduation day. No new vocabulary, no new grammar. Today we hand you a real Spanish news bulletin: elections, heatwave, doctors' strike and sport, all built from the twenty sentences you've earned. Then your next step is LinguaWire A1 Daily Spanish News, a real news episode every day at your level. The complete master sheet is at LinguaWire.com/DayOne. Buenos días. Estas son las noticias.

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