60 acast.com Day One Spanish | Beginner News-Focused Spanish Course https://linguawire.com/dayone/spanish en LinguaWire A1 Spanish, learn Spanish, Spanish for beginners, Spanish course, Spanish lessons, Spanish listening, Spanish news, Spanish phrases, Spanish vocabulary, easy Spanish, slow Spanish news, understand Spanish, beginner Spanish, Spanish grammar, basic Spanish LinguaWire Spanish for absolute beginners — learn the basics you need to understand slow Spanish news. Spanish Day One is a 20-episode beginner Spanish podcast for absolute beginners who want to understand slow Spanish news. No prior Spanish is needed.


In five minutes a day, learn the essential Spanish words, verbs, phrases, grammar patterns, and listening skills you need to start listening to our main podcast - LinguaWire A1 Spanish News. In that feed, we post a new episode every day discussing the latest real news stories, in simple A1 Spanish.


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]]> Spanish Day One is a 20-episode beginner Spanish podcast for absolute beginners who want to understand slow Spanish news. No prior Spanish is needed.


In five minutes a day, learn the essential Spanish words, verbs, phrases, grammar patterns, and listening skills you need to start listening to our main podcast - LinguaWire A1 Spanish News. In that feed, we post a new episode every day discussing the latest real news stories, in simple A1 Spanish.


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]]> false LinguaWire hello@linguawire.com 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433/1781292093004-4b201e8f-82c0-4cc3-ad1a-be16482521da.jpeg https://linguawire.com/dayone/spanish Day One Spanish | Beginner News-Focused Spanish Course Day 1: The new president is a lawyer Day 1: The new president is a lawyer Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:20:00 GMT 8:30 6a2c56a86cf76d774549e59f false https://linguawire.com/dayone/spanish/1 6a2c56a86cf76d774549e59f 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 Your first verb: ser. Plus the vanishing pronouns and the Spanish gender system. full 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.


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]]> 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.


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]]> Day 2: The president is 62 and lives in the capital Day 2: The president is 62 and lives in the capital Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:19:00 GMT 6:38 6a2c56ac685069f99ffec73f false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56ac685069f99ffec73f 6a2c56ac685069f99ffec73f 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 Your second verb: tener. Why nobody in Spanish IS sixty-two — they HAVE sixty-two years. full 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.


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]]> 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.


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]]> Day 3: The government, the police and the army are on the streets Day 3: The government, the police and the army are on the streets Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:18:00 GMT 5:58 6a2c56b0e6540bec0fc14621 false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56b0e6540bec0fc14621 6a2c56b0e6540bec0fc14621 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 full 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.


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]]> 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.


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]]> Day 4: More than ten thousand people are at the demonstration Day 4: More than ten thousand people are at the demonstration Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:17:00 GMT 5:43 6a2c56b30592e825459d6d56 false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56b30592e825459d6d56 6a2c56b30592e825459d6d56 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 Count to ten thousand with six words. Plus the strange singular life of la gente. full 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.


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]]> 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.


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]]> Day 5: The doctors and the teachers are on strike Day 5: The doctors and the teachers are on strike Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:16:00 GMT 5:24 6a2c56b7cd02369494eea59d false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56b7cd02369494eea59d 6a2c56b7cd02369494eea59d 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 Week one finale: the plural machine, the working professions, and your first -ar verb. full 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.


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]]> 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.


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]]> Day 6: The election is on Sunday, and the polls are very close Day 6: The election is on Sunday, and the polls are very close Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:15:00 GMT 5:12 6a2c56ba685069f99ffecb64 false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56ba685069f99ffecb64 6a2c56ba685069f99ffecb64 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 full 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.


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]]> 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.


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]]> <![CDATA[Day 7: It's forty degrees in the south, and there is no rain]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:14:00 GMT 4:50 6a2c56be252d86e8464d9fb5 false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56be252d86e8464d9fb5 6a2c56be252d86e8464d9fb5 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 full 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.


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]]> 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.


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]]> Day 8: The trains are full, and the airport is closed Day 8: The trains are full, and the airport is closed Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:13:00 GMT 4:34 6a2c56c1e6540bec0fc149f0 false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56c1e6540bec0fc149f0 6a2c56c1e6540bec0fc149f0 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 Travel chaos day: estar plus a state, and adjectives that dress to match. full Day One Spanish, episode eight of twenty. Strikes, storms, holidays - travel chaos is a permanent resident of the news, and today you learn its language: el tren, el aeropuerto, la estación, and the states things get into — lleno, cerrado, abierto. You'll see estar doing its second great job (not just where things are, but how they are), and watch adjectives change their endings to match their nouns. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: Los trenes están llenos y el aeropuerto está cerrado.


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]]> Day One Spanish, episode eight of twenty. Strikes, storms, holidays - travel chaos is a permanent resident of the news, and today you learn its language: el tren, el aeropuerto, la estación, and the states things get into — lleno, cerrado, abierto. You'll see estar doing its second great job (not just where things are, but how they are), and watch adjectives change their endings to match their nouns. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: Los trenes están llenos y el aeropuerto está cerrado.


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]]> Day 9: Prices are high, and people have less money Day 9: Prices are high, and people have less money Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:12:00 GMT 4:57 6a2c56c3cd02369494eea8c2 false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56c3cd02369494eea8c2 6a2c56c3cd02369494eea8c2 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 The economy story: el dinero, más and menos, and la gente finally shows its trick. full Day One Spanish, episode nine of twenty. The cost of living is the story that never leaves the front page, and today you learn its vocabulary: los precios, el dinero, el euro, caro and barato, cuesta - and the pair más and menos, the only comparison words you need this month. You'll also watch la gente pull its famous trick live: the people HAS less money, singular verb and all. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: Los precios están altos y la gente tiene menos dinero.


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]]> Day One Spanish, episode nine of twenty. The cost of living is the story that never leaves the front page, and today you learn its vocabulary: los precios, el dinero, el euro, caro and barato, cuesta - and the pair más and menos, the only comparison words you need this month. You'll also watch la gente pull its famous trick live: the people HAS less money, singular verb and all. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: Los precios están altos y la gente tiene menos dinero.


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]]> Day 10: The national team plays tonight in front of 80,000 fans Day 10: The national team plays tonight in front of 80,000 fans Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:11:00 GMT 5:36 6a2c56c8252d86e8464da22b false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56c8252d86e8464da22b 6a2c56c8252d86e8464da22b 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 full Day One Spanish, episode ten of twenty — halfway, and the week two finale. Sport closes every bulletin, so today you learn its language: la selección (the national team), el partido (which means both 'the match' and 'the political party' — the news loves the joke), el gol, ganar and perder, esta noche. You also meet your first stem-changing verb: jugar becomes juega - the verb changes in the MIDDLE, not just the end. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: La selección juega esta noche ante ochenta mil aficionados.


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]]> Day One Spanish, episode ten of twenty — halfway, and the week two finale. Sport closes every bulletin, so today you learn its language: la selección (the national team), el partido (which means both 'the match' and 'the political party' — the news loves the joke), el gol, ganar and perder, esta noche. You also meet your first stem-changing verb: jugar becomes juega - the verb changes in the MIDDLE, not just the end. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: La selección juega esta noche ante ochenta mil aficionados.


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]]> Day 11: The minister says: bread and milk are more expensive this year Day 11: The minister says: bread and milk are more expensive this year Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:10:00 GMT 5:26 6a2c56cb0592e825459d7340 false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56cb0592e825459d7340 6a2c56cb0592e825459d7340 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 Week three: the news starts talking. Dice, the colon trick, and the strange case of el agua. full Day One Spanish, episode eleven of twenty — week three begins, where the news starts talking. Today: decir, the verb to say, and its workhorse form dice — the single most journalistic word in Spanish. You learn the colon trick that lets reporters quote anyone, the food basics (el pan, la leche, el café), comparatives with más caro, and the famous oddball el agua — a feminine noun that borrows a masculine article. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: El ministro dice: el pan y la leche son más caros este año.


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]]> Day One Spanish, episode eleven of twenty — week three begins, where the news starts talking. Today: decir, the verb to say, and its workhorse form dice — the single most journalistic word in Spanish. You learn the colon trick that lets reporters quote anyone, the food basics (el pan, la leche, el café), comparatives with más caro, and the famous oddball el agua — a feminine noun that borrows a masculine article. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: El ministro dice: el pan y la leche son más caros este año.


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]]> Day 12: Thousands of people are coming to Spain for the festival Day 12: Thousands of people are coming to Spain for the festival Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:09:00 GMT 5:45 6a2c56cf252d86e8464da3cd false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56cf252d86e8464da3cd 6a2c56cf252d86e8464da3cd 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 The verbs of motion: venir, and the magnificently irregular ir. Plus the map and its nationalities. full Day One Spanish, episode twelve of twenty. People in the news are always on the move, so today you learn the motion verbs: venir (to come — vienen, they come) and the most gloriously irregular verb in the language, ir (to go — voy, va, van, with not a single letter of 'ir' surviving). You also learn how Spanish names the map — a España, no 'the' needed for most countries — and the nationality words español, española, mexicano, argentina. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: Miles de personas vienen a España para el festival.


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]]> Day One Spanish, episode twelve of twenty. People in the news are always on the move, so today you learn the motion verbs: venir (to come — vienen, they come) and the most gloriously irregular verb in the language, ir (to go — voy, va, van, with not a single letter of 'ir' surviving). You also learn how Spanish names the map — a España, no 'the' needed for most countries — and the nationality words español, española, mexicano, argentina. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: Miles de personas vienen a España para el festival.


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]]> Day 13: The summit begins on Monday and ends on Friday Day 13: The summit begins on Monday and ends on Friday Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:08:00 GMT 5:40 6a2c56d2685069f99ffed092 false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56d2685069f99ffed092 6a2c56d2685069f99ffed092 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 The calendar episode: seven lowercase days, empieza and termina, and the words for yesterday, today and tomorrow. full Day One Spanish, episode thirteen of twenty. News is a diary, so today you learn to read it: the seven days of the week (all defiantly lowercase — lunes, martes, miércoles...), the verbs empezar (to begin — another middle-stretcher: empieza) and terminar (to end), and the time anchors ayer, hoy, mañana, la próxima semana. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: La cumbre empieza el lunes y termina el viernes.


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]]> Day One Spanish, episode thirteen of twenty. News is a diary, so today you learn to read it: the seven days of the week (all defiantly lowercase — lunes, martes, miércoles...), the verbs empezar (to begin — another middle-stretcher: empieza) and terminar (to end), and the time anchors ayer, hoy, mañana, la próxima semana. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: La cumbre empieza el lunes y termina el viernes.


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]]> Day 14: In the north there is no electricity, and the schools are not open Day 14: In the north there is no electricity, and the schools are not open Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:07:00 GMT 5:46 6a2c56d5cd02369494eeac3d false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56d5cd02369494eeac3d 6a2c56d5cd02369494eeac3d 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 The art of saying no: one little word, placed before the verb. Plus the emergency kit. full Day One Spanish, episode fourteen of twenty. Today, the art of saying no — and Spanish has made it almost insultingly easy: one word, no, placed before the verb, for everything. No negation tables, no choosing between two negatives like German, and — delightfully — the double negative is not just allowed but required. You also learn la luz (the light, which is how Spanish says electricity) and the emergency kit: el fuego, la ayuda, el peligro. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: En el norte no hay luz y las escuelas no están abiertas.


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]]> Day One Spanish, episode fourteen of twenty. Today, the art of saying no — and Spanish has made it almost insultingly easy: one word, no, placed before the verb, for everything. No negation tables, no choosing between two negatives like German, and — delightfully — the double negative is not just allowed but required. You also learn la luz (the light, which is how Spanish says electricity) and the emergency kit: el fuego, la ayuda, el peligro. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: En el norte no hay luz y las escuelas no están abiertas.


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]]> Day 15: Who is the new minister, and what does she want? Day 15: Who is the new minister, and what does she want? Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:06:00 GMT 5:44 6a2c56d80592e825459d756f false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56d80592e825459d756f 6a2c56d80592e825459d756f 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 Week three finale: the question kit. Six words, their accents, and the famous upside-down marks. full Day One Spanish, episode fifteen of twenty — the week three finale. Journalism is professional question-asking, so today you get the full kit: quién, qué, dónde, cuándo, por qué, cómo — who, what, where, when, why, how — each wearing its little accent like a press badge. You'll learn why Spanish opens questions with an upside-down question mark (and why it's genuinely brilliant), meet the verb querer (to want — quiere, another middle-stretcher), and discover that in spoken Spanish, any sentence becomes a question by tone alone. Today's sentence: ¿Quién es la nueva ministra y qué quiere?


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]]> Day One Spanish, episode fifteen of twenty — the week three finale. Journalism is professional question-asking, so today you get the full kit: quién, qué, dónde, cuándo, por qué, cómo — who, what, where, when, why, how — each wearing its little accent like a press badge. You'll learn why Spanish opens questions with an upside-down question mark (and why it's genuinely brilliant), meet the verb querer (to want — quiere, another middle-stretcher), and discover that in spoken Spanish, any sentence becomes a question by tone alone. Today's sentence: ¿Quién es la nueva ministra y qué quiere?


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]]> Day 16: The president has said today: the war is over Day 16: The president has said today: the war is over Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:05:00 GMT 5:53 6a2c56dc685069f99ffed3ca false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56dc685069f99ffed3ca 6a2c56dc685069f99ffed3ca 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 full Day One Spanish, episode sixteen of twenty — the final week begins, and it has one job: time travel. Today, the past arrives via the perfect tense: a little helper verb (he, ha, han — from haber) plus a participle ending in -ado or -ido. Hablar becomes ha hablado; comer becomes ha comido. You'll meet the rebel participle dicho (said), learn why this is the tense Spain's news uses for anything that happened today, and pick up la guerra and la paz — war and peace. Today's sentence: El presidente ha dicho hoy: la guerra ha terminado.


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]]> Day One Spanish, episode sixteen of twenty — the final week begins, and it has one job: time travel. Today, the past arrives via the perfect tense: a little helper verb (he, ha, han — from haber) plus a participle ending in -ado or -ido. Hablar becomes ha hablado; comer becomes ha comido. You'll meet the rebel participle dicho (said), learn why this is the tense Spain's news uses for anything that happened today, and pick up la guerra and la paz — war and peace. Today's sentence: El presidente ha dicho hoy: la guerra ha terminado.


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]]> Day 17: An earthquake has shaken the region in the night Day 17: An earthquake has shaken the region in the night Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:04:00 GMT 5:45 6a2c56dfcd02369494eeae4c false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56dfcd02369494eeae4c 6a2c56dfcd02369494eeae4c 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 Breaking news: the perfect tense in the plural, the little words un and una, and one word for his, her and their. full Day One Spanish, episode seventeen of twenty. Breaking news is where your new past tense earns its keep. Today: two real disaster-story sentences - Un terremoto ha sacudido la región esta noche. Muchas personas han perdido sus casas. You learn han plus the participle (the plural past), the indefinite articles un and una (a, an - finally made official), the possessive sus: one word doing the work of his, her AND their, and the sober vocabulary of disaster coverage.


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]]> Day One Spanish, episode seventeen of twenty. Breaking news is where your new past tense earns its keep. Today: two real disaster-story sentences - Un terremoto ha sacudido la región esta noche. Muchas personas han perdido sus casas. You learn han plus the participle (the plural past), the indefinite articles un and una (a, an - finally made official), the possessive sus: one word doing the work of his, her AND their, and the sober vocabulary of disaster coverage.


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]]> Day 18: The company is going to build a new factory and create 3,000 jobs Day 18: The company is going to build a new factory and create 3,000 jobs Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:03:00 GMT 5:23 6a2c56e2252d86e8464da7ce false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56e2252d86e8464da7ce 6a2c56e2252d86e8464da7ce 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 full Day One Spanish, episode eighteen of twenty. Today you get the future tense - and it costs you nothing, because you already own all the parts. Spanish builds its everyday future with ir (to go) plus a plus any infinitive: va a construir, it's going to build. The same going-to future English uses, powered by Tuesday's voy-va-van. You also learn the good-news economy kit: la empresa, la fábrica, los empleos, and how news verbs come pre-packaged as infinitives, ready to snap onto va a. Today's sentence: La empresa va a construir una nueva fábrica y va a crear tres mil empleos.


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]]> Day One Spanish, episode eighteen of twenty. Today you get the future tense - and it costs you nothing, because you already own all the parts. Spanish builds its everyday future with ir (to go) plus a plus any infinitive: va a construir, it's going to build. The same going-to future English uses, powered by Tuesday's voy-va-van. You also learn the good-news economy kit: la empresa, la fábrica, los empleos, and how news verbs come pre-packaged as infinitives, ready to snap onto va a. Today's sentence: La empresa va a construir una nueva fábrica y va a crear tres mil empleos.


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]]> Day 19: The president, in Washington Day 19: The president, in Washington Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:02:00 GMT 5:38 6a2c56e5cd02369494eeafd4 false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/6a2c56e5cd02369494eeafd4 6a2c56e5cd02369494eeafd4 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 Penultimate episode: headline grammar — three words, a comma, and a vanished verb. full Day One Spanish, episode nineteen of twenty - the penultimate episode. You can handle full sentences now; but open a news app and the first Spanish you see isn't full sentences, it's headlines. Today you learn their compressed grammar: verbs vanish, a comma does their work, and three words carry a whole story. La presidenta, en Washington. You also learn the diplomacy kit: la visita, la reunión, el viaje, so tomorrow you can graduate.


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]]> Day One Spanish, episode nineteen of twenty - the penultimate episode. You can handle full sentences now; but open a news app and the first Spanish you see isn't full sentences, it's headlines. Today you learn their compressed grammar: verbs vanish, a comma does their work, and three words carry a whole story. La presidenta, en Washington. You also learn the diplomacy kit: la visita, la reunión, el viaje, so tomorrow you can graduate.


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]]> Day 20: Graduation : your first Spanish news bulletin Day 20: Graduation : your first Spanish news bulletin Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:01:00 GMT 7:44 6a2c56e9e6540bec0fc152e2 false https://shows.acast.com/day-one-spanish-beginner-news-focused-spanish-course/episodes/day-20-graduation-your-first-spanish-news-bulletin 6a2c56e9e6540bec0fc152e2 6a2c28f4252d86e8463d4433 day-20-graduation-your-first-spanish-news-bulletin No new words. No new grammar. Just a real four-story bulletin — and you, understanding it. full Day One Spanish, episode twenty of twenty - graduation day. No new vocabulary, no new grammar. Today we hand you a real Spanish news bulletin: four stories, ninety seconds, read the way Spanish radio reads it — and you understand it. The election, the heatwave, the doctors' strike, and the national team's big night, all built from the twenty sentences you've earned. Then: the receipts: twenty verbs, five hundred words, both pasts of 'to be', the perfect tense, the free future, and your next step: LinguaWire A1 Daily Spanish News, a real news episode every day at your level. Buenos días. Estas son las noticias.


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]]> Day One Spanish, episode twenty of twenty - graduation day. No new vocabulary, no new grammar. Today we hand you a real Spanish news bulletin: four stories, ninety seconds, read the way Spanish radio reads it — and you understand it. The election, the heatwave, the doctors' strike, and the national team's big night, all built from the twenty sentences you've earned. Then: the receipts: twenty verbs, five hundred words, both pasts of 'to be', the perfect tense, the free future, and your next step: LinguaWire A1 Daily Spanish News, a real news episode every day at your level. Buenos días. Estas son las noticias.


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