Learn Spanish and Go takes you on travels through the world's Spanish speaking regions and countries (with a goal of eventually visiting each and every one), to help you improve your conversational Spanish and make the most of your experience.
https://spanishandgo.com/podcast
Hosts Jim y May, who have each learned a 2nd language as adults, are your guides, giving you the opportunity to learn a language the best way possible: through immersion.
Learn Spanish and Go episodes have joint Spanish/English titles, and English descriptions, but the audio itself is entirely in Spanish. Your challenge is to recognize certain words, and to look for those cues that help point you towards the subject of a conversation.
You'll often realize that you may know more words than you expected, likely because it's simply the pronunciation that is different. Before long, more and more connections are made and your Spanish will be getting stronger and more comfortable.
To help with the process, there is also the option of purchasing a Podcast Membership, with transcriptions (including interactive transcripts), English explanations, a comprehension quiz and a private Facebook group. Thus you are supporting the podcast, and fast-tracking your learning even more. It's a great business model for podcasters, while equally being of tremendous value for listeners.
Learn Spanish and Go is about as far from dry verb and grammar charts as you can imagine. One of the most enjoyable features of the podcast is the fact that there is so much emphasis on travel topics, from country profiles to understanding various dishes and ingredients, to transport and music. Because you'll likely have an interest in what the conversation is about, you'll be paying much closer attention and will enjoy learning the information just as much as learning the language at the same time.
The show is in turn a reflection on learning languages, especially as an adult. It's usually ourselves who get in the way, not anything chemical or biological. We're afraid to make mistakes or to look or sound foolish. It's human nature. But, as Jim and May say, "Failures are lessons to help you remember the correct way to do it the next time."
So focus on the conversations: listening to and understanding how people converse on a normal, everyday basis. Start connecting the vocabulary that you know. Take it a step at a time, and as soon as you can, hop on down to México, Guatemala, Ecuador or any of their neighbours and put your Spanish to good use!
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Action Advice
21:27 - Examples of different premium packages that listeners can purchase to support their language learning, and the podcast.
26:47 - The workflow for creating and producing an episode, and premium content, from start to finish.
30:19 - How analytics show you the engagement of podcast listeners, who generally listen to close to 100% of an episode. Sometimes it's even more than 100%! Which is far better than your typical video engagement.
31:30 - How there can be two podcasts on a very similar niche or topic, yet approach it completely different, and therefore nicely complement each other (Ray Blakney's Live Lingua podcast and Jim y May's Learn Spanish and Go)
Guest Links
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Spanish and Go Membership
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Ecuador episode
Las posalas Mexican Christmas parties episode
The origins of Piñatas episode
Guanajuato episode
References
Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish
italki
Sonix.ai
People
Ray Blakney Live Lingua
Places
Rochester, Minnesota
Ecuador
Guanajuato
Mexico City