Chilean Spanish Podcast
What if I told you that you could have un Español casi Perfecto, even if you don't have any supernatural language skills? And in Chilean Spanish! Español casi Perfecto is a podcast for intermediate-level American women who want to get to the advanced level through a tour of Chilean culture. Twice a month, you will find understandable, interesting and fun content so you can have an immersive experience without being in Chile. Let's have a virtual "tecito" together while you perfect your Spanish, so that the next time you speak with Chileans you'll be one of the group ;) Conviértete en un supporter de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/chilean-spanish-podcast--5357186/support.
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“Cachai” is one of the most used words in Chilean Spanish.
Today, I’ll show you what it really means and how Chileans actually use it with chispeza.
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You spend way too much time worrying about sounding “proper,” and you don’t even realize you’re screwing it up.
Today I’m showing you 3 very polite English phrases that hide a painful trap:
When you translate them, you’re doing it right. But they sound awful — and make you come across as arrogant, pedantic, and straight-up unpleasant in Chilito.
Make yourself some tea or a piscola, ...
Now I'll actually reply.
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What are the Mapuche actually fighting for?
In this second part of my conversation with Simón Loncopán, a Mapuche leader from southern Chile, we move into the political and territorial dimensions of the conflict between the Mapuche people and the Chilean State.
Simón explains the main demands of many Mapuche communities today: land restitution, territorial autonomy, environmental prot...
What does it mean to be Mapuche today in Chile?
In this first part of the conversation, I talk with Simón Loncopán, a Mapuche leader from southern Chile, about identity, community, territory, and the relationship between people and land.
This episode focuses on the more philosophical side of the conversation: how the Mapuche worldview understands belonging, reciprocity, and collecti...
This is an episode where every screw-up is worse than the last one.
That’s why I tell it as a six-stop descent into hell.
If you thought all Latinos were the same, ask George Harris—a Venezuelan comedian—what happened to him in Chile for thinking that.
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Have you ever tried to do something nice… and completely messed it up?
Like offering your seat to a woman you thought was pregnant
…and she wasn’t.
This episode is about doing something with good intentions and still getting it wrong, because you don’t know ...
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You spend way too much time trying to speak properly and not enough time realizing that if you want to live in Chile, you also need to understand the cultural codes.
If not, just ask the Brazilian artist Xuxa —she was basically th...
2025 is gone, and everyone is already doing their year-end reviews, rituals, and repeating little phrases they swear will help them become the best version of themselves.
Or… will they?
Listen to my very unhumble and completely unsolicited opinion on the matter—while you learn Chilean Spanish...
...and complain the way God intended.
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Christmas… that magical season when your coworkers become your judges.
In this final episode of the trilogy, I close the loop on Scrooge’s Three Ghosts at Work by tackling the worst one of all: The Amigo Secreto.
That “not mandatory” game where you’re publicly exposed and measured by how well you perform gratitude for a low-budget gift you didn’t ask for.
No bonuses.
No speeches.
In the...
Christmas… that magical season where your company pretends to love you just enough to keep you functional.
In this episode I keep using the three ghosts from Carlitos Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to dissect workplace dynamics in Chile during Christmas time.
Tonight’s ghost is: The Office Christmas Carrete.
Free food, free copete, forced fun and corporate performance at its finest.
The mo...
Christmas… that time of year that makes you love humanity and hate humanity at the same time.
In this episode I go full rant mode and use the three ghosts from Carlitos Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to illustrate workplace dynamics in Chile during the most beautiful time of the year.
Tonight’s ghost is: La caja de Navidad y el aguinaldo.
Cajas pichiruchis, jefes cagaos y las infaltable...
In this messy world, there are two perfect things: cats and Pedro Pascal.
Since I already talked about Pedro Pascal a few months ago, this time I sat down with my colleague Fabi to talk about our cats — how they chose us, how we take care of them, and cat-related expressions to help you sound like a pro when you speak Spanish.
By the end of the episode, you’ll at least feel like adopt...
In today’s episode I talk with Amanda Calderón—Mandy to her friends—about her 10 years living in Sweden.
La Mandy went off to the Viking lands and never came back, but of course there are things she misses from Chilito, like avocados and how we Chileans are so achoclonados (piled up) living with our families.
And also a few anecdotes about pee and poop...
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Oh, linguistic discrimination…
That ridiculous habit of people who have no clue what’s going on — thinking there’s only one correct way to speak Spanish.
In this episode, I brought in the pulento Antonio from Spanish with Antonio — a Spanish teacher and Andalusian Spanish advocate — to talk about the prejudice that Chileans and Andalusians face because of th...
Things I absolutely love about Chile: That people dress up as Satan and go dance for 10 straight days in the desert.
Yeah, for real. But don’t get it twisted — they do it to honor the Virgin of Carmen.
We might be intense, but we’re not satanic.
Since I’m way too much of an atheist and a heretic to explain this properly, I invited Marcelo Puch to talk about t...
The transcript is available on Patreon.
Look, I don’t know what the hell got into me making this episode public — I guess the threat of Caeza e’ Pichí (Pee Head) leaving the whole world in ruins triggered my primal urge to say something out loud.
Anyway, you’ll probably get to say it to him before I ever could. So yeah — here are three very Chilean expressions to say...
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