LearnCraft Spanish Podcast

Cuarenta y Cincuenta

Let’s learn how to count to fifty-nine in Spanish! We’ll learn the Spanish words for forty and fifty, and we’ll get lots of practice using all of our numbers in real-life Spanish sentences.

Jugar

The Spanish verb Jugar is one way to translate the English verb “play”. Let’s practice using this slightly irregular verb in a variety of contexts, including all its common conjugations.

Disculpar, Ayudar, Significar

Let’s learn the verbs Disculpar, Ayudar, and Significar, including all of their commonly used conjugations. We’ll also get lots of practice using all these verbs in real sentence contexts.

Practice Perder and Suceder

Let’s practice the verbs Perder, Comer, and Suceder, as well as everything else we’ve learned this week, using a big quiz. Try to predict the Spanish, and make sure to practice out loud!

Hambre, frío, and other feelings

In Spanish, are you “hungry” or do you “have hunger”? Let’s explore a bunch of Spanish nouns that can describe how you feel, including words for pain, pleasure, and pity. We’ll also get a variety of practice with these new nouns in a variety of Spanish sentences.

Encima vs Además

What’s the difference in Spanish between encima and además? Let’s learn a bunch of new Spanish adverbs, including the words for “besides”, “around”, and “including”.

Comer and Suceder

Let’s explore two new regular Spanish verbs, Comer, which means “to eat”, and Suceder, which means “to happen” or “to occur”. We’ll get lots of practice using them in a variety of real sentence contexts.

Perder and Perderse

Let’s explore the Spanish verb for “to lose” and “to get lost”. We’ll get a lot of practice using Perder and Perderse in a variety of Spanish sentences.

Practice Encontrar and Recordar

Let’s use a quiz to get lots of practice with the verbs Encontrar, Recordar, Entrar, and Matar, as well as everything else we’ve learned this week. Try to predict the Spanish, and speak out loud!

Información

How do you talk about messages and information in Spanish? Let’s learn some new Spanish nouns, including the words for “message”, “information”, and “attention”.

Spanish Colors and Numbers

Let’s learn how to talk about some colors in Spanish! We’ll learn the Spanish words for “red”, “blue”, and “green”. We’ll also learn more numbers so that we can count to 39 in Spanish.

Entrar and Matar

Let’s learn two new regular Spanish verbs, Entrar and Matar. We’ll learn how to use these verbs in all kinds of contexts, in all their common forms, and we’ll get lots of spoken practice.

Encontrar and Recordar

Encontrar and Recordar are two Spanish verbs that are frequently used but are slightly irregular. Let’s explore both of these verbs and get lots of verbal practice!

Practice Seguir and Terminar

Let’s use a big spoken Spanish quiz to practice the verbs Seguir and Terminar, along with everything else we’ve learned this week!

Abuelo, abuela, tío, novia

Today we’re going to learn some new nouns to describe people, including family members such as “grandfather”, “grandmother”, “uncle”, and “aunt”.

Blanco y negro

How do you say “free” in Spanish? Is it “libre” or “gratis”? Today we’ll explore a bunch of new adjectives in Spanish, including the words for “free”, “incredible”, “white”, and “black”.

Terminar vs. Acabar

Why does Spanish have two verbs that mean “to finish”? Today we’ll explore the verb Terminar and how it’s used differently from Acabar. We’ll also get lots of spoken practice using Terminar in real sentence contexts.

Seguir

Today we’ll learn the verb Seguir, which is a complex Spanish verb that can mean ”to follow”, “to continue”, or “to keep” doing something. We’ll get lots of spoken practice with Seguir in real sentence contexts. Practice along out loud!

Practice Tratar and Acabar

Let’s get lots of spoken practice with verbs Tratar and Acabar, as well as our new nouns, numbers, and everything else we’ve learned this week. Predict the Spanish and speak out loud!

Norte, sur, este, oeste

Let’s learn some new nouns in Spanish, including the words for “north”, “south”, “front”, and “corner”. We’ll get lots of spoken practice with these new words.

Veintiuno, veintidós, veintitrés

Let’s learn how to count to twenty-nine in Spanish! We’ll learn the Spanish words for twenty-one, twenty-two, and so on, and we’ll get lots of practice using all of our numbers in real-life Spanish sentences.

Acabar

The Spanish verb Acabar means something like “to have just done” something. Let’s practice using this strange verb in a variety of contexts, including all its common conjugations.

Tratar

Let’s learn the verb Tratar, the Spanish verb for “to try” or “to treat”, including all of its commonly used conjugations. We’ll also get lots of practice using Tratar and Tratarse in real sentence contexts.

Practice Tomar and Llevar

Let’s practice the verbs Tomar and Llevar, as well as everything else we’ve learned this week, using a big quiz. Try to predict the Spanish, and make sure to practice out loud!

Edificio, oficina, baño

Today we’re going to learn some new nouns to describe places, including the words for “building”, “office”, “bathroom”, and “countryside”. We’ll also get a variety of practice with these new nouns in a variety of Spanish sentences.

Lindo, bonito, hermoso, bello

What’s the difference in Spanish between lindo, bonito, and hermoso? Let’s learn a bunch of new Spanish adjectives, including the words for “beautiful”, “important”, “strange”, and “funny”.

Conocer vs Saber

Why does Spanish have two different verbs that mean “know”? And how do you know whether to use Saber or Conocer? Let’s explore these two verbs and practice using them in lots of real sentence contexts.

How to say “take” in Spanish

What’s the difference between Tomar and Llevar in Spanish? Let’s learn these two verbs that both mean “take” but are used in different ways. We’ll get a variety of practice using these new verbs in a variety of Spanish sentences.

Practice Volver, Llegar, and Buscar

Let’s use a quiz to get lots of practice with the verbs Volver, Llegar, and Buscar, as well as everything else we’ve learned this week. Try to predict the Spanish, and speak out loud!

Media vs mitad

How do you say “half” in Spanish? Let’s explore some Spanish nouns that mean “half”, “middle”, and “average”, as well as various other descriptions of amounts and parts.

How To Count to Twenty in Spanish

Time for more Spanish numbers! Let’s learn the Spanish words for sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty. We’ll lots of practice using and comprehending these numbers in real-life contexts.

Llegar, Buscar

Let’s learn two new regular Spanish verbs, Llegar and Buscar. We’ll learn how to use these verbs in all kinds of contexts, in all their common forms, and we’ll get lots of spoken practice.

Volver

The Spanish verb Volver means “to go back”, “to come back”, or to do something again. Let’s explore this complex verb and get lots of verbal practice!

Practice Sentir and Sentar

Let’s use a big spoken Spanish quiz to practice the verbs Sentir, Sentar, Sentirse, and Sentarse, along with everything else we’ve learned this week!

Damas y caballeros

Today we’re going to learn some new nouns to describe people, including some religious words such as “God”, “devil”, and “saint”, as well as how to say “ladies and gentlemen” in Spanish!

“Right” in Spanish: Correcto, derecha, derecho

How do you say “right” in Spanish? Is it “derecha”, “derecho”, or “correcto”? Today we’ll explore a bunch of important adjectives in Spanish, and we’ll get lots of practice choosing the right one.

Sentar and Sentarse

Today we’ll learn how to say “sit” or “sit down” in Spanish, and we’ll get lots of spoken practice using Sentar (and Sentarse) in real sentence contexts.

Sentir and Sentirse

Today we’ll learn the verb Sentir, which is how you say “feel” in Spanish. We’ll also explore Sentirse and how it is different from Sentir, and we’ll get lots of spoken practice in real sentence contexts. Practice along out loud!

Practice Entender and Morir

Let’s get lots of spoken practice with verbs Entender and Morir, as well as our new nouns and everything else we’ve learned this week. Predict the Spanish and speak out loud!

Sueño, orden, falta

Let’s learn some new nouns in Spanish, including the words for “dream”, “order”, “lack, and “curse”. We’ll get lots of spoken practice with these new words and some related idioms.

Once, doce, trece, catorce, quince

Let’s learn how to count to fifteen in Spanish! We’ll learn the Spanish words for eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen, and we’ll get lots of practice using all of our numbers in real-life Spanish sentences.

Entender

The verb Entender mean “to understand”. Let’s practice using this verb in a variety of contexts, including all its common conjugations.

Morir

Let’s learn the verb Morir, the Spanish verb for “to die”, including all of its commonly used conjugations, and get lots of practice using it in real sentence contexts.

Practice Oír and Escuchar

Let’s practice the verbs Oír and Escuchar, as well as everything else we’ve learned this week, using a big quiz. Try to predict the Spanish, and make sure to practice out loud!

Tren, barco, avión

Let’s learn some fun nouns in Spanish, including the words for “train”, “boat”, “airplane”, “movie”, and “photo”. We’ll get lots of practice using these nouns in real Spanish sentences.

Fácil, difícil

Let’s learn some new adjectives in Spanish, including the words for “easy”, “difficult”, and “strong”.

Escuchar vs Oír

What’s the difference between Escuchar and Oír in Spanish? Let’s learn the Spanish verb for “listen” and learn how to choose between Escuchar and Oír. We’ll also learn the Spanish verb for “work”.

Oír

Let’s learn the Spanish verb Oír, which means “to hear”. We’ll also learn why this verb is sometimes used to say “hey!” in Spanish, and we’ll get lots of practice using Oír in real-life Spanish sentences.

Practice Parecer, Salir, and Llamar

Let’s get lots of spoken practice with verbs Parecer, Salir, and Llamar, as well as our new numbers and everything else we’ve learned this week. Predict the Spanish and speak out loud!

Control, trato, and de hecho

Let’s learn a few new abstract nouns in Spanish, including the words for “control”, “deal”, “treatment”, and “fact”. We’ll get lots of spoken practice with these new words and some related idioms.

How to add and subtract in Spanish

How do you say “plus” and “minus” in Spanish? Today we’ll finish learning how to count to ten, plus we’ll learn how to do math in Spanish so that we can say things like “two plus seven equals nine”.

Salir

The verb Salir means “to exit”, “to go out”, or “to come out”. Let’s get lots of practice with the various uses of this versatile verb.

Llamar and Parecer

Let’s learn the Spanish verbs for “call” and “seem”. We’ll get lots of practice with all the common uses of Llamar, Llamarse, and Parecer.

Practice Gustar Out Loud

Here’s a spoken quiz to practice Gustar in real-life sentences, along with the other affective verbs Importar and Preocupar.

Maestro vs Profesor

How do you say “teacher” in Spanish? Let’s learn the difference between maestro and profesor. We’ll also learn some other fun nouns for titles, including rey, presidente, and jefe.

Joven y Viejo

Let’s learn the Spanish adjectives for “young”, “old”, “important”, “together”, “bad”, and “awesome”. We’ll get lots of spoken practice using these adjectives in real-life Spanish sentences.

Preocupar and Preocuparse

Don’t worry! After this episode you’ll know how to talk about worrying in Spanish. Let’s practice the Spanish verbs Preocupar and Preocuparse, and we’ll get lots of spoken practice using these verbs in real-life Spanish sentence contexts.

Gustar

Let’s learn how to say “like” in Spanish. The verb Gustar works very differently in Spanish from the verb “like” in English, but after this episode, you’ll be a master at using it with indirect objects.

Practice Vivir, Mirar, and Necesitar

Let’s practice the verbs Vivir, Mirar, and Necesitar, along with everything else we’ve learned this week, using a quiz. Speak out loud to practice!

How to say “o’clock” in Spanish

Let’s learn some new Spanish nouns and idioms, including the idioms for “o’clock”, “in the first place”, and “that makes sense”.

Cuatro, cinco, seis, and siete

Let’s continue learning Spanish numbers! After this episode, you’ll know how to count to seven in Spanish. We’ll also get some good listening comprehension practice so that you can identify Spanish numbers when you hear them.

Vivir

Let’s learn and practice Vivir, the Spanish verb for “to live”. This is our first regular verb ending in I-R, so it’s going to help us conjugate lots of other verbs going forward!

Necesitar and Mirar

What’s the difference between Mirar and Ver? And how do you know whether to use Necesitar, Deber, or Tener Que? Let’s practice these verbs in real Spanish sentences.

Practice Pensar and Creer

Let’s get lots of practice with Pensar, Creer, and everything else we’ve learned this week. Speak along out loud!

Perro, café, and teléfono

Let’s learn some fun nouns for physical items, including the words for “bed”, “fire”, “coffee”, “telephone”, and “dog”.

Adjectives that use Ser and Estar

Some Spanish adjectives go with Estar, some go with Ser. And some go with both, but they change meanings based on the verb! Let’s discuss the adjectives listo, claro, alto, and others, and get lots of practice using them with both Ser and Estar.

Pensar

How do you say “think” in Spanish? Is it Pensar or Creer? Let’s discuss these two verbs so that we can properly translate “think” from English into Spanish.

Creer

The Spanish verb “creer” means “to believe”, or in some cases, “to think”. Let’s practice Creer and all of its essential conjugations.

Practice Dejar and Esperar

Let’s use a quiz to practice everything we’ve been learning this week, including the verbs Dejar and Esperar, as well as all of our new adverbs, nouns, and idioms.

Juego, realidad, lista, and other nouns

Let’s learn some more important Spanish nouns! Today we’ll learn the words for “game”, “reality”, “safety”, and “list”, among others. We’ll also learn and practice some new idioms.

More Essential Spanish Adverbs

Let’s learn more essential Spanish adverbs, including peor, rápido, and primero. We’ll also get lots of practice using these adverbs in real-life sentence contexts.

Esperar

Let’s learn the Spanish verb Esperar so that we can talk about “hoping” and “waiting” in Spanish. Speak along to get lots of out-loud practice with the verb Esperar!

Dejar

The Spanish verb Dejar means a variety of things, including “to leave” and “to let”. Let’s learn this verb’s common forms and practice it in a variety of real-life Spanish sentences.

Practice Deber

Let’s practice Deber out loud using a big quiz that covers everything we’ve learned this week.

Calle, pueblo, ciudad, mundo

Let’s learn Spanish nouns for locations, including the words for “street”, “town”, “city”, and “world”.

Allí, allá, arriba, and adelante

Why does Spanish have three different words that mean “there”? Let’s explore a bunch of Spanish adverbs that reference location, including allí, allá, arriba, adelante, and atrás.

How to say “should” in Spanish

How do you say “should” in Spanish? Let’s keep working on the verb Deber, and we’ll learn how to use forms like debería to say “should”, “shouldn’t”, and things like that.

Deber and regular ER verbs

Let’s start learning the verb Deber, which means *something* like “must”. This verb will also help us conjugate regular verbs that end with ER, so this episode lays a great foundation for conjugating lots more verbs!

Practice Hablar and Pasar

Let’s use a quiz to get lots of spoken practice with Hablar, Pasar, and everything else we learned this week.

Fin, muerte, número, and other nouns

Let’s learn the Spanish nouns for “end”, “ending”, “number”, “couple”, and many others. We’ll also get lots of spoken practice putting these new nouns in real sentences.

Spanish Interjections

How do you say “um” in Spanish? Or how about “yikes” or “all right”? Let’s learn some of the most common Spanish interjections and get practice using them in context!

Pasar

The Spanish verb Pasar means “to pass” or “to happen”. This verb is conjugated exactly like Hablar, yesterday’s verb. Let’s learn all about Pasar and get lots of practice using it in context.

Hablar

Hablar is the Spanish verb for “to speak” or “to talk”. Let’s learn Hablar and all of its conjugations, including the present, past, future, and subjunctive. We’ll also get lots of practice using Hablar in real sentence contexts.

No more Spanglish!

Let’s practice our Spanish, including our new verbs Ver and Venir and our new nouns. All of today’s sentence examples will be entirely in Spanish, as will all of our Spanish practice on the rest of this podcast!

Agua, dinero, auto

Let’s learn some fun Spanish nouns, including words for “water”, “money”, “car”, and “light”. We’ll also get lots of good spoken practice with these new words.

Indefinite Adjectives

Alguno, ninguno, suficiente, demasiado… let’s learn and practice Spanish indefinite adjectives so that we can say things like “some”, “none”, “enough”, “too much”, and “each”.

Venir

The Spanish verb Venir means “to come”. Let’s learn Venir and all of its essential conjugations, so we can say things like “come here”, “they came yesterday”, and “she wants to come to my party”.

Ver

How do you talk about “seeing” things in Spanish? Let’s learn the verb Ver and all of its essential conjugations, so we can say things like “I see”, “they saw”, and “let’s see”.

Practice Poner and Suponer

Let’s practice Poner and Suponer, including Suponerse and the idiom por supuesto, using a big quiz. Speak along to practice out loud!

Clase, paz, amor, and Suponer

Let’s learn how to say “I guess” in Spanish, as well as several essential nouns, including the words for “class”, “love”, “fear”, and “peace.

Casi, igual, quizás, and other Spanish adverbs

There are a lot of Spanish adverbs that talk about whether or not something is true — or whether it *might* be true. Let’s learn words for “maybe”, “almost”, “really”, and several more.

¡Ponte feliz!

Let’s keep working on Poner and Ponerse. We’ll practice the preterite (puse, puso, pusiste, etc.) as well as the subjunctive forms, imperatives, and contractions.

Poner

Let’s work on the verb Poner, which means “to put”, and Ponerse, which can be used in a variety of ways. We’ll get lots of spoken practice with poner, puesto, pongo, pone, pones, ponen, and ponemos.

Practice Dar

Practice the Spanish verb Dar out loud, in a variety of sentence contexts, by speaking along with today’s episode.

Cuerpo, manos, ojos, and cabeza

Let’s learn some body parts in Spanish! The most commonly mention parts of the body include “hands”, “head”, “heart”, “eyes”. Let’s learn these and several more Spanish nouns, and we’ll also get lots of spoken practice with them in context.

Aunque, cual, pues

Spanish connecting words can be tricky, but we’ll get lots of practice with them in today’s episode! Let’s work on the words aunque, cual, pues, mientras, and several others, and quiz them in lots of spoken practice.

Di, dio, daré

Let’s keep working on Dar — we’ll practice the preterite (di, dio, dieron, etc.) as well as the subjunctive forms, imperatives, and contractions.

Dar

The Spanish verb Dar means “to give”. Let’s practice the present tense and unconjugated forms (dar, dado, and dando).

Practice using the Spanish verb Decir

Here’s a quiz to practice Decir, out loud, in a wide variety of sentence contexts.

Ayuda, camino, pregunta

Let’s learn some abstract nouns in Spanish, including the words for “question”, “help”, and “opportunity”.