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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Today, is our twenty first Advanced Italian Audio Blog. Today we are going to enter a famous Italian church, S. Maria del Popolo, and also talk about Italian art! This blog is all in Italian, with an accompanying vocabulary section. Be sure to learn more about Roma from the Italian Cultural [...]

In today’s lesson we tackle some German dishes. Did you know that only very few tourists try German food, because there are so many alternatives? In this lesson we give you a few hints where to start your culinary journey. And you will hear why Michael isn’t happy about a dish called “Pfannkuchen”. Grammar-wise, this [...]

In today’s lesson Elena and Anna are working together in the same bakery when Peter arrives at their shop to buy a loaf of bread. The girls decide to play a joke on him by offering him a grissino (breadstick) and ask him to pay for it with an exaggerate amount of money. He does [...]

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Want to add emphasis to your Spanish? Then this lesson is for you! Come on over! Join Carlos and Natalia as they explain the absolute superlative and its use. Also, learn whether or not Bolivar is just far away or lazy. Don’t forget to cross-reference this lesson with Iberian 21, Peruvian [...]

Are you going to Germany on vacation? You will probably eat out a lot, so don’t miss our hints / tips about eating at a restaurant in Germany! This will spare you many a nasty surprise, and your German friends will be much more comfortable eating out with you, too. There are some differences you [...]

Learn Italian with Italianpod101.com! Today is the twenty-third lesson; Paolo has been invited for dinner at Martina and Laura’s place, he would like to drink a beer so he asks if there are some in the fridge, but the fridge is empty. Martina has only a bottle of red wine. Will Paolo drink red wine [...]

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Well, this is the fourth lesson of Alan and Lisy’s Newbie love series. Find out exactly why Eliana is so devoted to Ernesto. Experience their love while learning about the contraction of the preposition “a” (to, at) and the definite article “el”. Don’t forget to get a different angle on this [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com. A little Italian can go such a long way! Whether you’re traveling, visiting, or sightseeing, ItalianPod101.com has all the essential travel phrases just for you! Today we are going to learn about Italian currency and how to talk money! Don’t miss this lesson! Download AudioDownload Lesson notesDownload Premium Learning Center

Manuel likes Giulia and would like to organize a date with her. He gathers up some courage and asks her to go to the movie theater together. She asks him what movie he was thinking about and, after having been told two different options, decides to accept Manuel’s kind invitation. In today’s lesson, we will be [...]

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Do you speak Spanish? Well, if not, you will soon with Spanishpod101.com! In this lesson of our Iberian Series, Megan and David discuss the phrase, “mejor que”. Find out why Spanish is better than (language of choice). Don’t forget to reference this lesson with Newbie lesson 23, Peruvian lesson 23, and [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com. Learning Italian idioms and proverbs offers better insight into the Italian way of thinking and Italian traditional culture! In today’s lesson we shall see two more proverbs. One of them concerns “scratching around”! Buon ascolto! Download AudioDownload Lesson notesDownload Standard PodcastDownload Other Media

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! What happened? Curious? Find out why Mariela’s house is the place to be for a party. Join Kathy and Ana as they discuss the importance of spectacle in Latin America as well as continuing their discussion of the preterit tense, only this time, get ready for those pesky irregular verbs. Not [...]

Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! Today, before we get our dose of the Lower Intermediate Lesson with Kathy and Ana, Bea and Joseph have a special update for everyone. So, what’s going on in SpanishPod101.com this summer? Find out here. Also, listen for a special update from Natalia and Carlos in Costa Rica. Have you heard [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Today, is our twentieth Advanced Italian Audio Blog. Today Marco teaches us about Italian soccer! This blog is all in Italian, with an accompanying vocabulary section. Be sure to learn more about Italy from the Italian Cultural Insight section inside the PDF. In this series, we’ll use all Italian blogs to explore [...]

Anna is sleeping and her friend Elena decides to wake her up. She goes to Anna’s room and wakes her nicely. She then tells Anna that she has to get ready for a busy day, since she has to pay a visit to the museum. Anna acknowledges what her friend is saying, although she is [...]

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Dude, what’s that sound? Find out with Carlos and Natalia in the 20th lesson of Spanishpod101.com’s Costa Rican Series. See what happens when Luis and Eva stumble onto a party and they find out that things aren’t always what they seem. Especially when dealing with the verb, “sonar”. Don’t forget to [...]

Learn Italian with Italianpod101.com! Today is the twenty-second lesson, learning Italian at Italianpod101.com is really fun! John desires to see Laura again, after the concert in Santa Maria Novella. So he decides to go and visit her at her home. Will he find her? Will he be able to invite her out? Download AudioDownload Lesson notesDownload Dialogue [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com. A little Italian can go such a long way! Whether you’re traveling, visiting, or sightseeing, ItalianPod101.com has all the essential travel phrases just for you! Today we are going to learn how to lower the price of things you might want to buy. Asking to lower the price essential phrase to learn! Download AudioDownload [...]

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Remember Ramón? The love sick wanna be Lothario from Newbie 27? Well, he’s not asking “¿por qué?” any longer. Things have really turned around for him and now he is showing his love for Julia (Eliana who?). Join Alan and Lisy as they see this man through the upswing in his [...]

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Why is a green shirt messing up Megan and Christian’s plans? Find out in this latest edition of Spanishpod101.com’s regional series, Iberian 22. Join Megan and David as they get lean and mean while discussing the word green “verde”. Want to get the most out your studies? Don’t forget to compare [...]

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Why did Julio write a paper about Ernesto Sábato? Find out in the 4th lesson of Spanishpod101.com’s lower intermediate series. For this installment, Kathy and Ana take you up a notch as they explore the preterit tense. Just what is the relationship between the preterit tense and action? Finding out [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com. Learning Italian idioms and proverbs offers better insight into the Italian way of thinking and Italian traditional culture! In today’s lesson we shall see two proverbs dealing with “opportunity”. Buon ascolto! Download AudioDownload Lesson notesDownload Review TrackDownload Premium Learning Center

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Today, is our nineteenth Advanced Italian Audio Blog. Today Marco teaches us about Italian fashion and “Made in Italy”! This blog is all in Italian, with an accompanying vocabulary section. Be sure to learn more about Italy from the Italian Cultural Insight section inside the PDF. In this series, we’ll use all [...]

Tired of the same old Korean vocabulary? Do you want to learn interesting, useful, and commonly used Korean vocabulary and phrases? Look no further, idioms and phrases provides the essential Korean vocabulary that you can’t find in a text book. In this lesson, we’ll be focusing on some Korean words that can kill. Not literally of [...]

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Here, we have the third lesson of Spanishpod101.com’s new lower-intermediate series. Join Ana and Kathy as they continue their discussion of the conditional tense, this time, focusing on the important irregular verbs. Learn how to conjugate these three groups of irregular verbs, 1) “poder” (to be able), “caber” (to fit), “haber” [...]

If you’ve ever taken a plane to Europe, you know that jet lag is not a tourist’s friend. In this lesson, John is suffering from it. Join him and Michaela as they debate what to do, and learn what’s so great about German residential areas! GermanPod101 brings to you another fun lesson full of authentic [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Today is our 17th lesson in our Italian Beginner Lesson Series. Join Cinzia and Marco for fun, yet educational, Italian lessons. Learning Italian, with podcasts, has never been so fun! In today’s lesson, we will be discussing how to ask about vacations, in this case summer vacations, the proper form to refer [...]

Learn Italian with Italianpod101.com! Today is the twenty-first lesson, learning Italian at Italianpod101.com is really fun! Today Laura and John desire to get to know each other a bit better and inquire about their favored spare time activities. Are they so different as not to find a common ground they could both enjoy or is there [...]

So you got a German date, but you don’t know where the meeting point is. Stupid situation, isn’t it? Fortunately, this GermanPod101 lesson will help you understand directions given to you in German, and you won’t be late for your rendez-vous. We’ll also cover the German imperative, the way to give commands. Learn authentic, useful [...]

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Do you ever gaze at the stars blanketing the night sky? Learn how they discuss it in Costa Rica! Join Carlos and Natalia as they examine Aida and Angel’s deep conversation along with a look at the difference between informal and formal commands, in other words, the imperative mood. Don’t forget [...]