Newbie Lessons Videos

Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! You’re starting to adjust to this concept of attending the soccer games at the local bars in Latin America. Everywhere, people are chanting and singing in Spanish and yelling at their favorite soccer player in Spanish, so it’s almost like you’re at the game. Well, except that no one is spilling [...]

  Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! You’re out with your friends at the hottest Spanish club in town, and your friends have just commanded you to do yet another shot. Their drink of choice? Tequila , of course! After all, you are in Latin America. You tell your friend in Spanish, “If I have one more drink, [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Perhaps you are just a fool in love after all. Have you really just said that line out loud in Italian? Have you seriously just told that girl in Italian that speaking with her was a matter of “national security?” Of all the Italian lines to use…you have to go and [...]

Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! It’s still dark outside, but the friend you’re visiting in Costa Rica is knocking on your bedroom door to wake you up. Through the door, he exclaims in Spanish, “It’s the biggest sporting event of the year, and your favorite team has a chance to participate!” Dazed from sleep, you wonder [...]

Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! Today you’re meeting your friends at the Spanish bar to hang out. When you arrive, you can’t for the life of you figure out why there is a line around the block with people complaining loudly about the wait in Spanish. You approach the bouncer and ask in Spanish, “How long [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! How predictable! You tell your friend in Italian, “I could have told you that asking her whether she wanted a drink wouldn’t work. Have you ever had that line work on a girl?” He responds in Italian, “Yes, actually, all the time. That is, it works when the girl actually needs [...]

  Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! You’ve kicked and screamed, but your Spanish friends still dragged you to the dance studio to learn a Spanish dance. So you might as well make the most of it. Even though you have two left feet, you continue to follow the instructor who keeps yelling at you in Spanish, “You [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Huff, puff. You have to take a quick break from blowing up all these balloons to help your friend impress his Italian object of desire. Your friend looks at you sideways and asks you in Italian, “Are you feeling okay?” You respond in Italian, “Yes, I’m fine, aside from these two [...]

Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! “It’s just right-left-right-left,” the salsa instructor says in Spanish. You whisper to your friend in Spanish, “He makes it look so easy! But I find it much more difficult than he makes it seem.” Your friend replies in Spanish, “Oh, it’s not very hard. Just be more focused and you’ll pick [...]

Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! You’ve been walking around in circles for a while trying to find your way through the city to meet your friend at the Spanish restaurant, but you can’t decipher the Spanish street signs. You finally give up and call your friend and admit defeat in Spanish, asking “Where are you again?” [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! “Hey buddy, I have a great idea!” you tell your friend in Italian. He responds in Italian, “Hello. Your great ideas always get me in trouble. What do you have in mind?” You respond in Italian, “Oh, it’s really nothing; I just want to tell this girl that I really like [...]

Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! Hmmm…you look around the dance studio, but you see no one you know. Even worse, all the people in this Spanish dance class seem to be wearing tutus. Since when do people learn to do the salsa wearing tutus, you wonder? Maybe you are behind the times. You shrug and walk [...]

Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! You can’t wait to impress your significant other, so you’ve decided to sign up for Spanish dance lessons. Even though you can’t tell your right foot from your left, you’re confident these Spanish lessons will teach you everything you need to know so you don’t look like a fool on the [...]

  Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Well, it’s a good thing you chose to put that naughty nightie away at the pajama party after all! It turns out that all the polka-dot-clad Italian man wanted was to know how to get to your best friend! After you got to know each other over a few glasses of [...]

Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! “Please?” you ask in Spanish. “Pretty please, with sugar on top, and a cherry?” you add in Spanish, as you ask the object of your affection for her phone number. You continue in Spanish, “What will it take for me to get your number from you?” “Stop being ridiculous,” your friend [...]

Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! “Oh, here she comes!” your friend excitedly whispers to you in Spanish. “Are you going to do it?” he asks. “Yes, I will, just leave me alone,” you reply in Spanish. You can’t believe you have to go ask a girl for her digits in Spanish in front of a witness! [...]

  Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! So you finally chose the naughty nightie for the Italian party after deliberating for a while, and now you’re headed to the pajama party at your friend’s house. When you arrive, you scan the room, and you’re rapidly approached by a tall Italian guy wearing polka dot pajama pants and a [...]

Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! “Ah, so you have a new girlfriend, do you? I can’t seem to meet anyone in this town!” says your friend in Spanish. You reply in Spanish, “You’re just looking in the wrong places. I met her in the coffee shop! You never know where you might meet someone.” “Oh!,” your [...]

Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! You look over at your friend who’s usually the ladies’ man, but he’s quaking with fear about approaching the beautiful woman across the bar. You decide to give him a pep talk and tell him in Spanish, “Oh, come on. You can do this. You’ve done it a thousand times before!” [...]