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Premium Members, your Premium Account just got a whole lot more powerful! My Flashcards now allows you to study the Spanish words you want by importing lists from audio and video lessons, your My WordBank and the Spanish Core Word Lists 2000. Here's a quick rundown of the new features: My Flashcards Dashboard: My Flashcards have a brand new interface. Import words from any audio and video lesson, My WordBank and the Core Word Lists. Create, edit and delete as many decks as you want! Create a New Deck: How you want to study is completely up to you! You control what displays on the front and back of cards. Create new decks out of the existing words in My Flashcards. Simple pick the words, name your deck and you're ready to study.... Show more

Have you used your Word Bank lately? Inspired by your emails, requests and suggestions, we upgraded the My Word Bank feature to make it even easier for you to study vocabulary on SpanishPod101.com! My Word Bank is a Premium feature that allows you to add vocabulary words from our lessons and word dictionary to a personalized central list for you to study from. Create online flashcards and hear native audio pronunciation with every entry. With the new My Word Bank features, you can organize, sort, export, and completely manage all of your vocabulary. Here is a complete rundown of the new features: 1. Group Words Into Lists – You wanted lists? You got it! Now you can organize your words with lists and labels. Create, edit and delete... Show more

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Today's lesson will focus on the top five phrases you will hear in a classroom in the Spanish Language. If you don't know these already, they will be very useful to you. Perdón, tengo una pregunta... ("Excuse me, I have a question...") This is a common and polite way of getting someone's attention to ask a question, whether it's a teacher, a friend, or a stranger. Cómo se dice...(en español)? ("How do you say that (in Spanish)?") Use this phrase to ask for the Spanish equivalent of an English word. Rather than asking in English, "Hey, how do you say that?" asking in Spanish will earn you brownie points with your teacher. It will also help keep your brain in Spanish-speaking mode. ¿Qué quiere decir? ("What does that mean?") ... Show more

Today we are going to teach you commonly used phrases and/or words in Spanish a teacher would not teach you. Below are some examples! The "Dude" Words Many varieties of informal Spanish have a "dude" word that peppers their sentences. It's considered very informal, and your Spanish teacher will not bother to address you in this way, but in informal situations, you'll hear it all the time. Different countries have different words for this word. The "Wow" Words Here are several ways to express surprise in Spanish: hijole, andale, vaya, caray, jolín, and guao. Pedo If you look up el pedo in the dictionary, you'll find that its primary definition is "fart," so you can understand why your teacher is not excited about teaching... Show more

Dear SpanishPod101 Listener, We listened to your comments and you’ve been heard! A redesigned SpanishPod101.com is here! Don’t worry, your favorite hosts haven’t gone anywhere. We’ve just upgraded SpanishPod101.com’s website to give you an even faster, easier, and more enjoyable way to learn Spanish! What’s New and Improved? Beginner to Advanced - we’ve made it easier to find the right lessons for you! Track your progress by marking lessons complete and viewing your progress bar! No more jumping around - get an entire lesson’s content and join in on the discussion in one place! Easily find the best-of-the-best lessons based on other member ratings and feedback! Get thorough search results that provide direct links to... Show more

In this All About, you will find out the top 5 mistakes often made in the Spanish language. Knowing them will help you not to make them! Mistake Number Five: Crimes against Gustar Spanish people translate me gusta and me gustan as "I like," and if you like something singular you say me gusta, and if you like something plural you say me gustan. Gustar is a verb that actually means "it gives me pleasure" so if you conjugate it like other regular verbs, you might be saying something wrong. Mistake Number Four: -r Fixation One big mistake people make when learning Spanish is fixating on the -r. The trilled -r intimidates some people so much that they decide they can't learn Spanish; others try to trill every -r they see, which... Show more

Dear Listeners, We have a BIG announcement coming up soon… We’ve been gathering feedback over the years from you, the listener, and we’ve made a lot of changes to make it even easier for you to master Spanish! New and improved features, better organization and easier navigation - these are just a few of the upgrades. Click below to get a sneak peak of the new design! They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so we’ll just let these screen shots of the new site do the talking

Featured today in this lesson, we will supply you with a few five great tools to learn how to speak Spanish! Keep these tools under your belt and it'll make your learning experience smoother and easier. Tool Number One: A Spanish Dictionary Bilingual dictionaries used to be a burden to the language student; it used to be that only the larger-sized dictionaries were complete enough to be useful, but these large-format dictionaries were difficult to carry around. Nowadays, web-based dictionaries are the standard; they are complete enough to help you with your composition assignments, faster than paperbound dictionaries, and available in any web browser or smartphone. Tool Number Two: A Verb Conjugator A verb conjugating... Show more

As popular culture changes quickly and drastically, this lesson focuses on the most recent pop culture phenomena in the Spanish speaking countries. Popular Music The Spanish music scene at the moment is dominated by Reggaeton, a mix of hip-hop and reggae that developed mostly out of the music scenes of Puerto Rico, New York, and Miami. With that said, there has also been a steady growth of EMO and electronic bands in the Spanish-speaking countries, which has brought forth fashion styles and trends associated with this music genre: skinny jeans, converse shoes, snug shirts, and full-fledged black outfits. Cinema The revival of Spanish-speaking independent cinema has also propelled major production companies to produce more... Show more