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Learn Spanish with Free Podcasts Whether you are student or a seasoned speaker, our lessons offer something for everyone. We incorporate culture and current issues into each episode to give the most informative, both linguistically and culturally, podcasts possible. For those of you with just the plane ride to prepare, check our survival phrase series at SpanishPod101.com. One of these phrases just might turn your trip into the best one ever!
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Tired of boring Spanish podcasts that remind you of school? Looking for fun, conversational Spanish listening practice? With Let’s Talk Spanish, you’ll build your confidence and improve your understanding through episodes spoken in Spanish and focused entirely on conversation. Perfect for intermediate and beginner Spanish learners, our episodes explore interesting topics like travel, food and Hispanic culture, helping you learn Spanish for real-life conversations. Host Shandon Williams, the ...
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The perfect podcast for English learners who can't be bothered to study and do their homework, but still want to practise their English. Come and chill with me, Emma, from the channels Pronunciation with Emma and Procrastination with Emma, while I talk about various topics to expose you to natural English, just as if you were sitting in the pub with me with a nice cold cider.
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Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging (U California Press, 2017) is a lively, readable exploration of "chosen" identity, kin, and community in a global era. Anthropologist Naomi Leite examines the complexity of how we know ourselves -- who we "really" are -- and how we recognize others as strangers or kin through t…
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Today I talked to Duncan Simpson about his book Tenho o prazer de informar o senhor director: cartas de portugueses à PIDE (1958-1968) ("I am pleased to inform the director: letters from Portuguese people to PIDE (1958-1968)") Were the Portuguese mere victims of the PIDE and the oppressive policies it imposed or, in reality, as under any authoritar…
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Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. Prints made after the Flemish artist’s designs were routinely sent from Europe to the Spanish Americas, where artists used them to make all manner of objects. Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America (Get…
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A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine (Hurst, 2024) by Christopher Beckman takes readers on a tantalising voyage through European and American gastronomic history, following the trail of a small but mighty fish: the anchovy. Whether in ubiquitous Roman garum, mass-produced British condiments, elaborate French haute c…
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I wasn’t planning a solo holiday to Málaga, but that’s what ended up happening… In this intermediate Spanish listening practice, I speak about travel and my experiences travelling, including: Some of the places I’ve travelled to alone The time my friend missed the flight and left me to travel alone My other travel plans for the rest of this year Yo…
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Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1801 and 1850, it served as the point of embarkation for more than 535,000 enslaved Africans. In the history of this diverse, wealthy city, the gendered dynamics of the mer…
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Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain (Stanford University Press, 2024) takes us inside the archive to demonstrate how the incongruities of the Primo de Rivera (1923–1930) and Franco (1939–1975) regimes were manifested in the regulation of erotic material cultures. Focusing on amateur pornographers and their confiscated and censored…
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Some people love travelling alone - others would never dream of doing it! Speaking in Spanish, I talk about this interesting conversational Spanish topic, including: Some common opinions about solo travel 5 advantages of travelling alone 3 disadvantages of solo travel Whether I prefer travelling solo or with friends and family Learn Spanish with th…
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Welcome to the Let's Talk Spanish podcast! The place to learn Spanish for real-life conversations. You’ll build your confidence and improve your understanding through episodes spoken in Spanish and focused entirely on conversation. Our episodes explore interesting topics like travel, food and Hispanic culture, including the best things to do, see a…
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“Un buen libro te puede cambiar la vida” (A good book can change your life) Reading is one of my passions and something I’ve loved doing since I was a kid. Learn Spanish for conversation with this short Spanish podcast episode, where I speak about: The three reasons I love reading The types of books I read Why I’m a book purist How my reading habit…
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Baseball’s introduction to the Philippines. The slot machine trade between Manila and Shanghai. A musical based extremely loosely on the life of the sultan of Sulu. These are just a few of the historical topics from Lio Mangubat’s Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period (Faction Press: 2024), a collection of 13 …
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If you think food is just fuel, we can’t be friends. Listen to me speak in Spanish all about food, including: Three reasons I love food How often I eat out (and how often I will when I’m rich) My three favourite cuisines (ft. a couple of Spanish speaking countries) A secret you should know about me (don’t tell anyone!) Enjoy this short conversation…
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The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of cloves, commodities once worth their weight in gold. The Portuguese got there first, persuading the Spanish to fund expeditions trying to go the other direction, sailing westward across the Atlantic. Roger Crowley, in his new book Spice: The 16th-Century…
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In the waning days and immediate aftermath of World War II, Nazi diplomats and spies based in Spain decided to stay rather than return to a defeated Germany. The decidedly pro-German dictatorship of General Francisco Franco gave them refuge and welcomed other officials and agents from the Third Reich who had escaped and made their way to Iberia. Am…
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Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain’s Asian empire, Dr. Kristie Patricia Flannery reveals that Spanish colonial officials and Catholic missionaries forged alliances with Indige…
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