Inspired Beginners Podcast 1 - ¡Hola!
Welcome to the Inspired Beginners Spanish Podcast from Notes in Spanish!
Why is it called Inspired Beginners? Because this podcast is for motivated learners who are already helping themselves through the first steps of learning the language, and want to improve quickly. Our idea is to take you beyond the text books and provide you with real world language and Spanish learning techniques that you will never find in a classroom.
Not only do we explain key vocab and grammar in every episode, we also include a real Spanish conversation at your level, to help you prepare to move on up to our Intermediate and Advanced Spanish podcasts.
But this podcast is not just for Beginners! We hope that a lot of the grammar we look at during this course will also offer a really useful review for Intermediate and even Advanced Spanish learners too!
Worksheets are available to accompany this course, and include a full run down of the Spanish vocabulary and grammar used in each episode, plus a full transcript and translation of our Spanish conversations, and more cool Spanish phrases.
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June 7th, 2007 | Posted in: Beginners Spanish Podcast | Comments: 32
Comments:
Comment from Duke of New X
Time: June 7, 2007, 8:32 pm
Ben, you are of course famous sarf o’ the river, but I’ve never listened to one of your podcasts bwfore. Well, can i say how thoroughly pleasant you both sound? … really was a pleasure. So, people of the Anglo hispanic world … rise up, listen, and I hope you enjoyed it as much as me.
Phillips.
Comment from Brad
Time: June 7, 2007, 8:54 pm
Well done! I know from my time as an English teacher that putting something anyway natural sounding together for beginners is no easy task. It’s sounds like you are both constantly on the point of bursting into laughter. (I only listened to half so maybe you did). It’s a real good job though. It’s true; Marina’s accent is a great example of a madrilena.
Comment from Margot
Time: June 7, 2007, 9:44 pm
“Inspired Beginners” can result from Inspired Teachers. And that you are. Enhorabuena.
Comment from Greytop
Time: June 8, 2007, 12:25 pm
Wish this had been available when I started to learn Spanish! “Beginners who want to be inspired” might be a better title. Good luck with this project.
Comment from Lis Carpenter
Time: June 8, 2007, 6:41 pm
Oh bless you laddies!!!
Comment from gary
Time: June 9, 2007, 11:06 am
I can listen to the Intermediate podcasts and enjoy them without transcription (now) and I can make a fair attempt at the advanced ones (the transcripts are a godsend). Even so I thoroughly enjoyed this first beginners podcast and whats more I learnt something - the verb “hororizar” for I hate is a new one to me. (Is that the right infinitive?). So now I have two ways to say I don’t like callos!!
And the moral of the story - take any opportunity to listen to/ read/ speak your target language - you learn something every time.
Comment from Jan (landlady)
Time: June 9, 2007, 2:37 pm
Fantastic Ben & Marina. I’m so glad you finally found time to do a beginners podcast, and you did it perfectly. I will let my forum members know.
Comment from Acosta (Acosta)
Time: June 11, 2007, 10:31 pm
Congrats again Marina y Ben
What comes through in our blogs is your enthusiasm about the language and to teach. I listened to it with my wife (who doesn’t speak much Spanish) and she enjoyed it very much.
Joe Acosta
Comment from Jason Keuter
Time: June 16, 2007, 8:22 am
great stuff. i love your intermediate podcasts, and this one helps me better develop useful vocabulary….
Comment from Mark-H
Time: July 13, 2007, 4:48 pm
You both sound so relaxed in your podcasts which helps to relax me,also its clear you both really enjoy doing the podcasts.
My wife listened to the new beginners podcasts on monday evening, and now she can’t stop listening!
I’m going to tell everyone about “notes in spanish”when my classes resume.
Me mola the site,
Mark-H
Comment from ben
Time: July 14, 2007, 4:11 pm
Thanks Mark, it’s great to get feedback like that!
Comment from Renzo
Time: August 27, 2007, 3:21 am
Good Job! This is a great help!
Comment from kareima
Time: September 26, 2007, 6:33 am
Hi! I just got an ipod for my birthday. Late in the game I know. But I found your delightful podcasts! You two work so well together. Like Butter! Gracias! I look forward to more!
Comment from Maurice Pedneault
Time: December 18, 2007, 3:55 am
j’aimerai avoir ce texte en francais pour faciliter mon apprentissage en espagnol
Est-ce pôssible `
Muchas gracias
Maurice Pedneault
Comment from ben
Time: December 18, 2007, 7:53 am
Lo siento, ce n’est pas possible maintenant.
Comment from MissLena
Time: January 2, 2008, 1:18 am
Mucho gusto and well done!
Brilliant concept and execution: don’t ever stop!
(Au fait, je suis capable d’aider les francofones, parfois…)
‘Lena
Comment from ben
Time: January 2, 2008, 9:54 pm
We don’t plan to stop, don’t worry!
Comment from thomkat
Time: January 28, 2008, 2:39 pm
Hola! -question
Dittos to all the foregoing compliments for NIS!
Is there a way for me to record just the Spanish dialogue sections of the podcasts, i.e. to create a podcast/loop of one or more Spanish dialogues on a single recording/podcast so I can listen to it over and over without the (very wonderful) banter in between? I think the repetition would help to embed this in my brain! (using garageband?)
Ben - you’re the “friki” (sp) - can you help?
Thx,
thomkat
Comment from JALPA
Time: January 28, 2008, 6:27 pm
THANK YOU! THIS WILL DEFINITELY HELP ME WHEN I GO TO SPAIN THIS SUMMER! =)
Comment from ben
Time: January 29, 2008, 11:23 am
Thomkat - that should be possible in Garageband - edit down the audio to the section you want, loop it a few times (no idea how, sorry, I use a different program), then output it as an mp3… sorry not to be of more help, but try the apple forums for further details on how to do this in GB.
Comment from moira
Time: February 23, 2008, 9:53 pm
Muchas gracias por sus muy bueno conversaciones. Yo quisiera preguntar si ustedes pueden recomendar alguna musica espanol para escuchar y para aprender espanol.
Comment from Marina
Time: February 24, 2008, 9:48 am
Hola Moira,
En nuestro foro hay un thread dedicado a la música española:
http://www.notesfromspain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95&highlight=musica+espa%F1ola
También puedes escuchar un podcast intermedio dedicado a la música en:
http://www.notesinspanish.com/2007/04/04/intermediate-spanish-podcast-26-la-musica/
Estaremos encantados de que nos cuentes cuáles son tus artistas favoritos.
Saludos,
Marina.
Comment from Isa
Time: April 20, 2008, 12:59 pm
Hola, Marina y Ben, muchísimas gracias por sus audios sobre el español. Mucho gusto de conocerles. Soy china, llevo años estudiando español, pero lo que pasa es que no lo hablo bien, me dan miedo los errores. 
Marina, me encanta su voz, muy agradable, y es muy parecida a la de una profesora mía, y Ben, al comienzo por el buen español que hablaba le consideré español. Me interesan mucho sus conocimientos y experiencias. Gasté un día entero para escuchar los audios de NiS Advanced. Me gustan mucho todas las conversaciones, sobre problemas sociales, sobre la cultura hispánica, y también sobre lo de Sudamérica. Bueno, en una palabra me alegro mucho de conocerles. Saludos cordiales de China.
Comment from Marina
Time: April 25, 2008, 5:49 pm
Hola Isa, encantada de saludarte.
¡¡¡Me alegra mucho saber que nos escuchas desde CHINA!!!
No debes de tener miedo a equivocarte, ya que esa es la mejor manera de aprender, además escribes muy bien.
Saludos desde Madrid,
Marina.
Comment from MEhmet
Time: May 3, 2008, 1:49 am
Wooow, that’s a great idea and you realized it very well!
Too bad i haven’t found this earlier.
Now I’m again enjoy learning Spanish 
thanks!!
Comment from ben
Time: May 5, 2008, 12:19 pm
MEhmet - Thanks, glad you enjoy it!
Comment from Elvis
Time: June 5, 2008, 9:26 pm
Lazybones me has neglected his español recently, but I decided to listen to this beginner’s podcast and was surprised to hear words that I’ve never heard any Spaniard use in my 18 years here in Spain! Horrorizar y mola (rounded mountain).
Estoy enganchado ya!
Enhorabuena y salu2,
José, el anciano.
Comment from ben
Time: June 9, 2008, 10:24 pm
Really glad to hear you like it Jose, ¡bienvenido!
Comment from crystal
Time: June 14, 2008, 5:14 pm
ben you sound really hot
Comment from crystal
Time: June 14, 2008, 6:12 pm
marina you have a nice clear voice that’s very good for a beginner like me. ; D
and i like the casual atmosphere between you two.
Comment from cholee
Time: June 18, 2008, 8:11 am
me encaaaanta este sitio
Comment from Jake
Time: July 11, 2008, 1:29 am
I only wish I had found you guys earlier! gracias.
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