• Day 8: The trains are full, and the airport is closed
    Jun 12 2026

    Day One Spanish, episode eight of twenty. Strikes, storms, holidays - travel chaos is a permanent resident of the news, and today you learn its language: el tren, el aeropuerto, la estación, and the states things get into — lleno, cerrado, abierto. You'll see estar doing its second great job (not just where things are, but how they are), and watch adjectives change their endings to match their nouns. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: Los trenes están llenos y el aeropuerto está cerrado.


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    5 min
  • Day 15: Who is the new minister, and what does she want?
    Jun 12 2026

    Day One Spanish, episode fifteen of twenty — the week three finale. Journalism is professional question-asking, so today you get the full kit: quién, qué, dónde, cuándo, por qué, cómo — who, what, where, when, why, how — each wearing its little accent like a press badge. You'll learn why Spanish opens questions with an upside-down question mark (and why it's genuinely brilliant), meet the verb querer (to want — quiere, another middle-stretcher), and discover that in spoken Spanish, any sentence becomes a question by tone alone. Today's sentence: ¿Quién es la nueva ministra y qué quiere?


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    6 min
  • Day 9: Prices are high, and people have less money
    Jun 12 2026

    Day One Spanish, episode nine of twenty. The cost of living is the story that never leaves the front page, and today you learn its vocabulary: los precios, el dinero, el euro, caro and barato, cuesta - and the pair más and menos, the only comparison words you need this month. You'll also watch la gente pull its famous trick live: the people HAS less money, singular verb and all. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: Los precios están altos y la gente tiene menos dinero.


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    5 min
  • Day 16: The president has said today: the war is over
    Jun 12 2026

    Day One Spanish, episode sixteen of twenty — the final week begins, and it has one job: time travel. Today, the past arrives via the perfect tense: a little helper verb (he, ha, han — from haber) plus a participle ending in -ado or -ido. Hablar becomes ha hablado; comer becomes ha comido. You'll meet the rebel participle dicho (said), learn why this is the tense Spain's news uses for anything that happened today, and pick up la guerra and la paz — war and peace. Today's sentence: El presidente ha dicho hoy: la guerra ha terminado.


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    6 min
  • Day 10: The national team plays tonight in front of 80,000 fans
    Jun 12 2026

    Day One Spanish, episode ten of twenty — halfway, and the week two finale. Sport closes every bulletin, so today you learn its language: la selección (the national team), el partido (which means both 'the match' and 'the political party' — the news loves the joke), el gol, ganar and perder, esta noche. You also meet your first stem-changing verb: jugar becomes juega - the verb changes in the MIDDLE, not just the end. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: La selección juega esta noche ante ochenta mil aficionados.


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    6 min
  • Day 11: The minister says: bread and milk are more expensive this year
    Jun 12 2026

    Day One Spanish, episode eleven of twenty — week three begins, where the news starts talking. Today: decir, the verb to say, and its workhorse form dice — the single most journalistic word in Spanish. You learn the colon trick that lets reporters quote anyone, the food basics (el pan, la leche, el café), comparatives with más caro, and the famous oddball el agua — a feminine noun that borrows a masculine article. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: El ministro dice: el pan y la leche son más caros este año.


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    6 min
  • Day 17: An earthquake has shaken the region in the night
    Jun 12 2026

    Day One Spanish, episode seventeen of twenty. Breaking news is where your new past tense earns its keep. Today: two real disaster-story sentences - Un terremoto ha sacudido la región esta noche. Muchas personas han perdido sus casas. You learn han plus the participle (the plural past), the indefinite articles un and una (a, an - finally made official), the possessive sus: one word doing the work of his, her AND their, and the sober vocabulary of disaster coverage.


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    6 min
  • Day 5: The doctors and the teachers are on strike
    Jun 12 2026

    Day One Spanish, episode five of twenty — the week one finale. Today you learn the most reliable machine in the language: how Spanish makes plurals (add -s, or -es, and that's genuinely it), the professions that fill strike season — el médico, el profesor — the phrase estar en huelga, and your first -ar verb, trabajar. By the end you'll understand and say a real Spanish news sentence: Los médicos y los profesores están hoy en huelga.


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    6 min