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Spanish With Pops (Spain)

Español de España

Spoken Castilian Spanish for the Traveler, Taught the Way Your Brain Learns — The Complete Sixteen-Chapter Course

  • 16 chapters
  • 9:54:53 total
  • What you'll hear: Standard Castilian Spanish of Spain

The audiobook is the full sixteen-chapter course. The video edition shows every line on screen; its first chapters are free to watch.

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Course introductionAbout 1½ minutes
The method

How it works

An English guide explains one small idea, a native speaker says it, and you say it yourself in the pause.

Start with Chapter 1 and listen in order — each chapter builds on the last.

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About this course

Spanish With Pops (Spain)

You can speak Spanish on your first morning in Madrid. Not read it, not conjugate it, speak it, and understand the answer that comes back. Spanish With Pops (Spain) is a sixteen-chapter spoken course built on a proven way of learning by ear: an English guide explains one small idea, a native speaker from Spain says it, you say it yourself in the pause, and the course quietly builds that idea into the next one until you are making sentences you were never taught as sentences. No grammar tables. No homework. No verb charts. Just the engine of the language, one piece at a time, with a pause after every line so you are always speaking, never just listening.

The course follows a traveler from Madrid to Córdoba, Seville and Granada: the hotel desk on the first night, the metro and the train to Toledo, cañas and tapas and the menú del día, the high-speed AVE and the Mezquita, the ceramics of Triana, a night of flamenco, dinner with a Sevillian family, the farmacia, the Alhambra and the lanes of the Albaicín, and the trip home. Spanish turns out to be friendlier than its reputation: it is spelled exactly as it sounds, every verb follows one rhythm you learn by ear, a handful of helper verbs unlock hundreds of sentences, and thousands of words you already know are Spanish already. Every chapter uses the most common words in the language, spoken in the Spanish of Spain by a native Castilian voice, with a second native voice playing the waiter, the clerk, the pharmacist and the host so your ear learns to follow real exchanges. Numbers-by-ear drills and the call-and-response courtesies that carry daily life in Spain are built in, and the course closes with a grand review and a gift: the Spanish you already own.

Compiled and edited by Pops. The narration is produced with digital voices.

16 chapters · 9:54:53

Chapters

  1. Chapter 1The Engine38:18
  2. Chapter 2Wanting, Needing, Being Able36:08
  3. Chapter 3Where Things Are36:20
  4. Chapter 4Numbers, Time and Money37:00
  5. Chapter 5Getting Around Madrid37:00
  6. Chapter 6The Bar: Cañas, Tapas and the Menú del Día36:28
  7. Chapter 7The AVE to Córdoba35:39
  8. Chapter 8Describing and Comparing36:09
  9. Chapter 9Connecting Ideas38:41
  10. Chapter 10Yesterday, Tomorrow, Always, Never37:52
  11. Chapter 11Being a Guest at the Family Table38:20
  12. Chapter 12Hotel, Phone, Problems36:41
  13. Chapter 13The Body, the Doctor, the Farmacia37:56
  14. Chapter 14Granada: the Alhambra and the Albaicín35:59
  15. Chapter 15The Glue35:40
  16. Chapter 16The Loan-Word Gift, and ¡Hasta luego!40:41

Total runtime 9:54:53 (about 10 hours).