Spanish Culture Podcast
In our “Hola Culture” podcast series, you’ll listen to KwizIQ teachers Inma and Silvia‘s light-hearted chats in Spanish about fun and interesting topics that are focused on useful and interesting vocabulary.
To help you practise your listening skills, these podcasts will often be accompanied by some useful vocabulary and interesting links to explore the topic further! We encourage you to try our related exercises to have the full learning experience.
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🎧 Today’s podcast: Escapadas 🎧
Today’s podcast features a relaxed chat where Silvia and Inma talk about some of their recent getaways. Silvia tells Inma about her trip to Gijón, while Inma shares her experience of visiting Gibraltar. Listen to their conversation as they talk about the places they visited, what they did and some of the highlights of their trips.
Follow our conversation and give us your thoughts on this topic.
📚 Vocabulary
Here are some of the most interesting words, verbs and phrases used in our podcast:
- una escapada = a getaway
- una ciudad = a city
- tardar = to take (time)
- tomar el sol = to sunbathe
- descansar = to rest
- la sidra = cider
- el ambiente = the atmosphere
- pasear = to go for a walk / stroll
- la oficina de Correos = the post office
- la influencia = the influence
- el llanito = Llanito (the local variety of Spanish spoken in Gibraltar)
- la habitación = the room
- las vistas = the views
- el Peñón = the Rock
- unos días libres = a few days off
- explorar = to explore
- los parajes naturales = natural beauty spots
✏️Practise More!
Try these awesome KwiziQ activities to practise more about “getaways”:
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Author info
After working in the travel industry for ten years in Seville, Inma moved to the UK to give a little twist to her life. Since then she's been teaching Spanish as a foreign language to adults for over 15 years in different settings, private lessons, secondary schools and online. Inma is a coffee lover and also loves exploring new places with her family in beautiful Warwickshire, where she lives.
Silvia is a multilingual educator with expertise in English, French, and Spanish, and a passion for helping students excel in language learning. After gaining extensive international teaching experience in the UK and other countries, Silvia returned to her hometown of Vitoria in 2019. Since then, she has been sharing her knowledge and love for languages with learners of all levels. With over a decade of experience, Silvia’s creative and dynamic teaching methods make language acquisition both fun and accessible.