Spanish Conversation 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. To help you practice your listening skills, these podcasts will often be accompanied by some useful vocab, grammar lessons and interesting links to go further! We encourage you to try our related exercises to have the whole experience.
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🎧 Today’s podcast: Costumbres de cumpleaños
It’s pretty common to celebrate birthdays everywhere, isn’t it? But the ways people do it and the quirky, charming traditions they follow can vary a lot from one culture to another. Some customs might even seem a bit odd or surprising if you’re not familiar with them.
Find out in this podcast with Inma and Silvia what usually happens in Spain and Mexico when people celebrate their birthday, and hear about some of their own experiences.
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✏️ Practice More!
If you’d like to really get into the birthday theme and do some more practice, we’re including here some extra exercises with interesting grammar points to master:
Fill-in-the-Gaps:
A1 Cumpleaños (possessive adjectives)
A2 El cumpleaños de Leo (the imperfect)
Dictation: (Premium subscribers only):
A1 Mañanitas y piñatas (the near future)
Reading and Listening activity:
B2 Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente (idiomatic expressions)
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.