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.
Don’t forget to comment and share your thoughts. We love to hear those!
🎧 Today’s podcast: Choque cultural (1) Greetings🎧
In today’s podcast, Inma and Silvia will talk about some formalities and informalities in terms of how to be polite in Spain compared to other countries like the UK and Japan.
Follow our conversation and give us your thoughts on this topic.
📕 Some useful vocabulary
Here are some of the key words from the podcast to help you get confident in this topic:
- el choque cultural = culture shock
- la puntualidad = punctuality
- el contacto físico = physical contact
- dar una palmada en la espalda = to pat someone on the back
- dar un apretón de manos = to shake hands
- hacer una reverencia = to bow
- la distancia = personal space / distance
- la cercanía = closeness
- dar las gracias = to say thank you
- sonar brusco= to sound rude / abrupt
- gesticular = to gesture / use gestures
- levantar la voz = to raise one’s voice
- ser de mala educación = to be impolite / rude
- ser una falta de respeto = to be disrespectful
🧠 Interesting grammar from our podcast
We have highlighted some interesting grammar points from our podcast and added them to a shared notebook. You can click “Test your knowledge” to quiz the selected grammar topics that appear on the following paragraph: Grammar: Choque cultural (1) Greetings podcast.
– ¡Qué curioso! Y además, tengo entendido que acompañan las palabras con gestos.
– ¡Imagínate eso aquí! Tendrían que pedir perdón todos los días.
– Lo importante al final es entender esas diferencias, creo yo, y adaptarse un poco cuando viajamos o trabajamos con gente de otros países o de otras culturas.
✏️ Practice More!
Try these awesome Kwiziq activities to practice more on greetings and courtesy:
Reading and Listening activities:
● Presentaciones en español (A1)
● Cómo escribir un correo electrónico formal (B1)
Writing challenge: (Premium subscribers only):
● Visiting someone’s home (B1)
Dictation: (Premium subscribers only):
● Dos hermanos diferentes (A1)
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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.