Newsletter: Shop Talk en español

Shop Talk en español

This week’s exercises will get you fully prepped to hit the shops with confidence. 🛍️ You’ll sharpen your use of colores to describe items, master comparativos and superlativos to express preferences like “cheaper,” “better,” or “the most stylish,” and get comfortable with pronombres de objeto indirecto, vital for saying things like “I’ll buy her a dress”.

What better topic for a chat between two natives than the many ways people talk about cash? We’ve got the words that’ll help you sound like a local. Tune into our mini-podcast and level up your vocab!

Real Spanish, Real voices 🎧

Money Chat with Silvia & Inma

If we’re going to do some shopping, let’s talk about money and the different ways to say dinero in Spanish. Enjoy our mini-podcast!

Spanish colloquial words for money – mini-podcast 🎧

Your turn! Got a favorite slang word for money in Spanish that we missed? Drop it in the comments section at the bottom of our article! We’re on the hunt for the most original or surprising one – and it might just get featured in our next newsletter. Don’t hold back!

Spanish Vocab Boost

Essential words and phrases for clothes shopping

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👗 Dress, tie, shoes… here are all the essential words and phrases you’ll need when you go shopping:

A1/A2 Shopping clothes vocabulary

Remember to scroll to the end of the list to play the word game to make the most of it!

Mind the Gap “___”

Colours, comparatives and superlative

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Not one, but two focus fill-in-the-gap exercises to help you remember colours, comparatives and the superlative:

A1 De compras

B1 Comprando ropa online

Spanish Grammar Tip

Indirect object pronouns – twice!

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In Spanish, using an indirect object pronoun twice in the same sentence isn’t just common, it’s often the most natural and expected way to speak. Here’s a lesson that’ll explain how it works:

B2 Repetition of indirect object pronouns 

Hurray for Weekend Workout Friday!

Special treat for Premium subscribers

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Friday is Weekend Workout day – a special treat just for our Premium subscribers , with fresh dictations and writing challenges to boost your listening and writing skills . This week’s theme is Shopping.

Here’s a writing challenge for our free users: Weekend in Barcelona (level A2)

Not Premium yet? Now’s a great time to upgrade! You’ll get these Weekend Workouts every week, plus unlimited kwizzes and multiple notebooks to help you stay organised and make progress faster.

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Author info

Inma Sánchez

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.