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A story on Radio Ambulante

Camila wants a true story in Spanish and plays a Radio Ambulante episode. One new word stops her, and the transcript on the site opens the sentence.

Radio Ambulante: historias para escuchar

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Level A1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Present indicative and the verb querer in a scene about a real podcast.

Camila listens to a Radio Ambulante episode, a Spanish podcast of true stories, with episodes since 2012. Daniel Alarcón is one of the founders. She opens the transcript, writes down one word, and tells her brother what she understands.

After reading

Article learning block

Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.

13 items

Phrases for training

Add useful phrases to SRS or mark them as already known.

historias para escuchar

new

stories to listen to

A compact phrase for audio stories.

Useful for choosing listening material.

desde 2012

new

since 2012

Desde marks the starting point of an action that continues.

Useful for saying when something began.

pulsa el botón de reproducción

new

presses the play button

Pulsa is used for pressing a button or control.

Useful with phones and audio players.

vuelve a una frase

new

goes back to a phrase

Volver a means to return to something.

Useful when reviewing audio or text.

Key words

Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.

Episodes

episodios

episodes

Separate instalments of a podcast or series.

A core podcast word.

Transcript

transcripción

transcript

A written version of spoken audio.

Useful when reading along with audio.

Headphones

auriculares

headphones

A device worn on the ears to hear audio.

Useful for everyday listening.

Listeners

oyentes

listeners

People who listen to a programme or audio.

Useful for describing a podcast audience.

Notebook

cuaderno

notebook

A small book for writing notes.

Useful for study routines.

Grammar in context

Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.

Identifying with ser

es un podcast

is a podcast

Es identifies what Radio Ambulante is.

Useful for defining people and things.

Poder plus infinitive

puede escuchar

can listen

Puede is followed by the infinitive escuchar.

Useful for talking about possibilities.

A veces for frequency

A veces para el audio

Sometimes she stops the audio

A veces says that an action happens on some occasions.

Useful for describing habits without saying always.

A yes-no question

¿Escuchas podcasts en español?

Do you listen to podcasts in Spanish?

The question uses the tú form escuchas and question marks.

Useful for asking someone about a habit.

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