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8.15: Unit 8 review Apr 13, 2026

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This 15th episode is a quick recap of Unit 8 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. It offers a congratulations on your hard work so far in learning Spanish.

8.14: Visualization: Shopping in a department store Apr 12, 2026

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This is a visualization practice that helps you imagine you are in a Latin American department store. You want to try on some clothing, but first you need to ask for it based on the item description, its color, its size, and other factors. Practice in this m-episode.

8.13: Conversation - Shopping in a department store (review) Apr 11, 2026

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This 13th episode reviews the conversation you heard in Unit 8.1 of the Live Lingua Spanish Podcast. By now, you should be able to understand the entire conversation, and be able to make slight modifications to apply it to your personal shopping experience.

8.12: Bring it all together - Shopping in a department store Apr 10, 2026

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This 12th episode puts together everything you've learned about trying on items in a department store, asking for them based on specific sizes, colors, and other requests, and how to tell someone whether or not it fits. If you haven't grasped anything in this m-episode, go back and review the rest of this Unit.

8.11: Letting people know an item is too big or too small Apr 09, 2026

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So you tried on the item and now you want to let the clerk know how well it fit. First you would tell them if it even fits or not, before asking to try on another item of clothing or purchase the item you've tried on. You'll learn how to do these things in this 11th episode.

8.10: Asking to try an item on Apr 08, 2026

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This 10th episode teaches you how to ask to try on an item in Spanish. If you like an item but want to try it on, there are two ways to ask. You can do it by specifically naming the item or you can refer to the item as "it", just like in English.

8.9: Asking for a specific size of clothes or shoes Apr 07, 2026

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You'll learn how to ask for specific items in the right size for you (or someone else) in this m-episode. Like the rest of the world, in Latin America the item size can be described in two ways. A general size such as small, medium and large and a specific size like size 6 or size 10.

8.8: Ask for a specific item for a specific person Apr 06, 2026

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This 8th episode brings together all you have learned in the last four episodes. Say the following in Spanish. The first time through we will only say the English version so you have time to say it in Spanish. The second time through we'll say it in Spanish and English so you can see if you got it right.

8.7: Buying items for other people Apr 05, 2026

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Sometimes you need to buy items for people other than yourself. Let's practice telling the clerk who you are buying the items for. This 7th episode teaches you just that. It may be helpful to review Unit 1.10 of the podcast if you struggle to remember how to say each family member.

8.6: Ask for specific items Apr 04, 2026

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This 6th episode builds on the previous two episodes. You'll learn how to ask for specific items in specific colors, properly. The m-episode covers common differences between English and Spanish, such as that in Spanish, the color goes after the item, not before, like in English.

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