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Episode 30 (Season 3)El Basilisco
Description: We’ve got a rooster laying an egg and a snake incubating it… what could go wrong? Find out in this episode!
Core Vocab: caballero (knight), secuestrar (knidnap), brujo (sorcerer), salió (left)
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About the Podcast
The Garbanzo Spanish Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast that brings you interactive, easy-to-understand stories in Spanish written primarily for beginners. Storytelling is the most engaging and natural way to learn a new language, which makes this podcast perfect for any Spanish learner! Listening and reading simple stories with familiar words make it easier for our brains to process the new language. Stories help the learning process take flight!
Each episode of the Garbanzo Spanish Podcast is based on a lesson available through Garbanzo. You can assign the corresponding lessons to your students through your Garbanzo account to further your students’ acquisition journeys.
Episodes:
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Episode 1 (Season 1)¿Qué dicen los animales?
Do animals make different sounds in different countries? In Season 1 Episode 1 of the Garbanzo Spanish Podcast, Voice Artist Paulino Brener will help you discover what sounds animals make in Spanish. The episode is almost entirely in Spanish, making it a perfect immersive language learning experience for beginning Spanish language learners. This is the first episode in a series designed for beginners, with more to come every two weeks!
Core Vocab: Dice/n, no dice/n
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Episode 20 Bonus (Season 2)Paititi
Listen as the Garbanzo team imagine what the expedition to find the lost city of Paititi may have looked like! (Featuring the writing talents of Andrea Giganti Dima and performances from Andrea Giganti Dima, Borja Odriozola, Johanna Ruiz Fajardo, Paulino Brener, and Walter Rodriguez Martinez.)
Core Vocab: selva, ciudad, donde, hay, caminar, ir, saber, volver
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Episode 20 (Season 2)En busca de Paititi
In the Amazon there is a lost city of gold! Or, is there? Listen to this episode about a group of explorers looking for the lost city of Paititi, or, in Spanish - El Dorado!
Core Vocab: ciudad, leyenda, realidad, dónde está
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Episode 19 (Season 2)¿Qué es el elote?
¿Qué es el elote? That’s exactly what you’ll be learning in this episode! Listen as Nelly tells us all about this delicious Mexican street food!
Core Vocab: comida callejera, es probable que conozcas, encontrar, sabes -
Episode 18 (Season 2)¿Dónde está Tisha?
Have you ever had a pet go missing in your house? Perhaps a small one? Perhaps an eight-legged one? Check out this episode of the podcast to find out what happens when Leroy’s pet goes missing! It’s quite the arachnid adventure!
Core Vocab: busca, encuentra, sabes
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Episode 17 (Season 2)El león y el ratón
What happens when the powerful suddenly find themselves vulnerable? Will anyone be willing and able to step in and help them? Maybe! In this episode, El león y el ratón, based on the well-known Aesop’s Fable, find out what happens when a lion and a mouse cross paths!
Core Vocab: tienes que, le ayuda, no puede (hacer), simpático
Garbanzo is an amazing tool in my Spanish classes for all levels. The stories are based on the culture and related to many topics in the Hispanic world. The stories are leveled into different proficiency levels so I can individualized for my learners depending on my level!
Eunice Loredo
About Garbanzo.
Garbanzo is an online, interactive library for Spanish classes. Choose from our collection of 1.2k+ stories to assign meaningful and appropriate lessons to your students. With Garbanzo, language learning can happen anywhere!