Listen, Smile, Y ¡No Te Rindas‪!‬ Greg and Gabriel Sanchez

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As you advance in your English, you will begin to feel more and more ready to describe actions in the past.  In English, regular past tense forms end in "-ed."  There are THREE ways to pronounce this suffix in English, however: -d, -t, and -id. 

In this episode, we provide many humorous and easy-to-understand examples of this variety of sounds.  The verbs featured in this episode include:

called
seemed
cleaned

looked
asked
finished

and

wanted

Este episodio presenta algunos de los verbos más comunes en inglés, enfocando en el sufijo "-ed" y cuando se lo pronucia o "-d," "-t," o "-ed."  Gabo y Goyo usan anécdotas y humor para proveer contexto y repetición.



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It's frustrating to have a successful English conversation with someone but miss the slang or idiom that the other person uses to end the conversation and leave.  Gabo and Goyo provide explanations and rich examples for these and other expressions:

I've got to get going
I think I should call it a night
I gotta hit the road
I'm out
I gotta jet
I gotta head out

Por escuchar este episodio se puede detectar más facilmente como los de EEUU declaran que quieren irse.  Chécalo.
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In this episode, Gabe and Greg demonstrate several words that often get overpronounced by those learning English.  In many cases the words have lost vowel sounds over the centuries (a process called syncope) and thus are not pronounced as they are spelled.

Words in this episode include:

family
comfortable
vegetable
interest
thumb
plumber 
climb

The brothers also provide alternatives to saying these words at all when you are in informal contexts (for example, "fam" is often substituted for "family").  

Déjanos un recado de tí practicando un concepto del podcast y a lo mejor lo tocaremos en un episodio en el futuro!
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Some words in English have layers and layers of meaning, and "keep" is one such word.  This episode begins our journey to explain those many meanings, with rich, humorous examples that will "keep" you listening.

Today's episode focuses on these meanings of "keep":

Store
Borrow and use (you can still keep my blender, for example)
Continue
and 
Maintain
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In English there are several expressions that use the word "hand" or "hands" that are not intuitive to those who know that "hand" quiere decir "mano." Gabo y Goyo intentan a explicar y dar ejemplos útiles (¿mañosos? jeje) de frases como "handy," "handily," "hands down," and "under-handed."  
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When discussing the past, English speakers frequently use the expressions "used to" and "would ____" to talk about actions that were a regular part of life, referred to as the "imperfect" tense.  In this episode, Gabo and Goyo talk about four kinds of toys and games that they used to play with when they would get together during holidays and summer vacations.  They discuss the Nintendo 64 game GoldenEye, Star Wars toys, Transformers, and a dangerous war game that they used to do in their backyard that involved fire!

Listen, Smile, Y ¡No Te Rindas! es un podcast que ofrece conversaciones auténticas en un ambiente educacional, cordial, y entretenido.  Suelen ofrecer una lista de vocabulario traducida antes de empezar la conversación, mucho uso de repetición, sinónimos y español para apoyar al estudiante, y una prueba al final para determinar lo que se haya quedado en la cabeza del oyente.  Chécalo.
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