Lightspeed Spanish - Advanced Speaker Spanish Lessons
Advanced Spanish lessons for English speakers. Hosted by Gordon and Cynthia Smith-Duran, this podcast helps learners improve their Spanish speaking and comprehension. Each episode covers advanced grammar, vocabulary, and cultural topics. Suitable for those who already have a foundation in Spanish.
Episodes
92 Advanced Spanish Sketch on a train (Fun Spanish learning)
This is a fun role-play in which we find ourselves on a train bound for Madrid. This is a fun […]
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91 Advanced Spanish At the Doctor’s in Spain
This is a fun role-play in which we find ourselves at the Doctor’s in Spain. Disclaimer: What happens in our […]
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90 Advanced Spanish and Mexican vocabulary
In this fun Spanish conversation, with Saúl and Nikki, we talk about Spanish and mexican vocabulary and the differences between […]
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89 Adv Spanish Espanglish in Spain
In this fun conversation with Ana, Cynthia and Gordon, we talk about the use of Espanglish in Spain and why […]
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88 Advanced Spanish can be weird and varied
In this fun conversation with Saúl and Nikki from Mexico, we learn that Spanish can be weird and can vary […]
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87 Advanced Spanish Expressions Spain/Mexico
In this fascinating and fun lesson, we test your knowledge of Spanish expressions from Spain and Mexico These advanced Spanish […]
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86 Advanced Spanish Expressions you won’t know
In this fascinating lesson Cynthia and Ana will be sharing some advanced Spanish expressions that you most likely will not […]
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85 Adv. Spanish A great Spanish conversation
In this chat we share a wonderful Spanish conversation about the recent immersion course that we had the pleasure to […]
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84 Advanced Spanish It’s difficult for them!
Today, we join the Spanish teachers on our immersion course as they discuss how it’s difficult for them to hear […]
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83 Advanced Spanish Creative Spanish
Today, Cynthia is sharing a Creative Spanish story where you get the chance to finish the story in the comments. […]
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82 Advanced Spanish listening – Being a parent
In this Advanced Spanish listening exercise, we talk to Lorenzo on being a parent and the challenges that come with […]
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81 Advanced Spanish Learning Tips with Cynthia
Today, Cynthia is sharing her wisdom and offering some great Spanish learning tips to really help you to move forward […]
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80 Adv Spanish Benefits of speaking Spanish
Cynthia is back with a great chat on the benefits of speaking Spanish. Does it somehow make you more sexy? […]
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79 SERIOUSLY ADVANCED SPANISH LISTENING TEST
Join Cynthia, Ana and Gordon as they take you on a freestyle, open ended chat that ends up being a […]
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78 Advanced Hilarious Spanish listening
Join us on this hilarious Spanish listening lesson where you get a chance to really test out your Spanish listening […]
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77 Advanced Spanish expressions with LSS
Join us on this impromtu lesson on Advanced Spanish expressions. In this lesson we look at the expression: Valga la […]
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76 Advanced Spanish verb Dejar
Come and join us for this fantastic opportunity to understand the Spanish verb DEJAR and its many meanings! There’s even […]
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75 Advanced Spanish FUN
Today we are having some Spanish fun and laughs as we look at our YouTube shorts thumnails and try and […]
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74 Advanced Classic Spanish mistakes
In this lesson we have some fun talking about the many Spanish mistakes that Gordon has made throughout the last […]
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73 Advanced The Uses of YA in Spanish
In this lesson we offer you a fabulous lesson on the uses of YA in Spanish with Cynthia and Ana. […]
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72 Advanced Funny Spanish stories
In this lesson we share some funny Spanish stories with you about the hilarious things that have happened to us […]
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71 Advanced Spanish Conversation with Mercedes
In this Advanced Spanish conversation we chat to Mercedes about Spain in the fifties and smoking and alcohol. Come and […]
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70 Advanced Spanish past tense with Mercedes
In this lesson we chat to Mercedes about Spain in the fifties and get the chance to listen to some […]
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69 Advanced Spanish Spain in the fifties
In this lesson we chat to Mercedes about Spain in the fifties and what life was like back then. Come […]
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68 Adv Spanish Test your Spanish listening
In this lesson we have some fun while you test your Spanish listening on a series of questions that we […]
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67 Advanced Spanish conversation Back in England
Come and join us as we offer you a great Advanced Spanish conversation about our latest trip to England. Com […]
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66 Advanced Spanish Advice on your level
Come and join us as we offer you some great Spanish advice on how to look at where you are […]
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65 Advanced Spanish Advice: Moving to Colombia
Come and join us as we offer our opinion on the importance of changing your accent and vocabulary if you […]
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64 Advanced Spanish Use GOT in Spanish
Come and join us to understand the way that we use GOT in Spanish. Got is a strange verb because […]
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63 Advanced Spanish Should Have in Spanish
Come and join us to find out about how you say Should Have in Spanish. Find out why some people […]
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62 Advanced Spanish Present and Future
Come and join us to have some fun while you learn and to better understand the Spanish Present and Future […]
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61 Adv Spanish Switching between Spanish and English
In this lesson, we talk about switching bewteen Spanish and English and how much time we spend in the two […]
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60 Advanced Speaker Learning multiple languages
In this lesson, we answer a great question about learning multiple languages. Is it okay to try and learn two […]
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59 Advanced Writing in Spanish with Google Translate
In this lesson, we answer a great question about writing in Spanish with Google Translate. Should we use it? Should […]
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58 Advanced Spanish Subjunctive with multiple persons
In this lesson, we answer a great question about the use of the Spanish Subjunctive with multiple persons. How does […]
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57 Advanced Understand PENSAR EN
In this lesson, we help you understand PENSAR EN and the way it works. We also offer you other insights […]
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56 Adv Speaker La Noche Buena in Spain
In this lesson we offer you a fun chat in Spanish about La Noche Buena in Spain as well as […]
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55 Advanced Spanish Plans for 2022
In this lesson we offer you a fun chat for the Advanced Spanish speaker as we look at what we […]
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54 Advanced Giving Birth Spanish vocabulary
In this lesson we help youwith some key Spanish vocabulary on giving birth and the process of pregnancy. (We don’t […]
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53 Advanced Test your Gustar C1-C2 Proficiency
In this lesson we help you test your Gustar C1-C2 Proficiency level. This is a great challenge to rise to […]
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52 Advanced Bringing up Bilingual children
In this lesson we discuss bringing up bilingual children and the interesting things that can happen in the process. We […]
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51 Advanced Testing your Spanish level C1-C2
Why not start testing your Spanish level here! can you reach the Proficiency level? Testing your Spanish level is a […]
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50 Advanced Ambiguous Spanish Sentences
In this lesson we look at some ambiguous Spanish sentences that use the LE A structure and that have two […]
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49 Advanced Spanish Copying accents badly!
In this lesson we have some fun copying accents badly. We try to say the same sentence whilst using various […]
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48 Advanced The Secret to the Spanish Subjunctive
In this lesson we show you the secret to the Spanish Subjunctive and how you should go about learning it. […]
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47 Advanced Spanish gestures explained
In this lesson we help you with Spanish gestures and the way that they are used. Come and join us […]
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46 Advanced Chatting in Spanish: Languages
In this lesson we are chatting in Spanish about languages and which ones are more difficult. We have some fun […]
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45 Advanced Spanish Eating habits
In this lesson we talk about Spanish eating habits along with the diet that we have been following for a […]
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44 Advanced Spanish A surprise topic
In this lesson Gordon gets a suprise topic thrust upon him by Cynthia and this Advanced Spanish videocast. Be sure […]
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43 Advanced Spanish student The meaning of Success
In this lesson we talk about the meaning of success in our latest advanced Spanish student videocast. Be sure to […]
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42 Advanced Spanish Speaker Family Values
In this lesson we talk about family values in our lastest advanced Spanish speaker videocast. Be sure to check out […]
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41 Advanced Talking about our childhood in Spanish
In this lesson we use the past tense to talk about our childhood in Spanish. This is a handy lesson […]
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40 Advanced Speaker Spanish Our Business LightSpeed Spanish
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39 Advanced Speaker Spanish Great Films LightSpeed Spanish
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38 Advanced Speaker Spanish Animal Rights LightSpeed Spanish
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37 Advanced Speaker Spanish Laugh at Gordon LightSpeed Spanish
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36 Advanced Speaker Spanish The Illegal Botellón LightSpeed Spanish
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35 Advanced Speaker Spanish Leaving the UK for Spain LightSpeed Spanish
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34 Advanced Speaker Spanish Gordon’s Police Trouble LightSpeed Spanish
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33 Advanced Speaker Spanish Where we’ve been LightSpeed Spanish
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32b Advanced Speaker Spanish A Relaxing Day—NOT LightSpeed Spanish
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32a Advanced Speaker Spanish A Relaxing Day—NOT LightSpeed Spanish
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31 Advanced Speaker Mercedes on the Spanish Learning English
The Great Push Thanks to the ongoing crisis, there is a enormous wave in Spain of the Spanish learning English. […]
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Advanced Speaker 30 – Spanish Jokes and Funny Stories
Fun Stories and Spanish Jokes Being a Spanish teacher has many fun moments, but none as funny as the ones […]
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Advanced Speaker 29 – Spanish Imperfect Subjunctive Conversation
The Spanish Imperfect Subjunctive Before you watch this podcast-video, we suggest that you watch video 9 and 10 in the […]
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Advanced Speaker 28 – Present Subjunctive Spanish Language
Present Subjunctive Spanish. This podcast is designed to pull together the range of eight videos that I (Gordon) made on […]
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Advanced Speaker 27 – Spanish Spanish or Latin American Spanish?
Spanish Spanish? Let me start by saying that this subject is a highly polemic and controversial one. Making a blog […]
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Advanced Speaker 26 – Spanish Swear Words Very Strong (18+++)
Very strong Spanish swear words This is the third in the series of Spanish swear words and general profanities. Please […]
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Advanced Speaker 25 – Spanish Swear Words Medium Strength (18+)
Spanish Swear Words. For those of our followers who have already watched or listened to our previous podcast on Spanish […]
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Advanced Speaker 24 – Spanish Insults The ‘Mild’ Options (18+)
Spanish Insults. The first thing to make clear when we talk about Spanish insults is that we are talking about […]
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Advanced Speaker 23 – Madrid vs Barcelona Spanish Lesson
Madrid vs Barcelona. There exists a tremendous rivalry between ‘los madrileños’ from Madrid and ‘los barceloneses’ from Barcelona. One would […]
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Advanced Speaker Podcast 22 – Spanish Economy and the La Crisis
What is La Crisis. Talk to any Spanish person about the Spanish economy and you will hear the words ‘la […]
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Advanced Speaker Podcast 21 – Spanish Stories and Funny Moments
Funny Spanish Stories. In this podcast Cynthia and I talk about some funny things that happened to us during our […]
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Advanced Spanish Podcast 20 – Spanish Weddings
For many years now, Spanish weddings have been a spectacular event that takes months to prepare. No expense is spared […]
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Advanced Online Spanish Lesson 19 – Las Drogas
This online Spanish lesson from LightSpeed Spanish is about las drogas. A Cynthia no le gustó este tema. The truth […]
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Advanced Free Spanish Lessons Online 18 – Momentos Reveladores
Have you had an experience in your life that changed its entire course? ¿Has tenido lo que se llama ‘un […]
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Advanced Spanish Video Lesson 17 – La Politica
Ahora, ¡un tema difícil! We chose to include this subject as a Spanish video lesson not because we are experts […]
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Advanced Free Spanish Lesson 16 – Momentos Graciosos con La Familia
This free Spanish lesson — all of our Spanish lessons are free, by the by — was great fun to […]
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Advanced Spanish Podcast 15 – Mercedes y Tecnología
Mercedes, Cynthia’s mum, gives a great interview with Gordon in this advanced Spanish podcast, in which she talks clearly about […]
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Advanced Spanish Podcast 14 – Doblajes y Subtitulos
In this advanced Spanish podcast, we’re going to talk about movies in the Spanish language. The Spanish cinema has a […]
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