¡Bienvenido! Welcome!
Hello everybody! Welcome to my website! This is a space that I am creating to help you learn Spanish. I am mostly producing podcasts, but I am also using social media to share my content with all of you.
Here you can find everything that I am creating, and it will continue to grow with time. I hope that my podcasts and everything that I am creating can help you reach your goal to become fluent in Spanish and can help you to have a pleasant experience in your journey to ultimately speak Spanish.
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Los diamantes de Esmeralda book
Conversations in Spanish Podcast
Mini Stories to Learn Spanish Podcast
How to Teach a Language Podcast
Music in Spanish & Other Languages
About Joel E. Zárate
Hi there! Thank you very much for visiting my website, for checking out my space, and for giving me a chance, an opportunity, to help you learn Spanish.
I have taught Spanish for many years to many students, and I am thrilled, I am excited, and I am looking forward to helping you learn Spanish and take you to the highest level you can reach.
You are very welcome here, and I hope that you can find a lot of materials and activities to help you in you learning language journey. If you would like to know more about me, about my history, you can read more on the link down below.
Funding Campaign 2024!
GoFundMe Page
Thank you to those of you who support the podcast through donations. Your donations help me to cover the subscriptions and software I need to make the podcasts. They also help me to pay my contributors and some guests as well as paying someone to transcribe the episodes.
Thank you for your support.
Click here to open my GoFundMe page.
Thank you.
Los diamantes de Esmeralda
My first short novel to help you build your collection of reading materials to learn Spanish. This is a mini novel in Spanish for those of you who are high-beginners, intermediate and advanced level Spanish learners.
After finding a small bag of diamonds at a recycling center, Esmeralda, a 10-year-old poor girl and her family, find themselves in a new path of life that you would not expect. Discover who our characters are and what happens after this life changing event.
The goal is to give you the opportunity to read a novel written in everyday language so that you can learn everyday Spanish through reading a short novel. The book has been designed to be easy to understand and to be an enjoyable reading and story.
Podcast Transcripts
Click on this link to view all the free transcripts I have availalbe for you. There is no catch. You don't have to give me your name and email or subscribe to an email mailing list.
Note: I don't have transcripts for all the episodes of my podcasts (particularly all the episodes for my podcast Conversations in Spanish & Other Languages). Every transcript available to you will be in this section.
Podcast Schedule
At the end of each month, I am going let you know what episodes are coming for the following month; for example, on the last week of May, I am going to post what episodes will air in June; on the last week of June, I'll let you know what episodes are coming in July, and so forth.
Click on this link to open the podcast schedule.
The Conversations in Spanish & Other Languages Podcast
This is a podcast where I have conversations in Spanish with other native speakers from different Spanish speaking countries so that you can listen and learn Spanish in context with natural and casual conversations in an easy to understand format.
If you are learning or improving your Spanish, this is an opportunity to listen to conversations in Spanish on everyday topics and everyday language with native speakers.
I also have conversations in Italian, Portuguese and French to not only help you learn those languages but also to give you a window into my experience learning another language in a communicative context and you can see how fun it can be to learn a language when your primary goal in to communicate in that language.
Listen to the Conversations in Spanish Podcast
Help Me Learn Spanish Podcast
In this podcast, you can learn Spanish in a communicative context, grammar in a communicative context, how we speak Spanish in everyday language, and how we talk about simple and ordinary tasks that are part of our daily lives through simple and short conversations between two native speakers.
In this podcast, you will listen to short conversations between 2 native speakers talking about life activities so that can learn everyday language. In some episodes, we are also going to put an emphasis on a particular grammar point so that you can have an opportunity to learn grammar in context through many examples that you’ll hear in the conversation.
In this podcast, the goal is also to help you grow your vocabulary, so we will also use vocabulary from my podcast, “Vocabulary in Spanish and Other Languages Podcast” for you to be able to learn vocabulary there, and here you can hear it in context.
Listen to the Help Me Learn Spanish Podcast.
Mini Stories to Learn Spanish Podcast
Listen to our podcast: Mini Stories to learn Spanish. This is a podcast for those of you who are high beginners and intermediate learners in Spanish.
In this podcast, you can listen to simple short histories to help you learn Spanish, improve your Spanish and reach your goal to speak Spanish.
Each story is read twice: one time slower with a Mexican neutral accent and a second time faster with a Spanish (Spain) neutral accent. There is also a video version that you can watch on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.
Listen to the Mini Stories in Spanish Podcast
Spanish with Joel: A Spanish for Beginners Podcast
Welcome to our podcast, "Spanish with Joel Zárate: A Spanish for Beginners Podcast." This is a podcast for those of you who are complete beginners or low beginners. Those of you who never had any Spanish class or lesson or just know one or two words.
If you took Spanish in High School, at the community college, or at the university as your required courses, or if studied Spanish before, but you feel that you have lost your Spanish and would like to restart your journey to learn Spanish, this podcast is for you!
Listen and open the podcast website here.
Show Me the World in Spanish
Welcome to Show Me the World in Spanish podcast, “Enséñame el mundo en español.” This is a podcast for intermediate Spanish learners and advanced Spanish learners.
In this podcast, you can learn interesting aspects of the Spanish speaking world like culture, traditions, food, life in a Spanish speaking country and the everyday Spanish to talk about the world around us.
We will have guests from all the Spanish speaking countries so that you can listen to different Spanish speakers explain something to you about their country as if a friend was explaning and helping you discover something about their country.
Listen and open the podcast website here.
Yo Hablo Español
Welcome to my podcast, “Yo Hablo Español.” This is a podcast for those of you who have an intermediate or advanced level in Spanish.
In this podcast, you have an opportunity to hear people around the world who have learned Spanish, and they share their journey, their story and how Spanish has become part of their lives.
In this podcast we can also learn about cultural differences, routines and curiosities between the Spanish speaking world and the rest of the world.
Listen and open the podcast website here.
Vocabulary in Spanishs Podcast
This is a simple podcast where you can learn vocabulary in Spanish and other languages. I intend to share with you one vocabulary lesson a week, and you can also view a web page with the vocabulary pictures and definitions to help you increase your Vocabulary.
Vocabulary is the essence and the most basic foundation for learning another language and being able to communicate your thoughts to other people. Learning vocabulary is something that is easy and fun to do, and it gives your resources to improve you ability to speak Spanish and other languages.
As time permits, I'll keep adding new vocabulary and exercises to help you practice the vocabulary.
Listen to the Vocabulary in Spanish Podcast
How to Teach a Language: A Workshop for One-On-One Language Teachers
In this podcast, I am going to share with you my knowledge about teaching languages, learning languages and my frame of reference from the studies and literature in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) to help you become an informed, reflective and effective language instructor.
I have now narrowed the scope of this podcast, and I am focusing on helping those of you who offer one-on-one lessons in person or using one of those platforms that allow you to teach long distance. On every episode, I will share a relevant concept to teach a language, and I am going to demonstrate how to teach a language to beginners and intermediate learners in different languages.
On future episodes, I will also interview professors in academia who specialize in areas of interest for those of us who would like to improve our knowledge, abilities and skills as language teachers.
Música
Many of us enjoy listening to music in other languages for the fun of discovering new music but also with the intention to learn new words or learn phrases using music.
Here, I am helping youo to discover music (songs and artists) in different languages, that are available so far, to help you build your own music library.
In this section, we are sharing the names of our favorite artists as well as the titles of our favorite songs that you can listen to on YouTube.
Here, we make it easy for you to discover songs and artists so that you can find many options for music. I hope you enjoy this section, and I hope you can find a lot of music you like. Enjoy!
Contact
These are the 2 email accounts where you can email me:
1) spanishwithjoelzarate
@yahoo.com
2) spanishwithjoelzarate
@gmail.com
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I use social media to give you additional bit of language, grammar, expressions, idioms and other things to help you learn Spanish and grow you foundation on the language.