Do you want to speak Spanish fluently in 2023? / 5 minutes of Spanish + Podcast (English version)

 

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Thank you very much for being here participating in this podcast about Spanish, a language that we love and that today summons us. I am Eduardo Satorno, Spanish teacher at SpanishUp2U and manager of Unique Trips, your travel agency.

 

I am Malena Algorta, Spanish teacher at Spanish in Cabo and at SpanishUp2U. If you want to know more about your Spanish site click here and you will see all the podcasts, videos and lessons we have for you, so you can improve your Spanish in 2023.

 

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That's right, congratulations! We are in 5 minutes of Spanish and this is episode number 152.

 

Fluir / to flow

Welcome! Thank you for listening week after week. This is a podcast to practice Spanish so we ask you to listen to it and then, if you need to, look for the translation. We are going to translate some words, not all of them.

 

Yes, we want it to be a fluid message, we don't want you to understand word by word, but the context in general. It is not so important the message we give besides,,,,

 

Well sometimes we tell a joke that is not very funny, but we take the 5 minutes very seriously. So, Male, if you want the audio to flow, let's start! What are we talking about today?

 

Today we talk about flowing, letting go, relaxing.

 

Or let the water of a river flow, or the water in the pipes that is so important now with the summer.

 

Or that the blood flows, which is very important so that the heart beats.   

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Of course, that is fundamental, the blood has to flow very well. What about the origin of “fluir”?

 

It comes from the Latin, fluére, it is said that a liquid or a gas flows, that is, it runs, it slides.

 

Words can also flow from the mouth, so when a person speaks a language very well, it is said that he speaks fluently.

 

Fluir – to flow

Fluidez - fluency

 

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Speak fluently Spanish / Habla español con fluidez

Fluir is an irregular verb, it is conjugated as construir (to built), it changes the i for Greek i.

Yo fluyo, tú fluyes, usted /él / ella fluye, nosotros/as fluimos ellos/ellas/ustedes fluyen

 

La sangre fluye por las venas. The blood flows through the veins

 

In the preterite tense we write flui without the accent. Its participle fluido, often used as an adjective or noun, is also written without the accent.

 

It was a quiet morning and the traffic was very fluid, however, I don't know why the bus didn't pass.

 

In economics?

 

Flujo de caja - Cash Flow

 

This refers to cash inflows and outflows. Sometimes, it doesn't let you flow smoothly in economics.

 

And in psychology?

 

Nowadays, the term flow or even the English word flow is widely used.

Thoughts flow.

 

When you're doing something you really like, you focus on the present and flow, it's something like happiness. I like to flow like that.

 

Okay, now, let's go to the phrases:

 

Déjalo correr – Go with the flow

 

You can also say "alivianate", "relax”

 

Aliviánate - Loosen up

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