Immersive Spanish - Immersive Spanish, Season 6, Episode 1 - Welcome to San Sebastián

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

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Ola Viejeros. Today, we're kicking off a brand new season of immersive Spanish. And for season six, we're starting somewhere very special. Today, we're in the beautiful Basque city of San Sebastian, in the north of Spain, right by the French border. Now, you might already know San Sebastian as the place to come for food, and that reputation didn't come from nowhere. this small city is famous for having an extraordinary concentration of Michelin-starred restaurants packed into a very small area. In fact, it's often described as one of the most Michelin-Star dense food cities in the world. So, does that mean some of the best food on the planet is right here?

Well, there's only one way to find out. It's charming here. The sea, the old streets, the hills. Ah, look, there's even a cafe. I'm going to go in and order some food and drinks. But before I do that, there's something really powerful I want to show you about Spanish. Today, we're going to learn how, in Spanish, of course, one single word can turn into many different words,

just by changing the ending. It's one of the best tricks in the language, and it's an amazing way of multiplying the number of words you know without really learning anything new. In Spanish, instead of having a word like eat on its own, the basic form is to eat. So, in Spanish, to eat is comere. Repeat after me. Comer.

Comer. To eat. And that literally means to eat. Now, here's where it gets in traditional. To say I eat, you don't need a new word. You just change the ending. You take the E-R of Comer and you add an O. That gives you,

Como. I eat. Come. Say it with me. Como. Como. Como. Now, to say you eat, we change the ending again.

We remove the E-E-A-E-A-E-A-E. We remove the ER of Comer and we add an E. That gives us, come. You eat. Come. Repeat after me. Come. Come.

Come. He or she eats in Spanish is come. Come. Come. And now, for they eat more than one person, we go back to the base, com, and we add E. N.

Comen. They eat. Comen. Say it with me. Comen. So, now, from just one word, Comer, you already know. Comer, which is to eat.

Como, I eat. Come, you eat. Come he, he, she eats, and common. They eat. One word has just become four. And the best part, this isn't a trick word. This works for most verbs in Spanish. Yes, there are some irregular verbs, but the majority of them follow this pattern.

Most of the time, this system just works. Let's do the same thing with drink. To drink in Spanish is Beber. Say it with me. Beber. Beber. I remember this one because it sounds a bit like a baby. Beber.

Baby, beaver. Imagine a baby drinking from a bottle. That usually helps it stick. Baby, bear bear. So then, using the exact same rule as before, we take off the ER ending from Beber. and we add an O. So, I drink is Vervo. I drink.

Bevo. Say it with me. Beavo. One more time, Vervo. One more time, Vervo. Now, you drink. Same again.

Bebe. You drink. Bebe. Repeat after me. Bebe. He or she drinks? How do you think you would say that? Bebe. Bebe. And finally, they drink.

Beven. They drink. Beven. So how do you think you would say they drink water? Beven Agua. Beven Agua. Now, to pay. Let's move on to pay. To pay in Spanish is

Pagar Pagar repeat after me Pagar I remember this because the first two letters are the same as they are in English P-A Pagar

I pay is Pago see we've removed the final two letters from Pagar A-R and replace them with O Pago

I pay How do you think you would say you pay Paga. How about he or she pays? Paga. El Paga, or Eya Paga. And how about they pay?

Pagan. Pagan. Same idea, same system. To speak is Ablar. Ablar. Say it with me. Ablar is to speak.

To speak. to speak, I speak, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, you speak, you speak, you speak, you, speak, uh, he or she speaks, he or she speaks, about, yeah,

he, and, they speak, they speak, Ablan, Ablan, no ablan much, no ablan much. You're not learning new verbs here, you're just reusing a pattern.

So, let's put this to work in real sentences. How would you say, I drink coffee? Bevo coffee. Bevo, cafe, bevo, coffee.

Simple, right? Now, how do you think you would say you, you drink coffee. Bebe coffee. And how about they drink coffee? Beben coffee. Beben coffee.

Beben coffee. Perfect. Now, let's change just one word. How do you think you'd say I drink water in Spanish? Bebo water. Bebo water. It's the same verb, same pattern,

but a different drink. Now let's switch back to eat. How do you think you'd say I eat meat? Remember, the word for meat, like in chili con, carne, mm-hmm. The word for meat is carne. So how would you say, I eat meat? Como carne.

Como, carne. Now, how would you say, I don't eat meat? This is really easy. In Spanish, you just add no at the beginning of the sentence. So, como carne becomes no como carne. I don't eat meat. No como carne. No, como carne.

How would you say they eat meat? Come in carne. Come in. Carni. And how would you say they don't eat meat? No, come in carne. No, Commen,

carne. Excellent. Now, do you remember the word for milk in Spanish? I say it all the time in my usual coffee order. It's lece. Lece. So from that, how would you say I drink milk? Bebo lece.

Bebo. Lece. Now, to ask a question in Spanish, you often don't change the. the words at all. Good news, right? You just changed the intonation. You raise your voice at the end, like you're asking a question. That's it. So, you eat meat is Come a carne. And to ask, do you eat meat? You simply turn it into a question. Comey carne? See what I did there? Do you see what I did there? Stating a fact, you eat meat. Comey carne.

asking do you eat meat? Come a carne? Come carne? Same words, different intonation. Say it with me. Come carne? How easy is that? So, let's do a few more.

Remember, same sentence, just a question voice. You drink coffee is Bebe coffee. Now ask the question, do you drink coffee? Perfect. Bebe coffee? Hmm, bebe coffee? You drink water,

bebe Agua. Now the question. Bebe Agua? Bebe Agua. You eat meat. Come carne. Now ask it.

Come carne. One more time. Come carne? They eat meat is Come in carne And as a question Come in carne

Come in carne See how nothing changes except your voice No extra words No new grammar Just intonation And now you're not just making sentences You're asking questions in Spanish

So today you've learned something really important You don't need thousands of words to speak Spanish You need patterns If you learn one verb, change the ending, and suddenly you can say what you do, what other people do, and what's happening around you. Remember, if you want to take your learning further, you can download the Immersive Spanish app, which has on-test transcripts, multiple-choice quizzes, and most importantly, speaking tests. Head over to studio.com forward slash immersive Spanish to get started now. And now, I think it's time to order my coffee and later I'll be checking. out a few places to eat.

Until the proxia.