Immersive Spanish - Immersive Spanish, Season 6, San Sebastián Episode 9 - The Shopping Centre

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

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Much thanks to everyone listening, and a huge thank you to our Patreon supporters. Classes Eccutiva Villegeroes get one extra episode of immersive Spanish every week in the same style as this podcast as well as ad-free listening, transcripts and 48 hours early access. And a bigger thank you to our Primera Classes supporters who are able to vote on what we teach and where we go next. Let's get started. Right, so today I've done something slightly different. I've left the old city, the cobbled streets, the pincho bars, the eladaria,

and I've walked out to a shopping centre on the edge of San Sebastian called Centro Commercial Garbera. It took about 40 minutes on foot to get here, and for at least 25 of those minutes, I was walking along a dual carriageway, wondering if I made a terrible decision. But I needed a shirt and some socks, so, Here I am. Not the most glamorous trip, but essential nonetheless. Now, the reason I wanted to come somewhere like this, beyond the socks, is that shopping centres, airports, train stations, well, these are the kinds of places where a very specific set of verbs become incredibly useful. Verbs about movement, about going in and out, up and down, finding things, navigating spaces.

And today we're going to learn exactly those verbs. And, as always, show you how one word can become many just by changing the ending. Let's start with a verb you already know from earlier this season. The word for I enter is... Entro. You might notice something familiar here. Entro ends in a O, just like Como, bevo,

quero, Tengo, etc. And that's because, whenever you're talking about yourself in Spanish, that O-O-O ending, is almost always there. It's one of those patterns that,

once you spot it, you start seeing it everywhere. Anyway, Enthro. We covered this briefly when I was walking around the city, but today we're going to use it properly. So how would you say you, formal, enter, enter, enter. We just change the ending from entro to enter. Same system as always. And how about he or she enters? Enter. Enter. And for more than one person, they enter. Entran. Enthran.

So, the word for shop in Spanish, as you may remember, is Tienda. Tienda. La Tienda. So imagine, I walk into a shop, which I'm actually about to do, because I really do need this shirt. How would you say I enter the shop? Entro in la Tienda. Entro in the Tienda.

Think of it as literally, I enter in the shop. in the shop. It does sound slightly odd translated into English, but in Spanish, it's completely natural. So how about if someone else walks in? Let's say, he enters the shop. Entra in la tienda. Entra. En, in la tienda.

And a whole group, they enter the shop. Entran in a tienda. Entran in la tienda. The end there. Now, let's learn the opposite, because what goes in must eventually come out, especially if the prices are bad. So the word for I leave is, salgo. Salgo. Salgo.

Now, you might be tempted to guess that you leave follows the same pattern and becomes salga. Logical guess. wrong though unfortunately Spanish has other ideas you leave you formal leave is

Sally spelt as sail Sally and same word he or she leaves is also Sally Sally

Now can you guess They leave Salin Salin So to say I leave the shop is Salgo de la tienda. Salgo de la tienda. Notice it's de here, not in like before.

You enter in the shop. Entro in the tienda. But you leave from the shop. Salgo de la tienda. Small detail, but worth noticing. So, Entro in the Tienda versus Salgo de la Tienda. Okay. So then, how about he leaves the shop?

Sale de la Tienda. El, sale, de la Tienda. And they leave the shop? Salen de la Tienda. Salen de la Tienda. Right, now we're moving around the shopping center. And to do that properly, we need to be able to go up and go down. The word for I go up is...

Suvo. So how would you say you go up? Solve. Suve. He or she goes up? Suve. Solve. They go up?

So when, so when. And the opposite I go down is. Bajo. Bajo. You, formal, go down? Baha. Baha. He or she goes down?

Baha. Baha. They go down. Bahan. Baha. Now, I want to point something out, because this is one of my favorite things about Spanish. Well, look at what we've just done.

Entro, enter, entra, salo, salé, salen. Suvo, suve, suven. Bajo, baha, bachan. Four completely different verbs. Four completely different meanings. But the same ending system running through all of them. Once you've got that system in your head, every new verb you learn immediately becomes four or five, even more words.

You're not learning one thing at a time. You're learning in multiples in this language. That's the real secret of Spanish, not memorization, it's pattern recognition. So, come on, let's put this into action, because I'm actually here and I actually need to find things. I'm on the ground floor. There's a directory on the wall. Lots of shop names, arrows pointing in different directions. I can see a supermarket to my left, a sports shop straight ahead, and what looks like a clove section upstairs. How would you say, there are many shops here?

There are much tiendas here. There are muches here. Very bien. There really are, by the way. Right. I need a shirt. One camisa. And I think the clothes are upstairs, so, Suvo, I go up.

Oh, there's an escalator here. A escalera mechanica. Very exciting. I'm on it now. Okay, I'm up. As I thought there's a clove shop right in front of me. Perfect timing. Enter in the tienda.

I enter the shop. Right. There are shirts everywhere. Rows of them. Some nice. Some. Not so nice. There's one here that is genuinely,

aggressively orange. I don't know who that's for, but I respect the confidence. How would you say, I like this shirt? Me gusts this camisa. Me gusta. And if you really love it,

Me Encasta this shirt. It enchants me this shirt. Me Enkanta This camisa. Yeah, there's a nice one here. Simple, dark blue. Let me check the price. Oh, in case you didn't know, the word for price in Spanish is El Precio.

The price. El Precio. Ooh. Ooh, that is quite a lot for a shirt, actually. How would you say, I don't like the price. No me gust del prcio. Just imagine, I'm shaking my finger, wagging it. No me gust del pracio.

That's very useful Spanish, by the way. You'll use that one a lot. So I'm going to put the shirt back and do what any sensible person does in this situation. I leave the shop. I leave the shop. Salgo de la tienda. But I still need socks. Calcettines.

I think they're downstairs, so Bajo. Bajo. I go down, back on the escalator. Going down this time, past the orange shirt, still there, still waiting for its person. Aha, here we go.

There's a section with socks just past the superman. market entrance. How would you say, there are socks here? There are calcettines here. There are calcettines here. Now, in Spanish, when you're talking about liking more than one thing, Gusta, it pleases, becomes gustan.

They please. So, instead of me gusta, it's me gustan. They please me. So to say I like these socks, multiple, notice how it's estos, because calcettines is plural. So, me gustan estos these calcettines.

Me gustan estos carcettines. Right, these are fine, simple, not orange, into the basket. Now, I have everything. And now,

Finally, I leave the shopping center. Del, by the way, is simply D plus El combined. You're here all the time, Salgo del central commercial. Back out for the automatic doors and into the warm San Sebastian air. The Jor carriageway awaits me. Worth it for the socks, I think. Well, Villegeroeroes, that's all for today. After la proxia.

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