Me paró la policía en Puebla - The Police Sto...

Can your Spanish be grammatically correct and still sound rude? Jim shares a recent moment when he forgot to greet the security guard, and we use that experience to explore seven everyday situations where tone, context, and small gestures can change how your words are received in ...  Show more

Would you say se petateó when someone tells you their uncle died? Probably not. With Día de Muertos approaching, we explore ten ways to talk about death in Mexican Spanish, from the straightforward morir and more formal fallecer to euphemisms and very informal expressions like co ...  Show more

Listen to a dialogue between a police officer and a driver who has just been stopped for speeding. You can read the transcript for this episode on the website https://www.portugueselab.com/podcast/084-stopped-by-police-in-portuguese 

So I got pulled over for the first time this week! I doubted I would share what happened but then came to realize it taught me such a good lesson of slowing down!! Obviously while driving, but also in life. I wanted to share just as a reminder of why speeding is so dangerous sinc ...  Show more

You know it’s going to be a wild episode when the customs officers get involved. Remi shares the wild story of how she found out she’s allergic to latex—and the weird connection it has to avocados?! Alisha opens up about her (very real) run-in with the law, getting stopped by cus ...  Show more