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Riima

Learn Spanish, word for word

Learn Spanish for beginners along the Camino de Santiago: short episodes from the start of the way all the way to Santiago. The Spanish text above, under every word its literal English, and below that the sentence in natural English. A short audiobook made for repeating, offline and entirely on your device.

Ten of 94 episodes are recorded, 31 minutes in total. Recording continues.

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For iPhone, iOS 18 or later. The app is currently available as a beta through TestFlight, the link takes you to Apple.

The sections

  1. The Way Begins
  2. All the Way to Santiago
  3. Coming Home
  4. The City
  5. Marta tells the journey
  6. Arriving at the Harbour
  7. Work at the Guesthouse
  8. People and Places
  9. Plans and Winter
  10. Saying Goodbye to the Summer
  11. A Year in the City
  12. The Bookshop
  13. Country and History
  14. Opinions
  15. Stories
  16. Ideas and the Meeting
  17. The Row over the Harbour
  18. The Newspaper
  19. The Speech and the Verdict

The episodes

The first episode leads to the cathedral of Santiago. After that, the episodes follow Marta, on the way and then in the city, and later her year on the coast.

  1. 1The Cathedral of Santiago

  2. 2The First Morning

  3. 3Signs on the Path

  4. 4The Queen's Bridge

  5. 5The Hostel

  6. 6The Wide Plain

  7. 7The Cross on the Mountain

  8. 8The Round Houses

  9. 9The Rain in Galicia

  10. 10The Arrival

  11. 11The Door Upstairsbeing recorded

  12. 12The Sister and the Childbeing recorded

  13. 13Shopping for Two Daysbeing recorded

  14. 14Tomás Callsbeing recorded

  15. 15Sunday at Pilar'sbeing recorded

  16. 16The First Day Backbeing recorded

  17. 17The Reading Hourbeing recorded

  18. 18The Bus at Eightbeing recorded

  19. 19At the Doctor'sbeing recorded

  20. 20Evening in the Neighbourhoodbeing recorded

  21. 21Marta tells: the Way beginsbeing recorded

  22. 22Marta tells: to Santiagobeing recorded

  23. 23Marta tells: the returnbeing recorded

  24. 24Marta tells: the last eveningbeing recorded

  25. 25At the Ticket Counterbeing recorded

  26. 26Breakfast at the Guesthousebeing recorded

  27. 27The Journey Westbeing recorded

  28. 28At the Harbour Cafebeing recorded

  29. 29The First Letter from the Guesthousebeing recorded

  30. 30The Roomsbeing recorded

  31. 31Rain by the Seabeing recorded

  32. 32The Lost Umbrellabeing recorded

  33. 33The Market by the Harbourbeing recorded

  34. 34The Saturday by the Harbourbeing recorded

  35. 35At the doctorbeing recorded

  36. 36The neighboursbeing recorded

  37. 37The old photobeing recorded

  38. 38The bus to the citybeing recorded

  39. 39A day offbeing recorded

  40. 40At the Shopbeing recorded

  41. 41The Trip to the Coastbeing recorded

  42. 42Winter in the Mountainsbeing recorded

  43. 43On the Telephonebeing recorded

  44. 44Sunday by the Seabeing recorded

  45. 45The Workshopbeing recorded

  46. 46The Concert in the Hallbeing recorded

  47. 47The Movebeing recorded

  48. 48The Old Woman's Storybeing recorded

  49. 49The Last Eveningbeing recorded

  50. 50A room in the citybeing recorded

  51. 51The first day in the bookshopbeing recorded

  52. 52The tenant under the roofbeing recorded

  53. 53A city in the rainbeing recorded

  54. 54A letter to my grandmotherbeing recorded

  55. 55The Market and the Mayorbeing recorded

  56. 56A Question of Politenessbeing recorded

  57. 57The Library by the Riverbeing recorded

  58. 58A Day Without Powerbeing recorded

  59. 59What Stays When It Gets Darkbeing recorded

  60. 60The Way to the Old Millbeing recorded

  61. 61A Village and Its Churchbeing recorded

  62. 62The Speech of the Regionbeing recorded

  63. 63The Man Who Drew the Mapsbeing recorded

  64. 64What the Maps Toldbeing recorded

  65. 65I think you are wrongbeing recorded

  66. 66If I had more moneybeing recorded

  67. 67A mistake in the orderbeing recorded

  68. 68The boss's decisionbeing recorded

  69. 69What I have learnedbeing recorded

  70. 70A Train That Did Not Comebeing recorded

  71. 71How It Came Aboutbeing recorded

  72. 72The Grandmother Remembersbeing recorded

  73. 73The Summer That Passedbeing recorded

  74. 74A Year in Storiesbeing recorded

  75. 75Two Opinions About a Housebeing recorded

  76. 76What a Letter Can Dobeing recorded

  77. 77The Meetingbeing recorded

  78. 78After the Meetingbeing recorded

  79. 79The End of the Yearbeing recorded

  80. 80A new plan for the harbourbeing recorded

  81. 81What people hold against the planbeing recorded

  82. 82If people had been asked earlierbeing recorded

  83. 83Numbers that say somethingbeing recorded

  84. 84The session at the town hallbeing recorded

  85. 85A Newspaper in Changebeing recorded

  86. 86What a Headline Saysbeing recorded

  87. 87A Letter to the Editorbeing recorded

  88. 88A Reader Callsbeing recorded

  89. 89Tomorrow's Newspaperbeing recorded

  90. 90A Speech for a Farewellbeing recorded

  91. 91The Teacher and the Citybeing recorded

  92. 92What One Says and What One Meansbeing recorded

  93. 93Who Decides What Is Goodbeing recorded

  94. 94The End of a Long Storybeing recorded

Base languages

The Spanish course can be listened to from English and from German. You choose the base language in the app’s settings.

The Way Begins

The Camino de Santiago is a path many people know before they speak a word of Spanish. The course takes it as its thread: places, stages, what you see along the way. That gives the episodes an order you do not have to memorize.

The first episodes build the sentences the later ones are made of. Whoever has listened to them many times recognizes the construction in the later episodes and reads the English line less and less.

All the Way to Santiago

The second section leads into the city and to the cathedral. The episodes tell what stands there and what the people there do.

Courses

Listen to Spanish

Riima is currently available as a beta through TestFlight. Start with the first episode, and listen to it until the English underneath is no longer needed.

Try it free — Opens TestFlight at Apple

For iPhone, iOS 18 or later. The app is currently available as a beta through TestFlight, the link takes you to Apple.