Listen Read Interact Podcast

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Welcome to the Listen Read Interact podcast—an interactive show for Spanish learners who want more than flashcards. Whether you're studying Spanish or exploring how we acquire language, you’ll find something here for you. It's the perfect supplement to courses and lessons at Tacoma Language Academy.

Hosted by the team behind Tacoma Language Academy and Read to Speak Spanish, this podcast blends storytelling, expert insights, and active engagement strategies to help you make real progress.

Rich show notes are available here on this page to help you go deeper into each episode They are like self-contained lessons, ideal for learners who want to follow along, revisit content, or actively interact with the language.

Why Listen Read Interact?

We know that comprehensible input is the driving force behind language acquisition. The more you hear and read language that makes sense to you, the more chances your brain has to process that input. This processed input is called "intake", language that’s ready to be acquired.

Once your brain reaches the intake stage, it may or may not acquire the language—based on criteria we don’t fully understand. It’s a bit of a black box. But the takeaway is simple: The more often you reach intake, the more language you acquire.

Interaction, while not essential to picking up Spanish, reinforces that the internal processing has occurred. That’s why this podcast invites you to Listen, Read, and Interact On repeat. Again and again and again.

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