Podcast Pro
Talk shop through a whole episode — planning, recording, editing, publishing — out loud in Spanish.
Real Latin American podcasters speak a deliberate mix: Spanish structure, English tech loanwords. You armás la escaleta (put together the rundown), ajustás los niveles, then subís el gain con cuidado and subís al hosting — gain and hosting stay in English, with Spanish articles. But the register has rules: the noun is invariable — el podcast, los podcasts, never un podcasto — the host is more idiomatically el anfitrión or el presentador than el host, and it's los audífonos, not los headphones.
Below: the vocabulary of each production stage, the loanword traps that break your register — and a way to run studio talk out loud with a co-host who answers back, no flashcards, no gap-fills.
The warm-up pack
The lines said in the studio, not a production glossary — from sound check to sign-off.
01 · How you send the plan
Te paso la escaleta por WhatsApp.
I'll send you the rundown over WhatsApp.
Escaleta, not guión completo — it's the block-by-block plan, and sending it early keeps a guest from freezing on air.
02 · The sound check
Antes de grabar, dame un nivel diciendo tu nombre.
Before we record, give me a level, say your name.
This is the studio's version of small talk — say your name, get a level, and recording stops feeling like a big deal.
03 · Catching a hot mic
Bajale un toque al gain que estás saturando.
Turn the gain down a touch, you're clipping.
Gain stays in English even here — it's the volume going into the mic. You don't need the technical word for 'too loud', just this line.
04 · Avoiding feedback
Monitoreá con los cerrados, así no hay realimentación.
Monitor with the closed-backs, so there's no feedback.
Los cerrados means closed-back headphones — say it and every audio person knows exactly which pair you mean.
05 · Naming the edit
Le metí compresor y un EQ suave, quedó parejo.
I put a compressor and a light EQ on it, came out even.
Compresor and EQ stay close to their English roots — you don't have to translate them, just use them the way editors actually do.
06 · Cutting the filler words
Corté como cincuenta 'eh' del primer bloque.
I cut about fifty 'ums' from the first block.
Muletillas are your eh, um, este — naming them by their real word is the first step to hearing, and cutting, your own.
07 · The export setting nobody skips
Normalizá todo a -16 LUFS antes de exportar.
Normalize everything to -16 LUFS before you export.
LUFS is a loudness standard, not a Spanish word — it's said exactly like this in every Latin American studio.
08 · Landing the sponsor
Esta semana cerramos con un patrocinador nuevo, dos episodios.
We closed a new sponsor this week, two episodes.
Cerramos is the verb that matters — you don't 'sign' a sponsor in Spanish, you close one, same as any deal.
09 · Setting the release day
El episodio sale el martes a primera hora.
The episode drops Tuesday first thing.
Sale, not se publica — episodes 'come out', casual and confident, the way indie podcasters actually talk about a release.
10 · Who actually grows the show
Los oyentes fieles son los que dejan reseñas, hay que cuidarlos.
The loyal listeners are the ones who leave reviews — look after them.
Oyentes fieles, not just oyentes — naming your most loyal audience out loud is how you remember to actually thank them.
11 · The line every episode ends on
Suscríbanse y dejen su reseña de cinco estrellas.
Subscribe and leave your five-star review.
This is the sign-off you'll say at the end of every episode — practice it until it's automatic, because it will be.
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The part no drill site can do
Olivia
Your vocabulary teacher for this pack
In the Podcast Pro lessons there's nothing to memorize in advance — Olivia is in the studio with you, and the episode has to get made. She asks for a sound check — dame un nivel diciendo tu nombre — and when the take saturates, you're the one who has to say bajale un toque al gain. You walk her through the edit (cortar las muletillas, normalizar el volumen), settle the release — el episodio sale el martes a primera hora — and close the show the way every indie podcaster does: suscríbanse y dejen su reseña de cinco estrellas. Out loud, take after take.
Blank mid-sentence and nothing bad happens — she waits. That's the practice, without unnecessary judgement.
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Quick answers
El anfitrión or el presentador — both more idiomatic in Latin American podcasting than the borrowed el host, which you'll also hear.
The episode rundown — the block-by-block plan of the show. It's everyday studio talk: te paso la escaleta por WhatsApp, le pasamos la escaleta al invitado un día antes.
Yes — the word stays as-is and never inflects: el podcast, los podcasts. Saying un podcasto is a classic giveaway. The same goes for gain, hosting, and the feed RSS: English word, Spanish article.
Los audífonos in Latin America, los auriculares as the more neutral option. Using the English plural — los headphones — breaks the register even in a scene full of loanwords.
Grabar is to record; guardar is to save. You record the take, then save the file — mixing them up mid-session is one of the most common slips this badge trains out of you.
