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English Spanish Parallel Texts – The Family in Spanish Posted by on Aug 10, 2021 in Language, Learning, Spanish Grammar, Spanish Vocabulary

In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice discussing The Family in Spanish. Start by reading the texts in Spanish below. The English translations are provided later but please try not to look at them until you have read the Spanish versions various times and tried your best to understand them.

There may be some words and phrases in the text that you are unfamiliar with, but you should be aiming to capture the main essence of what is happening. There will always be words and phrases popping up in real-life situations that you have never heard before, so it is important never to get too distracted by details.

If you want to investigate some of the words you don’t know with a dictionary that would be great, please do, but do this after trying your best to understand with what you already have in your head.

Check out this video lesson with information relevant to this topic:

The Family in Spanish

The Family in Spanish

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Spanish Text

 

Salva: Hola Olivia, ¿cómo estás?
Olivia: Muy bien Salva. Estoy con mi hermana y su familia en este momento.
Salva: ¿Tu hermana no vive aquí normalmente?
Olivia: No ella vive en Holanda normalmente.
Salva: ¿Dónde? ¿En Amsterdam?
Olivia: No, en Rotterdam. Ella está aquí dos semanas con sus hijos y su marido.
Salva: ¡Qué bien! ¿no?
Olivia: Si, me encanta estar con mi hermana. Su hijo hace mucho ruido pero es muy majo. La niña es muy tranquila.
Salva: ¿Tu hermana habla holandés?
Olivia: Sí, habla holandés perfectamente.
Salva: ¿Trabaja allí?
Olivia: Sí, es vendedora.
Salva: Tienes un hermano también ¿no?
Olivia: Sí, tengo un hermano. El vive en África.
Salva: ¡Qué dices! ¿Por qué?
Olivia: Mi hermano es misionero.
Salva: Tienes familia por todo el mundo Olivia.
Olivia: La verdad es que sí. También tengo un primo en Los Estados Unidos, una tía en Argentina, y un sobrino en Francia.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

English Text

 

Salva: Hi Olivia, how are you?
Olivia: Very well Salva. I am with my sister and her family at this time.
Salva: Does your sister not live here normally?
Olivia: No, she normally lives in the Netherlands.
Salva: Where? In Amsterdam?
Olivia: No, in Rotterdam. She is here two weeks with her children and her husband.
Salva: Great! Eh?
Olivia: Yes, I love being with my sister. Her son makes a lot of noise but he is very nice. The daughter is very calm.
Salva: Does your sister speak Dutch?
Olivia: Yes, she speaks Dutch perfectly.
Salva: Does she work there?
Olivia: Yes, she is a saleswoman.
Salva: You have a brother too, right?
Olivia: Yes, I have a brother. He lives in Africa.
Salva: What! Why?
Olivia: My brother is a missionary.
Salva: You have family all over the world Olivia.
Olivia: That is true. I also have a cousin in the United States, an aunt in Argentina, and a nephew in France.

 
 
 
 

So, how did you get on? How much did you understand of the original text before checking the translation? Please let me know in the comments section below…

Don’t worry if you didn’t understand that much, practice makes perfect! Be patient and keep reading, hearing, writing, and speaking Spanish. See you next time!

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Laura & Adam have been blogging and creating online Spanish courses for Transparent Language since 2010. Laura is from Bilbao in northern Spain and Adam is from Devon in the south of England. They lived together in Spain for over 10 years, where their 2 daughters were born, and now they live in Scotland. Both Laura & Adam qualified as foreign language teachers in 2004 and since have been teaching Spanish in Spain, the UK, and online.


Comments:

  1. Shanel:

    I was able to understand the entire thing. There was one word that I didn’t understand but I got the context of what it was saying. I like this a lot.

    • Laura & Adam:

      @Shanel Well done Shanel! You are doing very well. Great to hear you like these parallel texts! Let’s see how you get on with the next one. Laura

  2. Greg Lamb:

    Por que es “Estoy con mi hermana y su familia” y no “Estoy con mi hermana y nuestra familia”?

    • Laura & Adam:

      @Greg Lamb Hola Greg, I used the ‘su/her’ in this text to describe ‘her family’ because I was referring to the children and husband of the sister as a separate family. I appreciate this family could also be described as ‘nuestra family’ if you wanted to think of both families as part of one big family. As you prefer. Gracias, Laura

  3. David K. Kelley:

    When Olivia said that her sister spoke Dutch perfectly, why did you translate that as “he” instead of “she”? I apologize if you have already answered this question, but the text had not been corrected, so I thought perhaps nobody had noticed it yet.

    • Laura & Adam:

      @David K. Kelley Sorry about that mistake David. And well done for spotting it. I hadn’t noticed it. Just corrected it now. Gracias, Laura