In this Spanish lesson we will practice using El Presente de Subjuntivo, the Spanish Present Subjunctive grammar tense. As usual, first we will review some relevant grammar and vocabulary and then see if you can follow a short listening.

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This lesson is part of a Spanish course that practices the grammar and vocabulary first introduced in my Intermediate Spanish course posted here on the Transparent Language blog. Let’s test your listening comprehension and see if you can understand a short audio in Spanish. The transcript to the audio will be given at the end of the post but please try not to look at it until you have tried playing and understanding the audio a few times.

Use the following link to watch the corresponding video lesson of the original course:

Intermediate Spanish Lesson 2 El Presente de Subjuntivo

Please familiarise yourself with the following words and phrases before listening to the audio below:

Concesionario: Car showroom
Ójala: Hopefully

Now play the audio to listen a conversation between two friends. Can you understand what they are saying? Play the audio a few times before you look at the transcript. Don’t worry if you don’t understand every single thing the two people are saying. Try to catch whichever words you can and then try to piece things together to work out what is being said.

(Play the audio a few times before you scroll down and look at the transcript)

Transcript:

Lucía: Hola Alex. ¿Vas a comprarte el seat Ibiza?
Alex: No sé, no estoy seguro. He estado en el concesionario de Citroen y me gusta mucho el c3 también.
Lucía: Espero que compres el Seat.
Alex: ¿Por qué?
Lucía: Porque Seat es una compañía española.
Alex: Ya, pero yo no soy español. Y voy a mudarme a Francia en un año.
Lucía: Pues cuando vivas en Francia cómprate un Citroen. Pero mientras estés en España, espero que compres un producto nacional.
Alex: Bueno bueno no sé. Voy a pensarlo. Posiblemente lea algunas opiniones en Internet antes de tomar una decisión.
Lucía: No creo que encuentres la solución en Internet.
Alex: Entonces ¿qué hago?
Lucía: Compra el Seat. Ójala me escuches y lo compres. No creo que el Citroen C3 dure tanto como el Seat Ibiza. Los coches Seat son mucho mejores.
Alex: Bueno, tal vez compre el Seat. Lo voy a pensar.

So, how did you get on? How much did you understand of the listening? Please let me know in the comments section below…

Don’t worry if you didn’t understand that much, keep reviewing the vocabulary and phrases and you will soon be up to speed and ready for the next lesson in this course. See you next time!