{"id":10954,"date":"2017-11-12T16:52:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T21:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=10954"},"modified":"2017-11-12T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T22:00:44","slug":"beginner-spanish-listening-practice-shopping-for-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/beginner-spanish-listening-practice-shopping-for-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 Shopping for clothes (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Spanish lesson we will practice how to manage in Spanish when buying clothes in a shop or market. As usual, first we will review some relevant grammar and vocabulary and then see if you can follow a short listening. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/shopping-606993_640-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/shopping-606993_640-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/shopping-606993_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This lesson is part of a Spanish course that practices the grammar and vocabulary first introduced in my beginner Spanish course posted here on the Transparent Language blog. Let&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p>Use the following link to watch the corresponding video lesson of the original course:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/spanish-lesson-beginner-17-shopping-for-clothes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beginner Spanish Lesson 17 Shopping for clothes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please familiarise yourself with the following words and phrases before listening to the audio below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A ver: Let\u2019s see.<br \/>\nProbadores: Changing rooms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, play the audio to listen to a conversation in a clothes shop. Can you understand what they are saying? Play the audio a few times before you look at the transcript. Don&#8217;t worry if you don&#8217;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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"compact_audio_player_wrapper\"><div class=\"sc_player_container1\"><input type=\"button\" id=\"btnplay_69d5b7916c0844.36955046\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69d5b7916c0844.36955046','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/30.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69d5b7916c0844.36955046');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69d5b7916c0844.36955046\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69d5b7916c0844.36955046','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69d5b7916c0844.36955046');\" \/><div id=\"sm2-container\"><!-- flash movie ends up here --><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>(Play the audio a few times before you scroll down and look at the transcript)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lewis: Oiga perdone<br \/>\nVendedora: S\u00ed, d\u00edgame<br \/>\nLewis:\u00bfTiene esta chaqueta negra en la talla grande?<br \/>\nVendedora: Mmmm un momento por favor.<br \/>\nLewis: Vale<br \/>\nVendedora: No tenemos esta chaqueta en la talla grande, pero tenemos una chaqueta marr\u00f3n en la talla grande.<br \/>\nLewis: A ver\u2026 Vale. \u00bfPuedo prob\u00e1rmela?<br \/>\nVendedora: S\u00ed, los probadores est\u00e1 ah\u00ed.<br \/>\nLewis: Gracias.<br \/>\nVendedora:\u00bfEst\u00e1 bien?<br \/>\nLewis: S\u00ed, muy bien. \u00bfCu\u00e1nto cuesta?<br \/>\nVendedora: Cincuenta euros.<br \/>\nLewis: Aqu\u00ed tiene<br \/>\nVendedora: Gracias. Adi\u00f3s.<br \/>\nLewis: Adi\u00f3s<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, how did you get on? How much did you understand of the listening? Please let me know in the comments section below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry if you didn&#8217;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!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/shopping-606993_640-350x233.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/shopping-606993_640-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/shopping-606993_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>In this Spanish lesson we will practice how to manage in Spanish when buying clothes in a shop or market. As usual, first we will review some relevant grammar and vocabulary and then see if you can follow a short listening. This lesson is part of a Spanish course that practices the grammar and vocabulary&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/beginner-spanish-listening-practice-shopping-for-clothes\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":10955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10954","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning-2","category-grammar","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10963,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954\/revisions\/10963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}