{"id":10988,"date":"2017-11-28T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=10988"},"modified":"2017-11-26T16:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T21:46:47","slug":"beginner-spanish-listening-practice-el-verbo-ir-and-transport-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/beginner-spanish-listening-practice-el-verbo-ir-and-transport-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 El verbo Ir and Transport (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Spanish lesson we will practice more about using the Spanish verb To Go El verbo Ir and transport vocabulary. As usual, first we will review some relevant grammar and vocabulary and then see if you can follow a short listening. This lesson continues on from <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/beginner-spanish-listening-practice-el-verbo-ir-and-transport-part-1\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lesson 31<\/a> in this course which also looked at el verbo Ir and transport vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/bike-1836934_640-350x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/bike-1836934_640-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/bike-1836934_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-18-verbo-ir-and-transport\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beginner Spanish Lesson 18 El verbo Ir and Transport<\/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>\u00bfPuedo ayudarte?: Can I help you?<br \/>\nCarriles para bicicletas: Bike tracks.<br \/>\nPuedo ir: I can go<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, play the audio to listen to a conversation in a tourist information office. 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_69d5b793110681.48109907\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69d5b793110681.48109907','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/33.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69d5b793110681.48109907');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69d5b793110681.48109907\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69d5b793110681.48109907','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69d5b793110681.48109907');\" \/><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>Rosa: Hola \u00bfPuedo ayudarte?<br \/>\nMatt: S\u00ed. \u00bfD\u00f3nde est\u00e1 el museo Cervantes?<br \/>\nRosa: Est\u00e1 aqu\u00ed. Puedes ir en metro o en autob\u00fas.<br \/>\nMatt: \u00bfY en bicicleta?<br \/>\nRosa: Mmmmm\u2026. No hay carriles para bicicleta por aqu\u00ed.<br \/>\nMatt: Oh, qu\u00e9 pena. \u00bfAd\u00f3nde puedo ir en bicicleta?<br \/>\nRosa: Mmmm\u2026 Al museo de Bellas Artes\u2026Al parque Do\u00f1a Mar\u00eda tambi\u00e9n.<br \/>\nMatt: Ah perfecto. \u00bfHay restaurantes cerca del museo de Bellas Artes?<br \/>\nRosa: S\u00ed, hay muchos restaurantes y bares por all\u00ed.<br \/>\nMatt: Muy bien. Muchas gracias.<br \/>\nRosa: De nada. Adi\u00f3s<br \/>\nMatt: 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=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/bike-1836934_640-350x197.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\/bike-1836934_640-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/11\/bike-1836934_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Review relevant Spanish grammar and vocabulary and then listen to a conversation in Spanish between two people. More practice using the Spanish verb To Go El verbo Ir and transport vocabulary.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":10990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10988","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\/10988","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=10988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10991,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions\/10991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}