{"id":11290,"date":"2018-03-27T17:20:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T21:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=11290"},"modified":"2018-03-26T17:30:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:30:17","slug":"beginner-spanish-listening-practice-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/beginner-spanish-listening-practice-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 The Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Spanish lesson we will practice how to describe the weather in Spanish. 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\/2018\/03\/amazing-2451327_640-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/amazing-2451327_640-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/amazing-2451327_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-28-talking-about-the-weather-in-spanish\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beginner Spanish Lesson 28 Talking about the weather<\/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>Playa: beach<br \/>\nLo siento: I am sorry<br \/>\n\u00bfPuedo visitarte&#8230;?: Can I visit you?<br \/>\nPuedes venir: You can come<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now play the audio to listen a conversation between two friends on the phone. 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_69d541e6862b09.71455216\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69d541e6862b09.71455216','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/50.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69d541e6862b09.71455216');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69d541e6862b09.71455216\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69d541e6862b09.71455216','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69d541e6862b09.71455216');\" \/><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>Ana: Hola Andrew \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal?<br \/>\nAndrew: \u00a1Hola Ana! Bien \u00bfy t\u00fa?<br \/>\nAna: Muy bien. Aqu\u00ed hace buen tiempo. Voy a la playa todos los d\u00edas.<br \/>\nAndrew: \u00a1Guau! Aqu\u00ed hace mal tiempo. Hace fr\u00edo y llueve.<br \/>\nAna: \u00a1Oh! Lo siento. Pero en verano hace calor \u00bfno?<br \/>\nAndrew: Un poco, pero no hace mucho calor. En verano llueve mucho y hace fresco normalmente.<br \/>\nAna: \u00bfEn serio? Urghhh&#8230;<br \/>\nAndrew: \u00bfC\u00f3mo es el verano en Barcelona?<br \/>\nAna: En Barcelona en verano hace muy buen tiempo. Hace calor todos los d\u00edas.<br \/>\nAndrew: \u00a1Qu\u00e9 suerte! \u00bfPuedo visitarte este verano?<br \/>\nAna: S\u00ed claro. \u00bfCu\u00e1ndo quieres venir?<br \/>\nAndrew: \u00bfEn julio est\u00e1 bien?<br \/>\nAna: S\u00ed, perfecto.<\/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\/2018\/03\/amazing-2451327_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\/2018\/03\/amazing-2451327_640-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/amazing-2451327_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. Practice how to describe the weather in Spanish.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":11291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11290","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\/11290","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=11290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11293,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11290\/revisions\/11293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}