{"id":11424,"date":"2018-05-23T08:56:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T12:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=11424"},"modified":"2018-05-23T08:56:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T12:56:28","slug":"beginner-spanish-listening-practice-verbs-of-obligation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/beginner-spanish-listening-practice-verbs-of-obligation\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 Verbs of obligation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Spanish lesson we will practice some Spanish verbs of obligation. As usual, first we will review some relevant grammar and vocabulary and then see if you can follow a short listening.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11425\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11425\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/coffee-2306471_640-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/coffee-2306471_640-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/coffee-2306471_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Pixabay.com<\/p><\/div>\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. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Use the following link to watch the corresponding video lesson of the original course:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/spanish-lesson-beginner-32-spanish-verbs-of-obligation-tener-que-deber-hay-que\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Beginner Spanish Lesson 32 Verbs of obligation<\/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>Informe: report<br \/>\nTomarse un descanso: to take a break<br \/>\nAntes: before<br \/>\nManzanilla: Camomile tea<br \/>\nTienes raz\u00f3n: You are right<br \/>\nRespirar profundo:  to breath deeply<br \/>\nRelajarse: to relax<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now play the audio to listen a conversation between two colleagues talking about what they have to do. 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_69d571f69bba98.41249722\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69d571f69bba98.41249722','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/58.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69d571f69bba98.41249722');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69d571f69bba98.41249722\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69d571f69bba98.41249722','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69d571f69bba98.41249722');\" \/><div id=\"sm2-container\"><!-- flash movie ends up here --><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>(Play the audio a few times before you scroll down and look at the transcript)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Silvia: Hola Josh \u00bfVienes a tomar un caf\u00e9?<br \/>\nJosh: No puedo. Tengo que terminar este informe.<br \/>\nSilvia: Pero tienes tiempo. Debes tomarte un descanso.<br \/>\nJosh: Bueno, vale. Un caf\u00e9 r\u00e1pido.<br \/>\nSilvia: Venga vamos. <\/p>\n<p>(\u2026.)<\/p>\n<p>Silvia: \u00bfQu\u00e9 vas a tomar? \u00bfUn cortado?<br \/>\nJosh: Mmmmm No voy a tomar caf\u00e9.<br \/>\nSilvia: \u00bfQu\u00e9 quieres?<br \/>\nJosh: Una manzanilla. Estoy nervioso y el caf\u00e9 me pone m\u00e1s nervioso.<br \/>\nSilvia: Debes relajarte. Todav\u00eda tienes tiempo para terminar el informe.<br \/>\nJosh: Tienes raz\u00f3n.<br \/>\nSilvia: S\u00ed, en estas situaciones hay que respirar profundo y relajarse.<\/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;<\/strong><\/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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/coffee-2306471_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\/05\/coffee-2306471_640-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/coffee-2306471_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 Spanish verbs of obligation.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":11425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11424","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\/11424","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=11424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11427,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424\/revisions\/11427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}