{"id":12015,"date":"2018-10-19T16:11:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T20:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=12015"},"modified":"2018-10-19T16:11:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T20:11:54","slug":"beginner-spanish-listening-practice-comparing-el-preterito-imperfecto-and-el-preterito-indefinido-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/beginner-spanish-listening-practice-comparing-el-preterito-imperfecto-and-el-preterito-indefinido-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 Comparing El Pret\u00e9rito Imperfecto and El Pret\u00e9rito Indefinido (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this Spanish lesson we will continue practice using both El Pret\u00e9rito Imperfecto and El Pret\u00e9rito Indefinido. 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 the previous lesson<\/a> in this course which also looked at El Pret\u00e9rito Imperfecto and El Pret\u00e9rito Indefinido.<\/p>\n

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Image courtesy of Pixabay.com<\/p><\/div>\n

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’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

Use the following link to watch the corresponding video lesson of the original course:<\/p>\n

Beginner Spanish Lesson 42 Comparing El Pret\u00e9rito Imperfecto and El Pret\u00e9rito Indefinido<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Please familiarise yourself with the following words and phrases before listening to the audio below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Much\u00edsimo\/a: very many
\nMantenerse en pie: to keep himself up
\nYa te digo: (expression) I know…<\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Play the audio a few times before you scroll down and look at the transcript)<\/strong><\/p>\n

 
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Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter: Hola Ana \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal fue la fiesta de ayer?
\nAna: Muy bien. Fui con Miguel y Estela. Lo pasamos muy bien.
\nPeter: \u00bfHab\u00eda mucha gente?
\nAna: S\u00ed, hab\u00eda much\u00edsima gente. El ambiente era muy bueno. Hab\u00eda un buffet con comida de diferentes pa\u00edses.
\nPeter: Aaaahhh \u00a1Qu\u00e9 interesante! \u00bfQu\u00e9 comiste?
\nAna: Comida espa\u00f1ola, por supuesto. Es la mejor.
\nPeter: \u00bfPero no probaste nada nuevo? \u00bfHab\u00eda comida asi\u00e1tica? Me encanta la comida de Asia.
\nAna: S\u00ed hab\u00eda comida de China, Jap\u00f3n, Tailandia. Miguel se comi\u00f3 todo el sushi que hab\u00eda. Luego tuvo una indigesti\u00f3n.Tambi\u00e9n hab\u00eda bebidas tradicionales de diferentes pa\u00edses.
\nPeter: \u00bfT\u00fa que bebiste?
\nAna: Beb\u00ed vino tinto espa\u00f1ol, por supuesto.
\nPeter: Ana\u2026. Tienes que probar cosas nuevas.
\nAna: Jo, pero me gusta mucho todo lo espa\u00f1ol. Miguel bebi\u00f3 demasiado sake. Le tuve que llevar a casa. El hombre no pod\u00eda mantenerse en pie.
\nPeter: Este Miguel\u2026
\nAna: Ya te digo.<\/p>\n

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So, how did you get on? How much did you understand of the listening? Please let me know in the comments section below…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Review relevant Spanish grammar and vocabulary and then listen to a conversation in Spanish between two people. More practice using El Pret\u00e9rito Imperfecto and El Pret\u00e9rito Indefinido.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":12016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,3,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12015","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning-2","category-culture","category-grammar","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015","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=12015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12018,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions\/12018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}