{"id":12020,"date":"2018-10-26T16:11:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T20:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=12020"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:11:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T20:11:49","slug":"intermediate-spanish-listening-practice-el-futuro-imperfecto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/intermediate-spanish-listening-practice-el-futuro-imperfecto\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermediate Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 El Futuro Imperfecto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Spanish lesson we will practice using El Futuro Imperfecto. As usual, first we will review some relevant grammar and vocabulary and then see if you can follow a short listening. <\/p>\n<p>El Futuro Imperfecto corresponds with the future \u2018will\u2019 tense in English. These are the rules of how to conjugate the verbs for this tense:<\/p>\n<p>yo\thablar\u00e9\/aprender\u00e9\/vivir\u00e9<br \/>\nt\u00fa\thablar\u00e1s\/aprender\u00e1s\/vivir\u00e1s<br \/>\nel\/ella\/usted\thablar\u00e1\/aprender\u00e1\/vivir\u00e1<br \/>\nnosotros\/as\thablaremos\/aprenderemos\/viviremos<br \/>\nvosotros\/as\thablar\u00e9is\/aprender\u00e9is\/vivir\u00e9is<br \/>\nellos\/ellas\/ustedes\thablar\u00e1n\/aprender\u00e1n\/vivir\u00e1n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12021\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12021\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/people-2557396_640-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/people-2557396_640-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/people-2557396_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Pixabay.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>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><strong>Please familiarise yourself with the following words and phrases before listening to the audio below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Juntos: together<br \/>\nSuficiente: enough<br \/>\nTodav\u00eda: still \/ yet<br \/>\n\u00a1Qu\u00e9 va!: No way!<\/p>\n<p><strong>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&#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_69db084aa59f46.25931939\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69db084aa59f46.25931939','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/80.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69db084aa59f46.25931939');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69db084aa59f46.25931939\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69db084aa59f46.25931939','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69db084aa59f46.25931939');\" \/><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;<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>Paul: Hola Victoria \u00bfHas visto a Elisa?<br \/>\nVictoria: No, pero me imagino que estar\u00e1 en la cafeter\u00eda. Le encanta el caf\u00e9.<br \/>\nPaul: Ah vale gracias.<br \/>\nVictoria:\u00bfPara qu\u00e9 la buscas?<br \/>\nPaul: Vamos a estudiar juntos para el examen de alem\u00e1n. \u00bfQuieres venir con nosotros?<br \/>\nVictoria: No, hoy no voy a estudiar. Estudiar\u00e9 ma\u00f1ana o el jueves quiz\u00e1s.<br \/>\nPaul: Pero hay que estudiar mucho. Tenemos poco tiempo.<br \/>\nVictoria:\u00a1Qu\u00e9 va! Si estudio ma\u00f1ana y el jueves, tendr\u00e9 tiempo suficiente.<br \/>\nPaul: Bueno vale. Voy a la cafeter\u00eda a buscar a Elisa \u00bfVienes?<br \/>\nVictoria: No ahora no. Ir\u00e9 un poco m\u00e1s tarde. Ahora voy al gimnasio. Tengo clase de aerobic.<br \/>\nPaul: \u00bfAerobic?<br \/>\nVictoria: S\u00ed, me encanta. Despu\u00e9s de aerobic ir\u00e9 a la cafeter\u00eda \u00bfEstar\u00e9is todav\u00eda all\u00ed?<br \/>\nPaul: Creo que s\u00ed. Si no, estaremos en la biblioteca estudiando alem\u00e1n.<br \/>\nVictoria: Ah vale.<\/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\/10\/people-2557396_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\/10\/people-2557396_640-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/people-2557396_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 using El Futuro Imperfecto.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":12021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12020","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\/12020","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=12020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12023,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020\/revisions\/12023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}