{"id":12053,"date":"2018-11-09T16:38:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T21:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=12053"},"modified":"2018-11-09T16:38:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T21:38:28","slug":"intermediate-spanish-listening-practice-el-condicional-would-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/intermediate-spanish-listening-practice-el-condicional-would-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermediate Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 El Condicional &#8211; Would in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Spanish lesson we will practice using El Condicional, which corresponds to the conditional \u2018Would\u2019 tense in English. 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_12054\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12054\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/El-Condicional-Spanish-Would-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/El-Condicional-Spanish-Would-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/El-Condicional-Spanish-Would.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Pixabay.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These are the rules of how to conjugate the verbs for this tense:<\/p>\n<p>Trabajar: To work:<\/p>\n<p>(Yo) trabajar\u00eda: I would work<br \/>\n(T\u00fa) trabajar\u00edas: You would work (friendly)<br \/>\n(Usted) trabajar\u00eda: You would work (formal)<br \/>\n(\u00c9l\/ella) trabajar\u00eda: He\/She would work<br \/>\n(Nosotros\/as) trabajar\u00edamos: We would work<br \/>\n(Vosotros\/as) trabajar\u00edais: You would work (group\/friendly)<br \/>\n(Ustedes) trabajar\u00edan: You would work (group\/formal)<br \/>\n(Ellos\/as) trabajar\u00edan: They would work<\/p>\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>Postre: dessert<br \/>\nImportar: to mind<br \/>\nTarta: cake<\/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_69d5c13b59fc70.64577676\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69d5c13b59fc70.64577676','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/82.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69d5c13b59fc70.64577676');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69d5c13b59fc70.64577676\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69d5c13b59fc70.64577676','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69d5c13b59fc70.64577676');\" \/><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>Elena: \u00a1Hola Brian!<br \/>\nBrian: Hola Elena \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal?<br \/>\nElena: Bien, pero estoy en el trabajo. No tengo mucho tiempo para hablar.<br \/>\nBrian: Oh, perdona. Pensaba que estar\u00edas en casa. \u00bfTe gustar\u00eda venir a cenar a mi casa? Van a venir Alba y Ram\u00f3n.<br \/>\nElena: Vale, pero primero tengo que ver a mi hermano.<br \/>\nBrian: \u00bfA qu\u00e9 hora?<br \/>\nElena: No estoy segura. Me dijo que me llamar\u00eda pero todav\u00eda estoy esperando.<br \/>\nBrian: Puedes venir tarde, no pasa nada. \u00bfPodr\u00edas pasar por el supermercado?<br \/>\nElena: \u00bfPara qu\u00e9?<br \/>\nBrian: No he preparado ning\u00fan postre. \u00bfPodr\u00edas comprar algo?<br \/>\nElena: Me encantar\u00eda ayudarte. Pero no voy a tener tiempo de ir al supermercado. Adem\u00e1s creo que t\u00fa deber\u00edas comprar el postre \u00bfno? Yo soy una invitada.<br \/>\nBrian: Oh Elena \u00bfTe importar\u00eda ayudarme? Estoy haciendo una comida muy complicada y no tengo tiempo de ir al supermercado. \u00bfPodr\u00edas comprar una tarta?<br \/>\nElena: Vale. \u00bfDe chocolate?<br \/>\nBrian: S\u00ed, perfecto. De chocolate.<\/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\/11\/El-Condicional-Spanish-Would-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\/11\/El-Condicional-Spanish-Would-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/El-Condicional-Spanish-Would.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 Condicional &#8211; Would in Spanish.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":12054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12053","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\/12053","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=12053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12056,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053\/revisions\/12056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}