{"id":12072,"date":"2018-11-19T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=12072"},"modified":"2018-11-19T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:00:58","slug":"intermediate-spanish-listening-practice-irregular-verbs-of-el-condicional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/intermediate-spanish-listening-practice-irregular-verbs-of-el-condicional\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermediate Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 Irregular verbs of El Condicional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Spanish lesson we will practice using irregular verbs of 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_12074\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12074\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Irregular-verbs-and-el-condicional-350x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"238\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Irregular-verbs-and-el-condicional-350x238.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Irregular-verbs-and-el-condicional.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Pixabay.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These are the rules of how to conjugate the irregular verbs:<\/p>\n<p>Irregular vebs that remove the vowel \u201ce\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>Caber: cabr-: cabr\u00eda: It would fit<br \/>\nHaber: Habr-: habr\u00eda: There would be<br \/>\nPoder: podr-: podr\u00eda: He\/She would be able<br \/>\nQuerer: querr-: querr\u00eda: He\/She would want<br \/>\nSaber: sabr-: sabr\u00eda: He\/She would know<\/p>\n<p>Irregular verbs that remove the \u201ce\u201d and add a \u201cd\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>Poner : pondr-: pondr\u00eda: He\/She would put<br \/>\nTener: tendr-: tendr\u00eda: He\/She\/It would have<br \/>\nValer: valdr-: valdr\u00eda: It would cost<br \/>\nVenir: vendr-: vendr\u00eda: He\/She would come<br \/>\nSalir. saldr-: saldr\u00eda: He\/She would leave<\/p>\n<p>Others:<br \/>\nDecir: dir-: dir\u00eda: He\/She would say<br \/>\nHacer: har. har\u00eda: He\/She would do<\/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>Pel\u00edcula: film<br \/>\nTerror: horror<br \/>\nObra: theatre play<br \/>\nDepende: it depends<\/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_69d5e96a8cae68.61645447\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69d5e96a8cae68.61645447','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/833.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69d5e96a8cae68.61645447');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69d5e96a8cae68.61645447\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69d5e96a8cae68.61645447','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69d5e96a8cae68.61645447');\" \/><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>Sonia: Hola Mark<br \/>\nMark: Hola Sonia<br \/>\nSonia: Pens\u00e9 que no vendr\u00edas tan pronto. \u00bfQuerr\u00edas ir al cine esta noche?<br \/>\nMark: S\u00ed claro \u00bfQu\u00e9 te gustar\u00eda ver?<br \/>\nSonia: Yo ver\u00eda una pel\u00edcula de terror.<br \/>\nMark: \u00bfDe terror? No me gustan las pel\u00edculas de terror. \u00bfPodr\u00edamos ver una pel\u00edcula de acci\u00f3n?<br \/>\nSonia: Oh no. No quiero. \u00bfHar\u00edas algo por m\u00ed?<br \/>\nMark: \u00bfQu\u00e9?<br \/>\nSonia: \u00bfVendr\u00edas conmigo al teatro en lugar de al cine?<br \/>\nMark: Vale, podr\u00eda ir al teatro contigo, pero depende de qu\u00e9 obra.<br \/>\nSonia: Vale. Voy a mirar qu\u00e9 obras hay y te digo.<br \/>\nMark: Muy bien.<\/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=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Irregular-verbs-and-el-condicional-350x238.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\/Irregular-verbs-and-el-condicional-350x238.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Irregular-verbs-and-el-condicional.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 irregular verbs of El Condicional.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":12074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12072","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\/12072","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=12072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12076,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions\/12076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}