{"id":12342,"date":"2019-02-24T16:46:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T21:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=12342"},"modified":"2019-02-24T16:46:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T21:46:30","slug":"intermediate-spanish-listening-practice-present-subjunctive-to-express-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/intermediate-spanish-listening-practice-present-subjunctive-to-express-opinions\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermediate Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 Present subjunctive to express opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this Spanish lesson we are going to practice the Spanish present subjunctive to express opinions. As usual, first we will review some relevant grammar and vocabulary and then see if you can follow a short listening. <\/p>\n

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This lesson is part of a Spanish course that practices the grammar and vocabulary first introduced in my Intermediate 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

Intermediate Spanish Lesson Present subjunctive to express opinions<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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

Primo: cousin
\nLugares: places
\nQuizas: maybe<\/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

Rob: Sof\u00eda \u00bfQu\u00e9 te parece este libro? \u00bfLo has le\u00eddo?
\nSof\u00eda: S\u00ed, lo le\u00ed hace unos meses. No me parece que sea muy bueno, la verdad.
\nRob: \u00bfY este?
\nSof\u00eda: Creo que este es bueno. Me lo recomend\u00f3 mi primo.
\nRob: Vale, lo voy a comprar.
\nSof\u00eda: Vale, pero r\u00e1pido que tengo hambre. \u00bfVamos a comer al bar de Pepe?
\nRob: \u00bfAl bar de Pepe?
\nSof\u00eda: Si, quiero comer paella. Creo que Pepe tiene paella.
\nRob: No, \u00bfqu\u00e9 dices? No tiene paella.
\nSof\u00eda: S\u00ed. Com\u00ed Paella en su bar la semana pasada.
\nRob: Pero era el men\u00fa del d\u00eda. No creo que tenga paella todos los d\u00edas.
\nSof\u00eda: \u00bfEntonces ad\u00f3nde vamos?
\nRob: Vamos al restaurante La Alicantina. All\u00ed tienes un men\u00fa muy completo con muchas paellas.
\nSof\u00eda: \u00a1Perfecto! \u00a1Vamos!<\/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. Practice the Spanish present subjunctive to express opinions.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":12343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12342","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\/12342","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=12342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12345,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342\/revisions\/12345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}