{"id":12556,"date":"2019-05-26T16:36:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T20:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=12556"},"modified":"2019-05-26T16:36:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T20:36:23","slug":"intermediate-spanish-listening-practice-spanish-reported-speech-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/intermediate-spanish-listening-practice-spanish-reported-speech-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermediate Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 Spanish reported speech (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this Spanish lesson we are going to practice using Spanish reported speech. 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 – Spanish reported speech (Part 1)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Now play the audio to listen a conversation between 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

Paul: Natalia, \u00bfhas visto a Rosa?
\nNatalia: S\u00ed, la vi ayer. Me dijo que hab\u00eda quedado contigo hoy aqu\u00ed. \u00bfNo ha venido todav\u00eda?
\nPaul: No, qu\u00e9 raro. Siempre es muy puntual.
\nNatalia: S\u00ed es verdad. Igual est\u00e1 enferma. Ayer me dijo que hab\u00eda estado trabajando mucho y que estaba muy cansada y estresada. Tambi\u00e9n me dijo que quer\u00eda hablar contigo de algo importante.
\nPaul: \u00bfDe algo importante? Mmmm\u2026 Voy a llamarla.
\nNatalia: S\u00ed, ll\u00e1mala.
\nPaul: Mmm. Tiene el tel\u00e9fono apagado.
\nNatalia: Igual est\u00e1 en casa de sus padres. Ayer me dijo que ten\u00eda que ir a cuidar a su madre porque se ha roto la pierna y no puede andar. Su padre es un poco mayor y no puede ayudar mucho. Me dijo que en casa de sus padres no tiene cobertura.
\nPaul: Ah claro. Ser\u00e1 eso. \u00a1Ah! Tengo un mensaje de Rosa.
\nNatalia: \u00bfQu\u00e9 te dice?
\nPaul: Dice que est\u00e1 de camino, que ha estado en casa de sus padres y se le ha hecho tarde. Que viene ahora.
\nNatalia: Ah, vale. Bien. \u00bfQuieres tomar un caf\u00e9 mientras esperas? Tengo diez minutos antes de que venga mi autob\u00fas.
\nPaul: Vale, venga. Un caf\u00e9.
\nNatalia: Perfecto.<\/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 using Spanish reported speech.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":12557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12556","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\/12556","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=12556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12559,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556\/revisions\/12559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}