{"id":12779,"date":"2019-08-18T16:39:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T20:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=12779"},"modified":"2019-08-18T16:39:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T20:39:51","slug":"intermediate-spanish-listening-practice-common-idioms-and-proverbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/intermediate-spanish-listening-practice-common-idioms-and-proverbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermediate Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 Common idioms and proverbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this Spanish lesson we are going to practice using some common idioms and proverbs. 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 – Common idioms and proverbs<\/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

Sara: Hola Lewis \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal?
\nLewis: Muy bien y \u00bft\u00fa?
\nSara: S\u00ed, bien. Oye \u00bftu padre es profesor de ingl\u00e9s?
\nLewis: S\u00ed, \u00bfc\u00f3mo lo sabes?
\nSara: \u00a1Es mi profesor! Ayer tuve mi primera clase y pens\u00e9 \u00a1C\u00f3mo se parece este se\u00f1or a Lewis! Sois iguales. De tal palo tal astilla.
\nLewis: S\u00ed, me lo ha dicho mucha gente. Nos parecemos mucho f\u00edsicamente pero tenemos gustos muy diferentes. A mi padre le gustan cosas muy raras: come algas todos los d\u00edas y hace diez sudokus al d\u00eda.
\nSara: Bueno, sobre gustos no hay nada escrito.
\nLewis: Es verdad. Tambi\u00e9n tenemos personalidades muy diferentes. Mi padre es muy testarudo. Es imposible hacerle cambiar de opini\u00f3n. Cuando lo intentas, es como hablar con la pared.
\nSara: Bueno, t\u00fa eres un poco as\u00ed tambi\u00e9n Lewis.
\nLewis: \u00bfQu\u00e9 dices? \u00bfYo testarudo?
\nSara: Hombre, un poco s\u00ed, la verdad.
\nLewis: Pero Sara, eso no es verdad. No me puedo creer que pienses eso. Me voy. Adi\u00f3s.
\nSara: Pero Lewis por favor\u2026 <\/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 common idioms and proverbs.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":12780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12779","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\/12779","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=12779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12782,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions\/12782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}