{"id":12854,"date":"2019-09-15T16:37:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T20:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=12854"},"modified":"2019-09-15T16:37:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T20:37:11","slug":"intermediate-spanish-listening-practice-useful-spanish-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/intermediate-spanish-listening-practice-useful-spanish-phrases\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermediate Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 Useful Spanish phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Spanish lesson we are going to practice using some useful Spanish phrases. 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_12855\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12855\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Useful-Spanish-phrases-350x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Useful-Spanish-phrases-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Useful-Spanish-phrases.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Pixabay.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>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&#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>Use the following link to watch the corresponding video lesson of the original course:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/intermediate-spanish-lesson-41-useful-spanish-phrases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Intermediate Spanish Lesson &#8211; Useful Spanish phrases<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>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&#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_69d5776c4fcb03.79353385\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69d5776c4fcb03.79353385','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Useful-Spanish-phrases-2.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69d5776c4fcb03.79353385');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69d5776c4fcb03.79353385\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69d5776c4fcb03.79353385','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69d5776c4fcb03.79353385');\" \/><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;<br \/>\n&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>Peter: Tina, v\u00e1monos a casa. Va a empezar a llover en cualquier momento.<br \/>\nTina: Te equivocas. Acabo de mirar la previsi\u00f3n del tiempo y va a hacer sol toda la tarde.<br \/>\nPeter: \u00a1Pero mira las nubes!<br \/>\nTina:\u00bfQu\u00e9 nubes? \u00bfEsas dos?<br \/>\nPeter: \u00a1Est\u00e1n negras! \u00bfNo las ves?<br \/>\nTina: S\u00ed, eso se me hab\u00eda pasado por alto. Pero hace mucho viento. Estas nubes se van ahora mismo y luego viene el cielo despejado, mira.<br \/>\nPeter: Me parece que te has hecho un l\u00edo, Tina. Mira, yo me voy a casa antes de que caiga un chaparr\u00f3n. T\u00fa ver\u00e1s lo que haces.<br \/>\nTina: Peter, no tienes ni idea de lo que hablas. Yo me voy al parque a dar un paseo, igual me tomo un helado y todo.<br \/>\nPeter: \u00bfUn helado? No digas m\u00e1s burradas, por favor.<br \/>\nTina: S\u00ed, de chocolate, creo. No, no, de fresa igual. \u00a1Oh no!<br \/>\nPeter: \u00bfQu\u00e9 te pasa?<br \/>\nTina: \u00a1Me acaba de caer una gota! Me temo que est\u00e1s en lo cierto. \u00a1Va a llover! Me voy a casa corriendo. Adi\u00f3s<br \/>\nPeter: \u00a1Qu\u00e9 t\u00eda!<\/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=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Useful-Spanish-phrases-350x197.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\/2019\/09\/Useful-Spanish-phrases-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Useful-Spanish-phrases.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 useful Spanish phrases.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":12855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,3,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12854","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning-2","category-culture","category-grammar","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854","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=12854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12857,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854\/revisions\/12857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}