{"id":13227,"date":"2020-02-02T15:54:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T20:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=13227"},"modified":"2020-02-02T15:54:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T20:54:47","slug":"advanced-spanish-listening-practice-spanish-words-beginning-with-a-tonica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/advanced-spanish-listening-practice-spanish-words-beginning-with-a-tonica\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 Spanish words beginning with ‘a’ t\u00f3nica"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this Spanish lesson we are going to practice using Spanish words beginning with ‘a’ t\u00f3nica that appear to be masculine but are in fact feminine (e.g. el agua, el hacha, el \u00e1guila, el aula, el alma, el arma, el \u00e1rea, el hambre). 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 Advanced 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

Advanced Spanish Lesson – Spanish words beginning with ‘a’ t\u00f3nica<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Now play the audio to listen a conversation. Can you understand what is being said? 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

Patricia: Dean, tengo mucha sed. \u00bfMe pasas el agua?<\/p>\n

Dean: \u00bfQu\u00e9 agua?<\/p>\n

Patricia: La botella que te di para que la metieras en tu mochila. \u00bfNo la tienes?<\/p>\n

Dean: Mmm, creo que me la he dejado en el aula.<\/p>\n

Patricia: \u00bfEn el aula peque\u00f1a? \u00bfLa de clase de m\u00fasica?<\/p>\n

Dean: S\u00ed, s\u00ed. La dej\u00e9 encima de la mesa y me fui. Ten\u00eda tanta hambre, que fui directo a la cafeter\u00eda.<\/p>\n

Patricia: Jo, pues a m\u00ed el hambre me est\u00e1 matando tambi\u00e9n. Voy a buscar el agua y vamos a comer.<\/p>\n

Dean: Es que yo ya he comido. Acabo de volver de la cafeter\u00eda. <\/p>\n

Patricia: Bueno, pues yo voy ahora. \u00bfHas visto a Mar\u00eda all\u00ed? <\/p>\n

Dean: S\u00ed, est\u00e1 comiendo ahora. Bueno, y llorando.<\/p>\n

Patricia: \u00bfLlorando? \u00bfPor qu\u00e9?<\/p>\n

Dean: Le ha dejado su novio. <\/p>\n

Patricia: \u00a1Oh no! \u00a1Pobrecita! Tendr\u00e1 el alma destrozada. Voy a verla. \u00bfEn qu\u00e9 parte de la cafeter\u00eda est\u00e1? \u00bfEn el \u00e1rea de buffet?<\/p>\n

Dean: S\u00ed, s\u00ed.<\/p>\n

Patricia: Vale, gracias Dean. Te veo luego.<\/p>\n

Dean: Hasta luego.<\/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 words beginning with ‘a’ t\u00f3nica that appear to be masculine but are in fact feminine.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":13229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13227","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\/13227","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=13227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13231,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227\/revisions\/13231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}