{"id":13289,"date":"2020-03-02T10:03:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T15:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=13289"},"modified":"2020-03-02T10:03:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T15:03:14","slug":"advanced-spanish-listening-practice-colloquial-spanish-expressions-with-estar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/advanced-spanish-listening-practice-colloquial-spanish-expressions-with-estar\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 Colloquial Spanish expressions with Estar"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this Spanish lesson we are going to practice using colloquial Spanish expressions with Estar. 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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Image courtesy of Pixabay.com<\/p><\/div>\n

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 – Colloquial Spanish expressions with Estar<\/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

Alan: Hola Clara, \u00bfsabes algo de Pablo? Hace mucho que no le veo en el bar.<\/p>\n

Clara: Supongo que ya no sale mucho. Le despidieron del trabajo hace un mes y todav\u00eda no ha encontrado otro. Me lo encontr\u00e9 la semana pasada y me dijo que est\u00e1 tieso.<\/p>\n

Alan: \u00bfS\u00ed? Yo pensaba que ten\u00eda mucho dinero. Siempre habla de sus vacaciones de lujo.<\/p>\n

Clara: S\u00ed, es que sus padres est\u00e1n forrados y desde peque\u00f1o ha tenido unas vacaciones de ensue\u00f1o. Pero ahora es otra historia. La verdad es que cuando le vi parec\u00eda que estaba cascado. <\/p>\n

Alan: Mmmm, seguro que lo est\u00e1 pasando mal.<\/p>\n

Clara: S\u00ed, estaba en el chasis, la verdad. <\/p>\n

Alan: \u00bfS\u00ed? Me sorprende. Pablo siempre ha estado muy cachas.<\/p>\n

Clara: Ya, pero ahora no tiene dinero para pagar el gimnasio. <\/p>\n

Alan: Ya claro. Pobrecito.<\/p>\n

Clara: S\u00ed, la verdad es que cuando le vi estaba hecho un Cristo. Creo que voy a llamarle para ver c\u00f3mo est\u00e1. <\/p>\n

Alan: S\u00ed, la verdad es que estoy un poco preocupado. Yo tambi\u00e9n voy a llamarle.<\/p>\n

Clara: \u00bfVamos ahora a su casa a visitarle? Creo que una visita le vendr\u00e1 bien.<\/p>\n

Alan: Vale venga vamos.<\/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 colloquial Spanish expressions with Estar.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":13291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13289","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\/13289","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=13289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13293,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289\/revisions\/13293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}