{"id":13314,"date":"2020-03-14T17:23:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T21:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=13314"},"modified":"2020-03-14T17:23:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T21:23:50","slug":"advanced-spanish-listening-practice-false-friends-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/advanced-spanish-listening-practice-false-friends-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 False Friends (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this Spanish lesson we are going to practice more using various False Friends<\/em>. These are words in Spanish which have a very similar appearance or sound to an English word, but mean something completely different. 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 – False Friends (Part 2)<\/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

Ben: Hola Cristina \u00bfD\u00f3nde has estado? Est\u00e1s muy morena.<\/p>\n

Cristina: S\u00ed, es que he estado de vacaciones en M\u00e1laga.<\/p>\n

Ben: \u00bfAh s\u00ed? \u00bfy qu\u00e9 tal te lo has pasado?<\/p>\n

Cristina: Genial. La verdad es que solo hice cosas f\u00fatiles, tomar el sol en la playa, ir de compras\u2026<\/p>\n

Ben: \u00bfHac\u00eda mucho calor?<\/p>\n

Cristina: S\u00ed, much\u00edsimo. El primer d\u00eda hac\u00eda m\u00e1s de cuarenta grados y casi me dio una insolaci\u00f3n. Me mare\u00e9 un poco y tuve que ir al bar para tomar un refresco.<\/p>\n

Ben: Es que hay que tener cuidado con el sol Cristina. \u00bfY compraste algo interesante?<\/p>\n

Cristina: Pues encontr\u00e9 un mont\u00f3n de gangas. Ropa super barata y zapatos. Me compr\u00e9 much\u00edsimos zapatos, once pares.<\/p>\n

Ben: \u00bfOnce pares? \u00a1Qu\u00e9 pasada! \u00bfY c\u00f3mo fuiste? \u00bfEn avi\u00f3n?<\/p>\n

Cristina: No, fui en coche. El viaje fue largo pero paramos varias veces para tomar algo. Lo peor fue que en el coche \u00edbamos cinco personas y me molestaba un poco tener tan poco espacio. Fuimos en un Ford Fiesta as\u00ed que imag\u00ednate, est\u00e1bamos un poco justos de espacio. \u00bfY t\u00fa que has hecho este verano?<\/p>\n

Ben: Pues no mucho. D\u00e9jame pensar, a ver si recuerdo\u2026 Ver el f\u00fatbol y poco m\u00e1s. No he ido nada a la playa. Me quemo muy r\u00e1pido.<\/p>\n

Cristina: S\u00ed, parece que tienes la piel muy sensible.<\/p>\n

Ben: S\u00ed, y tambi\u00e9n he practicado con la tuna de la universidad. <\/p>\n

Cristina: \u00bfS\u00ed? No sab\u00eda que estabas en la tuna.<\/p>\n

Ben: S\u00ed, toco la guitarra y canto. Me encanta. Este verano hemos practicado mucho.<\/p>\n

Cristina: \u00a1Qu\u00e9 guay! Tengo que veros actuar.<\/p>\n

Ben: S\u00ed, cuando quieras.<\/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":"\"False

Review relevant Spanish grammar and vocabulary and then listen to a conversation in Spanish between two people. More practice using various common False Friends.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":13315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13314","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\/13314","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=13314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13317,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions\/13317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}