{"id":13513,"date":"2020-06-02T06:57:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T10:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=13513"},"modified":"2020-06-02T06:57:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T10:57:53","slug":"advanced-spanish-listening-practice-typical-spanish-expressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/advanced-spanish-listening-practice-typical-spanish-expressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Spanish Listening Practice \u2013 Typical Spanish expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this Spanish lesson we are going to practice using some typical Spanish expressions. 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 – Typical Spanish expressions<\/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

Elena: Hola Matt \u00bfD\u00f3nde est\u00e1 Sergio?
\nMatt: Se ha ido a casa. Se encontraba indispuesto.
\nElena: Qu\u00e9 raro, justo cuando tenemos que terminar el proyecto que estamos haciendo juntos. Ahora tengo que terminarlo sola.
\nMatt: \u00bfOs falta mucho para terminarlo?
\nElena: Pues s\u00ed, es bastante complicado y lo estamos haciendo a trancas y a barrancas. Y ahora que Sergio se ha escaqueado, no s\u00e9 si lo voy a terminar a tiempo. \u00a1No me lo puedo creer! \u00a1Hab\u00edamos quedado en terminarlo hoy y me ha dado plant\u00f3n!
\nMatt: Elena, no pierdas los estribos.
\nElena: S\u00ed, tienes raz\u00f3n. En el fondo, Sergio es un lastre. No tiene ni idea. Y siempre pone trabas en todos los proyectos. Mejor lo termino sola.
\nMatt: Bueno, est\u00e1s exagerando un poco \u00bfno?
\nElena: No, \u00a1qu\u00e9 va! Sergio siempre escurre el bulto cuando tiene algo complicado que hacer y cada dos por tres se escaquea. Y yo estoy todo el tiempo devan\u00e1ndome los sesos para terminar los proyectos.
\nMatt: Quiz\u00e1 Sergio est\u00e9 abrumado con tanto trabajo. Recuerda que empez\u00f3 a trabajar en la empresa hace solo dos meses.
\nElena: Me da igual. Estoy harta de \u00e9l. Siempre tengo que terminar los proyectos sola mientras Sergio pone sus excusas para no trabajar. Dice que est\u00e1 enfermo pero seguro que se ha ido de compras a derrochar dinero.
\nMatt: Elena, me quedo at\u00f3nito. Sergio parece un buen chico.
\nElena: S\u00ed, claro. Es un buen chico, pero un vago tambi\u00e9n. Y yo tengo que terminar este proyecto que es un aut\u00e9ntico galimat\u00edas.
\nMatt: Bueno, espero que lo termines a tiempo.
\nElena: Ojal\u00e1<\/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 some typical Spanish expressions.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":13515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13513","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\/13513","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=13513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13517,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513\/revisions\/13517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}