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Typical colloquial Spanish greetings and replies:<\/strong><\/p>\n How you doing? \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal? \/ \u00bfC\u00f3mo andas? Awesome! \u00a1Genial! \/ \u00a1Fenomenal! \/ \u00a1De maravilla! 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 (Play the audio a few times before you scroll down and look at the transcript)<\/strong><\/p>\n Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n Carla: Hola John \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal andas? \u00bfC\u00f3mo te va la vida? <\/p>\n 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":" Learn and practice using some typical colloquial Spanish greetings and then see if you can follow a short audio conversation in Spanish.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":13521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,3,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13520","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\/13520","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=13520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13524,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520\/revisions\/13524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhat\u2019s up? \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal andas?
\nWhat\u2019s going on? \u00bfQu\u00e9 pasa? \/ \u00bfQu\u00e9 hay?
\nWhat\u2019s new? \u00bfQu\u00e9 hay de nuevo? \/ \u00bfQu\u00e9 me cuentas?
\nHow are you? \u00bfC\u00f3mo est\u00e1s?
\nHow\u2019s it going? \u00bfC\u00f3mo te va?
\nHow\u2019s life? \u00bfC\u00f3mo te va la vida?
\nHow\u2019s everything? \u00bfC\u00f3mo te va todo?
\nHey! (when meeting someone out of the blue): \u00a1Hombre!
\nHey! (to catch someone\u2019s attention): \u00a1Oye!<\/p>\n
\nFine: Bien
\nEverything\u2019s good! Todo va bien
\nAllright: Nada, aqu\u00ed\u2026
\nSame as ever Como siempre \/ Aqu\u00ed estamos
\nGetting by: Tirando
\nCan\u2019t complain: No me quejo
\nSo, so: As\u00ed, as\u00ed \/ Regular
\nIt is what it is: Es lo que hay
\nNot great: Vaya, no muy bien
\nAwful: \u00a1Fatal! \/ \u00a1De pena!
\nDesperate: \u00a1Desesperado!
\nI\u2019m in an awful mood: Vengo encabronado
\nLeave me alone!: \u00a1D\u00e9jame en paz!<\/p>\n
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\nJohn: Pues bien, tirando. No me quejo la verdad. \u00bfY a ti? \u00bfC\u00f3mo te va todo?
\nCarla: \u00a1Fenomenal! Tengo un trabajo nuevo en las islas Canarias. Me mudo a Tenerife la semana que viene.
\nJohn: \u00bfA Tenerife? Qu\u00e9 bien \u00bfNo?
\nCarla: S\u00ed, genial. \u00bfT\u00fa sigues trabajando en la oficina de siempre?
\nJohn: S\u00ed, sigo all\u00ed. No es el trabajo de mi vida, pero no me quejo. Es lo que hay.
\nCarla: Me alegro de haberte visto antes de mudarme a Tenerife.
\nJohn: S\u00ed, yo tambi\u00e9n. Espero que te vaya todo muy bien all\u00ed.
\nCarla: Muchas gracias John. Estoy emocionada la verdad. Me encantan las islas Canarias y Tenerife es mi favorita. Adem\u00e1s tengo una amiga que se fue a vivir all\u00ed hace dos a\u00f1os as\u00ed que quedar\u00e9 con ella.
\nJohn: \u00bfEs Ana \u00c1lvarez?
\nCarla: S\u00ed \u00bfla conoces?
\nJohn: S\u00ed, trabajaba en la oficina conmigo.
\nCarla: Es verdad, se me hab\u00eda olvidado. Pues s\u00ed, voy a ver a Ana en cuanto llegue a Tenerife y me va a ayudar a instalarme. Luego me va a ense\u00f1ar la isla. Tengo un mont\u00f3n de ganas de llegar.
\nJohn: \u00a1Qu\u00e9 bien Carla! Me alegro mucho por ti. Espero que te vaya todo de maravilla.
\nCarla: Gracias John. Espero que todo te vaya genial a ti tambi\u00e9n.<\/p>\n