{"id":13539,"date":"2020-06-16T12:37:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=13539"},"modified":"2020-06-16T12:37:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:37:40","slug":"colloquial-spanish-course-chance-greetings-and-goodbyes-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/colloquial-spanish-course-chance-greetings-and-goodbyes-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquial Spanish Course \u2013 Chance greetings and goodbyes in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Spanish lesson we are going to learn and practice using some typical colloquial chance greetings and goodbyes in Spanish. First we will learn some relevant grammar and vocabulary and then see if you can follow a short audio conversation 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. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13540\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13540\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/Chance-greetings-and-goodbyes-in-Spanish-350x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/Chance-greetings-and-goodbyes-in-Spanish-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/Chance-greetings-and-goodbyes-in-Spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Pixabay.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Colloquial Spanish greetings when you haven\u2019t seen someone for a while or meet someone by chance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Long time no see!: \u00a1Cu\u00e1nto tiempo!<br \/>\nWhere have you been hiding?: \u00bfD\u00f3nde te has metido?<br \/>\nYou fell off the face of the earth!: \u00a1Te esfumaste de la faz de la tierra!<br \/>\nBack from the dead!: \u00a1Lleg\u00f3 el desaparecido!<br \/>\nLook who showed up!: \u00a1Mira qui\u00e9n apareci\u00f3!<br \/>\nThey let you out!: \u00a1Te han dejado salir!<br \/>\nSpeak of the devil!: \u00a1Hablando del Rey de Roma (por la puerta asoma)!<br \/>\nWhat the hell are you doing here?: \u00bfY t\u00fa, qu\u00e9 haces por aqu\u00ed?<br \/>\nGreat to see you!: \u00a1Qu\u00e9 alegr\u00eda verte!<br \/>\nYou look great!: \u00a1Qu\u00e9 guapo\/a est\u00e1s!<br \/>\nYou look terrible!: \u00a1Est\u00e1s horrible!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colloquial Spanish goodbyes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See you later: Ciao \/ Hasta luego<br \/>\nSee you around: Nos vemos<br \/>\nSee you again: Hasta otro d\u00eda<br \/>\nSee you in a bit: Hasta ahora<br \/>\nHave a good one: Que te vaya bien<br \/>\nHopefully we\u2019ll bump into each other again: A ver si nos encontramos por ah\u00ed<br \/>\nLet\u2019s get out of here!: \u00a1Largu\u00e9monos! \/ \u00a1V\u00e1monos!<br \/>\nI\u2019m out of here!: \u00a1Me marcho! \/ \u00a1Me voy! \/ \u00a1Me piro! \/ \u00a1Me largo!<br \/>\nI had enough of this!: \u00a1Estoy hasta las narices!<br \/>\nI never want to see you ever again!: \u00a1No quiero verte nunca m\u00e1s en la vida!<\/p>\n<p><strong>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&#8217;t worry if you don&#8217;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<div class=\"compact_audio_player_wrapper\"><div class=\"sc_player_container1\"><input type=\"button\" id=\"btnplay_69e49a7ce8da32.14364217\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69e49a7ce8da32.14364217','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/Chance-greetings-and-goodbyes-in-Spanish.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69e49a7ce8da32.14364217');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69e49a7ce8da32.14364217\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69e49a7ce8da32.14364217','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69e49a7ce8da32.14364217');\" \/><div id=\"sm2-container\"><!-- flash movie ends up here --><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>(Play the audio a few times before you scroll down and look at the transcript)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teresa: Hombre Daniel \u00a1Cu\u00e1nto tiempo! \u00bfD\u00f3nde te has metido?<br \/>\nDaniel: Hola Teresa \u00a1Qu\u00e9 alegr\u00eda verte! \u00a1Qu\u00e9 guapa est\u00e1s!<br \/>\nTeresa: Gracias. Bueno, cu\u00e9ntame qu\u00e9 tal te va todo.<br \/>\nDaniel: Bien, como siempre. \u00bfT\u00fa c\u00f3mo est\u00e1s?<br \/>\nTeresa: Pues regular. Bastante estresada con el trabajo y los ni\u00f1os.<br \/>\nDaniel: \u00bfTienes ni\u00f1os?<br \/>\nTeresa: S\u00ed \u00bfno lo sab\u00edas?<br \/>\nDaniel: No.<br \/>\nTeresa: Supongo que hace much\u00edsimo tiempo que no nos ve\u00edamos. S\u00ed, tengo tres ni\u00f1os. Y a veces la casa es una aut\u00e9ntica locura.<br \/>\nDaniel: Ya, me lo puedo imaginar.<br \/>\nTeresa: \u00bfT\u00fa tienes hijos?<br \/>\nDaniel: No, estoy casado pero no tenemos hijos. Tenemos tres perros.<br \/>\nTeresa: \u00a1Tres perros! Guau qu\u00e9 pasada. Me encantan los perros, pero con los ni\u00f1os de momento tengo suficiente.<br \/>\nDaniel: Quiz\u00e1 puedas tener un perro cuando los ni\u00f1os sean m\u00e1s mayores.<br \/>\nTeresa: S\u00ed, quiz\u00e1 s\u00ed. Bueno, perdona pero tengo que irme a recoger a los ni\u00f1os del colegio. A ver si nos encontramos otro d\u00eda por aqu\u00ed.<br \/>\nDaniel: S\u00ed, estar\u00eda bien. Ya nos vemos otro d\u00eda.<br \/>\nTeresa: Vale venga, nos vemos.<br \/>\nDaniel: \u00a1Ciao!  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, how did you get on? How much did you understand of the listening? Please let me know in the comments section below&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry if you didn&#8217;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":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/Chance-greetings-and-goodbyes-in-Spanish-350x234.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/Chance-greetings-and-goodbyes-in-Spanish-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/Chance-greetings-and-goodbyes-in-Spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Learn and practice using some typical colloquial chance greetings and goodbyes in Spanish and then see if you can follow a short audio conversation in Spanish.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":13540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,3,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13539","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\/13539","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=13539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13557,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions\/13557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}