{"id":13881,"date":"2020-12-08T06:43:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T11:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=13881"},"modified":"2020-12-08T06:43:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T11:43:50","slug":"colloquial-spanish-course-talking-about-money-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/colloquial-spanish-course-talking-about-money-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquial Spanish Course \u2013 Talking about money in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Spanish lesson we are going to practice talking about money 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_13882\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13882\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/talking-about-money-in-spanish-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/talking-about-money-in-spanish-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/talking-about-money-in-spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Pixabay.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Talking about money in Spanish:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El banco: bank<br \/>\nEl banquero\/La banquera: banker<br \/>\nEl beneficio: profit<br \/>\nEl billete: bill, note<br \/>\nEl cajero\/a: teller, cashier<br \/>\nEl comerciante burs\u00e1til: stock market trader<br \/>\nEl contable: accountant<br \/>\nEl dinero: money<br \/>\nEl extracto de cuenta: account statement<br \/>\nEl inter\u00e9s: interest<br \/>\nEl mercado de valores: stock market<br \/>\nEl pago: payment<br \/>\nEl pr\u00e9stamo: loan<br \/>\nEl sistema bancario: banking system<br \/>\nEl tipo de inter\u00e9s: interest rate<br \/>\nEn efectivo: in cash<br \/>\nEn quiebra\/bancarrota: bankrupt<br \/>\nIngresar dinero: to put money in, to deposit money<br \/>\nInvertir: to invest<br \/>\nLa bolsa de valores: stock exchange<br \/>\nLa cuenta: account<br \/>\nLa hipoteca: mortgage<br \/>\nLa inversi\u00f3n: investment<br \/>\nLa sucursal: branch<br \/>\nLa tarjeta de cr\u00e9dito: credit card<br \/>\nLa tarjeta de d\u00e9bito: debit card<br \/>\nLa transferencia bancaria: bank transfer<br \/>\nLas deudas: debts<br \/>\nLas finanzas: finances<br \/>\nLas ganancias: earnings<br \/>\nLos ahorros: savings<br \/>\nLos bienes: assets<br \/>\nLos fondos: funds<br \/>\nLos ingresos brutos: gross income<br \/>\nLos ingresos netos: net income<br \/>\nLos ingresos: income, revenue<br \/>\nRetirar dinero: to withdraw<br \/>\nRevisar una cuenta: to audit an account<br \/>\nSolicitar un pr\u00e9stamo: to ask for a loan<\/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_69d9bfcad99db4.22109367\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69d9bfcad99db4.22109367','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/talking-about-money-in-spanish.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69d9bfcad99db4.22109367');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69d9bfcad99db4.22109367\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69d9bfcad99db4.22109367','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69d9bfcad99db4.22109367');\" \/><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>Susana: Hola Robert. \u00bfC\u00f3mo est\u00e1s?<br \/>\nRobert: Estresado Susana.<br \/>\nSusana: \u00bfQu\u00e9 te pasa?<br \/>\nRobert: Tengo problemas de dinero.<br \/>\nSusana: Pero a tu empresa le va muy bien&#8230;<br \/>\nRobert: &#8230;le iba muy bien. Ahora estoy en bancarrota.<br \/>\nSusana: Oh no. \u00bfQu\u00e9 ha pasado?<br \/>\nRobert: Tom\u00e9 malas decisiones, malas inversiones y ten\u00eda un contable corrupto.<br \/>\nSusana: Lo siento mucho Robert.<br \/>\nRobert: No te preocupes Susana. S\u00e9 que es mi culpa. He sido inmaduro. Soy demasiado confiado.<br \/>\nSusana: Confiar demasiado no es un defecto.<br \/>\nRobert: Lo es en los negocios. Mi contable era un estafador. Y le confi\u00e9 a mi hermano mi dinero y mis acciones de bolsa.<br \/>\nSusana: \u00bfA David? \u00bfNo sab\u00eda que era un comerciante burs\u00e1til?<br \/>\nRobert: No lo es. Es un cartero demasiado seguro de s\u00ed mismo.<br \/>\nSusana: Asumo que todav\u00eda tienes tu casa.<br \/>\nRobert: Por los pelos. Pero no s\u00e9 c\u00f3mo voy a pagar la hipoteca ahora.<br \/>\nSusana: \u00bfTienes trabajo?<br \/>\nRobert: S\u00ed, pero uno mal pagado. Tengo grandes deudas que pagar.<br \/>\nSusana: \u00bfNo podr\u00edas solicitar un pr\u00e9stamo para que tu empresa vuelva a funcionar?<br \/>\nRobert: Ya lo he intentado. Visit\u00e9 mi sucursal bancaria la semana pasada y fue un no definitivo.<br \/>\nSusana: \u00bfTienes ahorros o bienes en otro lugar?<br \/>\nRobert: Cero patatero. Est\u00e1n revisando mis cuentas y han cancelado mi tarjeta de cr\u00e9dito.<br \/>\nSusana: Estoy segura de que al final todo saldr\u00e1 bien, Robert.<br \/>\nRobert: No estoy tan seguro Susana, pero gracias.<\/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=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/talking-about-money-in-spanish-350x233.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\/12\/talking-about-money-in-spanish-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/talking-about-money-in-spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Learn and practice colloquial vocabulary and phrases related to talking about money in Spanish and then see if you can follow a short audio conversation in Spanish.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":13882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,3,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13881","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\/13881","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=13881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13885,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions\/13885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}