{"id":14720,"date":"2021-01-20T11:15:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T16:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=14720"},"modified":"2021-01-20T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T16:15:59","slug":"colloquial-spanish-course-talking-about-books-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/colloquial-spanish-course-talking-about-books-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquial Spanish Course \u2013 Talking about Books in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Spanish lesson we are going to practice talking about Books in Spanish. First we will learn some relevant 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_14721\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14721\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/talking-about-books-in-spanish-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"talking about books in spanish\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/talking-about-books-in-spanish-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/talking-about-books-in-spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Pixabay.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Talking about Books in Spanish:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El libro: book<br \/>\nEl autor \/ La autora: author<br \/>\nEl\/la novelista: novelist<br \/>\nEl escritor \/ La escritora: writer<br \/>\nEl poeta \/ La poetisa: poet<br \/>\nEl lector \/ La lectora: reader<br \/>\nLa biblioteca: library<br \/>\nLa librer\u00eda: book store<br \/>\nLa librer\u00eda \/ La estanter\u00eda: book case<br \/>\nEl estante: book shelf<br \/>\nLa colecci\u00f3n de libros: book collection<br \/>\nEl t\u00edtulo: title<br \/>\nLa historia: story<br \/>\nEl argumento \/ La trama: plot<br \/>\nLas ilustraciones: illustrations<br \/>\nLa literature: literature<br \/>\nLa poes\u00eda: poetry<br \/>\nEl drama: drama<br \/>\nLa prosa: prose<br \/>\nFicci\u00f3n: fiction<br \/>\nNo ficci\u00f3n: non fiction<br \/>\nLos libros cl\u00e1sicos: classic books<br \/>\nLos libros de poes\u00eda: poetry books<br \/>\nEl cuento: short story<br \/>\nLa biograf\u00eda: biography<br \/>\nLa autobiograf\u00eda: autobiography<br \/>\nEl formato digital: digital format<br \/>\nEl libro electr\u00f3nico: e-book<br \/>\nEl audio libro: audio book<br \/>\nLa novela: novel<br \/>\nLa novela corta: novella<br \/>\nEl cap\u00edtulo: chapter<br \/>\nEl \u00edndice: index<br \/>\nEl contenido: contents<br \/>\nEl pr\u00f3logo: prologue<br \/>\nLa portada: front cover<br \/>\nLa contraportada: back cover<br \/>\nLos personajes: characters<br \/>\nEl ilustrador: illustrator<br \/>\nEl g\u00e9nero literario: literary genre<br \/>\nEl best seller: best seller<br \/>\nHojear: flick through<br \/>\nEn impresi\u00f3n: in print<br \/>\nFuera de impresi\u00f3n: out of print<br \/>\nEl marcap\u00e1ginas \/ El marcalibros: book mark<br \/>\nLa tapa blanda: paperback<br \/>\nLa tapa dura: hardback<\/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_69d756f6226e93.94041357\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69d756f6226e93.94041357','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/talking-about-books-in-spanish2.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69d756f6226e93.94041357');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69d756f6226e93.94041357\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69d756f6226e93.94041357','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69d756f6226e93.94041357');\" \/><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>Gabriela: \u00bfConoces a Andrea?<br \/>\nToby: Por supuesto.<br \/>\nGabriela: \u00bfAlguna vez has ido a su casa?<br \/>\nToby: No, \u00bfpor qu\u00e9?<br \/>\nGabriela: \u00a1Nunca hab\u00eda visto una colecci\u00f3n de libros tan incre\u00edble!<br \/>\nToby: Me lo puedo imaginar. A Andrea le encanta leer.<br \/>\nGabriela: \u00a1Tiene una biblioteca en su casa! Una sala entera dedicada a sus libros. \u00a1Y tambi\u00e9n es una habitaci\u00f3n enorme! Estanter\u00edas llenas de libros incre\u00edbles.<br \/>\nToby: No s\u00e9 si los libros que le gustan a Andrea me gustar\u00edan a m\u00ed.<br \/>\nGabriela: Yo tampoco lo s\u00e9, la verdad. A Andrea le encantan la poes\u00eda y las novelas cl\u00e1sicas. Yo prefiero los thrillers modernos o las historias de cr\u00edmenes. A veces las biograf\u00edas.<br \/>\nToby: A m\u00ed me gustan los c\u00f3mics.<br \/>\nGabriela: La mayor\u00eda de los libros de Andrea ya no se imprimen.<br \/>\nToby: Y son lentos y aburridos.<br \/>\nGabriela: Ella dice que la literatura moderna no es nada en comparaci\u00f3n con la literatura cl\u00e1sica.<br \/>\nToby: \u00bfQui\u00e9n soy yo para discutir? Conf\u00edo en su palabra. Sin embargo, no voy a leer nada de eso.<br \/>\nGabriela: Creo que haber tenido que estudiar El Quijote en la escuela acab\u00f3 con cualquier inter\u00e9s que yo pudiera tener por la literatura cl\u00e1sica. Comprendo que la historia sea interesante, pero es tan lenta. \u00a1Y mi maestra era un desastre!<br \/>\nToby: En Inglaterra tenemos que estudiar a Shakespeare. O a Chaucer. Recuerdo que no pod\u00eda entender nada de lo que estaba pasando, ya que todo estaba en ingl\u00e9s antiguo.<br \/>\nGabriela: El Quijote se considera la primera novela de la historia. Tanto Cervantes como Shakespeare vivieron y escribieron a principios del siglo XVII. Y ambos murieron el mismo d\u00eda.<br \/>\nToby: \u00bfEn serio? No lo sab\u00eda.<br \/>\nGabriela: Andrea es coleccionista de libros y un d\u00eda quiere tener un Quijote de primera edici\u00f3n.<br \/>\nToby: \u00bfCu\u00e1ndo se public\u00f3 por primera vez?<br \/>\nGabriela: En 1605. La \u00faltima vez que alguien compr\u00f3 un Quijote original fue en 1989, por un mill\u00f3n y medio de d\u00f3lares.<br \/>\nToby: \u00a1Dios m\u00edo! Bueno, el primer c\u00f3mic de Spiderman, publicado en 1962, tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 valorado actualmente en un mill\u00f3n y medio de d\u00f3lares.<\/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\/2021\/01\/talking-about-books-in-spanish-350x233.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"talking about books in spanish\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/talking-about-books-in-spanish-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/talking-about-books-in-spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Learn and practice colloquial vocabulary and phrases related to talking about Books in Spanish and then see if you can follow a short audio conversation in Spanish.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":14721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[61202,3,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14720","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\/14720","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=14720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14723,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14720\/revisions\/14723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}