{"id":14986,"date":"2021-06-15T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=14986"},"modified":"2021-05-21T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:28:37","slug":"colloquial-spanish-course-talking-about-sea-life-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/colloquial-spanish-course-talking-about-sea-life-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquial Spanish Course \u2013 Talking about Sea Life in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Spanish lesson we are going to practice talking about Sea Life 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_14987\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14987\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/Talking-about-Sea-life-in-Spanish-350x197.jpg\" alt=\"Talking about Sea life in Spanish\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/Talking-about-Sea-life-in-Spanish-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/Talking-about-Sea-life-in-Spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/marcellorabozzi-2003568\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1446738\">Marcello Rabozzi<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1446738\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Talking about Sea Life in Spanish:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>los animales marinos &#8211; sea animals<br \/>\nel caballito de mar \u2013 seahorse<br \/>\nel calamar \u2013 squid<br \/>\nel camar\u00f3n \u2013 shrimp<br \/>\nel cangrejo \u2013 crab<br \/>\nel delf\u00edn \u2013 dolphin<br \/>\nel erizo de mar \u2013 sea urchin<br \/>\nel le\u00f3n marino \u2013 sea lion<br \/>\nel manat\u00ed \u2013 manatee<br \/>\nel pez \u2013 fish<br \/>\nel pulpo \u2013 octopus<br \/>\nel tibur\u00f3n \u2013 shark<br \/>\nla almeja \u2013 clam<br \/>\nla an\u00e9mona \u2013 anemone<br \/>\nla anguila \u2013 eel<br \/>\nla ballena \u2013 whale<br \/>\nla estrella de mar \u2013 sea star<br \/>\nla foca \u2013 seal<br \/>\nla langosta \u2013 lobster<br \/>\nla marsopa \u2013 porpoise<br \/>\nla medusa \u2013 jellyfish<br \/>\nla morsa \u2013 walrus<br \/>\nla nutria marina \u2013 sea otter<br \/>\nla orca \u2013 orca<br \/>\nla ostra \u2013 oyster<br \/>\nlos peces voladores \u2013 flying fish<br \/>\nla raya &#8211; ray<br \/>\nla tortuga \u2013 sea turtle<\/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_69d5e06de1ad82.40363114\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69d5e06de1ad82.40363114','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/Talking-about-Sea-life-in-Spanish.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69d5e06de1ad82.40363114');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69d5e06de1ad82.40363114\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69d5e06de1ad82.40363114','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69d5e06de1ad82.40363114');\" \/><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>Jonathan: \u00bfC\u00f3mo estuvo tu luna de miel Silvia?<br \/>\nSilvia: Incre\u00edble. Fuimos a las Maldivas. \u00a1Fueron unas vacaciones inolvidables!<br \/>\nJonathan: Me encantar\u00eda visitar las Maldivas. He visto fotos y parece el para\u00edso.<br \/>\nSilvia: La parte m\u00e1s bonita para m\u00ed fue el mar. El agua era tan clara y azul. \u00a1Y la vida marina era incre\u00edble!<br \/>\nJonathan: \u00bfQu\u00e9 visteis?<br \/>\nSilvia: \u00a1Qu\u00e9 no vimos! Rayas, tortugas, estrellas de mar, caballitos de mar, anguilas, cangrejos, an\u00e9monas&#8230; \u00a1Nos llevaron del aeropuerto a nuestra isla en barco y hab\u00eda peces voladores volando por delante del barco!<br \/>\nJonathan: \u00bfLos peces eran muy coloridos?<br \/>\nSilvia: Los peces voladores no eran particularmente coloridos, pero los peces tropicales que vimos al hacer esn\u00f3rquel ten\u00edan muchos colores.<br \/>\nJonathan: Si fuera a un lugar as\u00ed, estar\u00eda haciendo esn\u00f3rquel todo el d\u00eda.<br \/>\nSilvia: Nosotros tambi\u00e9n fuimos a bucear. Vimos tiburones. Y barracudas.<br \/>\nJonathan: \u00bfNo te dieron miedo?<br \/>\nSilvia: Ya hab\u00eda visto tiburones antes. La primera vez que vi un tibur\u00f3n, mi coraz\u00f3n lat\u00eda rapid\u00edsimo. Ahora puedo verlos y quedarme m\u00e1s o menos relajada.<br \/>\nJonathan: No me gustar\u00eda ver un tibur\u00f3n.<br \/>\nSilvia: Los delfines son mis favoritos. Son tan hermosos e inteligentes. Y muy amigables tambi\u00e9n.<\/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=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/Talking-about-Sea-life-in-Spanish-350x197.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Talking about Sea life in Spanish\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/Talking-about-Sea-life-in-Spanish-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/Talking-about-Sea-life-in-Spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Learn and practice colloquial vocabulary and phrases related to talking about Sea Life in Spanish and then see if you can follow a short audio conversation in Spanish.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":14987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[537012,8,61202,11,138,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14986","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idioms","category-language","category-learning-2","category-pronunciation","category-slang","category-grammar","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986","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=14986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14989,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986\/revisions\/14989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}