{"id":15089,"date":"2021-08-10T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=15089"},"modified":"2021-08-31T04:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T08:14:45","slug":"english-spanish-parallel-texts-the-family-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/english-spanish-parallel-texts-the-family-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"English Spanish Parallel Texts &#8211; The Family in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice discussing The Family in Spanish. Start by reading the texts in Spanish below. The English translations are provided later but please try not to look at them until you have read the Spanish versions various times and tried your best to understand them.<\/p>\n<p>There may be some words and phrases in the text that you are unfamiliar with, but you should be aiming to capture the main essence of what is happening. There will always be words and phrases popping up in real-life situations that you have never heard before, so it is important never to get too distracted by details.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to investigate some of the words you don\u2019t know with a dictionary that would be great, please do, but do this after trying your best to understand with what you already have in your head.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out this video lesson with information relevant to this topic:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/beginner-9-family-verb-%e2%80%9cser%e2%80%9d-and-possessive-determiners\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Family in Spanish<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15091\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15091\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/The-Family-in-Spanish-350x243.jpg\" alt=\"The Family in Spanish\" width=\"350\" height=\"243\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/The-Family-in-Spanish-350x243.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/The-Family-in-Spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/3093594-3093594\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1598418\">Markus Christ<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1598418\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish Text<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Salva: Hola Olivia, \u00bfc\u00f3mo est\u00e1s?<br \/>\nOlivia: Muy bien Salva. Estoy con mi hermana y su familia en este momento.<br \/>\nSalva: \u00bfTu hermana no vive aqu\u00ed normalmente?<br \/>\nOlivia: No ella vive en Holanda normalmente.<br \/>\nSalva: \u00bfD\u00f3nde? \u00bfEn Amsterdam?<br \/>\nOlivia: No, en Rotterdam. Ella est\u00e1 aqu\u00ed dos semanas con sus hijos y su marido.<br \/>\nSalva: \u00a1Qu\u00e9 bien! \u00bfno?<br \/>\nOlivia: Si, me encanta estar con mi hermana. Su hijo hace mucho ruido pero es muy majo. La ni\u00f1a es muy tranquila.<br \/>\nSalva: \u00bfTu hermana habla holand\u00e9s?<br \/>\nOlivia: S\u00ed, habla holand\u00e9s perfectamente.<br \/>\nSalva: \u00bfTrabaja all\u00ed?<br \/>\nOlivia: S\u00ed, es vendedora.<br \/>\nSalva: Tienes un hermano tambi\u00e9n \u00bfno?<br \/>\nOlivia: S\u00ed, tengo un hermano. El vive en \u00c1frica.<br \/>\nSalva: \u00a1Qu\u00e9 dices! \u00bfPor qu\u00e9?<br \/>\nOlivia: Mi hermano es misionero.<br \/>\nSalva: Tienes familia por todo el mundo Olivia.<br \/>\nOlivia: La verdad es que s\u00ed. Tambi\u00e9n tengo un primo en Los Estados Unidos, una t\u00eda en Argentina, y un sobrino en Francia.<\/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;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>English Text<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Salva: Hi Olivia, how are you?<br \/>\nOlivia: Very well Salva. I am with my sister and her family at this time.<br \/>\nSalva: Does your sister not live here normally?<br \/>\nOlivia: No, she normally lives in the Netherlands.<br \/>\nSalva: Where? In Amsterdam?<br \/>\nOlivia: No, in Rotterdam. She is here two weeks with her children and her husband.<br \/>\nSalva: Great! Eh?<br \/>\nOlivia: Yes, I love being with my sister. Her son makes a lot of noise but he is very nice. The daughter is very calm.<br \/>\nSalva: Does your sister speak Dutch?<br \/>\nOlivia: Yes, she speaks Dutch perfectly.<br \/>\nSalva: Does she work there?<br \/>\nOlivia: Yes, she is a saleswoman.<br \/>\nSalva: You have a brother too, right?<br \/>\nOlivia: Yes, I have a brother. He lives in Africa.<br \/>\nSalva: What! Why?<br \/>\nOlivia: My brother is a missionary.<br \/>\nSalva: You have family all over the world Olivia.<br \/>\nOlivia: That is true. I also have a cousin in the United States, an aunt in Argentina, and a nephew in France.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, how did you get on? How much did you understand of the original text before checking the translation? 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, practice makes perfect! Be patient and keep reading, hearing, writing, and speaking Spanish. See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"243\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/The-Family-in-Spanish-350x243.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Family in Spanish\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/The-Family-in-Spanish-350x243.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/The-Family-in-Spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Practice discussing The Family in Spanish with these English Spanish Parallel Texts. Read the Spanish version and do your best to understand before later checking the English translation.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":15091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8,61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15089","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-language","category-learning-2","category-grammar","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15089","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=15089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15179,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15089\/revisions\/15179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}