{"id":15093,"date":"2021-08-17T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=15093"},"modified":"2021-07-27T17:01:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T21:01:36","slug":"english-spanish-parallel-texts-the-spanish-verb-ser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/english-spanish-parallel-texts-the-spanish-verb-ser\/","title":{"rendered":"English Spanish Parallel Texts &#8211; The Spanish verb Ser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice using the Spanish verb Ser (To Be). 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 Spanish verb Ser<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15094\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15094\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/The-Spanish-verb-Ser-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"The Spanish verb Ser\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/The-Spanish-verb-Ser-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/The-Spanish-verb-Ser.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/phillipkofler-715497\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=606235\">Phillip Kofler<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=606235\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish Text<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9: Hola, buenos d\u00edas. \u00bfQui\u00e9nes sois?<br \/>\nEl equipo de f\u00fatbol argentino: Hola, somos el equipo de f\u00fatbol argentino.<br \/>\nJos\u00e9: \u00bfT\u00fa eres el entrenador del equipo?<br \/>\nEl entrenador argentino: S\u00ed, yo soy el entrenador de este equipo magn\u00edfico. Me llamo Alberto Guti\u00e9rrez.<br \/>\nJos\u00e9: Mucho gusto. Yo soy Jos\u00e9 Blanco. Soy el entrenador del equipo de f\u00fatbol espa\u00f1ol.<br \/>\nEl entrenador argentino: Mucho gusto Jos\u00e9. \u00bfEntonces ellos son los jugadores espa\u00f1oles?<br \/>\nJos\u00e9: S\u00ed, ellos son mi equipo. Son muy buenos futbolistas.<br \/>\nEl entrenador argentino: \u00bfQui\u00e9n es tu capit\u00e1n?<br \/>\nJos\u00e9: El capit\u00e1n del equipo de f\u00fatbol espa\u00f1ol es Pedro Mu\u00f1oz.<br \/>\nEl entrenador argentino: \u00bfQui\u00e9n es Pedro?<br \/>\nJos\u00e9: \u00a1Oye Pedro!<br \/>\nPedro: S\u00ed jefe.<br \/>\nJos\u00e9: Hola Pedro, este se\u00f1or es Alberto Guti\u00e9rrez, el entrenador del equipo argentino.<br \/>\nPedro: Encantado Se\u00f1or Guti\u00e9rrez. Sois un equipo excelente.<br \/>\nEl entrenador argentino: Gracias, vosotros tambi\u00e9n.<\/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>Jos\u00e9: Hello, good morning. Who are you?<br \/>\nThe Argentine soccer team: Hello, we are the Argentine soccer team.<br \/>\nJos\u00e9: Are you the coach of the team?<br \/>\nThe Argentine coach: Yes, I am the coach of this magnificent team. My name is Alberto Guti\u00e9rrez.<br \/>\nJos\u00e9: Nice to meet you. I am Jos\u00e9 Blanco. I am the coach of the Spanish football team.<br \/>\nThe Argentine coach: Delighted to meet you Jos\u00e9. So they are the Spanish players?<br \/>\nJos\u00e9: Yes, they are my team. They are very good footballers.<br \/>\nThe Argentine coach: Who is your captain?<br \/>\nJos\u00e9: The captain of the Spanish football team is Pedro Mu\u00f1oz.<br \/>\nThe Argentine coach: Who is Pedro?<br \/>\nJos\u00e9: Hey Pedro!<br \/>\nPedro: Yes boss.<br \/>\nJos\u00e9: Hi Pedro, this man is Alberto Guti\u00e9rrez, the coach of the Argentine team.<br \/>\nPedro: Delighted to meet you Mr. Guti\u00e9rrez. You are an excellent team.<br \/>\nThe Argentine coach: Thanks, you too.<\/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=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/The-Spanish-verb-Ser-350x233.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Spanish verb Ser\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/The-Spanish-verb-Ser-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/The-Spanish-verb-Ser.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Practice using the Spanish verb Ser (To be) 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":15094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8,61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15093","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\/15093","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=15093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15095,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15093\/revisions\/15095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}