{"id":15188,"date":"2021-09-21T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=15188"},"modified":"2021-09-07T08:05:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T12:05:41","slug":"english-spanish-parallel-texts-el-verbo-tener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/english-spanish-parallel-texts-el-verbo-tener\/","title":{"rendered":"English Spanish Parallel Texts &#8211; El verbo Tener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice more using the Spanish verb Tener (To Have). Start by reading the text in Spanish below. The English translation is provided later but please try not to look at it until you have read the Spanish version various times and tried your best to understand it.<\/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\/spanish-lesson-beginner-10-the-verb-%e2%80%9cto-have%e2%80%9d-el-verbo-%e2%80%9ctener%e2%80%9d-and-the-family\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El verbo Tener and the family<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15189\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15189\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/El-verbo-Tener-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"El verbo Tener\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/El-verbo-Tener-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/El-verbo-Tener.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/josstyk-126430\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=240937\">Joss Rogers<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=240937\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish Text<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lola: Hola Fernando. \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal?<br \/>\nFernando: Bastante bien \u00bfy t\u00fa? Tengo un descanso ahora. Tengo clase en tres horas.<br \/>\nLola: Muy bien. Yo tambi\u00e9n tengo un descanso ahora. Mira mi coche.<br \/>\nFernando: \u00a1Guau! \u00a1\u00a1Tienes un Ferrari!!<br \/>\nLola: Bueno, no es mi coche. Es el coche de mi padre.<br \/>\nFernando: \u00bfY tu padre sabe que t\u00fa tienes el Ferrari hoy?<br \/>\nLola: Por supuesto. Uso el Ferrari cuando quiero.<br \/>\nFernando: Esto es incre\u00edble. Mi padre tiene un Seat y no tengo permiso para usar su coche. Siempre ando en bicicleta.<br \/>\nLola: \u00bfQuieres ir conmigo en el Ferrari ahora?<br \/>\nFernando: \u00a1Claro!<br \/>\nLola: Vamos.<br \/>\nFernando: \u00a1Qu\u00e9 bonito! \u00a1Qu\u00e9 coche! Oh no, no tengo mi mochila.<br \/>\nLola: \u00bfD\u00f3nde est\u00e1?<br \/>\nFernando: No s\u00e9. Creo que est\u00e1 en la universidad. Dentro de la mochila esta mi tel\u00e9fono m\u00f3vil, un poco de ropa y unos libros.<br \/>\nLola: Qu\u00e9 pena.<br \/>\nFernando: Si, una gran pena. Pero vamos otro d\u00eda por favor Lola \u00bfvale?<br \/>\nLola: Vale. Hasta otro d\u00eda Fernando.<\/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>Lola: Hello Fernando. How are you?<br \/>\nFernando: Pretty good, and you? I have a break now. I have class in three hours.<br \/>\nLola: Very good. I also have a break now. Look at my car.<br \/>\nFernando: Wow! You\u2019ve got a Ferrari!!<br \/>\nLola: Well, it&#8217;s not my car. It&#8217;s my father&#8217;s car.<br \/>\nFernando: And your father knows that you have the Ferrari today?<br \/>\nLola: Of course. I use the Ferrari when I want.<br \/>\nFernando: This is incredible. My father has a Seat and I do not have permission to use his car. I always ride a bicycle.<br \/>\nLola: Do you want to go with me in the Ferrari now?<br \/>\nFernando: Sure!<br \/>\nLola: Come on.<br \/>\nFernando: How beautiful! What a car! Oh no, I don\u2019t have my rucksack.<br \/>\nLola: Where is it?<br \/>\nFernando: I don\u2019t know. I think it\u2019s in the university. Inside my rucksack is my mobile phone, some clothes and some books.<br \/>\nLola: What a pity.<br \/>\nFernando: Yes, a great pity. But please let\u2019s go another day Lola, okay?<br \/>\nLola: Okay. See you another day Fernando.<\/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\/09\/El-verbo-Tener-350x233.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"El verbo Tener\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/El-verbo-Tener-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/El-verbo-Tener.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Practice more using the Spanish verb Tener (To have) 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":15189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8,61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15188","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\/15188","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=15188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15191,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15188\/revisions\/15191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}