{"id":15230,"date":"2021-10-05T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=15230"},"modified":"2021-10-03T16:43:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T20:43:34","slug":"english-spanish-parallel-texts-physical-descriptions-with-ser-and-tener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/english-spanish-parallel-texts-physical-descriptions-with-ser-and-tener\/","title":{"rendered":"English Spanish Parallel Texts &#8211; Physical descriptions with Ser and Tener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice physical descriptions with Ser and Tener in Spanish. 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-11-physical-descriptions\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Physical descriptions with Ser and Tener<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15231\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15231\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Physical-descriptions-with-Ser-and-Tener-350x244.jpg\" alt=\"Physical descriptions with Ser and Tener\" width=\"350\" height=\"244\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Physical-descriptions-with-Ser-and-Tener-350x244.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Physical-descriptions-with-Ser-and-Tener.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/birgl-6508325\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=4536550\">birgl<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=4536550\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish Text<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Daniel: Hola Carmen, \u00bfc\u00f3mo est\u00e1s?<br \/>\nCarmen: Muy bien, \u00bfy t\u00fa?<br \/>\nDaniel: Muy contento. Tengo una novia nueva.<br \/>\nCarmen: \u00bfY Luc\u00eda?<br \/>\nDaniel: No es mi novia ahora. No quiero hablar mucho de Luc\u00eda. Tiene un novio nuevo.<br \/>\nCarmen: \u00a1Qu\u00e9 dices! \u00bfQui\u00e9n?<br \/>\nDaniel: Roberto.<br \/>\nCarmen: \u00bfYo conozco a Roberto?<br \/>\nDaniel: Si, Roberto Garc\u00eda. Tiene el pelo muy largo y le gusta el heavy metal.<br \/>\nCarmen: \u00bfEs bastante alto? \u00bfCon ojos azules?<br \/>\nDaniel: S\u00ed eso es. No habla mucho. Est\u00e1 gordo.<br \/>\nCarmen: Bueno. Y tu nueva novia, \u00bfqui\u00e9n es?<br \/>\nDaniel: Se llama Patricia L\u00f3pez. Vive cerca de aqu\u00ed. Trabaja como enfermera en el hospital del pueblo.<br \/>\nCarmen: No s\u00e9 si conozco a Patricia.<br \/>\nDaniel: Es muy guapa. Tiene los ojos marrones. El pelo largo y casta\u00f1o. No es alta pero tampoco es baja. Es delgada porque hace mucho deporte. Le gusta nadar y correr.<br \/>\nCarmen: Creo que no conozco a esa Patricia. Pero est\u00e1s contento, \u00bfno?<br \/>\nDaniel: S\u00ed, estoy muy contento.<br \/>\nCarmen: \u00bfHablas con Luc\u00eda?<br \/>\nDaniel: No quiero hablar con ella y no me importa si est\u00e1 contenta con ese hippy raro.<\/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>Daniel: Hello Carmen, how are you?<br \/>\nCarmen: Very well, and you?<br \/>\nDaniel: Very happy. I have a new girlfriend.<br \/>\nCarmen: And Lucia?<br \/>\nDaniel: She\u2019s not my girlfriend now. I don\u2019t want to talk much about Lucia. She has a new boyfriend.<br \/>\nCarmen: No way! Who?<br \/>\nDaniel: Roberto.<br \/>\nCarmen: Do I know Roberto?<br \/>\nDaniel: Yes, Roberto Garc\u00eda. He has very long hair and likes heavy metal.<br \/>\nCarmen: Is he quite tall? With blue eyes?<br \/>\nDaniel: Yes that&#8217;s right. He doesn\u2019t talk much. Fat.<br \/>\nCarmen: Okay. And your new girlfriend, who is she?<br \/>\nDaniel: Her name is Patricia L\u00f3pez. She lives near here. She works as a nurse in the town hospital.<br \/>\nCarmen: I don\u2019t know if I know Patricia.<br \/>\nDaniel: She&#8217;s very pretty. She has brown eyes. Long brown hair. She is not tall but not short either. She is slim because she does a lot of sport. She likes to swim and run.<br \/>\nCarmen: I don\u2019t think I know this Patricia. But you&#8217;re happy, aren\u2019t you?<br \/>\nDaniel: Yes, I&#8217;m very happy.<br \/>\nCarmen: Do you talk to Lucia?<br \/>\nDaniel: I don\u2019t want to talk to her and I am not interested if she&#8217;s happy with that weird hippy.<\/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=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Physical-descriptions-with-Ser-and-Tener-350x244.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Physical descriptions with Ser and Tener\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Physical-descriptions-with-Ser-and-Tener-350x244.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Physical-descriptions-with-Ser-and-Tener.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Practice physical descriptions with Ser and Tener 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":15231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8,61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15230","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\/15230","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=15230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15232,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15230\/revisions\/15232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}