{"id":15236,"date":"2021-10-19T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=15236"},"modified":"2021-10-03T17:02:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T21:02:45","slug":"english-spanish-parallel-texts-describing-personality-with-el-verbo-ser-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/english-spanish-parallel-texts-describing-personality-with-el-verbo-ser-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"English Spanish Parallel Texts &#8211; Describing personality with El verbo Ser (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice more describing personality with El verbo Ser 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-12-describing-personality-and-feelings\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Describing personality with El verbo Ser<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15237\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15237\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Describing-personality-with-El-verbo-Ser-Part-2-350x197.png\" alt=\"Describing personality with El verbo Ser (Part 2)\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Describing-personality-with-El-verbo-Ser-Part-2-350x197.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Describing-personality-with-El-verbo-Ser-Part-2.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/coffeebeanworks-558718\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=3449422\">Coffee Bean<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=3449422\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish Text<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>La entrevistadora: Hola, buenos d\u00edas. \u00bfC\u00f3mo se llama usted?<br \/>\nEl entrevistado: \u00a1Hola muy buenas! Me llamo Rafael Moreno. Estoy aqu\u00ed para la entrevista.<br \/>\nLa entrevistadora: Muy bien. S\u00ed, se\u00f1or Moreno. Bienvenidos.<br \/>\nEl entrevistado: Muchas gracias.<br \/>\nLa entrevistadora: Vale, empezamos. Como sabe usted, esta entrevista es para el puesto de jefe de proyecto en esta empresa.<br \/>\nEl entrevistado: S\u00ed, el puesto me parece muy interesante y tengo mucha experiencia en puestos similares.<br \/>\nLa entrevistadora: Muy bien. Hablamos de eso luego.<br \/>\nEl entrevistado: S\u00ed, por supuesto.<br \/>\nLa entrevistadora: Primero, quiero entender qu\u00e9 tipo de persona es usted y si usted es la persona adecuada para este trabajo.<br \/>\nEl entrevistado: De acuerdo.<br \/>\nLa entrevistadora: \u00bfQue cinco adjetivos describen mejor su personalidad?<br \/>\nEl entrevistado: Mmmhh\u2026 Honesto, decidido, sociable, optimista, de fiar, y trabajador.<br \/>\nLa entrevistadora: Son seis se\u00f1or Moreno.<br \/>\nEl entrevistado: Perd\u00f3n. \u00a1Es que soy tan bueno!<br \/>\nLa entrevistadora: Vale. Entiende usted que todos los entrevistados dicen m\u00e1s o menos lo mismo. Todos son personas honestas, decididas, sociables optimistas, de fiar, y trabajadoras. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 es usted mejor para este puesto que los otros? Y, tambi\u00e9n, si es tan honesto \u00bfdonde est\u00e1n las caracter\u00edsticas un poco m\u00e1s negativas de su personalidad? Todos nosotros las tenemos.<br \/>\nEl entrevistado: Mmmhh\u2026<br \/>\nLa entrevistadora: \u00bfDecidido?<br \/>\nEl entrevistado: Vale, perd\u00f3n. Soy un poco despistado a veces e igual un poco desordenado.<br \/>\nLa entrevistadora: Gracias se\u00f1or Moreno. <\/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>The interviewer: Hello, good morning. What is your name?<br \/>\nThe interviewee: Hello! My name is Rafael Moreno. I&#8217;m here for the interview.<br \/>\nThe interviewer: Very good. Yes, Mr. Moreno. Welcome.<br \/>\nThe interviewee: Thank you very much.<br \/>\nThe interviewer: Ok, let\u2019s start. As you know, this interview is for the position of project manager in this company.<br \/>\nThe interviewee: Yes, I think the position is very interesting and I have a lot of experience in similar positions.<br \/>\nThe interviewer: Very good. We can talk about that later.<br \/>\nThe interviewee: Yes, of course.<br \/>\nThe interviewer: First, I want to understand what kind of person you are and if you are the right person for this job.<br \/>\nThe interviewee: Agreed.<br \/>\nThe interviewer: What five adjectives best describe your personality?<br \/>\nThe interviewee: Mmmhh &#8230; Honest, decisive, sociable, optimistic, reliable, and hardworking.<br \/>\nThe interviewer: That is six Mr. Moreno.<br \/>\nThe interviewee: Sorry. I&#8217;m so good!<br \/>\nThe interviewer: Ok. You understand that all the interviewees say more or less the same. All are honest, decisive, sociable, optimistic, reliable, and hard-working people. Why are you better for this position than the others? And, also, if you are so honest, where are the slightly more negative characteristics of your personality? We all have them.<br \/>\nThe interviewee: Mmmhh &#8230;<br \/>\nThe interviewer: Decisive?<br \/>\nThe interviewee: Ok, sorry. I&#8217;m a little distracted at times and maybe a bit disorganised.<br \/>\nThe interviewer: Thank you Mr. Moreno.<\/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=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Describing-personality-with-El-verbo-Ser-Part-2-350x197.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Describing personality with El verbo Ser (Part 2)\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Describing-personality-with-El-verbo-Ser-Part-2-350x197.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Describing-personality-with-El-verbo-Ser-Part-2.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>More practice describing personality with El verbo Ser 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":15237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8,61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15236","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\/15236","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=15236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15238,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236\/revisions\/15238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}