{"id":15286,"date":"2021-11-02T05:45:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T09:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=15286"},"modified":"2021-11-02T05:37:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T09:37:05","slug":"english-spanish-parallel-texts-estar-to-describe-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/english-spanish-parallel-texts-estar-to-describe-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"English Spanish Parallel Texts &#8211; Estar to describe feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice using the verb To Be \u2013 El verbo Estar to describe feelings. 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\">The verb To Be \u2013 El verbo Estar<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15287\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15287\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Estar-to-describe-feelings-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Estar to describe feelings\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Estar-to-describe-feelings-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Estar-to-describe-feelings.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1245725\">Free-Photos<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1245725\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish Text<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Susana: Hola Felipe. \u00bfC\u00f3mo est\u00e1s?<br \/>\nFelipe: Estoy bien \u00bfy t\u00fa?<br \/>\nSusana: Pues no muy bien Felipe.<br \/>\nFelipe: \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 Susana? \u00bfQu\u00e9 te pasa?<br \/>\nSusana: Estoy preocupada.<br \/>\nFelipe: \u00bfQu\u00e9 te preocupa?<br \/>\nSusana: Creo que estoy gorda.<br \/>\nFelipe: \u00bf\u00a1Qu\u00e9 dices!? Est\u00e1s muy bien. Haces mucho ejercicio y te veo en forma.<br \/>\nSusana: Quiz\u00e1s. Pero me encanta comer. Creo que como demasiado.<br \/>\nFelipe: Es bueno disfrutar de tu comida.<br \/>\nSusana: Estoy contenta cuando como, pero estoy triste despu\u00e9s de comer porque pienso que estoy gorda.<br \/>\nFelipe: Eres una mujer hermosa, Susana, con una personalidad hermosa. Yo estoy triste cuando escucho que est\u00e1s triste. Est\u00e1s sana y eso es lo m\u00e1s importante.<br \/>\nSusana: Gracias Felipe. \u00a1S\u00ed, tienes raz\u00f3n! Estoy mejor ahora.<br \/>\nFelipe: \u00bfQuieres venir a tomar un caf\u00e9 conmigo?<br \/>\nSusana: S\u00ed, suena muy bien. \u00bfAd\u00f3nde?<br \/>\nFelipe: \u00bfAl bar de El Corte Ingl\u00e9s?<br \/>\nSusana: Perfecto. Vamos. \u00a1Yo pago los pasteles!<\/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>Susana: Hi Felipe. How are you?<br \/>\nFelipe: I&#8217;m fine and you?<br \/>\nSusana: Well, not very good Felipe.<br \/>\nFelipe: Why Susana? What&#8217;s wrong?<br \/>\nSusana: I&#8217;m worried.<br \/>\nFelipe: What is bothering you?<br \/>\nSusana: I think I&#8217;m fat.<br \/>\nFelipe: What!? You look very good. You exercise a lot and I see you looking fit.<br \/>\nSusana: Maybe. But I love to eat. I think I eat too much.<br \/>\nFelipe: It&#8217;s good to enjoy your food.<br \/>\nSusana: I&#8217;m happy when I eat, but I&#8217;m sad after eating because I think I&#8217;m fat.<br \/>\nFelipe: You are a beautiful woman, Susana, with a beautiful personality. I am sad when I hear that you are sad. You are healthy and that is the most important thing.<br \/>\nSusana: Thank you Felipe. Yes, you&#8217;re right! I&#8217;m better now.<br \/>\nFelipe: Do you want to come for a coffee with me?<br \/>\nSusana: Yes, that sounds great. Where?<br \/>\nFelipe: The bar of El Corte Ingl\u00e9s?<br \/>\nSusana: Perfect. Come on. I will pay for the cakes!<\/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\/11\/Estar-to-describe-feelings-350x233.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Estar to describe feelings\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Estar-to-describe-feelings-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Estar-to-describe-feelings.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Practice using the verb To Be \u2013 el verbo Estar to describe feelings 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":15287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8,61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15286","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\/15286","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=15286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15288,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15286\/revisions\/15288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}