Spanish verbs in Present Tense (Part 1)<\/a><\/p>\n Spanish verbs in Present Tense (Part 2)<\/a><\/p>\n Image by Social Butterfly<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Carlos: Hola Maya, \u00bfqu\u00e9 tal? <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Carlos: Hello Maya, how are you? 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…<\/strong><\/p>\n Don’t worry if you didn’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":" Practice using some common Spanish verbs in Present Tense 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":15292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8,61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15290","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\/15290","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=15290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15293,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290\/revisions\/15293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Common](\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Common-Spanish-verbs-in-Present-Tense-350x233.jpg\")
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\nMaya: Bien, gracias Carlos, \u00bfy t\u00fa?
\nCarlos: Yo, bien. \u00bfQu\u00e9 lees?
\nMaya: El Quijote, de Miguel de Cervantes.
\nCarlos: \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 lees esto? Don Quijote de la Mancha es un libro muy largo. Y aburrido tambi\u00e9n, \u00bfno?
\nMaya: \u00a1Qu\u00e9 dices! De ning\u00fan modo. Es un cl\u00e1sico por muy buenas razones. Es muy divertido y extremadamente imaginativo. Tambi\u00e9n fue la primera novela. \u00bfQu\u00e9 escuchas?
\nCarlos: En este momento, David Bowie. Pero normalmente no escucho ese tipo de m\u00fasica. Mi m\u00fasica favorita es el jazz.
\nMaya: \u00bfEscuchas a Herbie Hancock y Miles Davis? \u00bfJohn Coltrane? \u00bfThelonious Monk?
\nCarlos: Por supuesto. Son los cl\u00e1sicos del jazz.
\nMaya: Yo no comprendo el jazz. Suena todo igual.
\nCarlos: A ti te gusta leer \u00bfEscribes tambi\u00e9n Maya?
\nMaya: S\u00ed a veces. Trabajo en una biblioteca entonces s\u00e9 bastante de libros y leo mucho. Normalmente no escribo muy a menudo pero estoy escribiendo una historia corta ahora.
\nCarlos: \u00a1Qu\u00e9 bien! \u00bfSobre qu\u00e9 es?
\nMaya: Es una historia de misterio.
\nCarlos: Yo trabajo en una tienda de m\u00fasica. Vendemos instrumentos y partituras. Hablo mucho sobre jazz con los clientes.
\nMaya: \u00a1Tenemos los trabajos perfectos!<\/p>\n
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\nMaya: Well, thank you Carlos, what about you?
\nCarlos: I am well. What are you reading?
\nMaya: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
\nCarlos: Why are you reading this? Don Quixote de la Mancha is a very long book. And isn\u2019t it boring as well?
\nMaya: What are you saying! No way. It is a classic for very good reasons. It is very funny and extremely imaginative. It was also the first novel. What are you listening to?
\nCarlos: Right now, David Bowie. But normally I don\u2019t listen to that kind of music. My favourite music is jazz.
\nMaya: Do you listen to Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis? John Coltrane? Thelonious Monk?
\nCarlos: Of course. They are the classics of jazz.
\nMaya: I don\u2019t understand jazz. It all sounds the same.
\nCarlos: You like to read. Do you also write Maya?
\nMaya: Yes sometimes. I work in a library so I know a lot about books and I read a lot. I don\u2019t usually write very often but I’m writing a short story at the moment.
\nCarlos: That\u2019s great! What is it about?
\nMaya: It’s a mystery story.
\nCarlos: I work in a music store. We sell instruments and musical scores. I talk a lot about jazz with customers.
\nMaya: We have the perfect jobs!<\/p>\n
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