{"id":15298,"date":"2021-11-23T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=15298"},"modified":"2021-11-02T06:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T10:02:09","slug":"english-spanish-parallel-texts-using-regular-spanish-verbs-in-present-tense-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/english-spanish-parallel-texts-using-regular-spanish-verbs-in-present-tense-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"English Spanish Parallel Texts &#8211; Using Regular Spanish Verbs in Present Tense (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice more using Regular Spanish Verbs in Present Tense. 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 these video lessons with information relevant to this topic:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/spanish-lesson-beginner-13-spanish-verbs-present-tense-part-1\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish verbs in Present Tense (Part 1)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/spanish-lesson-beginner-14-spanish-verbs-present-tense-part-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish verbs in Present Tense (Part 2)<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15299\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15299\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Using-Regular-Spanish-Verbs-in-Present-Tense-Part-2-350x231.jpg\" alt=\"Using Regular Spanish Verbs in Present Tense (Part 2)\" width=\"350\" height=\"231\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Using-Regular-Spanish-Verbs-in-Present-Tense-Part-2-350x231.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Using-Regular-Spanish-Verbs-in-Present-Tense-Part-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15299\" 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=690975\">Free-Photos<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=690975\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish Text<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mar\u00eda: \u00bfC\u00f3mo te apellidas Juan?<br \/>\nJuan: Fern\u00e1ndez Silva.<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Eso es. Conozco a tu madre y a tu padre. Tambi\u00e9n a tu hermana Silvia.<br \/>\nJuan: \u00bfConoces a mi hermana Sara?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: \u00bfSara es m\u00e1s joven o m\u00e1s mayor que Silvia?<br \/>\nJuan: Un poco m\u00e1s mayor.<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Igual no. Soy de la edad de Silvia. Recuerdo a Silvia del colegio.<br \/>\nJuan: Y t\u00fa Mar\u00eda, \u00bfc\u00f3mo te apellidas?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: P\u00e9rez Ruiz.<br \/>\nJuan: S\u00ed, yo conozco a tu familia. Viv\u00eds en el barrio Lavapi\u00e9s, \u00bfverdad?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Exactamente.<br \/>\nJuan: Sois una familia grande tambi\u00e9n, \u00bfno?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: S\u00ed, bastante grande. Somos diez en casa. Y tenemos m\u00e1s t\u00edos y t\u00edas por Madrid.<br \/>\nJuan: \u00a1Diez en casa!<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Trabajamos juntos tambi\u00e9n. Menos mi abuelo y mi abuela. Todos mis hermanos, yo y mi madre trabajamos en la f\u00e1brica de mi padre.<br \/>\nJuan: \u00bfCom\u00e9is juntos?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: S\u00ed, el desayuno, la comida y la cena, todos los d\u00edas.<br \/>\nJuan: \u00bfY c\u00f3mo lo llev\u00e1is?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Muy bien, la verdad. Necesitamos uno o dos ba\u00f1os m\u00e1s y hacemos mucho ruido pero hay mucho amor en la casa. Hablamos mucho. \u00a1Gritamos mucho tambi\u00e9n!<br \/>\nJuan: Hay mucho ruido en nuestra casa tambi\u00e9n. Hay menos personas pero nos gusta mucho la m\u00fasica y escuchamos m\u00fasica todo rato. El problema es que a todos nos gusta m\u00fasica diferente. Escuchamos m\u00fasica heavy, cl\u00e1sica, jazz, tecno y flamenco al mismo tiempo. \u00a1Es horrible!<\/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>Mar\u00eda: What are your surnames Juan?<br \/>\nJuan: Fern\u00e1ndez Silva.<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: That&#8217;s right. I know your mother and your father. Also your sister Silvia.<br \/>\nJuan: Do you know my sister Sara?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Is Sara younger or older than Silvia?<br \/>\nJuan: A little older.<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Probably not. I am Silvia&#8217;s age. I remember Silvia from school.<br \/>\nJuan: And you Mar\u00eda, what are your surnames?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: P\u00e9rez Ruiz.<br \/>\nJuan: Yes, I know your family. You live in the Lavapi\u00e9s neighborhood, right?<br \/>\nMaria: Exactly.<br \/>\nJuan: You are a big family too, right?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Yes, quite big. There are ten of us at home. And we have more aunts and uncles in Madrid.<br \/>\nJuan: Ten at home!<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: We work together as well. Except my grandfather and my grandmother. All my brothers, me and my mother work in my father&#8217;s factory.<br \/>\nJuan: Do you eat together?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Yes, breakfast, lunch and dinner, every day.<br \/>\nJuan: And how do you find this?<br \/>\nMaria: Very good, really. We need one or two more bathrooms and we make a lot of noise, but there is a lot of love in the house. We talk a lot. We shout a lot too!<br \/>\nJuan: There is a lot of noise in our house too. There are fewer people but we like music very much and listen to music all the time. The problem is that we all like different music. We listen to heavy metal, classical music, jazz, techno and flamenco music all at the same time. It\u2019s awful!<\/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=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Using-Regular-Spanish-Verbs-in-Present-Tense-Part-2-350x231.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Using Regular Spanish Verbs in Present Tense (Part 2)\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Using-Regular-Spanish-Verbs-in-Present-Tense-Part-2-350x231.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Using-Regular-Spanish-Verbs-in-Present-Tense-Part-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Practice more with using Regular 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":15299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8,61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15298","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\/15298","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=15298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15300,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15298\/revisions\/15300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}