{"id":15352,"date":"2021-12-21T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=15352"},"modified":"2021-11-26T10:07:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:07:41","slug":"english-spanish-parallel-texts-clothing-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/english-spanish-parallel-texts-clothing-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"English Spanish Parallel Texts &#8211; Clothing in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice discussing clothing 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-17-shopping-for-clothes\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clothing in Spanish<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15353\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15353\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Clothing-in-Spanish-350x197.jpg\" alt=\"Clothing in Spanish\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Clothing-in-Spanish-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Clothing-in-Spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/dwilliam-720409\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=620520\">DWilliam<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=620520\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish Text<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mar\u00eda: \u00bfQu\u00e9 tipo de ropa llevas para trabajar?<br \/>\nOlivia: Llevo un traje y corbata.<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: \u00bfTienes que llevar traje y corbata?<br \/>\nOlivia: S\u00ed. Todos los hombres y mujeres en la oficina deben llevar traje y corbata. Sin embargo, los viernes llevamos ropa de sport.<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Yo no tengo ni traje ni corbata.<br \/>\nOlivia: \u00a1\u00bfDe Verdad?!<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Soy una dise\u00f1adora de moda aut\u00f3noma y trabajo desde casa. Normalmente llevo pijama.<br \/>\nOlivia: \u00a1Eso suena genial! Tienes mucha suerte. \u00bfQu\u00e9 tipo de ropa dise\u00f1as?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Moda femenina. Vestidos y faldas con mucho color. Tambi\u00e9n a veces dise\u00f1o pantalones de mujer. Siempre con colores llamativos. Rosa, rojo, amarillo\u2026<br \/>\nOlivia: \u00bfTienes alguna foto?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: S\u00ed mira. Estos son mis dise\u00f1os<br \/>\nOlivia: \u00a1Guau, estos vestidos son preciosos! \u00bfCu\u00e1nto cuesta ese?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Ese cuesta 500 euros.<br \/>\nOlivia: Vale, eso es un poco caro para m\u00ed, lo siento.<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: S\u00ed, \u00a1son demasiado caros para m\u00ed tambi\u00e9n!<br \/>\nOlivia: \u00bfQuieres ir de compras a la gran v\u00eda ahora?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: \u00a1Buena idea! \u00a1V\u00e1monos!<\/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 kind of clothes do you wear to work?<br \/>\nOlivia: I wear a suit and tie.<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Do you have to wear a suit and tie?<br \/>\nOlivia: Yes. All the men and women in the office have to wear a suit and tie. However on Fridays we wear casual clothes.<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: I don\u2019t own a suit or a tie.<br \/>\nOlivia: Really!<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: I am a self employed fashion designer and I work from home. I usually wear my pyjamas.<br \/>\nOlivia: That sounds great! You are very lucky. What kind of clothes do you design?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Women\u2019s fashion. Dresses and skirts with lots of colour. I also sometimes<br \/>\ndesign women\u2019s trousers. Always with bright colours. Pink, red, yellow\u2026<br \/>\nOlivia: Do you have any photos?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Yes, look. These are my designs.<br \/>\nOlivia: Wow, these dresses are beautiful! How much does this one cost?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: That one is 500 euros.<br \/>\nOlivia: OK, that is a little expensive for me, sorry.<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Yes, they are too expensive for me too!<br \/>\nOlivia: Do you want to go shopping in the high street now?<br \/>\nMar\u00eda: Great idea! Let\u2019s go!<\/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\/11\/Clothing-in-Spanish-350x197.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Clothing in Spanish\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Clothing-in-Spanish-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Clothing-in-Spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Practice discussing clothing in Spanish 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":15353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8,61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15352","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\/15352","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=15352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15354,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15352\/revisions\/15354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}