{"id":15355,"date":"2021-12-28T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=15355"},"modified":"2021-11-26T10:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:14:11","slug":"english-spanish-parallel-texts-buying-clothes-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/english-spanish-parallel-texts-buying-clothes-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"English Spanish Parallel Texts &#8211; Buying clothes in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice discussing buying clothes 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\">Buying clothes in Spanish<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15356\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15356\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Buying-clothes-in-Spanish-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Buying clothes in Spanish\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Buying-clothes-in-Spanish-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Buying-clothes-in-Spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/gonghuimin468-3804290\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=3040029\">gonghuimin468<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=3040029\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish Text<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Julia: <\/p>\n<p>Cuando voy de compras, me gusta mirar en todas las tiendas antes de decidir qu\u00e9 comprar. Me pruebo muchas cosas y me gusta hablar con los dependientes sobre zapatos, ropa y moda. <\/p>\n<p>Despu\u00e9s de estar en todas las tiendas de la gran v\u00eda, me gusta ir a tomar un caf\u00e9 a mi cafeter\u00eda favorita. Normalmente, como un trozo de pastel y leo el peri\u00f3dico tambi\u00e9n. <\/p>\n<p>Cuando estoy segura de lo que quiero comprar, vuelvo a las tiendas y uso la tarjeta de cr\u00e9dito de mi marido para comprar mi ropa y mis zapatos.<\/p>\n<p>Pablo: <\/p>\n<p>Odio ir de compras. No necesito comprar nada. Aparte de una nueva moto y algunas cervezas m\u00e1s para la nevera. <\/p>\n<p>Julia quiere ir de compras todos los fines de semana y tengo que llevarla a la ciudad porque no conduce. \u00a1Es incre\u00edble! Est\u00e1 all\u00ed todo el d\u00eda prob\u00e1ndose zapatos y ropa y charlando con sus amigos sobre qui\u00e9n sabe qu\u00e9. <\/p>\n<p>La espero en el bar de mi amigo y normalmente veo el f\u00fatbol. Julia me llama por tel\u00e9fono cuando ha terminado de probarse cosas y quedo con ella para pagar todo con mi tarjeta de cr\u00e9dito.<\/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>Julia: When I go shopping, I like to look in all the shops before deciding to buy something. I try on many things and enjoy talking to the shop assistants about shoes, clothes and fashion. <\/p>\n<p>When I have been in all the stores on the high street, I like to stop and have a coffee in my favorite caf\u00e9. Normally, I also eat a piece of cake and read the newspaper. <\/p>\n<p>When I am sure of what I want to buy, I go back to the shops and use my husband\u2019s credit card to buy my clothes and shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Pablo: <\/p>\n<p>I hate shopping. There is nothing I need to buy. Apart from a new motorbike and some more beers for the fridge. <\/p>\n<p>Julia wants to go shopping every weekend and I have to take her to town because she doesn\u2019t drive. It is incredible! She is there the entire day trying on shoes and clothes and chatting with her friends about who knows what. <\/p>\n<p>I wait for her in my friend\u2019s bar and usually watch the football. Julia phones me when she has finished trying things on and I meet her to pay for everything with my credit card.<\/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\/Buying-clothes-in-Spanish-350x233.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Buying clothes in Spanish\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Buying-clothes-in-Spanish-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Buying-clothes-in-Spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Practice discussing buying clothes 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":15356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8,61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15355","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\/15355","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=15355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15358,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15355\/revisions\/15358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}