{"id":15365,"date":"2022-01-11T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=15365"},"modified":"2021-11-26T10:31:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:31:41","slug":"english-spanish-parallel-texts-adjectives-and-transport-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/english-spanish-parallel-texts-adjectives-and-transport-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"English Spanish Parallel Texts &#8211; Adjectives and transport in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice using adjectives to describe transport 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\/english-spanish-vocabulary-transport-transporte\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transport in Spanish<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15366\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15366\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Adjectives-and-transport-in-Spanish-350x197.jpg\" alt=\"Adjectives and transport in Spanish\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Adjectives-and-transport-in-Spanish-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Adjectives-and-transport-in-Spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/pexels-2286921\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1836934\">Pexels<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1836934\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish Text<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gorka: Hola Juan \u00bfeste es tu coche?<br \/>\nJuan: S\u00ed Gorka, es mi coche nuevo.<br \/>\nGorka: \u00a1Guau, es un coche chulo! \u00a1Amarillo! Muy caro, \u00bfno?<br \/>\nJuan: \u00a1Chul\u00edsimo eh! Pero s\u00ed, caro tambi\u00e9n. Estoy pag\u00e1ndolo a plazos. Mil euros al mes.<br \/>\nGorka: \u00a1Mil euros al mes! \u00a1\u00a1Qu\u00e9 me dices!!<br \/>\nJuan: S\u00ed, pero mira los asientos, mira el color y la pintura, mira los neum\u00e1ticos. Y es muy muy r\u00e1pido.<br \/>\nGorka: Seguro que s\u00ed. \u00bfCu\u00e1ntos kilometros por gal\u00f3n?<br \/>\nJuan: Veinte.<br \/>\nGorka: \u00a1Solo veinte! Me quedo con mi bicicleta.<br \/>\nJuan: Pero no puedes ir a tu trabajo en bici, \u00bfno? Est\u00e1 muy lejos.<br \/>\nGorka: Bueno, al trabajo voy en autob\u00fas pero para todos los otros viajes uso mi bici. A m\u00ed me parece que los coches contaminan demasiado. Tenemos demasiados coches y los usamos demasiado.<br \/>\nJuan: Tienes raz\u00f3n t\u00edo. Pero no puedo vivir sin mi coche. Los autobuses son muy lentos y no hay suficientes. Tienes que esperar mucho tiempo. Y tampoco son muy baratos.<br \/>\nGorka: Bueno, viajar en autob\u00fas es muy barato en comparaci\u00f3n con tu coche nuevo Juan.<br \/>\nJuan: \u00a1Y tu bici Gorka! \u00a1\u00a1No es una bicicleta barata!! Vale tres mil euros, \u00bfno?<br \/>\nGorka: S\u00ed, pero es para toda la vida y ahorro mucho dinero en gasolina y suscripci\u00f3n al gimnasio.<br \/>\nJuan: Vale Gorka. Adi\u00f3s.<br \/>\nGorka: Disfruta de tu coche t\u00edo. \u00a1Ten cuidado no te choques conmigo en la carretera!<\/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>Gorka: Hi Juan, this is your car?<br \/>\nJuan: Yes Gorka, it\u2019s my new car.<br \/>\nGorka: Wow, it\u2019s a cool car! Yellow! Very expensive, right?<br \/>\nJuan: Super cool huh! But, yes, expensive too. I\u2019m paying it off in instalments. One thousand euros each month.<br \/>\nGorka: One thousand euros every month! You\u2019re joking!!<br \/>\nJuan: Yes, but look at the seats, look at the colour and the paintwork, look at the tires. And it\u2019s very, very fast.<br \/>\nGorka: For sure. How many kilometres per gallon?<br \/>\nJuan: Twenty.<br \/>\nGorka: Only twenty! I will stick with my bicycle.<br \/>\nJuan: But you cannot go to your work by bike, right? It is very far.<br \/>\nGorka: Well, I go by bus to work but for all other trips I use my bike. It seems to me that cars pollute too much. We have too many cars and we use them too much.<br \/>\nJuan: You\u2019re right, mate. But I cannot live without my car. Buses are very slow and there are not enough of them. You have to wait a long time. And they are not very cheap either.<br \/>\nGorka: Well, travelling by bus is very cheap compared to your new car Juan.<br \/>\nJuan: And your bike Gorka! It\u2019s not a cheap bicycle! It\u2019s worth three thousand euros, right?<br \/>\nGorka: Yes, but it\u2019s for life and I save a lot of money on fuel and gym membership.<br \/>\nJuan: Ok Gorka. Goodbye.<br \/>\nGorka: Enjoy your car mate. Be careful not to bump into me on the road!<\/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\/Adjectives-and-transport-in-Spanish-350x197.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Adjectives and transport in Spanish\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Adjectives-and-transport-in-Spanish-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Adjectives-and-transport-in-Spanish.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Practice using adjectives to describe transport 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":15366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8,61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15365","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\/15365","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=15365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15367,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15365\/revisions\/15367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}