{"id":15434,"date":"2022-02-01T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=15434"},"modified":"2022-01-26T17:29:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T22:29:16","slug":"english-spanish-parallel-texts-el-verbo-querer-to-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/english-spanish-parallel-texts-el-verbo-querer-to-want\/","title":{"rendered":"English Spanish Parallel Texts &#8211; El verbo Querer (To want)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice using El verbo Querer (To want). 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-20-to-need-to-want-to-prefer\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El verbo Querer (To want)<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15435\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15435\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/El-verbo-Querer-To-want-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"El verbo Querer (To want)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/El-verbo-Querer-To-want-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/El-verbo-Querer-To-want.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/olichel-529835\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=2294201\">Olya Adamovich<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=2294201\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish Text<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Julia: Buenos d\u00edas, cari\u00f1o. \u00bfQu\u00e9 quieres hacer hoy?<br \/>\nPedro: Buenos d\u00edas mam\u00e1. Nada. Jugar a mis videojuegos.<br \/>\nJulia: No vas a jugar a videojuegos todo el d\u00eda, eso seguro. \u00bfQu\u00e9 m\u00e1s quieres hacer?<br \/>\nPedro: No mucho.<br \/>\nJulia: Vale, olv\u00eddalo por el momento, \u00bfqu\u00e9 quieres desayunar?<br \/>\nPedro: Cereales.<br \/>\nJulia: La fruta primero, como siempre. \u00bfQu\u00e9 fruta quieres?<br \/>\nPedro: Quiero un pl\u00e1tano.<br \/>\nJulia: \u00bfY algo con vitamina C\u2026 una naranja, un kiwi\u2026?<br \/>\nPedro: No quiero ni una naranja ni un kiwi. \u00bfFresas?<br \/>\nJulia: No tenemos fresas. Te dar\u00e9 una naranja.<br \/>\nPedro: No quiero una naranja. No me gustan las naranjas.<br \/>\nJulia: Bueno, no quiero estar esperando aqu\u00ed todo el d\u00eda para que tomes una decisi\u00f3n, aqu\u00ed hay un kiwi. Tengo hambre.<br \/>\nPedro: Uhhh.<br \/>\nJulia: Entonces, \u00bfqu\u00e9 vamos a hacer hoy? \u00bfQuieres dar un paseo por la monta\u00f1a?<br \/>\nPedro: No, por supuesto que no mam\u00e1. Sabes que no me gustan los paseos ni las monta\u00f1as.<br \/>\nJulia: Bueno, quiero un poco de aire fresco. Vamos a salir afuera.<br \/>\nPedro: Puedes salir a pasear mam\u00e1. Yo me quedar\u00e9 aqu\u00ed.<br \/>\nJulia: Eres demasiado peque\u00f1o para quedarte en casa.<br \/>\nPedro: Bueno, yo no quiero hacer nada. Estoy cansado.<br \/>\nJulia: Vale, \u00bftienes deberes que hacer?<br \/>\nPedro: No.<br \/>\nJulia: No me mientas hijo.<br \/>\nPedro: Vale, unos pocos, pero no quiero hacer deberes un s\u00e1bado.<br \/>\nJulia: Es deberes o la monta\u00f1a. \u00a1T\u00fa decides!<br \/>\nPedro: \u00bfEl cine?<br \/>\nJulia: Si quieres ir al cine, podemos hacerlo despu\u00e9s de haber salido a caminar.<br \/>\nPedro: \u00bfDe verdad?<br \/>\nJulia: \u00a1S\u00ed, de verdad!<br \/>\nPedro: Quiero ver esa nueva pel\u00edcula de zombies.<br \/>\nJulia: \u00a1Ni hablar!<\/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: Good morning, darling. What do you want to do today?<br \/>\nPedro: Good morning mum. Nothing. Play my video games.<br \/>\nJulia: You\u2019re not going to play video games all day, that\u2019s for sure. What else do you want to do?<br \/>\nPedro: Not much.<br \/>\nJulia: Okay, forget it for now, what do you want for breakfast?<br \/>\nPedro: Cereal.<br \/>\nJulia: Fruit first, as always. What fruit do you want?<br \/>\nPedro: I want a banana.<br \/>\nJulia: And something with vitamin C\u2026 an orange, a kiwi\u2026?<br \/>\nPedro: I don\u2019t want an orange or a kiwi. Strawberries?<br \/>\nJulia: We don\u2019t have strawberries. I\u2019ll give you an orange.<br \/>\nPedro: I don\u2019t want an orange. I don\u2019t like oranges.<br \/>\nJulia: Well I don\u2019t want to be waiting here all day for you to make a decision, here\u2019s a kiwi. I\u2019m hungry.<br \/>\nPedro: Uhhh.<br \/>\nJulia: So what are we going to do today? Do you want to take a walk in the mountains?<br \/>\nPedro: No, of course not, mum. You know that I don\u2019t like walks or mountains.<br \/>\nJulia: Well, I want some fresh air. Let\u2019s go outside.<br \/>\nPedro: You can go for a walk, mum. I will stay here.<br \/>\nJulia: You are too young to stay home.<br \/>\nPedro: Well, I don\u2019t want to do anything. I\u2019m tired.<br \/>\nJulia: Ok, do you have homework to do?<br \/>\nPedro: No.<br \/>\nJulia: Don\u2019t lie to me son.<br \/>\nPedro: Okay, a little, but I don\u2019t want to do homework on Saturday.<br \/>\nJulia: It\u2019s homework or the mountains. Up to you!<br \/>\nPedro: The cinema?<br \/>\nJulia: If you want to go to the movies, we can do it after we have gone for a walk.<br \/>\nPedro: Really?<br \/>\nJulia: Yes, really!<br \/>\nPedro: I want to see that new zombie movie.<br \/>\nJulia: No way!<\/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\/2022\/01\/El-verbo-Querer-To-want-350x233.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"El verbo Querer (To want)\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/El-verbo-Querer-To-want-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/El-verbo-Querer-To-want.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Practice using El verbo Querer (To want) 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":15435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8,61202,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15434","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\/15434","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=15434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15437,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434\/revisions\/15437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}