{"id":8474,"date":"2015-01-15T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=8474"},"modified":"2018-08-03T13:35:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T17:35:55","slug":"telling-stories-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/telling-stories-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling Stories In Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a1Hola! \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I 2010 I wrote a small article with some expressions we use to tell stories. Let&#8217;s suppose you already know some Spanish, you master the grammar and now you want to go deeper and master Spanish conversation. Here are some very, very useful sentences you can learn (because they&#8217;re ready-made).<\/p>\n<p>Learning tip: try and memorize small batches of five to ten small sentences or expressions every day. You&#8217;ll see how your Spanish is going to improve in no time!<\/p>\n<p>Are you ready?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contando historias<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ya te he contado lo que pas\u00f3&#8230; &#8211; Have I told you what happened&#8230;<br \/>\nNo me voy a olvidar de&#8230; &#8211; I&#8217;m not going to forget to&#8230;<br \/>\nNo vas a creer lo que pas\u00f3&#8230; &#8211; You&#8217;re not going to believe what happened&#8230;<br \/>\nPara que te cuento. &#8211; I have to tell you something!<br \/>\nDeber\u00edas haber visto&#8230; &#8211; You should have seen&#8230;<br \/>\nMejor dicho&#8230; &#8211; I mean&#8230;<br \/>\nCualquier d\u00eda&#8230; &#8211; One of these days&#8230;<br \/>\nEso ocurri\u00f3 en&#8230; &#8211; This happened in&#8230;<br \/>\nYo estaba en&#8230; &#8211; I was in&#8230;<br \/>\nEstaba yendo hacia&#8230; &#8211; I was going to&#8230;<br \/>\nEstaba volviendo de&#8230; &#8211; I was coming back from&#8230;<br \/>\nMe hab\u00edan pedido que&#8230; &#8211; I&#8217;d been asked to&#8230;<br \/>\nMe estaba dando cuenta&#8230; &#8211; I realized&#8230;<br \/>\nEntonces yo dije&#8230; &#8211; So I said&#8230;<br \/>\nEntonces el tipo dijo&#8230; &#8211; So the guy said&#8230;<br \/>\nEn ese momento&#8230; &#8211; At this moment&#8230;<br \/>\nY de pronto&#8230; &#8211; And suddenly&#8230;<br \/>\nBueno, cuando eso pas\u00f3&#8230; &#8211; Well, when that happened&#8230;<br \/>\nSin m\u00e1s ni menos. &#8211; For no reason at all.<br \/>\nOcurri\u00f3 todo tan r\u00e1pido. &#8211; Everything happened so fast.<br \/>\nNo supe que decirle. &#8211; I didn&#8217;t know what to tell him\/her.<br \/>\nEn aquella \u00e9poca yo&#8230; &#8211; At that time I&#8230;<br \/>\nY entonces me di cuenta que&#8230; &#8211; And then I realized that&#8230;<br \/>\nMe qued\u00e9 pasmado. &#8211; I was shocked.<br \/>\nY pens\u00e9 conmigo mismo&#8230; &#8211; And I thought to myself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fa sabes como es cuando&#8230; &#8211; You know what it&#8217;s like when&#8230;<br \/>\n\u00bfPuedes creerlo? &#8211; Can you believe that?<br \/>\n\u00bfTe lo imaginas? &#8211; Can you imagine that?<br \/>\n\u00bfTe imaginas como me sent\u00ed? &#8211; Can you imagina how I felt?<br \/>\nEn el momento cre\u00ed que era una buena idea. &#8211; At the moment I believed it was a good idea.<br \/>\n\u00bfC\u00f3mo yo pod\u00eda saber&#8230;? &#8211; How could I know&#8230;?<br \/>\nCuando me di cuenta, ya estaba en el medio de la calle. &#8211; When I realized, I was in the middle of the street.<br \/>\nNo, esp\u00e9rate, que todav\u00eda no termin\u00f3&#8230; &#8211; No, wait, it&#8217;s not over yet&#8230;<br \/>\nLa peor parte fue&#8230; &#8211; The worst part was&#8230;<br \/>\nY para colmo de males&#8230; &#8211; And to make things worse&#8230;<br \/>\nNo habr\u00eda sido tan malo, pero&#8230; &#8211; It wouldn&#8217;t have been so bad, but&#8230;<br \/>\nPor suerte&#8230; &#8211; Luckily&#8230;<br \/>\nEstaba empezando a sentirme&#8230; &#8211; I was starting to feel&#8230;<br \/>\nPor supuesto que yo&#8230; &#8211; Of course I&#8230;<br \/>\nDe todos modos decid\u00ed&#8230; &#8211; Anyway, I decided to&#8230;<br \/>\nY entonces, por un milagro&#8230; &#8211; And then, as a miracle&#8230;<br \/>\nSi no fuera por ella&#8230; &#8211; If it wasn&#8217;t for her&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; yo habr\u00eda&#8230; &#8211; I would have&#8230;<br \/>\nTe juro por Dios. &#8211; I swear to God.<br \/>\nSi no lo hubiera visto con mis propios ojos, no lo habr\u00eda cre\u00eddo. &#8211; If I hadn&#8217;t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn&#8217;t have believed it.<br \/>\nParec\u00eda una escena de una telenovela. &#8211; It was like a soap opera scene.<br \/>\nAprend\u00ed con la lecci\u00f3n. &#8211; I learned from this lesson.<br \/>\nMoral de la historia&#8230; &#8211; The moral of the story is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more free resources to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/learn-spanish\/\">learn Spanish<\/a>? 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