{"id":8521,"date":"2015-03-13T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=8521"},"modified":"2018-08-03T11:57:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:57:05","slug":"making-a-phone-call-12-words-and-expressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/making-a-phone-call-12-words-and-expressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Phone Call: 12 Words And Expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a1Hola! \u00bfC\u00f3mo est\u00e1n ustedes?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today our post is about words and expressions we use to talk about phone calls in Spanish. <em>\u00bfEst\u00e1n listos? \u00a1Adelante con los faroles!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. discar \/ marcar<\/strong> &#8211; to dial. En caso de emergencia, marque \/disque 190 para pedir ayuda. <em>[In case of emergency, dial 190 for help.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. atender \/ coger el tel\u00e9fono<\/strong> &#8211; to answer the phone. \u00bfPuedes atender \/ coger el tel\u00e9fono, por favor? <em>[Can you answer the phone, please?]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. contestador autom\u00e1tico<\/strong> &#8211; answering machine. Pedro dej\u00f3 un mensaje en el contestador autom\u00e1tico de Susana. <em>[Pedro left a message on Susana&#8217;s answering machine.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. llamar de vuelta \/ devolver la llamada<\/strong> &#8211; to call back. Tengo que irme. Te llamo de vuelva \/ Te devuelvo la llamada enseguida. <em>[I have to go. I&#8217;ll call you back soon.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. pedir a alguien que devuelva la llamada<\/strong> &#8211; to ask someone to call back. Ahora estoy muy ocupado. \u00bfPuedo llamarte de vuelta m\u00e1s tarde? <em>[I&#8217;m very busy right now. Can I call you back later?]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>6. colgar \/ cortar<\/strong> &#8211; to hang up. &#8220;No corte \/ cuelgue, por favor&#8221;, dijo la telefonista. <em>[&#8220;Don&#8217;t hang up, please&#8221;, said the operator.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>7. colgarle el tel\u00e9fono en la cara a alguien<\/strong> &#8211; to hang up on someone. No puedo creer te haya colgado el tel\u00e9fono en la cara de esa manera. <em>[I can&#8217;t believe she hung up on you like that.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>8. se cort\u00f3 la llamada<\/strong> &#8211; the call got cut off. Estaba hablando con Jorge y la llamada se cort\u00f3. <em>[I was talking to Jorge and we got cut off.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>9. interno (Argentina) \/ extensi\u00f3n (Espa\u00f1a)<\/strong> &#8211; extension. Usted se ha comunicado con GRS &amp; Asociados. Por favor, disque el interno, aguarde para ser atendido, o pulse tres para dejar un mensaje despu\u00e9s de la se\u00f1al. <em>[You have reached GRS &amp; Asociados. Please, dial the extension number, wait for assistance or press three to leave a message after the signal.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>10. llamada de larga distancia<\/strong> &#8211; long distance call. Necesito hacer una llamada de larga distancia. \u00bfSabr\u00edas decirme si hay alg\u00fan tel\u00e9fono p\u00fablico cerca?<em> [I need to make a long distance call. Could you tell me if there&#8217;s a public phone nearby?]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>11. tel\u00e9fono celular \/ m\u00f3vil<\/strong> &#8211; cell phone. \u00bfHas visto mi celular? No s\u00e9 d\u00f3nde lo dej\u00e9. <em>[Have you seen my cell phone? I don&#8217;t know where I left it.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>12. altavoces<\/strong> &#8211; speaker. Un momento, por favor. Voy a conectar los altavoces para que todos puedan escucharlo. <em>[A moment, please. I&#8217;ll put you on speakerphone so everyone can hear you.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more free resources to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/learn-spanish\/\">learn Spanish<\/a>? Check out the other goodies we offer to help make your language learning efforts a daily habit.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a1Hola! \u00bfC\u00f3mo est\u00e1n ustedes? Today our post is about words and expressions we use to talk about phone calls in Spanish. \u00bfEst\u00e1n listos? \u00a1Adelante con los faroles! 1. discar \/ marcar &#8211; to dial. En caso de emergencia, marque \/disque 190 para pedir ayuda. [In case of emergency, dial 190 for help.] 2. atender&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/making-a-phone-call-12-words-and-expressions\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[358362,358369],"class_list":["post-8521","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary","tag-culture","tag-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11659,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions\/11659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}