This is the third clip of a series of messages that my friend from Colombia, Dayana, left me in response to me asking her how her business project was going. “¿Cómo te va el emprendimiento?“
You can listen to the first clip here, and the second clip here.
In this audio, Dayana talks about her business venture and uses a couple of high frequency expressions that you can start using today.
Listening Task
Count the number of cognates (words that are similar in spelling and have the same meaning in English) in this clip and write your answer in the comments section.
Can you spot the false cognate (words that have similar spelling but a completely different meaning in English)?
Audio File
Transcription
“Eh…elemprendimiento que estoy realizando, allí hay unos suplementos y unas vitaminas que son muy buenas.
This is the second clip of a series of messages that my friend from Colombia, Dayana, left me in response to me asking her how her business project was going. “¿Cómo te va el emprendimiento?”
In this audio, one of my former co-teachers from Costa Rica talks about her family.
Here are a couple of key structures that she uses in the audio:
Se llama (verb – llamarse) – his/her name is
Tiene # años (verb – tener) – he/she is # years old
Esta casado/-a con (verb – estar) – he/she is married to
Here are my suggestions for using this audio to improve your listening comprehension and oral production abilities in Spanish:
Listen to the audio at least 3 times – once without reading the script, once while reading the script and once again without reading the script.
Listen for overall understanding. If you don’t understand every single word, don’t worry about it.
Pull out the words, phrases or structures that you would use to talk about your family. Write a short paragraph about your family and then read it out loud several times. This will help you convert passive vocabulary to active vocabulary.
Let’s listen to Jesse talk about her family:
Script
Mi familia es muy pequeña. Estoy casada con Benjamín Peña Guerra. Él es panameño, tiene 56 años y tenemos tres hijos. Mi hija mayor tiene 23 años, su nombre es Fiorela ella estudiaba biología marina en la universidad y está cursando el nivel de licenciatura pronto se graduará.
Mi hija del medio, ella se llama Génesis ya tiene ocho años y está en tercer grado de la escuela y mi hijo menor tiene cinco años. Él está en preescolar o kínder, se llama Joshua y mis hijos son muy diferentes entre ellos. Bueno, mi mamá, ella se llama Leticia. Solamente tengo una hermana que se llama Endrina. Ella está casada con Diego y tiene tres niñas. La mayor Isabella tiene siete años, la del medio se llama Sophia y tiene cuatro años…cinco años y la bebé acaba de nacer tiene 14 días, 15 días con hoy y se llama Belén. Esta es mi pequeña familia. Solamente somos nosotros.
Questions
Answer the following questions and post them in the comments section:
What verb does Jesse use as a synonym for “estudiar”?
“Me pongo rojo como un tomate cuando estoy embarazado.”
I was working at a local restaurant and bar as a server and bartender. I had already accepted a teaching position in Colombia and was beginning to practice Spanish on my own and at the restaurant with some of the Spanish speaking kitchen staff.
One day, I was in the kitchen waiting for an order when my face turned red. I can’t remember the reason why, but the only thing you need to know as it relates to this story is that for most of my life, my entire head turns into a dark red tomato whenever I feel embarrassed in front of a bunch of people.
At any rate, Rosie from the grill looks at me and says, “¿Por qué te pones rojo?”.
