12 Min of Easy Spanish Conversation in Daily Life | Spanish Listening Practice A1-A2

Learn Spanish with an A2 listening practice: A Normal Day with Marta and Diego (Un día normal con Marta y Diego). One long, easy Spanish conversation through a whole day, scene by scene: every sentence plays twice, first slowly, then a little faster, with the English translation on screen. Marta and Diego are flatmates who work in the same office building in Madrid, and their day is full of small choices, a missing presentation file, and a plan for a surprise dinner that pays off at night. ▶️ Watch next: Talking about plans with ir a + infinitive (Ir a + infinitivo)    • Talking about plans with ir a + infinitive...   How it works: 🐢 Each sentence plays slowly first 🗣️ Then straight away a little faster 👀 The English translation is on screen the whole time 🔁 Play it again in the background: you will catch more every time 💬 ¿Qué parte entendiste mejor? Which part of the day did you understand best? Comment it below Level: A2 (CEFR, beginner) · About 12 min · Slow, clear native Spanish narration (Castilian Spanish from Spain) 🎧 12 minutes of one easy conversation in 3 parts, 75 sentences in all: each one plays twice, first "Más lento", then straight away "Lento", with the English translation on screen. 📍 The parts: Waking Up, At Work, The Evening. Chapters 0:00 Waking Up 3:36 At Work 8:00 The Evening 11:47 Outro Key words • el café: coffee • el cielo: the sky • el paraguas: the umbrella • el sofá: the sofa • la oficina: the office • llover: to rain • la reunión: the meeting • el archivo: the file • la presentación: the presentation • el jefe: the boss • el salón: the living room • la pasta: the pasta ⚠ Watch out for • entonces. A B1 word. • largo. Means "long", not "large". • paro. A B1 word. Grammar notes • son las siete y media: ser for telling time. Ser is used for the time: son las siete, it is seven o'clock. • Tienes que levantarte: tener que for obligation. Tener que plus an infinitive means you have to do something. • estoy preparando: action happening right now. Estar plus an -ando or -iendo form shows an action in progress. • Dónde está: question about place. Dónde asks where something is, followed by the verb estar. • hemos llegado: perfect tense, finished action. Haber in present plus a past participle shows an action completed. • Déjalo: command with a pronoun. Telling someone to do something; lo attaches to the end of the verb. • estoy enviando: action happening now. Estar plus an -ando or -iendo verb shows an action in progress. • Está lloviendo: action happening now. Estar plus -iendo shows rain happening at this moment. • Ha sido: present perfect tense. Haber plus a past participle makes the perfect tense, here of ser. • está muy desordenado: estar for a current state. Estar describes how the room is now, a temporary condition that can change. • Estoy cortando: estar plus gerund, action now. Estar plus the -ando form shows an action happening right now. • Esta pasta: demonstrative agrees with noun. Esta matches pasta, a feminine word, so it takes the -a ending. • ha escrito: present perfect, finished action. Haber plus escrito shows a completed action linked to the present. • tenemos que salir: tener que plus infinitive. Tener que plus an infinitive means must or have to do something. • es para ti: para means for someone. Para shows who receives something, and ti is the form used after para. Transcript 1. ¡Diego, ya son las siete y media! Diego, it's already half past seven! 2. No quiero levantarme todavía. I don't want to get up yet. 3. Tienes que levantarte. Hay café en la cocina. You have to get up. There's coffee in the kitchen. 4. ¿Ya has hecho el café? Have you already made the coffee? 5. Sí, lo estoy preparando ahora mismo. Yes, I'm making it right now. 6. Vale, voy en cinco minutos. Okay, I'll be there in five minutes. 7. Buenos días. ¿Cómo has dormido? Good morning. How did you sleep? 8. He dormido mal. Hacía mucho calor. I slept badly. It was very hot. 9. Yo he dormido muy bien. I slept very well. 10. ¡Qué suerte! Yo estoy muy cansado. Lucky you. I'm very tired. 11. Toma, el café está caliente. Here, the coffee is hot. 12. Gracias. Ahora me siento mejor. Thanks. Now I feel better. 13. Mira, el cielo está muy gris. Look, the sky is very grey. 14. Creo que va a llover hoy. I think it's going to rain today. 15. Entonces voy a llevar mi chaqueta. Then I'm going to wear my jacket. 16. Yo me pongo el jersey azul. I'll put on the blue jumper. 🎧 Listen on the go: Spanish Shadow Daily, the daily podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1bwlOpC... More A2 videos are in the A2 playlists. Subscribe for new Spanish stories, quizzes and conversations every week. #LearnSpanish #A2Spanish #SpanishListening #SpanishShadowing #SpanishLesson #SpanishForBeginners #SpeakSpanish #SpanishListening #SpanishStories