La Palabra Del Dia: "escuchar"
escuchar ( eh-skoo-chahr' )
verb ( to listen )
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Guidelines:
Write sentences at least 5 words long, but don't write a paragraph either. Write your Spanish sentence, but include the English translation as well. Make the corrections suggested by other users and moderators in the comments section (try not to use personal pronouns unless absolutely necessary). Use your own words! (Don't use a translator, copy from a book, use song lyrics, etc.) Please keep political, religious or personal statements to a minimum. This is a practice game.
Examples:
1. ¿Has escuchado el nuevo disco de Beirut? ¡Es fantástico!
Have you heard the new album from Beirut? It's great!
2. Odio cuando hay una persona en el tren que cree que todos los demás quieren escuchar su música.
I hate it when there's someone on the train who thinks that everyone wants to listen to his music.
17 Answers
Para ser un buen líder, hay que escuchar a su gente.
To be a good leader, you need to listen to your people.
¡Escucha y aprende ! Escuché , pero no he aprendido, soy demasiado tonto.
Listen and learn ! I did listen but have not learned , I am too stupid.
Muchas veces es mejor no escuchar lo que tu mente te dice.
Sometimes it's better not to listen to what your mind tells you.
¡Los "hubiera" (What if?) son los peores!
Tuve tantas ganas de ver la última telenovela de la BBC, Jamaica Inn, que fue estrenado el sabado pasado. ¡Que gran decepción! Aunque le subí a todo volúmen al máximo, como si fuera sorda, no entendí ni una palabra porque los campesinos de la telenovela hablan un dialecto desconocido. No quiero escuchar otro capítulo.
I was really looking forward to seeing the latest BBC series, Jamaica Inn, which started last Saturday. What a disappointment! Even though I turned the sound up to max, as if I were deaf, I couldn't understand a word because the rural folk in the series speak a totally unknown dialect. I don't want to listen to another episode. .
I listened to my heart once but the world didn't approve.
Escuché la voz de mi corazón una vez pero el mundo no lo aprobó.
Siempre me gusta escuchar música cuando me siento agotado.
--I always like listening to music when I feel exhausted.
Si escucho la música rock cuando hago bicicleta estática, hago el ejercicio con más fuerza y rapidez. Pero si escucho un documental en español, mejoro lentamente mi comprensión de la lengua hablada. Normalmente hago lo último porque quiero seguir mejorando el español.
If I listen to rock music when I ride my exercise bicycle, I do the exercise with more force and speed. But if I listen to a Spanish language documentary, I slowly improve my comprehension of the spoken language. Usually I do the latter because I want to continue improving in Spanish.
Si tu lengua materna es el inglés, se te podría dificultar el escuchar y entender español sin traducir mentalmente las palabras al inglés. Sin embargo, con el tiempo puede ser logrado.
If you're a native speaker of English, it can be difficult to listen to and understand Spanish without mentally translating the words to English. However, with time, it is possible.
Escúchame ahora y habla conmigo después.
Listen to me now and talk to me later.
Sometimes I take advice from others, but usually I listen to my heart.
A veces sigo el consejo de otros, pero por lo general escucho mi corazón.
Puede ocurrir el caso cuando no te gusta ni ver, ni decir algo , ni escuchar lo que ha ocurrido
The case may occur when you don't like neither to see, nor to say something, nor listen to what happened,
Me gusta escuchar la radio por la mañana.
I like to listen to the radio in the morning.
Es que no escuchas!
You just don’t listen!
¡Cómo le gusta escucharse!
He really likes the sound of his own voice!
Disfruto escuchar musica, y me gusta escuchar lo todo desde que puedo aprender algo.
I enjoy listening music, and i like to listen everything that i can learn from something.
Yay, it's tongue-twisting time:
Escuchábase el cuchicheo de la flacucha cucha que nunca escucha y que parece mas bien una chucha sin escucha ni escuchador.
There it was, the babbling coming from a starving and deaf old lady, always refusing to listen everyone, who looks like a deaf rat with no listeners.
Escuchábanse los barrotes trinar por los golpes de las cucharas, cucharidades propiedad de los flacuchos prisioneros, y entonces tan fuerte el estruendo era, que las flacuchas chuchas y su chucheo a duras penas se escuchaban.
Hubbub from spoons banging against the bars, coming from the spoons of the starving inmates, then the rumbling thru the dungeons was so loud, that even the constant screeching coming from starving rats was hardly heard.
Cucharidad ( Cuchara + idad ): slang, the 'fact' of being a spoon, it's like applying the same concept of 'stability' into a spoon [ Stability/Estabilidad ( **Estabilidad = Estable + Idad): the fact or 'being/remain stable' ]**
Chucheo: slang, to behave or sound like a rat ( rata ). Very useful because ' Rateo ' is the fact of commiting robbery.
Regards.
A pesar de mis esfuerzos, a veces mis estudiantes no me escuchan.
In spite of my efforts, sometimes my students don't listen to me.
