Hi, how are you? I am Maria and today we are going to do a dictation exercise. I see that
you liked the previous exercise a lot and today we are going to do another one,
then have your hand pencil and paper or something to write on and let's get started.
For this dictation exercise I am going to read a text three times. The first time
I will read it at normal speed as I speak every day. The second time i will
do the dictation little by little, phrase by phrase and I will repeat each one twice
and the third and last time I'm going to read the text again at normal speed
so you can compare and see if you wrote everything correctly. ready?
with this dictation exercise we will pay attention and we will notice important aspects
of Spanish such as pronunciation words in detail and
we are going to pay attention to the sounds to how I connect the words when I'm reading.
If you can't understand a word, don't worry. Simply
write one line and continue writing the following words you hear.
Towards the end we are going to compare everything and see how it went.
OK, now: let's begin.
So? How did it go with that dictation? I hope you have achieved writing
everything very well and if you did not manage to write everything, do not worry. Little by Little
you are training your ear to hear all the words. Attention, it is not necessary
in a normal conversation to understand or hear all the words they say.
No. Dictation is just an exercise that helps you identify specific words.
That's it. Before I finish this video
I want you to pay attention to how Spanish speakers connect the words.
Sometimes it's not that we talk so fast, but actually we connect
the words and it might sound like a word when it's actually two or three.
For example in the text you heard "three secretaries". The word "tres"
ends with an S and the word secretarias begins with S, those two
Consonants connect and sounds like: tresecretraias.
We don't really pause but connect it. Something similar happens with
"hacen las citas". The word "las" ends with an S and the word "citas" begins with a C
we are going to connect and it sounds: lasitas not las - citas, but we connect them
and it sounds lasitas and this is another example but with vowels: in the first part of
text we hear "the waiting room" the waiting room. De ends with e
"espera" begins with e, we connect them and it sounds despera. La sala de espera and
also "De este doctor". De este doctor. we connect de + este: "deste". If you like this type of exercise
and you want to hear something a little more advanced,
I suggest you take a look at our Spanish course Español en Uso. In this course I have
dictado exercises and also a fairly detailed explanation
of the words expressions and pronunciation and if you like this kind of video,
you can find the other one we did before I will leave the link with
the video in the description below or up here, well that's it for
Today, thank you very much for watching this video and remember:
if you want to learn a language: Why Not Spanish? Bye!