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Listening practice · A2 · 21 questions · about 10 minutes

Spanish listening practice: hear it, pick it, type it

Three short listening games with real sentences from Habloro stories. Play every sentence at normal speed or as slow Spanish, at 75%, as many times as you like.

0/9What did you hear? 0/9Fill the gap by ear 0/3A whole scene

For when you know the basics, but real Spanish goes by too fast

You can read a simple sentence. You know the present and the past, and plenty of everyday words. But when someone speaks, the words run together and you catch only a few of them. That's normal at this stage (level A2): your ear hasn't learned yet where one word ends and the next begins.

What helps is short, repeated listening to sentences you can almost understand. That's what these three games are.

How to practice listening

  1. Listen before you read. Guess first; the text is there to check, not to lean on.
  2. Slow Spanish first, then normal speed. Slow audio shows you where the words are. Finish each sentence at normal speed.
  3. Replay, don't skip. Hearing the same short sentence again and again is how the missing words start to appear.

What did you hear?

Press play, listen, then choose the sentence you heard. The other two come from the same story, and some of them sound very close.

Sentences from the storyEl gallo de don RamiroDon Ramiro's Rooster · Funny story · A2
Show the Spanish and English of all 9 sentences
  1. En el patio hay plantas, ropa, un gallo y una gallina.In the courtyard there are plants, laundry, a rooster, and a hen.
  2. Y ese gallo canta todos los días a las cinco de la mañana.And that rooster crows every day at five in the morning.
  3. «Buenos días, vecina, ¿no le molesta mi gallo?»“Good morning, neighbor, doesn't my rooster bother you?”
  4. Yo estaba muy cansada, pero quería ser amable.I was very tired, but I wanted to be polite.
  5. «Ay, no, para nada, ¡qué bonito canta!»“Oh, no, not at all, it sings so beautifully!”
  6. Al día siguiente, a las cinco, tocaron mi ventana.The next day, at five, someone knocked on my window.
  7. «Oye, Claudia, ¿por qué no le dices la verdad?»“Hey, Claudia, why don't you tell him the truth?”
  8. En las manos tenía un pollito muy pequeño.In his hands he had a very small chick.
  9. Don Ramiro siempre me pregunta si me gusta.Don Ramiro always asks me if I like it.

Fill the gap by ear

One word is missing. Listen and type it. Accents are optional, and “First letter” helps if you're stuck.

Sentences from the storyComida para veinteFood for Twenty · Funny story · A2
Show the Spanish and English of all 9 sentences
  1. Quería una comida perfecta, así que cociné dos días completos.I wanted a perfect meal, so I cooked for two whole days.
  2. Mi cocina parecía la cocina de un restaurante.My kitchen looked like a restaurant kitchen.
  3. «Federico, ¿cuántas personas van a venir el sábado?»“Federico, how many people are going to come on Saturday?”
  4. «Porque somos cuatro, y aquí hay comida para veinte.»“Because there are four of us, and there's food here for twenty.”
  5. El sábado a la una, tocaron la puerta.On Saturday at one, there was a knock at the door.
  6. Los dos se veían muy contentos.They both looked very happy.
  7. «¡Sí, ya comimos unos tacos en el camino!»“Yes, we already ate some tacos on the way!”
  8. «¡Federico, esta salsa verde está muy rica!»“Federico, this green salsa is really tasty!”
  9. «Y el domingo venimos otra vez, pero no comemos en el camino.»“And on Sunday we're coming again, but we won't eat on the way.”

Listen to a whole scene

7 sentences in a row, the way you'd hear them in real life. Listen once or twice without reading, then answer 3 questions.

La casita roja · The Little Red House

So far: A few months ago, Enrique carried a lady's heavy bags from the bus stop to her door. He never asked her name. Tonight he lost his keys, and his neighbor lent him a spare one to copy. At this hour only one place is still open: a small locksmith's shop.

Show the scene in Spanish and English
  1. Adentro, una señora de pelo blanco leía junto a la ventana.Inside, a white-haired lady was reading by the window.
  2. «Buenas noches, ¿me saca una copia de esta llave?»“Good evening, can you make me a copy of this key?”
  3. «Es que perdí mis llaves.»“It's just that I lost my keys.”
  4. La señora levantó la vista y no dijo nada por un momento.The lady looked up and didn't say anything for a moment.
  5. «Oiga, yo a usted lo conozco, mijo.»“Hey, I know you, honey.”
  6. «¿Usted no es el joven de las bolsas?»“Aren't you the young man with the bags?”
  7. Entonces la vi bien: era la señora de la parada.Then I saw her clearly: she was the lady from the bus stop.

Your listening score

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Play the games above — your score shows up here.

Make listening a daily habit

A few minutes on most days is easier to keep up than one long session a week. Pick one short story, listen once for the main idea, then replay the sentences you missed — slowly first, then at normal speed. When a word keeps escaping you, read it, then listen for it again.

Want to see the words, too? Reading practice has three short scenes with English on tap and questions after each one.

What next

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Hear it again tomorrow.

In the Habloro app, every story is read aloud sentence by sentence, and the words you keep come back for practice tomorrow, then in 3, 7 and 21 days.

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