Spanish A1.2 Listening Practice: Make The First Sentence Negative
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A short Spanish listening chapter with transcript.
Unit 1: add no before es to what you already control, then say one short answer that reuses earlier Spanish instead of starting from a memorized phrase.
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1. Native Speaker 1
¿El café es local?
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2. Native Speaker 2
No, no es local.
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3. Native Speaker 1
El precio es alto.
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4. Native Speaker 2
No es normal.
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5. Native Speaker 1
Pero es muy bueno.
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6. Teacher
In the dialogue, you heard 'No, no es local,' which means 'No, it is not local.' To make a sentence negative in Spanish, place 'no' right before 'es'.
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7. Student
So the first 'no' means 'no', and the second 'no' makes 'es' negative?
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8. Teacher
Exactly. The second 'no' directly changes 'es local' into 'it is not local'.
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9. Teacher
You also heard 'No es normal,' which means 'It is not normal.' You can use this pattern with many simple adjectives.
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10. Student
Can I use 'no es' with other words like 'bueno' or 'grande'?
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11. Teacher
Yes! You can easily say 'no es bueno' or 'no es grande'.
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