Spanish A2.15 Listening Practice: Bored Or Boring
Spanish A2 listening practice with audio, transcript, key phrases, and a speaking challenge for bored or boring.
Podcast listening is in beta while creation and discussion tools are refined. This published chapter includes its complete segmented audio and transcript.
Level
A2.15
Audio
Segmented audio
Transcript
15 segments
What to notice while you listen
What you'll understand
Control familiar sentence patterns while adding people, objects, time, and description.
Use adjectives that change with ser/estar to build an original spoken Spanish answer.
New pattern
adjectives that change with ser/estar
Practice aloud after listening
La clase no es aburrida.
A short Spanish listening chapter with transcript.
Unit 4: add adjectives that change with ser/estar to what you already control, then say one short answer that reuses earlier Spanish instead of starting from a memorized phrase.
Read while you listen.
1. Carmen · Teacher
Welcome to today's episode! I'm Carmen, and today we're exploring how a single adjective in Spanish can change meaning depending on whether you use ser or estar.
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2. Diego · Student
Hi everyone, I'm Diego! I always mix up saying I'm bored versus saying something is boring.
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3. Carmen · Teacher
You're not alone, Diego! Let me introduce Álvaro and Lucía. Let's listen to them talk about a boring movie and their Spanish class.
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4. Álvaro · Native Speaker 1
Lucía, ¿estás aburrida hoy?
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5. Lucía · Native Speaker 2
Un poco, porque esta película es muy aburrida.
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6. Álvaro · Native Speaker 1
Tienes razón, pero la clase de español no es aburrida.
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7. Lucía · Native Speaker 2
¡Es verdad! Álvaro, tú nunca estás aburrido en clase.
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8. Álvaro · Native Speaker 1
Claro, ¡el profesor es muy divertido!
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9. Carmen · Teacher
Let me break down what they said. First, Álvaro asked Lucía if she was bored: '¿Estás aburrida hoy?' and she answered that the movie is boring: 'Esta película es muy aburrida.'
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10. Diego · Student
So when Lucía feels bored, she uses estar, but when describing the movie as boring, she uses ser?
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11. Carmen · Teacher
Exactly! Estar aburrido means to feel bored, while ser aburrido means to be boring.
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12. Carmen · Teacher
Next, Álvaro said: 'La clase de español no es aburrida.'
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13. Diego · Student
Why did he end the word with an '-a' instead of an '-o'?
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14. Carmen · Teacher
Because 'la clase' is a feminine noun, so the adjective agrees and becomes 'aburrida'.
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15. Carmen · Teacher
Great job! Keep listening and practicing the difference between feeling bored and being boring.
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