Spanish C1.9 Listening Practice: Contracted Future Family
Spanish C1 listening practice with audio, transcript, key phrases, and a speaking challenge for contracted future family.
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Level
C1.9
Audio
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Transcript
23 segments
What to notice while you listen
What you'll understand
Use advanced mood, irregular, and dialect-awareness patterns deliberately in speech.
Use contracted futures and conditionals to build an original spoken Spanish answer.
New pattern
contracted futures and conditionals
Practice aloud after listening
Tendria mas tiempo.
A short Spanish listening chapter with transcript.
Unit 10: add contracted futures and conditionals 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. Carmen · Teacher
Welcome back to ChickyTutor! I'm Carmen. Today we are looking at advanced Spanish nuance at the C1 level, specifically focusing on the contracted future and conditional family—verbs like tener, poner, and venir, which form stems like tendr-, pondr-, and vendr-.
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2. Carmen · Teacher
Let me set up our conversation between Álvaro and Lucía. Listen closely to how they use these contracted forms in a professional context.
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3. Álvaro · Native Speaker 1
Si lograse delegar las tareas administrativas esta semana, tendría más tiempo para dedicarle a la innovación del proyecto.
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4. Lucía · Native Speaker 2
En ese caso, yo me pondré al frente de la negociación con los proveedores para aligerarte la carga.
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5. Álvaro · Native Speaker 1
Te lo agradecería enormemente, e incluso vendría a la oficina el sábado si hiciese falta para pulir los detalles.
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6. Lucía · Native Speaker 2
No creo que sea necesario llegar a tanto, pero yo pondré todo de mi parte para que el acuerdo salga adelante sin contratiempos.
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7. Álvaro · Native Speaker 1
Perfecto, entonces tendré listo el informe definitivo antes del viernes a última hora.
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8. Carmen · Teacher
Now, let's break down these five key sentences to master how these contracted forms work.
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9. Carmen · Teacher
In the first sentence, Álvaro says: 'Si lograse delegar las tareas administrativas esta semana, tendría más tiempo para dedicarle a la innovación del proyecto.' Here, 'tendría más tiempo' combines the irregular stem tendr- with the conditional ending -ía to express a hypothetical outcome.
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10. Diego · Student
Why do verbs like tener drop the vowel and gain a 'd' instead of keeping the full infinitive stem in the future and conditional?
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11. Carmen · Teacher
Historically, as the infinitive vowel dropped out in spoken Spanish, inserting an epenthetic 'd' created a smoother phonetic transition between 'n' and 'r'.
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12. Carmen · Teacher
Next, Lucía responds: 'En ese caso, yo me pondré al frente de la negociación con los proveedores para aligerarte la carga.' She uses 'pondré' from poner, where pon- becomes pondr- before adding the future ending -é.
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13. Diego · Student
Does using 'pondré' here express a scheduled future event or a spontaneous commitment?
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14. Carmen · Teacher
At C1, you'll see 'pondré' used here to make a resolute personal pledge right at the moment of decision.
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15. Carmen · Teacher
Then Álvaro says: 'Te lo agradecería enormemente, e incluso vendría a la oficina el sábado si hiciese falta para pulir los detalles.' He uses 'vendría' from venir, using the stem vendr- plus the conditional ending -ía.
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16. Diego · Student
Could Álvaro have used 'vendré' instead of 'vendría' in that sentence?
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17. Carmen · Teacher
He could, but 'vendría' softens the offer into a polite conditional proposal dependent on 'si hiciese falta'.
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18. Carmen · Teacher
Lucía continues: 'No creo que sea necesario llegar a tanto, pero yo pondré todo de mi parte para que el acuerdo salga adelante sin contratiempos.'
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19. Diego · Student
What does the expression 'poner todo de mi parte' mean idiomatically?
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20. Carmen · Teacher
It means to do everything within one's power or do one's full share to ensure success.
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21. Carmen · Teacher
Finally, Álvaro concludes: 'Perfecto, entonces tendré listo el informe definitivo antes del viernes a última hora.' Here, 'tendré' uses the contracted future stem tendr- to state a deadline.
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22. Diego · Student
Is 'tendré listo' different from saying 'habré preparado'?
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23. Carmen · Teacher
While both refer to completed future states, 'tendré listo' highlights possession of the completed result by that deadline.
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