Chema y Emma escriben una carta
Chema y Emma son hermanos. Viven en una ciudad grande. Su abuela vive en el campo en un pueblo lejos de la ciudad. Cada mes, Chema y Emma van al campo con sus padres para ver su abuelita. Un día, el padre les dice….
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By the way, “Chema” is a boy’s name in Spanish. It is the nickname (el apodo) of the male name “José María.”
November 15th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
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November 19th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Is “Chema” a girl’s name or a boy’s name in Spanish?
November 19th, 2008 at 1:56 am
¡Hola!
Chema is a boy. It’s a nickname for “José María”, a very Spanish boy’s name in Spain. I need to tell Mommy to add this info to the blog entry.
¡Hasta luego!
November 24th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
this was a good story i kinda liked it .
November 24th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
i would like to know what hermano means?
November 24th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
never mind i know what it means
November 26th, 2008 at 6:29 am
I’m having troubles purchasing the beginners transcript. An error 404 message keeps popping up.
November 26th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Hi Crystal,
I fixed the problem. Please try your purchase again. Sorry for the inconvenience.
November 27th, 2008 at 3:50 am
Hi, that was good. Great quality audio and a nice story. The difficulty was just about right for me (ie a bit challenging). I particularly liked the speaker’s accent - she sounds native. How much slower than natural/native speech is this and where is the accent from?
November 29th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Hi Angela,
Thanks for your message. Cristina is the reader of this story (in the audio) and yes, she’s a native Spanish speaker from Barcelona, Spain. She read the story at a moderate speed, not too fast and not too slow. Although the story is for beginners, I didn’t want it to be read at a pace that would seem exaggerated or excessively slow, particularly since there are people of all levels, from beginner to native-speaker, who listen to these stories.
If after a couple of times listening to the audio you could understand more or less what was being read without seeing the text, you’re doing great!
Keep it up!