¡Hola estudiantes de inglés! ¿Cómo están hoy? ¿Y sus familias?
El actor canadiense Michael J. Fox dijo “La familia no es una cosa importante. Es la única cosa importante.”
Hoy vamos a hablar de una pregunta muy útil y abierta, tanto para el mundo de los negocios como para el mundo del análisis. Todo el mundo tiene familia, sea buena o mala, cercana o lejana. Es un tema que puede decirte mucho sobre la persona con quien estás hablando. La pregunta es “cuéntame acerca de tu familia” o “tell me about your family.”
Vocabulario
| English | Spanish |
| family | familia |
| grandfather | abuelo |
| grandmother | abuela |
| grandson | nieto |
| granddaughter | nieta |
| grandchild | nieto/a |
| grandchildren | nietos/as |
| great grandfather | bisabuelo |
| great grandmother | bisabuela |
| father | padre |
| mother | madre |
| son | hijo |
| daughter | hija |
| siblings | hermanos/as |
| brother | hermano |
| sister | hermana |
| uncle | tío |
| aunt | tía |
| cousin | primo/a |
| nephew | sobrino |
| niece | sobrina |
| grew up | crecer (pasado) |
| medium-sized | tamaño medio |
| have | tener |
| had | tener (pasado) |
| oldest | mayor |
| younger | menor |
| works | trabajar (3ra persona) |
| fishing | pesca |
| forestry | silvicultura |
| married | casado/a |
| woman | mujer |
| caretaker | cuidador/a |
| nurse | enfermero/a |
| worked | trabajar (pasado) |
| police officer | oficial de policía |
| before | antes |
| changed | cambiar (pasado) |
| jobs | trabajos |
| later | más tarde |
| town planning | urbanismo |
| director | director |
| housewife | ama de casa |
| studied | estudiar (pasado) |
| young | joven |
| another | otro/a |
| a little bit | un poco |
Transcripción
¿Cómo sigue tu familia? ¿Tienes hermanos y hermanas? ¿Estás casado o tienes hijos? Todos esas preguntas son muy comunes. En mi parte de Canadá, muy rural y tradicional, también es famosa la pregunta “¿quién es tu padre?” o “ese apellido me suena, ¿eres familia de fulano de tal?”
Antes de escuchar una respuesta a la pregunta “tell me about your family” vamos a repasar algunos nombres para diferentes miembros de la familia.
- Abuelo – Grandfather
- Abuela – Grandmother
- Nieto – Grandson
- Nieta – Granddaughter
- Nieto/a – Grandchild
- Nietos y nietas – Grandchildren
- Bisabuelo – Great grandfather
- Bisabuela – Great grandmother
- Padre – Father
- Madre – Mother
- Hijo – Son
- Hija – Daughter
- Hermanos (en general, varones y mujeres) – Siblings
- Hermano – Brother
- Hermana – Sister
- Tío – Uncle
- Tía – Aunt
- Primo/prima – Cousin. En inglés no tenemos palabras distintas para primos varones o mujeres.
- Sobrino – Nephew
- Sobrina – Niece
Muy bien. Ahora vamos a escuchar la respuesta en español y más tarde en inglés.
Tell me about your family. Cuéntame acerca de tu familia.
Crecí en una familia de tamaño medio. Mi abuelo por parte de madre tenía doce hermanos, pero yo solo tengo tres.
Soy el hijo mayor de mi familia. Tengo un hermano menor que yo y dos hermanas menores que nosotros.
Mi hermano trabaja en la pesca y la silvicultura. Está casado con una mujer de Venezuela.
Mi hermana mayor trabaja como cuidadora y mi hermana menor trabaja como enfermera. Trabajó como oficial de policía antes, pero luego cambió de trabajo.
Mi padre es director de urbanismo y mi madre es ama de casa. Estudió enfermería cuando era más joven. Mi padre es de Toronto y mi madre creció aquí, en Nueva Escocia.
También estoy casado con una mujer venezolana y tengo un hijo pequeño. Mi hijo es el primer nieto de la familia. ¡Hablaré más sobre ellos en otro podcast!
Eso es un poco sobre mi familia. ¿Qué hay de la tuya?
Seguimos con la misma respuesta en inglés. Si tienes el inglés básico, puede ser de ayuda leer la transcripción mientras escuchas el audio. ¿Listos? Ready? Let’s listen. Vamos a escuchar.
Tell me about your family
I grew up in a medium-sized family. My grandfather on my mother’s side had twelve siblings, but I only have three.
I am the oldest child in my family. I have a brother who is younger than I am, and two sisters who are younger than us.
My brother works in fishing and forestry. He is married to a woman from Venezuela.
My oldest sister works as a caretaker and my younger sister as a nurse. She worked as a police officer before, but she changed jobs later.
My father is a town planning director and my mother is a housewife. She studied as a nurse when she was younger. My father is from Toronto and my mother grew up here, in Nova Scotia.
I am also married to a Venezuelan woman and I have a young son. My son is the oldest grandchild in my family. I will talk more about them in another podcast!
That’s a little bit about my family. How about yours?
¡Muy bien! ¿Entendieron algo del audio? ¿Les fue de ayuda leer y escuchar a la misma vez? Otra cosa que pueden hacer para practicar es leer la transcripción en voz alta y después comparar tu pronunciación con la mía.
También queremos hacerte la misma pregunta. Tell us about your family! ¡Cuéntanos acerca de tu familia! Queremos usar las mejores respuestas en un podcast en el futuro. Recuerda que puedes responder en inglés o en español, aunque te animamos a que intentes responder en inglés! Así podemos corregir cualquier error y tu respuesta ayudará a otros oyentes.
¡Gracias por escuchar! Thanks for listening!
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13 comentarios en “136 – Tell me about your family”
Hello. I m Raul from Chile. I work in a hospital in the town as general surgeon, dedicated to digestive oncologic surgery, focus in gastric , colorectal and gallbladder cancer. I divided my daily time between private consultation and the job at the hospital.I live in San Fernando in the central part of Chile. I grow up here and my parents and brothers live in a nearby place. My wife works in a primary care polyclinic as a occupational therapeutics . We have four children, Mariana lives in Melbourne, Australia, she has 30 years old, Raul is the second son , is a lawyer and works in an goverment office about environment evaluation. Third is Pablo, studying medicine, last bust not least Julia, she study dance and finish the carrer on December 2022. I can talk about my family a lot , I think the family is a reservory of many things in our lives, where you found love, confidence, learnings and advices to gon on. ok, thanks for your service to learn english around the word, i consider the way that you have is very clear and metodic. thanks again. if i have errors , please tell me about it and so i will improve my skills.
Hello Raul! Thank you for telling us about your family, your english is very good! Hope you are doing well.
excelente todo este material para aprender ingles,no desaprovechare esta gran oportunidad para aprender. Gracias.
Buen día Ricardo! Nos alegra poder ayudarte. Saludos!
El ejercicio online:
Inglés-desde-cero-Episodio 136
no deja escribir para dar las respuestas. Tal vez hago algo mal.
Gracias por las lecciones.
i dont understand about this topic, can you tell again
Hi! What are your doubts?
hi everyone, my name is David and i grew up in bogota colombia, mi mother grew up here too, my father i grew up in cali colombia, i have two sisters im the older brother, i have four uncles and no aunts, my whole family work in big industries like manufacturing and farming, i take a different road i work in telecommunications industry.
Hello i am Juanita from colombia. Every one of my family is from Bogota-Colombia, my mother is a textile designer and my father works in a company of pensions and savings.
I have a brother who is oldest than me, he is a petroleum engineer.
I don´t know very well of my father´s family but I know that he has five siblings, two brothers, and three sisters.
My mother´s family is medium-sized and is conformed of my uncle and two aunts. I have seven cousins on my mother´s side who are loved with my life. We have very things in common like soccer, movies, food, and travel.
Hello…my name is Leopoldo Dominguez and I was born in Venezuela. I grew up in a medium-family sized too. My Grandfather and Grandmother on my Father side had 6 Siblings, Five Sons and one Daughter. My Grandfather and Grandmother on my Mother side had 5 Siblings, three Sons and two Daughters.
My father was a Doctor and may mother Housewife and we are four siblings: three boys and one girl. My elder brother is 74, I am 70, my sister is 67 and the younger is 64.
I got married two times. On my first marriage, We had three Siblings: one son and two daughter. On my second married, we had one son and one daughter.
Currently, we have four grand children: trhree grandson and one grandaughter.
My elder brother is Agricultural Engineer, My sister is housewife and my younger brother and me are Computer Programmers.
My Wife and two sons are System Engineer, and our daughters are Bussines Administrator, Teacher, and Marketing specialist.
Hi: My family is medium-size. We are 7 siblings. Six including me are the same mom and dad, one is only from my dad. we grew up together and we have something in common but not all. My first brother is a technician in electricity, the second is my sister who is nutrition and dietist, the third is me, I am software engineer, after me is my brother who is industrial engineer and lives in USA, the next is my sister who is electronic engineer, the next is a my sister who is software engineer like me and the last is my brother who is telecommunication engineer. my family is so important for me. I have four nephew and for niece.
Hello everybody, I want to tell about my family. I burn in a big family with six members. My Father and my mother are coming from the chaco’s Province in Argentina, he moved to Buenos Aires in 1980. I have three sisters, two have mi same age and Barby is the oldest sister of us. My three sisters works as teachers and they studied for begin in lawyers with me.
Thanks for your comment and support, Ivana! You have a well-educated family.
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