Listening practice on the topic of this Mexican singer | A Coffee Break with Anabel
Coffee Break Spanish
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🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Join Anabel from the Coffee Break Spanish team in this little espresso lesson, in which she introduces you to one of her favourite Mexican singers, Ximena Sariñana.
In this episode, you will be able to test your listening skills and improve your vocabulary with a list of words. It’s the perfect blend of culture and language learning in one short coffee break! ☕
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. Hello, I'm Annabelle, and I'm excited to back to pass me for here. And today, I would like to talk about music. Iscuchas music in Spanish? What type of music you like? A me, me are quite many genders, and, also, me If you like? A me I'm good many get many I'm also I'm like to listen music in different I like to listen to music in different languages but I'm going to talk only about Spanish music in this episode in, I'm bringing you a text about a Mexican singer that I like a lot. |
| 0:43.6 | This way, you can practice some listening comprehension and get some new recommendations. |
| 0:50.0 | I understand that listening comprehension activities can be tricky. |
| 0:55.3 | And that's why I organize this episode a little bit differently. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm going to start with some key words, key vocabulary, that you're going to find in the text that I will read. |
| 1:07.4 | After going through these keywords, I'm going to tell you three questions that I will ask later. |
| 1:15.0 | This way, you know what information you should listen out for, and that way it will be a little bit easier. |
| 1:22.6 | After telling you the three points that you should be focusing on, I'll read the text twice. After reading |
| 1:30.9 | the text, those two times, I'll ask you again these three questions and then you can answer. After |
| 1:38.0 | that, I'll give you the answers. Very well, then, all list? Let's start with some key vocabulary you'll hear. |
| 1:54.8 | Destacada is an adjective that means important. |
| 1:59.3 | Then we have a leiba, and this is the name of that means important. Destacada. |
| 2:07.7 | Then we have a leiba, and this is the name of a Spanish artist, Leiba. |
| 2:12.0 | We also have a lanzado. |
| 2:15.5 | This is the perfect tense of the verb, lanza. |
| 2:22.5 | And when it's related to music, it means has released, so it comes from the verb to release. |
| 2:24.8 | A lanzado. |
| 2:30.7 | We will also hear exitos como solista. |
| 2:35.7 | So, exitos is a masculine and plural noun that means hates. |
| 2:41.4 | And then we have como solista, which in this case means solo. |
| 2:47.4 | So these exitos, como solista, means solo hits. |
| 2:51.4 | We'll also hear, Le a permittido. |
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