{"id":77,"date":"2023-06-15T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lanzaworx.com\/dele\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2023-06-15T16:02:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:02:47","slug":"oir-vs-escuchar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lanzaworx.com\/dele\/spanish-grammar\/oir-vs-escuchar\/","title":{"rendered":"Oir vs Escuchar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As anyone in a typical relationship knows, there&#8217;s a big difference between hearing and listening. For example, Jim&nbsp;<em>hears<\/em>&nbsp;Sarah say something but he decides not to&nbsp;<em>listen<\/em>&nbsp;to her request for him to take out the garbage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like in English, in Spanish there&#8217;s a difference between<strong>&nbsp;o\u00edr<\/strong>(to hear) and&nbsp;<strong>escuchar<\/strong>&nbsp;(to listen to) that often gets a bit muddled by students learning Spanish as a foreign language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>O\u00edr<\/strong>&nbsp;is the involuntary awareness of sound, while&nbsp;<strong>escuchar<\/strong>&nbsp;is the voluntary effort that one makes to actually pay attention and understand something or someone that you hear. When it comes down to it, you&nbsp;<strong>o\u00edr<\/strong>&nbsp;with your ears while you&nbsp;<strong>escuchar<\/strong>&nbsp;with your brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve listed a few helpful examples below that will help you distinguish the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oir vs Escuchar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>O\u00ed unas voces en la calle.<\/strong><br>(I heard voices in the street.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Escuchamos lo que dec\u00edan las mujeres en la calle.<\/strong><br>(We listened to what the women in the street were saying.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oigo la radio pero no la estoy escuchando.<br><\/strong>(I hear the radio but I&#8217;m not listening to it.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u00a1No te oigo!<\/strong><br>(I can&#8217;t hear you!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u00a1No te escucho!<\/strong><br>(I&#8217;m not listening to you!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"myBackButton\" onclick=\"history.go(-1)\">Back<\/button>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As anyone in a typical relationship knows, there&#8217;s a big difference between hearing and listening. For example, Jim&nbsp;hears&nbsp;Sarah say something but he decides not to&nbsp;listen&nbsp;to her request for him to take out the garbage. Like in English, in Spanish there&#8217;s a difference between&nbsp;o\u00edr(to hear) and&nbsp;escuchar&nbsp;(to listen to) that often gets a bit muddled by students &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lanzaworx.com\/dele\/spanish-grammar\/oir-vs-escuchar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oir vs Escuchar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":108,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanzaworx.com\/dele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanzaworx.com\/dele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanzaworx.com\/dele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanzaworx.com\/dele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanzaworx.com\/dele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lanzaworx.com\/dele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/lanzaworx.com\/dele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/97"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanzaworx.com\/dele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanzaworx.com\/dele\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}