Spanish online reading and listening practice – level B2
La Llorona is a legendary ghost from Mexican folklore, often depicted as a weeping woman who roams near bodies of water. According to the legend, she drowned her children in a moment of grief or madness and now endlessly searches for them in the afterlife, crying out in sorrow.
This reading and listening exercise can help you practise relative clauses and the passive voice.
Text by Inma Sánchez and audio by a professional voice actor.
Exercise: La leyenda de La Llorona
Listen to the audio, then read the transcript. Click any phrase for the translation and links to related grammar lessons which you can add to your Kwiziq notebook to practise later.
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Author info
After working in the travel industry for ten years in Seville, Inma moved to the UK to give a little twist to her life. Since then she's been teaching Spanish as a foreign language to adults for over 15 years in different settings, private lessons, secondary schools and online. Inma is a coffee lover and also loves exploring new places with her family in beautiful Warwickshire, where she lives.