No está lejos

Spanish online reading and listening practice - level A2

Have you ever visited the Spanish city of Zaragoza? Practise directions and prepositions like desde/de/hasta/a for "from/to". The speaker in this video has a fairly neutral accent, but as often happens in spoken Spanish he tends to not sound the letter -d when it is at the end of a word. For example, listen out for the word Madrid. You can read more about this pronunciation phenomenon here:

Exercise: No está lejos

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