Sentence examples of "hablaba" in Spanish with translation "speak"

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Tom no hablaba con Mary. Tom wouldn't speak to Mary.
Ella lo interrumpió mientras hablaba. She interrupted him while he was speaking.
Ella me preguntó cuántas lenguas hablaba. She asked me how many languages I spoke.
No sabía que él hablaba inglés. I didn't know that he could speak English.
¿Acaso oíste lo rápido que él hablaba? Do you hear how fast he speaks?
Mientras yo hablaba, él no decía nada. While I was speaking, he said nothing.
Le hablaba a cualquiera con quien se encontraba. He spoke to whomever he met.
Mientras él hablaba, imágenes vinieron a mi mente. As he spoke, pictures came into my mind.
Ella lo interrumpió mientras hablaba con mi padre. She interrupted him while he was speaking to my father.
Él no hablaba a menos que le hablaran. He did not speak unless spoken to.
Empezó a elevar la voz a medida que hablaba. Her voice began to rise as she spoke.
Tom no sabía que Mary hablaba francés tan fluidamente. Tom didn't know Mary spoke French so fluently.
Jessie hablaba mal el francés y peor el alemán. Jessie spoke bad French and worse German.
Él le hablaba a cualquiera que entrara a la habitación. He spoke to whoever came into the room.
Después de dos años, ella ya hablaba el alemán con fluidez. After two years, she already spoke fluent German.
Tom le preguntó a Mary si hablaba más de tres idiomas. Tom asked Mary if she spoke more than three languages.
Mi abuela hablaba ansiosamente de los días felices de su infancia. My granny spoke longingly of the halcyon days of her childhood.
Jorge Luis Borges hablaba inglés y español ya que una de sus abuelas era inglesa. Jorge Luis Borges spoke English and Spanish since one of his grandmothers was an Englishwoman.
Me familiaricé con hermosas mujeres polacas en la universidad en Brasil, y allí también conocí gente muy amable que hablaba polaco. I became acquainted with beautiful Polish women at the university in Brazil, and I also met there some very friendly people who could speak Polish.
habla primero, yo después. You speak first; I will speak after.
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