Escucho la audioguía con mis amigos.

Escuchar is the infinitive, meaning to listen. In a complete sentence, Spanish usually uses a conjugated verb, not the infinitive.

• escuchar = to listen
• escucho = I listen / I am listening

Here, escucho is the yo form of the present tense.

Spanish often leaves out subject pronouns when they are clear from the verb ending. The ending -o in escucho already tells you the subject is I.

So both of these are possible:

• Escucho la audioguía.
• Yo escucho la audioguía.

The version without yo is more natural unless you want emphasis or contrast.

Spanish commonly uses definite articles more often than English does. Here, la audioguía means the audio guide.

The noun audioguía is feminine singular, so it takes la:

• la audioguía
• una audioguía

If you changed it to una audioguía, it would mean an audio guide, which sounds less specific.

The word audioguía is feminine because its main base word is guía, which is feminine in this meaning.

That is why you say:

• la audioguía
• una audioguía

Even though some nouns ending in -a can be masculine, in this case audioguía is feminine.

Mis is the plural form of mi.

• mi amigo = my friend
• mis amigos = my friends

The possessive has to match the thing being possessed, not the owner. Since amigos is plural, Spanish uses mis.

Amigos can mean:

• a group of male friends, or
• a mixed-gender group of friends

If the group were entirely female, you would normally say amigas.

So mis amigos does not automatically mean only male friends.

Con means with.

In this sentence, con mis amigos tells you who the speaker is together with while listening. It shows accompaniment:

• Escucho la audioguía con mis amigos.
• I listen to the audio guide with my friends.

The personal a is used before a direct object that is a specific person or people.

But in this sentence, mis amigos is not the direct object. It is part of the prepositional phrase con mis amigos.

• Direct object: la audioguía
• Prepositional phrase: con mis amigos

So no personal a is needed here.

The direct object is the thing receiving the action of the verb.

Ask yourself: What am I listening to?
Answer: la audioguía

That makes la audioguía the direct object of escucho.

Yes. That would also be correct, but it emphasizes the action as being in progress right now.

• Escucho la audioguía con mis amigos. = I listen to / I’m listening to the audio guide with my friends.
• Estoy escuchando la audioguía con mis amigos. = I am listening to the audio guide with my friends.

In Spanish, the simple present often covers both I listen and I am listening, depending on context.

This is a very common question.

• escuchar = to listen attentively
• oír = to hear

In many situations, both can be possible, but escuchar usually suggests more active attention. Since an audio guide is something you intentionally listen to, escuchar fits very naturally here.

Yes. Spanish word order is flexible, although this version is the most neutral:

• Escucho la audioguía con mis amigos.

You could also say:

• Con mis amigos, escucho la audioguía.

That version puts extra focus on with my friends. But the original sentence is the most straightforward and natural in most contexts.

Audioguía is pronounced roughly like ow-dyoh-GHEE-ah.

The written accent on í shows the stress and also helps separate the vowel sounds so they are not read as a single diphthong in the usual way. For learners, the important thing is that the stressed part is guí:

• au-dio-guí-a

That is why the accent mark is important in spelling.