Day 5: Grilled by Her Own Boyfriend
In their apartment in the Condesa, Mexico City, the night before she pitches her tortilla-delivery app to investors, Camila (A), a young founder, rehearses with her boyfriend Cristian (B), who plays a ruthless investor.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Point at (or tap) a Spanish word to see what it means.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Spanish, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
Audio recordings are on the way. For now, each lesson is the dialogue with its English translation.
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A
Soy Camila, de Tortillín. Sea cual fuere la colonia, llevamos tortillas calientitas a tu puerta en quince minutos.
I'm Camila, from Tortillín. Whatever the neighborhood, we bring piping-hot tortillas to your door in fifteen minutes.
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B
Muy poético. En el supuesto de que alguien pidiere medio kilo, ¿quién paga el envío, tú o la tortilla?
Very poetic. In the event that someone should order half a kilo, who pays for the delivery, you or the tortilla?
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A
Al principio lo absorbemos como costo de adquisición, y con el volumen se abarata.
At first we absorb it as an acquisition cost, and with volume it gets cheaper.
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B
O sea, cada medio kilo de catorce pesos te cuesta cuarenta de envío: cuanto más vendes, más pierdes.
So every half kilo at fourteen pesos costs you forty in delivery: the more you sell, the more you lose.
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A
Es una apuesta a largo plazo; las grandes plataformas quemaron dinero años antes de ser rentables.
It's a long-term bet; the big platforms burned money for years before they turned a profit.
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B
Y si el inversionista quisiere ver ganancias antes de que quemes la ronda, ¿le pagas en totopos?
And should the investor wish to see a profit before you burn through the round, will you pay him in tortilla chips?
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A
¡Ya, no manches! Eres mi novio, no un fondo buitre, se supone que me ibas a echar porras.
Oh, come on! You're my boyfriend, not a vulture fund, you were supposed to be cheering me on.
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B
Mañana nadie te va a echar porras, amor. Contéstale al del chaleco, que no quiere soltar un peso.
Tomorrow nobody's going to cheer you on, babe. Answer the guy in the vest, who won't part with a single peso.
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A
Está bien. Vendemos suscripciones por edificio: una sola ruta diaria, y el envío sale en tres pesos por cliente.
All right. We sell subscriptions by building: a single route a day, and delivery comes to three pesos per customer.
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B
Eso ya es un negocio, no un poema. Y ahora sí te echo porras: el del chaleco acaba de firmar.
Now that's a business, not a poem. And now I'll cheer you on: the guy in the vest has just signed.
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