Day 9: Troca, Lonche and Xix Together
In their kitchen in Chihuahua, Crescencio (A), a retired rancher from the north, and his wife Enriqueta (B), from Mérida, married for fifty years, are making cochinita pibil, Yucatán's slow-roasted pork.
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.
Keys: E hide English · ← → previous / next day · point at a word to see its meaning
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A
¿Me apartas tantita cochinita para mi lonche? Mañana salgo temprano en la troca.
Will you put a bit of cochinita aside for my lonche? I'm heading off early in the troca tomorrow.
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B
¿Lonche, troca? Si bien llevo cincuenta años en el norte, sigo sin acostumbrarme a ese inglés con bigote.
Lonche, troca? Although I've lived in the north for fifty years, I still can't get used to that English with a mustache.
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A
Mira quién habla: la que le dice xix a las sobras y uay a todo.
Look who's talking: the woman who calls leftovers xix and says uay to everything.
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B
El xix es el xix, no tiene traducción. Y por más que te burles de mi acento, bien que te acabas la cochinita, xix incluido.
Xix is xix, there's no translating it. And however much you mock my accent, you still polish off the cochinita, xix and all.
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A
He de reconocer que tu cochinita es la mejor de Chihuahua, si bien la competencia es poca.
I must admit your cochinita is the best in Chihuahua, though there's not much competition.
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B
¡Mare, qué caballero! Aun cuando hay carne asada, los vecinos preguntan primero si sobró cochinita.
Goodness, what a gentleman! Even when there's carne asada, the neighbors ask first whether there's any cochinita left.
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A
Oye lo que escribió la nieta: “Abuelos, ¿me guardan el xix para mi lonche? Mi papá pasa por él en la troca”.
Listen to what our granddaughter wrote: “Grandma, Grandpa, will you save me the xix for my lonche? Dad'll come by for it in the troca.”
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B
Xix, lonche y troca en un mensaje. Por más que nos peleemos, esa niña habla como los dos.
Xix, lonche and troca in one message. However much we squabble, that girl talks like both of us.
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A
Pues tregua: cincuenta años casados, y la que por fin nos juntó en una frase fue la nieta.
Truce, then: fifty years married, and the one who finally got us into the same sentence was our granddaughter.
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