Day 152: A Month with Turtles in Mazunte
At home in Oaxaca City, Romina (A) sees her older sister Inés (B), who helped at a dog shelter last year, packing a big backpack.
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
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A
¿Y esa mochila tan grande? ¿Ahora a dónde te vas?
What's with the huge backpack? Where are you headed now?
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B
A Mazunte. Voy a pasar un mes de voluntaria con las tortugas.
Mazunte. I'm going to spend a month volunteering with the turtles.
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A
¿Un mes? Eso será más pesado que el refugio de perros.
A month? That'll be tougher than the dog shelter.
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B
¿Pesado? Las tortugas no ladran ni rompen nada.
Tougher? Turtles don't bark or break anything.
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A
Pero allá habrá como mil mosquitos. ¿Y cuánto te pagarán?
But there must be about a thousand mosquitoes there. And how much will they pay you?
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B
¿Pagarme? Al contrario, yo pago la comida y la hamaca.
Pay me? Quite the opposite: I'm paying for the food and the hammock.
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