Day 155: Back from Berlin, Always on Time
At a restaurant in Guadalajara, Sara (A) is waiting for their cousins with her older sister Valentina (B), who has just come back from a year of studying in Berlin.
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
¿Qué tanto le ves al reloj? Son las ocho y diez.
Why do you keep checking the time? It's ten after eight.
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B
Quedamos a las ocho. Ya me estoy desesperando.
We said eight o'clock. I'm already getting impatient.
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A
¿Por diez minutos? Aquà “a las ocho” es a las nueve.
Over ten minutes? Around here, eight o'clock means nine.
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B
Ya sĂ©, pero en BerlĂn me volvĂ muy puntual. Ahora me molesta esperar.
I know, but in Berlin I became really punctual. Now waiting bothers me.
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A
¡Te hiciste alemana! ¿Y allá los trenes son tan puntuales como tú?
You've turned German! And are the trains there as punctual as you?
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B
¿Los trenes? No, esos llegan más tarde que los primos.
The trains? No, they turn up later than our cousins.
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