Day 187: A Landslide on the Oaxaca Road
In a street in Oaxaca City, Don Faustino (A), a retired man, sees his neighbor (B) arriving home with her suitcase ('don' is a respectful title used with a first name).
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
Vecina, ¿apenas llega de México? ¿No regresaba ayer?
Hello there, are you just now getting back from Mexico City? Weren't you coming back yesterday?
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B
Sí, don Faustino, pero hubo un deslave y cerraron la carretera.
Yes, Don Faustino, but there was a landslide and they closed the road.
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A
¡Ay, esa carretera! Cuando yo era joven, el camión tardaba doce horas.
Oh, that road! When I was young, the bus took twelve hours.
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B
¿Doce? El que tomé ayer tardó veinte, y yo sin comer nada.
Twelve? The one I caught yesterday took twenty, and I had nothing to eat.
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A
En mis tiempos parábamos en un pueblo donde vendían unos tamales buenísimos.
In my day we used to stop at a village where they sold wonderful tamales.
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B
¡Ay, no me hable de tamales, don Faustino, que ya no aguanto el hambre!
Oh, don't talk to me about tamales, Don Faustino, I'm starving!
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