Day 191: An INE Appointment at Eleven
At an insurance office in Mexico City, Elba (A), a department head, notices that Arleth (B), a new colleague, looks worried (the INE card is Mexico's voter ID, also used as an identity card).
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
Arleth, te veo preocupada. ¿Todo bien?
Arleth, you look worried. Is everything all right?
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B
La única cita del INE que encontré es mañana a las once. ¿Me deja ir?
The only INE appointment I could find is tomorrow at eleven. Could I go?
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A
Claro, y tómate toda la mañana: la mÃa tardó tres horas.
Of course, and take the whole morning: mine took three hours.
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B
¿Tres horas? Dicen que ahora es más rápido que antes.
Three hours? They say it's quicker now than it used to be.
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A
Será, pero el señor de adelante traÃa el acta de su hermano, no la suya.
Maybe so, but the man in front of me had brought his brother's birth certificate, not his own.
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B
Entonces reviso bien mis papeles y me llevo un libro. ¡Gracias, licenciada!
Then I'll check my papers carefully and take a book. Thank you!
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