Day 194: Last Taxi Ride Before Mérida
In a taxi to Mexico City's airport, a passenger (A) with two suitcases chats with the driver, Baltazar (B).
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
Oiga, ¿cree que lleguemos a tiempo? Mi vuelo sale a las doce.
Excuse me, do you think we'll make it in time? My flight leaves at twelve.
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B
Sí, a esta hora ya no hay tráfico. ¿Va de vacaciones con tanta maleta?
Yes, there's no traffic by this time. Going on vacation with all that luggage?
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A
No, me voy a vivir a Mérida por trabajo.
No, I'm moving to Mérida for work.
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B
¡Uy! En dos meses se volverá más yucateco que la cochinita.
Ooh! In two months you'll be more Yucatecan than cochinita pibil.
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A
¿Y el calor? Dicen que en mayo llega a cuarenta grados.
What about the heat? They say it gets up to forty degrees Celsius in May.
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B
Ya se acostumbrará. Soy de Progreso, Yucatán, y aquí me pongo chamarra con veinte grados.
You'll get used to it. I'm from Progreso, in Yucatán, and here I put a jacket on when it's twenty degrees Celsius.
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