Day 214: The Volunteer from Los Angeles
At a community center in Zacatecas, Liam (A), a young volunteer from Los Angeles, greets Obdulia (B), an older woman who comes to the center.
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
Buenas tardes, señora. ¿En qué le puedo servir?
Good afternoon, ma'am. How may I help you?
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B
¿Tú eres el que acaba de llegar de Los Ángeles? ¡Hablas como mi abuela!
Are you the one who's just arrived from Los Angeles? You talk like my grandmother!
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A
Es que me crio mi abuela, que era de un rancho cerca de Nochistlán.
It's because my grandmother raised me. She came from a little village near Nochistlán.
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B
¿De Nochistlán? ¡Pero si ese es el pueblo donde nació mi mamá!
From Nochistlán? But that's the town where my mother was born!
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A
¡No me diga! Mi abuela decía que allá todos eran primos.
You don't say! My grandmother used to say everyone there was a cousin.
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