Day 96: The Hall Where Mom Turned Fifteen
In Aguascalientes, Alexa (A) and her close friend Marlene (B) are helping to plan the quinceañera, the fifteenth birthday party, of Alexa's younger sister.
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
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A
¿Y el salón en el que mi mamá festejó sus quince?
What about the hall where Mom celebrated her fifteenth?
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B
¿Todavía existe? Dudo que alguien lo siga rentando.
Is it still around? I doubt anyone still rents it.
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A
Fíjate que ya les hablé, y no tienen ninguna fecha libre.
Actually, I've already called them, and they don't have a single date free.
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B
¿Ninguna? ¿Ni un domingo?
None at all? Not even a Sunday?
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A
Ni uno. La primera fecha libre es dentro de dos años.
Not one. The first free date is two years from now.
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B
Entonces tu hermana va a festejar sus quince a los diecisiete.
So your sister's going to celebrate her fifteenth at seventeen.
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