Day 169: Finding His First Teacher Online
At home in Irapuato, Marisa (A) asks her husband Gilberto (B) why he has been smiling at his phone for so long.
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.
Keys: E hide English · ← → previous / next day · point at a word to see its meaning
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A
¿Qué ves? Llevas media hora sonriendo como si te hubieras sacado la lotería.
What are you looking at? You've been smiling for half an hour as if you'd won the lottery.
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B
Estaba viendo fotos viejas en Facebook cuando me apareció el perfil de la maestra Clotilde.
I was looking at old photos on Facebook when Miss Clotilde's profile popped up.
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A
¿La maestra con la que aprendiste a leer? ¿Esa de la que siempre hablas?
The teacher you learned to read with? The one you're always talking about?
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B
Esa mera, aunque dudo que se acuerde de mí después de casi cuarenta años.
That's the one, though I doubt she remembers me after almost forty years.
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A
¿Cómo no, si le llevabas fresas cada viernes? Escríbele ya, antes de que te arrepientas.
How could she not, when you took her strawberries every Friday? Write to her now, before you change your mind.
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B
¿Y qué le pongo? ¿Que soy el niño que se comió la plastilina de todo el salón?
And what do I put? That I'm the boy who ate the whole class's Play-Doh?
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A
Ponle que gracias a ella lees hasta las etiquetas del champú. Seguro le alegras la semana.
Tell her that thanks to her you read even the labels on shampoo bottles. You're sure to make her week.
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