Day 51: Fractions Again After Dinner
At the kitchen table in Pachuca after dinner, Ivanna (A), an elementary school student, asks her mother Lorena (B) for help with her math homework.
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
Mamá, sigo sin entender las fracciones. Volvà a equivocarme en todos los ejercicios.
Mom, I still don't get fractions. I got all the exercises wrong again.
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B
A ver, pásame el cuaderno. ¿Qué no te sale?
Let's see, pass me your notebook. What can't you do?
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A
Nada me sale. ¿Cuándo termino la primaria para dejar de ver fracciones?
I can't do any of it. When do I finish elementary school, so I can stop doing fractions?
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B
Te faltan dos años, pero para diciembre ya las habrás dominado. ¿Un medio más un cuarto?
You've got two years to go, but by December you'll have mastered them. A half plus a quarter?
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A
Tres cuartos, porque un medio son dos cuartos. ¡Ya le agarré el truco!
Three quarters, because a half is two quarters. I've got the hang of it!
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B
¿Ves? Para fin de cursos ya me habrás enseñado a mÃ, que nunca las entendÃ.
See? By the end of the school year you'll have taught me, and I never understood them.
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