Day 6 of 185

Day 6: No Water Tanks Left in Querétaro

At a hardware store in Querétaro, Axel (A), a young man whose street has had no water for a week, asks Bernardo (B), the owner, for a rooftop water tank.

How to study this lesson 3 steps
  1. Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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  1. A

    Buenas, ¿le quedan tinacos? Llevamos una semana sin agua en la colonia.

    Afternoon, do you have any water tanks left? We've had no water in our neighborhood for a week.

  2. B

    Fíjese que no, joven. Para el mediodía ya se habían agotado todos.

    I'm afraid not, young man. They'd all sold out by noon.

  3. A

    ¿En serio? Me habían dicho que aquí siempre tenían.

    Really? I'd been told you always had them here.

  4. B

    Casi siempre, pero nunca habíamos tenido tanta demanda. El lunes llega otro pedido.

    Almost always, but we'd never had so much demand. Another order comes in on Monday.

  5. A

    Híjole, no es lo que quería oír. ¿Y mientras, qué hago?

    Oh dear, that's not what I wanted to hear. So what do I do in the meantime?

  6. B

    Lo que le recomiendo es pedir una pipa, y le aparto uno del lunes.

    What I'd recommend is ordering a water tanker, and I'll keep one from Monday's order for you.

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