Day 240: A Bigger Shirt for Dad's Birthday
In a department store in Puebla, Janeth (A) and her young daughter, Emilia (C), have brought her husband, José Ángel (B), to exchange the birthday shirt they gave him, which was too small.
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
Pruébatela antes de pagar, ¿eh? Esta es mediana.
Try it on before we pay, OK? This one's a medium.
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B
¿Mediana? Esa talla es la tuya; yo uso grande.
Medium? That's your size. I take a large.
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A
No, la mía es chica. Emilia, ¿qué talla escogiste tú?
No, mine's small. Emilia, what size did you pick?
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C
¡La mía, para salir iguales en la foto!
Mine, so we'd match in the photo!
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B
¿La tuya? ¡Con razón no me entraba ni un brazo!
Yours? No wonder I couldn't even get my arm in!
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