Day 104: Pitching Cooking Classes to Investors
In their apartment in Mexico City, Pamela (A), who has started a company offering online cooking classes with traditional cooks, tells her roommate Renata (B) how her pitch to investors went.
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
¡Me fue increíble! Los inversionistas dijeron que mi proyecto era muy fresco y que me llamarían pronto.
It went amazingly! The investors said my project was really fresh and that they'd call me soon.
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B
¿“Muy fresco” y “te llamamos”? Eso mismo me dijeron en mi última entrevista, y nunca llamaron.
“Really fresh” and “we'll call you”? That's exactly what they told me at my last interview, and they never called.
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A
No seas aguafiestas. El señor cuyo fondo invierte en restaurantes dijo que le encantaban mis cocineras tradicionales.
Don't be a killjoy. The man whose fund invests in restaurants said he loved my traditional cooks.
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B
¿Y te preguntó cuánto te cuesta cada alumno, o cuántos repiten? Porque encantarle es gratis.
And did he ask what each student costs you, or how many come back? Because loving it costs him nothing.
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A
Eso lo preguntó una señora muy seria, que me pidió que le mandara mis cifras, lo cual se me hizo grosero.
A very serious woman asked that, and she asked me to send her my figures, which I thought was rude.
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B
¿Grosero? Es la única que te tomó en serio: nadie pide cifras de algo en lo que no piensa invertir.
Rude? She's the only one who took you seriously: nobody asks for the figures of something they don't plan to invest in.
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A
Pero el de los restaurantes me dijo que llegaría lejos, que le recordaba a su hija.
But the restaurant man told me I'd go far, that I reminded him of his daughter.
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B
Muy lindo, pero eso es un cumplido, no una oferta. Mándale hoy mismo tus cifras a la señora seria.
Very sweet, but that's a compliment, not an offer. Send the serious woman your figures today.
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