Day 30: Buying a Harvest in Coatepec
At a family coffee farm near Coatepec, Veracruz, Patricio (A), a young buyer for a café chain, meets the owner, Don Aurelio (B; don is a respectful title), to agree on this year's harvest after a rainy season.
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
Don Aurelio, gracias por recibirme. Espero que las lluvias no hayan dañado la cosecha.
Don Aurelio, thank you for seeing me. I hope the rains haven't damaged the harvest.
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B
Las parcelas altas salieron bien, pero en las bajas la roya nos mermó la cosecha en un tercio.
The upper plots came through fine, but in the lower ones coffee rust cut our crop by a third.
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A
Entonces le agradecerÃa que separara los lotes: solo compramos grano de más de 84 puntos.
Then I'd be grateful if you kept the lots separate: we only buy beans that score over 84 points.
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B
El de arriba pasa de sobra. Eso sÃ, ya me lo pidieron en Xalapa.
The upper lot clears that easily. One thing, though: they've already asked me for it in Xalapa.
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A
Le ofrezco quince por ciento más que el año pasado; asimismo, le adelanto la mitad.
I can offer you fifteen percent more than last year; in addition, I'll pay you half up front.
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B
Que sea el veinte. Pero antes, pruebe un cafecito de ese lote.
Make it twenty. But first, try a coffee from that lot.
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A
¡Qué aroma! Espero que en Xalapa no lo hayan probado: acepto el veinte.
What an aroma! I hope they haven't tasted it in Xalapa: twenty it is.
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