Day 64: Tacos Cost Twelve Pesos Back Then
At the taquería by the UANL, their old university in Monterrey, three friends, Cinthia (A), Edgar (B) and Janet (C), look at the new prices; trompo is Monterrey's spit-roasted pork for tacos.
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
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A
¿Ya vieron? El de trompo, a treinta y cinco, y cuando estudiábamos costaba doce.
Have you seen? The trompo ones are thirty-five, and when we were students they were twelve.
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B
Miren el letrero: “Los precios fueron ajustados por el alza de los insumos”. O sea, culpa del limón.
Look at the sign: “Prices have been adjusted due to the rising cost of supplies.” In other words, blame the limes.
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C
No exageren. En la carrera vivíamos de lo que nos daban en casa; ahora tenemos sueldo.
Don't exaggerate. In college we lived on what our parents gave us; now we've got salaries.
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A
Un sueldo que no alcanza: a mí me subieron un diez por ciento, y la renta, casi un treinta.
A salary that doesn't stretch: I got a ten percent raise, and my rent went up almost thirty.
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B
Pues vámonos al puesto de la esquina: siguen a veinte, aunque la salsa no sea igual.
Well, let's go to the stand on the corner: they're still twenty, even if the salsa isn't the same.
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C
¿Cambiar esta salsa verde? Aunque los suban a cincuenta, yo aquí sigo viniendo.
Give up this green salsa? Even if they raise them to fifty, I'm still coming here.
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A
Sale, aquí seguimos. Eso sí, hoy paga Edgar: en la carrera siempre se le olvidaba la cartera.
OK, we'll keep coming. But today Edgar's paying: in college he always forgot his wallet.
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