Day 80: A Fireball Over Coahuila
At a middle school in Saltillo, Lisandro (A), a student, shows his physics teacher, Mr. Jorge Luis Treviño (B), a video his cousin took last night.
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
Maestro, mire lo que cruzó el cielo anoche. Serían como las dos cuando mi primo lo grabó en la carretera.
Mr. Treviño, look what crossed the sky last night. It must have been about two when my cousin filmed it out on the road.
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B
Es un bólido, un meteoro muy brillante: sería una roca del tamaño de un balón, o menos.
It's a fireball, a very bright meteor: it was probably a rock the size of a soccer ball, or smaller.
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A
¿Y no cayó en algún lado? Mi primo ya anda buscando el meteorito para venderlo.
And didn't it land somewhere? My cousin's already out looking for the meteorite so he can sell it.
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B
Que no se ilusione: aunque parezca enorme, casi todo se desintegra en la atmósfera.
He shouldn't get his hopes up: even if it looks huge, almost all of it breaks up in the atmosphere.
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A
¿Casi todo? Entonces, aunque sea un pedacito, algo pudo haber llegado al suelo, ¿no?
Almost all? So something could have reached the ground, even if it's just a tiny piece, right?
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B
Puede ser, pero sería una piedrita negra entre millones de piedras del desierto: casi imposible de encontrar.
Maybe, but it would be a little black stone among millions of stones in the desert: almost impossible to find.
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A
Oiga, ¿y entonces por qué está calculando la trayectoria en un mapa de Coahuila?
Hang on, so why are you working out its path on a map of Coahuila?
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B
Por pura curiosidad científica. Y dile a tu primo que, si encuentra algo, me lo enseñe primero.
Pure scientific curiosity. And tell your cousin that if he finds anything, he should show it to me first.
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