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Sarah and Julian start a year in Seville: a landlady who knows everyone, a hospital where midwives are called matronas, a 300-year-old letter in the Archive, tapas at ten at night and a proposal on New Year's Eve. Learn the Spanish of Spain: vosotros, vale, the words that change, and the accent of Seville.
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Avanzado Nivel 1 - Parte 1
Lecciones 1 a 10Sarah and Julian land in Seville, and the first person they talk to in Spain is a taxi driver who says "you all" in a way they've never used.
Sarah and Julian meet Encarna, their landlady in Triana, who has made them gazpacho and has the keys to their new flat.
At the foreigners' office in Seville, Sarah finds out that there's always one more paper.
On her first day at the school of midwives in Seville, Sarah calls a young colleague by the polite "you", and gets laughed at.
Julian's first day at the Archive of the Indies, with Professor Ortega, and Sarah comes along before her afternoon shift on the ward.
At Manolo's bar on the corner, Sarah and Julian order tapas for the first time, and find out that in Spain a tortilla is something else entirely.
At the market in Triana, Sarah asks for fruit and vegetables with her Mexican words, and the stallholder has to translate.
On Saturday night, Sarah and Julian finally meet Lucia's boyfriend Pablo on a terrace in the Alameda, and the slang flies in both directions.
Elena calls from Oaxaca, and Sarah tries to explain how Spain is the same, but different.
On the first Saturday of October, Encarna throws a party in her patio for her Mexicans' first month in Seville.
Avanzado Nivel 1 - Parte 2
Lecciones 11 a 20Sarah and Lucia start their first shift on the delivery ward with Rosario, a midwife with more than thirty years of births behind her, who has a question for each of them, and then shows them the very thing they studied last week.
On her first shift on call, at four in the morning, Sarah delivers her first baby in Spain, and the mother speaks pure Andalusian, swallowing half her letters.
Julian finds a letter written by a nun in Oaxaca in 1682, asking the king for a hospital for poor women giving birth.
Mateo arrives in Seville with his surfboard for a week with Sarah and Julian.
Spend a weekend in Cadiz with Mateo and Pepa, from a warm welcome to cold waves, fried fish and a sunset.
On November first, Sarah and Julian make a Day of the Dead altar in their Seville flat.
Friday's bus plans turn into a conversation about words with different regional meanings.
Pablo plays flamenco guitar in a little club in Triana, Sarah feels something she can't explain, and the old singer turns out to be someone they know.
Lucia learns that Pablo accepted a six-month tour in Japan without discussing it with her.
Sunday lunch on November twenty-eighth brings a new letter, an old birth story and gifts before Pablo's departure.
Avanzado Nivel 1 - Parte 3
Lecciones 21 a 30On December twenty-second, the neighbours watch the Christmas lottery at Manolo's bar.
Sarah's parents arrive in Seville for Christmas and notice her familiar plural forms.
At Encarna's Christmas Eve table, Sarah's parents discover the food, join a toast and hear the neighbours sing.
On Christmas Day, Sarah calls Oaxaca and Boston from Seville.
Sarah, Julian and her parents visit Cordoba on a paid day trip.
On their last full day in Seville, Sarah's parents order at Manolo's bar, compare two plural forms and pack their gifts.
Sarah's parents leave Seville, exchanging promises at the airport.
Julian confides in Lucia, chooses a silver ring and buys it before making a secret call to Oaxaca.
At New Year in Seville, Julian waits for Sarah to finish her grapes before asking her to marry him.
On New Year's Day, Sarah and Julian share cake with Encarna, reply to congratulations and look back on their first months in Seville.