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🇪🇸 Spanish · Advanced Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 25 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

It Goes Down Like Water

On Saturday April 29th, the night before the April Fair begins, Manolo gets the whole family into his cousin's tent for the fried-fish dinner, where there's sherry with lemonade and a dance in four parts that Encarna insists on teaching. At midnight, the lights of the Fair go on. Ask do you have to pay to get in?, say you have to know someone, it goes down like water, they've all come on at once, and spend the first two days of the Fair in Spanish.

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THE STORY

It's Saturday April 29th, ten at night, the night before the April Fair begins. On the fairground, more than a thousand striped tents have opened for the first dinner of the Fair, and the paper lanterns over the streets are still dark. Sarah and Julian, her parents, Emily, and Encarna in her best earrings follow Manolo through the crowd to his cousin's tent, with a little bar at the back and music coming out of it. At midnight, the lights go on. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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la caseta de mi primolah kah-SEH-tah deh mee PREE-mohmy cousin's tent
¿Hay que pagar para entrar?AY keh pah-GAHR PAH-rah ehn-TRAHRDo you have to pay to get in?
hay que conocer a alguienAY keh koh-noh-SEHR ah AHL-gee-ehnyou have to know someone
Y ya me conocéis a mí.ee yah meh koh-noh-SEH-ees ah meeAnd you know me. To a group, in Spain.
¿Qué es eso que bebe todo el mundo?keh ehs EH-soh keh BEH-beh TOH-doh ehl MOON-dohWhat's that everyone's drinking?
rebujitorreh-boo-HEE-toha sherry spritzer, the drink of the Fair
manzanilla con gaseosamahn-sah-NEE-yah kohn gah-seh-OH-sahdry sherry with lemonade
Entra como el agua.EHN-trah KOH-moh ehl AH-gwahIt goes down like water.
¿Esto cómo se baila?EHS-toh KOH-moh seh BAH-ee-lahHow do you dance this?
Las sevillanas tienen cuatro partes.lahs seh-bee-YAH-nahs tee-EH-nehn KWAH-troh PAHR-tehsThe Seville dance has four parts.

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