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🇪🇸 Spanish · Advanced Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 9 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

We Laugh at Everything

Pepa takes Sarah and Julian to the Carnival in Cadiz, where the whole city wears a costume and the street singers make fun of everyone, including two Mexicans and an omelette. Ask what are you dressed as?, say that's cheating, you're so witty, we laugh at everything, I'm in stitches, are you pulling my leg?, and it doesn't matter.

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THE STORY

It's Saturday, February 26th, eight in the evening, in the old town of Cadiz. The narrow streets are full of pirates, nuns, bananas and at least four Spanish prime ministers, and on every corner a group of singers in matching costumes sings a funny song. Pepa, Rosario's sister, meets Sarah and Julian outside the market in a white coat and a blond wig. The singers on the corner have a verse ready for them. At three in the morning, they walk back to Pepa's house by the sea. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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¿De qué vais disfrazados?deh keh BAH-ees dees-frah-SAH-dohsWhat have you come dressed as? To a group, in Spain.
De mexicanos.deh meh-hee-KAH-nohsAs Mexicans.
un disfrazoon dees-FRAHSa costume
¡Eso es trampa!EH-soh ehs TRAHM-pahThat's cheating!
¿De qué vas?deh keh bahsWhat are you dressed as?
de matrona jubiladadeh mah-TROH-nah hoo-bee-LAH-dahas a retired midwife
¡Qué arte tienes!keh AHR-teh tee-EH-nehsYou're so witty!
Nos reímos de todo.nohs rreh-EE-mohs deh TOH-dohWe laugh at everything.
hasta de nosotros mismosAHS-tah deh noh-SOH-trohs MEES-mohseven at ourselves
esa gente que cantaEH-sah HEHN-teh keh KAHN-tahthose people singing

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