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🇲🇽 Spanish · Beginner Level 3

PART 3 · LESSON 30 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

Back to Oaxaca

On Friday, January second, Sarah's bus leaves Merida at three in the afternoon for the twenty-hour journey to Oaxaca, and the woman in the next seat wants to hear all about her trip. The next morning, in the mountains, Andres calls. Offer something politely, say how long it's been since something happened, say what you've learned and that you've still got a way to go, say you're almost there - and review the whole level.

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THE STORY

It's Friday, the second of January. Sarah's bus left Merida at three, in the afternoon sun, and the journey to Oaxaca takes twenty hours. Two hours later, the older woman in the next seat opens a packet of cookies and starts to chat, and they talk until the lights in the bus go off. At ten the next morning, in the mountains of Oaxaca, Andres calls. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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una galletaOO-nah gah-YEH-taha cookie
¿Gusta una galleta?GOOS-tah OO-nah gah-YEH-tahWould you like a cookie? To be polite.
qué amablekeh ah-MAH-blehhow kind
¿Va a Oaxaca también?bah ah wah-HAH-kah tahm-BYEHNAre you going to Oaxaca too? To be polite.
Hace dos meses que salí de Oaxaca.AH-seh dohs MEH-sehs keh sah-LEE deh wah-HAH-kahIt's been two months since I left Oaxaca.
y ahora regresoee ah-OH-rah rreh-GREH-sohand now I'm going back
¿Qué hizo?keh EE-sohWhat did you do? To be polite.
¡De todo!deh TOH-dohEverything!
nadénah-DEHI swam
rompí una piñatarrohm-PEE OO-nah pee-NYAH-tahI broke a pinata

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