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🇪🇸 Spanish · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 14 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

The Apple of My Eye

In Manolo's bar, Curro stands up and announces what everyone has known for a year and a half - he and Emily are officially going out - and everyone has something to say about it. The next evening, Emily tells their father, who turns out to know more than she thought. Speak the language of a couple going public - about time, you could see it coming, careful with my sister, the apple of my eye, you make a lovely couple, you're drooling, you've gone red, you'll have me to deal with, the sooner the better - and of a half-truth found out - I already knew, your mother finds out everything, I've looked it up on the map.

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THE STORY

It's Friday, October 5th, 2029, nine in the evening, in Manolo's bar. The bar is full, and the television is showing a football match nobody is watching. Curro has been looking at Emily, and then at the floor, and then at his uncle, for twenty minutes. Emily kicks him under the table. He stands up, taps his glass with a spoon, and the whole bar goes quiet. The next evening, Emily phones their father in Boston. He knows about Curro. He still doesn't know she's in Seville. Or so she thinks. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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Tengo que deciros una cosa.TEHN-goh keh deh-SEE-rohs OO-nah KOH-sahI've got something to tell you all.
Emily y yo somos novios.EH-mee-lee ee yoh SOH-mohs NOH-bee-ohsEmily and I are going out.
¡Ya era hora!yah EH-rah OH-rahAbout time!
Llevas un año sin dormir.YEH-bahs oon AH-nyoh seen dohr-MEERYou haven't slept for a year.
Eso se veía venir.EH-soh seh beh-EE-ah beh-NEERYou could see that coming.
Cuidadito con mi hermana, ¿eh?kwee-dah-DEE-toh kohn mee ehr-MAH-nah ehCareful with my sister, eh?
la niña de mis ojoslah NEE-nyah deh mees OH-hohsthe apple of my eye
La cuido como a la niña de mis ojos.lah KWEE-doh KOH-moh ah lah NEE-nyah deh mees OH-hohsI look after her like the apple of my eye.
Que lo necesita más.keh loh neh-seh-SEE-tah mahsHe needs it more.
Hacéis muy buena pareja.ah-SEH-ees mwee BWEH-nah pah-REH-hahYou make a lovely couple. To you both.

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