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🇪🇸 Spanish · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 16 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

Nerves of Steel

Twice a week, Sarah studies for the exam at her kitchen table with Nerea and Alvaro, a nurse sitting the exam for the third time, and Encarna climbs four floors with a tray to see how the students are doing. Speak the language of studying together - ask me something, anything, I can't remember any more, let me see if I've got this right, my mind goes blank, we complement each other, you can't study on an empty stomach, third time lucky - and explain things to each other in other words.

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THE STORY

It's Monday, October 15th, 2029, six in the evening, in the kitchen of the top-floor flat. The drilling downstairs stopped at three. The table is covered in notes, coloured pens, cards and three cups of tea. The exam is in January, and there are a hundred topics. Sarah has done eighty. Nerea did all hundred in the summer and is going through them again. Alvaro, a nurse from Sarah's ward, knows every one by heart, because this is his third time. At half past seven, Encarna climbs the four floors with a tray. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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Pregúntame algo.preh-GOON-tah-meh AHL-gohAsk me something.
Lo que sea.loh keh SEH-ahAnything.
la preeclampsialah preh-eh-KLAHMP-see-ahpre-eclampsia
¿Cuáles son los síntomas?KWAH-lehs sohn lohs SEEN-toh-mahsWhat are the symptoms?
tensión alta, dolor de cabezatehn-see-OHN AHL-tah doh-LOHR deh kah-BEH-sahhigh blood pressure, headache
No me acuerdo de más.noh meh ah-KWEHR-doh deh mahsI can't remember any more.
Y ver lucecitas.ee behr loo-seh-SEE-tahsAnd seeing little lights.
Y la hinchazón.ee lah een-chah-SOHNAnd the swelling.
proteínas en la orinaproh-teh-EE-nahs ehn lah oh-REE-nahprotein in the urine
Lo tenía en la punta de la lengua.loh teh-NEE-ah ehn lah POON-tah deh lah LEHN-gwahI had it on the tip of my tongue.

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