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🇪🇸 Spanish · Fluency Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 11 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

Back to My Homeland

It's Tuesday, March 5th, and the posts are chosen online, in the order of the list. At ten, Sarah chooses the delivery ward where Rosario taught her, and Alvaro follows her. At noon, Nerea types one word. On Thursday, Encarna's heart doctor has his say about the flight to Mexico. Choose, and say why - have you made up your mind, why that one and not another, because that's where I learned to be a midwife, I'm going back to my homeland, I didn't think twice - and hear what a mother means when she says she's peeling onions.

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THE STORY

It's Tuesday, March 5th, 2030, ten in the morning, at the kitchen table of the top-floor flat in Triana. Today the posts are chosen online, in the order of the list, and each group of numbers has a set time. Sarah's and Alvaro's turn is at ten, and Nerea's is at noon. Julian is at the laptop, Encarna has come up with the biscuits, and nobody knows yet what Nerea will choose, Seville or Bilbao. On Thursday, eight days before the flight to Mexico, Sarah takes Encarna to her young heart doctor. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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¿Ya lo tienes claro?yah loh tee-EH-nehs KLAH-rohHave you made up your mind?
el paritorioehl pah-ree-TOH-ree-ohthe delivery ward
Clarísimo. El paritorio de la Macarena.klah-REE-see-moh ehl pah-ree-TOH-ree-oh deh lah mah-kah-REH-nahCompletely. The delivery ward at the Macarena.
¿Y por qué esa, y no otra?ee pohr KEH EH-sah ee noh OH-trahAnd why that one, and not another?
Porque allí aprendí a ser matrona.POHR-keh ah-YEE ah-prehn-DEE ah sehr mah-TROH-nahBecause that's where I learned to be a midwife.
adjudicadaahd-hoo-dee-KAH-dahallocated
Adjudicada. Ya es tuya.ahd-hoo-dee-KAH-dah yah ehs TOO-yahAllocated. It's yours now.
Así no me echas de menos.ah-SEE noh meh EH-chahs deh MEH-nohsThat way you won't miss me.
Mi turno es a las doce.mee TOOR-noh ehs ah lahs DOH-sehMy turn's at noon.
a mi tierraah mee tee-EH-rrahto my homeland

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