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🇪🇸 Spanish · Fluency Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 15 OF 30 · 31 MINUTES

It Was Her

It's Friday, March 22nd, the last day in Oaxaca. At the old convent, the manager brings out the book of births that was found in a wall, and Julian lays photographs of Sister Isabel's signed letters beside it. Sarah reads the entries the way a midwife reads notes, and a line from sixteen ninety-three answers the question at last. Compare and conclude - the handwriting is the same, a midwife wrote this, now we do know, it was her - read an old line aloud - the medicines Dona Leonor sent me arrived - and say you'll tell someone in person.

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THE STORY

It's Friday, March 22nd, 2030, ten in the morning, at the old convent of Saint Catherine in Oaxaca, now a hotel. Tomorrow, Sarah, Julian and Encarna fly home. In a quiet room off the cloister, the manager brings out the book of births that was found in a wall, and Julian lays photographs of Sister Isabel's two signed letters to the king beside it. Sarah reads the entries the way a midwife reads notes, and in sixteen ninety-three, Julian finds a line about Leonor's third ship. That night, he doesn't phone Ortega. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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Aquí lo tiene.ah-KEE loh tee-EH-nehHere it is. Politely.
trajeTRAH-hehI brought, in Mexico
Traje las fotos de las cartas de Isabel.TRAH-heh lahs FOH-tohs deh lahs KAHR-tahs deh ee-sah-BEHLI've brought the photos of Isabel's letters. In Mexico.
pariópah-ree-OHshe gave birth
primerizapree-meh-REE-saha first-time mother
Primero, la hora. Luego, la madre.pree-MEH-roh lah OH-rah LWEH-goh lah MAH-drehFirst the time. Then the mother.
Esto lo escribió una matrona.EHS-toh loh ehs-kree-bee-OH OO-nah mah-TROH-nahA midwife wrote this.
la mismalah MEES-mahthe same, for a feminine word
La letra es la misma.lah LEH-trah ehs lah MEES-mahThe handwriting is the same.
Para mí, todas las letras antiguas son iguales.PAH-rah MEE TOH-dahs lahs LEH-trahs ahn-TEE-gwahs sohn ee-GWAH-lehsTo me, all old handwriting looks the same.

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