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🇪🇸 Spanish · Fluency Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 16 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Call Me Ignacio

It's Thursday, March 28th, back in Seville. At the cafe across from the cathedral, Julian puts the photographs in front of Ortega at last, and at noon, in the office that was Ortega's for forty years, Ortega lifts his faded green cushion. Say how long you'd been waiting - I'd been waiting forty years for this - offer to share and say no - the book has to be both of ours, this book is yours, but I'll write the prologue, I'm dedicating it to you - turn down a permission - you can change it now, I wouldn't dream of it - drop the polite you at last, and give in, in writing.

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THE STORY

It's Thursday, March 28th, 2030, eleven in the morning, at the cafe across from the cathedral in Seville. Julian has been back from Mexico since Sunday, and he hasn't said a word at the Archive. Ortega first. He lays the photographs on the table, Sister Isabel's letters beside the book of births. At noon, in Julian's office, the archivist compares them with the originals, and Ortega lifts the faded green cushion on his old chair. At nine that night, the publisher answers by email. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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Mire la letra.MEE-reh lah LEH-trahLook at the handwriting. Politely.
Llevaba cuarenta años esperando esto.yeh-BAH-bah kwah-REHN-tah AH-nyohs ehs-peh-RAHN-doh EHS-tohI'd been waiting forty years for this.
El libro tiene que ser de los dos.ehl LEE-broh tee-EH-neh keh sehr deh lohs DOHSThe book has to be both of ours.
Este libro es tuyo.EHS-teh LEE-broh ehs TOO-yohThis book is yours.
si me dejassee meh DEH-hahsif you'll let me
el prólogoehl PROH-loh-gohthe prologue
Pero el prólogo lo escribo yo.PEH-roh ehl PROH-loh-goh loh ehs-KREE-boh YOHBut I'll write the prologue.
se lo dedicoseh loh deh-DEE-kohI dedicate it to you
Se lo dedico a usted.seh loh deh-DEE-koh ah oos-TEHDI'm dedicating it to you. Politely.
Sin ninguna duda.seen neen-GOO-nah DOO-dahNo doubt about it.

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