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🇪🇸 Spanish · Fluency Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 17 OF 30 · 31 MINUTES

In Plain Spanish

It's Saturday, April 6th, in Lucia and Pablo's flat. Lucia is thirty weeks pregnant, and at Thursday's antenatal class, the video made Pablo faint. Now he has a list of words he doesn't understand, and Sarah puts each one in plain Spanish. Then Encarna arrives, with advice from her mother's day. Ask for plain words and give them - tell me in plain Spanish - explain a birth simply - it opens little by little, when you get to ten you push, you ask for it and they give it to you - promise with if - if I'm on duty, I'll look after you myself, and if not, I'll come anyway - and turn down an old wives' tale, kindly.

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THE STORY

It's Saturday, April 6th, 2030, five in the afternoon, in Lucia and Pablo's flat. Lucia is thirty weeks pregnant, and a midwife herself. On Thursday, at the antenatal class, they showed a video of a birth, and Pablo fainted. Now he has a list of words he doesn't understand, and Sarah puts each one in plain Spanish. Lucia has something to ask her. At six, Encarna arrives, with advice from her mother's day. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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la bolsa del hospitallah BOHL-sah dehl ohs-pee-TAHLthe hospital bag
Ya he hecho la bolsa del hospital.yah eh EH-choh lah BOHL-sah dehl ohs-pee-TAHLI've already packed the hospital bag.
se desmayóseh dehs-mah-YOHhe fainted
me mareémeh mah-reh-EHI got dizzy
Me mareé un poco. Nada más.meh mah-reh-EH oon POH-koh NAH-dah MAHSI got a bit dizzy. That's all.
en cristianoehn krees-tee-AH-nohin plain Spanish
Dímelo en cristiano.DEE-meh-loh ehn krees-tee-AH-nohTell me in plain Spanish.
Dicho en cristiano.DEE-choh ehn krees-tee-AH-nohPut in plain Spanish.
el cuello del úteroehl KWEH-yoh dehl OO-teh-rohthe neck of the womb
Se abre poco a poco, hasta diez centímetros.seh AH-breh POH-koh ah POH-koh AHS-tah dee-EHS sehn-TEE-meh-trohsIt opens little by little, up to ten centimetres.

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