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🇲🇽 Spanish · Intermediate Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 24 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

If I'd Known

On Sunday in Puerto Escondido, the sea turns rough, the fishermen pull up their boats, and a tropical storm heads for the coast. Say what you would have done if you'd known, talk about a rough sea and a storm warning, help get the hotel ready, and get through a night without power, by candlelight.

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THE STORY

It's Sunday, the sixteenth of August. At seven, Julian is on the beach for his surf class, just as planned, but Mateo is looking at the sea. By the afternoon, the sky over Puerto Escondido has turned a strange yellow-grey, the sea is brown and wild, and Don Chuy is carrying planks of wood to the windows of his hotel, with the radio on loud. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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picadopee-KAH-dohrough, of the sea
El mar está muy picado.ehl mahr ehs-TAH mooy pee-KAH-dohThe sea is very rough.
las lanchaslahs LAHN-chahsthe boats, small fishing boats
una señalOO-nah seh-NYAHLa sign
Eso no es buena señal.EH-soh noh ehs BWEH-nah seh-NYAHLThat's not a good sign.
Si hubiera sabidosee oo-bee-EH-rah sah-BEE-dohIf I'd known
me habría quedadomeh ah-BREE-ah keh-DAH-dohI would have stayed
guardargwahr-DAHRto put away
Ayúdenme a guardar las tablas.ah-YOO-dehn-meh ah gwahr-DAHR lahs TAH-blahsHelp me put the boards away. To a group.
Viene una tormenta tropical.bee-EH-neh OO-nah tohr-MEHN-tah troh-pee-KAHLA tropical storm is coming.

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