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Dialogue

EVA: ¿Qué te pasa, Paco? Te veo con mala cara.

EVA: What's wrong Paco? You don't look well.

PACO: Nada. He vuelto a llegar tarde al trabajo.

PACO: Nothing. I arrived late to work again.

EVA: ¿Y qué haces para llegar siempre tarde?

EVA: And what do you do to always arrive late?

PACO: Pues no lo sé. Me levanto a las 8 de la mañana. Me ducho, desayuno, cojo el autobús y llego tarde.

PACO: Well, I don't know. I get up at 8 am. I take a shower, eat breakfast, catch the bus and I arrive late.

EVA: ¿Te levantas cuando suena el despertador?

EVA: Do you get up when the alarm rings?

PACO: Sí. A las 8 estoy en pie como un clavo.

PACO: Yes. I'm up and ready to go at 8AM.

EVA: ¡Pues entonces no lo entiendo! Repasemos: Te levantas, te duchas, desayunas, coges el bus... ¿y llegas tarde?

EVA: Well, then I don't understand! Let's review: You getup, you take a shower, you eat breakfast, you catch the bus ... And you arrive late?

PACO: Sí. Esa es mi rutina.

PACO: Yes. That's my routine.

EVA: Una última pregunta, Paco: ¿A qué hora empiezas a trabajar?

EVA: One last question, Paco. what time do you start work?

PACO: A las 8.

PACO: At 8.

Grammar notes

¿qué te pasa?

what's wrong?

¿qué te pasa?
what's wrong with you?
This is a useful expression to ask someone when you think he/she has a problem.
te veo con mala cara

You don't look well.

Te veo con mala cara.
You don't look well. You look ill/ worried.
This is a expression we use when someone looks worried or ill and it is reflected on his/her face. As we say that our face shows our worries and feelings.
he vuelto a

I did it again

He vuelto a llegar tarde.
I arrived late again.
VOLVER A + INFINITIF. This is a way to say that you do something one more time or even several times. For example if you failed an exam and you do it again and failed once more, then we would say: He vuelto a suspender el examen.
Me levanto

I get up

Me levanto a las 8.
I get up at 8.
LEVANTARSE is a reflexive verb, that means that it needs some pronouns before the verb, which are: ME,TE,SE,NOS,OS,SE and then the verb, in this case in the present tense: ME LEVANTO, TE LEVANTAS, SE LEVANTA, NOS LEVANTAMOS, OS LEVANTÁIS, SE LEVANTAN.
We use Present tense to talk about actions that happen at the present time or actions that we make habitually as a routine.
cojo

I catch

Cojo el autobús.
I catch the bus.
Pay attention! This verb could be used in Spanish of Spain to get transports. Coger un taxi, el autobús, el tren... but NEVER use it in this sense in South America as there it means to copulate in a coloquial way. So, instead of COGER use SUBIR or PARAR.
estoy en pie como un clavo

I'm up and ready to go!

Estoy en pie como un clavo.
I'm up and ready to go!
This is an expression that means that I get up and stand up completely and very tight the same as a nail, which is not bended.

Comments

¡Eva está muy buena!

#1 sent by jeropa 3 days ago

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#2 sent by sabell 94 days ago

I like lingnus tv it help me soo much thank you and whats the number of the women

#3 sent by sabell 94 days ago

Thanks so much! This is an enormous help in learning Spanish

#4 sent by Ada 99 days ago

hola muy bien eva es el mejor actores y paco tambien

#5 sent by shailendra 155 days ago

Much respect to Whole Foods for your support of “Halal”. Muchas gracias!

#6 sent by Angel M. Alderete 177 days ago

cant download at all,even cant view the video:( who can help me?

#7 sent by Sherry 200 days ago

Hello there! This video was awesome! I am a fairly new Spanish instructor, I was hoping to download this to my ipod but for whatever reason I can’t download, could you send it to my email?

Jenn

#8 sent by jenn miller 327 days ago

Id hit that with a baseball bat…

#9 sent by Balls. 362 days ago

hola yo yo man this was the best video ever more naked women please

#10 sent by pogobat101 415 days ago

es exacto lo mismo para mi siempre llegar tarde

#11 sent by Clay 604 days ago

me gusta muy mucho

#12 sent by pinka 657 days ago

good show

#13 sent by Uxie 713 days ago

more beautiful women in bikinis please!

it helps me learn better

#14 sent by Amir Khan 787 days ago

The guy in this is serioulsy sexy i would xxx

#15 sent by kathleen 795 days ago

¡Caliente! ¿Como hermosa es Eva? Estoy en amorado. Ella tiene un fan grande.

Ricardo

#16 sent by Rick 814 days ago

The video its really well done and i understood almost everything so im really happy. Are u gonna do more episodes?? Me gusta muy Paco, es super “cute”: le puedes decir que tiene una fan??hahaha. Gracias.

#17 sent by Mery 996 days ago

Je je..:))..Muy bien! gracias por la película.

#18 sent by nehir 1029 days ago

Hola Nelly,

Muchas gracias por tu comentario. Mensajes como el tuyo nos animan a seguir trabajando! :)

Por supuesto que lo puedes poner en tu blog. Puedes descargártelo pulsando sobre ‘download’ en el reproductor, o bien ir a alguno de nuestros canales en Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/lingustv), Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/user561195) u OpenFilm (http://www.openfilm.com/channels/lingustv/), entre otros. Puedes hacer un ‘embed’ del reproductor y listo!

Muchas gracias por usar nuestros vídeos. Te agradecemos todo tu apoyo y difusión! :)

Saludos

#19 sent by LingusTeam 1048 days ago

¡Me encantó! ¿Está permitido bajar el video? Me gustaría bajarlo y ponerlo en el blog que tengo para mis estudiantes ya que tarda en cargarse. Hasta pronto

#20 sent by Nelly 1049 days ago

Me encanta este video. Aprendí mucho. ¡Que cómico!

#21 sent by Tonya 1060 days ago

i really enjoyed the video it was interesting and made me giggle at points. the grammer and conjugation was perfect and it was very useful.

#22 sent by ignacio verduras 1177 days ago

hola, es muy bien y mi gusta mucho pero el video termina temprano. es muy simpatico y tiene bien dialogo y usa la forma reflexibo.

#23 sent by ignacio verduras 1177 days ago

me gusta mucho esta video porque todos de estos videos son muy divertidos, pero el mismo tiempo, tiene mucha que necesitas para aprender espanol.

#24 sent by Enrique 1178 days ago

Me gusta el video! Esta muy comico. Pienso que es bien para estudiar verbos reflexivos. Necesite el guion para mejor entender.

#25 sent by Jenny 1178 days ago

Es muy gracioso! Los videos son muy bien pronunciadas, y son facil para entender, me encantan.

#26 sent by Rosa 1178 days ago

Este video está muy buena porque muestra cómo describir su rútina diaría en una mañera fácil. Es fácil de comprender de que halblan los actores. Ellos están graciosos. Escuchar los chistes es una mañera divertida para aprender palabras y expreciones nuevas en español.

#27 sent by Vérane 1178 days ago

hola, la mujer siempre habla muy rapido, y yo no comprendo. pero me gusta el video.

#28 sent by Emily 1178 days ago

Can you please provide a video with all important numbers and the textual representation of these numbers, let’s say from 0 to 20, since I don’t know how to count in spanish yet and I even didn’t understand the word for “8”.

#29 sent by Daniel 1287 days ago

Hey, really like this new channel (I use Miro). I have been needing to learn Spanish for some time, what about adding English subtitles to the screen as well. maybe line by line under the Spanish ones? I think that would be helpful. thanks and keep it coming!

#30 sent by cliff 1287 days ago

This conversation does mix in different speeds in delivery. This is really good.

Is there a episode in the making of like a patient interview? Patient history will be interesting because it is very revealing and storytelling. Talking about one’s own experience and stories is a missing aspect in learning spanish. In a context of a doctor’s visit, it would be perfect to make up such a conversation.

#31 sent by Stephen 1287 days ago