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Spanish dialogue with translation · A1 · 12 lines

Dos billetes para Valencia, por favor Two tickets to Valencia, please

Comic · 11 panels

Panel 1 of 11 for “Two tickets to Valencia, please”: “Good morning. Two tickets to Valencia, please.” “Round-trip?”
  1. Pablo

    Buenos días. Dos billetes para Valencia, por favor.

    Good morning. Two tickets to Valencia, please.

  2. Empleada

    ¿De ida y vuelta?

    Round-trip?

Panel 2 of 11 for “Two tickets to Valencia, please”: “Yes, round-trip. We're going to travel tomorrow.”
  1. Pablo

    Sí, de ida y vuelta. Vamos a viajar mañana.

    Yes, round-trip. We're going to travel tomorrow.

Panel 3 of 11 for “Two tickets to Valencia, please”: “The nine o'clock train arrives at eleven thirty. It's very fast, but the bus is cheaper.”
  1. Empleada

    El tren de las nueve llega a las once y media. Es muy rápido, pero el autobús es más barato.

    The nine o'clock train arrives at eleven thirty. It's very fast, but the bus is cheaper.

Panel 4 of 11 for “Two tickets to Valencia, please”: “And why is the bus cheaper?”
  1. Ana

    ¿Y por qué el autobús es más barato?

    And why is the bus cheaper?

Panel 5 of 11 for “Two tickets to Valencia, please”: “Because it's slow and makes a lot of stops.”
  1. Empleada

    Porque es lento y hace muchas paradas.

    Because it's slow and makes a lot of stops.

Panel 6 of 11 for “Two tickets to Valencia, please”: “We're in a hurry. We want to book the tickets for the nine o'clock train.”
  1. Pablo

    Nosotros tenemos prisa. Queremos reservar los billetes para el tren de las nueve.

    We're in a hurry. We want to book the tickets for the nine o'clock train.

Panel 7 of 11 for “Two tickets to Valencia, please”: “Very good. That's forty euros. By card or in cash?”
  1. Empleada

    Muy bien. Son cuarenta euros. ¿Con tarjeta o en efectivo?

    Very good. That's forty euros. By card or in cash?

Panel 8 of 11 for “Two tickets to Valencia, please”: “By card. What time do we have to be at the station?”
  1. Ana

    Con tarjeta. ¿A qué hora tenemos que estar en la estación?

    By card. What time do we have to be at the station?

Panel 9 of 11 for “Two tickets to Valencia, please”: “Twenty minutes before departure. Here are your tickets. Have a good trip! (formal)”
  1. Empleada

    Veinte minutos antes de la salida. Aquí tiene los billetes. ¡Buen viaje!

    Twenty minutes before departure. Here are your tickets. Have a good trip! (formal)

Panel 10 of 11 for “Two tickets to Valencia, please”: “Thanks. Ana doesn't like waiting.”
  1. Pablo

    Gracias. A Ana no le gusta esperar.

    Thanks. Ana doesn't like waiting.

Panel 11 of 11 for “Two tickets to Valencia, please”: “And neither do you, Pablo!”
  1. Ana

    ¡Y a ti tampoco, Pablo!

    And neither do you, Pablo!

Grammar for this text

Near future: ir a + infinitive. Vamos a viajar mañana means "we're going to travel tomorrow": vamos (the nosotros form of ir) + a + the infinitive. Use it for what you're going to do, just like English "be going to".

Tickets: para, de ida y vuelta. Dos billetes para Valencia means "two tickets to Valencia": para shows where the ticket takes you. De ida y vuelta means "round-trip", literally "of going and coming back".

El tren de las nueve. "The nine o'clock train": the departure time is joined to the train with de. When it arrives, use a: llega a las once y media (it arrives at eleven thirty).

Why? Because. The question is two words with an accent: ¿Por qué…? The answer is one word with no accent: porque. ¿Y por qué el autobús es más barato? (And why is the bus cheaper?) Porque es lento y hace muchas paradas. (Because it's slow and makes a lot of stops.) Más barato means "cheaper".

Tener prisa, tener que. Tener can describe a state: nosotros tenemos prisa is literally "we have hurry", that is, "we're in a hurry". Tener que + infinitive means "to have to": ¿A qué hora tenemos que estar en la estación? (What time do we have to be at the station?)

Antes de la salida. Veinte minutos antes de la salida means "twenty minutes before departure": antes de is "before", and the word order is the same as in English.

Gustar with a. In A Ana no le gusta esperar (Ana doesn't like waiting), the thing liked is an action (esperar), and the person comes with a and the pronoun le. ¡Y a ti tampoco, Pablo! means "and neither do you, Pablo!", literally "and to you not either".

Words and grammar of the unit: Buy a train ticket.

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