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¡Estamos de vacaciones en Málaga! We're on vacation in Málaga!

Comic · 6 panels

Panel 1 of 6 for “We're on vacation in Málaga!”: Hi Lucía, We're on vacation in Málaga! It's a very nice trip.

  1. Hola, Lucía:

    Hi Lucía,

  2. ¡Estamos de vacaciones en Málaga! Es un viaje muy bonito.

    We're on vacation in Málaga! It's a very nice trip.

Panel 2 of 6 for “We're on vacation in Málaga!”: We've been here since Saturday. Traveling by plane is fast, but Pablo's suitcase doesn't arrive. Pablo goes to the airport by taxi every day and comes back without the…

  1. Estamos aquí desde el sábado. Viajar en avión es rápido, pero la maleta de Pablo no llega.

    We've been here since Saturday. Traveling by plane is fast, but Pablo's suitcase doesn't arrive.

  2. Pablo va cada día al aeropuerto en taxi y vuelve sin maleta, ¡con pasaporte y nada más!

    Pablo goes to the airport by taxi every day and comes back without the suitcase, with his passport and nothing else!

Panel 3 of 6 for “We're on vacation in Málaga!”: The hotel is near the sea, and the beach is very beautiful. Here we don't drive the car: we go on foot or by bike.

  1. El hotel está cerca del mar y la playa es muy bonita.

    The hotel is near the sea, and the beach is very beautiful.

  2. Aquí no conducimos el coche: vamos a pie o en bicicleta.

    Here we don't drive the car: we go on foot or by bike.

Panel 4 of 6 for “We're on vacation in Málaga!”: There are a lot of foreign tourists here. Admission to the museum costs fifteen euros. The subway is fast, but on foot it's nicer.

  1. Aquí hay muchos turistas extranjeros. La entrada al museo cuesta quince euros.

    There are a lot of foreign tourists here. Admission to the museum costs fifteen euros.

  2. El metro es rápido, pero a pie es más bonito.

    The subway is fast, but on foot it's nicer.

Panel 5 of 6 for “We're on vacation in Málaga!”: Tomorrow we're going to go up the mountain, and at night we're going to go down to the beach. Do you want to visit Málaga with us? There's a bed for you.

  1. Mañana vamos a subir a la montaña y por la noche vamos a bajar a la playa.

    Tomorrow we're going to go up the mountain, and at night we're going to go down to the beach.

  2. ¿Quieres visitar Málaga con nosotros? Hay una cama para ti.

    Do you want to visit Málaga with us? There's a bed for you.

Panel 6 of 6 for “We're on vacation in Málaga!”: See you later, Lucía.

  1. Hasta luego, Lucía.

    See you later, Lucía.

Grammar for this text

Desde el sábado: since Saturday and still now. Estamos aquí desde el sábado means "we've been here since Saturday". Spanish uses the present tense here because we're still here; English uses the present perfect. The same goes for la maleta de Pablo no llega (Pablo's suitcase still hasn't arrived): it still isn't here, so Spanish uses the present.

Viajar en avión es rápido. An infinitive can be the subject of a sentence: "traveling by plane is fast". English often uses the -ing form here.

Estamos de vacaciones. "We're on vacation": estar de vacaciones is a set phrase, with no article.

Near future: ir a + infinitive. Mañana vamos a subir a la montaña means "tomorrow we're going to go up the mountain". The first a is part of the pattern (vamos a subir), the second a means "to" (subir a la montaña). The same goes for vamos a bajar a la playa (we're going to go down to the beach).

How we get around. Transport takes en (English "by"): en avión, en taxi, en bicicleta. On foot is a special phrase, a pie: vamos a pie o en bicicleta. Here vamos just means "we go": there's no a + verb after it.

Vuelve sin maleta. Vuelve comes from volver (to come back): the o in the stem changes to ue. In ¡con pasaporte y nada más! (with his passport and nothing else!), nada más means "nothing else".

Para ti. Hay una cama para ti means "there's a bed for you": after a preposition, tú becomes ti.

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

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