Value of Money — Spanish Phrases Conversation
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| Tatiana | Me acuerdo que estábamos tan hambrientas porque… | I remember that we were so starving because… |
| yo tenía tanta hambre que… | I was so hungry that… | |
| en el avión la comida no estaba tan bien, | on the plane the food wasn´t so good, | |
| y yo estaba un poco enferma. | and I was a little sick. | |
| Entonces de verdad que estábamos bien, bien... | So honestly we were really, really… | |
| con mucha hambre. | hungry. | |
| Entonces lo primero que compré, | So the first thing that I bought, | |
| fui a comprar algo y me compré un chicle. | I went to buy something and I bought some gum. | |
| ¿Cuánto nos costó allí el chicle? | How much did the gum cost us? | |
| Antonina | ¡Dos dólares! | Two dollars! |
| Tatiana | ¡Dos dólares! | Two dollars! |
| En mi país dos dólares significan dieciséis bolivianos. | In my country two dollars mean sixteen bolivians. | |
| Con dieciséis bolivianos, | With sixteen bolivians, | |
| te puedes comprar dieciséis chicles. | you can buy sixteen (packs of) gum. | |
| ¡Y es la misma cajeta de chicle! | And it´s the same pack of gum! | |
| Tatiana | Entonces podemos hablar un poquito ahorita | So we can talk a little bit right now |
| de la economía de Bolivia. | a little about the economy of Bolivia. | |
| Antonina | Exacto. Eso fue un poco frustrante para nosotras, | Exactly. That was a little frustrating for us, |
| ¿te acuerdas? | do you remember? | |
| No queríamos comprar nada. | We didn´t want to buy anything. | |
| Tatiana | Lo primero que hacíamos era comparar un dólar, | The first thing that we did was compare one dollar, |
| un dólar son ocho bolivianos, | one dollar is eight bolivians, | |
| entonces siempre comparábamos todo lo que nos comprábamos. | so we always compared everything that we bought. | |
| Antonina | Exacto. Ah, para explicarles un poco, | Exactly. Uh, to explain a little, |
| Bolivia es un país tercermundista. | Bolivia is a third world country. | |
| O sea que es un país muy pobre. | In other words it is a very poor country. | |
| Y…pero de todos modos, | And…but anyway, | |
| tiene mucha riqueza mineral, | it has a lot of mineral wealth, | |
| mucha riqueza vegetal. | a lot of vegetable wealth. | |
| Pero el salario mínimo que uno puede ganar allí | But the minimum salary that one can earn there | |
| son de cincuenta dólares, o sea, | is fifty dollars, I mean, | |
| son cuatrocientos bolivianos. | it´s four-hundred bolivians. | |
| Y con eso las personas pueden vivir, | And with that people can live, | |
| bueno, sobrevivir por un mes. | well, survive for a month. | |
| Antonina | Y nosotros venimos de una clase… | And we come from a class… |
| de una familia que tiene recursos, | from a family that has resources, | |
| pero aquí en Estados Unidos es muy diferente. | but here in the United States it´s very different. | |
| Entonces al principio no sabíamos hacer compras, | So at first we didn´t know how to shop, | |
| no sabíamos, ah, buscar lo más barato. | we didn´t know how to, uh, look for the cheapest things. | |
| Tatiana | No sabíamos si comprar las… | We didn´t know if (we should) buy the... |
| la comida de caja, | the boxed food, | |
| aunque nosotros siempre hemos sido criadas con… | even though we have always been raised with | |
| con una mamá que nos ha enseñado a cocinar. | with a mom that has taught us to cook. | |
| Entonces eso ha sido una bendición para nosotros. | So that has been a blesssing for us. | |
| Entonces lo mejor ha sido | So the best thing has been | |
| que hemos podido saber cocinar, | that we´ve been able to cook, | |
| y eso nos ha ayudado a nosotras | and that has helped us | |
| de poder ahorrar tanto en la comida | by being able to save so much on the food | |
| y saber que es lo más-- | and to know what is the most-- | |
| que es lo mejor para nosotras. | what is the best thing for us. | |
| Pero al principio fue muy difícil. | But at first it was very difficult. |
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