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Spanish dialogue with translation · B1 · 14 lines

¿Deshacer o rehacer? Undo or redo?

Comic · 14 panels

Panel 1 of 14 for “Undo or redo?”: “Sonia, can you reread this email, please? It's for a client and I don't want to mess up again.”
  1. Ana

    Sonia, ¿puedes releer este correo, porfa? Es para un cliente y no quiero liarla otra vez.

    Sonia, can you reread this email, please? It's for a client and I don't want to mess up again.

Panel 2 of 14 for “Undo or redo?”: “Let's see… "We've got a ton of ideas for your company." Ana, this is too colloquial.”
  1. Sonia

    A ver… «Tenemos mogollón de ideas para su empresa». Ana, esto es demasiado coloquial.

    Let's see… "We've got a ton of ideas for your company." Ana, this is too colloquial.

Panel 3 of 14 for “Undo or redo?”: “Geez! Hugo says it so much that it already seems normal to me. What should I do?”
  1. Ana

    ¡Ostras! Hugo lo dice tanto que ya me parece normal. ¿Qué hago?

    Geez! Hugo says it so much that it already seems normal to me. What should I do?

Panel 4 of 14 for “Undo or redo?”: “It's OK, but that sentence needs to be redone. And "Hi, guys" needs to be changed too, because it's a new client.”
  1. Sonia

    No pasa nada, pero hay que rehacer esa frase. Y cambiar también «Hola, chicos», porque es un cliente nuevo.

    It's OK, but that sentence needs to be redone. And "Hi, guys" needs to be changed too, because it's a new client.

Panel 5 of 14 for “Undo or redo?”: “I wrote it without thinking. Wait, I'll change it… Oh no, I've deleted the whole email!”
  1. Ana

    Lo he puesto sin pensar. Espera, lo cambio… ¡Ay, he quitado todo el correo!

    I wrote it without thinking. Wait, I'll change it… Oh no, I've deleted the whole email!

Panel 6 of 14 for “Undo or redo?”: “Relax: click "Undo", the button at the top. See? It's back again (to a woman).”
  1. Sonia

    Tranquila: dale a «Deshacer», el botón de arriba. ¿Ves? Ya está otra vez.

    Relax: click "Undo", the button at the top. See? It's back again (to a woman).

Panel 7 of 14 for “Undo or redo?”: “What a scare! And here, at the end: "See you later, hugs"… Not that either?”
  1. Ana

    ¡Qué susto! Y aquí, al final: «Hasta luego, un abrazo»… ¿Tampoco?

    What a scare! And here, at the end: "See you later, hugs"… Not that either?

Panel 8 of 14 for “Undo or redo?”: “Not that either. "Regards" is better. And here you write that you're wiped out: take it out, because the client doesn't care (to a woman).”
  1. Sonia

    Tampoco. Mejor «Un saludo». Y aquí pones que estás hecha polvo: quítalo, que al cliente no le importa.

    Not that either. "Regards" is better. And here you write that you're wiped out: take it out, because the client doesn't care (to a woman).

Panel 9 of 14 for “Undo or redo?”: “The thing is, that's my difficulty: in Spanish I don't know when I'm being formal and when I'm being too serious (woman speaking).”
  1. Ana

    Es que esa es mi dificultad: en español no sé cuándo soy formal y cuándo soy demasiado seria.

    The thing is, that's my difficulty: in Spanish I don't know when I'm being formal and when I'm being too serious (woman speaking).

Panel 10 of 14 for “Undo or redo?”: “You learn that. I always read the email out loud: if it sounds weird, I change it.”
  1. Sonia

    Eso se aprende. Yo siempre leo el correo en voz alta: si suena raro, lo cambio.

    You learn that. I always read the email out loud: if it sounds weird, I change it.

Panel 11 of 14 for “Undo or redo?”: “Out loud? With my pronunciation… OK, I'll try.”
  1. Ana

    ¿En voz alta? Con mi pronunciación… Bueno, lo intento.

    Out loud? With my pronunciation… OK, I'll try.

Panel 12 of 14 for “Undo or redo?”: “Come on. And change the "mogollón", because it's still there.”
  1. Sonia

    Venga. Y cambia el «mogollón», que todavía está ahí.

    Come on. And change the "mogollón", because it's still there.

Panel 13 of 14 for “Undo or redo?”: “OK, I've redone the sentence: "We have a large number of ideas for your company." Better?”
  1. Ana

    Vale, ya he rehecho la frase: «Tenemos una gran cantidad de ideas para su empresa». ¿Mejor?

    OK, I've redone the sentence: "We have a large number of ideas for your company." Better?

Panel 14 of 14 for “Undo or redo?”: “Much better: formal, but pleasant. And we'll save the "mogollón" for Thursday's beers.”
  1. Sonia

    Mucho mejor: formal, pero agradable. Y el «mogollón» lo dejamos para las birras del jueves.

    Much better: formal, but pleasant. And we'll save the "mogollón" for Thursday's beers.

Grammar for this text

Releer, rehacer, deshacer. The prefix re- means "again": ¿puedes releer este correo…? — "can you reread this email…?", hay que rehacer esa frase — "that sentence needs to be redone". Des- means "back, the opposite": the Deshacer button in apps is "Undo". There's more in the unit grammar.

He rehecho. Ya he rehecho la frase — the past participle is like the one of hacer (hecho): rehacer is built on it.

Dale a… Dale a "Deshacer" — "click Undo": the tú command of dar with le. This is how people talk about buttons.

Que meaning "because". …quítalo, que al cliente no le importa and …el "mogollón", que todavía está ahí: in conversation, que often explains why you're asking for something.

Ending an email. Un saludo is the usual way to end a business email; un abrazo is for friends.

Colloquial words. ¡Ostras! — "geez!"; liarla — "to mess up"; estás hecha polvo — "you're totally wiped out"; porfa — short for por favor. You don't write like this to a client.

Words and grammar of the unit: Understand street Spanish.

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