Fluent Fiction - Spanish

Silly Mistake, Beautiful Afternoon: Juan's Flamenco Adventure


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Fluent Fiction - Spanish: Silly Mistake, Beautiful Afternoon: Juan's Flamenco Adventure
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Story Transcript:

Es: Juan caminaba por una calle concurrida de Madrid, sintiendo mariposas en su estómago.
En: Juan was walking down a busy street in Madrid, feeling butterflies in his stomach.

Es: Había quedado para encontrarse con María, la chica que le gustaba desde el primer día que la había visto.
En: He had arranged to meet Maria, the girl he had liked since the first day he had seen her.

Es: Finalmente la vio a lo lejos, bailando flamenco con los ojos cerrados.
En: Finally he saw her in the distance, dancing flamenco with her eyes closed.

Es: Juan decidió que era el momento perfecto para impresionarla.
En: Juan decided that it was the perfect moment to impress her.

Es: Sin pensarlo dos veces, Juan comenzó a bailar flamenco con todo su corazón, pero accidentalmente golpeó la guitarra de un artista callejero.
En: Without thinking twice, Juan began to dance flamenco with all his heart, but accidentally hit a street performer's guitar.

Es: En un momento, todos los ojos estaban puestos en él.
En: At one point, all eyes were on him.

Es: María se echó a reír mientras Juan intentaba disculparse y enmendar el error que había cometido, pero era demasiado tarde.
En: Maria laughed as Juan tried to apologize and make amends for the mistake he had made, but it was too late.

Es: La guitarra estaba rota.
En: The guitar was broken.

Es: Juan se disculpó una y otra vez mientras el artista callejero comenzaba a recoger las piezas rotas de la guitarra.
En: Juan apologized over and over as the street performer began picking up the broken pieces of the guitar.

Es: María, por otro lado, no podía dejar de reír.
En: Maria, on the other hand, couldn't stop laughing.

Es: Juan estaba en completo pánico, no sabía qué hacer para solucionar la situación.
En: Juan was in a complete panic, he did not know what to do to solve the situation.

Es: Entonces, Juan tuvo una idea.
En: So John had an idea.

Es: Había un taller de reparación de guitarras al final de la calle.
En: There was a guitar repair shop down the street.

Es: Corrió hacia allí con la guitarra rota en sus brazos.
En: He ran over there with the broken guitar in his arms.

Es: A pesar de que estaba sin aliento, logró hablar con el dueño del taller y explicarle lo sucedido.
En: Despite the fact that he was out of breath, he managed to talk to the owner of the workshop and explain what had happened.

Es: El dueño de la tienda, siendo todo un experto en la reparación de guitarras, se puso rápidamente a trabajar en la guitarra.
En: The shop owner, being quite an expert in guitar repair, quickly got to work on the guitar.

Es: Mientras tanto, Juan esperó ansioso en la tienda, preguntándose cómo podía arreglar las cosas con María después de lo ocurrido.
En: Meanwhile, Juan waited anxiously in the store, wondering how he could make things right with Maria after what had happened.

Es: Finalmente, el dueño del taller de reparación entregó la guitarra a Juan, quien corrió de vuelta hacia María.
En: Finally, the owner of the repair shop gave the guitar to Juan, who ran back to María.

Es: Afortunadamente, la chica aún estaba allí, esperándolo pacientemente.
En: Fortunately, the girl was still there, patiently waiting for him.

Es: Juan le entregó la guitarra reparada, feliz de haber podido arreglar su error.
En: Juan handed him the repaired guitar, happy to have been able to fix his mistake.

Es: María estaba impresionada con la rapidez y solución ingeniosa de Juan.
En: Maria was impressed with Juan's quickness and ingenious solution.

Es: Todo volvió a la normalidad y María le pidió a Juan que bailara flamenco de nuevo.
En: Everything went back to normal and María asked Juan to dance flamenco again.

Es: Esta vez, Juan cuidó cada uno de sus movimientos y logró impresionar a María.
En: This time, Juan took care of each of his movements and managed to impress María.

Es: Finalmente, despidiéndose por hoy, los chicos se dieron un cálido abrazo.
En: Finally, saying goodbye for today, the boys gave each other a warm hug.

Es: Juan estaba agradecido de que todo hubiera acabado bien y no pudo evitar sentirse orgulloso de sí mismo.
En: Juan was grateful that everything had ended well and he couldn't help but feel proud of himself.

Es: Quién diría que un error tan tonto podía conducir a una tarde tan bonita.
En: Who knew that such a silly mistake could lead to such a beautiful afternoon.


Vocabulary Words:
  • Juan: Juan
  • Maria: María
  • Madrid: Madrid
  • butterflies: mariposas
  • meet: encontrarse
  • liked: gustaba
  • seen: había visto
  • dancing: bailando
  • flamenco: flamenco
  • impress: impresionar
  • accidentally: accidentalmente
  • hit: golpeó
  • guitar: guitarra
  • street performer: artista callejero
  • apologize: disculparse
  • make amends: enmendar
  • mistake: error
  • laughed: se echó a reir
  • panic: pánico
  • solve: solucionar
  • repair shop: taller de reparación
  • breath: aliento
  • owner: dueño
  • workshop: taller
  • waited anxiously: esperó ansioso
  • ingenious solution: solución ingeniosa
  • impressed: impresionado/a
  • normal: normalidad
  • warm hug: cálido abrazo
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