Spanish–English parallel text
Bolas de arroz para Ken
Rice Balls for Ken
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A bilingual Spanish–English edition: the Spanish text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
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Yuki tiene siete años. Vive con mamá, papá y la abuela en Osaka. Osaka es una ciudad grande de Japón.
Yuki is seven years old. She lives with Mum, Dad and Grandma in Osaka. Osaka is a big city in Japan.
Mañana la clase de Yuki hace una excursión al parque. Todos los niños llevan comida. Mamá siempre hace la comida para Yuki. Pero mañana Yuki quiere hacer su comida sola.
Tomorrow Yuki’s class goes on a trip to the park. All the children bring some food. Mum always makes the food for Yuki. But tomorrow Yuki wants to make her food herself.
«Hago bolas de arroz», dice Yuki. Mamá se ríe. «Bien. Te ayudo.» «¡No!», grita Yuki. «¡Hago todo sola!»
“I’m making rice balls,” says Yuki. Mum laughs. “Good. I’ll help you.” “No!” shouts Yuki. “I do everything by myself!”
Yuki cocina el arroz. Está caliente y blando. Coge el arroz con las manos. ¡Ay! Está demasiado caliente. Espera. Luego lo aprieta en una bola.
Yuki cooks the rice. It is hot and soft. She takes the rice in her hands. Ouch! It is too hot. She waits. Then she presses it into a ball.
La bola se rompe. El arroz se pega a las manos, a la mesa y a la nariz. Yuki hace otra bola. También se rompe. Y otra. ¡Se rompe!
The ball falls apart. The rice sticks to her hands, to the table and to her nose. Yuki makes another ball. It falls apart, too. And another one. Apart!
Yuki está triste. «No puedo hacer esto», dice. Mamá no dice nada. Solo sonríe y sale de la cocina.
Yuki is sad. “I can’t do this,” she says. Mum says nothing. She only smiles and goes out of the kitchen.
La abuela entra en la cocina. Ve el arroz por todas partes. «Mmm», dice. Yuki mira a la abuela. «Abuela, por favor, enséñame el truco. Pero lo hago yo sola.» La abuela se ríe. «Está bien.»
Grandma comes into the kitchen. She sees rice everywhere. “Hmm,” she says. Yuki looks at Grandma. “Grandma, please show me the trick. But I do it myself.” Grandma laughs. “That is good.”
«Manos mojadas», dice la abuela. «Un poco de sal. Y no aprietes muy fuerte. ¡Suave! El arroz es como un bebé.» Yuki se moja las manos. Coge un poco de sal. Aprieta suave.
“Wet hands,” says Grandma. “A little salt. And don’t press too hard. Softly! The rice is like a baby.” Yuki wets her hands. She takes a little salt. She presses softly.
¡La bola aguanta! Yuki hace tres bolas de arroz. En cada bola hay un trozo de pescado. Las bolas no son bonitas. Una es cuadrada, una es plana, una está un poco torcida. Pero aguantan.
The ball holds! Yuki makes three rice balls. In every ball there is a piece of fish. The balls are not pretty. One is square, one is flat, one is a little bent. But they hold.
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