Spanish–English parallel text
El turno de noche
The Night Shift
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A bilingual Spanish–English edition: the Spanish text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
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Seis minutos
Six minutes
Rosa vive en Manila. Tiene treinta y un años. Trabaja de noche.
Rosa lives in Manila. She is thirty-one. She works at night.
Su oficina es un centro de llamadas en la décima planta. Hay cien mesas y cien teléfonos.
Her office is a call centre on the tenth floor. There are a hundred desks and a hundred phones.
El centro de llamadas trabaja para una empresa de internet en Canadá. La gente en Canadá tiene problemas con su internet. Llama, y Rosa responde.
The call centre works for an internet company in Canada. People in Canada have problems with their internet. They call, and Rosa answers.
En Manila, es de noche. En Canadá, es de día. Rosa trabaja de diez de la noche a seis de la mañana.
In Manila, it is night. In Canada, it is day. Rosa works from ten in the evening to six in the morning.
Rosa tiene un guion en su pantalla. El guion tiene las palabras para cada llamada.
Rosa has a script on her screen. The script has the words for every call.
«Hola, mi nombre es Rosa. ¿Cómo puedo ayudarle?» Esa es la primera frase del guion.
“Hello, my name is Rosa. How can I help you?” That is the first line of the script.
En la pantalla, también hay un reloj. El reloj cuenta los minutos de cada llamada.
On the screen, there is also a clock. The clock counts the minutes of every call.
«Seis minutos», dice su jefe de equipo. «Una llamada es de seis minutos. No siete. No ocho. Seis.»
“Six minutes,” says her team leader. “A call is six minutes. Not seven. Not eight. Six.”
Su jefe de equipo es un hombre joven con una camisa blanca. Camina entre las mesas toda la noche. Mira cada reloj.
Her team leader is a young man in a white shirt. He walks between the desks all night. He looks at every clock.
«Sí, lo sé», dice Rosa. «Seis minutos.»
“Yes, I know,” says Rosa. “Six minutes.”
«Bien. La empresa en Canadá paga por seis minutos. No paga por conversaciones largas.»
“Good. The company in Canada pays for six minutes. It does not pay for long talks.”
La noche es larga. Rosa responde cuarenta llamadas. Una mujer en Toronto no tiene internet.
The night is long. Rosa answers forty calls. A woman in Toronto has no internet.
Rosa lee el guion, y ayuda. Cinco minutos, cuatro minutos, seis minutos. El reloj está contento.
Rosa reads the script, and she helps. Five minutes, four minutes, six minutes. The clock is happy.
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