Spanish–English parallel text
Treinta días sin dinero
Thirty Days, No Money
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A bilingual Spanish–English edition: the Spanish text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
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La apuesta
The bet
Jonas vive en Berlín. Tiene veintinueve años. Trabaja en una tienda de teléfonos.
Jonas lives in Berlin. He is twenty-nine. He works in a phone shop.
A Jonas le gusta el dinero. Pero al dinero no le gusta Jonas. Se va muy rápido.
Jonas likes money. But money does not like Jonas. It goes away very fast.
Todas las mañanas compra un café por cuatro euros. Todos los días, a la hora de comer, compra una hamburguesa. Todas las noches compra una pizza con el móvil.
Every morning, he buys a coffee for four euros. Every day at lunch, he buys a burger. Every evening, he buys a pizza on his phone.
Y por la noche compra cosas en internet. Calcetines con gatos. Una lámpara con forma de plátano.
And at night, he buys things on the internet. Socks with cats on them. A lamp in the shape of a banana.
Mia es su compañera de piso. Tiene la habitación de al lado. La cocina y el baño son para los dos.
Mia is his flatmate. She has the room next to his. The kitchen and the bathroom are for both of them.
El lunes por la mañana hay una caja grande en la puerta. Mia la mira.
On Monday morning, there is a big box at the door. Mia looks at it.
«¡Jonas! ¿Qué es esto?».
“Jonas! What is this?”
«Una lámpara», dice Jonas. «Es un plátano».
“A lamp,” says Jonas. “It is a banana.”
«¿Una lámpara de plátano?».
“A banana lamp?”
«Es muy bonita. Es amarilla».
“It is very nice. It is yellow.”
Mia abre la nevera. No hay nada dentro. Solo un limón muy viejo.
Mia opens the fridge. There is nothing in it. Only a very old lemon.
«Jonas, ¿dónde está tu dinero? Es el día cinco del mes. Y la nevera está vacía».
“Jonas, where is your money? It is the fifth of the month. And the fridge is empty.”
«Mi dinero está en mi café. Y en mi pizza. Y en mi plátano».
“My money is in my coffee. And in my pizza. And in my banana.”
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