Spanish Video - AirBnB Guy Flashcards

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I came back here to study journalism, at my tender age / 18 years old.

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Y me vine aquí a estudiar periodismo, PUES con mis tiernos 18 años.

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And yeah, one thing took me to another.

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Y BUENO, PUES una cosa me llevó a la otra

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At the end they proposed that I quit the assiciation… I did ummm I think a lot, at least I tried.

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Al final me propusieron que yo dejar la asociación.. Bueno, hice creo que mucho, o por lo menos lo intenté.

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And yeah, I chose that path. And so, I’d been enjoying lots of things, I think like, for almost 15 years, some not much than the others…

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Y BUENO, PUES opté por ese camino. Y BUENO, PUES estuve CREO QUE casi 15 años, disfrutando de muchas cosas, no tanto de otras,

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I think what changed my life ( = what made my life change) was the tiredness.

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Lo que hizo cambiar mi vida fue el cansancio.

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And I said, well, I think that’s it, we’ve come this far.

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Y dije, BUENO, yo creo que ya, hasta aquí hemos llegado.

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Well, my daily routine is very different. Before, it was… well, I would wake up with my cellphone, and now I wake up kind of relaxed.

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PUES mi día a día es muy diferente. Antes era… BUENO, me despertaba con el móvil, y ahora me despierto más o menos relajado

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I check if there’s reservations coming in and if you need to answer messages or e-mails… OK, so you can find yourself you have nothing to do one day…

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si han entrado reservas nuevas, si hay que contestar mensajes o e-mails… BUENO, te puedes encontrar que un día no tienes nada,

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… another day you need to work 3 hours, another day you relax. So, it’s OK. It’s level of life that I think you can take.

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otro día tienes que trabajar 3 horas, otra día descansas, BUENO, está bien. Es un nivel de vida YO CREO QUE aceptable.

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I got back something really good that I lost, that I used to have in the past. Because every week I would go to the movies. I lost that. Now I got it back again.

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He recuperado algo buenísimo, QUE perdí, QUE tenía en el pasado, ES QUE todas las semanas iba al cine. ESO LO perdí, ahora lo he vuelto a recuperar.

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So, I mean, I am happy. The truth is that, OK, I missed out going to the theatre, doing theatre…

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ENTONCES BUENO, estoy contento. LA VERDAD ES QUE, BUENO, que lo había dejado, el ir al teatro, el hacer teatro.

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I have, like, enjoyed my friends’ company again and taken some wines in and around Bilbao, I mean like such simple things like that…

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He vuelto, BUENO, a disfrutar DE los amigos, DE tomar unos vinos por Bilbao… BUENO, de cosas tan simples como eso

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…like some wines that before, you know, I had forgotten, right? That’s why I am happy. The truth is, I am.

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como unos vinos que antes PUES ya lo había olvidado, ¿no? POR ESO estoy contento. La verdad es que sí.

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And besides, I think if I need to tell a lot of people about this: that when you live (so)
stressed out, you don’t realize the things that you miss out.

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Y ADEMÁS CREO QUE se lo tengo que decir a mucha gente: QUE cuando vives estresado, no te das cuentas de todas las cosas que te pierdes

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… until you get out of that crazy stress circle (= cycle) that takes you running from one place to another.

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hasta que sales de ese círculo loco de estrés que te lleva corriendo de un sitio a otro.

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So, life has to be the other way around: you need to enjoy all the good stuff and try to keep the worst to the minimum.

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Y la vida tiene que ser al revés: hay que disfrutar todo lo bueno e intentar que lo peor sea lo mínimo

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Every time we walked past that taco restaurant, we saw so many people in there and also in the line. I mean like they’re all Mexicans

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Cada vez que pasábamos por ese restaurante de tacos, veíamos mucha gente allí y también en la fila. Quiero decir como si fueran todos mexicanos.