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Mini Stories to Learn Spanish Podcast Transcript & Translation
Episodio 2: El piano viejo
El piano viejo
Adriana tiene 12 años. Ella es una buena niña. Ella
es una niña alegre, simpática y muy amable con
todas las personas. Su familia la quiere mucho. A
ella le encanta tocar el piano. Adriana toca el piano
muy bien. Ella tiene un piano en su casa y le gusta
tocar el piano todos los días. Es un piano viejo que
su abuelo compró hace muchos años. El piano está
viejo y desgastado y no suena bien, pero a Adriana
no le importa que el piano esté viejo y desgastado.
Ella lo toca todos los días cuando regresa de la
escuela.
Un día, Adriana llega a la casa después de salir de
la escuela y cuando abre la puerta, no ve el piano.
El piano ya no está. Ella busca el piano, pero no
está en ninguna parte de la casa. Adriana se pone
triste. No hay nadie en la casa y el piano
desapareció. De repente, alguien toca la puerta.
Adriana va hacia la puerta y la abre. Son sus papás
y detrás de ellos, hay una caja muy grande. Los
papás de Adriana le dicen que abra la caja y
Adriana ve que es un piano nuevo. Adriana se pone
muy contenta. Está muy feliz de tener un piano
nuevo. Sus papás meten el piano en la casa y lo
colocan en la sala. Adriana lo toca por primera vez
y el piano suena maravilloso. Ella piensa, “voy a ser
la mejor pianista del mundo”.
The Old Piano
Adriana is 12 years old. She is a good girl. She is a
happy girl, friendly and very kind to all people. Her
family loves her very much. She loves to play the
piano. Adriana plays the piano very well. She has a
piano at her house, and she likes to play the piano
every day. It is an old piano that her grandfather
bought many years ago. The piano is old and worn
down, and it doesn't sound good, but Adriana
doesn't care that the piano is old and worn down.
She plays it every day when she comes back from
school.
One day, Adriana gets home after getting out
school, and when she opens the door, she doesn't
see the piano. The piano is not there anymore.
She looks for the piano, but it isn’t anywhere in
the house. Adriana is sad. There is nobody in the
house and the piano disappeared. Suddenly,
someone knocks on the door. Adriana goes to the
door and opens it. It is her parents, and behind
them, there is a very large box. Adriana's parents
tell her to open the box and Adriana sees that it is
a new piano. Adriana is very happy. She is very
happy to have a new piano. Her parents bring the
piano into the house and place it in the living
room. Adriana plays it for the first time and the
piano sounds wonderful. She thinks, "I'm going to
be the best pianist in the world."
About the Translation
I decided to translate the stories focusing more on meaning than strict
literal translations to offer you a better read in English and a more accurate
approximation to the meaning. In some instances, I have translated the
sentences with the rendition that best approximates both meaning and
sentence structure. Some of these translations into English may sound less
natural to a native speaker, but if the translation is still good while it also
provides you a good feel as how we express something in Spanish, then I
preferred to stay with those translations.
