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Operadora de emergencias

Night shift at the emergency call centre: a dispatcher answers a frightened girl hiding under her bed. Practise formal phone Spanish — ¿cuál es su emergencia?, intente calmarse, no cuelgue, le paso ahora, dime qué pasó — with audio and word-by-word help.

A page from Operadora de emergencias — an original Comigo comic, voiced line by line.

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A comic page in warm night tones: in a busy emergency call centre two uniformed dispatchers in headsets take calls; below, a young dispatcher answers while a frightened girl with a toy rabbit hides under her bed, whispering into her phone.
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Transcript and translation

  1. Nueve uno uno, ¿cuál es su emergencia?nine one one, what's your emergency?
  2. Señora, intente calmarse primero...Madam, try and calm down first...
  3. No cuelgue. Le paso ahora.Stay on the line. Putting you through now.
  4. Nueve uno uno, ¿cuál es su emergencia?nine one one, what's your emergency?
  5. Estoy... tengo miedo...I'm... I'm scared...
  6. Está bien. Dime qué pasó...OK. Tell me what happened...

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