Today's story: Hollywood sets a record for summer box office in the United States. You will hear it in Spanish first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in Spanish: Hollywood bate un récord de taquilla de verano en Estados Unidos
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:33) Three more stories today
(01:42) Today's headline, slowly
(02:33) Reaching
(03:21) There was
(04:08) Past states
(05:05) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
https://linguawire.com/class/spanish/a1/2026-09-10
TODAY'S SPANISH TEXT
Hollywood bate un récord de taquilla de verano en Estados Unidos
La taquilla de verano en Estados Unidos llegó a 4.760 millones de dólares.
La temporada fue muy larga.
Hubo una semana más de ventas.
El verano de 2026 quedó casi un 10% por encima de 2019.
El récord anterior era de 2013.
ALSO ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGE
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Ed Miliband rechaza la advertencia sobre sanciones a asentamientos israelíes
Un investigador de Anthropic alerta en el Reino Unido sobre la IA
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- vocabulary (Hubo)
- vocabulary (quedó)
- vocabulary (era)
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