🍅 You don't know what you have till it's gone (Day 5)

Morning! 😃 ☕️ 

Five days ago, this was a row of foreign words.

Now it's yours. Try saying the whole thing before you scroll down.

In today's email…

• 📱 Day 5: The whole phrase is blank. Say it from memory

• 🌟 What these nine words quietly say about the whole culture

• 🏃 One real moment this week to finally use it

MEMORIZE 🧠

_____ ____ __ ___ _____ _____ ___ __ ______.

As always, the answer key and audio are at the bottom of this email.

PRACTICE WITH LOLA 🍅 

Here’s what a successful day with learning Spanish looks like, and the order doesn’t matter:

• Read the English email

• Listen to the Spanish (follow along)

• Then, go hang out with Lola and start working through a few things (5mins)

PRACTICE IT WITH LOLA 🍅

CULTURAL MOMENT 🍅

Some proverbs teach a lesson. This one carries a whole way of seeing the world.

Spanish-speaking cultures hold onto memory and appreciation in a way that shows up everywhere.

In the way families keep the door open for anyone who drops by, in songs that ache for a person or a hometown long after they're gone, in the habit of naming out loud what's precious before life takes it away.

This phrase is that whole feeling packed into nine words. It's not really a warning. It's an invitation to look around now, while you still have the thing.

That's why it lands so hard across so many countries. A worker in Lima, a grandmother in Sevilla, a student in Guadalajara, they've all felt the exact regret this line describes, and they've all used it to comfort someone else who's feeling it now.