Spanish Practice for Guatemala: How to Haggle at a Market

About this episode

You walk into a Guatemalan market, fall in love with a textile, and pay triple what your neighbor would have paid — because you didn't know the six phrases that change everything. Ana fixes that in one day at Chichicastenango. She shows Sofia the market basics (el puesto, el tejido, el huipil, el quetzal), the phrase that opens every negotiation ("¿Y a cuánto me lo deja?"), how to make an offer (le doy, trato hecho, nos encontramos a la mitad), the walk-away move, and the Guatemalan slang that makes vendors treat you like a local — chapín, pisto, cabal. Every phrase in a real story, the way you'd actually use it on the ground.

The full illustrated comic, study guide, transcript, audio & vocab are in the pack.