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Exercise 1

Step 1

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The first sentence reads: I want to make l_ _ _ _ _ as _ u _ _ o of my own business.

To complete the phrase “to make a living”– **ganarse la vida**– the first blanks will be filled to say “la vida”.

**Dueño**, meaning *owner*, should go in the second blank.

From these answers, we now know that
15 = a; 16 = v; 20= i; 1=d; 10=e; 21=ñ

Step 2

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The next sentence reads:
I would like to have my own o_ici_a.

We’ve been able to fill in some of the letters from the ones we filled in in the first sentence. *Oficina,* meaning office, is an appropriate way to fill in the blanks here.

We now also know that
13= f; 11=n

Step 3

3 of 6

The next sentence reads:
I also want to make my own decisions, like what is the _ala_io of my employees and what are their beneficio__.

Since the second blank is already mostly filled in, we can simply add an *s* to the end to say *beneficios*, *benefits*. We can add an *s* to the beginning of the first word, revealing that it is *salario*– salary.

We now know that
7=s, 2=r

Step 4

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The next sentence reads:
*I’d like to have a secretary who speaks more than two idio_as.*

We’ll fill in the blank with an *m* so that the word says *idiomas*: languages.

We now know that 19=m.

Step 5

5 of 6

The next few sentences reads:
To follow this **carrera**, I think I will study a little after I receive my diploma. I want to take courses in the uni_ersidad.

The first word, carrera, can be completed with the letters we have matched to letters already. Enough of the letters from the second word have been revealed for us to know that it should say **universidad**– university.

We now know that 16=v

Step 6

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The final sentences read:
*Above all, I want to study ne_ocios because I need to know as much as possible what is happening in my _rofesión as a businessman.*

We have enough revealed here to know that the first word is *negocios*– business– and that the second word is *profesión*– profession.

We know that 17=g and that 9=p

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