Experdize Spanish Airport - Applied

How to play: you are the ground agent at the Experdize Air check-in at Barajas, and every passenger speaks Spanish — this game teaches the language of checking in for a flight. Passengers file through the stanchion ropes to the one desk, and every check comes up on the panel as a question in Spanish. The terminal stands still while a question is up, so read at your own pace: the level is ten reads, there is no clock to beat, and the record is how long they take you and how many you got right first time. Every check-in opens with the booking against the passport — María García López against GARCIA LOPEZ Maria. ⚠ Every Spaniard carries two surnames — the father's, then the mother's — and both are on the passport. Dropping the second one is not a shortening, it is a different person, and it is the commonest thing a foreign booking system does to a Spanish name. The other mismatches are sounds Spanish genuinely cannot tell apart: b and v are one sound (Vargas and Bargas), and in most of the language so are z, c and s (Vázquez and Vásquez, Pérez and Peres — all of them real surnames). ⚠ And the passport's machine-readable strip is plain A–Z, so MUÑOZ goes in as MUNOZ: the ñ can never be the thing you are checking. Then they ask for a seat — ventanilla the window, pasillo the aisle, cualquiera either. From level 2 the checked bags go on the scale in words: veintitrés kilos against the veinte kilos limit, and ⚠ twenty-one to twenty-nine are one word in Spanish where thirty-one onward are three. Level 3 turns the body scanner on and it names what it sees in Spanish — un mechero, unas tijeras, un cúter, but also las llaves and unas monedas, which are legal. Level 4 puts the carry-ons through the X-ray — una botella de agua and un aerosol do not fly. Level 5 adds the gate podium: passengers ask qué puerta and the board reads con destino a Londres, a Nueva York. Wrong answers are taken or answered back, never refused — they cost patience, the streak or a fine, and the read settles as wrong. The Difficulty row on the setup card decides how much help is written under each line: Principiante adds the say-it-like-this and English, Intermedio the say-it-like-this alone, Avanzado the Spanish by itself. What is spoken out loud is always the Spanish.