Antes de salir, pedí otro folleto porque mi madre quiere hacer el mismo recorrido.

In Spanish, antes normally takes de before an infinitive:

• antes de salir = before leaving
• antes de comer = before eating
• antes de entrar = before going in

So antes salir is not correct here. The pattern is:

antes de + infinitive

It is in the infinitive because after antes de, Spanish uses the basic verb form:

• antes de salir
• antes de llamar
• antes de volver

This works like English before leaving / before going out, where you are talking about an action in a general way, not a fully conjugated verb with a subject.

If you wanted a full clause instead, you could say something like:

• Antes de que saliera...
• Antes de que saliéramos...

But in your sentence, antes de salir is the simpler and most natural structure.

Pedí is the preterite of pedir for yo:

• yo pedí = I asked for / I requested

The preterite is used because this is a completed action in the past: the speaker asked for another brochure at a specific moment.

Compare:

• Pedí otro folleto = I asked for another brochure.
  A finished event.
• Pedía otro folleto = I was asking for another brochure / I used to ask for another brochure.
  More ongoing, repeated, or background-like.

Here, pedí is the natural choice.

The accent mark in pedí shows both pronunciation and meaning.

• pedí = I asked for
• pedi without an accent is not the correct standard spelling here

The accent tells you the stress falls on the last syllable: pe-DÍ.

It also helps distinguish this past form from other present-tense forms of pedir, such as:

• pido = I ask for
• pides = you ask for

In Spanish, otro already works like another, so you do not use un before it in this kind of sentence.

• otro folleto = another brochure
• not un otro folleto

This is the normal rule:

• Quiero otro café.
• Necesitamos otra mesa.
• Compró otros libros.

So pedí otro folleto is exactly right.

Folleto usually means brochure, leaflet, or pamphlet, depending on context.

In a travel or tourist context, folleto often means a brochure with information about places, routes, tours, museums, and so on.

Related words:

• folleto = brochure / leaflet
• panfleto = pamphlet, often with a more political or strong opinion sense
• catálogo = catalogue
• tríptico = a folded leaflet, often in three parts

Here, folleto strongly suggests some kind of tourist or informational brochure.

Because it means because.

Spanish has several similar-looking forms:

• porque = because
• por qué = why
• el porqué = the reason
• por que = much less common, used in special structures

In your sentence:

• pedí otro folleto porque mi madre quiere...
• I asked for another brochure because my mother wants...

So porque is the correct form.

Because the sentence mixes two different time references:

• pedí = what the speaker did at that moment in the past
• quiere = what the mother wants now, or what she wanted at that relevant moment and is still understood as true

This is very normal in both Spanish and English:

• I asked for another brochure because my mother wants to do the same route.

The wanting can still be a present reality, even though the request happened in the past.

If the desire belonged clearly to a finished past situation, you might see:

• ...porque mi madre quería hacer el mismo recorrido.

That would mean because my mother wanted to do the same route.

Yes. Hacer un recorrido is a very natural expression in Spanish. It means:

• to do a route
• to take the same route
• to go round the same itinerary

Spanish often uses hacer in places where English might use a more specific verb.

Examples:

• hacer un viaje = to take a trip
• hacer una excursión = to go on an excursion
• hacer un recorrido = to do/take a route or tour

So mi madre quiere hacer el mismo recorrido is perfectly natural.

It means the same route, the same tour, or the same itinerary, depending on context.

The key word is mismo, which means same here.

• el mismo recorrido = the same route
• la misma idea = the same idea
• los mismos días = the same days

In this sentence, it suggests that the mother wants to follow exactly the route mentioned or shown in the brochure.

Because the sentence refers to a specific route already understood from the context, probably the one in the brochure or the one the speaker did.

• el mismo recorrido = the same route

Using el points to something identifiable. In English we also usually say the same route, not a same route.

So this is the standard and expected form.

They can overlap, but they are not always identical.

• recorrido: a route, course, tour, or itinerary, often focusing on the path taken as an experience or plan
• ruta: route, often more practical or mapped-out
• camino: road, path, way

In a tourist-brochure context:

• recorrido sounds very natural for a planned visit, circuit, or tour
• ruta also works, especially for a marked route
• camino would sound less suitable if you mean an organised tour or itinerary

So el mismo recorrido is a good choice here.

Yes, mi madre sounds a bit more neutral and standard, especially in written Spanish. In Spain, this is very common.

• mi madre = my mother
• mi mamá = my mum / my mom

Mamá is warmer and more personal, and it is also very common, but madre fits very naturally in a neutral sentence like this one.

So:

• mi madre quiere hacer el mismo recorrido sounds neutral and natural
• mi mamá quiere hacer el mismo recorrido is also correct, just slightly more informal or affectionate

Because Antes de salir is an introductory time phrase at the beginning of the sentence.

Spanish often uses a comma after these opening elements, especially in clear written style:

• Antes de salir, pedí otro folleto...
• Después de comer, fuimos al museo.
• Al llegar, llamó a su madre.

The comma helps separate the introductory phrase from the main clause. You may sometimes see commas omitted in shorter sentences, but here the comma is completely normal and recommended.

Yes, that is possible, but the meaning changes slightly.

• antes de salir = before leaving / before going out
• antes de irme = before leaving / before going away

Irse makes the idea of leaving a place a bit more explicit and personal.
Salir focuses more on going out or leaving in a general sense.

Both can work depending on context, but antes de salir is very natural here.

Yes. Recorrido is quite flexible. It can refer to:

• a walking route
• a tourist itinerary
• a museum circuit
• a sightseeing tour
• even the path through an exhibition or building

So without more context, el mismo recorrido could mean any of those. The brochure strongly suggests some planned visitor route or tour.