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I'm currently studying Japanese grammar and there's this sentence:

> 駅の前にいるから、迎えに行ってくれる？

By default the translation given is:

> I’m in front of the station, can you come here to meet me?

But couldn't it also be translated as:

> [since] You are in front of the station, can you come to meet me?

The reason I'm confused is because there is no subject and no context to infer
the subject from. This is pretty normal occurrence in Japanese from what I
understand, but is there something else in the sentence that could make either
of these two translation a "preferred one" or am I being completely wrong
here?
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Who is the subject in 「駅の前にいるから、迎えに行ってくれる？」?
> 駅の前にいるから、迎えに行ってくれる？

As you said, the subjects are omitted, but there are several clues. Let's say
A is talking to B.

  * A assumes B is currently not in front of the station, otherwise he wouldn't ask him/her to go there.
  * 駅の前にいるから implies that _someone_ is in front of the station.
  * If A were at the station, he would have said 迎えに **来て** くれる？
  * Since neither A or B are in front of the station, it has to be a third person C.

We get

> _[A talking to B]._ C is in front of the station. Could you pick him/her up?

Who A, B, C are would have to be determined from context. However, C is
different from A and B, so there are _three_ people involved.

In particular, neither of your translations is consistent with these clues.
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