Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.01 | Saying how you are feeling

Episode Date: October 18, 2008

Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish! In lesson 1 of this first season, you’ll learn to say “hello” and ask people how they’re feeling, using simple, easy-to-learn phrases. Please note that lesson 1 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 101 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.This season of Coffee Break Spanish features a total of 40 lessons, all of which will be included in the podcast feed. Just stay subscribed to the podcast to enjoy each episode. If you’d like to benefit from video versions, lesson notes and bonus audio materials, you can access the premium version of Coffee Break Spanish in the Coffee Break Academy.Don’t forget to follow Coffee Break Spanish on Facebook where we post language activities, cultural points and review materials to help you practise your Spanish. Remember - a few minutes a day can help you build your confidence in the language. Access the Coffee Break Spanish Facebook page here.If you’d like to find out what goes on behind the scenes here at Coffee Break Languages, follow @coffeebreaklanguages on Instagram.You can also check out our Coffee Break Spanish Twitter page and the Coffee Break Languages YouTube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome at Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Maher. My name's Mark, and I'm here to help you learn basic Spanish. In this very first lesson, we're going to be learning how to ask people, how are you, and answer the question ourselves. We'll be using the phrase, Ke tal.

Ke tal is probably the easiest way of asking someone, how are you, how are you feeling, how's it going. Okay, I hope you enjoy this first lesson of coffee break Spanish. Now, the first thing that you have to do, if you're learning a language, it's obviously say hello to someone. You want to meet people, you want to get to know them, and saying hello is one of the most important things that you need to learn. So let's learn how to say hello in Spanish.

It's very straightforward. You say, Ola. Ola. Ola. Now, when I say a word and Kara repeats it, you should try to repeat it along with Karat because that means you're going to be practicing your pronunciation.

Remember, don't worry about who's looking at you or who's listening to you, just try to repeat it along with us. So, hello, hola. Ola. Ola. Now, having said hello to someone, you probably want to ask them how they are. In Spanish, to do this, you say, Ke tal.

Ke tal. Ke tal. It means, how are you? Ke tal. What are you? You can combine it with Ola. So, what's all

Hello? Hello, what's all So that's all very well asking the question you need to be able to say some answers.

There are lots of different things you can answer to Ke tal. We're going to stick with a few for the time being. The first one that we're going to learn

is bien. Bien. Bien means well or good. So, bien. If I ask you then, que tal and you want to say that you're well,

How would you say that? Bien. Que tal? Bien. Ke tal? Bien. Bien. Bien.

So if I've asked you, Ke tal, and you've answered, bien, what would be a nice way to continue the conversation? To ask you how you're feeling. Exactly.

So how would you do that? Ke tal. Bien. Now, I think learning a language is all about communicating, putting your meaning over to the person. that you're speaking to. So if you've answered bien, that's fantastic. They will understand that you're

well. But you could add some other things to how you're saying this and you could say, well, thank you. The word for thank you in Spanish is, grazias. Graziez. Graziez. Graziez. Graziez. Now, it's maybe worth mentioning a couple of things here. First of all, you heard us say, say grazias there. and you may well be familiar with a slightly different version of that word, Grazias. Depending on which Spanish-speaking country you're familiar with, there are different accents and some words are said slightly differently.

We're going to be concentrating on the Spanish that's spoken in mainland Spain, but the words and phrases that we use would be understood anywhere in the Spanish-speaking world. So we'll stick to Grazieus for the time being. Grazieus. Grazie. Let's put it together in a short conversation. Hola, what tal? Bien, thanks.

What tal? Bien, gracias. There you go. That's your first Spanish conversation. Let's try it again. This time, you have got to do all the answering. I'll ask the question. We'll give you some time to answer, and then you can repeat.

Here goes, Hola, what tal? Bien, gracias. What tal? Well, Graziez. Hopefully you remembered to ask me how I was feeling there as well,

just as Kara did. So we've got Ola, Ke tal, bien, grazias. Four words and phrases that you already know.

If you copped with that, you'll cope with anything that we cover in coffee break Spanish. We're going to continue now with the phrase for very well. It's okay being well, but it's nice to be able to vary your answer as well. The phrase for very well is,

Very bien. Very bien. Very bien. Very bien. Okay, this is quite a tricky word to say this. Mui. If you imagine what a cow does. Moo.

Yeah. So Spanish cows would say moo. Mu. And then at the end, smile. I. E. Mui. Mui.

That's it. Perfect. So if you've ever been in Spain and being driving past a field full of cows, you'll notice that they're all very, very happy and smiling away to themselves. Mui. Moe. Very. Very bien.

Very bien. Very bien. Very bien. So, Kara, what tal? Very bien. How? Very bien, gratias.

But not all Spanish cows, or indeed Spanish people, are constantly happy. Sometimes they're not feeling so good at all. If this is one of those days when things just aren't going very well, you could say fatal. Fatal.

Fatal. Fatal. So, if I ask, Ke tal? Fatal. Fatal. Fatal. it looks when it's written it looks like fatal so things must be pretty bad if they're fatal fatal fatal fatal fatal and you've got to say it with some emotion in your voice fatal fatal fatal

what tal fatal fatal fatal okay let's run through these again we're going to say we're well bien bien very well very well very bien very bien very bien and really pretty lousy, fatal. Fatal. Excellent. I'm going to be saying excellent and very bien as you repeat things. So that will give you more practice in listening to words like

very all the time. Okay, we're going to add in another phrase. So far, when I ask, Ke tal, Kara has been responding. Bien, very bien, fatal. Okay, one of these things. And then when Kara asked me how I was feeling, she used the phrase

How tal? Again. But there's a different way of saying this. You could actually just say, and you. Listen to this. I tu. I too.

I too. That's it. Now watch your pronunciation of the Spanish U, and you. Itu. And you?

So let's use that in our conversation now. Hola, Kara. What tal? Bien, and you? Bien. Grazie.

Okay. Let's try a different one. This time Kara's not going to be feeling so well, okay? Hola, Kara, what tal? Fatal. And you? Yo? Very bien.

Grazias. I added in another word there. I said, Yo. Yo is the Spanish word for I. So I am very well. Yo, very well. As far as I'm concerned,

I'm very well. Yo, mu bien. Or you could say, yo bien. Or you could say, yo, bien. Or, yo fatal. Yo fatal. Excellent.

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Follow coffee break languages. It's our mission to help you turn your downtime into your due time. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. We're going to repeat a little. So let's take all the words that we've done so far and repeat them together. Hello. Hello. What tal?

What tal? well bien very very very fatal fatal

fatal and you and you and thanks thanks now there are two other

Spanish words that we're going to add in as possible responses to the question what these are

first of all estu stupendo estu now you can probably work out what this means estuendo

estuendo now estuendo literally means stupendous we wouldn't perhaps say stupendous in English in the answer to how are you

it's stupendous but it's definitely said in Spanish estuendo estuendo and one final one and that is phenomenal

phenomenal phenomenal phenomenal phenomenal Another word that sounds quite like an English word, phenomenal, but say it in Spanish, phenomenal. One thing that I'm going to say right now, and that is if you come across a word that sounds like a word that you know in English, don't pronounce it in English. If we have a conversation, it sounds very Spanish here, Ola, what tal? Yo, very bien, grazias.

And you? What tal? Phenomenal. Now, phenomenal sounds ridiculous there. say it in Spanish. Phenomenal. Fenominal. Okay, we've learned lots in today's podcast.

Let's repeat it all together so that you can really get everything into your head before we finish off. Again, I'll say the words. We'll give you some time to repeat, and then Kara will say them and repeat again with Kara if you can. Hello.

Hello. What tal? What? We're Very Very Very bien Very

Very bien Fatal Fatal Estupendo Yes Phenomenal Phenominal We also learned

And you And you Thank Thank you And that's where we're going to leave it today for this edition of Coffee Break Spanish. Thanks for joining us and we hope it's been useful. You can join the Coffee Break Spanish community on Facebook

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