Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.02 | Greetings

Episode Date: October 25, 2008

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Hello. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. For lesson two, we're going to be looking at how to say hello and goodbye. You already know, Ola. But we're going to be learning how to say hello at different times of the day. You'll also be learning different ways to say goodbye. See you later. See you tomorrow.

I hope you enjoy this lesson. The very first word that we learned in the first edition of Coffee Break Spanish was the word for hello. Can you remember what that was, Kara? Hello. We're going to build on this today and learn some more greetings, greetings that you can use at different times of the day. The first of these is the phrase for good morning. Listen to this.

Buenos days. Buenos days. Very well. Buenos days. Buenos days. Okay. Dia is the word in Spanish for day. So Buenos Dias is literally saying good days.

Buenos days. Buenos days. Try repeating that one last time. Buenos days. Buenos days. Very well. Buenos days. Now, in Spain and lots of other Spanish-speaking countries,

the morning lasts quite a long while. It probably lasts longer than it would do. In a lot of English-speaking countries, So Buenos Dias is used right up until maybe two or three o'clock, depending on when you have lunch. So Buenos Dias, good morning or good day. Buenos Dias. Buenos days. Very well.

After lunch, you would use the phrase, Buenas Tardes. Buenas, tarses. Tardes. Very good. Tardes. Tardes. Tardes.

Tardes. Okay, tarvis is one of these slightly tricky Spanish words. It's got a rolled R in there. Tardes. Tardes. And then it's followed by a th, a soft D sound. In Spanish, the D is very rarely a hard D like in English in the words dad or donut. It's a soft D, which sounds almost like the English word the.

So Tardes. Tardes. Tardes. Tardes. Good. Now, again, this may vary, depending on which Spanish-speaking country you're familiar with, but in Spain, you would probably hear something like, TARDES. TARDES. Buenas TARDES.

Buenas TARDES. Very well. Now, again, it's linked to eating times, and Buenos Tardes is used after lunch, so that could be from about 2 o'clock, half-past two, three o'clock, right up until dinner, which can often be as late as 9, 10, even later in the summer. So, Buenos Tardes tends to mean good afternoon and also good evening in the sense of early evening. Buenos Tardes. Buenas tardes.

Very well. Now, if it's later on in the evening, and this can be used as a greeting as well as a farewell at the end of a night, you can say, Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires. Buenos noches. Buenos nights

Buenos noches. Buenos noches. So, Buenos Noches can be said when you meet people in the evening if it's very late on. Buenos Noches, but it's most likely to be used

as a goodbye. It's the end of the evening. Buenos Noches. Buenos Noches. Let's run through our three greetings. Buenos days. Buenos days. Buenas tardes.

Buenos Tardes. Buenas night. Buenas Nochees Very well This time I'm going to say them You can repeat them

and Kara will say them after you and see how you get on with your pronunciation Buenos Dias Buenos Dias Buenos Dias Very good

Buenos Aires Goodas Tardes Buenos Tardes Buenas Tardes Very good Buenos Aires

Buenos Neuches Buenos Neuches Buenos Neuches So why did you say Buenos days but Buenos Aires and Buenos Notches? Well Spanish like lots of languages

has different genders So some words in Spanish are masculine And some words are feminine If you're not familiar with any foreign languages Which use different genders Then this might seem a bit strange And it's not really that strange Once you get used to it

You can just accept that some words are feminine and some words are masculine. It's not necessarily linked to male people or words that refer to male things being masculine and female people or female things being feminine because, for example, the word for table is feminine, la mesa, and the word for train is masculine, ertreen. So it just depends.

You really should learn the gender of a word when you learn the word itself. We'll be talking much more about this in later podcasts. You should know for the time being that Buenos Dias, Dia is masculine, so it's Buenos Dias. And Buenos Tardes, Tarde, and Noche are both feminine, so as Buenas Tardes, Buenos Naches. Let's repeat them one more time.

Buenos Dias. Buenos days. Buenos Tardes. Buenos Tardes. Buenos Aires. Good nightes. Good nightes. Very good.

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How would you say hello? Hola. And you can now greet somebody at a particular time of the day. But we also need to be able to say goodbye to them. Goodbye in Spanish is adios. Adios. Adios. Adios.

I tried to get that soft D in there again. Think of the word the. Adios. Adios. Adios. Adios. Adios. Adios.

Very good. So you can use adios at any time of the day, even though if, for example, late in the evening you were saying good night to someone, then you would use Buenos Aires. Or indeed, combine it with adios. Adios, buenos noches. Adios, buenos noches. Adios, buenos noches. Very well. Now, there are lots of other phrases in Spanish that people use when they're saying goodbye to someone. And you may well have heard of some of these phrases. The first one that we're going to look at is, after luego

as then Luego Asta Luego Asta Luego Very Now another

Spanish pronunciation tip here The G in Asta Luego is a very soft G

It's not Luego It's Luego Lue Lue Lue Lue

Ogo Asta Lue Aststst Lue Asa L'Ego Asta Luego means

see you soon see you another time until the next time something like that and there's lots of different versions of these phrases in Spanish

we'll teach you a few we're concentrating first of course on Asta Luego Asta Luego Asta Lue

See you later Asta Lue Now you may also want to say to someone that you'll see them soon The word for soon in Spanish

is Pronto Pronto Pronto Pronto Pronto And again The tea is a very soft

tea Pronto Pronto Pronto So sticking it with Asta Asa mean until

So Asta Pronto Asta Pronto Asta Pronto Asta Pronto Asta Pronto Asa Pronto Asa

Luego Asa Luego Asta So, after pronto So, after

then, see you later, hasta Pronto, see you soon. Astha Pronto. After Pronto. Okay.

Now, another word or another phrase rather, that's very common, is the phrase for see you tomorrow.

And tomorrow in Spanish is manna. Manana. Manana. Manana. Manana.

Manana. So can you work out how you would say until tomorrow? Asta manana. Very good. Asta manana. Asta manana. Asta manana. Aadios, asta manana.

Adios, astana. Very well. Let's run through all the a sta phrases that we've learned. Again, I'll say them. Then you can repeat them. Then Kara will repeat them and I'll complete them. back finally with the pronunciation and you can check how you did with your pronunciation. Here goes. To start with the phrase for see you later.

Astá'a logo. Astro Asta lego. Asta logo. Very well. What about see you soon? Soon is Pronto. So, see you soon.

Asta Pronto. Asta Pronto. Asta Pronto. And finally, can you do remember Remember the word for tomorrow? Manana. So see you tomorrow. Hasta manana.

Asa manana. Hasta manana. See you tomorrow. Very well. Excellent. We've been learning some greetings today. We've covered Ola in our last program. And today we've covered

Buenos days, good tardes, good nights, adios, asta Luego Asta Pronto and

this we're going to learn one more thing before we finish off for today and that is how to

say your name listen carefully to what I say here me I'm

Miamo Mark me I'm Mark me I'm I'm

I'm I'm I'm this is another of these words that may well

be pronounced slightly differently in the different Spanish-speaking countries across the world. But we'll stick to me-lamo. It means my name is. Kara, can you introduce yourself, please?

Me, yamo, Kara. Very well, thanks. Me diameau-Marque. Me-jamo, carra. So you should try and think now how you would introduce yourself. Me name-Marc. Me am I carra.

Hopefully you said what your name was there. If someone introduces themselves to you, it's nice to say, please to meet you. In Spanish, to say, please to meet you, I would say, Encanado. Encanado. If you're a male, try and repeat that with me. Encanado. Now, if you're female, you would say, Encanada. Encanada.

Encanada. Okay, so try repeating that with Kara if you're female. Encanada. Encanada. Encanada. So if you're male, Encanado, if you're female, Enchantada. So listen to this short conversation and see if you can work out what all means.

Hello, good days. Hello, good days. What tal? Very bien, thanks. What do? Okay, good. Me Yama Mark. Encanada, Mia Mukara.

Encantado. Okay, did you work all that out? Listen to it one more time. Hello, good days. Hello, good days. What tal? Very good, thanks. What tal?

Very well. Me name Mark. Encanada, Mia Mukara. Enchantado. Hopefully, you understood all. of that conversation. 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 at facebook.com slash coffeebreak Spanish and follow at Learn Spanish on Twitter.

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