Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.04 | More on nationalities

Episode Date: November 7, 2008

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Hello and bien-deni-nevino's a coffee break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark. My name is Mark, and I'm here to help you learn some Spanish. Last time we were learning the phrase, where are you from? And the answers to that phrase. In this episode, we're going to take that a little further and learn how to say I am from, for example, London, but I live in Madrid, for example.

So I hope you enjoy today's lesson. So in the past few weeks, we've been covering quite a number of words and phrases that will help you get started off learning Spanish. We've covered greetings. We've learned how to ask people how they're feeling and answer them. We've also learned to talk about names and to say where you're from. So Kara, can you remember, first of all, how to say hello? Ola. Okay, and obviously, as Kara's responding to these questions, you should be thinking if you can remember the answers to these two. So Ola is indeed hello.

good morning. Buenos days. Buenos days. Very good days. Now, good afternoon. Starts with a similar word, but changes ever so slightly. Good afternoon.

Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Goodtardes. What about good night? Buenos Aires. Buenas noches. Very well. Now, listeners, can you remember how to say goodbye?

Kara, can you help us? Adios. Adios. Adios. Okay, now we also learned how to say how are you feeling. How are you? Two short words. Ke tal. So, Kara, what do? Very bien, thanks. And I'm very bien, too. Very bien was one of the answers, meaning very well. How would you say well? Bien.

What about not very good at all? Fatal. Fatal. And can you remember any of the words? for really great, excellent, fantastic. Phenomenal. Fenomenal, or can the listeners remember the other one? Estupendo. Estupendo. So we had estupendo, phenomenal,

very, bien, fatal. And I think that was everything that we covered in the main podcast. Now we also learned how to say, My Name is. Listeners, can you remember how to say, My Name is? Me Yamo.

Me yamo, so me yammo Mark. And how would you ask the question, what is your name? Now, there are two versions of this. Let's start with the informal version, first of all. What is your name speaking to a friend? Como te yamas? Very well, comeo te yamas. Repeat that with me.

Como te yamas? Como te y'allas? Now, if you're talking to someone that you don't know so well, you need to use a different form. And this one we covered last week, so see if you can remember this. Como te yamas is the informal version. How do you say what is your name to someone that you don't know so well? Como se llama Usteed.

Como se laama Usteed. And Usteed is that formal word for you. Como se laama Usteed. Como se ysoula ma'est. Very well. Now, we also covered something else last week. We talked about where are you from. where are you from again there's two forms of this

now if you're trying to remember how to say this it might help to rework it into the sort of translated version from where are you so the word in Spanish for from is where and then two different versions of are you de donde eres for informal and de donde is usteed for formal Let's repeat this again. De Donde arest. De Donde arest.

De Donde is Usted? De don't de est Usteed. De Donde is Ustev. Very well. To say I am from. You use a small word that means I am, which is Soi.

Soy, and then the word for from. De, Soi, and in our case we would say, Soi de, Eskosia. Soi of Scotia But if you're from Spain

You might say Soe Spain Mm-hmm Soy Spain And if you were from the States You might say

See if you can work that one out Kara Soi de Los States Unidos Very well Soe de los Estados

Perfecto Okay, that's enough revision for the time being We will be doing More revision in future programs Just to make sure that you're getting

everything that we've covered But we're going to move on now to talk about something a little bit different. I can't actually believe that this is program four and we've not actually covered the words for yes and no. And we're going to use these now in a couple of wee exercises. So, Kara, can you repeat the word for yes, please? It's very straightforward, I'm quite sure everyone knows this.

It's C. C. C. C. C. And if you're writing C, it's spelled S-I, and the I has an accent on it, and it's an acute accent.

which means it goes up to the right. So si means yes. Si. And the word for no is very, very difficult. It's no. No. No. No.

Si? Si? No. No. No. See? No. No.

Okay. Si means yes. No means no. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment. When you're not listening to Goughbyik Spanish, you can still practice your Spanish with their regular posts on social media. Find us on Facebook.

Just search for coffee break Spanish. We're Learn Spanish on Twitter. And you can keep up with the team through our regular posts on Instagram. 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. I'm going to ask you a question, Cara. Eres de Escothia

Listen to that question again Erres de Eskothia Kara, what do you think that means? Are you from Scotland? Exactly, eres de Escothia? Can you answer that question then, using the word for yes? Si, so I de Scotia.

Eres de Scotia? Yes, so I de Scotia. Very well. Now, if Kara was going to answer negatively to that question, saying no, I'm not from Scotland. Listen carefully to exactly how she would do that. No.

No soy the Eskothia. Now this might seem a bit obvious to our listeners, but we just want to make sure that you understand the two no there. The first no, no means no. And then when it's combined with soy, when you say no soy de escotia, it's the negative form of the verb so no so I am not

so listen again no no soy de Scotia no no soi de scotia no no soi de scotia very well so I'm going to ask you our listeners if you're from Scotland if you are then you can say si sorry de scotia if you're not then say

no no soi no soy de scotia So answer this question. So, Kara, what would the listeners have said if they are from Scotland? Si, I'm sorry de escotia. And if they're not from Scotland, no, no, soi de scotia. No, no, soi de scotia. And that no before the verb makes any verb negative. So, for example, if I say, me name is Mark, it means my name is Mark.

but if I want to say my name is not Mark I can just say no me let me name Mark. If you're used to French then you've got that Nupé to deal with if you're used to German then you've got Nijt to put in after verbs and things like that. In Spanish it's really easy you stick the no in front of the verb and you're sorted no so I'm Scotsia no me name o Mark and so on let's try some examples

this time using the Ustead form in that the question Buenos days, is Ostead de Spain? So, Kara, what question have I asked you? Are you from Spain? Are you from Spain?

And of course, this is the formal version. So, is Ostead de Spain? No. No, so I de Spain. Very well. Now, just before we leave this business of soy, there's one other thing I want to tell you about soy. Soy literally means I am.

so you can use soy as a replacement sometimes for me yamo rather than saying me yamo mark i could say soi mark so carra you could say soi carra and you our listeners could say very well okay let's move on because we're going to talk about one other thing in this week's lesson we've already talked about saying where you're from soy de espania and we know already that you can replace espania or escotia with a city or a town. So I could say Soi de Glasgow or Soy de Barcelona. But what we've not talked about yet is the word for to live or I live in. Listen carefully.

Vivo in Glasgow. Bibo in Glasgow. Bibo in Glasgow. Bivo in Glasgow. Now, if you are following the guide that you can download from our website and going through the spelling of all these words

that we're covering in today's lesson, you'll have noticed that the word M-O is spelled V-I-V-O. Depending on which part of the Spanish-speaking world you're familiar with, the letter V is pronounced slightly differently. In Spain, it's pronounced a sort of combination between a B and a V,

and it sounds something like, hmm. Try that. Hmm. If you feel your lips buzzing Then you're doing the correct sound Vivo in Escothia Vivo in

Scotia Very well It is quite a tricky scent to produce Don't worry too much about it Because if you say Bivo or Vivo or Vivo or whatever

You will be understood And it's also really quite difficult To convey exactly the sound that we're trying to reproduce on a podcast that you're listening to. Anyway, let's concentrate on the word itself. Vivo in Scotia or Vivo in Glasgow. Let's repeat that together.

Vivo in Glasgow. Vivo in Glasgow. Mivo in Glasgow. Now, to ask where do you live, in the informal version, you would say, what's the word for where again? Donde. Donde, uh-huh.

So, Donde, Bives. Donde vives. Donde vivest? Dondy ves. So, Kara, Donda vivest. People in Glasgow. Can you ask me the question, please? Dondy viz.

I'm bivore. Eddingburgh, any guesses as to where that might be? Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edombo, Glasgow is just Glasgow. So, I'm living in Edinburgh. If we were using the formal version of this question,

we would say, where where do you where biv ustez very where

where where live in I live in we already know how to say I am from what we're going to do

now is combine that with I live in let's imagine the situation where I am originally from Glasgow

let's say but now I live in Edinburgh so So So of Glasgow

Pero Bivo in Edimburgo You'll be that please, Cara. So I'm of Glasgow but Bivo in

Eddingburg Very well I'm of Glasgow but I am from Glasgow What do you think Buto But it does indeed

But But, but Buto P-E-R-O Pero Pero Pero Pero

I'm from Glasgow, but I live in Edinburgh. I'm of Glasgow, but I'm living in Edinburgh. Very well. How would you say I am originally from Madrid, but I live in Barcelona? I'm of Madrid, but I live in Barcelona. In Spanish, it's called Barcelona. Barcelona. Barcelona, very good.

I'm of Madrid, but I'm in Barcelona. So I'm of Madrid, but I'm living in Barcelona. Very well. Now, we're going to add one more word in here, just to expand our range of expression again. Earlier on, I said

I am from Madrid, but now I live in Barcelona. The word for now is a hour. Aura. Aura. Aura.

Aura. Try to combine the with the ora and make it one sound and not a stop in between now. Aura. Very well. Aura. Aura.

So I'm of Madrid, but now I'm in Barcelona. So I'm de Madrid, but now I live in Barcelona. Very bien, perfect. Now, listeners, if you lived somewhere, or if you lived somewhere now that you didn't used to to live in, then you could use that phrase to again expand the range of vocabulary that you have.

And even if you didn't, it's a nice way to get used to using words like Aura, meaning now. Soi de Barcelona, but now I'm living in Sevilla, in Burgos, in Santiago, in Buenos Aires. 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

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