Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.05 | Talking about family

Episode Date: November 15, 2008

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Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. Now, one of the things that you often have to do when you're visiting a country where Spanish is spoken is introduce members of your family or your friends to other people. And that's what we're going to be learning in this lesson. We'll learn how to say, this is my friend, this is my husband or wife and so on. I hope you enjoy the lesson. Okay, so today we're going to talk about families. When you're in holiday or you're travelling around, it's sometimes one of the best ways to get to know other people, to talk about your family, and to practice the language, which is, of course, as a language learner, one of the things that you really should be trying to do as much as possible. We're going to start by looking at the words for various members of the family.

So if you can repeat after me, Kara will be repeating the words, and of course you, our listeners, should repeat along with Kara. Obviously not all of these words will apply to all of you, but it's a good idea to learn the words nevertheless. Let's begin with the word Ermano Ermano Ermano Ermano Ermano means brother

Ermano Ermano Ermano Now in Spanish very often What you can do is change the ending O to A And it becomes the feminine version So

Ermano becomes Hermana Ermana Hermana. Hermana means sister. Hermana. Hermano. Hermano?

Hermano? Ermano? Hermano? Ermana. Hermana. So that's brother and sister. Ermano, hermana. Let's think about the word for mother.

Madre. Madre. Madre. This is a good word for practicing the Spanish D sound. It's not a hard D like the word dad in English. It's a softer D. Listen to the difference between madre and madre. Madre.

Madre. It's almost like the T-H in the word the word the in English, but it's not quite as soft as that. If you say v rather than d, then you're nearer the sound. So madre. Madre. Madre. Madre. Madre. Very bien.

Madre means mother. Madre. The word for father is very similar. Padre. Padre. Padre. Very well. A wee tip with the pronunciation here.

If you imagine air coming through your mouth, it comes up from your lungs and it comes through your mouth and out. And when the air comes out, sometimes you stop the air coming. and if you stop the air coming just very, very momentarily, Padre Padre. You get exactly what we're looking for.

Padre. Very bien, excellent. So we've got Hermano. Hermano. Armana. Madre? Madre?

Padre. Okay, we're going to add in four more. The next one is Marido. Marrizo. Marrizo. Marrizo.

Now marido ends in a no, so it must be a masculine relative of some kind. Marido would mean... Husband. It does indeed mean husband. Marido. Marido. Marido. And the word for wife, quite tricky because it's got that Spanish J sound, which is h.

Moucheer. Moucheer. Mouche. It's difficult. It is difficult. So, mojer. Moucheer. Mouher.

Mouher. Moucheer. Very bien. Mujer. Mujer means wife. So we have Marido. Marido? Mujer.

We're going to be practicing this sound a bit more with two final words in the vocabulary that we're learning so far. And these are the words for son and daughter. Listen carefully to this one.

It's quite tricky. Iijo. Ijo. Ijo. Ijo. Ijo. Ijo. Ijo means son.

Iho Iho And the word for daughter Can you guess what it might be based on all the other things that we've been doing with Eremano and Erema Iha

Iha Is indeed Iha is daughter Iha Iha Iha Iho Iho

Iha Very Now To say my mother My father My brother My brother My sister and so on

It's very very straightforward in Spanish Much easier than in French or German or German or Italian. It's one word. It's me. Me. Me. Spelt, M. I. My, my, my my husband. My marido. My marido. My marido. My mucher. My wife. My mujere. My mother would be, Kara. My mother. My mother. Very good. And listeners, can you work

at what my father would be. Cara? My father. My father. My brother and my sister. My hermano. And my hermana. And my hermana.

Very bien. My hermano. Now watch that. Although it starts with an H, you don't pronounce the H. The H is always, always silent in Spanish. In every single word in Spanish, with an H, the H is silent. My hermano. My hermano.

And of course in Spanish, because everything runs together, it would sound like my hermano. My hermano. My hermano. My brother. And my sister? My hermana. My hermana.

My armana. Very bien. My hermana. Now, based on that same rule about everything running together, how would you say my son? My he-j-ho. Now, it does start with an H, but remember, all H's are silent in Spanish. My-h-e-ho. My Iho.

Very bien. My Ijo. My Iho. Good. You can say my Iho or my Icho. And my daughter, it would be... My Ica.

Oh, my Icha. My Icha. My Icha. My Icha. My Icha. My Iha. Very. Remember the word for and in Spanish.

I. Okay. So how would you say my brother and my sister? One more time. My. My Ehrmano and my brother. Watch the H is there. My hermano and my hermana.

My hermano and my Armana. Very bien. Okay. My brother and my brother. My mother and my father. My igo and my Ija. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment.

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Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Okay, we've learned the vocabulary now to talk about family members. What we need to learn is the word to say this is. If you're introducing your husband or your brother or your son or whatever to your new Spanish friends, then you need to be able to say, this is my husband. And in Spanish, it's fairly straightforward. You say, this is my hermano. This is my hermano.

This is my hermano. This is my hermano. Okay. This is. This is. This is. This is And this is my son

This is my son This is my son This is my I'm my Iho Very good This is my Ijo

Okay, listeners How would you see This is my father This is my Padre This is my father Very well This is my father

So we've got This is my Ehrmano This is my This is my father. This is my marido. These are all masculine members of the family. What we need to know is how you would say this is my wife, my sister, my mother, my daughter.

This is becomes this is. This is my hermana. This is my hermana. This is my hermana. So this is my daughter would be This is my Ida This is my

Iha This is my Iha This is my Ida This is my mother This is my

mother Okay And this is my wife listeners This is my wife, Kara This is My Mujer

Mujer Mujer Mujer Mujer We tip here all words that end in R in Spanish virtually all words that end in are in Spanish are stressed on the final syllable

so it wouldn't be Mujer but Mujer Mujer This is my Mujer This is my Mujer Very well Okay, we're going to test your knowledge now

We're going to see how many of these you remember and remember you can listen to the podcast several times, you can use our other materials as well to help you get to grips with all this language. If you can repeat these phrases, it means that you're doing quite well with the stuff that you've learned today. Number one, this is my brother. This is my hermano. This is my hermano. Very good. Number two, this is my father. This is my Padre.

This is my Padre. Very number three, this is my daughter. This is my

hijah. Uh-huh. Ija. That's it. This is my Icha. This is my

Iha. My Iha. Just run them together. My Icha. Okay. Let's see if you worrying about the

H on there. My Icha. This is my I. This is my I. Very well. Number four, number four, this is my sister. This is my hermana.

This is my hermana. Very good. And number five, this is my husband. This is my marido. This is my marido. Perfecto. Now, the one other thing that you might want to say, well, there's lots of things that you want to say about the members of your family. But the first thing that you probably want to say is what the name is, the name is, names of your husband and wife and sons and daughters and so on are. To say his name is, you say, se liama. Se yama. Se yama. Okay, and to say her name is, you also say,

se yama. Okay. One thing to point out here, the word say doesn't mean his or her. It really means himself or herself, because just like me yammo means I call myself, the may part there means myself, the same part of Seyama means himself or herself. So, this is my son, he's called Pablo. This is my son, he's called Pablo. Very well. This is my mother. This is my mother

Don't know the name Monce. Monce is a Catalan name, very popular in Barcelona. It's actually short for Moncerat, as in the singer, Montserrat Caballier. Monce. Okay. This is my hermana, Se llama Raquel. This is my hermana

Se llama Raquel. Very well. How would you see? This is my father. name is Gabriel. This is my Pavory. Seallama Gabriel. Perfecto. Very bien.

We've covered a fair bit today because we've been talking about the word for my, which is me in all singular nouns. My marido, my marina and so on. We've presented people Estes, Estes, and we've said what they're called, Selliama. We'll

be coming back to talk about family next week because we're going to be talking a bit more to say how many people are in your family. saying I have two sons and we're also going to be looking at numbers next week. One final thing before we finish this week and that is, we've been asked a few times over the course of the week in emails and on the forum

about a particular aspect of Spanish pronunciation. And Juliet, one of our listeners from London, actually sent us an MP3 file with exactly the same question. Here's Juliet's question and we're going to answer it in just a moment. Hi, this is Juliet from London. I've just got one little question. And last week when we were talking about where we live, you said the word for butters perro. And I noticed that you rolled your R's, but I find this really difficult.

And I was wondering when they could give me any tips on how to do this, either via the podcast or on the forms. I'm really enjoying listening to Coffee Break Spanish. I think it's a great resource for learning Spanish. And just keep the podcast coming, Mark and Kara. See you later. Julia, it's a really good question. And it's something that learners do find difficult, depending particularly. depending on where you're from.

In Scotland, we do tend to roll our R's quite a lot. We say great and things like that. But perhaps if you're from the south of England, it's maybe more difficult. And some parts of North America and Australia and so on. The R is pronounced differently in different countries and in different languages. Let's take a word like,

Aura. Aura. Kara, can you pronounce Aura? Aura. Aura. Aura. Very well. Now, the R in Aura isn't really rolled.

it's more like a flick that happens somewhere just above your teeth. Aura. Aura. It's not aura or anything like that. Now we're going to try to train you to pronounce this R correctly. And we hope we don't offend anyone because we're going to try and put on some different accents here. I'm going to imagine I'm American

and I'm going to pronounce the word or the phrase an otter in American English or in my version of American English. And I'm going to say, Anodder. An adder. Again, we're really sorry about these bad American accents, and we're not trying to offend anybody by doing this.

Let's think about the double T sound in there. An order. An order. When you make that double T sound, you flick your tongue behind your teeth or up above your teeth. It's actually called the hard palate, or the, it's just below the hard palate on the, the alveolar ridge of your mouth.

There's lots of websites. Go to Wikipedia and find out some things about phonetics there. And you'll find out lots about the ways in which your mouth produces all these sounds. But basically, if you can try to flick your tongue against the top of, just above your teeth, Arar. Arr. So if you think about this double T sound in American English, now Kara's accent is much better than mine. So I'm going to say them in my accent. I will say butter

butter bottle flutter and so on so this sound that Kara's making there for the double T is very very close to the sound of the R in Spanish when it comes between two vowels in particular

so let's imagine the word aura spelled A-H-O-R-A in Spanish was actually spelled A-O-T-A and say it in an American English accent. Cara. Aura.

Aura. And that is your perfect Spanish R. It's not a rolled R. The double R we will be covering in another podcast. This is the single R, which is this kind of flick on your alveolar ridge, just below your hard palate. We hope, Juliet, that this has answered your question.

We hope that it's helped give you an idea on how to pronounce their R's in Spanish. we will be looking at the rolled hour and we'll be tried to practice some of the rolled our sounds in a future podcast. 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

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