Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.07 | Jobs

Episode Date: November 29, 2008

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Even dinas at Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. Now even when you're sitting in the sun, it still has to be done. We need to talk about work at some point. Today we'll be learning how to say I am, as it I am a teacher or I am a plumber for example. And we'll also be learning how to say I work. So for example, you might want to explain that you work in an office or you work in a hospital, something like that. we'll also be learning a crucial thing as well how to say I like my work

or indeed I don't like my work I hope you enjoy this lesson of coffee break Spanish So over the past few weeks We've been learning how to introduce ourselves and say a few things about ourselves Like for example where you're from and talk about your family Today we're going to add to this by learning

to talk about our jobs Now the first word that we're going to use here is the word that we've already come across when we were talking about where we're from. So, for example, Kara, can you remember how to say, I am from Scotland? Soi de Scotia. Soi de Escotia.

So the word for I am is... Soi. And this word soy is what we're going to begin with using for I am a teacher, for example. Let's start then. with that phrase, I am a teacher. Soi professor. Soi professor.

Soi professor. Soi professor. Now, you'll probably be able to work out already that soi professor means I am teacher. In Spanish, you don't need to say the word for a when you're talking about jobs. Soi professor. Soy professor Now this works exactly the same way as in French

Je sui profeceor Soi professor Now Kara you've been saying Soi professor But in actual fact If you were a teacher You wouldn't say professor You would use the feminine form

And that is Professora Professora Professora So how would you say I am a teacher Soi professora Soi professora.

Soi professora. Very well. Now, I'm the teacher here, Kara, you're a student. So to say student, you say, Estudiente. Estudiente. Estudiente. Estudiente.

Very well. Estudiente doesn't change regardless of whether you're a male or female student. So, so I'm a student. I am a student. Let's just practice that D sound in the middle of the middle of the student. the word Estudiente. Estudiente. Estudiente.

Very well. In Spanish, when you're using the letter D, you've got to try to make sure that your tongue comes in between your teeth. In English, when we say the word dad or dog, your tongue actually goes behind your teeth and up towards the hard palate of your mouth. So in Spanish, you've got to bring your tongue down and push your tongue in between your teeth

so you get a much softer the sound. And... Estudiente. Estudiente. And not Estudiente. Okay, listen to the difference. Estudiente. Estudiente.

And the same happens with the T. So, Estudiente, te, dante. Estudiente. Perfecto. Now, when we are concentrating on very small parts of pronunciation like this, You might think, oh, we don't need to learn all these. We don't need to really know all these intricacies of Spanish pronunciation. But it is really important because it will help you sound better when you're speaking in Spanish.

Okay, so we've got Professor. Professor. Or the female version, Professora. Professora. Estudiante. The student, which is both the same for female and male students. Let's learn another word. This is quite a tricky one.

Ingenero. Ingeniero. Ingeniero. Ingeniero. Very well. Ingeniero. Ingeniero. Ingeniero.

Ingeniero means engineer. Ingeniero or a feminine version. Ingeniera. Very good. Ingeniera. Okay. So can everybody try to repeat these words? Ingeniero.

Engineer. Ingeniera. Ingeniera. Professor. Professor. Professor? Professor. Student.

Very well. Kara, how would you see? I am a student. So I student. Very well. You remember that it was soi student and not I'm a student or a student.

How would you say I am an engineer? So I'm ingenier. So Ingenera, in your case. Soie inguera. Very bien. Some of these words really are quite tricky. Let's learn a couple of other words. We are going to go on to

Abogado. Abogado. Abogado. Abogado. And abogado is a bogado. lawyer. Abogado. Abogado. And if you're a female lawyer, then you would be abogada.

Avogada. Okay, you can actually hear the word advocate in there. We use the word advocate in the UK quite a lot for particular types of lawyers. So, abogado. Avogado? Very well. Abogado or abogada. Avogada. Very well.

Now, you may be a plumber. A plumber in Spanish is somebody who works with fountains. Fontanero. Fontanero. Fontanero. Very bien. When you say the E sound of the fontanero, try to open your mouth wide. Fontanero.

Very well. Or if you were a female plumber, fontanera. Fontanera. Fontanera. Fontanera. Fontanera. Fontanera. Fontanera.

Very well. you may also be Ama de Casa Ama de Casa Ama de Casa Ama de Casa Ama de Casa means a housewife So Ima de Casa

So ama de Casa So ama de Casa Very good So we have Studiante Studente Abogado Abogado

Or abogada Abogada Professor Professor Professor Professor Professor Fonero

Fontanero Fontanera Fontanera Amade Casa Amade Casa Ingenero Ingeniera Ingenera

Very Very well And hopefully you've all been repeating Along with Kara To practice your pronunciation of some of these words Okay, we'll be back in just

moment. When you're not listening to Coffee Break Spanish, you can still practice your Spanish with our 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. Now, the question. Now, the question. The question is question that you might be asked to find out what you do is in what you're in what do you work in ke travaughes literally in what do you work in ke

travaas in ke travaas travaas travaas very well in what In what You work? In what do you work?

Also has a formal version because that's the informal version. And the formal version is In what is? In what you? In what?

You're working you? In what? Very well. Usteed. Uste. Uste. In what you?

In what you In what? Traváh Usteed? Okay, so Kara, I'm going to ask you the question. I'll ask you informally. And can you answer the question about what your job is? Yes.

In what you're Caracas, Cara? So, student, and you? In what? Travazas? I'm sorry professor.

When I answered that question, I said, I'm a professor. I could just have said soi professor, meaning I am a teacher. But in this case, I was trying to put some stress on the word I. I am a teacher. I am a teacher. And yo is the word for I.

You don't need it when you're saying I am. You can say soy, and soy means I am. But when you want to put extra emphasis on it, you say, yo soy. Yo soy. Okay, so if I said, I'm professor. And Kara, you wanted to say, well, I am a student. I'm a studente.

Very bien. We've come across you before, but perhaps not in that particular circumstance. So, in what you're doing, the question means literally in what do you work?

Or what do you work as? Now, when we were learning the names for particular professions, we didn't obviously cover everything that we possibly could have covered and we've no doubt that many of you haven't exactly learned the words that are going to help you,

say what you do. But this might help because what we're going to do is learn how to say, I work in, for example, a factory or an office. So if Travachas means you work, Travajo means I work. Travajo. Travajo. Travajo. Travajo. Okay. Travajo in. I work in. And we're going to add a few other phrases here. So we might have Una Tienda. A Tienda.

A Tienda. Una Tienda. Una Tienda is the word for a shop in most Spanish-speaking countries. Una Tienda. So to say I work in a shop, what would you say, Kara?

Trabajo in a Tienda. Trabajo in a Tienda. Trabajo in a Tienda. Very well. So a tienda, a shop. What about if you work in a factory?

A factory is a fabrica. Una fabrica. Una fabrica. So a factory is where you fabricate things. So, a fabrica. How would you say I work in a factory?

Travajo in a fabrica. In a fabrica. I'm a couple of other things here. Maybe you work in an office. Una officeina. Una officeina. Una officeina. So I work in an office.

Travajo in an officeina. Trabho in an officeina. Trabho in an officeina. Very well. Trabajo in an office. I work in an office. So we've had Una Tienda

Shop A fibrica A factory A officeina An office What about What do you think A restaurant

Would mean A restaurant A restaurant So A restaurant A restaurant A restaurant A restaurant

Restaurant A restaurant A restaurant A restaurant A restaurant I work in a restaurant. Travajo in an restaurant. Restaurant.

Okay. In Spanish, it's spelled almost exactly as in English, with an extra E on the end, but the A-U sound in the middle sounds like, a-u. A-O. Restaurantresteau-Restraunte.

Restaurant. Restaurant. Trabajo in a restaurant. I'm a restaurant. Very good. I'm a restaurant. One final one here.

Maybe you work in a hospital. An hospital. A hospital. Travajo in an hospital. Travajo in an hospital. Hospital. Hospital. Hospital.

Hospital. I'm a hospital. I'm a hospital. I'm a hospital. Very well. Hopefully, those jobs and those workplaces will allow you to say where you work. One final part of this particular lesson, and that is the question, Te gusta tu travajo.

Te gusta tu travago. Te gusta tu trawago. Well, what's tu trawacho, first of all? Your work. Your work or your job. Te gusta means do you like? Te gusta. Te gusta.

So to say, yes, I like it, you would say, Yes, I like it. You would say, see, Yes, me, me, love my work. Me gusta my work. If you don't like it, you see, no. No, no me gusta my job. No me gista my job. No me gust my work.

I don't like my job. And you can say, no, no, no me Gosta my job. I don't like my job. No, no me Gusta my work. No, no me gista my Trabajo. Okay. Now before we finish, there's two other things

I want to tell you about. One is if you don't work at all. You can say, I don't work. So I work is Trabajo? Travajo. How do you say, Kara, I don't work? No trabho.

No travajo. So you stick the no in front of the verb. No trawajo. No trabejo. So if you don't work, you can say no trawago. No trabejo. Or perhaps you're retired. And if that's the case, you use this word,

jubilado. Jubilado. Jubilado. Jubilado. I'm jubilado. I'm jubilado. Or if you're a female, I'm jubilada.

Now, you may well be wondering why that's Estoy and not soi. And that's something that I'm afraid we're not going to cover in this lesson because it's a wee bit complicated. We'll be covering that in a future lesson, just for the time being learned I'm sorry jubilado as a piece of vocabulary. So, I'm jubilado.

Estoy jubilado. Or, I'm jubilada. I'm jubilada. 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 Coffee Break Spanish and follow at Learn Spanish on Twitter.

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