Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.08 | Likes and dislikes

Episode Date: December 6, 2008

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Helloa and welcome at Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark, I'm Mark, as you know already. And today we're going to be looking at a little bit of grammar. Yeah, I know you've probably thought, no, there should be no grammar in Coffee Break Spanish. The thing is, what we're really looking at is patterns, patterns of words which change sometimes depending on who's speaking and so on.

Now today we're going to be looking at the word for the. And in fact, there are different words for the in Spanish. depending on whether nouns are masculine and feminine and so on. But we'll learn all about that in the lesson. It's all within the context of talking about what you like. We learned this last time, Me Gusta, Me Gusta My Travajo, I like my work, or no me Gusta, I don't like.

And remember that me Gusta really means it pleases me. So, in today's lesson, you'll be able to say how you like things and what things you like, and indeed, what things you like to do as well. I hope you enjoy your lesson. Now, last week, we were talking about jobs, and one of the things that we learned towards the end of the lesson was how to say, I like my job.

Can you remember how you say, I like my job? Kara? Me gusta mi trawajo. Me gusta my trawago. Perfecto. Me gusta my travajo. So the phrase for I like is Me gusta.

Me gusta. Me gusta. Me gusta. Me Gusta. Very well. We're going to use this phrase again today, but before we do so, we're just going to practice the questions as well. To say, do you like your job? You would say, this time it's not me gusta, but...

Te Gusta. Te Gusta. Te Gusta tu travajo. Te Gusta your Trabajo. Te Gusta your work. T'gusta tu trabejo. Very well. Te Gusta Tu Travajo is the informal version because it's using the tu form that we've been using quite a lot.

But there's also a formal version which we didn't learn last week. And in this one, two words change. It's not tegusta, but le gusta. Le gusta. Le gusta. Le gusta. Le gusta. Le gusta.

Le gusta. And this time it's not my trawago, nor is it tu, but is suhrauj so work so travel so travel

so travel so the question is le le gusta su travho le gusta su travho le gusta su travho le gusta su travho

very so that's your formal version of that question it would be either tegusta your t'gsta your

for informal or formal le We like your work? Le gusts your work?

Very we're going to use the phrase me gosta and join up with other phrases

or other words that we'll let you talk about your likes and dislikes. We don't always want

to keep talking about our jobs. So we're going to learn some words which we can

add to me to talk about the kind of things that we like. We're going

to start with one that you'll very quickly recognize La music. La musica.

La musica. Now it's probably fairly obvious what La Muzica is. Kara? Music. Music, yeah. So to say I like music, you say, me gusta la music. Me gusta la music.

Me gusta la music. Me gusta la music. Okay, just watch your U sound. Me Gusta la music. Me Gusta la music. Very bien. Me Gusta la music. So I can ask you, Cara,

Te Gusta la music? Yes. Me Gusta la music. Very well. So a question, Te Gusta la music? And the answer, yes, I like music. Si, me gusta la music.

Let's learn a new word. Another word that sounds quite like the English version is La literatura. La Literatura La Literatura Yeah La Literatura What do you think that means listeners?

Cada? Literature. Literature, yeah. La Literature. So how would you say, Kara? I like literature. Me Gusta La literature.

The literature. Me gusta la literature. Kara, te gusta the literature? Yes, me a literature. Te gusta

music too? Yes, me music also. Do you remember

Tambien from before? It means also. Also, so me got the music too.

Moving on, let's think about another word that is similar to the English word. Me

Gusta La Photography. Me I like la photographia. La photographia. And that is, I like... Photography?

Photography. Yeah. Lots of these words sound very similar to the English versions. Here's another word that sounds very similar to this English version.

Me Gusta el chocolate. Me gusta El chocolate. Me gusta. Te Gusta el chocolate, Kara. Si, me

Gusta el chocolate. Okay. Kara could see there. me gusta much the chocolate I like much the chocolate okay

me gusta much I like a lot I really like chocolate me gusta much the chocolate a me me me gusta the music

but me gista the music too me gistam much el chocolate very that was a good sound with your chocolate

the chocolate some of our listeners have been asking about how particular words and phrases are pronounced in Latin American Spanish as opposed to Spanish spoken in Spain.

Pretty much all of the words that we've covered so far today are pronounced exactly the same or pretty much exactly the same in Latin America and in Spain. The next word we're going to learn is actually pronounced a bit differently. In Spain you would talk about El Thine.

El Thine. El Cine. El Cine. But in many parts of Latin America, you would say the cinema. El cinema or the cinema or I like

the cinema or I like films. Me Gusta el cinema. Or in Latin America I like the cinema. Me Gusta el cinema. Very well. One more. El Deporte.

El Deporte. El deporte. El deporte. The deporte is I don't know. You don't know. It's sport. Okay. It's sport.

El Deporte, sport. So, Me Gusta el deporte. Me Gusta el deporte. Me gusta el de porte. So let's just go through those six words that we've learned so far. We've had, La music.

So listen to us if you can repeat after me, La music. Okay. La music. Okay. La Literatura. La Literatura. La Photographia

La Photography Now each of these words have la in front of them We'll combine to that in a moment Then we had El Chocolate El Chocolate Then

El Cine El Cine And El Deporte El Deporte El de Parte. Very well. So those last three words had El in front of them.

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Follow Coffee Break. It's our mission to help you turn your downtime into your due time. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. All the words that we've looked at so far today are nouns. And in previous editions of Coffee Break Spanish, we've talked about the fact that you say, un-e-ermano and una-ermana. So using the word un for a masculine person in your family, for example,

and una for a feminine. person. All words in Spanish are either masculine or feminine. And when you're talking about the something, the music, the literature, and so on, you use el or la, depending on whether it's masculine or feminine. The masculine words we learned there were Deporte, Cine, and Chocolate. So they are el words. El Deporte, El Cine, El Chocolat. all masculine words. And the feminine words were music, literature,

photography, all la words, feminine words. So la musica photography, la literatura. In English we don't say, I like the music. We say I like music. But in Spanish, you have to use the article, the word for the in each case.

So me gusta la music? me like the literature me like the chocolate me like the okay

we have talked about me we learned last week to say no me musta we've talked about

me got much to say that you really really love doing something then you can say

me enca me encanta now there's two words there me and Enkanta and you run them together,

me encaanta. Or you could separate them if you want. Me Encacalala music. Me Enca la literature. Me Encaca la literature. Me Encaulta the cinema. Me Encaca el cinema. So it's just another way of seeing something similar,

but in this case it's just that bit stronger. Me Encainta the cinema. It's not just the fact that you like cinema. It's the fact that you really love it. me en canta. Me en canta. Great. Now, it's one thing saying that you like a certain thing, like music or literature or whatever,

but it's also really useful to be able to say that you like doing something. And there's a special reason why it's useful, and we'll come to that in a moment. We're going to learn a few more words here. And in Spanish, you say, I like to do something. So me gusta, and let's start with cantar. Cantar. Cantar Canter

Canter. Can't To sing. So, I like Can't Canter I'm gonna

Canta Canta Can't You're too scared To sing, aren't you? Yes. Okay,

Maybe you would prefer Bailar. Bailar. Bailar. Bailar. Bailar means to dance. Me

I like to bailear. Me Gusta bailar. And you'll have to take my word for it that Kara is actually dancing at the moment. Um, me gusta Comeer. Comer.

Comer. Comer means to eat. Comer. Me gusta comer. Okay. So we've got cantar, Bailar, Comer. What about?

Me Gusta Salir. Salir. Salir. Salir. Salir means to go out, literally to go out of a building or to go out of a room, but it also means that general sense of going out. So, me gusta salir. I like to go out.

Me gusta salir. Me gusta salir. Another word here is leer. Leer. Leer. Leer is linked to the literatura. Leer means to read. Lear.

Me gusta leer. Me gust a leer. Very well. One last one. See if you can work out this one and it's something that you've heard before. Me gusta. Apprender Spanish. Me gusta to learn Spanish. Aprender Spanish. Very good. Any guesses? I like to learn Spanish.

Very well. I like to learn Spanish. Kara, do you like to learn Spanish? Yes, me gust to learn Spanish. I mean me encanta to learn now earlier I said that this particular construction was very very useful and the reason for that is

all these words can'tar, ballet, comer and so on are what's called the infinitive of the verb and normally in fact all the time in Spanish

that ends in either A-R E-R or I-R so Ar-E-R we had examples in can't Comer and Salir. In English we say I like dancing or I like to dance.

In Spanish you can only say I like to dance. And that word to dance is Bailar, the infinitive ending in A.R. If you look up any verb in the dictionary, you will be given the infinitive form. So if you've got a Spanish-English dictionary, look up dance, for example. Look for the verb. It will probably have a V after it.

and you will find the word bylar. Now you can try this yourself. Think up a word in English that you like to do. So for example, you might like chatting with your friends or something like that. So to chat, look up chat in the dictionary. Find the bit where it says verb because chat is also a noun, a chat having a chat with someone. But the verb, chat in the dictionary, will be listed as charlar. Charlar.

Charlar is an infinitive. you can say, me gusta charlard. Me gusta charler. Okay, if we're going to set you a wee challenge here on the website, you can go and let us know what you like doing. And try using the dictionary for that, finding the verb, and listing it with either me encaanta, me gusta, no me gosta, whatever you want. And that's about it for today.

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