Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.09 | Review of the unit

Episode Date: December 13, 2008

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Live in videos at Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. Yep, I'm still sitting here. And we are still recording more introductions to Coffee Break Spanish. Now, if you've reached this point, it means that you've really started to learn some real Spanish, and you're able to communicate

and talk about yourself and talk to other people and find out a little bit about them. So far, we've been looking at phrases which really help you in that first level of communication. talking about yourself, saying where you're from, where you work, what you like, and so on. And these are really good conversation starters when you want to practice your Spanish that bit more. But we've also been looking at some really round-level stuff in terms of grammar that you can build on in future lessons. In this lesson, we're going to be testing you a little bit, finding out what you know based on what you've learned so far in the course.

So good luck for the test. So in the past eight weeks you have learned so much with Coffee Break Spanish. We've covered so many topics and hopefully you're beginning to feel really confident with a lot of these. Today's program is all about making you more confident and we'll be using some activities to help you build your confidence that bit more. Before we got on to the activities we're going to run through some of the topics and I'm going to test Kara on some of the things that we've been talking about. So I hope, Kara, you remember all this. Me too.

I'm sure you'll remember everything. Okay, to begin with, the first program we covered, greetings and really asking people how they are. So how do you say, how are you? Ke tal. Now, Kara, you've got to remember to leave a pause so that all our listeners can answer the questions before you answer them. Okay, how would you say very well? Very bien. Very bien.

Very well. What about pretty awful? Fatal. Fatal. And if I asked you how you're feeling and you wanted to say, okay. Regular? Regular. Exactly. So in that first program we covered asking people how you are and answering the question as well. Then we went on to talk about greetings and there are different greetings at different times of the day. One of the things that we covered here was the whole issue that with good morning and good afternoon, a slightly different word for the good part.

Kara, can you explain a bit about that? Okay, if I remember rightly, we use Buenos Aires with Diaz because Diaz is a masculine word and we use Buenosas with Taze and Noce because they're feminine words. Exactly, so we say Buenos Dias but Buenos Aires

and Buenos Aires. There were some other greetings that we learned. We learned how to see you later. after pront a s'ouego asta logo exactly asa looo would be see you later and you began to say another phrase which was

asa pronto now see if our listeners can remember what that means asa pronto Kara what does it mean see you soon see you soon exactly okay moving on

in our third program we talked about where are you from where are you from now there's two versions of this like most Spanish questions an informal and a formal version, Kara, can you remind us what the informal version of where are you from is?

De Donde are you? Okay, literally from where are you? So what would be the formal version of the same question? De Donde is Uste. De Donde is Uste. Very well. We also learned how to say I am from Soe. Soe de. So to say I'm from Madrid, so I'm from Madrid. Or to say, I'm from Madrid. Or to say I'm from Guadalajara, you would say, Soi, the Guadalajara. Now that's I'm from, Soi, you also learned how to say, I live in. Kara, can you remember what I live in was?

Bibo in. So I am from Guadalajara, but I live in Madrid. So I de Kualahara, but now I'm Bibo in Madrid. Very bien, very well. So two things there. First of all, Madrid. Madrid. Madrid. And the name of the town, there's a town in Spain called Guadalajara

and a town in Mexico called Guadalajara. Guadalajara. Guadalajara. Very well. Now, as we're going through all these words and phrases that we've covered in various lessons, we're only just covering the tip of the iceberg. There's lots more in each lesson than you can review yourself by going through the lessons yourselves.

and also using the notes and the extra podcasts that we make available. We continued on with family in lesson five. And we learned the various words to describe members of your family. So, Kara, I'm going to test you in some of these, and I'm going to say the word and again leave some space for the listeners to answer, and hopefully that'll give you some thinking time too. So here's the first one. Brother.

Hermano. Hermano, remember the silent age. Hermano. Very well. Number two, daughter. Ija. Iha, excellent. And there's a silent H in there at the beginning, Ija.

Number three, mother. Madre. Good. Number four, son. Iho. Iho, excellent. Iho. Number five, husband.

Marido. Marido. And number six, sister. Hermana. Hermana, very well. Now, a few listeners wrote to us about the words esposo and esposa. Esposo and esposa are used for husband and wife, coming from the same route as the English word spouse.

And these are used in certain parts of the Spanish-speaking world, so it's good to recognize them and indeed to know them to use. So Marido or Esposo and Mujer, Or esposa. When we were talking about family, we also learned to say, I have. Kara, what's I have? Tengo.

Okay, so I have Tengo. And you have, in the informal, Tienes? Tienes, very well. So, Tengo, an hermano, means I have a brother. How would you say, in the informal version, do you have a brother? Tienes an hermano? Tienes an hermano.

Very well. We learned the numbers and I'm going to bring someone back into the studio here to help you with your numbers. Here's Matthew to read the numbers from 1 to 10 and after that we'll go through them all together. 1.2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Ceti. Eighty. 8. Mary. 10. Grazie, Matthew. Let's repeat them all together. I'll say them first. All the listeners should say them And then Katya, you can see them afterwards. One. One.

Two. Two. Three. Three. Four. Four. Cinco. Cinco.

Seiz. Seiz. Siette. Siette. Ocho. Ocho 9 9

9 10 10 10 Okay and just one other thing about numbers and that is that some of our listeners

who are concentrating on Latin American Spanish will want to repeat this time 1 1 2 2

3 4 4 5 5 6 6 9.

10. 10. Okay. Just the Latin American version of the numbers. We'll be covering larger numbers very soon after Christmas. We went on to talk about jobs. We've already learned the word I am. Soi.

And you can add some jobs to this. So how would you say, I am a teacher, cara? Soi professora. That's right. You would say soi professora. I would say so a professor. of the jobs have different versions for the masculine and feminine words. What about I am a student?

So I studente. Sore istudiante. Now there's one very important thing about talking about professions. Kara, can you remember what it is? It's the same as French. You don't put the word for a before the word for the job. Okay, so can you give us an example of the wrong version? Soi unae studenti.

Exactly. You would never say, I'm a professor, I'm a student. You would just say, I'm professor, I'm a student. Very well. When we spoke about jobs, we also learned the word for, I work. My work is

Travajo. Travajo. Travajo in a tienda, for example. I work in a shop. I work in a shop. Travajo in a tienda. And we finished off talking about jobs by saying whether we like

jobs or not. So how do you say I like my job, Kara? Me gusta my work. Me gusta my trawacho. How would you say, I don't like my job? No me my job. No me my gusta my travajo. Very bien. We learned in lesson

ate all about pastimes and hobbies, so we learned how to say, I like to eat, for example. me gista comer and I like to sing me gusta cantar me gusta cantar perfecto we also learned how to say I love

doing something me encaanta literally something enchanes me me incanta bailar for example for example means for example I should have said that before how do you say I love to

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It's our mission to help you turn your downtime into your due time. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. I'm Encacahre Español Me Encapa Aprendar Spanish

Okay, it's time for some dialogues to see exactly how much you've learned in all these eight lessons of Spanish

with Coffee Break Spanish so far In this dialogue there are three people I am going to be playing someone called

Juan I'm going to be playing someone called Eva and Matthew's here and he's going to be

playing someone called Miguel. So we'd like you to listen carefully to this conversation, see if you can understand it all. There might be one or two things that are a little bit challenging, and afterwards we're going to ask you a couple of questions. Here goes. Hello, good days. What tal?

Hello, very good. And you, what? I, phenomenal. I'm Eva. How do you? My name's Juan. This is my Hila.

Hello, I'm Miguel. Hello, Miguel. What are you? Very, thank you. Do you guys? Yes, I have a

daughter. She's called Gabriela. And you're from here? No, I'm of France.

I live with my marido in Paris. Miguel and I are from Mallorca of Alcudia.

Well, me I have to hear. Asta Otre. Yes, until other. Adios. Okay, so how did you find that? If you want,

you can rewind your iPod or your MP3 player and listen to it again. But we're going to ask you some questions now about the conversation. First of all, we heard about Juan, who met Eva,

and Juan's son was Miguel. Can you remember how many children Eva had. Kara, can you remind us what Eva said? She said, Yes, I have a Iha, she called Gabriela.

One daughter, called Gabriela. Now, Juan asked Eva, Erres de Aki, are you from here? Can you remember what she said? Where is she from? Kara, what did she say? No, I'm from my husband, in Paris.

So, she says, So I'm from France. And where does she live? In Paris, with her husband. In Paris with her husband, exactly. Now, Juan and Miguel aren't from Paris. Mark, where were they from? Okay, so Juan said,

Miguel and I, we're from Maljorka, of Alcudia. So they're from Alcudia, which is in Mallorca. Eva said at the end, Me Tengo Keir. This is a new phrase you've probably not come across this before.

It means I have to go. Me Tengo to hear. I have to go. Me Tenggo to hear. Me Tengo Keir. Perfect. Now we're going to go on and try another conversation here. And this time it's going to test some of the language

covered in lessons 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Coffee Break Spanish. And I should say that we're doing some roleplay here. Somos Estudientes. We're both students and we're both in the town of Tarragona. Eastern Spain. Hello, good days, how are you?

Hello, all, thank you. How do you call? My name is Maria. I'm from

Italy, the Verona. But you know you do you speak of Spanish? I'm

I'm a lot of Tarragona but I'm in Barcelona. Do you your

men's? Yes, I'm have a brother and a her brother. My brother is

Cesar and my my brother isabel. Do you? Yes, two two brothers,

Carla and Lisa. Travachas or studies? Well, I studied in the

Universities of Taragona, but also I work in a restaurant very I'm

I study in Barcelona and I'm a Tenda of

a Tenda of music? Yes, me much. I like much.

I'm also me I'm quite a good well, I'm quite

I'm sure. Yes, maybe very good another conversation there and hopefully you've understood

quite a bit of that as well. It was certainly more challenging than the last one

and we're going to go through it again in a similar way. There were also

a couple new phrases in their phrases that will be covering in future

lessons. So first of all Maria is not from Spain where's she from? Kara can you read out what Maria said there So she's from Merona Verona Verona in Italy Now Carlos said to her But Alas Español

What do you think that means Kara? But you speak Spanish Yeah but you speak Spanish So Ablas Spanish Ablaz Spanish can also be a question Ablas Spanish, do you speak Spanish? Ablas Spanish? Ablas Spanish?

And Maria replied, si, I'm a little Spanish. Yeah, I speak a little Spanish. Yeah, I speak a little Spanish. Ablo a little Spanish. Ablo a little of Spanish. Very well. So, Carlos says,

I live here in Tarragona, but I'm of Barcelona. I live here in Tarragona. But I'm from Barcelona. Exactly. And then Maria asked Carlos if he had any brothers or sisters. And can you remember what Carlos said? I'll repeat it again.

See, I've been a brother and an hermana. My hermano is the same Cesar and my hermala's called Isabel. Kara, can you tell us what the answer was then? He had one brother and one sister. His brother was called Cesar and his sister. And his sister was called Isabelle. Very well. And did Maria have any brothers or sisters?

What did she say? Yes, two Hermannas, Carla and Luisa. So she of course had two sisters, Carla and Louisa. Now, Carlos asked her, Travajas or Estudias.

A very common question in Spanish. Travajas or do you work or do you study? And she replied, I study in the university of Tarragona but also I work in a restaurant So she studies

in the University of Tarragona but she also works in a restaurant in a restaurant very well Now does Carlos work or does he study He studies in Barcelona but he also works

in a music shop. Exactly. He said, Travajo in a tienda of music. What else

did he say about music? He said me much much, me musta can't

he likes music a lot and he likes to sing. And what about Maria

does she like to sing? She said, I'm too can't can't care,

but no can't very well. Now we've not done no

can't very but I'm sure you can work out what it means.

No canto very well. I don't sing very well. I don't sing very well. No canto very well. She does like music. I mean, me also me gusta can't

can't sing, but she doesn't sing very well. And Carlos finished off by saying After Pronto, Espero means I hope. And Maria said, Si, Kizaz.

Maybe. Maybe. Maybe, or indeed, perhaps, a very famous song, Kizas, Kizaz, Kikas, Kikas. Mark, do you guess to Kanda? Yes, me a lot much, but no, can't very well.

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