Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.11 | I only speak a little Spanish

Episode Date: January 17, 2009

Lesson 11 concentrates on dealing with problems associated with languages. You’ll learn how to say which languages you speak and ask for help understanding what is being said to you in Spanish. Please note that lesson 11 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 111 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.This season of Coffee Break Spanish features a total of 40 lessons, all of which will be included in the podcast feed. Just stay subscribed to the podcast to enjoy each episode. If you’d like to benefit from video versions, lesson notes and bonus audio materials, you can access the premium version of Coffee Break Spanish in the Coffee Break Academy.Don’t forget to follow Coffee Break Spanish on Facebook where we post language activities, cultural points and review materials to help you practise your Spanish. Remember - a few minutes a day can help you build your confidence in the language. Access the Coffee Break Spanish Facebook page here.If you’d like to find out what goes on behind the scenes here at Coffee Break Languages, follow @coffeebreaklanguages on Instagram.You can also check out our Coffee Break Spanish Twitter page and the Coffee Break Languages YouTube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and bienveninos a coffee break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. In lesson 11, we're going to be learning how to deal with some language problems. First of all, being able to say that you speak Spanish or that you don't speak Spanish and also crucially being able to say that you don't understand and asking people to repeat if necessary. I hope you find today's lesson useful. Okay, so the first thing that we're going to do on today's show is introduce ourselves.

in Spanish, of course, for all our new listeners. Kara, do you want to start? Yeah, okay. So, hello, me am Kara. I'm Kara. I'm a Spanish and I live in Glasgow in Scotia. Me gista the music and me to play with coffee break Spanish.

Very well, very well. So Kara said that she lives in Glasgow, be more in Glasgow in Scotland. She said that she is a Spanish student. I'm a studente of Spanish. And then she said about three things that she liked doing. She said, me like la music, of course.

And me gusta ballar. She likes to dance. And to learn Spanish. And we're going to be talking a bit more about about aprender a bit later on today. Okay, me took to me. It's my turn. I'm Mark.

I'm Mark. I'm ScoCet, too. I'm of Scoti's, too. I'm of Scotiya. and I live also in Glasgow I mean

I mean I love the music so all the music Spanish I'm

also to play the piano and me are much the other

the other I said I'm also live in Glasgow you

also live in Glasgow exactly and I'm Scottish you're

Scottish Scottish I'm Scottish I'm Scottish I'm Scottish I'm Scottish I'm Scottish I'm Scottish

Kara, you would have said Soe Escocesa Exactly We've not actually done nationalities as such We've said Soy de Escocia

But that's how you would say Soi Escocesa We will do these At a later date Okay, what else did I say? Me Gusta or me Encaca La Mousica,

Soretto La Muzica Española You like Music? I really like music me encaanta I love music and then I said Sobred todo

Above all Exactly and that's a literal translation Sobre means above or over And todo is everything Just like todos, all of you So sobre to above all Especially La Musica Española

Spanish music Spanish music exactly Now I also said Me Gustin Los Idiomas Los Idiomas Are what we're talking about today As an example, an idioma would be El Francaise,

El Español, El English, El Italian. What do you think idiomas are? Languages. Languages. Exactly.

Well, very well. I hope this helped lots of our listeners who are new to the podcast get an idea as to who we are, where we're from, and the fact that, yes, we do actually live in Scotland

and we're producing this podcast in Scotland for all of you. Hopefully our Scottish accents aren't too difficult to understand. Okay, today, as you already know, we're talking about languages and we're going to be covering lots of phrases that are useful to talk about languages, the languages that you speak and when you don't understand things. To begin with, we're covering a phrase that we actually mentioned in a previous lesson in one of the conversations. And this phrase is, Ablo Español.

Ablo Español. Everybody try and repeat that. Ablo Español. Ablo Spanish. Okay, now one thing we've got to watch with this phrase is the pronunciation of the letter B. It's not a very plusive B like B. It's more, mm. Ablo Spanish.

Ible Spanish. Ablo Spanish. I'm perfect. Okay, all together. Ablo Spanish. Very well. Very well. Ablo comes from the verb,

which means to speak. So I would say, Ablo, and then if I'm saying to Kara, do you speak Spanish, I would say, Ablas. Allos Hblas. Ablas.

Ablas. Ablas means do you speak or you speak, and it's the informal version. If we were being formal, I would say, Abla Usteves. Abla Ustez-Spaniel? Abla Ustead-Spaniel?

Abla Ustead-Spaniel? Very well. Do you speak Spanish in the formal version? Now, to answer the question, you already know that you can say I'm Spanish. You may want to say, I don't speak Spanish. No I'm Spanish.

No ablo Spanish. No ablo Spanish. But of course, all of our listeners now do speak Spanish, so you wouldn't want to say that. You could say, Ablo a little of Spanish. Ablo, an poco, de Spanish. I speak a little of Spanish. Able a little of Spanish.

I'm a little of Spanish. So if I ask you, Kara, Ablo a little of Spanish. Yes, I'll a little of Spanish. Very well, very well. Now there are words for obviously every language. We're going to cover a few of them now. English is English.

Ingles Ingles Ingles French is French is Francaise Francaise Francaise French.

German? Aleman. Aleman. Aleman. Italian? Italian. Italian. Italian.

Italian. Japanese is Japanese. Japanese. Japanese. Japanese. Japanese. Japanese.

Very. That's a bit tricky that one. And the last one we're going to cover in this podcast is Chino Chinese Tino Tino Tino

Tino Very bien The Spanish C-H sound Ch It's almost like the English one But one thing that can help when you're saying the Spanish one is if you smile at the same time So rather than saying, for example, the word church

say tch And then you get a slightly stronger T-Sound So, Chinese. Chino. Chino. Chino. Very well, perfect.

So, Karen, I'm going to ask you some quick questions here. Ablas French? Yes, I'm sorry. You, I'm Spanish. Yes, I'm a little of Spanish. Very well. Ablas German? No, no, I don't know.

Ablas Japanese? Yes, a little of Japanese. Very good. And you're Italian? No, no Ivlo Italiano. Very bien. Perfecto. Now, listeners, you can join in these questions as well, or you can join in the answers, whatever suits you.

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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. It's one thing to be able to speak a language, but sometimes you can't quite speak it, but you might well understand, and you might even understand more than you can speak. So to say I understand, you say,

Entiento. Entiento. Entiento. Entieno. Very well. Entieno means I understand. So you could say, Entieno,

an poe de Spanish. Entieno, an poe de Spanish. Un poe de Spanish. Well, yeah. Entieno, a little of Spanish. And if I want to ask you,

do you understand in the informal version, I would say, Entienes? Entienes? Or, in the formal version, Entiente Ustev. Entiente,

So it's, Entiento, Entientes, Entiente Ustead. Entiento, Entienti, Estes. Very well, and of course you can say,

no entiento. No entiento. No entiento. No entiento. What does no entiento mean? I don't. I don't understand, exactly. Now a phrase that you hear very often with no-entieno is

lo-siento. Lo-siento means I'm sorry. Lo-siento, no-entien-do. Lo-siento, no-entiento. Lo-siento, no-entino. Very well. I'm sorry, I don't understand. one phrase that you may want to say

if people are trying to find out if you speak Spanish you might want to say I'm learning Spanish to see this you say I'm learning Spanish Estoy Estoy Apprendientio Apprendiento

Spanish Spanish I'm I'm going to Spanish is one of the main Spanish Apprendiento

Okay, so this yendo ending Apprendiendo is one of the main ways of translating the ing form in English. So I'm

Aprendiendo, I am learning Spanish. I know that Estoy is different from Soi. I am Scottish, but I'm I'm learning Spanish. I'm learning Spanish.

Well, you know, we've learned much things in this election. You know, we're saying the idiomas that we're And all that. Mark, Mark, can you? Can you? Can you? Can't talk more fast?

Yes, sure, sure. Karat said, Can you talk more more de spacio, for favor? Any ideas what that might mean? What did it mean? Can you speak more slowly, please? Yeah, absolutely. Can you speak more slowly? Puedes-ablar? Can you speak?

You can you speak? Puez-habilar? Mass-despacio. For favor, clear. For-favor. Puez-fos. Puez about more de-spacio, for favor. Puez about.

Okay. Now that is the informal version, Puedes-A-Blaar. The formal version would be, Pue de-Ustead-A-Blaar. Or you could just say, Pue de-is-Spaceo, please. Pueh-Ustead,

please-Bel-Mas-Despaccio, por-favor. Or, to simplify it, Puede-A-Bel-Pas-D-Pacio, for favor. Puele-Ber. Let's just try the end bit again. Mast-Despacio. Mastespasio

Yeah, and if you're in Latin America then you would be saying Mastespacio Mastespacio Okay, mas de spasio por favor Mast de spasio por aure And indeed you could just use that phrase

on its own Mastespacio, per favor slower, slower please Now if we think back to Puedes-A-Blaar and so on This Puedes word can you is going to be part

of our next phrase too. Try saying this. you can you repeat for favor so you repeat for favor you can repeat for favor

very well you can you repeat can you repeat please can you repeat please exactly so you can the informal and can you

usted repeat in the formal can you repeat Can you repeat your please? Two more phrases before we finish off. It's quite often the case that you may hear something and be trying to work out what it means.

You might therefore want to ask how something is spelled. You would say, Como se is scribe. How se iscribe? How se iscribe? Como se iscribe? And literally, that means how is it written? Como se escribe.

Como se scribe. Como se scribe. Como seescribe. Very well. And this como is also going to be used in our next phrase. Como se di-e in Spanish. Como se d'i in Spanish. Yeah, and that's the phrase that you would use if you wanted to ask someone how you say something in Spanish.

So, for example, how se dice in Spanish. How's did camera in Spanish.

Okay, so how so how is in Spanish? How say

in Spanish? And if you just use the freeze on its own, how do you see it

in Spanish? How do you see in Spanish? How is in Spanish? Very

very. We have learned lots in this particular lesson. We've spoken about Ablo, no ablo, ablo en poca de. We've looked at different languages, we've talked about repeating and seeing things again, speaking more slowly, and we've also learned how to say I understand, I don't understand, and I'm learning Spanish. And that's where we're going to leave it today for this edition of

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