Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.13 | Directions

Episode Date: January 31, 2009

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Welcome back to another episode of Coffee Break Spanish. This is episode 13. And in lesson 13, you're going to be learning about places in the town. How to ask for simple directions. You'll be using the phrase, Donde estes. Where is? Donde's ta.

And we could begin by asking something like, Donde is la Cateral. Where is the cathedral? By the end of this lesson, you'll know how to ask for lots of places in the town. town and also to understand directions when you're given them. I hope you enjoy the list. So we're finally out in the town in Spain or in another Spanish-speaking country. And today, one of the first things that we're going to learn are the words for some of the places that we

might encounter in this town. So we're going to start with some masculine words. Remember that all Spanish words are either masculine or feminine. And we're going to start with some masculine words. Kara, can you repeat after me? And again, we'll have all the listeners. was repeating with you. So first of all, El Moseo. El Moseo. El Moseo.

El Moseo. El Moseo is the... Museum. It's the museum, that's correct. It ends in O, the word Moseo ends in O, and lots of Spanish words that end in O are masculine. It's preceded, therefore, by L,

the masculine word for the. Let's now think about something else, another masculine word, and that would be El Banco. El Banco. El Banco. El Banco would be the bank. The bank, of course. So hope everybody's remembering to repeat along with Kara. We've had El Museo.

El Museo. And El Banco. El Banco. Very bien. Another word would be El Reserv. That's a restaurant. El restaurant. El restaurant.

That's it. Remember the Spanish R. I'm sure you all remember the lesson that we were trying to teach you how to best pronounce the Spanish R with the similar to the American English barrel, the double T sound, or ardor in words like that.

Kara, you're much better at me than that, so I'll not say anymore. So remember those aurs. The restaurant. Okay, so we've had El Banco, the museum, El Restaurant, obviously the restaurant, another masculine word.

And one more masculine word we'll learn and that is El Mercado. El Mercado. El Mercado. Now, can you work out how that would be spelled? M-E-R-C-A-D-O.

Good. A-D-O at the the end, ado. Ado. In actual fact, in some parts of Spain and other parts of Latin America, you would actually say, El Mercau. El Mercado. Yeah, but probably easier to stick to El Mercado,

but make sure it's a soft D sound in the middle. El Mercado. Very bien. So, let's run through our four masculine words first. El Banco. El Banco. El Moseo. The museum

El restaurant El restaurant The Mercado Very well Now we're going to introduce some feminine words here as well For other places in the town That you might need to visit while you're in holiday Or travelling in a Spanish-speaking country

And first of all we'll start with One place that in many Spanish and Hispanic towns Is the center of the town And that is La Plaza Mayor La Plaza Mayor La Plaza or in Latin American Spanish, La Plaza Mayor.

So La Plaza Mayor, or La Plaza Mayor, is the main square. La Plaza Mayor. La Plaza Mayor. Or La Plaza Mayor. La Plaza Mayor. Just a cultural note here. I've certainly been in plenty of Plathas Mayores in different towns in Spain, and they're always very, very nice places to be.

For example, in Madrid, there's restaurants all around the Plaza Mayor, and there are even concerts and theatre performances performed in the square. My favourite Plaza Mayor in the whole of Spain and all the cities I've visited is Salamanca. If anyone has ever been to Salamanca, the Plaza Mayor is Preciosa, precious. So, La Plaza Mayor, the main square. La Plaza Mayor. La Plaza Mayor. Okay, somewhere else that you might well start your tool.

quest would be the tourist information office. In Spanish, this is the office of tourism. La Oficina de Tourismo. La Oficina de Tourism. La Ophicina de Tourism. Very well. Now, in Latin American, in Spanish, you would say, La Oficina de Tourism.

La Ophysina de Tourism. Okay, so it's the tourist information office, and that's why you can ask many of the questions that we're going to be learning today. Moving on, another feminine place would be La Pistina. La Pistina. La Pistina.

La Pistina. Now, if you're familiar with French, then you're very likely to know what La Piscina is. A swimming pool. It's a swimming pool, that's right, or the swimming pool, La Pistina. And just another. pronunciation point about Latin American

Spanish you wouldn't say La Pistina but La Piscina La Piscina Very bien and that indeed sounds even more like the French La Piscine Okay so we've had three feminine words so far La Plaza Mayor La Plaza Mayor

La Oficina de Tourismo La Ophistina de Tourism La Pistina And one final one That is La Cathedral La Caterale La Caterale La Caterral

The cathedral. Okay, very good. La Caterral means The cathedral? The cathedral. Yeah, and there's lots of cathedrals in many Spanish towns and indeed towns all across the Spanish-speaking world. So we have eight different places in the town.

Let's run through them all again, starting with the masculine ones. El museum. El museum. El Banco. El Banco. The restaurant. The mercado. El Mercado.

El Mercado. La Cathedral. The cathedral La Plaza Mayor La Pistina La Pistina La Oficina de Tourismo Very bien

Try to trick you out there With seeing that last one very quickly Okay We need to ask We could obviously stop someone In the street and just say La Caterale And look a bit lost

But it might be better To say where is the cathedral And we've already come across The word for where Can you remember how you say Where are you from? From? Dondy eras, de Dondyres.

So the word for where is? Donde. Donde. Okay, and we need to remember our nice soft Spanish the sound. Donde. Donde. And where is is

Donde esth. Donde esta. Donde is Donde ista. Donde is ta. Okay, so can everybody repeat this? Donde is ta. Cara?

Donde esta. Okay. And in Spanish, you would probably be more likely to run it together and say something like, Donde esthita. Donde esta. Donde esta. So what we're going to say is, where is the museum? Donde is the museum.

Donde is ta el museum. Very well. Donde is ta el museum. Donde is a museum. Now, there's one easy way to say, excuse me, or to stop someone in the street. And that is by saying, please, por favor.

Por favor? Por favor. Where is there in a museum? Por favor? Where is there? Very well. So, I'm now going to ask you to come up with some other phrases

using the words we've already learned in this lesson. How would you say, excuse me, where is the main square? Kara, can you help the listeners? Por favor. Where is the Plaza Mayor?

La Plaza Mayor. The Plaza Major. Yeah. Where is the Plaza Mayor? Where is the Plaza Mayor? Yes. For favor, where is the Plaza Major? For favor.

Where is the Plaza Mayor? Very well. How would you say, excuse me, where is the bank? Kara? For favor. Where is the bank? Very well. For favor, where is the bank?

For favor, where is the bank? Can we have a... Where is the museum? Where is the museum? Okay, for favor, where is the tourist information office? For favor, where is the office of tourism? Very well. For favor, where is the office of tourism?

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So we've learned how to ask where are certain things and of course if you've got a map then somebody could point to a place on the map and show you exactly where it is and for that purpose we're going to learn a couple of other phrases they might say esta

here esta here esta here so el moseo is ta'aqi and they might even start by saying something like mire mire

and mire is the polite form of saying look mire seor el moseo is here mire seor what did you say again

the museum isa moseo is ta'cchi mire seor el moseo is ta here mire m'i seor

the museum is here very now if you don't have a map then perhaps someone would

want to give you actual directions and they might want to say things like turn left turn right go straight on it we're going to learn these now the first of these is siga to dodo recto siga todo recto seea todo recto seea to do directo seea to do directo just try to get more of a a spanish sounding oh seea todo recto seea to dodo All. To do. Toto. Tso.

Siga Tto direct. Siga Tto direct. Very, very well. Siga Toto recto means go straight on. Siga Toto Recto. Siga totally means follow. So follow straight ahead. Follow straight on.

Siga to do recto. Siga to do recto. Okay. Now turn, the word turn in Spanish. There's actually a couple of words for turn. but we're going to stick with one, and that is doubly. Doubley. Doubley.

Doubley. Doubley. Doubley. Very good. Doubley literally means double, so it's almost like saying double back, but obviously we're not talking about fully turning around. Doubley is just turn in Spanish. Doubley.

Doubley. And you might want to turn left or right. We're going to start with right. It's a bit easier than left, so we'll start with. Doble to la Derecha. Doble to the right? Doble to the right? Doble to the right?

Derecha. Derecha. Derecha. Derecha. Derecha. Very good. The cha sound, you're doing that well, Cara. Derecha.

Derecha. Okay, remember the smiley bit that you're supposed to smile when you see C-H in Spanish. Cha. Cha. Right. Very good. Doble to the right.

Doble to the right. So that's turn right. Turn left is double to the left. Doble to the left. Very well.

Doble to the left. Not to complicate things, but in Latin American Spanish, you would say, Iskierda. Iskierda. Iskirda. Doble to the left? Doble to the left?

Very well. So we have Siga all right. Siga all right. Doble to the right? Doble to the left. Very good, very well. Well, one more thing, or two more words at least. You might be looking for a particular thing in town.

It might be the bank, it might be the tourist information office or whatever. And you have identified where it is and the person has given you directions. The one thing that you might want to ask is, is it far or is it near, nearby? So to say is it far, you use that same word for is, which is. Esta. Ista? Uh-huh. Ista.

And the word for far is lejos. Lejos. Lejos. Lejos. Esta lejos. Ista lejos? Ista lejos? Ista lejos?

Very well. Now, we have already come across a phrase, are you from here? Kara, can you remember how you would say, are you from here? Eres de aci. The informal version, or is Ostead de aci. So from here in Spanish is... De here. De aqui.

So how would you now say, putting these two bits of the jigsaw together, is it far from here? Is it lex? Very well. And how would you say, is the museum far from here? isa el mseo lejos de acque? Almost right.

In actual fact, you turn it around a little and you say, El Moseo esthaejo de aci. El Moseo esthaejoe okay. So raising your tone at the end to say, to ask a question, but to make a statement, the museum is far from here. The museum is far from here.

The opposite of lejos de acchus is It's, closer. Serca. In Latin America, serca. So how would you say is the bank

near here? Listeners, can you work that one out? Is the bank near here? What would you say? El Banco is a circle of here? Very well.

And you remember to turn it around a little, El Banco is ta'erca de here. So the bank is close from here or close to here, we would say. El Banco is ta'erca de acque. Very well. We've actually covered quite a lot in this lesson. We've talked about different places in the town. We learned eight different places and we'll

be adding to that next week. And we've also learned to ask where is something? Donde is ta. Where is ta? Donde ista. We learned some directions. Siga to do directo. Doble a de-recha. Doble to the right. Doble to the left. Double to the left. And is a lejos and is that's close.

Is it far and is it near? 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. Much grazie, and hasta pronto.

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