Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.14 | Places in town

Episode Date: February 7, 2009

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Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. This is episode 14 and we're still in the town today. This time we're going to be learning how to ask if there's something nearby. For example, you might need a bank or you might need a chemist, a pharmacy. So we'll be learning how to say, is there a bank near here and so on. And we'll also be learning how to describe exactly where something is. So for example, it's beside something else or it's opposite something else. I hope you enjoy the lesson. you enjoy the lesson.

Okay, so before we get into this week's lesson and all the new material we're going to cover, Kara, I believe you've got a question about something that we covered last week. Yeah, last week we learned how to say near to Therka day, and I was wondering why the first C is pronounced but the second C is pronounced K.

Okay, that is a very good question. For our listeners, the word Therca is spelled C-E-R-C-A. So you've got a C-E- at the beginning and then a C later in the word and they're both pronounced differently. Let's deal with C-A first of all. C-A and indeed C-O and C-U

in Spanish all have the hard C-Sounds. So it's ca, co, co, co. K, for example, Kalle, the word for street. Kae. Koe, and ko, as in the phrase Como te yamas? Como de yamas?

and ku as in the word courioso courioso means curious or nosy so ca, co, ku ca co-ku okay cae however when c is followed by an e

or an i it changes its pronunciation and just to complicate matters further it depends where you're going to be in a Spanish-speaking country as to what that pronunciation is So in Spain it's th as in TH. So you have sounds like Centro. Centro.

And Ciudad. Ciudaz. Centro is the center and theudad is city. Centro? Centro? Ciudad. However, in most of Latin America and indeed some parts of Spain, you would say Centro.

Centro. And Ciudad. Ciudaz. So the C-E and C-I take either the Th-T-H-Pronunciation in Spain or the S-Pronunciation, the S-type pronunciation, in most of Latin America. And that's how you know whether it's Th, S, or K. Okay, thank you. Fairly complicated, but hopefully it makes sense.

Okay, now we're going to be using these places in the town and adding some more places in the town, to the language that we're covering in today's lesson. We're going to start by putting into practice what we were learning there about the letter C in Spanish, by learning the phrase, Centro Commercial. Centro Commercial.

Okay, so repeat after me, Centro Commercial. Centro commercial. Now, if you're in Latin America, you would say, Centro Commercial. Centro commercial. Okay. So that is a shopping center, a commercial center literally. A center commercial.

Centro commercial. Okay. Now, the center commercial is a masculine phrase, a masculine word. So we would talk about el centro commercial. El center commercial. How would you say, where is the shopping center? Where is the center? Where is the center commercial? Very well.

We're going to continue with some other phrases and then we're going to use all of these phrases in a particular construction. Let's learn the word for a bar. Very straightforward in Spanish. Un bar. An bar. A bar.

Very well. So the bar would be el bar. El bar. El bar. El bar. Or a bar. A bar. A bar.

Very good. What about the word for a hospital? An hospital. An hospital. An hospital. An hospital. So a hospital is an hospital. The hospital is...

El hospital. The hospital. Very well. So, a center commercial, bar, hospital. What about a cafeteria? Cafeteria. Cafeteria. Cafeteria.

A cafeteria is a sort of cafe-type bar place, normally where coffees and sometimes snacks as well are served, and it's a nice place to go for a coffee in Spain or a Latin American country. Cafeteria. Cafeteria. It's feminine, so it's una cafeteria. Una cafeteria.

A cafeteria. How would you say the cafeteria? La cafeteria? Very well. And finally, the word for a chemist. Pharmacia. Pharmacia. A chemist in the UK is probably known elsewhere as a pharmacy.

So, pharmacia. Pharmacia. It's very similar to the word pharmacy. Una pharmacia. A farmacia. Try to make sure you're pronouncing this as Pharmacia and not Pharmacia, which is wrong. So, Pharmacia.

Pharmacia. A pharmacia. A pharmacia. How would you say the pharmacy? La Pharmacia. Very well. Okay, we said we were going to use these phrases and words in a particular construction.

And this construction is, aye an bar for a here aye un bar for

okay so we've got the un bar as an example in this particular sentence aye is spelled H-A-Y

aye aye aye when you see that word it's quite tricky to remember that you don't

pronounce the H I So we would say, there's something, by here, ay, por a key. You know what

here means already. Here. Here, so, por a key means round about here, near here. Por aci. Okay, so the phrase

there, an bar, for a key. Ay un bar, por a key. Means, is there a bar around here. There a bar

for here. Very good. So we could also ask there's a center commercial for here. There's a center commercial

for here. Or there's a central commercial? There a center commercial

for here. For here. Yeah, forgot to say for here. Okay. There an hospital

for here? There an hospital for here. There's a cafeteria for here? There a cafeteria

for here. There's a pharmacy for here? Okay, so you get the idea. Therein the word, por aci. There's por aci.

Por aci, meaning around about here. So that's another way of asking where it is or is there something near here. And it's a very useful phrase, particularly if you're looking for a shop or a bar or something in particular. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment.

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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. Two more phrases that we're going to learn that will help you describe where something is are in fronte de. Enfrontede. Enfrontede means opposite. Enfronte de. Enfronted de. Enfronted de. Enfronte de. Al-lado de Al-lado-de

Al-lado-de means beside Al-lado-de Al-lado-de So we're going to use these two phrases along with Cerca de and Lejos-de to come up with some sentences

talking about our town Let's start with something straightforward I'd like you to translate into Spanish the shopping centre is near the bar Kara can you come up with that one El Centro commercial is close

de the bar Very well Now there's one slight thing that changes here and that is in Spanish When de and el come together It becomes del

So rather than saying The center commercial is close of the bar You would say The center commercial

is near the bar The center commercial is close of del bar

Exactly of Yeah Okay try something else The chemists

or the pharmacy is far from the market The pharmacy The pharmacy Is that

Lejos Del Mercado Very well Del Mercado You remember that D plus L becomes del Del Mercado

La Pharmacia is Lejos Del Mercado Let's use Enfrente D this time

Okay So opposite In front of the swimming pool is in front of or opposite the tourist information office the pizina is in front of the office of tourism. Very good. The piscina is in front of the officeina of tourism. Or for Latin American listeners,

the piscina ista in front of the officeina de tourism. Okay, now, what we're going to do now is use some of the language that we've covered today and practice it in a song because you know that we like doing some singing on the program. I like doing some singing in the film. It doesn't. So we're going to sing a song

and I'm going to teach you the words of this song. It's all about me, Theodad. or my Ciudad. And my Theodad is my town or my city. So the words go to something like this. In La Theudad... In La Theudad... Donde vibo yo.

Donde bibo yo. So you know what bibo means? I live. I live. And where? Where. So, Dondé vivo I live. Where I live.

So in the city, Dondé bibo I. In the city, where I live. Okay. And then I'm going to use the word aye, this word that we've learned already. So there is or there are. There are much cosas interesantes. Muchas causes are many things.

And what type of things am I talking about? Interestine. Interesting. So, there muchas cosas interesting. I'm muchas causes interesting. Okay, now we're going to go back to a lesson where we learned about, likes and dislikes and talk here about

I unthine Ae Uncine Is a cinema Okay So I Uncine And a cathedral

And a And a cathedral Very well I unthine And a cathedral So there's a cinema And a cathedral And a

109 restaurants And there's 109 restaurants Very well What does that last line mean? And we have 19 restaurants 19 restaurants, that's right

It's a bit of a silly song But hopefully it will help you Remember the words For talking about what there is in your town Because now you can say In my Ciudad or In La Ciudad Donde Vibo I

there are much things interesting there's a cinema and of course in your town there will be

109 restaurants what we're going to do is learn the tune of this song so I am going

to sing the line and you can sing the line along with me Kara you're going to do some singing

you're going to do some singing oh excellent very well let's see in In the city where I'm In the city where I

There are many things interesting There are many things interesting There are a cinema and a cathedral There are a Cemetery And there are 19

restaurants and I do 9 restaurants Very well I hope you were all singing along at home or in the car or at the gym and I hope you didn't get too many strange looks as you were singing along

There are another two verses to the song and all that happens is you change the third line So the third line In the second verse would go There's a bar And a center commercial There is a center commercial There is a center commercial

Okay, the rhythm of that line needs to keep quite tight so it's, there's a un bar and a center commercial I'm a bar and a center commercial try not to say

commercial in this case Commercial Commercial I own bar and a center commercial That's it Comercial

And you run I un un together A Ae un bar And a center Commercial There's a

bar A center commercial Okay And then in the third verse It's There a Oficina

De Tourismo Very Very Okay I think it's time to sing along Let's have some music

In the city Where I There are many things Interesting There are a Cine and a cathedral And there are 19

Restaurants In the city Where I live I, there are many things Interesting There's a bar and a center

commercial And there are 19 restaurants In the city Well, there's many things interesting.

There's an office of tourism and there's 19 restaurants. Well, I hope you enjoyed singing along to the song and that you can now talk about what there is in your town.

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