Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.21 | Weather

Episode Date: May 2, 2009

In this week’s lesson of Coffee Break Spanish, Mark and Kara return after a few weeks off. The topic for discussion is the weather, and listeners will learn not only some useful phrases for talking about the weather, but Mark will explain the constructions behind these phrases so that listeners can build on these in the future. Please note that lesson 21 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 121 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 bienninoos at Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. It's lesson 21, and today we're talking about the weather. What is the weather like today? What is the weather like today? I hope you enjoy today's lesson. Okay, so before we get into today's lesson, just to mention one thing,

and that is when I ask Kara, are you ready? Estes Lista. She answered slightly differently from normally. What did you say, Cara? Claro que si. Claro that si. Can you read.

Repeat that please. Claro que si. Claro que si means of course, as in of course I am. Claro that's lista, clear that's lista, of course I am.

And equally, you could say, clear that's so that's just another way of answering the question. Estes listo or you're lista? Let's get on and talk about

today's topic. And today's topic is the weather, something that everyone on holiday needs to know about. Today we're going to cover talking about the weather, what's the weather like today? We're also going to be looking at different phrases to describe the weather, and then we'll talk about what the weather's going to be like tomorrow, something that is very useful when you're on holiday in Spain or a Spanish-speaking country. Let's start with the phrase, what is the weather like? What time has?

What time does? Okay, now if you're in Latin America, you would say, Ke tempo hase. Okay, so, what time does, or what time is it doing? Okay, so the weather does in Spanish. Ace means it does. What time does?

What time does? And you could ask. add in oi at the end oi. Oi. And oi means today. It's a word that we've come across already. Ke tempo athe oi. What time a thee oi?

Okay. We're going to learn some possible answers for this. And we're going to start by using the same word, athe or ase. Ace. Ase. And again, this word comes from the verb ather. meaning to do, so athe literally means it does.

Imagine asking, what's the weather doing? What is it doing? It does, it is doing. Athe sol. Athe sol. Athe sol. Athe sol. In Latin America, ase sol.

Ase sol. Now, I'm sure that you will probably know what sol means. Sun. the sun, that's right. So athesol or ase sol means it's sunny, literally, it's doing sunshine. Now that might sound a little strange that the weather is doing something. But if you imagine the weather being this person living up in the sky, deciding what the weather's going to be like today, the weather is actually doing or making sunshine or making rain. I know this is a bit weird, but anyway, if you imagine it this way, it might help you remember that athe means

is doing or does. So, aces sol. Ase sol. Okay. In English, we would see, it's sunny. But in Spanish, you've got to see Aze plus whatever the weather's like. Azee sol. Azee sol.

Or Ase sol. Asi sol. I's imagine that the weather is windy. To see, it's windy, you see, Ace viento. Aze biento. And Aze viento literally means. it's doing wind.

Let's have no comments about this. Ace biento. Ace viento. And in Latin America, ase viento. Ase wento. Biento. Biento.

Okay, now, biento starts with a V, and it's that Spanish v sound. It's a kind of combination of B and V. So, viento. In some parts of Latin American,

in particular, you will hear viento with a proper V sound. Ase viento. In Spain, you're more likely to hear Aze viento. Aze viento. Very well. So we've had

Acesol. Aze sol? Aze viento. Aze viento. Let's see what else the weather might be doing. It might be cold. Ace frio. Ace frio.

Frio. Friot. Athe frio. Athe frio. Now, if you've learned French or Italian, you'll be recognized frio as similar to the word foie or freddo. So, frio is cold. Athe frio. Ace frio.

And in Latin America, Ace frio. Ace frio. It might, alternatively, be warm. Ace calor. Ace calore. It's a cold. Ace calor. And again in Latin America,

Ase calor. Aze calor. Very well. So, Aze sol, Aze viento, Aze frio, Aze calor.

It's sunny. It's windy. It's cold. It's hot. You may want to say, It's good weather, or it's nice weather. Can you remember what the word for good is?

Bueno. Bueno, okay, it's a word that I use quite regularly, Bueno. We're going to do other thing. It's also the word that forms part of Good Morning, although in that situation is Buenos, Buenos Dias, or Buenas tardes,

Buenas tardes. So, Buena, Buenas, Buenos and so on, are all related to the word for good. When we're talking about the weather, we talk about Buen Tiempo. So we've already learned the word

Tiempo meaning weather Buen Tiempo means good weather Let's repeat that Buen Tienpo Buen Tienpo Buen Tienpo Buen tempo Very good. So you could see

it does good weather Ace Buen Tiempo Aze Buen Tiempo Or, again in Latin America, Ase Buen Tienpo.

Ase Buen Tienpo. Very good. And the opposite of that, bad weather, would be Mal Tiempo. Mal Tienpo. Okay, let's repeat that together.

Ace mal tiempo. Ace mal tianpo. Very good. Ace mal tiempo. And again, Latin Americans would say Ase maltiempo. Why are there so many forms of the word

It all really depends on what Bueno goes with Bueno on its own is used for well Bueno Let's do this But you also have Bueno as in Buenos days when it's masculine plural Buena's Feminine plural and so on When it comes with time

is an example of an adjective that's used before the noun in Spanish. And indeed, like malo, it is a shortened form when it comes before the noun. So rather than bueno, it becomes buen, and malo becomes mal. So there are basically different versions of the adjectives depending on where they come in the sentence and what they have to agree with. Okay, thank you. So let's run through what we've learned so far in today's program. We've got the question,

What time Ace Oi? What's the weather like today? We have different answers. Aze sol. Aze sol? It's sunny. Ace viento.

It's windy. Ace frio. It's cold. Ace calor. Asi calor. It's cold. warm. We've also had its good weather, it's good weather,

it's good time, and it's bad time. It's bad weather. All of these phrases use the word athé or in Latin America, ase, but we're going to add in two more words here.

The first of these is duve. Lueve. Yeah, yuebe is a really tricky word to say because it starts with a double L sound, just like the word me liamo, me yammo. Me liammo. So, luebe. Luebe. Lueve.

Some people might say jueve. Juebe? That means it's raining. Jueve. Luebe. If you're finding it's difficult, start with lueve. Cara, you try that? Luebe.

Okay, there's three sounds there at the beginning. There's the l, then the y, and the u. So, le, youweve. Exactly. Okay, now, if you're pronouncing this right, your tongue will have almost done a full size. circle in your mouth while you've said that. It starts off at the big, at the front of your mouth,

and then it goes backwards, and then it comes forward again. Luebe. Okay. Now, maybe some of you got this first time round, but others of you will probably find it a bit more tricky, so hopefully you don't mind us going through the extra pronunciation practice there. Luebe means it's raining. There's another word that we're going to learn here.

and that is niva Neva Neva Neva Neva Neva means it's snowing Neva Neva

Neva Okay, so let's go back to Lueve and Neva Neva Very well, excellent Now that's eight different

phrases to talk about the weather Some of them use Athe as we've learned, and then others use their own word, Lueve and Neva. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment. When you're not listening to Coffee Break Spanish, you can still practice your Spanish

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Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Now, we already heard that athe means it's doing or it does. Athe comes from Acer, meaning to do or to make. Acer. Acer. And in Latin America, you would say, Acer. Acer.

So Acer means to do or to make. Luebe comes from Ljover To rain Ljover And Nieva comes from Nevar

Nevar Nevar means to snow Nevar Nevar Very well I want you to think about these three infinitives. The infinitive form is of course the form to do something, to rain, to snow.

And think of the difference between Ather, Yover and Nevar. One of the main differences is the fact that with Ather, you could say I do or you do, or she does, or we do. With Yovir, you can only say it rains or it's raining. You can't say I rain or we rain, and you can't say I rain. and you can't say I snow or we snow so L'Over and Nevar are what are called impersonal verbs

It only exists They only exist in the third person singular The it part It rains It snows Whereas Ather can exist in the I part The U part The she part and so on

We're going to use these infinitives Because we're now going to say Tomorrow It's going to say going to snow or to rain. So let's take Ljover to rain. It's going to rain is Ba a

Lover Ba A liuver Very Three words Ba Ba A

Javer Literally It goes to rain is going to rain. Ba a yovere. So if ba a yovere means it's going to rain, how would you say it's going to snow?

Ba a nebara. Very well. Ba a nevar. Ba'a nevar. Very well. So, manna ba a nevar.

Manana Which is not nevar, but nevar. Nevar. Very good. Nevar. Manana va nevar. Manana be a nevar. And manana is obviously the word for tomorrow,

because we've already learned until tomorrow. Astanaana. Asta manna. Very well. Now, if ba a nevar means it's going to snow, and ba a lover means it's going to rain. we're now going to use ather in the same type of construction. Let's think we're talking about it's going to be sunny.

So to do sun would be... Athesol. Well, Athe sol is its doing sun, it does sun, so to do sun is... Acer Sol. Ather, being the infinitive, from which comes Athe. Ather sol. Ather sol. So tomorrow, it's...

It's going to be sunny. Manyana va a a day very manna bha a

make a saul. Manana ba a a sail very very well

how would you say tomorrow it's going to be cold manna ba

to perfect now it's very important that you remember here that

a fair frio is how you say to be cold it's As soon as we say to be, you might start thinking, oh, that's something to do with estar or something like that.

But in this case, because we're talking about weather, that's why we started off saying that the weather does things, it's doing cold, it's doing warmth, it's doing wind and so on. So, manana, ba a a a c'er frio. Many bien. Tomorrow is going to be nice weather, good weather. Manyana will do a good time. Very well. So let's say

we wanted to say today it's sunny but tomorrow it's going to be cold. See if you can work that one out. Oi has a sol but

tomorrow I'm going to what is again? Cold. Frio. Okay that was almost perfect but you said boy

to make a frio. Oh, ba a a Yeah. Some of you listening might be wondering what Boy to make sure means. Boy a means I am going to. So literally Kara was saying I am going to

do cold. I think Kara's turning into the weather now. Ba a to make freeo. Very well. Ba to make free. Ba to make free. Very good. One final question.

What is the weather Today is What time What time does today? Imagine you're arriving back at your hotel having spent an evening out in a warm summer's night, and you want to ask the receptionist, what is the weather going to do tomorrow?

How would you say that? What time will be to be a saying? Perfecto. What time will do ma'ana? Okay time to do manna Okay,

you can run all your a sounds together there. Ke tempo to do a make a

yearna Okay time yeah, you sound about like a sheep but you can run them

all together that yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly if you're saying

this quickly that time yeah yeah What time will be to do Exactly What time will be To be made

Many bien 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

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