Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.24 | The alphabet and staying at a campsite

Episode Date: May 29, 2009

In this week’s lesson of Coffee Break Spanish, Mark and Kara introduce the necessary language for staying on a campsite in a Spanish-speaking country, from tent hire to shower blocks! They also cover the alphabet and the variations in certain letters in different parts of the Spanish-speaking world. Please note that lesson 24 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 124 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 to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark. Como do you know is Mark and I'm here to help you with your Spanish. In this episode, episode 24, we're going to be going camping and looking at some useful phrases that you can use in lots of situations. I hope that you enjoy the episode. Now over the past few weeks we've been talking about accommodation, mainly concentrating on hotels and the type of language that you may need to book into a hotel

and if you encounter any problems in the hotel, As with everything that you learn in Coffee Break Spanish, the kind of language that you learned in these previous programs can be reused, and you might well find that phrases that you learned previously can be reused in other situations. Today we're talking about the campsite, and lots of the language you've already learned can be used in the campsite situation. Let's first of all begin by asking, is there a campsite near here? Now the word for campsite in Spanish is, on camping. Un camping. Yeah, it's a bit strange. It's one of these words in foreign languages that's not quite right.

It's based on the English word, but it's really not the English word. So, um camping is a campsite. An camping. Un camping. Now, can you remember how to say around here? Por acque. Yeah, and you could change it equally to near here, which would be. Cerca de acque, or serca de acque.

So, how would you? you say, is there a campsite around here? An camping for here? There are a camping for here. There are a camping for here. I'm a camping for here, or there's a camping that's a camping. Perfecto.

Now, we're going to learn a few words that are associated with the campsite. To begin with, the verb, to camp or to go camping. It's a campar. Acampar. Accampar. Acampar. Okay. And the word for a tent

varies slightly between Spain and some countries in Latin America. It could either be Una Tienda. Una Tienda. One Tienda.

And that's, in fact, the same word that you would use for a shop. Una Tienda. It comes from the fact that in the olden days,

shops used to be under tents. One Tienda. And in some Latin American countries, you may find the word Una carpa used. Una carpa. A carpa. Very good.

The other thing that you may find in a campsite is a caravan. A caravan. A caravan. A caravan. a caravan A caravan Caravan, motorhome, something like that

So let's run through those again, we've got Acampar Acampar A tienda A tienda? A carpa A carpa A carpa

A caravana A caravanah A caravan If you've been following Coffee Break Spanish right the way through then you may remember that in lesson 16 we did a phrase meaning can one do something.

The phrase at that point was se puede comeer here. Se puade come from the verb, to be able to. And we've already come across other phrases like Puedo, can I, and so on. And it's followed by an infinitive.

It's very, very useful in Spanish. So we're going to ask the question today So can Acampar Aki So can Acampar Aki

Meaning of course Can we camp here Yeah Can we camp here Literally can one camp here Is it possible to camp here So can Acampar Aki

So you can actually Use that phrase For both tents And caravans or motorhomes Because it will be fairly obvious To the person You're talking to

Whether you want to pitch your tent Or park your caravan in their garden or their field or whatever. Se Puede acampar here? We're going to reuse this phrase in a number of situations in this lesson.

So let's imagine that you're in the campsite and you want to ask the question, can you drink the water? Can you remember what water is? El aqua? El agua, just as in an an agua mineral. So, if you want to say,

Can one drink the water? You would say, let's beaver el-a-se-puebever el-a-que-le-a. Se-puebever el-a-a-wee-wee-webuelele. Let's imagine that you wanted to hire a towel. The word to hire is al-qilar. Al-qilar. Now last week, when we were doing accommodation in hotels,

We'll learn the word for a towel. What's a tole? Tualia. Tuaya, a tuaya. So can one hire a towel? Se Puede alquilar a towel. Se Puele Aalquilar a

Tualia. Very well. Se Pue de alquilar a tawia? So can alquire a tualia? Perfect. We'll come back to

Se Pue de a bit later. In the meantime, let's ask about where some things are in the campsite. How do you see, where is? Donde is ta? So, let's imagine that we're asking, where is the swimming pool? Dondy is ta la pistina? Exactly. Don't know. Donda la piscina. Or in Latin America, where is the Piscina.

What about the supermarket? We may not have done this word, but we have done the market already. Mercado? The market. So the supermarket would be... Supermercado? The supermercado, exactly.

Then, where is the supermarket? Dondy is the supermarket. Where is the supermarket? Dondy is the supermarket. Very well. If we were talking about the showers, we did shower a couple of weeks ago when we were talking about accommodation, so what's the word for a shower? Ducha. One docha, docha. So the showers would be?

Las tuchas. Las duchas. How would you say then, where are the showers? Dondy estan las tuchas. Very well, and you remembered estan. I hope all our listeners remembered that as well. Estan is the plural form of the verb. So it's not where is the shower,

where is the shower? Donde's ta'u chas. Where are the showers? Donde stand las duchas? Dondi are the duchas. And in a campsite, you also probably would have a toilet block. That would be the toilets,

Los Servicios. Los Servicios. In Latin America, Los Servicios. Where are the services? Where are the services? Donde are the waste disposal area. Donde are the services?

Dondy are the services And one other thing that you may want to know in the campsite is the waste disposal area, the bins. Donde are those cubos of the basura. Where are the cubes of the basura? Cubos. Cubos.

Los cubos of the basura. Los cubos of the basura. Perfect. Where are those cubos of the basura? Where are those cubos of the basura? Very well. So that's just some things that you may need to find on a campsite. And again, it's just really more vocabulary.

You can check in the dictionary if there's anything else that you need to find while you're on the campsite. Before we move on to the next section of today's lesson, I'm going to give you a challenge. I would like you to see if you can work out how you would ask something like this. Where can one buy milk? Now we have covered most of these words at various times in the coffee break Spanish lessons. The one word that we haven't covered is to buy. And to buy is compra. Comprar. Comprar.

Now, see if you can work out the rest of the sentence. Where can one buy milk? And I'll give you some thinking time just now. Okay, let's see what we can work out. First of all, let's start at the end. Milk. Think back to when we were ordering drinks and we ordered a milky coffee.

How did we ask for that? An café with lece. An cafe with lece. So the word for milk is leche. Lece. Okay. Now, where? How do you see where? Donde? Donde. So, Donde can one buy. We've already had buy in this lesson. It's Comprar.

So how would you see, where can one buy? Donde se pute compra. Donde can be compra. And then finally, milk. Leche. Donde can be compre leche. Donde can buy leche? Very well. Let's change this to where can one buy coffee?

Donde can be coffee? Donde se can buy coffee? Very well. What about where can one buy bread? Dondi se pulde can buy pan. Donde se pute compre pan. Exactly. Now, these phrases can be reused.

The words and the parts of this phrase can be reused in other. phrases allowing you to develop your vocabulary and develop your range of expression. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment. When you're not listening to Coffee Break Spanish, you can still practice your Spanish with our regular posts on social media. Find us on Facebook, just search for Coffee Break Spanish. We're Learn Spanish on Twitter and you can keep up with the team through our regular posts on Instagram. 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.

We're going to move on to another part of the lesson, and this is where we're going to learn the alphabet. In Spanish, there is a body, an official body, which in a sense controls what is seen as official Spanish, and this is the Real Academia Española. And according to the Real Academia Española, the following letters make up the Spanish Alphazia. alphabet, A, B, C, and then a fourth letter is C-H.

Then it continues, D, E, F, G, H, I, J-K-L, and then you have double L, as in Me, Yiamo. M, N, and then N with a thir-a-a-a-above it, the little squiggle, which is used in words like Otonio, autumn. And then O, P, Q, R, S-T-U-V, W, X, Y, Z. Now, some of these letters are very rare in Spanish. For example, the letter K only really exists in words that come from foreign origins. For example, Kilometro and Kilo, meaning kilometer and kilo. Similarly, W is also very rare.

Other people will tell you that erre, that's a double R, is another letter in the Spanish alphabet. Indeed, when I was at university, I was told that R was one of the letters of the Spanish alphabet. However, according to the Real Academia, double R is not one of the letters of the official Spanish alphabet. Let's then learn each letter individually. Before we do, there's one other thing that I'd like to say, and that is that in Spain the letter C is pronounced. and in Latin America it's pronounced C. So let's try these Thé. Thay.

Se. And the same happens with the letter Z or Z. In Spain it's Theta. Theta. And in Latin America seta. Now we've already mentioned lots about the differences between C and Z pronunciations in Spain and Latin America. So it should come as surprise that there are differences in the way in which the letters in the alphabet are pronounced. While we're repeating the alphabet, we will concentrate on the Spanish pronunciation. If you

wish to repeat the Latin American pronunciation, that's absolutely fine. So let's begin. We'll do this in groups of three letters. A, B, C. B, C. C. C. C. C. C. D. E. E. C. F. G. H. F. G. H. E. H. K. E. H. L. E. L. E. L. E. L. E. L. L. L.E. M. N. N. E. N. E. N. E. N. N. E. E. O.

P-Q-R P-Q-R S-T-U S-T-U W-W-W-X W-W-W-W-X Y-Z E, gregega, zeta.

E griega, it literally means Greek, I. E griega. I. Very well. There's a few things to say, particularly about V and W. V, in some parts of the world, can be V. Me. And that, of course, sounds very similar to the second letter of the alphabet, V.

Be. In fact, they sound absolutely identical, and that's why in Spain in particular, you're more likely to hear me for b and uwe for v. In some countries, b is referred to as be grande. And in this situation, v is referred to as bethika. This is like saying ve big sound and v little sound. so Big B and Little V or something like that It is quite complicated You can stick to whichever version you like

As long as you're consistent The same happens with W I was taught that W in Spanish is Obe W, and literally that means V double And when you think about what a double you looks like That probably makes more sense than saying it's to use WU, it should perhaps be double V

However in Spanish you'll hear W referred to as Doublee W-B, W-W-Double, or U-Double The fact is that there are very few W-Us in Spanish in the first place so you hopefully don't need to worry about it too much.

We're going to go through the whole alphabet one more time. I'll say the English, then I'll say the Spanish, there will be a space for you to repeat the Spanish and Kara will then say the Spanish after that. So, first of all, A, A. A. B.

V. V. C, C. C. C. H. T. T. D. D. D.

E. E. F. F. F. G. G. H. H. H. A. Ate. I. E.

J. J. J. K. K. L. L. L. D. D. L. L. L. L. L. L. L. L. L. L. L. L. L. Elie. M. Em, emy. Eme. N, N, N with a tilde, Enie. Ene. O, O. P, P.

P Q Q Q R R R S

S S T T T T T Y

U U U or V or V W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W. Or B double B double or W

W or W W or W V X X X I grega Z Zeta Zeta

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