Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.25 | Shopping

Episode Date: June 9, 2009

In this week’s lesson of Coffee Break Spanish, Mark and Kara head to the shops and Kara learns the language required to try on clothes and buy souvenirs. Please note that lesson 25 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 125 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 bienvenos to Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. It's lesson 25 and we're going to shopping today. You're going to be learning useful vocabulary to deal with shopping situations. For example, asking for different sizes, asking if you can try things on, and of course paying for things as well. We hope you find this lesson useful. Okay, so imagine the situation you're on holiday.

One of the things that no doubt you will want to do at some point. point is go shopping. If you go into a shop, then the chances are someone may ask you, can I help you? And this is something that we've already covered. In what I can help me? In what? And Puedo Audele. In what? In what? And Puedo? means I can or can I. Then we have the infinitive a yudar.

Audar means to help. And at the end you have le added on, meaning you in the polite version. Obviously in the situation of being in a shop, someone will use the Ustead form with you. They're not going to call you too. So in que Puedo Audarle. In what Iuduadle.

Okay, now obviously that's not the kind of thing that you're going to be learning to say yourself, unless you're going to get a job in a shop while you're out in Spain or in a Spanish-speaking country, but the chances are you'll hear it. So when you hear it, you'll need to have your answer ready. You may want to ask if you can see a particular thing, or if they have a size of a particular item of clothing. We'll get to that later. First, we're going to learn how to say, I'm just looking. That will give you a chance to think up the other Spanish that you need. So I am looking is

Estoy mirando. Estoy mirando. Mirando. Mirando. Yeah, mirando comes from the verb mirar, which means to look. And any word that ends in ando or yendo, very often, in fact, most of the time, is translated by the ing form in English.

So, mirando looking. The same would happen with if it became audando, it would be helping. So, I'm looking. Okay, now, if you wanted to say, I'm just looking, then we would add a word in

before I'm doing, and that word is solo. Solo is only So I'm looking So I'm looking So I'm looking So I'm looking So I'm the situation

I'm the shopkeeper And you come into the shop Kara and I say to you In what I I can help you? Solo I'm looking Ah, very bien So there you have a nice little

conversation, exactly the kind of thing that happens in shops every day someone asks you can I help you? I'm just looking. That's okay. Very bien. Let's try that again. This time, Kara, you're going to be the shopkeeper. In what I can helpale? Solo I'mirando. Very well.

Now, it may also be the situation that you aren't quite sure you don't necessarily want to buy something. You want to do a little more looking, perhaps in another shop. So, if you are asked, lo chere, or la quere, do you want? you could say I'm not sure. Now we're going to use the same word for I am looking, I am not sure. So we're going to say, estoy. And if you wanted to say I am sure, I'm sure, I'm sure, estuio, and that would be for males and for females,

I'm, I'm sure. I'm sure. What sure? U sound, Segura. Seguer. Very well. So to say,

I'm not sure, you would say, No, I'm sure for females and no I'm sure for males. So, lo,

do you? No, I'm sure. Okay. You can then say, I'll come back later. Vuelbo Mastarde

Wuelbo Mastardé Yeah Vuelbo literally means I come back I return Mastarde

more late Mast Tarde Mast Tarde Vuelbo Mastard Exactly

So So let's imagine this situation Kara You're in my shop You have come into the shop and I'll ask you, in what I can't help you? So, I'm looking at a object.

Okay, so now Kara's picked up an object, and I'm hoping that Kara's going to buy the object, so I say, Lo Kere? No, I'm sure. Wulbo more tardy. Perfecto. So I'm not sure I'll come back later.

That's one way to get out of buying something in a particular shop. However, you may well want to buy it, in which case you would say, me lo, jevo. Me? Lo, lievo. Very well. Now, that's one of those tricky sounds in Spanish.

It's the double L sound. Lievo. Levo. And it's got another tricky sound in the same word. It's got the V sound in the same word. So, levo. Levo. Very well, very.

Now, in some parts of Latin America in particular, you will hear that pronounced as a V. Lévo. But in Spain, you would pronounce it more like a leo. So if you are taking it, how much does it cost? And again, this is something that we've done before. Can you remember how you say how much does it cost? Quanto cuesta?

Quanto cuista, and if you're talking about two items or more, then you would say, Quanto questan. Quanto questan. Quanto questan. The N at the end indicates that it's the plural form of the verb. Quanto question. Quanto question.

So you'll be told the price. That obviously depends on which country you're in. It may be euros or pesos, just depends. And you may want to pay with your credit card. Think back to when we were in the restaurant and you asked, can I pay by credit card? Karah, can you remember? how you say this.

Puedo Pagar with targetta de credito? Very well. Puedo Pagar, can I pay and Pagar is the infinitive. Pagar.

Puedo Paguer with targeta de credito. Puedo Pue do pay with targeta de credito? Perfecto. Now, in the situation

of being in a shop, it's very likely that if you ask to pay with a credit card, you may be asked for some identification. In which case, you may hear the phrase, Puedo ver su de N.I. Now, DENI is your D-N-I. Documento Nacional de identification. Obviously, this is some kind of identification card. And in the case of being a tourist, it's very likely that you would give you a passaporte over.

So, indeed, you may hear, Puedo bear your passporte? Puedeauber your passporte. And to say, here it is, Acquis Tieni. Accien. All this stuff is revision,

review, things that we've already covered. We're going to go through a little conversation here. Let's imagine Kara has been in a tourist gift shop somewhere in Spain and she's decided to buy herself a hat, a sombrero. So you're going to start by saying, I'll take it.

Me loo lia-o. Very well. How costa? The sombrero costs 15 euros. Can I pay with a taxeta of credit? Sure that is. I can see. Can't be your passport, for favor?

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your due time. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Okay, very well. Now, we're going to go on here and we are going to talk about a couple of other things that you may want to ask for when you are purchasing something. One of these would be a receipt, a ticket. Un recivo. In Latin America, you may hear the word recivo. Recibo. Okay, and the other thing that we're going to ask for is una bolsa. Una bolza is a bag. You may want a gift bag or some kind of bag to take your purchase away in. Now, both of these words,

unrecibo and a bolsa, we're going to add to the phrase can you give me? And this phrase is me pui dar so literally to me can you to give

me can you give? Me Puede dar So let's say Can you give me a receipt

me can't or you may put to ask, can you give me a receive? Me can give a recive? Me can be a recive? Very well, or you may want to ask,

can you give me a bag? Me could be a bolsa? Me can give a bolsa? Me can give a bolsa? Me can be

a bolza? Perfecto. So, we have now worked our we through the situation in a shop where you go into a shop, you decide that you're just looking, or you decide that you want to buy something. You can now ask how much does it cost? You can ask if you can pay by credit card

and you'll understand if you're asked for some kind of identification. You can also now ask for a receipt and a bag. One final area that we're going to cover today while we're talking about shopping is shopping for clothes. Yay!

So we're going to start by asking, can I try this on? Puedo probarme this, for favor. Puedo provar me this,

for favor. Okay, so probar is the verb to try. And when you use it in this context, it means to try on. So, pro bar me,

to try something on myself. And this is this. Puedo I can prove me this, for favor? Puehobar me this, for favor? Exactly.

Now, if probar is the verb to try, the probadores is the place where you try something on. The changing rooms or the dressing rooms.

To ask, where are the dressing rooms or the changing rooms, how would you say that? Donde are the provadores.

The probadores, exactly. Donde Where are the probadores? Donde are the provadores? And of course we've done lots of directions, so you'll understand the directions you're given to the fitting rooms or changing rooms. Once you're trying something on, you may want to say that something fits you. Me keda bien.

Or indeed, you may want to ask the question, Does this fit me or does it suit me? me queda bien And of course the shop assistant will tell you si le queda bien However, it may well be the case that you feel something doesn't fit you

or doesn't suit you In which case you would use the phrase No me queda bien No me queda bien No me get a bien No me queda bien And you might want to give a reason

why you don't think it fits you or it doesn't suit. Is Demasio Grande. Es Demacio grande. Now we know what

is demasio means and grande you can probably guess what would that mean, Cara? Big? Yeah,

grande is big so is demasiado It's too big. It's too big and therefore is Demasio

Pequeno It's too small. Exactly. Pequeno means small. Pequeño. Pequeno. Is demasio pequino. It's de massio

Pequino. Very well. Now obviously there's lots of other things that you might want to say about the clothes that you're trying on and so on. For example, you might want to say, I like it or I don't like it. Me Gosta. No me gosta. There's other language that we've already covered that you can use again in these situations. That's where we're going to leave it for today, however. Hopefully, this has given you enough vocabulary.

to start off your shopping in a Spanish-speaking country. 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 a gratis and hasta pronto.

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