Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.27 | Exchanging currency

Episode Date: June 26, 2009

This week Mark and Kara look at dealing with banks and services while travelling. This lesson brings learners to a crucial stage in their language-learning as it concentrates on reusing already learned material and changing individual words in order to expand vocabulary and range of expression. Please note that lesson 27 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 127 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 biennoughto to Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. It's lesson 27. And we're doing something this week that's really important when you're traveling abroad, and that is going to the bank and being able to deal with money matters. I hope you enjoy today's lesson and that you find these phrases useful. Now this week, there are going to be some words and phrases that we're going to learn before we do anything else. The first of these is El Dinero. El Dinoero El Dinoero

is money El Dino El Dino El Dino Try to make sure that you've got that soft D sound at the beginning of that word El Dino

El Dino Very good, very good You should make sure that your tongue comes between your teeth when you're saying it Dino, Dino, as opposed to Dinoero where your tongue is above the back of your teeth.

Try that one more time. Dinerro. Dinero. Very well. So that's money. The second word that we're going to learn today is a verb. And this verb is the verb to change. To change is

Cambiar. Cambiar. Cambiar. Cambiar. So we've got Dinar and Cambiar. Now, let's look at another word, and this word is sackar. Sacar means to take out. Sacar.

And our final word that we're going to look at at the moment is firmer. Firmar. Firmar. Firmar. Very well. And listeners, you should make sure that you're trying to get that slight flick on the R in there. Kara, can you remind us of the word and the American accent that we used earlier

in the podcast? Barer. Barer, that's right. So the Rhe sound of barrar is the R sound of firmar. Firmar. Okay, it's just a flick of your tongue. Firmar.

Firmar. Now, firmer means to sign, as in to sign, a document. Firmar. Firmar. So to run through, those four words, we've got Cambiar.

Cambiar. Sacar. Sacar. Firmar. Firmar. And the word for money, Dinero. Dinero.

We're going to be using these words and combining them with phrases and other words that we already know. And the reason that we're trying to do this is because when you're in the situation in a Spanish-speaking country where you need to make up a sentence,

that you've never heard before. It's not something that you've found in a phrase book. You need to make up the sentence on the spot. You need to be able to combine the words that you already know with other words that you already know, but just perhaps have never combined them together before. We're going to put this to the test just now. I would like you to think about how you would say,

I want to change money. I want What would that be? Kara Kierro So I want to change Cambiar That we've had today

So Kero Kambiar Money Diner Diner Exactly So we've learned

Cambiar and Dinero today and combining that with I want Kiero Cambiar Diner Dino

Kiero I want to change Dinoero Kiero Kiyo Kiero Kempiar Dino Very good

Now let's imagine you didn't want to say I want to change money Let's imagine instead you wanted to say I would like to change money Kisiera

Kambiar Diner Kisiera Kambiar Diner Good So you're combining Kisiera that we've had

lots of times before with Cambiar Diner Quisiera Dino Kisiera Kempierre Kempierre Diner

Okay Now can you think of another example, Kara where you could use this infinitive Cambiar Diner with another word that perhaps means

I need to change money? Necessito Necesito Necesito Necessito Canbiar Diner Necesito

Cambiar Diner Necessito or in Latin America, Necessito Cambiar diener. Necessito Cambiar diener. Very good.

So this is us combining words that we already know with the phrases that we're learning today. Let's imagine the situation. You go into a bank, you want to change money, and the person working in the bank

will say to you, how can I help you? Now we've had that in the past couple of weeks. Can you remember what that would be, Kara? in what I can aid in what

I can help in what Iude very well now there's another way of

saying that you might hear in what I can serveirle serve serve

serve yeah that little means how can I serve you servile help

helperle it's more or less the same thing So in what can I help her In what would you say in response to that question? Quisiera Canbiar Dinero?

Quisiera Canviour deignero. Very well. 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 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. Now, before we move on, here's a little challenge for you. Can you remember how you would say,

can one do something? For example, we had can one camp here a few weeks back. Se Puele? So how would you say, can one change money here? Se can buy money here? Se can buy money here? Very well. Se can buy money here?

Perfecto. Now, you see now that it's so possible to combine words and phrases you already know and put them together with just new words and come up with completely new sentences, and this is one of the keys to learning a new language. Let's move on. It's time to change that money. You may be asked, Quanto want to change camiar. Quanto care? Quanto care or, quanto care, Osteed. How much do you want to change?

Kere is of course the you formal version of Kiero. So I want Kero or Kere you want. And note that Kere also means he or she wants. If you were, for example, helping a friend or a family member who doesn't speak Spanish to change money by saying Kere Kambiar Xen Dolares, you're saying he or she wants to change $100. Let's look at some possible amounts to change. If you're talking about dollars, then it would be

dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. So it's one dollar, two, three, four dollars. Dollars. Okay.

Now, if you're changing pounds, pound sterling, then you would be talking about Libras. Libras. Libras. Libras. So you might be wanting to change 50 pounds.

We're going to be testing your knowledge of numbers here. We did numbers, I think, in lesson 11 or 12. Let's see if you can remember back to 50 pounds. Kara, can you remember that? 50? 50 pounds? Libras. 50 libras.

50 libras. 50 libras. And in number. Latin America you would say, 50 lividas. 50 libres. How about if you were wanting to change $100? And this time I'd like you to say, I would like to change $100.

Kara? Kishiera Kambiaar, $100. Kishiera Kambia Kempiac $100. Or, in Latin America, you would say, Kisiera

Kishiera Kambia. Kiyan dollars. I'd like to change 100 dollars. Perfecto. Now, obviously what you're changing these monies into will depend on where you are. If you're in Spain, you'll be changing them into euros, euros. Euros.

Euros. And if you were in Mexico, for example, then you would be talking about pesos. Pesos. Pesos. And obviously the currency depends. on which country you're in, in many Latin American countries, pesos are used, but in other countries, there are different types of currency.

There's actually a list of currencies on our recent PDF guide for our premium subscribers. It may not be money, it may not be actual currency that you're wanting to change. It may be Los Cheques de Valleje. Los Cheques de Viege. Los Cheques de Valle. Those cheques de voyage

Very these are travellers cheques those cheques de so you might want to see

Quisiera change these cheques de via Chisiera change

these cheques de very good Chisier Ches de Viaue

Now can you remember the other word that we learned earlier meaning to take

out. Sakar? Sakar. Imagine taking things out of a sack. Sakar. Sakar. Sakar. And sacar means to take out as in to take out money.

So let's see if you can use your existing knowledge of Spanish to come up with another phrase that might be quite useful in a banking situation. Can I take out money with my credit card? Let's put this together. First of all, what is credit card? Targeta de credito. Targeta de credito. Credito. Targeta de credito.

So what's my credit card? My targeta de credito. My targeta de credito. Okay. So can I? How would you say can I? Puedo? It's not Kiero this time, although you could

say I want to take out money but in this case we're going to say can I? Puedo to take out money Sackar Dinero Can I take out money With con

My credit card My Tacheta De credit. The whole thing. Can I take out? money with my credit card. I can't secure dinero with my targetta of credit. Perfecto,

very bien. And again, it's doing exactly the same as what we've done before, using the phrases and words that you already know and putting them together in different ways. Again, you may be asked Quanto Chieue Osteed.

And you can tell how much you need to take out on your credit card. The other word that we learned earlier, the other verb, was, firmer. Firmar, meaning to sign. To sign on the dotted line. In fact, that may well be a question that you would want to ask.

If you're given a sheet of paper or some kind of slip to sign when you're taking out money, then you may have to ask, where do I sign? Let's split where do I sign up. First of all, what is the word for where? Dundee. Dundee. And then do I sign? Well, that's probably more complicated than it needs to be.

In English, we say do I sign in this particular question, but we're really just wanting the word for I sign, which would be firmo? Firmo, exactly. Firmo, because you take the A-R ending of the verb and add the ending for the I part, which, as you know already, is in most cases, oh, Firmo.

Firmo. So, to say, where do I sign, you would say, Donde firmo? Donde firmo. Dondy firmo. And the answer would be, Necessita firmer, here. Necessita firmer here. You need to sign here.

Necessita firmer here. Necessita firmer here. Perfecto. Now, there's one other word that I would like to mention. here, and that is the word el cajero. El cajero. Now, the cajero, or sometimes the cajero automatico, is the cash machine, the ATM, the hole in the wall that gives you money. And in some cases, you may have to explain that el cajero se a tragado my targeta.

Let's split this up and see what it means. The cajero The cajero Sea tragado My targeto My targetta No The cajero

has done something to my targetta The ATM has done something to my card What do you think Tragarsee means To Again

To eat toast? Yeah, to eat toast. Yeah, to eat. In actual fact, it means to swallow. Tragarsse is to swallow. So the cashero se had tragado, the cash machine has swallowed my card. El cajero se has draggeded my targeta. El cajero se has tragado my targeta.

El cajero se has tragado my targeta. El cajero se has tragado my targato my targeta. And let's hope that doesn't happen to. you while in a Spanish-speaking country. And let's face it, even if you do, you'll be able to explain what's happened. 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 coffeebreak

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