Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.29 | At the pharmacy or doctor

Episode Date: July 13, 2009

In Lesson 29, Mark and Kara talk more about aches and pains and cover more useful language for a visit to a Spanish pharmacy, including symptoms and remedies. They also take a look at demonstrative adjectives as well as antes de and después de + infinitive. Please note that lesson 29 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 129 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 bienveni to Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. It's lesson 29 and we're still dealing with medical problems. Last week we learned how to say, me dole. Something hurts me, for example, me dole la cava, I have a sore head, me dole the estomago, and so on. And this week we're extending that a little more with more possible complaints and indeed some possible solutions that the doctor or pharmacist

may give you. So I hope you find today's lesson useful. We're going to begin this week's show by looking at some of the language that we covered last week and reviewing it. Let's begin by looking at the body parts. First of all, I'm going to test you on some of these parts. Kara, you see how much you can remember. I'll give you the Spanish. You give me the English. First of all, number one, number one, number one, La Cabeza. Cara, what was La Cabeza? Head, yeah.

Number two, la piera. Lig? Leg, yeah. Numero three, El estomago. Kara? Stomack. Yep, your stomach.

What about La Garganta? Throat? Throat, yeah. I'll give you some now that you have to translate into Spanish. Numero Cinco. Can you tell me what

the nose is? in Spanish. La nariz. La nariz. Very good. And can you remember what the mouth is for number six? La Boca.

La Boca. Very good. Number seven. The shoulder. Ombro? El ombro. Very good. El ombro.

Not ombre. Ombre means. Man. Yeah. Ombre means man. So ombro means shoulders. And one final one, what's the word for, foot?

El pie. El pie. Very bien. El pie. Excellent. So you probably remember the song that we did last week. We're not going to sing it again, don't worry. But we had Cabeza, Ombros, Piernas, Pierna's Piers.

We also had Ocho, or Ojos, which were? Eyes. Orejas. ears boca knife and narith nose

perfecto now we also learned last week how to say that these body parts were hurting that they were sore so to say I have a sore head

you turn that into to me hurts the head how would you say that me dole la cava me dole la cava

and if you're in Latin America of course it's me dole la Cabeza Me dule la Cbeza Now sometimes it's not one thing that's sore but it might be both your legs for example in which case it's not

me dule el pye but Meduelein Los Piae's Yeah exactly you make the El Pue plural by changing it to Los Pes and you make the verb plural as well by changing Meduele to

Meduelin Now in the first new word that we're going to learn this week, we're going to concentrate on dole. Dole comes from the verb, dolor, meaning to be sore or to hurt. Doler. Doler. Doler. Very well.

Now, many words in Spanish are linked. For example, sometimes you have a verb that is linked to a noun and that sounds similar. Think in English, for example, of the word pain, the noun, pain, the pain. and that's obviously linked to the word painful, which is, of course, an adjective. You would describe something as painful. So pain and painful are very similar. In the same way, in Spanish, the verb dolera,

which means to hurt or to be painful, is linked to El Dolor. El Dolar. El Dolar is the pain. El D'olour. So this means that we can say, me dole la Cabeza. Me duly la Cbeza.

To me, hurts the head. But we can also see, Tengo, which means I have. I have. Tengo dolor de cabeza. I have pain of head. Tengue dolor de cabeza. So it's doleur de cabeza.

So it's dolor. Doler is the verb to be painful or to hurt. And that's what gives rise to dole. Me dole la cabeza. And dolor is the noun, meaning pain. Dolor de cabeza, pain of head. So I have a headache. could be,

Tengo dolor de Cabeza or me dole the Cabeza. Me dule la Cbeza. And both dole and dolor come from the same route.

Indeed, the name Dolores, a common name in many Spanish-speaking countries, literally means pains. But in fact, it refers more

to sorrows in this sense because it refers to Mary of the Sorrows, Maria de los dolores. So let's run through this again. To say my head hurts me, you make it, to me, hurts the head. Me duly the head. Me dole the head. How would you say, to me, hurts the throat? Me dule the garganta. And how would you say, my stomach hurts me? Now, the stomacho.

El estomago. Me duly, el estomago. Very well. Now, changing the construction here, we can say, I have a headache, or I have pain of the head. Tengue dolor de cava. Tengue dolor de cabeza. I should have said there, I have pain of head, not of the head, because that would be something different. I'm d'olour de Cabeza

So how would you see using this same construction I have pain of the stomach Tengu Dolor de estomago Very good, Tengue Dolo and I have pain of throat Tengu Dolor de garganta Tengo Dore de garganta Perfecto

Now you may be wondering why are we learning other ways of saying pretty much the same thing. And the reason for this is that we're going to be learning a list of problems here, medical problems. It may well be headache, stomachache, throat, throatache, can we say that? Sorethroats, I don't know. But we're also going to be learning some other illnesses because ultimately we're going to be asking the question in the pharmacy or the chemists, do you have something for a headache? Tienie algo para

the dolor of the heart of the poor para para paula de his dolor de his daughter decaveza

Tieni something for the dolor of the whole poor and para thing is really quite tricky something that we will be covering and future lessons. So I'm not going to go into any major explanations of that just now,

but in this case, it's something intended for, to solve a headache. Tiena algo para the dolor de cava. Let's move on and learn some other illnesses or other medical problems, which you may need help with in a chemist or a pharmacy. The next one is a nice, easy one. It's la toce. Now, the word toss kind of sounds like what it means. It's a cough, la toce. La toss.

La toss. Okay. You may have, una infection. Una infection. Or in Latin America, an infection. Una infection. And you can probably guess what that is. An infection?

Yeah, an infection. Una infection or an infection. Something similar to an infection would be a rash. Un sarpullido. Un sarpulido. Yeah, it's got a double L sound in there. Sarpulgido. Sarpulido.

Very well. Un sarpulgido. A sarpolyido A sar pulgido A Sarpolio, ugh An sarpolyido A, very well

Now, a sarpulido is a rash An infection A cough. A cough. Something else that unfortunately happens sometimes on holiday And that is

La Diarea. La Diarea. Diarrera. Diarrhea. Very well. There's a double R sound in there, and you really have to roll those ars. Diarrrea.

Diarrie. Very well. Diarria. Okay, can you remember how you say, do you have something for? Tienie algo para. Exactly. Tienie algo,

para, and then you can put in one of these words. Tienie algo. Pater. Tiena something for a do, the toss. Tien

something for a sarpulgid. Tien something for a surpulgid Very

good. Another thing that you may have is a chemadura of sol.

One chemad de sol. Yeah. Kemadura comes from the verb Kemar.

Kemar means to burn. So, a chemadura of sol is... Sunburn? Sunburn, yeah. A chemadura of sol.

A chemadura de sol. So how would you say, do you have something for sunburn? Tiene algo for a chemadena de sol? Very well, Tiena algo for a kemada de sol.

Now, before we move on to some of the things the pharmacist or the doctor might tell you, we'll cover a couple of other phrases, linked to no me siento bien

from last week what did no me siento bien mean I don't feel well yeah I don't feel well

no me siento you may feel a little mariaado mariaado now

Kara you wouldn't be mariazo but Mariaada exactly you know that it's an adjective because very

many adjectives end in ado Ado. Mariado for me. Mariada for me. Very bien. Mariado or mariaada means dizzy or a little queasy. And because you say I am dizzy and it's a temporary thing, you would say Estoy.

Estoy. Very well. I'maido. I'maida. Okay. So you repeat that depending on whether you're female. or male. I'm marriedo.

I'mariad. Something else that may be the case is that you can't sleep, for example. Now, you can't sleep. Think of this. You're going to say, I cannot. I cannot is the negative of

I can. And I can means exactly the same as can I. We've come across the word for can I in many occasions. Puedo? Puedo, exactly. So I can is Puedo.

I can't. No Puello. No Puedo, exactly. No Puedo, and then you might not be able to do various things. For example, sleep. To sleep is Dormir. Dormir. Dormier.

Very, in fact, identical to the French word for to sleep. Dormier, in Spanish. Dormier. So I can't sleep No I can't dormer No I can't dream

I can't breathe another situation which may occur hopefully it won't I can't breathe To breathe is To respirate Respirar

Respirar So I can't breathe No I can't breathe No I can't respiro No I can't

respirar Okay no doubt if you were saying that you would sound a little more worried than no

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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. Let's move on now to hear what the doctor or the pharmacist may say.

They may give you some things. They may give you one a pildora. Una pildura. Una pildora. A pildura And a pill is a pill Very similar to

a comprimido A Compromido A Compromido A Compromido A Compromido A Compromido A Compromido A Pondrimido is also a sort of pill, a tablet.

Or, they may give you a cream A A cream One cream A cream And you can probably guess what that is A cream

A cream, exactly Now, what's the doctor likely to say? They're very likely to say You need to take These pills, for example So, we've already come across The verb to need How would you say, I need?

Necesito. Necessito. So, in the case of the formal you need, you would say Necessita. Necessita. Yeah, if it was the informal version it would be Necessitas. So for example, a doctor talking to a child might say, Necessitas. Necessitas. We'll be doing more verbs in future lessons. They would say then Necessita you need to take. And to take in this situation is

to take. Tomar. Tomar. Tomar. Necessita Tomar Necessita and it might be you need to take this and the general word for this is Thiso This, very good. We did this a few weeks back

Thiso is the general word for this So Necessita Tomar Thiso Necessita Tomar esto Or indeed in Latin America Necessita to take this Necessita to And they may alternatively say you need to take this cream. And when you're talking about la crema, you don't say,

Esto crema, but... This crema? This crema. Necessita poner esta crema. Necessita poner this cream. Yeah, I should have explained. Ponair, means to take. to put on

poner this cream you need to put on this cream you wouldn't really take a cream Necessita poner this cream Necessita Poner this cream

And if it were, you need to take these pills A pill is A pill is A pildora A pildora Yeah, it's actually

got an accent on the eye a pildora. A pildora. Yeah. So you need to take these pills would be Necessita

Tomar Estes Pilderas. Very good. Necessita Tomar Estes Pildoras. Necessita

to take these Pilderas. Very well. Now, just to confuse things

further, if it's Estas Pilduras this cream Comprimidos are masculine So you wouldn't say Estas Comprimidos

But These Compromidos Yeah, very well Estos Compromidos Necessita Tomar Estos Comprimidos Necessita

Tomprimidos Perfecto, perfecto Now, okay The doctor or the pharmacist has told you that you need to take these pills or tablets or cream, a very likely question is, quantas veces al day. Quantas Beces al day.

Okay, now let's just double check what we know what this means. Quantas means how many. How many? So, quanto, how much, quantos, quantas, how many. how times once V-I-Z in Latin America

one the word best or this is time time yeah so how many times or how many times

all day a day yeah per day how many times per day how many times per day how many times all day how how times

all day Yep, or in Latin America Quantas times a day So, you may hear something like Necessita Tomar

These Pilduras 4 Beces Al Dia So, Katta, what would that mean? You have to take these pills four times a day Four times a day, exactly What would this mean then?

Necessita Tomar These Comprimidos Two Beces a day. You need to take these tablets twice a day. Exactly. Now, there's one final thing that we can add in here, and that would be,

antes de comer. Now, comer is the verb. To eat? To eat, yeah. So, antes de, antes de comer. Before eating? Yeah, before, literally before of to eat.

Antes de comer, before eating. before to come So the whole phrase might be something like Necessita Tomar 3 Meces Al Day

before to Comeer You need to take these pills three times a day before eating Exactly Or indeed Necessa tomar Before to come

Three Beces al Day It's the same thing Just the other way around The opposite of Antes de Comer would be after de

come after de come after de come so if before

eating then before eating then after eating after eating after eating despite to comeer

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