Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.31 | On a flight to Spain

Episode Date: August 15, 2009

Lessons 31-40 were recorded in Spain and feature conversations with native speakers. These lessons will give listeners the opportunity to put the language they’ve been learning to use. In lesson 31 Mark and Kara are in the plane on the way to Spain, and they’re taking the opportunity to review some of the language learned in the course to date. Please note that lesson 31 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 131 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.

Huala and bienninoidos a coffee break Spanish. Lesson 31 is something of a review because from lesson 31 to 40 Kara and I are going to be in Spain recording some conversations and as we go to Spain we need to do some preparation for the conversations. So in lesson 31 which was actually recorded on the plane we go through some of the words and phrases that Kara will need to know as she's going to be practical is these live in Spain. So I hope you enjoy Lesson 31.

So what we're going to be doing over the next 15 minutes or so is look at some of the phrases that we've already covered in coffee break Spanish over the past few months and see if some of these are likely to come up and review them before they come up in the next few days while we're in Spain. So, Karen, what kind of language do you think we're going to come across when, for example, we arrive at the airport?

We might need to ask for directions to find out where we're going, where our hotel is, and maybe ask how we can get there. Okay, so let's think about that, first of all. Directions, we've covered directions, and this is probably something that we're going to be finding out about in the town anyway. We will have to ask our way around, maybe to find the bus station or something like that. So as I ask Kara these questions, see if you can work out what the answers would be. Kara, how would you see

Where is? Donde is Donde ista? So if we were asking, I don't think we've covered this, but the bus stop, the verb to stop is parar. Parar.

And the bus stop is La parada. La parada. La parada de autobuses. La parada. So if you were saying, where is the bus stop? What might you say? Donde is the parado of the bus stop?

The parada. The parada of autobuses. Where is the parada of autobuses? Very well. Now, if you ask that question in the airport information office, you might be told, it's on the right it's on the right it's on the right is the right is the right esta a la decia or what would it be if it were on the left

al-iskeada a la iqiaida ista a la iqiaida ista a la iqiazza very well what about near and far that's right near is and far lejo

lejos that's right near so is it near here is it near here isa close de here

is that and in Latin America you would say you would say is it's close to here is it far

from here would be is far from here Yeah, and of course of course, yeah, and of course, I didn't really raise my voice at the end for the sentence there, I should have said,

Estes lejos de here? Ista lejos de here? Very well. So, that's maybe finding out where the hotel is. How would it actually, there's a point, how would we say, is the hotel far from here? El hotel ista lejos de here?

The hotel is de lajos de here. So it's just like saying the statement, El Hotel ista lejos de aci, but then raising your voice at the end. El Hotel ista lejos de acque? Perfecto. Now it's very likely that at some point

over the next few days, we'll be stopping to have a little coffee or a cremeza or something. So let's imagine we're in a cafe. How would you attract the attention of the waiter? You would say, por favor? Por favor. You could say some other things as well. What were the other things that we've

covered in the course? Oiga. Oiga. But what did we say about Oiga? It's more impolite and not really used in Spain. Exactly. You can say it, but it's more polite to say, just to attract the waiter's attention or the waitress's attention. And let's say that you wanted to order a beer. What's a beer? Una Cervea. One Cervesa. Or in Latin America,

and there is another word for beer if you just want a glass of draft beer One cana. One cana, exactly. Let's say you wanted a coffee, a milky coffee, a white coffee. An cafe with leche. A cafe with lece.

And what was the word for the small coffee with just a little bit of milk? Cortado. A cortado. How would you ask for the bill? please. La Quenta, por favor. La Quenta, for

favor. And if you want to maybe develop your Spanish a little more, how would you say, can you bring us the bill please? Nos try la Quenta, por favor? Nos try la Quenta, por favor? And good, because you raised your voice at the end showing that that was a question.

If you were just saying, nos trai la Quenta, it kind of means someone is bringing you the bill. Nos trai la Quinta. He's bringing us the bill. Or she's bringing us the bill. as opposed to, Nos try la Quenta, por favor?

Can you bring us the bill, please? There's another way of saying, bring us the bill as well, or bring us the water, bring us wine or whatever. What's bring us the command form? Traigenos la Quenta, for favor. Traigernos la Quenta, exactly.

Traigernos la Quenta. And although it's a command form, it's still quite polite. Traigernos la Quinta, for favor. Obviously, if you add in, for favor at the end of anything, it helps to make things more polite. light. Let's think about some of the places in the town that we will come across.

Obviously, there's el cafe. The cafe. Okay. How would you say the restaurant? El restaurante. And me pregonto, how many restaurants are there in this town? Many restaurants are there in this town. I think there will probably be a little more than 10.9.

What about the tourist information office? La Oficina de Tourism. La Oficina de Tourismo, or of course in Latin America, La Oficina de Tourism. And what about the chemists, the pharmacy? La Pharmacia. La Pharmacia. One place that we've not actually come across so far in our lessons is El Estanco.

El Estanco is literally a tobacconists, and it's where you can buy cigarettes and tobacco for pipes and so on. However, tobacconists, estancos, are also where you buy stamps and sometimes postcards and sometimes other things like magazines and so on. Maybe the estanco would be combined with and use agents. But el estanco is where we're going to be buying in Spain when we get there are postcards and stamps. Postcards are targetas postales. Targetas postales. A targeta postal.

A targeta postal. Unas targetas postales. Unas targetas postales. Very well. And it's also where we're going to be buying stamps. A stamp is an celio. Un sellio. Exactly.

Kara, can you tell me how Celio would be written? S-E-L-O. Exactly. It's got a double-l-l sound in there, cellio. Celio. Now, in actual fact, that's a good example of a word which shows that Spanish pronunciation, using the T-H sound, the Thé in, for example, Cervetha, helps with writing and with spelling,

because if in Latin America we heard the word cellio, we wouldn't know whether that was spelled C E.E.O or S E.O. Whereas in Spain, the fact that it's Sello means that it has to be spelled S E.E.O. Because the only sound, the only combination of letters in Spain that give say is S-E. This may be a little complicated. Don't worry too much about it. It's just an example of pronunciation differences and the way in which some pronunciations can help you with the spelling of a word.

Let's move on. We've talked about cellos and targetas postales that we're going to buy in, can you remember the word for a tobacconists? Estanco. Estanco. If you were to go into an estanco or indeed any other shop, what's the phrase that you're likely to hear? How can I help you?

In what? In what? In what? In what? literally in what I, in what can I help you? And if there were more than one of you, then it would be,

aidlars. In what I can helpales? In what I can aidardles? Ayudarles. Ayudarles. Okay. There's another way of saying that,

and it literally would be, how can I serve you? In what I can serve you? And what I can servilees? And servile is obviously when talking to more than one person. If it were, how can I help you, singular? It would be, in what I can servele? In what I can servele?

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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 just continue to talk a little more about other phrases that you're very likely to come across in lots of different situations. How would you be asked, is there anything else that you want? for example in a shop, in a cafe, in a restaurant. Algo more.

Algo more. Very well. Algo mas literally means... Anything else. Anything else. In actual fact, Algo is the word for something. Something.

And more. More. So something more. Algo more. Anything else. Algo more. Or it may be combined with one of the other words that you already know. Things like,

Necessita Algo more. Necessita algo more. Necessita Algo Mas means Do you need anything else? Or Kieh Algo Mas Which of course means Do you want anything else?

How would you say would you like anything else? Quisiera Algo Maz? Chisiera Algo Mas Would you like something else? Very well. Now we're going to look at two final things here. One is how you greet people

because greetings are very important when you're in Spain or indeed any Latin American country. And also we're going to be looking at how to say thank you and the various things you may hear in response to thank you. Let's start with that. First of all, how then would you say thank you? Grazie.

Graziez, or in Latin America, Graziezzi. How would you say thank you very much? Muchas grazie. Muchas grazi. Literally, many thanks. Muches grazie. Much gracias.

You can also hear something that would equate to very many thanks. Muchisimas gratias. Muchisemas grazias. Very well. Now, one thing to say here, now that we are more familiar with Spanish, the first time we learned this,

I think it was back in lesson two, and we didn't really know much about Spanish. Grazias, thanks, literally is feminine plural. That's why you say muchas thanks. Muchas Thank you. Muchas

Grazie. Please note that it's not Muchos. We've had quite a lot of people send emails to us and of course it's wonderful that you're trying to speak or write in Spanish

and when you write it's really important to remember that it's muchas grazias. Muchas gracias. Muches graces. Muchisimas

grazias. Muchisgracias. Very good. Now if you say thank you then you're likely to hear not at all or don't mention it or no problem

or something like that in reply. In Spanish, probably the most common phrase is de nada. De nada. De nada. De nada. And de nadaa means it's nothing or literally of nothing. But we wouldn't say of nothing.

In English, we would say not at all. Mucha grazias. De nada. Perfect. And another phrase that you may hear is, no a de que. No a de que. And literally, that's sort of the beginning of a phrase that means there is nothing that you need to thank me for.

No ae de que. No a dee dee. But it's really more likely that you'll hear de nada. De nada. Now, we also said that we're going to look at greetings. Obviously, we've got Buenos Dias. Buenos Dias. Good morning, good day.

We also have Buenas tardes. Buenas tardes. Good afternoon. and also into the early evening, really before dinner. And then if you go in somewhere late at night, you would say... Buenos nights nights. Buenos noches in Spanish can mean a hello greeting as well as a goodbye greeting. So, buenos noches, buenos tardes, buenos days.

Buenos days, good a tardes, and buenos nights. One thing that you may also hear, and this is something that you might have heard already, when you say, Buenas noches, Buenas tardes, Buenos days. You may hear the es being swallowed a little,

particularly in, for example, Buenos Tardes, is a very light S. And this also happens with muchaz grazias. The S before the grazias is swallowed a little. Mucha grazias.

Much a grazi. Much a grazi. We don't really want you to repeat this simply. We want you to be able to recognize it. It's not a problem. You don't need to use it. You can say muchas gratias. And that's just every bit as correct as much a gratias. It's really a pronunciation thing. One final thing to say when you go into a shop, particularly in the afternoon, it's very common to hear,

Buenas. And it's short, obviously, for Buenos Aires. But you'll hear that very common. It's quite a nice way if you go into a shop and you say, Buenos Aires. That's quite a nice thing to do. That's really as much as we're going to do in terms of revision and preparation for our visit. Indeed, I think we've possibly started our descent now. So that's all from Coffee Break Spanish for this week. We hope you've enjoyed a slightly different show and that you've got something out of it

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