Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.32 | Arriving in Spain

Episode Date: August 28, 2009

Mark and Kara have arrived in San Javier airport near Murcia in the east of Spain. In this lesson you’ll listen to a conversation between Mark and the employee at the help desk at San Javier airport as Mark asks for directions to get to the hotel. Please note that lesson 32 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 132 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 welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. It's licensed 32 and we've arrived in Spain. Kara and I have arrived at San Javier Airport near Murcia in the east of Spain. And we need to get to the hotel. So we need to find transport, whether it's going to be a bus or a taxi, and then arrive at the hotel, putting into practice lots of the words and phrases that we've covered in previous lessons.

I hope you find Lesson 32 useful. So as you know, this episode is going to feature a conversation that we recorded back in May in San Javier Airport between me and the person at the information desk at the airport. You're going to listen to this conversation in its entirety and then I'll split it up and talk about the various language points that are contained in the conversation. So listen to the conversation for the first time. Hello, good Good days. Good days. Welcome to Murcia, San Javier.

In what I can help us? We're going to Santiago de la Ribeira. There's a bus that is there? Yes, the bus number 17 is in Santiago de la Rivera. The parada of autobuses is at the right and out of the airport.

Very well, can go even in taxi? Sure that is. You're going to to take a time 15 minutes in taxi. And how

time would we would be a bus? It would a question of

money to a major time. it's more cost the money to get a business So, how did you find that?

There's obviously quite a lot in there that you'll already recognise, phrases and words that we've already covered in previous lessons. However, that was a real conversation that I had with the person in San Javier, and obviously when you're having a real conversation, then it's not always the textbook stuff that you get in the real conversation. Let's listen to the first part of it again. In this section, I say hello to the person in the information office, He says hello back to me and I ask him a question.

See if you can work out what that question is. Hello, good days. Buenos days. Bienvenios to Murcia San Javier. In what I can help us? We're going to Santiago de la Rivera. There's an auto bus that is there? So after the greetings, I said,

We're going to Santiago de la Rivera. We're going to Santiago de la Rivera. There is an autobus that va there. There is there a bus that goes there? So is there a bus that goes through Santiago de la Rivera? There is an autobus that va there? Listen to the answer. And remember that when you're asking about transport,

it's quite possible that you'll hear a number. In this situation, the number of a bus. See if you can recognize a number here. The man then went on to Santiago de la Ribeira. The parada of autobuses is to the right, saliento del airport. The man then went on to see where the bus stop is, La parada of autobuses.

Did you get what it was? It's on the right. And he used a freeze that's very common. Saliento del airport. Saliento comes from the verb Salier and it means going out, leaving. So it's on the right as you go out the airport. Saliento del aeropoerto. It's a the right, saliento del aeroperto.

Now the next part of this conversation involves an alternative to the bus. I asked the question, Se puede ir also in taxi? You already know, se puede. Can one? Can one also go by taxi? Listen to the answer that's given. Very well, can you get also in taxi?

Sure that's, you're going to tarred on 15 minutes in taxi. The man says, Van a Tardar. You are going to literally delay. Tardar comes from the same route as the word Tarde, which means late. It also means late.

afternoon because that's the later part of the day. So, tardar, tardar means to delay or to take in terms of time. Usteadis van to tardaar 15 minutes. You're going to take 15 minutes in taxi. So the taxi journey will take 15 minutes. Now I then ask another question, linked to tardar. A nice Spanish phrase here. Seria question de one media hour. Media hour is half an hour. Seria question de means it would be a question of half an hour. So you're talking half an hour. Now given that there's different journey times involved in going by taxi or by bus,

I then decide to check out the prices of both options. How cost the billiete of Bus? The billets of a bus cost an euro 40 the taxi

costs between 10 and 15 euros This section provides a good example of verbs

used with singular and plural subjects Those billets of bus

bus tickets quest they cost so the V form of the verb

Those billets the bus questan 1 euro 40 1 euro 40 The taxi

The taxi Cuesta The singular form Cuesta Entre 10 and 15 euros So the taxi costs between 10 and 15 euros

Let's listen to the final part of the conversation again Very well I think we're going to In taxi It's more comodo and more So my decision was that we would go in the taxi. And I gave a reason for this. It's more comodo and more rapido. So comodo means comfortable. And rapido, same route as rapid in English,

it's quicker. More comodo and more rapid. Notice that in Spanish, any adjective can have mass in front of it, almost any adjective, and that can change it to the comparative form. So, mass comodo, more comfortable, mas rapid, quicker. 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. It's now time to listen to the whole conversation right from the beginning to the end.

And hopefully this time you'll really get lots of what's being said in the conversation. Hello, good days. Good days. Welcome to Murcia San Javier. In what I can help us? We're going to Santiago De La Ribeira. There's a bus

that is there? Yes, the bus number 17 is to Santiago of the Rivera. The parada of autobuses is at the

right that's out of the airport. Very well, you can go even in taxi?

Sure that you, you're going to take to take you're in taxi.

And how how time would we tardariams? It would be a question of a media hour. How much cost the billet of bus? The billets of

bus cost an euro 40. The taxi costs between 10 and 15 euros. Very well, I think we're going to

go to it's more more sood more rapid. That they're a good stanza here in

Spain. Much thanks. So, was that easier that time? Now that we've gone

through all the language in the conversation Now in each of the lessons of Unit 4, we're going to be covering a particular grammar point that's come up during the conversation. Today we're going to be talking more about the comparative, this form that means more something, more quick, more comfortable, and so on. We've already come across, therefore, in this lesson, mas comodo, mas rapido. Mass, which is spelled M-A-A-acute-S, so M-A-S with an accent on the A,

is the word for more. In Spanish, the word for less, the opposite, obviously, of more, is menos. And that's spelled M-E-N-O-S, menos. Menos. So, to say more comfortable, you say, Mas comodo and less comfortable is Menos comodo. So let's put this to the test.

In the conversation, I said, El taxi is more comodo and more rapido. What did this mean again? The taxi is more comfortable and quicker. How would you say the bus is less comfortable and more comfortable and less quick or slower. You could say, el autobus is

less comodo and minus rapido. The bus is less comfortable and less quick. Now, mas and menos are actually found together in a very common phrase

in Spanish. If you say, mas or menos, it means more or less. Mass or minus, more or less. You should try to use the word mass or minus by combining it with an adjective that you're familiar with. Think of, for example, contento.

Contento means happy. And remember that if you're female, you'll be saying contenta. How would you say, therefore, I am more happy, or happier. you'd say, I'm more contento or mas contenta if you're female, of course. And to say

you're less happy, I'm less contento or I'm less contenta. We'll continue to cover grammar points that arise in the lessons, in the conversations throughout this unit. And hopefully you'll find that this helps you

get to grips with the language. 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 grazie, and hasta pronto. This is a production of the Radiolingua Network.

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