Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.34 | Ordering breakfast

Episode Date: September 19, 2009

It’s a beautiful morning and Mark and Kara are joined by Kara’s mother and another tourist on the balcony of the hotel for breakfast. Topics covered include forming plural and singular verbs in the formal form. Please note that lesson 34 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 134 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 bienveninos at Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm here today to introduce you to lesson 34, in which Kara and I will be having breakfast on the terrace of the hotel. Now, we have learned lots of vocabulary for dealing with ordering drinks and food and bars and restaurants, so lots of this will come in useful today. I hope you enjoy this lesson. We're ordering breakfast on the terrace of the hotel.

You'll hear me and Kemparkis. Kara, and you'll also hear another person, La Madre de Kara. You'll hear the Camarero, and a lady who's sitting beside us at the table next to us. Let's listen to the conversation in its entirety. Hello, good days. Hello, do you want to do you? Yes, thanks.

Are you guys? Do you want to do you? In the terrace, or in the terrace? What do you? What do you? There, coffee, tea, cacao, or chocolate? For me? A coffee with leech, for favor.

For me, cacao, for my mother, I'd like tea. Very well, are you, very well, Spanish. Thank you. And you,

sir, do you, speak to speak about a little, I'm studying Spanish. Very well,

my English is very bad. Good days. Good days, that Irovet Thank you. Thank you,

where are you? Someoste, Scotia. And you, where is? I'm a Spanish

of Burgos, I'm here I'm here, of a business In what He's? I'm a I'm a I'm a

You're You're I'm in I'm in Well, I'm I'm Well, I'm Well,

The cacao for you The tea For the Sir, and the coffee for you Sir,

with Leche, right? Yes, thank And here here you have pan

toast and croasand Much thanks Thank you What habitations have you, for favor? We're

we're in the 210. And I, the 203. Very well, much thanks. So, as usual, it's now time

to go into the language in this conversation in more detail. Let's listen to the first part of the conversation again.

Hello, good days. Hello, want to do you do you thank you, we're three.

The waiter begins by asking me Kere desaunar? Desaunar means to have breakfast. It's a verb, and in English we have to say to have breakfast or to eat breakfast. Whereas in Spanish, there's one word, desaunar. And it's, of course, linked to the noun for breakfast, El desauno. So, Kere desaunar?

Are you wanting to have breakfast? And I answer, see, we are. So we are. So we are three, which of course means there are three. Which of course means there are three of us. Somos three. Do you want to do you?

In the terraza, for favor? So the waiter goes on and asks, They want to do you know, in the terraza or in the terraza or in? What preferring? So, desayunar, we've got again, karen desayunar in the terrace. La terraza is the terrace or the balcony.

So do you want to have breakfast on the balcony or on the terrace? Queren desaunar in the terra? Or dentro or inside? What do you prefer? Now, this is quite interesting because when I arrive down at the restaurant, the waiter asked me, Kere desaunar? And then when I said

Somos 3, there are 3 of us, he then began to change the verb form and use the plural form. Kieren desalunar in the terraza. Listen to the two phrases again. Hello, Kierre desalunar?

Kieran desalunar in the terrace or what they prefer. So we had Kieh desalunar in the first one, the singular form. And Kierre. Then, Desaunar in the terraza and what of these use the plural formal version of the verb.

Preferieren, keren, as opposed to the singular formal version, Kere, and indeed, prefere. What do you want to be? There, a coffee, tea, kacao or chocolate? For me, a coffee with leech, for favor. For me, cacao, for a baron. And my mother, kisierat. So now that we're out on the terrace, the waiter turns to me and asks me what I would like.

He offers me various things. Café, tea, coffee and tea, and a couple of things that we've not done. Cacao is powdered chocolate or cocoa powder sprinkled on hot milk. And chocolete is a very thick hot chocolate. Now, I order for myself and Kara orders for herself. But then Kara says, And my mother, Kisiera,

T. Now you know Kisiera already. It means I would like. But note here that Kara says, My mother would like. So you can use Kisiera, both when you're talking about yourself, I would like,

and when you're talking about another person, he or she would like. My mother, in this case, My mother, Kisiera, Te. My mother, would like tea. The waiter continues by offering us some compliments.

Listen again to this part and see if you can work out exactly what's going on. Very well. Ablan you, very well, Spanish. Grazie. And you, signora,

about Spanish? A little. I'm studying Spanish. Very well. Disculpe. My English is very bad. So the waiter says, you speak very good Spanish.

Ablan Usteades Very bien-espaniel So literally You speak Spanish very well He then asks Kara's mom Do you speak Spanish And Ute seora

Abla Spanish And Kara's mom says She could also have said I'm learning or I'm studying Spanish The waiter Finally apologizes for his English. He says,

Disculpen. Disculpen means I'm sorry or forgive me. My English is very malo. My English is very bad. Now at this point, we get talking to a lady

who's sitting at the next table. Now, I noticed that this lady is about to start eating, so I say, que a breche to her, meaning enjoy your meal. Buenos days. Good days, what I prevece?

Thanks. De Donde's on Ustead? Summosti Scotia. And you're, de don't de'est? I'm Spanish. Now, this part of the conversation gives you a good opportunity to compare the singular and the plural formal forms. The lady begins by asking, De Donde are you, plural, from?

De D'Onde are you, plural, from? and Kara replies saying we are from Scotland and then she asks De Donde is Usteed So where are you from So Usteed the singular Usteed is the plural

And so when you're asking the question Where are you from talking to one person in the singular You would say De don't de es Usted and the plural form De Where Are Ustes Okay, we'll be back in just a moment.

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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. This all really does make sense once you get used to it. So it's just a case of persevering and trying your hardest to understand and to recognize words. I'm sorry, Spanish. I'm here.

In what? I'm a periodist. So the lady says that she is on a business trip. I'm here de viaje de a business and I ask her what she does for a living

she says I'm periodista can you remember what that is it's a journalist so she's a journalist on a business trip she then asks us are you on holiday

and once again listen to the verb forms in this question You're on vacations Well, I suppose I, but also,

I'm a so she says they're on holiday. And I answer in rather a complicated way. I say, I suppose

so, I suppose so, but we're we're a little. Travamos means we work

or we are working a little. So the full thing there was I suppose I suppose so, but we are also a little. I suppose so, but we are also working a little.

Now, by this time, the waiter has collected our breakfasts. Well, the cacao for you, the tea for the seora, and the cafe for you, sir, with leech, right?

Yes, thanks. And here they're pan toasted and croissant. Much thanks. In addition to our drinks, he also brought us Pan Tostado, which is toasted bread, and croissant, which is of course, croissant. Finally, the waiter wants to know what rooms we're in

in order that he can take a note of the room numbers for our bill. What habitations have you, for favor? Nosotras, we're in the 210. And I, the 203. Very well, much thanks. So did you get those room numbers? Kara said,

Nosotras, meaning her and her mom. We're in La 210. So we are in room to 10. And I said, And I'm in 203. And I'm in 203. Okay, it's time to listen one more time

to the whole conversation from beginning to end. And having, studying the language, I'd like you to see how much you understand this time round, to see if it's more than you understood the first time you heard this conversation. Hello, good days. Hello, want to sayunar? Yes, thanks. We're three? Do you want to do you?

In the terrace, for favor? What do you? What do you? There's coffee, tea, cacao, or chocolate? For me, a coffee with leech, for favor. For me, cacao, for a while. And my mother, I'd say. Very well,

I'm You're very well Spanish Thank you And you Sir,

I'm Afto I'm doing Spanish Very well My English My English is very

Good Good days Good Good days What are You're You're You're

From where are You're I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm

I'm here I'm I'm I'm What do you work? I'm a journalist. You're, are you

Do you? Well, I suppose that yes, but also, we're also Well, the cacao for the

and the and the coffee for you, sir, with Yes, and and here

you have pan to and croasand Many thanks. What about What about? What's

we're in the 210. And I, the 203. Very well, much thanks. Now, in each episode of this unit, we're trying to take a particular grammar point and cover it just a little more

before we finish off this week's lesson. And you've probably guessed by now that this week we're going to concentrate on changing singular verbs into plural verbs. Now, this doesn't always work, but with many verbs, and particularly the verbs that we're going to be learning,

you can convert a single. verb into a plural verb by adding one letter. Can you work out what that one letter is? Okay, so I'll give you a clue. What do you prefer talking to one person in the formal form? And compare this to, que preferen Osteides. Talking to a group of people. The key to all this is the letter N. what makes the difference between the u formal singular and the u formal plural. Now it's time to put this to the test. I'm going to give you a few phrases using the usteed form and you've got to try to change it to

the usteves form. So let's look at the first one. Usted estes in Spain. So you're trying to put this into the plural. It becomes Ustes Estan in Spain, which is obviously very similar to Ustead esta in Spain. Okay, let's try another one. Ustead toca el piano.

You see if you can put that into the plural form. It would become Usteades tocahn, the piano. Okay, one more. This time I'll give you the plural form. form and you put it into the singular. Van Ustés Al Mercado. Van Ustés

al Marcado. Now here we have an Ustés form that we've got to convert. So it's ban Usteadis do you go to the market.

So are you going to the market using the Usteads form? And to change that into the singular you take off the end. Are you going to the market? Speaking to one person formally? 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.

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