Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.36 | Shopping

Episode Date: October 16, 2009

After a few weeks of server problems, we’re back with another episode of Coffee Break Spanish recorded in Santiago de la Ribera in eastern Spain. This week Mark and Kara go shopping for postcards and shoes. Please note that lesson 36 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 136 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 biennitos a copybreak Spanish. Welcome back to coffee break Spanish. This is lesson 36 and in today's lesson we're going to be going shopping. Well, Kara's going to be shopping, I'm going to be buying some postcards. We'll be putting into practice the language that we learned back in lesson 25 and 26. So we hope you find this useful for shopping in a Spanish-speaking country. We're going to begin with a conversation that was recorded in an estanco. One estanco. Can you remember what an estanco was?

One estanco is at tobacconists and that's where you can buy stamps and also, in this case, postcards. We'll then be continuing our shopping trip with the visit to the shoe shop where Kara and her mom decided to buy some shoes. Let's begin first of all in the estanco and we will listen to the conversation as usual right the way through. And then I'll start to split it up and talk about the various aspects of language contained in this conversation. So get ready to listen. Goodas. Hello. Have you taken targetas postales?

Yes, they're there at the side of the revistas. Thank you. Very well. Do you want your sores for the targetas? Yes, for favor. And that is all? Necessito, also. For where?

One for Canada, two for Great Britain, and one for Spain. So, very. Necessi something more? No, no, yeah, it's So, then, four-threnty in total. Here you. Thank you, and here

the world. Much thanks. To you. Thank you a good day. So how much of that did you understand? Hopefully, you picked up quite a few of the words and phrases in that conversation.

We're going to listen to the conversation now in parts, and you can see the constructions used in this conversation when I explain. them. Let's listen to the beginning of the conversation. Buenos. Hello.

Do you have targetas postales? Yes. They're there. They're there. So I've asked the question. Tienin targetas postales. Listen, once more to the answer. Yes, they're there

a lot of the revistas. Now, that was quite quick. So I'll see this more slowly. Listen carefully. See, they're there. Al-Lado de las

revistas are there are there al-lado de las revistas okay now there's

one phrase in there that you probably have recognized and that's al-lado

de al-lado was used when we were learning about the town for example

the restaurant is at the side of the hotel can you

remember what at the means it's beside. The restaurant is at the hotel. The restaurant is beside the hotel or next to the hotel. They are over there. Beside the magazines, the magazines.

So I go and have a look at the postcards and then come back with the postcards I've chosen to buy. The shop assistant asks me if I would like something for the postcards. Have a listen to this. Very good. Kere Ustsue for the targetas?

Yes, for favor. She asked, Kere Usts for the tachetas? An sobre is an envelope.

So she's asking me, Kere Ustead, do you want Sores, envelops, for the postcards. She then asks, And that's all?

And does that all? And I say that I want something else. I need something else. Have a listen to what I need and see if you can work out exactly what it is that I'm looking for. And that is all? Necessi. Necessi too, too for grandfayne, and one for Canada. So I'm looking for seggios. A sello is a stamp. I specified which countries I required the stamps for. one for Canada two for

Great Britain and one for Spain so that should be one for Canada two for Great Britain and one for Spain The conversation continues

Very well Necessida No no yeah it's that So then so so I don't need anything else And the lady tells me the price

Listen again and see if you work out how much my postcards and stamps cost. Well, then, so four-threintin total. Here. Thank you. Thank you. Much thanks. To you.

Thank you. A you. 4.30 in total. 4.30. 4.30. 4.30. We're in Spain, so we're talking in euros. And something else to say is that in Spain is quite often to hear the word

con-use between the number of euros and the number of cents for a number of cents. example, 4.30 or 8.90, 8.90, 8.90. That's very common in Spain. As we're finishing the conversation, the lady says, que t'engan a good day. Literally, may you have a nice day. That's the whole of conversation number one. Let's listen again and see how much you understand one last time. now that we've gone through the language covered in this conversation. Hello. Hello. Have you taken targetas postals?

Yes, they're there on the side of the revist. Thank you. Very well. Do you want you for the targets? Yes, for favor. And that is all? Necessito, too, I need also.

For where? One for Canada, two for Great Britain and one for Spain. Very well. Necessite a little more? No, no, yeah, it's a. Well, then so 4.30 in total. Here.

Thank you. And here here has the Wiltza. Much thanks. To you. To you have a good day. Okay, so it's time now to move on to our second dialogue,

another shopping situation. And in this one, it's Kara and her mom going shopping for shoes. Have a listen to the whole dialogue, and then we'll be back to go through the language used. Good days.

Hello. Good days. In what I can help? Just we're just looking. Very well, if you need something, me do you say. Thank you. Please, my mother

could try these tappas? You have a 30 and 8? A moment. Here you have. Thank you. How are? They're a bit big. You have the 307?

I'll see. What I'm going to have goted the 37. No, it's not. And these? This is that I have the 37. A moment it. Here you have. Thank you.

They're good. How many? These are they're in 45 euros. 45 euros. 45? Yes. Very good. She those leave.

Very well. Can you accompany to the caja? So we can't pay with targettes of credit? Sure that's yes, I need a passport or DNA. Here you have. Thank you. Hello, tell me. So how was that?

Obviously, that was quite a lot in that conversation. Kara and her mum were shopping for shoes, and as you know, Kara's mom doesn't speak a huge amount of Spanish, but she did very well there, and Kara helped. At the beginning of the conversation, Kara and her mom had just gone into the shoe shop and were looking around. Listen to this part. You'll have recognized.

Hello. Good days. In what can help us? Just we're looking. Very well. If you need something, me do they say. Thank you.

You'll have recognized the In What I Cane Helpales? Question from the assistant. In what I can help you? Karat said, Just we're looking. So we are just looking. Estar plus a verb that ends in ando or yendo means to be doing something.

I am looking. I'm looking. I'm singing. I'm studying Spanish. I am studying Spanish. In this situation, Kara said, we are looking. The shop is a sense.

then said something to Kara and her mom. Listen again to what she said. Very well. If you need something, me lo say. If they need something, me lo disin. If you need something, me lo dismal. If you need something, me lo disin. Tell me.

If you need something, me lo do. If you need something, tell me. Just say. So Kara and her mom look for some shoes and when they find a pair that they like, they ask for that pair in the particular size they need. For favor, my mother could try these chapattas. Tieni an 38? A moment. Kara says, my mother,

No, my mother quesiera probarce these these zapato. No, a shoe.

A chapato so zapatos. Probarse means to try something on. So my mother

would like. My mother would like. My mother to try on these shoes. Try saying that whole sentence. My mother

quisera provarse these zapatos. Let's think a little about this, provarse, again. We always cover a particular point of grammar in these lessons, so this is what we're going to be looking at today. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment.

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It's our mission to help you turn your downtime into your due time. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Probarse is what's called a reflexive verb. It's like, yamarsee, meaning to call oneself. So probarse is kind of like saying to try oneself, to try something all. to oneself. When we talk about I am called or I call myself we say me yamu and when someone else is calling him or herself you say say so I call myself Mark me call herself Kara

so the me is used for me for myself and say for himself or herself so when Kara is talking about her mom, she's saying, Probarse. She wants to Provarsee Estos If I want to see

I would like to try these shoes on, I would say Kisiera Provar me Estos Thapatos. Kisiera

provar me these Zapatos. Try saying that. Kisiera Probarme Estos Zapatos.

So the lady comes back having found the size that was requested. So, obviously. So, how are they're a bit big?

Tieni la 37? Boie A-a-be. So obviously the size 38 is a little big for Kara's mom. She needs a smaller size, so Kara asks, Tini la 37. Do you have the 37?

And the shop assistant says, I'll be a ver. I'm going to see literally. I'll go and have a look. The word bear, which is spelled V-E-R, means to see, and it's often combined with a in the phrase a-ver. A-ver. Now, it's quite easy to get this mixed up with another word in Spanish. A-ver, which sounds exactly the same, but it's spelled H-A-B-E-R. and that is one of the verbs used for to have.

It's normally used in the sense of to have done something. It's quite easy to get mixed up between these two. But just think of a be when it's used in that sense as, let's see, a be, like that. And in this case, the girl said, I'm going to see, I'm going to have a look. So let's see if they do have a size 38 in that particular shoe. Listen,

I'm gottoed the 37. No, I'm sorry. Lo Siento, se no's no matter. Now that's quite a mouthful

there. However, it's important to realize that even if you didn't understand what followed, you would understand Lo Siento

and indeed the tone of her voice. She doesn't have them. Se nos a agotado La 37. This is quite a complicated phrase

and basically it means that they've run out of size 37 in that particular shoe. Kara uses a nice phrase to answer that. She says, no importa, no importa. It doesn't matter. Kara's mom then finds another pair of shoes, and she says, And estos?

What about these ones? And these? And these? This is that I have the 37. A momentito. Here you. Thanks. The shop assistant says

These ones I do have in the 37 These ones I do have in the 37 Sike is used for emphatic purposes Yes, I do have that one in a 37 And the size 37 fits They're too, but will the price fit as well as the size? Quanto they? These are in 45 euros

45 hours. 45? Yes. Very bien. She la se la se la. Kara asked the question, Quanto balin. Quanto balin.

And this is an alternative way of asking how much something costs. She could have said, Quanto questan. But quanto valen is an alternative. You can use them interchangeably. Quanto valen. And they were

45 euros. 45 euros, as Kara's mom rightly pointed. She then said she'll take them. She'll take them. Se los yeva. Se los yeva. And that's quite a tricky construction there.

Literally it means to herself, them she takes or she carries. She'll take them. If you want to say I'll take them, you would say me los l'yebo. Lever, because it's the I part of the verb. Just like me yamo. me yamo I call myself,

me los I'm to me or to myself them I take. I'll take them. Me los yevo. And perhaps just to confuse things a little further, Los, because we're talking about Los Zapatos, and they're masculine plural. Me los Yevo.

Please don't worry about this. I'm just trying to give you that little bit of extra information. So the shop assistant says, Keren't accompany me to the checkout? Literally, do you want to accompany me to the checkout? Listen to the final part of the conversation. Can we pay with targetes of credit? Sure that is, I need your passport or DNA.

Here you have. Thanks. Kara asks, We can pay with a card set of credit? can we pay by a credit card? And the lady said, Necesito Su Passaporte or DNI.

So I need your passport or DNA. DNI stands for Documento National Identification. Your national identification document. Okay, so there really is

quite a lot in that conversation. We're going to listen to it one more time before we finish off for this podcast. Good days. Hello. Good days. In what can help you? Just we're looking.

Very well. If you need something, me do you say. Thank you. For favor, my mother would try these daffat? Tiener, has a 38? A moment. Here you have.

Thank you. How are? They're a bit big. You have the 37? I'll see. I'm sorry, it's got to have got to the 37. No, it's not.

And these? This is that I have the 37. A moment it. Here you have. Thank you. They're good. How do they? These are in 45 euros.

45 euros. 45? Yes. Yes. Very well. She'll have. us have. Very well.

Can you accompany to the can't pay with targettes of credit? Of course

yes, I need your passaporte or DNA. Here here. Thank you.

Hello, let me. And that's where we're going to leave it today for this edition of

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