Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.38 | Seeking help at the pharmacy

Episode Date: November 15, 2009

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Huala and welcome a Coffee Break Spanish. Lesson 38. Okay, so in this little introduction, I'll explain what's happening in the lesson. And, today, Kara, no is not feeling too good, so she's going to have to go to the pharmacy to ask for some medicine or for some advice. So we'll be using lots of the vocabulary that we've learned previously in lessons 28 and 29. We hope that you enjoy today's lesson. Okay, so as usual, we're going to begin by listening to the whole conversation. Hopefully, you'll not find this one too tricky.

There are some phrases in this conversation, which you'll find very straightforward. You'll recognize them immediately, and there are others which will be a bit more complicated. I'll be back in just a moment to help you with these ones. Let's listen to the conversation in its entirety. Good afternoon. Hello, in what can serve you? My friend, no, she's well.

What is the problem? She's a little maried and has a p'-u-y-ed-in-the-cara. Yes, I see. Me duly in the garganta, also. She's so since how many? Two days.

Has come it? Have comeyed something different than the normal? We've got paella the other day, and it was the first that I've never been a pupo, but I don't know if it could be that. No, I know, it could be a reaction to pulp. Has taken much sun? Well, yes. Also, we nathes in the sea.

Could be able to be embarrassed? No. Well, no is nothing grave. I do these medications. Two-beces-a-day, before to eat. No, he'll be able to alcohol. Also, I'm doing a cream for the sarpullied. So how did you find that?

Hopefully, as I said earlier, you'll have recognized quite a number of the phrases in there from when we did the pharmacy and the medicine topic. Let's listen to the conversation again, and this time we'll split it up as we normally do. The conversation begins with the standard greetings and the man asks, and then I say something about my amiga.

Have a lesson. Well, good Tardes Hello, in what I can serve you? My amiga

no se sient well there. Now, I spoke quite quickly there. I said, my amiga no seiente bien. My amiga no seiente bien.

No seiente bien means doesn't feel well. Can you remember how we would say, I don't feel well? I don't feel well is no me siento bien. No me siento bien. Now, senti-se is a reflexive verb. It's one of these verbs that you do something to yourself. So call yourself, I call myself, me yammo. And although we don't say I would feel myself,

it's how you feel inside yourself. So me siento, no me siento bien. No me siento bien. And talking about someone else, no seiente bien. Kara, no seiente bien. My amiga, no seiente bien. Let's listen to what the pharmacist goes on to ask us.

What is the problem? What is the problem? In actual fact, you may be already familiar with the word qual. And it doesn't really mean what. It means more which. It's quite difficult to explain exactly why you say which is the problem and not what is the problem. But it may help you to remember if you imagine the situation in a pharmacy, like where we are just now.

Qual is the problem. It's almost as if the pharmacist has a big long list of problems and he's asking which one is your problem? What is the problem? What is the problem? So I go on to explain what the problem is. Have a listen to Kara's symptoms. You see a bit mariazza and has a suppuied in the car.

So I use So I use again the phrase She Siente, she feels Un Poco Mpoco means a little. You know that already. Then I use a word that you probably won't know And that word is Mariaada

Mariaida Se Siente A bit mariaada Now mariaada I actually think this word sounds like what it means It actually means dizzy, nauseous, feeling a little sick. The word actually comes from the same route as the word mar. El mar, you know that already, is the sea.

And the word marea means tide. So if you imagine the tide coming in and out and in and out, you perhaps begin to feel a little seasick yourself. so mariaido, maria da, sick or nauseous. Se Siente a little maria. Mariana obviously is feminine because it ends in E.

So maria da, for Kara, I am Mark and masculine, I am mariaado. Kara is mariaada. Se Siente a little maria da, and there's something else wrong with Kara, she has

a sarpullido and that's one of those words that it's very difficult to guess what it means a sarpolyido it's got a double l sound at the end there sarpolyido a rash

and cara has a sarpulido in la you may remember the word cara means face as well as being the name of my co-host. So Kara has not feeling very well. She's got a rash in her face as well. Listen again to what the pharmacist

says. And Kara adds a piece of information as well. See if you can work out what Kara's extra piece of information is. She's a bit mariazzaeated and has a sapolid in the car. Yeah, yeah, I see. me dole in the garganta the pharmacist says si yeah veo now beo means i see

meo comes from the verb beer meaning to see the yeah part is a word that we've come across already yeah means already so literally the pharmacist is saying i already see but that's how a spaniard or a spanish speaking person would say yes i can see that

I see. Kara then adds an extra piece of information. She says, Me dole la garganta also. Me dole la garganta also has

a sore throat. She's got throatache. As you would expect, the pharmacist has a few more questions to try and identify exactly what the problem is. This question is quite a tricky question to understand,

but if you use your common sense then you should be able to work out what he's saying. Listen carefully for one word in particular days. It will quite often be the situation that someone will say something to you and you will have no idea what they mean but you've got to try and identify the words

and what they've said that you do understand so let's imagine the pharmacist had said that to you and you needed him to repeat So, for favor, can repeat it? So perhaps that time you heard not only the word days, but the word, quantos.

Quantos means how many. Quantos, days. How many days? So, so it's Sienti asi. You've been feeling this way. Des de a face. This is quite a tricky phrase to explain. It tends to mean something like,

since or for when you're referring to the past. So Desde Aze Quantos Dias? For how many days? So really what the pharmacist is saying here is, you've been feeling this way for how many days? How long have you been feeling like this? We'll be coming back to this phrase later on. Kara answers and then the pharmacist asks another question. Dos days. have comeido

something so Kat has been feeling this way for two days and the pharmacist asks ha comeido something different de lo normal so

comido comes from the verb to eat so have you eaten a comido something different something different of lo normal from the normal

literally so have you eaten anything unusual something different from what you would normally eat I explain what we have been eating have a listen to what I say we came paella the other day and it was the first

that I came a pulp but no see if it could be that so I say we most paella paella is that wonderful Spanish dish with rice and saffron and vegetables and fish or seafood and sometimes meat chicken and other types of meat. Paella, therefore, we ate paella the other day the other day. And then I say, and it was the first time.

La prima vez is the first time. So it was the first time that she ate that she ate, that cameo. Pulpo is octopus. So it was the first time that Kara ate octopus.

And then I say, but I don't know if it could be that. So I don't know if that's the problem. It was the first that cameo but no see if could be that's obviously quite a complicated phrase

and a complicated explanation if the pharmacist asked you have comeido something different of the normal you could get by with simply listing the foods

that you had eaten so paella pulpo and when you think about it my version we've gotemus paella the other day and it was the first that I'mo but no see if could be that

doesn't actually convey any more information than the alternative answer to that question paella pulpo so two words instead of all those other words it's all about getting your meaning across and being able to communicate

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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. So, if you asked, has comeido a little different than what you could

just say paella and pulpo in saying this I don't want to discourage you from trying to use

the language and the words and phrases that you're learning but at the end of the day it's about

communication and you need to communicate your meaning that's why paella and pulpo sufficiently

conveys the meaning instead of we've paella the other day and it was the first first time

that came a pulp and so on. Let's listen to what the pharmacist says in reply. No, I know,

it can be a reaction to the pulpo. Has a much

sol? So Kara's symptoms could be as a result of the pulpo.

It could be a reaction a reaction. A reaction is a reaction in

Latin America, a reaction. It can be a pup. It could be

a reaction to the octopus. Then he asks one other question, have tomado much sol? Have you literally taken lots of sun? So in Spanish, to say to sunbath, you would say, Tomar el sol. Tomar el sol literally to take the sun.

So I like sunbathing. How would you say that? Me gusta plus the infinitive. Me gusta to tomar el sol. Listen to my answer to this question from the pharmacist. I say, Well, actually, yes, we have been out in the sun a lot. Buenos see,

we also went for a swim in the sea, as you would do on your holidays. T'ien nadamos in the mar. There are lots of words in Spanish, which sound like English words, but which don't necessarily mean the same as English words. And this next word is one of these. The pharmacist asks, Could be embarrassed? No.

Embarazada, although it sounds like embarrassed, does not mean embarrassed, it means pregnant. So it's an adjective that can only ever end in a. Embarazada. Could you be embarrasseda? Could you be pregnant? So Kara emphatically replies, no. And the pharmacist comes up with the diagnosis. He says, no is nothing grave.

He says, no is nothing grave. Grave means serious. Grave. No is nothing serious. He then gives Kara her medicine and explains when she should take it. He do these medications. Two Beces Al Day before to eat.

So he says, Le do I, literally to you I give, le do these medicines. Le do these medicines. And he tells Kara how often she should take them. Dos Beces all day, so twice daily, before to eat,

before eating. an plus an infinitive before doing something now there are two more pieces of information

from the pharmacist No de be ever alcohol also he says no

debe bever alcohol you shouldn't drink alcohol and he also gives

Kara something for her sarpullido a cream a cream so we finish off the conversation

by thanking him and we leave the pharmacy. After we listen to the conversation again, we're going to look at Des de Athe again. Des de Athe, this phrase that means since or for in the past. I'll give you some examples using other words and phrases that you already know. In the meantime, let's listen to the conversation one more time and see how much you can understand now that we've gone through all the language in the dialogue. Good, good

Good afternoon. Hello, in what I can serve you? My amiga No, I'm not She feels well. What is the problem? She's a little maried

and has a zapojid in the car. Yes, I see. Me duly in the carganta

also. She's so since how days? Two days. Has comeido

something different of the normal? We've eaten paella the other day, and it was the first time that Covee, but I don't know if it could be that. No, I know, it could be a reaction to pulp. Has it taken much sun? Well, yes.

Also, we nathes in the sea. Could you be able to be barrazzed? No. Well, no is nothing grave. I do these medications. Two times a day, before to eat. No, they be able to drink. Also I do a cream for the sarpolyido.

Much thanks. Thank you. Okay, so hopefully that made lots more sense that time. Now, I said earlier that we were going to be looking at the phrase Des dey-Athe. At the time, I explained it as since or four referring to the past. Let's break this up and really get to grips with Des de Athe. Once you understand it, it's very easy to use,

and it will certainly impress native Spanish speakers if you use phrases like Des de Athe Athe. Desde literally means since. And Ace, when it's combined with a time phrase, means ago. So, Ace 3 years ago. Ace dos semanas, two weeks ago. Now, because we're concentrating on one word in particular here, I will mention that in Latin America you would be talking about

Ase, Ase, Ace, two semanas, two weeks ago. I'll stick to the Spanish pronunciation just for this explanation. So, Desde Ace would mean since ago. So Desde Aze 3 semanas

since 3 weeks ago. Now, to be honest, that sounds a little stilted in English. So we would actually say it in a different way, and I'll give you an example using a full sentence. Let's say Estudio Spanish

so you know So you know what that means. So you know what that means. It means I study Spanish since two years ago. Desde ace dos a years. But would we say in English,

I study Spanish since two years ago? You know what it means, but it sounds. just a little odd. In fact, what we would do is put it into a past tense in English. I have been studying Spanish for two years. And the way you say that in Spanish is, Estudio Spanish Desde a few years. Now, there are other ways to say this in Spanish, and we'll cover these in future lessons. But this time, we're just going to be looking at Estudio Spanish since

two years. Can you work out how you would say I have been speaking

with Miguel for an hour I've been speaking with Miguel for one hour

so what you need to do is put this into the strange version

of the English to help you so I have been speaking

with Miguel becomes I speak with Miguel since one hour ago or since ago one hour. That should help you.

So I speak with Miguel. Ablo con Miguel. Since, one hour ago. Ace one hour. Ablo with Miguel desde a ce one hour. Let's try one more.

This podcast is getting quite long. So let's concentrate on one more version of this phrase. This time we'll reuse some of the language that we've learned in this lesson. So, I have been eating octopus for 10 years. I have been eating octopus becomes I eat octopus since 10 years ago. So I eat, como, como, in this case we would say el pulpo. Como el pulpo

andes 10 years Como el pulpo and because there's quite a few sounds in there I will see this phrase with the pronunciation used in most Latin American countries

Como el pulpo des de as 10 years so hopefully you've understood more about des de athi now. It's time to finish this lesson. 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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