Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 2.02 | More on the present tense

Episode Date: January 13, 2010

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Hello, bienninos of Coffee Break Spanish. This is Lesson 42 in Coffee Break Spanish, and in this lesson, we're going to continue where we left off last time. We were looking at verbs, regular AR verbs in the present tense. And today we're going to be doing this in the context of daily routine and learning to say what time you do certain things at. So I hope you enjoy this lesson. So we're going to begin by looking at what we did last time.

Last week we were looking at verb conjugations, looking at all the different parts of a verb and being able to say, I work, you work, he works, she works and so on. Today we're going to build on this and look at some other verbs, some of which follow the same patterns and others which follow slightly different patterns.

Let's begin by running through Trabacher again. Travachar meaning, cara? To work. To work, indeed. So I work is Travajo

Travajo Okay, and you work when you're talking directly to a friend Travahas Travahas Very well Now what about he or she works Travaja

Travaja So we've got Travajo, Travajas Travaja What about if we were talking about We work Travamos very

We work And then if in Spain You are talking to a group of people And saying you work Travajais That is the form that's used in Spain And some other parts of the Spanish-speaking world But mostly in Spain

If you were talking to a group of people In Latin America What form would you use Travachan That's a It's the same form as you would use for they work. So, Travachan can mean they work and also, you plural, work. Now, if you were thinking about the polite forms, there are two polite forms in the singular.

You would say, Ostead. Trabaugha. That's it. Usteedravaja. And Usteades, the plural form would be... Trabahan. Very well. Let's run through the whole verb together, then the six forms, and see if you can

work at which part is which. So, Travajo. Travajo. Travajas. Travajas. Travaja. Travajamos. Travachamos.

Travajais. Travajais. Travajan. Very well. Very well. Okay. Today we're going to use the same form with another verb. Let's take the verb, desaunar Desiunar

Now desaunar means to have breakfast and you may remember this from when we had breakfast in La Terraza on the terrace of the hotel back in lesson 33 or 34 Our desauno is the noun breakfast and desaunar means to have breakfast to to breakfast I suppose

so let's conjugate desaunar now I'll see the parts in English and you see if you can come up with them in Spanish. So to begin with, I have breakfast. Desauno. Desauno. Yeah, you might wonder, it can't be desauno

because that's the same as the noun, breakfast. But the actual fact it is. El desayuno, but desayuno means I have breakfast. I breakfast. And you have breakfast? Informal. Desayunas. Desiunas.

Exactly. And he or she or indeed, You polite have breakfast? Desayuna. Desayuna. Very well. Now, we have breakfast would be... Desaunamos.

Desiunamos. Uh-huh. And you all have breakfast in the informal? Desiunais. Desiunais. Uh-huh. Desiunais. Try to get the ice.

It's more an ice than an ace. Desaunais. desaunais very and then they have breakfast desayunan and good because you got all the stress right in each one of those

desauno desaunas desauna desaunamos desaunais desayunan okay so one thing that we've not covered a huge amount in coffee break

Spanish is talking about time let's introduce a couple of time phrases just now so that we can talk a little about what we do in the day. So for example, I could say, desayuno at las 7. Desauno at la 7.

Okay, so what time is La 7? Well, 7, 7 o'clock. Yeah, 7 o'clock. So Desayuno at la 7 means? I have breakfast at 7 o'clock. Exactly.

So at la 7 o'clock, at 8 o'clock. We've come across phrases like this in the past. if I want to say then I have breakfast at seven o'clock what would I say? Desauno at 7.

Okay. Kara, I'm going to ask you at what hour desayunas? Desiuno at last 8. Desiunas a last 8? Yes.

Okay. I desiuno at last 7. And I desayuno a las 8 Okay Now desayuno in itself means I have breakfast

In that last example I said I desayuno at 7 I have breakfast at 7 I'm stressing I have breakfast at 7 because there's going to be a comparison Kara said

and I desayuno at 8 So I have breakfast at 7 and Kara said the equivalent of and I have breakfast at 8. So you can use the yo to emphasize I, but you don't need it. Desauno means I have breakfast. So let's talk a little more about the kind of things that we do during the day. And we'll add in some times as well. You might hear us mention and a media. So for example,

desayuno at the 7. media. What would that mean? Half past 7? Yeah. Breakfast at half past 7. Exactly.

Desiuno at 7 and a half. 5. 7 and a half. If you're used to studying German or some other languages, note that 7 and media means half past 7. Okay. And if you do German, you'll understand

why I'm saying that. If you don't do German, Don't worry about it. Desayuno at 7.5. Desiuno at 7.5. Okay. If I say

Salgo the house at 8 I'm at the house at 8

first of all, what time am I talking about? At 8 o'clock. Yeah, at 8 o'clock. At 8 at 8. at 8 o'clock. Now this part,

Salgo de la casa. Do you recognize any words in there? Casa, does it not mean house? Yeah, casa means house. So, salgo de la casa, if you've had breakfast before you Salgo de la casa, any ideas? Leave the house? Yeah, exactly.

Salgo literally means I go out. I go out of the house, so I leave the house. Salgo de la casa at a six. I go to the house at 8 o'clock Very bien So moving on I could say Liego

Al Travajo At last 9 Liego al Trabe A las 9 Okay In this case I'm talking about

El Travajo So El Travajo is the noun Work Work, yeah Liego comes from the verb Legaar and you may have come

across it already in the word legada. At the airport for example. Ligada or Ligadas are arrivals in an airport. So Liego is... I arrive. Yeah, and you know it's I arrive because it ends in O. Liego

it forms the same pattern as the other words that we've already looked at. So Liego al Travajo at Las 9. Luego al Trabe now watch it's Liego.

there, Liego. Liego. And that's different from Luego, which is in the phrase as ta logo. It's a different word. Astana logo,

logo. Luego. And Liego. Okay, so it's a totally different sound but it's very easy to confuse the two. Liego. Liego.

I arrive. And then. Luego. Which is more then or next when you're telling us Then we'll get us at work or something like that. I go to

the time. 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. So let's go through my daily routine so far. Desayuno at last seven? Desiuno at last seven.

Salgo de la casa at last eight. Salgo de la casa at last eight. Lago at the job at last nine. I get to the work at 9 Very very

Kara At what are you I'm I'm I'm at the

8 And at what you you go to the house I

I'm to the house at 8 and media very and

and at how you get to the university I go to the university at

9.5. Very well. Excellent. Okay, let's continue. And let's talk about having lunch. Having lunch to have lunch is Commer. So I would say, Como.

Como? Como means I eat. So, Como a launa. Como a la una. Now, Como a la una. mean? I eat lunch at one o'clock. Exactly. Now notice it's a la una. It's not a las

una because let's face it there's only one hour at one o'clock. At last two, at last three, a last four, but a la una. A la una. A la una. A la una. Como a la a la una. Perfect. Perfect. How? How a one? Perfect. How a one? Kara, Ake Ome's Come to a una

too. Very good. Excellent. Okay. And tell me one a

thing, a time, how hour wels a casa now there's

something that's slightly different, Welves a casa, we're talking

about what again, La Casa. The house? The house. So, at

what Welves a casa. Any ideas as to what that might mean? What time

do you get back to the house? Yeah. What time do you get home at? Ake hour, Wulves a casa. Wuelves comes from the verb Volver and Volver means to return. So what time do you return home? It's quite a tricky word to say Wuelves. And Welves is you return and I return would be

Vuelbo. Welvo, exactly. Try not to make the Vue sound in the there to b. Try not to make it Buelbo, which sounds a little strange. Obviously, this is slightly different depending on where you are in the Spanish-speaking world, but if you can approximate it to something like Wuelvo, quite a soft

V sound, Wuelvo Vuelbo Wau. Wulbo A casa at 5. Vuelbo at casa at las 5. Now, do you remember earlier in this lesson, I mentioned a word that it sounded quite like

Liego, but it was a word that you would use when telling a story and it would mean then or next. Lugo. Luego, exactly. So after getting back from the office or from university or wherever, you could say, then, and give the next part of your story. And this next part of your story is going to be Descanso. Descanso. Descanso is linked to.

the word canzado or canzada what does that word mean tired yeah so descansso means sort of to detire to become less tired it means to have a rest i rest and of course we'll rest in the evening so wuelbo a casa and then descanso can you try repeating that please Vuelbo a casa, then then Wuelbo to

and then the last part of our day that we're going to talk about at the moment is

Ceno Ceno from the verb Cener meaning To have dinner? Yes, exactly

Cener means to have dinner and comere means to have lunch although the verb

Comer can also be used generally to eat. So to eat something is to comer algo. But when you're talking about meals, to have lunch, thenar to have dinner, to dine.

So, thano alas ocho. Feno alas ocho. Okay. What we're going to do now is go through the whole day and then I'll ask Kara some questions about when she does all these things. So I'll tell you my day first.

and you can see if you can work out what all of this means. And rather than stop after each sentence, I'm going to just do one long paragraph here and see how much you understand. Here it goes. Desayuno at a 7.5. Salgo to the house at 8, and I get to the job at 8.5,

more or less. Come, a la 1? And I'm at 1. And I'm going to house at 5. Okay, have a listen to Okay, have a listen again to this. Desayune at a 7.5. Salgo to the house at 8, and

I get to the job at 8.5, more or less. Come, at a 1, and I'll go to 1, and I'm going to a house at 5.5. Then I then I'm at 8.

So I said I say, Desayuno at 7.5. Kara, what does that mean? I have breakfast at half past 7. Very well.

Sal go to 8. I leave the house at 8 o'clock. Ljew at 8.5. Mast or less.

I arrive at work at about half past 8th. Yeah, less means more or less. So it's a useful phrase, especially when you're talking about time. Another way of saying that would be, a eso de las eight and a media. Aeso de las eight and a minute.

A eso de las eight and a roundabout half past eight. Very well. I then said, I have lunch at one o'clock. And I get back home at half a half. And I get back home at town. past five. Then I rest. And I have dinner at 8 o'clock.

Okay. Now, Kara, I'm going to put you on the spot here. I'm going to ask you questions and you're going to tell me the times that you do these things. And if you want to include a mas or something like that, here and there, that would be good. Okay, valid. Okay, then. at what

you are desayunas desayuno at at the 8 at

how you go I'm to the house at 8

and very very and at what you get

to the university I get at the university at

9 and okay okay car at what you

come you come a one. Very well. And you'll

go to house at the hour? Vuelbo at the five and

a minute more or then and then then then I'll

say a so you say a little? Then I can say

a hour, six. Perfecto. Now, one thing, Ceno, of course, in Latin America, would be seno. Seno at la Siette. Seno at la Cete. Exactly. And all the other words that we've learned today

really are pronounced pretty much the same across the Spanish-speaking world. Now, some of you may have noticed in there some interesting things about the questions that I was asking, Kara. I said things like, A que hour desayunas, a que

hour you're at the hour cenas, for example, but there were a few questions that didn't end

in us. For example, a que hour sales de la casa, a que hora comes, a que hour

welves. We're not going to go into these just now, but just be aware that it's not always the ass form

that you use for you. So in this situation, it's salis, and we'll cover that more in a future podcast. And that's where we're going to leave it today

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