Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 2.03 | Reflexive verbs

Episode Date: January 17, 2010

Lesson 3 introduces the concept of reflexive verbs and completes our teaching on talking about your daily routine. Please note that lesson 3 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 203 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.

Olae biennitos, a Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. This week we're looking at daily routine again. However, we're looking at specific things which happen at certain times of the day. In your daily routine, you probably at some point get yourself up out of bed. You probably dress yourself. You might shave yourself. Then at the end of the day, you might put yourself back in bed.

All these things are actions which happen to yourself, and they require a certain type of verbal. in Spanish. This type of verb is called a reflexive verb and that's what we're learning about today. This week we're talking about everything that happens before breakfast and after dinner. And you might wonder why this is all being kept for one separate podcast but we'll explain why in just a moment. To begin with I'm going to take you back to when you learned how to say I am called. My name is one of the first phrases that you learned back in lesson two. How do you say I am called Mark or I am called Kara.

Me liamo cara. Me liamo, okay? So me liamo. Me, am I told you, actually means I call myself. And at the time you probably thought, what a strange way to say my name is. But this is when we're going to explain this further

because me yammo means I call myself and it's what you call a reflexive verb. Now, reflexive verbs exist in many languages. In French, for example, you've got, Je mappel, in Italian, Mi Chiamo, and in German, other examples like I fraga me and so on. What we want to think about in Spanish is simply using that small word, me, and then combining it with a normal verb.

So, for example, me yammo is myself I call. me yamo myself i call when we're talking about i call myself it doesn't make as much sense but when we're talking about things like meduccio meduccio literally means myself i shower i shower myself so i have a have a shower i take a shower so try that meduccio Meduccio Meduccio Meduccio Okay, so me again means myself

or you may have a bath instead me banio me banio me banio So literally myself I bathe I bathe myself

And note that this means I bathe myself as in you wash yourself and so on. It doesn't mean that you don't bathe with anyone else, if you know what I mean. Anyway, me banio, I bathe myself, I have a bath. Me banio. Me ducio, I have a shower.

Meduccio. Or I shower myself and so on. And in fact, from the minute you wake up, you start to use reflexive verbs in Spanish. I wake up, in this case you actually wake yourself up. me despirto me despirto

me despirto me despirto me despirto now how would you see I wake up at six me despirto a six me desperto

a six very well sometimes waking up and actually getting up are two completely different things

so me despirto at the six, but me levanto at the seven.

Me levanto at the seven. It's actually not levanto. It's levanto. There's just one L there.

Levanto. Levanto. Levanto. Me levanto at the seven. My levanto at the seven. Very well.

Me I'm despirto at last six, me levanto at seven, me ducho, and me afeito. Me afeito. Yeah.

No, kind of, probably this wouldn't apply to you. It means I shave myself. Okay. Me afeito. Me afeito. I have a shiv.

Me afaito. So it comes from afeitarsse to shiv. So me afeito. Okay, so let's go through these again. Me despierto. Me despierto. Me levanto.

Me ducho. Meducho. Or me banio. Me baño. Me afeito. My afaito. Okay. Now, something that I'm probably,

likely to do is use the phrase me maquillo. Me makilio. Okay, now if I tell you that el maquillage is the word for makeup, then me maquillo. I put on makeup. Yeah, I put on my makeup. So you may also want to say me peino. me peino peino me peino me peino means

I do my hair I comb my hair or whatever you do to your hair me peino me peino and one other thing that hopefully you'll do before you go out the house is say

me vista me vista me vista comes from bestirse which means to get dressed to get dressed to put on your vest I suppose

me me vista I get dressed so let's run through these later ones again me afeito me afaito

me maquillo me maquilia me peino me peino me visto me bisto and always remember that in all of these

the me means myself. So I shave myself. Me a feido. Me maquillo, I put myself makeup on or something like that. Me peino, I do my hair or do my hair to myself. It's all things that you do to yourself. So me vista, I get myself dressed. All of these things happen before you go out of the house, hopefully.

Anyway, and when you get back at the end of the day, there are other things that you might do. For example, me aqueesto. Me a questo. Now, me a questo is the sort of going to bed. It's not quite falling asleep. It's going to bed. So it's going upstairs and getting yourself organized for going to bed.

Me a questo. Me a questo. And then another thing that you might do is me desnudo. me desnudo. Now you've got the word nudo in there, so you can probably work out what that means. I get undressed. Yes, the opposite of me vista. Me desnudo.

Me desnudo. And finally, what you'll probably do is me doermo. Me doormo. And duermo is linked to dormier. To sleep. To sleep. Me duermo, I go to sleep. Me duermo.

Okay and again, all these phrases are using me, which really means myself, although in English we don't always use the word myself in the phrase. So just as we don't say, I comb myself the hair or anything like that, in Spanish you have to say me peino and me desnudo, me duermo, everything, all these things are things that you do to yourself in a sense. 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. We started this lesson by looking at me yamo, meaning I call myself. Kara, can you remember how you say, what do you call yourself?

What is your name? Como te yamas? Como te yamas? So the yamas is using that as ending of the verb. So, yamo, yamas. And what is the, what is the, happening to the me? It's changing to

te. Yeah. So how would you say you get up? Te levanto? Levantas. Te levantas. Very well. Te levantas. Te levantas. Perfecto. Now if I therefore wanted to ask you the question at what time do you get up? How would I ask that? A What

How How do you Levantas? Very Yeah, At what You're You

So So So So So I'm Me Levanto

At At the Seete Perfect And this is A pattern That you get Into

If someone asks you At You change the As to Oh

Me Levant Okay And just the same way We would do,

a ke hour desayunas, desayuno. So desayunas becomes desayuno. At what you're

to get to get I have to include the me in there

because it's a reflexive verb. Now again like last week, some of these won't

follow that as ending in the two form. You'll probably hear a few

is which is spelled E-S as the end. As I ask kind of these questions, just try to recognize, to begin to recognize the two forms.

We're concentrating on the yo, the I forms here, but try to recognize the two forms so that we can use them in the future. We're also going to introduce some slightly more complicated times, and these will include, for example, a la 7 y' quarto, quarto being a quarter. So at la 7 y quarter past 7. Yeah, quarter past 7. 715. And you also may hear, for example, at last 8 minus quarter. Alas 8 minus quarto, is that quarter 2?

Quarter 2, 8, yeah, 745. I know these phrases are said differently in different parts of the English-speaking world. In Spanish, at last 8 minus quarter, and at 8.5. 8.15, 8.5. 8.5.8.8. 7.45. Okay. So, Kara, at what hour

you? Despairedas? Me Desperto at last 7. Very well. And you? And you?

You? at the 7? No, I do at the 7 and 4th. Very well. And

you duchas or you bañas? Me ducho. At what hour? I'm ducho at the

7. And very not you afeitas no. You? You makegillas? Yes.

Me maquilio at 8 minus quarter Yes and you

you do you do yes yes before to get

so before going out before to see I've seen

in this case then then when back so on coming

back to the house to come to at the

time at what you dinner Ceno at 7? Yes. And for the

time, you're doing? Yes, I study or the day. For the evening or the afternoon in certain

situations. But here we're talking about after dining, you're talking about. Yes, right?

And at what time you're atu Me, Iquest, at the 11,

more or less or and how how are you doorms? My doerm, my dorm, at the

1. Very very. And, tell me, Cara, during the end of

the end of the time, you're at least, at once? No,

me I'm a 4 or 5 for the manna. Now this is actually something quite important because you don't say de la manana at last 4

or 5 de la manana because there is another time period in the Spanish speaking world and that is Madrugada Madrugada Madrugada Madrugada

which probably goes from about midnight through to four or five in the morning. So for example, you would say at last three of the madrugada. At last three de la... Madrugada. Madrugada.

At last three of the madrugada. At last three of the madrugada. Okay, so about three o'clock in the very early morning. Very well. Now, Kara, I'd like you to ask me the same questions. Okay.

Okay. you and you and normally I'm I'm

I'm I'm I'm at six more or and you

do you do you well normally I get

to at six I get and I do

I do at what you duches I do

at six and the And you Afeitas or you makegillas? Well,

it depends. No, normally me feit no me maquillo. And at what time do you dosts? I've seen at

6. 5, at 7 minus 4th. Okay, and for the time,

at what time you're atuarez? Well, depends. If I'm much I'm

a midianoch or maybe a at one of the one of the madrugada but

normally I'm I'm I'm I'm at least and at what

you do you doves? Well I like learn so

normally I'm I'm I'm a little and then I'm

to at the 11. Or maybe midnight. But if I'm much

work and I do I'm so I know and I doorme

immediately. Okay. Okay. Now there was quite a lot in that and I obviously expanded a little

and a full transcript of our conversation there is in this week's notes so you can find them at the website. And that's where we're going to leave it today

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