Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 2.04 | Making arrangements

Episode Date: January 23, 2010

In lesson 4 Mark and Kara look at making arrangements and introduce the idea of irregular verbs, using ir (to go) and hacer (to do/make) as examples. Please note that lesson 4 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 204 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, my enveniles at Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. Now, this lesson is Lesson 44. And in this lesson, we're moving on from AR verbs. So far, we've done a number of AR verbs, and we've also looked at daily routine and talked about what we do at certain times in the day. In this lesson, we're going to be talking about making arrangements,

in particular, using the verb, iar, which means to go, and ather, which means to do. and we'll also look at some ER verbs as well. I hope you enjoy today's lesson. Okay, so over the past few weeks, we've been talking about verbs and conjugating verbs in their six forms. We're going to take a verb this week and conjugate it in its six forms of the present tense. And we're going to take the verb, thenar, or in Latin America, senar.

So, can you remember, Kara, first of all, what thanar or senar means? Does it mean to eat dinner? Yeah, to dine or to eat dinner. Cener linked to the word la Cena, meaning dinner. Or in Latin America, la sena. And senar. So let's conjugate thanar in its six forms. So I'll give you the person or the part,

and you tell me what the part of the verb is. So to begin with, I dine. Seno. Ceno. Okay, ends in an O, like virtually all other I forms of verbs in the present tense, thano. What about you dine in the informal version? Tenas.

Thenas. Uh-huh, thanas. And he, she, it, or you polite, dine? Sena? Sena. So the verb goes, thano, senas, sena. And then how would you say we dine? Zenamos.

Thenamos And what about you plural informal In Spain Dain Deney Good

Thenaise And finally They Dain Or You Polite Plural Dine

Dine And Very And you got your stress All right there So Ceno

Cenas Thena Thena Thénamos Thelais Therais Thénan Seno

Fenis Senna Senamos Senes Senan Okay Now as we're doing this And as we're saying

these verbs I'm making all sorts of strange signs with my hand Because every single time I've taught verbs To many many students

Whether on the internet Or in real classes I've always taught them To use their hands To help them Remember Which part of the verb they're talking about

So we're going to do this Together And I'm going to tell you Where you've got to point, this perhaps would be better done in as a video podcast, but for the moment, we're just doing the audio. So first of all, I'm taking my right hand and my index finger, and I'm pointing to me, so Theno. Theno. Theno. You have to take our word for it that we're actually pointing to ourselves here.

Theno. Now, I'm going to look Cara straight in the eye here and point to her, and I'm going to say Thenas. I'll point to Mark then, and say Thenas too. Okay, so it's looking at someone and pointing at them saying you dynes. Thenas. Now, look at that person. Keep looking at the person, but point to someone else. If there's someone else in the room or someone else on the tube, don't point to someone in the tube though and make them feel a little uncomfortable.

Just imagine yourself pointing to someone else in the tube. And say, Thena, he or she dines. Thena. So, moving your hand again to yourself, Thena. Thena. Thena. look directly at someone and point straight to them. Thanas.

Thanas. And now point to someone else. Keep looking at the person that you were looking at, though. Thena. Thena. This really would be much easier done on a video podcast. Let's move on anyway. With the wee form, this is kind of strange.

You're going to bring your other hand in now because you're talking plural. It's not just one person, but it's lots of people. So in this case, I always do almost like the breast. stroke when you're swimming you go out and bring everybody in together including yourself so thanamos then namos okay and then turn your hands and push away at everyone else now then nice then nice and then take both thumbs and point outwards thenan thenan okay now as i say i think what we will do is put a little video podcast together and put this up on the site so that you can see how we're conjugating these verbs using our hands.

Seno, thanas, thana, tenamos, tenais, thenan. Seno, senas, tenas, tenas, thena, zenamos, denais,

fenan. Now, thanar, or senar, is a regular verb, a verb that forms its patterns very regularly. It's always, you can always trust it,

okay? We're going to learn now another verb, and this is a verb that's not regular, it's an irregular, That verb is ear, ear. It's spelled I are and it means to go. Ear. Ear.

Ear. Okay, good pronunciation there, Kara, ir. Ear. Now, ear is the infinitive form. It's the part that you would find in the dictionary and it means to go. But if we want to start working out how you would say I go, you go, he goes and so on. we need to change it and we'll need to use irregular forms because it's an irregular verb

in actual fact the words that we're going to be using are words that you've probably come across already words that we've learned before but really as items of vocabulary rather than as irregular verbs ear means to go but to say I go you say boy boy yeah so boy and ear

don't really sound much like each other. But what you'll see is that once we start conjugating ear, you'll recognise the different parts of the verb as more regular forms. So, boy, I go, Hugo is bass. Bass.

And he, she or it goes is ba. Ba. Boy, bass, ba. Boy, bass, ba. Now, can you guess what Wigo would be? Bamos. Exactly. And Bamos is a word that we've heard once or twice, isn't it?

Yes. So, Bamos is we go. Bamos. And you'll hear that very often in Spanish in phrases like, Bamosa enpezzar. Let's begin, or are we going to begin? Bamos to enpez. Bamos a empez.

Exactly. So if it's Bamos for we go, what do you think Ugo would be the plural form? Ba'is? Bais, exactly. Bais. And then finally, Vego. Ban? Bann, exactly.

Now, we've come across ban before. Think back to when we were in the cafe and ordering drinks and the waiter came up and asked a group of people, Bana tommar Algo. Literally, are you going, using the plural, polite form, to have something?

Bana to tomar Algo. Are you going to take something? Are you going to take something? Are you going to have something? So ban is Vago and You Polite Plural Go. Let's run through all of that. And don't forget your hand signals either. So, boy.

Boi. Bas. Bass. Ba. Ba. Ba. Bamos. Bamos.

Bais. Bain. Ban. Ban. Boi bass, ba. Boe bas, ba. Bamos bais ban Bamos bays ban

Okay so you now can say Aigo, Ugo Ugo, Higos, Shigos Wego, Yugo, Ugo D-E-Go And before we go mad here Let's take another verb And do something similar with it

We're going to take this time A-C-E-R Now A-T-E-R Is spelled H-A-C-E-R And if you're in Latin America you'd be saying, Aser. And again, it's a word

that we've come across on a number of occasions, particularly in its conjugated form. For example, what does that mean? What do you do at the weekends? Yeah, during the weekend. What do you do at the weekend?

So, Acer means to do, or in some cases it means to make. Acer, or in Latin America, Ase'er. Now, when we're going to learn the conjugation of this, it's another irregular verb, so we need to look out for the parts that don't follow the pattern. And with Ather, in fact, there's only one part. And it's the first part, and that's even a pattern in itself. Because very often, with irregular verbs, most of the parts are fairly regular, but then the first part, the I part,

can be a little irregular. Now, to say I do, you say ago. Ago. Ago is spelled H-A-G-O. Ago. Ago. And your Spanish G sound is quite a soft G there. Ago.

Ago. Very bien. It's not ago, but ago. Ago. Igo. Very well. So it's I do, I go, but then you do, it's quite regular.

You say, Aces. Aces. And he does or she does Athe. Aze, like Afe Sol. Exactly. So it's Ago, Aces, Aze. Ago, Aces, Aze. Any guesses as to what we do would be?

Acemos. Acemos. Very well. Athemos Atheis Athen Athen So U plural is

Atheis Atheis And they do Is Athen And notice in every single one of them You've got a silent H Ago Aces, Athe

Athe, Athemos Atheis, Athin Igo Aces Athe Athe Athemos Atheis

Athen Very bien Perfecto So we've had Cener Which is a regular verb We've had Iir

Which is a very irregular verb We've now looked at Ather Another irregular verb but in that one There's just one part really That changes

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Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Now at the start of this lesson I said that we were going to be looking at making arrangements and we're certainly getting there but we're going to cover this both in this lesson and the next lesson in some more detail. Let's think about the question, what does that question mean, Kara? What are we doing? Yeah, what are we doing? What do we do?

So what are we doing? For example, manana. What do we do? What does manana? What does manana mean? Tomorrow? Yeah, it does. It means tomorrow.

And it also sometimes means the morning. So la manana is the morning. If we wanted to say tomorrow morning, we would say manna for the manana. Manana for la manna. So tomorrow and the morning. Manana for the morning. Manana for the manna.

Very well. So, what we make us Mayna for the morning? What make us tomorrow

for the morning? Okay, or it may be what we do we

do this night? What did this night? And what

would this night mean? Tonight? Yeah, literally this night,

this evening. What are we doing this night, tonight? What are we doing tonight? What are we

this night? How would you see what are we doing this afternoon? What

we're doing this t'clock? Very well. You remember that tarde is feminine, so you have to say this t'est, and not este. Okay, so este is the masculine.

This is the feminine. What we do? What we do? So if someone asks you, what are we doing, you can answer using a present tense we form of the verb. Now one thing to mention is that probably in English

if you were to say what are we doing tomorrow you might answer that by saying we could go to the cinema we are going to the cinema we will go to the cinema and so on in Spanish it's fine to use the present tense so you can just use the present tense here so try that, we'll go to the present tense here

so that's using Bamos from the verb Which verb meant to go? Iir. Good. So, we're going to Cime. We're going to see if we can think up some other examples

here. What are we doing tonight? What do we're this night? How would you say we're going to a restaurant? We're going to restaurant. Okay. I'm going to be a

little picky here because I said, we are going to a restaurant and Kara you said we're going to the restaurant which means literally we are going to the restaurant suggesting perhaps there's only one restaurant in the place that we are but

if I said we are going to a restaurant can you translate that exactly as I said that we're going to a restaurant perfecto we're a restaurant we're If we wanted to be specific, we could say,

we'd say, we'd say, we're going to the restaurant close to the iglesia. What would that mean? We are going to the restaurant close to the church. Exactly, yeah. We're going to the restaurant that's called the dragon. We are going to the restaurant, which is called... The dragon.

of a dragon. Yeah. I don't know where I got that one. Okay, so you get the idea that we need to be specific here. If we're talking about al restaurant, it has to be a specific restaurant. But if it's just, we're just, we're a restaurant, then it's fine. We're doing a restaurant. What about, uh, what about, uh, what we are dining together?

Cineamos, junta. Very, bien. Cernamos. We are dining. and the word for together is Junotos or if it's a group of females dining together you would say Cara Junta

Very bien, Zenamos Junta's Zenamos Junta Or of course in Latin America Senamos Junoos or senamos Juntais Senamos

Junots Okay, just watch your U Junta Perfecto Very well So in answer to that question you can use any present tense

and use the wee form of the present tense and next time we're going to be developing this a little more with a conversation all about what we're going to do this evening or tomorrow or to next week or at the weekend and we'll also add in how to actually make the arrangements so what time will we meet at

where we'll meet and so on but that's for next time 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. You can join the Coffee Break Spanish community on Facebook at Facebook.com slash Coffee Break Spanish and follow at Learn Spanish on Twitter.

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