Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 2.05 | Making more arrangements

Episode Date: January 27, 2010

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Hello and welcome to Cofus Spanish. What's how we are we are Maher, and I'm going to help you with your Spanish. Now today we'll continue to look at verbs. This time, not the regular verbs that we've been looking at so far, but we're going to take a look at some more irregular verbs. We've already looked at i'd-eer and a-e-e-eer, and in this lesson we'll be taking a look at two verbs,

Salid, which means to go out, and da-d, which normally means to get. Now these verbs don't follow the same patterns as the verbs that we've learned so far. So you'll be learning some new patterns in this lesson. I hope you enjoy it. Most a fracias. So last week we were looking at making arrangements, making arrangements to meet people. And we're going to continue this this week.

We were using the we form of the verb. That's the part that ends often in amos or emos. In fact, in every Spanish verb, the we form will be. we form will end in amos or emos apart from one or two irregular ones. The question that we were asking last week was, what does what does what athemos mean, Kara? What will we do? Yeah, almost right. Literally it means what are we doing. What will we do? I suppose you could say that's a future tense and we're not quite onto the future yet. We're talking about in the present, what?

are we doing? And even in English we could sometimes say, what are we doing tonight? What do we do this night? What we're going to be saying? What are we doing this night? And of course, if you're in Latin America, you would be saying, what are we doing this night? So, what do we're going to some possible answers to this? Because it's what we're going to be doing a little later on. What are we doing tonight? We could say, we're going to a restaurant. How would you say we are going to a restaurant. We're going to a restaurant.

Very bien. We're going to come up with another idea. What could we do tonight? What we do tonight? We're going to a cinema. Or just we're going to the cinema. How would you say?

We're going to the cinema. How would you say? We're going to see. So, we're at the cinema. So, we're going to a restaurant. Maybe somewhere else that you could go? What about to the theatre? Let us at the

theatre? Very well. We're at theatre. We're going to be used as suggestions. So, for example, what are we doing tonight? We're doing tonight. In English, we would translate that by saying,

shall we go to the theater? We're a restaurant. Shall we go to a restaurant? or will we go to a restaurant or even we could go to a restaurant but the literal meaning is we are going to a restaurant it's very very versatile to use the present tense in Spanish in this way because it can refer to the actual present or the immediate future so let's learn some other words I'm going to teach you some quite cool words today

for example you could say bamos de huerga bamos de huerga yeah that's quite a tricky word to say there's lots of different sounds in there

the first sound is the hugh sound the j sound in Spanish and then you've got a slightly rolled ar in there and then a soft Spanish gg so it sounds like you're at the dentist Juerga

Juerga Very bien Juerga Juerga Now what exactly does Bamos de Juerga mean? Well Bamos de Juerga is how you would say

we're going out partying, we're going out on the town we're going to enjoy ourselves basically and there are in fact lots of different ways to say that in Spanish and some of these ways will be slightly regional. Juerga is used all across the Spanish-speaking world you could equally say

we say, we'll say, we're going to be copas. Bamos de copas. And copa, a cupa, is a glass, normally a glass of wine or a glass of some kind of alcoholic drink. Una copa. You can say,

Bamos to take a cupa. Bamos to take a cup. Uh-huh, so we're going to have a drink. But just to say, Bamos de copas, well, when you're talking about more than one copa, it probably suggests that you're going out partying

and you're going out for a few. So, Bamos de copas. So we've got Bamos de juerga. Bamos de juerga. Very well. Bamos de copas.

Bamos de copas. And something that is a very obvious word here that's meaning the same thing is Bamos de fiesta. Bamos de fiesta. Okay, almost literally translating we are going out

partying. We're de fiesta. Bamos de fiesta. Okay, and I'm going to give you one more, and this is one of my favorite words. I love this word. Bamos de Pachanga.

Bichanga. And to me that just sounds like partying. Pachanga. Vos de Pachanga. Perfect. Let's run through those for it again. Bamos de juerga. We go

We go We goas We goas We goas We go We goa We go We go

Fiesta We go Pachanga And if one of these doesn't understood I'm sure they will be understood In most Spanish-speaking countries

Then try one of the other ones And you'll make sure that you get your meaning across So these are all words phrases that are using Bamos bamos, which means we go. It comes from the verb, i. Which means to go.

And let's just see if we can remember using these partying words, how you conjugate ear. Let's use my favorite ear de pachanga to go out partying. And let's say, I go out partying. How would you say that, Cara? Boy de pachanga.

Boi de pachanga. Kara, mas de pachanga much? Yes, boy de fajanga much. To do you those Fines of Semana? Well, not todos

So I said BAS which is the Tue form Tu BAS de Pachanga Yes Bui de Pachanga

And Kara's replying Boy which is the Yo form So that's conjugated Boe de Pachanga

Boi de Pachanga Baste Pachanga And then he she or it goes out partying?

Ba de Pachanga. Very well. Ba de Pachanga. And then we go out, which is the one that we've been using. Bamos de Pachanga. Bamos de Pachanga. And then the U plural in Spain would be

Vais de Pachanga. Bais de Pachanga. And then the they form. Ban de Pachanga. Banda. Bany Pachanga. Suk boy, bas, bas,

bamos bais ban boy bas bah bamos bain boy bas ba bamos bays van watch the stress there

it's bamos not bamos bamos bamos bais bain very well okay a couple of other things that we might be talking about here

again using the we form the nosotros form of the verb we might say for example we are dining so cenamos or cenamos juntaes in the case of all females and in Latin America of course is senamos senamos or you might just want to say we're going out or shall we go out salimos salimos now salimos can also be used in most of the situations where we used, we're used, bamos de juerga,

de copas, de fiesta, de pachanga, salimus de ques, and so on. You can use Salimus because it means going out,

whereas just we're going. Pretty much the same thing, just an alternative. And one other thing I'm going to cover here, and just while we're talking about

partying and so on, when you have a party, when you throw a party in Spain or in Spanish, you don't throw it or have it. You give a party. So the verb to give is

dar. Dar. Spelt D-A-R. So we give, Kara, can you guess what we give would be based on what you know of verbs? We give. Damos? Very well. Damos a party? A party? Damos a fiesta. Damos a fiesta. Damos a fiesta. So we're having a party. Literally, we are giving a party.

Now let's just conjugate dar, because dar is an irregular verb. But like many irregular verbs, it's really only irregular in the yo form, in the eye part. And when I tell you what it sounds like in the eye part, it should ring a bell. The I part of dar is doi. Doi Kara, can you think on any other verbs That rhyme, in a sense, with doi With ear, you say boy

Mm-hmm Any other ones? How do you say, I am Scottish Soi I'm Scottish So I'm Scottish Soi, from which verb? Ser.

Very good And what's the other verb that means to be? Esther. Estar. So estar, when you say I am well, you say, Estoy bien. So although it's irregular to say doi, I give, it's actually following a pattern that exists. So I'm boy, estoy, doi. Okay, so dar in its full conjugation goes like this.

Doi. D'i. Das. Das. Da. Da. It's beginning to follow a pattern. We give damos.

Damos? Dice. Dain. D'i d'est da, d'est dan. Doi d'est da, damas, dan. Doi das da, da, demos dais, dan. Damos. Damos.

Very good. Doi das da, da, damos dais dan. Doi das da, da'a, damas dan. So yet another verb, another irregular verb that you've learned. And that is meaning I give, you give, he gives and so on. We give, you plural give and they give. So I give a party, doi a fiesta. Doe a fiesta.

And of course we wouldn't translate that as I give a party, but I'm having a party, I'm throwing a party. So we're throwing a party. What we're throwing a party? Damos a fiesta. Perfecto. Now just before we stop talking about dar, I'm going to say one other phrase with dar, and that is, dar una wulta.

Dar a Wanda. Okay, now, Wulta. Wulta comes from the verb, Volver, which means to return. And sometimes at the beginning of the show, we say, Estabos de wulta. Estar de wulta means to be back, as in we're back. We're back. We're back.

So that's different from Dar a Wola Werta. Dar a Weta literally means to give a return, which doesn't make much sense. But if you imagine getting in the car and going out for a little run in the car

and coming back, that's Dar Una Woltta. It's to go for a run. Or indeed, you can also go on foot. Darona Wurta just means to go out for a wander. To go out for a walk, to go for a run. Not really to go for a run as in a jog, a keep fit run, but just to go for a run, as we would say, in English, in the car, or on your bike or whatever, just going out for a little while. Dar a while. Dar a while.

It's the kind of thing that you maybe do after dinner. If you're on holiday, uh, despite to dinner, we're on a while. after After We'll have Damos a WERta Damos a

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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. One final thing. One final thing. Before we go on to a conversation, and that is another verb, another AR verb, a nice regular ER verb, and that verb is Kedar. Kedar. Watch your Spanish D in there. It's always got to be a soft D. Kedar.

Kedar Very well Kedar means it's a difficult word to explain actually because it means lots of

things in some situations it means something different and the situation when you're making arrangements it means

to meet up okay so we could say we meet up in the plaza for example Kedamos in the plaza

We'll meet up in this square Kedamos in the plaza So, Kedar is this idea of meeting up. It does mean other things, and we'll come back to them another time. But for this lesson, just concentrate on the fact that it means to meet up in this sense. Kedamos.

Kedamos. Kedamos. What's your D. Kedamos. Kedamos in La Plaza. Kedamos in La Plaza. And obviously Plaza in Latin America. Okay.

Enough of all the preparation of all this vocabulary. What we're going to do now is put all of this into a conversation. Now, Kara and I have had a look at the script here of the conversation, and we're going to read the conversation to you first. Then we'll talk about the language in the conversation, and then we'll fill in any gaps that we need to do. So, listen to the conversation for the first time. We're going to listen to the conversation. What we're going to the concert in the place? No, we don't want the music classic.

We're going to a restaurant? No, I don't have much hungry. Damos a Bult? I'm Tried. We're going to

Cine? Hmm. Yes, we're going? At what time we're? At last 9? You're good?

Yes, and where we want us? In the station of buses, no is too the city. Perfecto.

Until at last 9. Okay, so you've probably realized already that I was being a little bit grumpy there, I was not really agreeing to any of the suggestions that Kara was making. Listen again and see how much you can understand, and this time afterwards we'll go through some of the language contained in the conversation. What we do this night? No see. We'll go to the concert in the plaza?

No me like much the music classical. We're in a restaurant? I don't have much hungry. Damos a world? I'm sorry. We're going to the cinema? Yes, we're going? At what we're we?

At last nine, you know, do you? Yes, and where we're we? In the station of autobuses, not so far away from the cinema. Perfect, until at last nine. Okay, so hopefully you've understood quite a lot of that. I started by saying, What do we do tonight? By now, you know what that means, Kara? What will we do tonight?

Yeah, literally, what are we doing tonight? Okay, so it's the present tense there, but you can translate that in this situation, in the future. What will we do tonight? What are we doing tonight? Now, Kara said, no-se. What does no-see mean? I don't know. I don't know.

She could also have said, no-lo-see. no lo say literally i don't know it i she doesn't know what we are doing tonight no she just said no she suggested then so al concierto in la plaza so al concierto will we go and see the concert in la plaza in the square or she could have said in latin american spanish we're going to comeo at concert in la plaza and i said no me gusta much la music classical what does that mean I don't really like classical music

Yeah, exactly This was a concert of music Classica in La Plaza and a me no me I don't much like classical music which is a complete lie But anyway, let's move on Kara's next suggestion was

Senamos in a restaurant So shall we dine in a restaurant We're dining in a restaurant And my answer to that one was No Tengo Much Ambre Now, no Tengo means I don't have something. Now, what was it?

What did I not have? No Tenggo much ambre. Ambre. Can you remember what that is, Kara? Hunger? Yeah, I don't have much hunger. It's how you would see I'm not very hungry in Spanish. No Tengo much ambre.

No Tengu Mucha Ambre. I know that it's mucha because ambre is feminine. No Tengo much ambre. No, I don't have much ambr. Okay, so Kara's next suggestion was, Damos a Wanda. What does that mean? Shall we go for a walk or a drive?

Yeah, shall we go out for a walk or a drive? And my answer to that one this time was, I'm tired. Oh, Mark's tired. Yeah, I'm tired. I didn't really want to go for a walk. A drive doesn't really involve much energy, but anyway,

then the next suggestion was, We're going to Cine. We're going to Cine, or Bamos Al Cine. Shall we go to the cinema? And finally, something that I wanted to do. So I said, see, bamos. Yeah, let's go. So, delighted that she had found something I wanted to do,

Kara said, A que or da-gamos. What time shall we meet up? Yeah, what time are we meeting up again? It's this present tense, which you can translate in the future here. At what time will we meet up? And I suggested at last 9.

At 9 o'clock. And then I said, Te-te-prece- bien. Literally, does that seem good to you? Te-parece bien? Yeah. Or in Latin American Spanish, te parese bien. Te-parese bien. And Kara seemed to think that was fine. She said,

see. Donde-quedamos. Don't, at what we get-must, but this time, where shall we meet? Yeah, where shall we meet? where we said in la estacion de autobuses at the bus station yeah and can you tell me

why I suggested at the bus station I said no estal loz deejo it's not far from the cinema exactly so kind of thought that was perfect perfect and she said until 9 o'clock

exactly until 9 o'clock so you can use asta that we've used with then or Pronto or the Semana Que Vienes in a different way as well until 9 o'clock. Asta las 9. Aster las 9.

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