Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 2.11 | Talking about the future

Episode Date: May 11, 2010

In episode 11 of Coffee Break Spanish Season 2 we learn how to say what you’re going to do in the future. In Spanish you use the verb ir combined with a and an infinitive. The lesson explains all you need to know and provides useful examples! This episode was originally released in January 2008, so it focuses on the context of New Year’s Resolutions. Apologies for any confusion resulting from that in the middle of May! Please note that lesson 11 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 211 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, good-dao. Biennino. Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. It's a lesson of 51. And in this lesson, we're going to be talking about the immediate future. So we're going to be saying, I am going to do something. You are going to do something.

We're going to use here plus the word a plus an infinitive. So, for example, I'm going to have a coffee. I hope you enjoy this lesson. Okay, to begin with, Kara, I'm going to ask you. question. A phrase that we've used from time to time is bamos a empesar. What would that mean? Let's begin. Yeah. Empezzar or Embezar is the verb to begin and bamos a empezzar could be translated as let's begin. However, it

actually means we are going to begin. Bamos a empezzar and this is a construction that we've come across a few times, but until now we've really just used it as elements of vocabulary. Today we're going to be looking at this construction using parts of the verb ear, meaning to go, plus the word a, plus another infinitive, and using this to translate a sort of future tense. Now it's not the actual future tense, we'll be coming to that in a later lesson, but this is a way of using an immediate future, saying, for example, I am going to go to the cinema or you are going to learn Russian or something like that. So let's consider this now. We're going to be using the verb ear. Here means

to go. Yeah. And it's an irregular verb and it's something that we've already covered when we were looking at present tense of irregular verbs back in Unit 5. So before we do anything else, let's conjugate the verb here. How would you say, I go? Boy. Yeah, boy. And what about you, go, informal version? Bass. Bas.

Okay, so it's boy, bass, and then he, she, it goes, or indeed you, polite, go. Ba. Ba. Boy, bass, ba. And Kara, can you finish that off with the other three forms? Boy, bass, ba. Bamos, bais, ban. Okay, bamos, bice, ban.

So wigo, bamos. Bamos. U-plural, informal in Spain, go. Bais. Bais, okay. And then Vigo. Ban. And ban is also used for you, plural, polite.

And indeed in most of Latin America, just generally, you-plural. So let's go through the whole thing again one more time. I'll say each form, and if you can repeat it with Kara. Boy. Boy. BAS So, Ba?

Ba? Bamos? Bamos? Bais? Bain. Ban. So, Kara, if I ask you the question, what

was to do in 2008? I'll repeat that again. What you in 2008? Can you tell me what you think that would mean? Okay, k means what? And then we've got bas-a-a-a-ther.

So what are you going to do in in 2008? Exactly. What was a-a-a-a-a-ther? So in a sense, this is a simplified form of the question. And let's think about the construction there. Que, what, bas-a-a-a-a-ther. bas you go

or in this case you are going what is what are you going to do? So Kara what are you going to do this year? What are your New Year's resolutions? I'm going to try and do more exercise

I'm going to try and save more money and I'm going to try and sully more Spanish I'd like to hear that one okay So let's think about how we would say each of these in Spanish. Let's start with the exercise one, doing more exercise. So if the question is, what is you're going to do this year, then I am going to do more exercise

should be a fairly straightforward thing to translate. Can you try I am going to do, first of all? I'm going to Okay, good Boy A Acer So boy I am going

Or I go Ather To do I'm going to do And then more exercise Would be Mass Echercicio

That's it Yeah Mass Echercitio That's it, yeah, mass exerciseio I'm going to make more exercise. Boy to do more than space. Okay, try that one more time. I'm going to make more exercise.

Very well. Now, of course, if you're in somewhere other than Spain, you're more likely to say, I'm going to make more exercise I'm going to make more

exercise Yeah, to make more exercise I'm going to make exercise. Very well

okay so you'll not forget this one I'm going to do more exercise I'm going to do more exercise

or I'm more exercise or more exercise okay now the other thing that you said that you were going to do was save money save money what you vasa comprae um coche okay a car a carro in some parts of the spanish speaking world

vasa to comprae so you're going to save money in order to buy a car okay boy a of course and then the word to save is a horar a a it's quite tricky a o A-or-rar. A-or-r. You run all together. A-ohar. A-ohar.

Okay. And it literally means to save, to gather together. A-horar-dinero. A-oh-diner. I'm going to hour-dinero. I'm going to A-Hor-Dinero. Very well. To buy a coche.

Yes, to buy a coach. Okay. We'll come to Paran for one day soon, I promise. Okay, now the other thing that you said was that you're going to learn more Spanish. Yes. How would you say that? Boy to learn more Spanish. Very bien.

So if it's more exercise, then it's more Spanish. Boy to learn more Spanish. Very well. So let's use the phrase, I'm going to learn more Spanish and put that

into the whole conjugation of the verb here. So I am going to learn more Spanish would be

I'm going to learn more Spanish Uh huh And how would you ask someone someone close to you

okay a friend Are you going to learn more Spanish You're Bas

A A friend Spanish Uh Uh huh And how would I tell other

people that Kara is going to learn more Spanish B to learn more

Spanish Yeah, okay Bah, or Kara Ba to learn more Spanish

and what about we are going to learn more Spanish. We're to learn

more Spanish We're going to learn more Spanish clear. Okay, so we are

going to learn more Spanish. Now what about you in Spain, you plural

are going to learn more Spanish? Bais A A friend more Spanish.

Yeah, Bais. It's almost like one syllable. You're pronouncing it ever so slightly as two syllables. They're bais, but run them together and you say bais. Bais. Bais, a aprender more Spanish. Bais, a aprender more Spanish. And how finally would I say they are going to learn more Spanish? Van to learn more Spanish Exactly Van to learn more Spanish

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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 look at a few other examples here. We've had, I'm going to do more exercise,

I'm going to do more exercise, I'm going to save money, and boy to learn more Spanish. I'm going to learn more Spanish. What about, well, Kara, you're at university? Mm-hmm. How would you say I'm going to study more? I'm going to study more.

Very well. I'm going to study more. I'm going to study more. Okay. Now, let's say, for example, you're going to stop doing something. Now, I know for the fact that you don't smoke, but if you did smoke, then you could say, I'm going to stop smoking.

and to smoke is fumar Fumar So to say that you're going to stop smoking you would say, I'll dechar de fumar Dechre de fumar Now, dechar literally means to leave

So it's to leave from smoking, to stop smoking. Boy a dechar de fumar Boy a dejaar de fumar Very well Now, something else that you might want to stop doing, and probably if you're me, this is probably a good thing to say. I'm going to get to comeer

a much chocolate. You're going to stop eating too much chocolate? Exactly. Yeah. To stop doing something, I'm going to stop doing something. I'm going to to eat a chocolate. I'm

to eat to eat too chocolate. Very good.

I mean, I like much the chocolate and I'm so this

year, I'm to get to eat too chocolate. And

I do more exercise too. That I'm sure we're

talking about the exercise one. There's actually another way that you can say that to get fit, you might want to say. And that's a nice one because it's using actually a reflexive verb, a reflexive verb in the infinitive. So I would say, boy a ponermy in form.

Literally, I'm going to put myself in form. Okay, I'm going to get fit. Boy a ponermy in form. Boy to put me in form. Very Okay If I ask you the question then What you

What you're going to In 2008 Or if I ask you An alternative question Tienes Buenos Propositos for this year Which would mean

Do you have New Year resolutions This year? Yeah Buenos Propositos Good resolutions Good Propositos For this year

Or for this year Or for 2008 Do you have any resolutions. Kara, what can you say now? Yes. I'm going to do more exercise and I'm

to earn more Spanish. Very well. Just watch the Ahorar. Okay, I'm a Ahorar Dinoo. I'm a Ahorar Dinoero. Very good. It's really tricky to say that one. Okay. Can you ask me

The same question then. Yes? What you're going to do in 2008? Well, this year, I'm going to put me in form, I'm going to eat too chocolate, and I'm going to

learn a bit of Russo, of Chinese, and, maybe a little of Japanese also. Is that you want to learn some Russian,

some Chinese, and maybe some Japanese? Yes, I say so. I've set myself some linguistic targets for this year, but we'll maybe come back to that another time. Okay, let's do a little bit of review of what we've been covering today. And we're going to do this in combination with looking at the different forms of the verb here.

So, can you see if you can put together the following sentences? First of all, number one, number one, I am going to study more. I'm going to study more. Very well. Number two. He is going to stop smoking. He will

to have done to do mar. Perfect. Okay. Number three. We are going to do more exercise. We

are going to do more exercise. Very well. number four you and that's the singular informal form

you are going to learn more Spanish Bas to learn more Spanish very well and this is a really tricky one

she is going to get fit but to put in form very well in that one normally if you're saying

I am going to get fit you've got to use the me pronoun at the end of ponerme informa and if it's she is going to get fit then you would have to use the reflexive pronoun for she so ponersy in forma ba a ponersi in forma and let's just run through the whole of that before we finish off here because that's quite important I am going to get fit boy a ponermie in forma boy aponairme informa You are going to get fit.

You're going to get fit. You're going to get fit. He, she, it or you, polite are going to get fit. Ba'a ponerse in form. We are going to get fit. We are going to get fit. We're going to put in form. And you, plural, in Spain, are going to get fit.

Bais aponeros in forma. Bais aponer... Aponeras in forma. Yeah, and it sticks on to the end of the infinitive. So it's poneros. Poneros. Bais aponeros in forma. Bais aponairas in form.

And finally, they are going to get fit. Bann a ponerce in forma. Ben to put in form. Very well. And that, I think, is where we're going to leave it for today. So what you can do at home is think up some of your resolutions and see if you can put them into Spanish.

And there's more resolutions in this week's bonus podcast. 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. Much grazie, and hasta pronto.

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