Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 2.17 | Identity quiz

Episode Date: July 20, 2010

It’s time to put into practice what you’ve been learning about the preterite tense. In this week’s episode Mark challenges Kara to an identity quiz using lots of preterite tenses to describe the lives of the mystery personalities. Please note that lesson 17 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 217 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.

Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. It's lesson 57. And in this lesson, we're going to be using all the preterate tenses that we've been working on recently, combining them with some of the adjectives that we were learning previously. And we'll have another identity quiz to see if you can work out who we're talking about based on the information that we give you. I hope you enjoy the lesson. So we are going to start today's lesson with a personality quiz.

We did one of these a few weeks back around Christmas time. I've just realised, Carrie, you weren't here that time, were you? No, I wasn't. Well, maybe there's something about personality quizzes and you're not feeling too well. Maybe. But you're here tonight, so that means that we'll be able to test you on your preterate tenses. Because this personality quiz is talking about the past. We're talking about people who were born and died and so on in the past.

Just a couple of questions for you. And we're going to begin with the first one. Now, so I'm going to read the whole paragraph quite quickly, and I want you to see how much you understand from the first reading. You're going to list, car. Yes, Mark, I'm ready. Well, let's see. This person nacio in Austria, in 1756. Tocco violin in a concert in Germany, for first time, at the age of six years.

then I took in France Italy, Austria Orlando and many other other

other other other he wrote many many many

and was in Vienna in 1791 to the age of 35

years Okay so how was that good I think I understood

quite a lot of it okay let's go through it again we'll take it

phrase by phrase and see if you can work out what all of these phrases mean. So to begin with, Naccio in Austria. He or she was born in Austria? Exactly. Austria is Austria. Australia, don't get it confused with Australia, which is, of course, Australia. So this person, Naccio, he was born or she was born in Austria, in 1756. How are you on your dates, Cara?

1756. Very well. Okay, in 1756. So, he was born in Austria in 1756. He was born in in 1756, or she, possibly,

was born in Austria in 1756. Okay, the next sentence, to co, violin, in a concert, in alemia. Let's take that part. Tocou

toco comes from which verb Toca to play Yeah Tocar literally means to touch But when you're talking about a musical instrument It means to play So toto violin He or she played violin

Yeah In a concert in a In a concert in Germany Very bien Alemania is Germany So he or she played violin In a concert in Germany For

first time a edad of six years for primer a

way that means yeah well best means time like otter a so

for the first time for the first time for the first time and he played the violin for the first time in

in Germany in Germany a age six years when he or she was six yes

when he or she was six years old. So, at the age of six years, at the age of six years, at the age of six. Okay, any ideas yet? Don't say the name, but? Maybe. Okay, we're going to say to see. After that, took, in France, Italy, Austria, Holland, and much other Situos.

After that, he or she played in France. And then what was it? Italia. Italy. Austria. Again. Orlando. Holland?

Yeah. And much other cities. And many other places. Yeah. Orlando is how you would translate Holland. The Netherlands is

Los Paises Bajos. Los Paises Bachos. Yeah. The low countries, literally. Bajo means low. or small when you're talking about a person. So Los Paises Bajos are the low countries.

Los Paises Bajos. Bacos. Bajos. Bajos. Yeah, that's it. Okay, so let's look at the next sentence. We had Escribio, from the verb Escribier, which means to write.

To write. Escribio, Muchas Obras Musicales. Here she wrote many musical works. And these many musical works were very conocidas. Connofer means to know, then connoctida would mean known, very well known.

Exactly, well done. Much conocidas, very well known. Now, just working back a little there to Obras. Obras does indeed mean musical works when you're talking about Obras Musicales or Obras Teatrale. But you may have come across Obras, in a different context. If you come across a sign in the street

that says, Obras, what does that mean? Would it be roadworks? Exactly, it's roadworks. So Obra has got some kind of link to work, but in this case, it's Obras Musicales, so it's musical works. So he wrote lots of musical works, which were very conocidas, very well known.

And finally, Murio, in Miena, in 1791? Did you get that date? No, but I got that he died in Vienna. Mm-hmm. What was the date? 1,791.

1791. Mm-hmm. At the age of 35 years. At the age of 35? Yes, it was very young. Okay, I'm going to read through the whole thing again, and quite fast Spanish. just to give you one final chance to listen to it.

I'll use Latin American pronunciation this time just for a change. So here goes. Nassio in Austria in 1756. Tocco violin in a concert in Germany for first a year to six years. Then took in France, Italy, Austria, Orlando, and many other cities. Hecribio many works musicals,

very known. Muriel in Vienna in 1791 to the age of 35 years. Kara, who is this person?

Is it Mozart? Yes, Tienes a reason. It was Mozart. Well done. Okay, I'm going to

do another one of these and this time again I'll read the whole thing first and then we'll go through it sentence by sentence and you can see if you can work out

who it is. Let's see. This man, very known, nacio in Hicksville, Long Island.

It's one of the artists American most known. His album The Stranger

Gano a premium Grandme in 77 and one of the songs

most known the music is just the way you are. Okay, any ideas

yet? don't have a clue. Okay. Right. Let's go through this. Okay. This man, this well-known man. Yeah. So, Conocido can be famous, can be well-known, nacio, was born in 1949. In Hicksville, Long Island. In Hicksville, Long Island. Okay. Okay. Is one of those artisville. He'stas Estadouinenses most

known he's one of the I didn't get what Estad Estadonidense Estadonidense means from the United States Okay so it's pretty much

the same as saying Americano although of course American can also mean Latin American in certain situations so this ombre is Estadonidense

he's from the United States. He's a US citizen. Okay, so he's one of the most famous American artists. Yeah.

His album, The Stranger. His album, The Stranger. Uh-huh. His album, Ganoe, in 19777. The album won a Grammy?

Yeah, a premium, is a prize, and Ganar is the verb to win. So ganar in the preterate, let's quickly conjugate ganar. I won. Gane. You won. Gannaste.

He sheer at won. Gano. We won. Gannamos. You all plural one in Spain? Gainais. You sure? Gannastais.

Canastais. And they won. Gannaron. Ganaron. Ganaron. Cane, ganas, ganes, ganos, ganas, and won

Cane, can't and won't and won't, Cana, if you do one more practice with the preterate tense,

there's a really good podcast that we recommend. Really? Okay, so, his album won a

Premio Grammy in 1977 did we get the date there? 19707. Yep.

And one of the cancions most Conocidas And one of the most famous songs Yep De Este disco of this

album Yeah, of this record, okay Se Yama Just the Way You Are It's called Just The Way You Are Yeah Okay, we'll be back in just a moment Now if you'd like to get more

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That's at coffeebreakacademy.com. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. One more time the whole thing through. Again, I'll use a Latin American accent this time, and then we'll find out if Kara knows who they, This man very known

was born in 1949 in Hicksville, Long Island. It's one of the artists

Americanes most known. His album The Stranger won't a Grammy in

77 and one of the songs most known the song

the way you are. Well, kind of you know, you want his

Grammy, I was even born? Well, I wasn't particularly old either in 1977, I have to point out, but nevertheless, I know who this absolute genius of American music is. Do you know the song, at least? No. No, connoces la cance de la canceo, just the way you are? Do you want to sing it for me? Don't go changing to try and please me. Okay, I know the song, but I don't know who sang it. Shocking, shocking, absolutely shocking. The youth of today, I don't know. I, I'm, I'm, Assuming that most of our listeners know who this is,

is the omere siama, Billy Joel. Oh, okay. If you'd said uptown girl or something, I'd have gotten it. Can I just point out here that we don't need emails pointing out that I did in fact sound like Shrek singing just the way you are at the end of Shrek and the karaoke and the swamp dance party, mega mix or whatever it's called. I think we should move on. I think we've done enough personality quizzes and enough inanity for today's lesson.

We're going to move on and cover a couple of other preterus, things that we included in the bonus podcast for Lesson 55, but just to make sure that everyone's got these. They're Benir to come and Deci to say. So let's take Benir, first of all. Venir, V-E-N-I-R, is quite irregular in the preterant. It starts off with Bine. Bene. V-I-N-E. So, Bine-E-A-Mercado. I came to the market. So you came is Viniste Viniste

Viniste Viniste So Viniste So Viniste Al Colegio this morning

Viniste at college this morning Uh huh Viniste So it's Vine, Viniste

and then Vino Vino Vino just like the word for wine El Vino Bino

But in this case, of course, you can tell from the context. It means he, she, it, or indeed, you, singular, formal, came. So, bino a vernos, ayer. Bino a bernos. Ayer. So he came to see us yesterday. Don't worry too much about the bernos. Bers to see and the nos is the pronoun that gets stuck on to the end of the infinitive.

Vino Avernos? Ayer. So, Vine, Viniste, Bino. Bine, piniste,

Pino. Binimos. Binisteys. Biniestys. Binieron. Biniereon. Bini most, Pinnisteys,

pinieron. Pinie most, pinieste, Bineron. Very good. So, so that was, we came,

you Plurdle came and they came. So let's go through the whole verb again. Bine. Bineiste. Bino. Pinimos. Pinistas. Pinieuern. Pinieron.

Pinieron. Okay. Now, the other verb that we looked at was DECIR, meaning to say, DECIR. And with Latin American pronunciation, desir, obviously. And this verb in the preteret introduces a new letter. and that letter is the letter J. So, D'Ethier, to say, becomes I said,

Dijee. Dijee. Dijee. Dijee. And then you said, you can probably guess this, is Dijiste. Dichiste. Dichiste. Dichiste.

And then he, she or it said, or indeed you, formal, singular said, is Dijisto. Dijo Dijo Dijo So we've got Dijeste Dijo Dijeste Dijo

Dijo And then we said is Dichimos Dichimos You plural informal

Spain said Dihistais And they said Dichestes. Okay so let's go through the whole verb Dijez Dijito

Dijee, Dijis Dijo Dijimos Dichestis Dijerun Dichimos Dichis Dijeran Okay and I think I'm making you work

particularly hard With your sore throat today With all these G sounds Hopefully it's not too bad Dije Dijes dej

Dijes dejian That's Dekir in the Pretuit tense And while we're talking about this introduction of the J

sound in there Let's try another verb and that verb is traducir. Traducir. And traducir is connected to language because it's all about translating. To translate is traducir. Traducer.

In the preterate, you've got a J in there as well because it becomes traduche. Traduji. Traduiste. Traduxte. Traduco. Traduho.

So he translated the book Traduho el libro. Traduco a libro Traduchimos Traduchimus Traduiste traduisteis

tradujeron So again once you get into the pattern it's very easy to spot these different tenses and to work out that yeah that's the J from the preterut

and so you can work out what the word means from the vocabulary and indeed from the context and then work out the tense because you recognize the verb forms that we are now

very familiar with. That's where we're going to leave it today and indeed that's where we're going to leave the preterate tense because next time we're going to be introducing a new tense to you. Don't want to put you off but stick with us next week and you'll be learning more about talking in the past but this time with a different tense. 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 coffeebreakspanish and follow at Learn Spanish on Twitter. Much a gratis and hasta pronto.

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