Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 2.27 | Travelling by public transport

Episode Date: November 15, 2010

Over the past few months we’ve been focusing on learning the patterns of the language. In lessons 27-30 we’re going to be constructing phrases within various contexts, using the rules we’ve learned in previous lessons. Lesson 27 focuses on using public transport and you’ll learn to create the phrases you need in these situations. Please note that lesson 27 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 227 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.

Aláa Villaninos, a coffee break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. Now, in this lesson, we're moving away a little from the grammar that we've been working on over the past 26 weeks. Earlier in our course, when we were learning different areas of vocabulary, we really concentrated on phrases

and learning phrases. This time, we're moving into the context of the public transport, taking buses and trains and so on. But we're not doing so as phrases. This time, what I'd like you to do is learn how to construct the phrases yourself by using the vocabulary and the grammar

that we've covered in previous lessons. I hope you find this lesson useful. So we're going to start by introducing this vocabulary. Some of it you'll know, some of it will be new to you. To begin with, La Estacion. Or in Latin America, La Estation. La Estation, la Estation means the station. La Estation.

The station de autobuses? is the bus station. La Estacion de autobuses. You may also hear La Estacion de autocares. La Estation de autocare is a coach whereas

an autobus is a bus. An altobus for a bus. And basically that's a bus that would go within a town from place to place and autocar is the one that would go from one town to, too.

another, if that makes sense. Yep. Okay. So we've also, when we're talking about buses and stations and so on, we've got La Parada. La Parada. Now, parada comes from the verb, parar. And parar means to stop. So la parada de autobuses.

The bus stop? Yeah. Or la parada de autobus, depending on whether you're talking about multiple buses going past or just the one. La parada de autobus. La parada de autobus. The autobus. Okay. Let's think about being in a station or a bus station,

and you might come across, or you might need to come across, La Taquilla. La Taquilla. Now, that's something that you probably would see written up somewhere. Taquilla is where you buy your tickets. Okay, La taquilla. La taquilla. Okay, something else related to travel would be El Orario.

El Orario. Now, the word aura, H-O-R-A. is in there. What does hour mean? Hour. So, horario is where all the hours come together and you know what's happening in every hour. It's... A time table? Exactly, yeah.

Loher, if you're used to French, Elorario in Spanish, the time table. If you're buying a ticket, you'll need to know the word for a ticket, and that is, Un billete. An billiete. That's it. An billiete.

An billiete. And it might be. A billete Sincillo. Un billete Sincillo. Sincillo. Sincillio.

Or in Latin American Spanish, Sensillo. Sensio. So, for example, in Argentina, you might hear Un bichete

sensicho. An bichete sensich. Something like that. Not quite, but something like that. Just the slight differences, but it's

billiette or billete and sencilio or sencio and so on. So, Sencilio literally means simple. But when it's simple in terms of a ticket, you're talking about a single ticket. Single ticket, exactly.

And the opposite, a return ticket. In Spanish, you talk about a ticket of going and coming back. Un billiete deida and waltta. An billiete deida and waltta. Okay, so remember, dar una werta means to go for a run, but be wuilta comes from borgia. where which means to come back.

So if you're going for a run in the car, then you've got to come back if it's Daruna Werta. Somebody wrote an email to me this week about Dar La Werta. Dara Werta means to turn around. So if, for example, you're giving instructions to a child, turn around, da la Werta.

But Dar Una Woltta is when you go out for that run or when you're going out in the car or something like that. So, A Billiette de Ida and Weta. A. A billiete A return ticket.

Okay, so that's a A return ticket. Exactly, a return ticket. Or indeed, if you're listening in the States, then we'd be talking about a round trip ticket, a billiete deida and a one-way ticket. Okay, so a

billiete de'estio, one-way ticket, a billiete deida and a world-trip ticket. Okay, a couple of other things we might come across in the station El Anden. El Anden. El Anden is the platform in a station, El Anden. El Anden.

El And then. And finally, just when we're talking about trains, Primera Class and Segunda Classe. Primera Class and Segunda Class. Any guesses as to what they might mean? First and second class. Exactly. That's right. Okay. What we're going to do with all these words now is,

see if we can come up with situations in a station where you're buying tickets or you're looking for a particular platform for a particular train or something like that and see how much you can actually work out from what you already know. So to begin with, how would you say, where is the station, please? Where is the station, please? Exactly. And what about where is the bus stop? Where is the parada of Let's turn this around a little

and see if you can say Is the bus station near here The station of buses Is that's close to here? Very well The station of autobuses Ista close to here? Okay

If you got to the station Or to the bus station And you wanted to find out Where you would buy a ticket Then you could ask somebody where can I buy a ticket? So let's put that together. We've got where, the word for where is.

Donde. Yeah. Can I? So that's from the verb to be able to. How do you say to be able to? Poder. And I can or can I is. Puedo.

What's that followed by? Puedo is always followed by. The infinitive. So the infinitive of to buy is. Compar. Very good. So where. Can I buy a ticket?

Donde Puedo Pondro Preet Perfecto, so you work that out from putting all those parts together. Where can I buy a

billiette? Donde Pueh Pondrocompros and let's continue this and you've arrived at the taquilla, or you might want to just say

where is the ticket office or the ticket kiosk and you want to now see I want to a ticket for Madrid. I want a billiete for Madrid.

Interesting. For Madrid. Are you sure? No. Right. If you said, I want a billiete for Madrid, what you're actually saying

to the person in the ticket office is if you give me a ticket, I will give you Madrid. Okay. Okay. So it's the destination remember the destination is Madrid so for Madrid exactly

I want a billiete for Madrid Okay so let's change this around if you couldn't quite work that one out how would you say I want to go to Madrid Kierro I'm in Madrid

Kierro ira Madrid perfecto so Kero another verb or another word that's always followed by the infinitive or indeed by an object I want a ticket, but if it's followed by a verb, then the verb will be in the infinitive. I want to go to Madrid. Quero, Comprar a Billiette for Madrid.

Okay? Right. How would you say then? I would like, okay, we're going to change this slightly, I would like to buy a round trip or return ticket to Barcelona. I'd I'd Comprar a billiette

to Ida and a Barcelona Very bien I would like

Or you could also say I would like to buy I would like to buy

a billette a round trip ticket or a return ticket for Barcelona

for Barcelona Very well Now if you wanted to ask if a

trip is direct, then how do you think you would ask that? Just make it up. You've maybe not heard the word direct before, but what do you think it might be in Spanish? Directo? Direct, exactly, yeah. So is it direct?

Est direct? Yeah. How would you say, is this train direct? So first of all, this train. Este train? Tren, that's the right. I don't actually know if we've covered that word, but yes it is indeed

el train so this train este train is direct exactly this train is directo okay now let's continue this idea

and say does this train let's imagine you've jumped on the train in the platform it's maybe about to leave so you get on and then you ask the question is this train

for Barcelona This train is for Barcelona Exactly This train is for Barcelona Okay, another way of saying this Does this train go to Barcelona So go from the verb ear

It would be boy, bass Yeah So does this train go to Barcelona This train Bha to Barcelona This train bhaa a Barcelona. Okay, so does this train go to Barcelona? Let's change it around. Does this bus go to Guadalajara?

This auto bus is da, uh, Guadalajara? This auto bus is that a Guadalajara. This auto bus is that a Guadalajara. Very good. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment. Now, if you'd like to get more out of your coffee break Spanish experience, then you can sign up for the full premium version of our course, and that includes video versions of our lessons, where you'll see the words and phrases on the screen of your device while you listen. There's also a set of lesson notes for every lesson with vocabulary and additional examples, and bonus audio. All of our

premium courses are available at the Coffee Break Academy. That's at coffeebreakacademy.com. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Now, when trains or indeed buses leave, they literally go out of the station. What's the verb to go out? Salir. So how would you say the train is going out of the station? El train. Salle de la estacion?

The train sale de la station. Exactly. The train sale de la station. So let's now work out how we would say, when does the train for Barcelona leave? At what? Very well, very well. A que'oara, literally at what time, okay? Aque hour goes out?

Salle. So at what time goes out? A key hour sale? The train. The train for Barcelona. For Barcelona. So at what time does the train for Barcelona? to

How are Salé El Trin to Barcelona? At what is the train for Barcelona?

Very well. At what is the train for Barcelona? Let's

change this around again. At what time does the bus for

Kusko arrive. Arrive this time. Yeah. What's to arrive? Liga.

Liger. Okay, so Legaar the infinitive and it arrives Liga.

Liga. So at what time does the bus for Kusko arrive? Aqueurra, the autobus for Kusko Liga. Yeah. However, it's probably better

Spanish word order to say, Ake ora Lega el A autobus for Kusko. Kusko. I said Kuzko there because it's spelled C-U-Z-O

and I speak Spanish with a Spanish accent. But Kusko. is a Peruvian town and it's much more normal than Cusco to say Cusco so that's why there's a little bit of confusion there but Cuthco in Spanish

pronunciation but in Peru it would be called Cusco Cusco and it's been one of my lifetime ambitions to go to Cusco and indeed to Macho Pichio but that's another story. Anyway I am going to make things even more complicated. They're not really complicated

at all to be honest but we're going to change tense now and I want to ask the question, has the bus for Kusko arrived yet? Let's work this out. So has the bus for Kusko arrived yet? This yet, what's the word that we're going to use for yet? Yeah. Yeah.

So has it arrived already. And that's what we'll start with. Yeah has arrived. Would that be the perfect tense? It would indeed. So how do you say Igar in the perfect tense? That's the past participle, but there's a full part of it. A-le-gato?

A-le-gado. Okay, so, yeah-a-le-gado. Yeah-a-le-le-gado. Yeah-a-le-le-gado the bus for Cusco. Very well. Yeah has yet, the auto-bus paracuscoe. Yeah, has-le-gat-cada-coucac-old. Okay, and once again, Kusko, Kuzko, whatever suits.

Okay, let's go back to Salir for a moment. And think about the question, does the train for, let's go back to Guadalajara, does the train for Guadalajara leave from this platform? Okay, so does the train for Guadalajara leave from this platform? We're going to start with the train for Guadalajara, which would be, The train for Guadalajara leaves from this platform Salle

de este and then Very well, you remember the word for platform, and then. And then. So this platform is Este Anden. And watch the stress on that one, it's Andden. Anden.

El Tren for Guadalajara Sale de este Anden? El Tren for Guadalajara Salé de este and then. Very well. And before we finish, there's one other thing that I'd like to consider

and that is the idea of sometimes when you're traveling you have to book. Now, when you're booking, it's the same booking as you would use to book a table in a restaurant. So what's the verb

that you would use? Reservar. Very well. So do I have to book? Tengo to reserve. Tengue reservar. Very well. And that's where we're going to leave it for this week.

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 a gratis and hasta pronto. This is the production of the Radiolingua Network. Find out more at Radiolingua.com.