Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 2.31 | Getting to know someone in Spain

Episode Date: January 17, 2011

Welcome back to our Coffee Break Spanish listeners!. In lessons 31-40 you’ll be following a mini soap-opera featuring English student Andrew who is learning Spanish in Spain, and his new friend Mar��a-José, who’ll be getting to know him and helping him with his Spanish. This lesson will help you get to grips with hearing real Spanish in context. Please note that lesson 31 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 231 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.

Buenos days, how you guys? I hope you're very well today and ready for Lesson 71 of Coffee Break Spanish. In Lesson 71 to 80, we're going to be presenting a sort of soap opera featuring two people, Andrew, who is an English student in Spain and Maria Jose his Spanish friend. Over the course of the lessons, you'll listen to the story and get to know the characters, but you'll also be reviewing lots of the language that we've covered in the course of the series. I hope you enjoy this lesson of Coffee Break Spanish. So we're going to be listening to a dialogue here, and this is going to be between Maria Jose and Andrew, two people meeting each other in Spain.

Now, obviously, Andrew, not is Español. You'll find out where he's from in the dialogue, but Maria Jose is Spaniola. So let's listen to the dialogue. But just before we do, I'd like you to listen out for two things, Kara, in this dialogue. First of all, I'd like you to tell me afterwards if Maria Jose has visited England before.

And secondly, who does she live with in Spain? Hello, I'm Andrew. How do you know-you-law? Good days. Me name's Maria Jose. Much gusto. Encanada. What, how, hoy? I'm good, no me can't quechar. And you, Andrew, what is today? I'm phenomenal, today.

Very good. Dime, where are you? I'm of Granada. It's a city in the South of Spain. Where do you? I live in Preston. It's situated in the northwest of Inglaterra. You have visited England?

Yes, I've visited Englanda some cases. I like much. But no I've visited Preston. Do you with your family? Yes, I live with my parents and my brother-menor. I have another

but she live with her very how many how's years I'm 24 years

and you I'm 28 you're you're here you're in vacations well I'm here

I'm here to learn I'm studying in the school of the school of you know

you're you're well I'm well I'm I'm thank you thank you

thank you thank you De Nada. Until la proxima. Asta Luego. So that was Maria Jose and Andrew

bumping into each other somewhere and starting off a conversation. Kara, I asked you before we started, had Maria Jose visited England before? What was the answer to that question? She said, yes, she has visited England a few times.

Yeah, she said, Someas Bevisitado, Inglaterra, Algonas Beces Algonas Beces That means

Sometimes, a few times Okay She could have said I've visited England lots of times before How would she

have said that Muchas Exactly I visitado Inglaterra Muchas Try and think how you would

say I have visited The United States many times I Visitado Los Estados Much

Beces Very Very very. I've visited the States Unites many times. Okay, the second question I asked you was, who does Maria Jose live with? Can you tell me who she lives with?

She lives with her parents and her younger sister. That's it. She said, Vivo con my parents and my her manna minor. And she also said something else. She said, Tengo other

her mother major, but she lives with her with her husband. What does that mean? It means that she has, has another sister who's older who lives with her husband. Yes, she's married, obviously, and she lives with her husband. And the use of Elia there stresses the fact that Maria Jose is talking about her sister.

I have another sister, or I have another sister, or I have another sister, or I'm another her brother, but she lives with her husband. She vive with her husband. I'm going my parents and my brother I'm a brother

but she live with her my husband Okay now there were a few points in this

conversation that I'd like to pick up on the first of these was when Andrew

asked Maria Jose what and she said I'm I'm don't me

can try saying that no no me Pueh No me

Puech Now way back in Listen 1 this was part of the bonus material.

No me puido kejar. It means literally, well, let's see if we can work out what it means. Puedo, comes from the verb. Poder. Which means to be able to.

Okay, yeah. To say like I can. I can. I can. So no puldo. I can't. Yeah. And kejarse,

a reflexive verb. Kejarse means to complain. So putting this into the construction, you make the say of the infinitive into a me, because you're talking about me, I can't complain, and you pick it, no me puido kejar. No me puldo quijar.

No me puldo kejaro. No me puy poise. Well, you know, it's a nice way to say, ah, I can't complain, things are going quite well. Now, Andrew and Maria Jose go on to talk about where they're from. Maria Jose is of Granada a city in the South of Spain. It's in the

south of Spain. And Andrew said that he is from Preston. It's that situada in the nor-weste of Englandra. So what does that mean exactly? That Preston is situated in the

northwest of England. That's right. Norweste is the northwest. Norreste is northeast. Can you guess what southwest would be? Southwest. Southwest. Sur-west.

It's O-E-S-T-E-S-T-E. Sur-O-E-S-E--------------------------------------------------------. And North---------------. Let's try repeating all those. Norweste Nor'est That's northwest Noreste Noreste

Northe Northe Southeast Sureste Southeast And surweste Very well Now let's think back

to this Esta Situada We're talking about Preston La Ciudad of Preston The city of Preston Estabstead

Situada Situada literally means Situated Okay, we'll be back in just a moment. When you're not listening to Coffee Break Spanish, you can still practice your Spanish with our regular posts on social media. Find us on Facebook, just search for Coffee Break Spanish.

We're Learn Spanish on Twitter, and you can keep up with the team 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. Now if we were talking about a Pueblo, my village is situated in the southeast of Scotland. How would you say that?

My Pueblo is a situada. Now are you sure it's situa? Situado? Yes, Situado. Try seeing the T sound, Situado. Situado. Yeah, it's less of a situated. like we see in English

situated. So it's situado. Situado. My Pueblo is situado and I think I said in the southeast of Scotland. My Pueblo is situated in the Sour-Este de Scotia.

Very well. My Pueblo is situated in the sureste de-Scocia. I notice where things like de-Scocia, it runs together. De-Scocia. It's still written as two words but it does run together when you're pronouncing it

My Pueblo is situated in the sur-este of Scotia My Pueblo is situated in the sur-este of Scotia Perfecto Okay, when Andrew asked Maria Jose Have you ever been to England He used the construction, the translation of which would be already have you visited England Can you remember what that was from the conversation

Kara or indeed if you can't remember try to translate that literally already have you visited England Yeah Has visited England That's it yeah using that little word Yeah meaning already Yeah has visited Englanda Yeah has visited Englanda

Which tense is that The perfect tense It's the perfect tense, a part of AER plus the past participle. So I have visited. I visited. I visitado. You have visited, using the two form. Has visited?

He, she or it has visited? A visitado. We have visited. Hemos visited? Yeah. You all, plural form using Spain, Wesotros form have visited. Have you visited?

Abes visited. Have you visited? An visited. Exactly. How would you say then using the Ustés form, this is the formal plural form, have you already visited Spain? Yeah an visitado Spain? That's it.

Yeah an visitado Spain. And it's the an form there, which is the Ustés form. You could also say, you've you have used the word Usteads

do you remember when Maria Jose said I have another sister she said Tengo Otreira

Tengo Otrena Now in English we say I have another sister using the word

another word that is one word even though it's like an other in Spanish you just say

I have other sister because Otre or Otrro means another okay you don't need to include an indefinite article there so I have another sister Tengo Otreiraena Tengo Otreira

How would you say I have another brother Tengo Otreau Tengo Otrembano What about I have another idea Tengo Otre Idea Tengo Otre Idea

That's it. So, Otra, Otro used for another. Now, Andrew is currently in Spain, as we know, and why is Andrew in Spain? He said, To learn Spanish. Yeah, and why is it para? Because it's in order to learn.

Exactly, it's the purpose of him being there. So, I'm here to learn Spanish. And he actually specified where he's learning. Spanish. He said, Estudio in la Esquela de Duas. In the language skill? Yeah. Las Esquelas de idiomas are very common in Spanish

speaking countries. Language schools that aren't necessarily linked to a particular school. They're private language schools normally. And the word idioma, el idioma, is one word for a language. There's another word for a language as well and it's la language. Many times these are

interchangeable. When you're talking about a language school, it's more likely that you would be using the word idioma Una Escuela de idiomas And when Maria Jose finds out that Andrew's at the language school she says Yeah Blas bien

So that's that little Yeah word again meaning Already So what would La Blas bien mean You already speak well Exactly Yeah alas bien And that's hopefully something that people will say to you

when you're speaking in Spanish to them, yeah, abulas bien. Now, when Andrew has to go, he says, me Tenggo, get. And this is quite a complicated phrase

because it uses ear, which means to go. Yeah, but it's used in a reflexive form. So the word irse means to go away. Okay,

irse, used reflexively, means to go away. So when you hear someone saying, me voy, me voy, means I'm off, I'm going. going. Me boy.

And if you say, for example, me go to Mercado, me boy at Mercado. It means I'm away off to the market. Me boy at the cinema. I've had enough here. It's this idea of going away from here. If you just say,

boy at the cinema, whereas me boy at the cinema kind of means I'm out of here, I'm off to the cinema. So, coming back to irse, if you say I have to get out of here, I have to go, then you're going to have to take the se of irse and change it to the me form, and then it goes in front of the Tengoké. So, me Tengo to hear. And that's how you would say, I have to go. go, me Tengo to ir. Me Tenggo

to hear. You could also say Tengo to me. Tengue I'm. Just as an alternative, but probably me Tengue to hear is more natural.

Me Tengue to hear. Me Tengue Yeah. Okay, what we're going to do now is listen to the conversation again. This time, more at a sort of natural speaking speed. See how much you can pick out this time,

And of course, the full transcript is available in the lesson guide for this week's lesson. Let's have a listen. Hello, I'm Andrew. How do you know you? Good days. Me name's Maria Jose. Much of gusto. Encantada. What tal, hoy? I'm good. No, me put to quech.

And you, Andrew, what tall today? I'm phenomenal. Very. Dime, from where are you? I'm of Granada. It's a city in the south of Spain. Where you live is too. I live in Preston. You're situated in the northwest of

Inglare. You have visited Inglatera? Yes, I've visited Inglatera some times. I like much, but I've visited Preston.

Do you live with your family? Yes, I live with my parents and my mother-minor. I've got another brother but she

live with her husband. Very well. How many years do you? I've 24 years. And you?

I have 28. You're 28. You're here of vacations? Well, I'm here to learn Spanish.

I'm a school of languages. You're about you? Thank you. Well, me have to

go to talk with me. De nothing. Until the next. Until the next. And that's where

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