Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 2.32 | Review of the weather and other language

Episode Date: January 24, 2011

Lesson 32 continues the story of Andrew and María-José and their blossoming friendship! María-José has been on vacation in France. The main topic of discussion in this lesson is the weather, using a variety of tenses. Once again, you’ll develop your knowledge and listening skills by listening to this conversation where language is used in context. Please note that lesson 32 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 232 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.

In this lesson, lesson 72 of Coffee Break Spanish, we're going to be going back to Andrew and Maria Jose and talking about the weather. But we'll be extending the vocabulary that we covered previously when talking about the weather and also using different tenses to do so. I hope you enjoy the lesson. So it's another conversation and this time your questions before we begin, Kara, are, first of all, where has Maria Jose just returned from? Secondly, what's the weather going to be like tomorrow? And thirdly, what can you tell us about the weather in Granada in the summer and in the winter? Let's listen to the conversation. Hello, Andrew.

Hello, Maria Jose. It's much that no te beo. Yes, this morning I've returned to France. I'm of vacations there. Dime, Andrew, what time has made here this week? Well, no, it has been a good time. This summer has been a cold and much

wind. Also, it has lovied a lot. What a pain. For the least, today has a better time.

It's sun and no itueve. And you know what time will to do make a

day? According the prognostico for the morning will

do do do a much cold tomorrow. I've said I've said

before that you're of yeah I'm of a granada what

time does in granada during the winter and

during the winter the the fact the is

very variable there there two extremes during the

very very very very very a very 48

degrees So, but during the winter it makes a a free incredible a cause of

the altitude of the city. Granada is near the mountains, so during the

winter there are conditions perfect for eskiar. Very well, so I have

to go to get a Granada in the winter because me can't

skier. So there you have it. Maria Jose has just returned from somewhere

Kara, did you pick up where she had just come back from? She's just back from France. Frantia. Francia, that's right. She said, This ma'ana, I've weltto de Francia. Now, we'll come back to that in a moment. The second question was,

what's the weather going to be like tomorrow? Did you pick up anything of that at all? She said it was going to be nice weather. Yeah. Buen tempo. Buen tempo. She actually said, and manana,

va'a w'n tempo, va to much color, so much calor would be really warm. Really warm.

Very hot. Lots of heat, literally. Much cold. And can you tell us anything about the weather in Granada

in this summer and the winter? She said that there were two extremes and in summer it was really, really warm

and in winter it's incredibly cold. Exactly. Well done. She mentioned the fact that there's two extremes, to extremes, as you've mentioned,

during the verano, it's muchissimo calor. Muchissimo is even more than mucho. It's like the superlative form. Muchissimo calor. So that's really, really warm. A-beces, sometimes even 48-grados.

How many degrees is that? 48 degrees. 48, yeah, pretty warm. A lot warmer than it is in Scotland. A-beces, 48-grados. however it's very very cold it's very very cold it's a frio

incredible what does incredible incredible yeah it's incredible so incredible it's an incredible cold

it's an incredible cold makes a frio incredible and she gave a reason for that a cause of the altitude of the what do you think that means because of

the altitude of the city Yeah, it's a very high city. It's a circle of las montaias. It's also near the mountains. So, during the invierno, there are conditions perfectas for skiar. So there are perfect conditions to ski.

Exactly. Eskiar, the verb to ski. Okay, let's go through the text in a little more detail. I'm going to pick up on a few things, particularly tenses that she's used. First of all, she began. by saying, I see much

that no te beo. That's it. Beo, the verb beo comes from the infinitive ver, which means to see? To see. So I see, veo.

Now, te, beo means see you. I see you. So, te is you. Te veo, you, I see you.

I see you. So, no te beo, would mean I've not seen you Yeah I don't see you literally in the present tense

No te veo No te veo I don't see you Now the actual phrase That she said was Ase much Que no te veo She could also have said

Aze much time That no te beo Are you getting an idea Of what this might mean Yep Kind of like in English When you would say Long time no see

Exactly It's a long time Since I've seen you Literally it makes lots or it makes lots of time Ase much, has much time

that I don't see you. Ace much time that I don't see you. Ace much time that's quite a useful expression because we can use it in other situations too. For example,

Ace much that no we don't haveamos. Has much that no we haveamos. Ace much that no

And what would that mean? It's been a long time since we've spoken. Exactly. We've not spoken for a long time. It's been a long time since we've spoken. So Aze Mucho Ke, no, it's been a long time since we've done something. But let's turn this into the

positive now and say Ase mucho que I'm Spanish, for example. What would that mean? You've spoken Spanish for a long time? Exactly. and we can make this even more developed and say something like you've been studying Spanish you've been studying Spanish for three years exactly

and then the negative versions for example how would you say I haven't eaten paella for two weeks that you've not eaten paella that you've not eaten paella exactly has two semanas that no like paella or something like

three semans that no como chocolate exactly three semans that no like chocolate exactly would mean, of course. I haven't eaten chocolate for three weeks. Exactly, yeah. Okay, we'll be back in just a

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Como? Meo. Which tense is it? The present tense. And which tense are we translating it into in English? Past tense. Well, the past, but in fact it's kind of like the perfect because you're saying, I haven't done something for some kind of.

time or it's been two weeks since I've done something. Okay. In Spanish you use the present tense in this situation when you're saying it's been such and such of time since I do something. Okay. So, so, so much that was the starting point for all of that. There's a few more perfect tenses in this text however in this dialogue. Maria Jose said, I've welted de Francea. This morning, have Vuelto de France. Why did she use the perfect tense there?

Because she was talking about This Manana, which was this morning, so it's related to the present. Exactly. It's related to the present. There's a present element in it. This morning is one of those phrases. Can you give me some of the other phrases for use of the perfect tense? This ta'clock. This tarde, yeah. And how would you say this week? This semana. This semana.

we've spoken much Spanish or whatever and when we were talking about the

weather Maria Jose asked what time ha etch ha etch this

year what does that mean it means what's the weather been like this week exactly

using the perfect tense again etcho from the verb a there

yeah it's an irregular past participal a he has

been good time no ha it's not been nice or it's been nice and Andrew said no I've done

this summer has been cold and has been cold and has been windy yeah it's been windy. Yeah,

ademas, what's more, has lovido a monon it's rained but I don't know what a monoton is Al-Jovido a monoton

means it has rained lots and lots Okay, it's a word that's used to mean lots or loads It's rained loads Ademas, al-Jovido a monon Ademas al-Jovido a monton Okay, now Maria Jose asked about the prognostico Can you remember what the prognostico is?

Is that the weather forecast? Yeah, it's the weather forecast that you would get on the television literally the prognosis the prognostico for today and she talked about the prognostico for tomorrow

which would be the weather forecast for tomorrow and she said seguun the prognostico for tomorrow is according to

according to the weather forecast for tomorrow vae it's going to be nice weather yeah va all those run together to do a good time

To be a good time Very well It's a good time It will make much cold morning To be a good time

It's much a cold Maynion Another useful freeze that Andrew said was Me has

Dich Antes K So as Dicho comes from Deci Which means To see

Yeah. So me has Dicho You said to me Yeah, the may part is to me So to me you have said Me has said, me has Dichio Ante, do you know what Antes means?

Does it mean before? Yeah. Me has Dichon Anteske, you told me before that or you once told me that and that's a nice way of phrasing sentences. So me has said

antesque, you told me before that you're from. Granada. You told me before that you speak French. Me has said before that you You've said before that you're saying French. Very well.

What about Maria told me before that she is from Italy? Maria me had said before that is Italy? Yeah. Me has said

that she's from Italy. She told me that she was from Italy. She told me before. and it's a-ditcho as you rightly said. E-dicho, has-dich, ha-dich, have-dich, have-dich, can you run through that car? I've-dichael, have-dichael. Very well.

So he told me before, or she told me before, me had-dichael, and of course you can put a name in front of that. Pablo, me-a-dich-dich-an-es-ke, is the Barcelona or whatever. One other thing I'd like to pick up on here, and that was when Maria Jose began our sentence with, La Verda is that the weather in Granada is very variable. So the weather in Granada is very variable, variable.

But she began with la Verda is that. What does la Verda mean? Is it the truth? Yeah, the truth. So la Verda is that the truth. So la vera is that, the truth is that. And it's very, very common in Spanish to use that phrase. La Verda is that, and it gives you some time to think as well.

So the truth is, or to tell the truth, or to be honest, la vera is that the time in Granada is very variable. La Verda is that the time in Granada is very variable. Very good. So there's a really nice phrase to use. It sounds quite Spanish, and also it gives you that a little bit. of time to think about your answer. So Kara, how would you say, well, to be honest, I don't really want to go.

La Verda is that I don't want to go. No quero ir. Yeah, I don't want to go. No I'm going to get. La Verdez that kind of phrase that you can be using if you're not quite comfortable about admitting to something. The truth is that I don't really want to go or something like that. La Verda is that no care of year. The It's time now to listen to the conversation again We'll take it right back to the beginning And once more, this will be in a slightly more natural speed

Hello, Andrew Hello, Mary Jose, has much that I don't see Yes, this morning I've returned to France He's backgions there Dime, Andrew, what time has done here this Well, no, it has a good time. This time has been made

a lot of wind. Also, it has been a lot. What a pain! For the most, today has a more time. It's all

and no it will be tomorrow? According the prognostico for the morning, it will be

good time. It's much a lot of the time. I've said

before, you're the Granada? Yes, I'm the Granada. What time does in Granada during the

winter? The truth is that the time in Granada is very variable. There are two extremes. During the verauna, it makes much heat, at least 48 degrees. In fact, during the winter, it makes a frio incredible, a cause of the altitude of the city. Granada is close to the mountains, so during the in the winter, there are conditions perfect for skiing.

Very well, so I have to go to Granada in the winter because me encaughtaskiar. 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

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