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Episode Date: January 28, 2015

Join Mark and Carmen in this first episode of Coffee Break Spanish Season 4 in which they present the first chapter of our story based around María’s diary entry. In this episode you’ll get to know María and how she has spent time studying in Edinburgh, but is glad to be back on her beloved island of Mallorca for the summer. You’ll also find out about Rory, her boyfriend, and you’ll learn how they met. This episode is full of interesting idiomatic expressions and complex grammar points.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.

Coffee Brick Spanish Season 4 Episode 1. Hello to all, and welcome to Coffee Brick Spanish. Good days, Carmen. Good, days, Mar. How are you? Very, and you? Well, our audience, no, not you're going to know? Well, but me present in a second.

Perfect. Well, presentate. Well, I'm Carmen. I'm a professor of Spanish in Scotia, and I'm from a region very small in the interior of Spain, that's called Kuenca. Quenka. So I don't know

very well. No. You can't explain a little where is, if is the very far or close

of a city that we're going to know. Kuenka is in middle of Madrid and Valencia.

Okay. Sure, you know, these two cities, are quite famous. And Kuenka,

the region of Kuenka is famous for Don Quixote principally. And, also, also,

that's very very good. It's very very good, Yes. Very very and then

you're doing classes here in Scotia you're teaching the Spanish yeah

here in Glasgow in a school of a school and what yeah

I like much I'm much it's much pretty more

more more than yeah yeah well we're already

started talking quite a lot of Spanish here in this first

episode of our fourth season of coffee Spanish

and that hopefully is the way things are going to

continue because we are here to help you understand and develop your Spanish speaking skills. With this fourth time of Coffee Big Spanish, we're going to help us to augment your vocabulary. Also, to ampliare your knowledge about the grammatica Spanish. And we're going to do all of this by helping you understand a series of

texts. And these texts basically tell a story. It's the story of Spanish Maria. and her Scottish boyfriend Rory and his friend Alejandro and how they spend their summer in Majorca, in the Balearic Island of Majorca in Spain. So over the next 40 lessons, you're going to be listening to these texts,

and their texts are full of fantastic vocabulary, interesting grammar points, and of course lots of idiomatic expressions to help you express yourselves in a variety of ways in Spanish. And, well, I think it's hour to start to hear our our text in

Spanish. Perfect. Okay, this first text is a diary entry written by Maria.

Let's go to get you. 15 of June Dear Diario I've a few

of a year a New Yorkca Tierra of Sol Playa Deliciosa

Comedia Mediterrania Viottes Pieles and Zapatos No I negate

that I chad'd that I've to my family, but I've returned of Edinburgh, where I've passed a year incredible.

The Erasmus has been a success for many reasons. In the university, I have learned many things,

not only of my career, history of art, but also my professors Scocese

and my companions of class. Apart to study, me surgue the

possibility to do class as asistente of Spanish

in the central Lorca, and it was great. I'm so contented to have enjoyed and to have

learned many my own country and of my own and my own the truth is that the classes nocturnas of Spanish

were a great lesson for me and, well, there is where he was where a child a child

a little of a kind of hair, peckitas in the narif, sonrisa great and

and as a good Scots, is Pelryrojo. He has studied biology marina and is too he's a loco for the submarineism. Also,

is an passionate of the language Spanish. Of course, he lived a time in Argentina.

It's the man the man and interesting of the world, but what I'm

to say I'm not a impartial. When I saw to go to

first I put roger like a tomato. He me mirro, and he said with that accent

so much. Hello, me name Rory, my Spanish is very malo. I don't

do you do you put a carcajada. What that I didn't read me,

but I put so I'm so that we're we're we're we're

and after the class he's there was a time to

I talk with the typical excuse to I need

to make my Spanish, we started to to take a coffee in Starbucks, and resulted that we've been very close, so we'll we're going to the classes

and we're going to do the roce, does the carino. Now, it's a strange not to have never but exists the possibility of that come to pass the verano. A me I'm a peteence much

veraneer in the island and be able to my parents and my tia favorite, Consuelo. Ayer, we'll talk about my story with Rory.

I was that I'm so much and that he be a red-or- me he says

he wants we have many people with pecs and with his hair so. I'm

I'm sure to be a risa with her. It's a good good.

Well, I'm despido for now it is good

good good As you know, this is a preview episode of the Coffee Break Spanish Season 4 course, but you can access the full course over at the Coffee Break Academy. This gives you access to the extended version of our lessons in which we discuss the full text, and we provide a transcript and bonus audio materials to help you practice what you've learned, with translation challenges and further assistance. To find out more about how you can benefit from this course,

head over to coffeebreakacademy.com. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Mark, me have a lot of the text, and I want to know what is the next what's the next what you're going to

have to be able to that's a secret for just now you'll need to wait until episode 40. So what we're going to tell us explain us a little the text in English.

And so you can you can understand the text. So the protagonist of the story is Maria and she's from the island of

Majorca in the Mediterranean However, she's been studying this past year in Edinburgh where she has met Rory. Now, she's been back in Mallorca for a couple of weeks, and while she was in Edinburgh, she really did miss her family. She was actually spending an erasmus year in Edinburgh, and that is when you're studying at a European university and you do an exchange to another European university for a year. So she did her erasmus year in Edinburgh.

and she learned many things while she was there, not only about what she was studying, which is history of art, but also about her Scottish teachers and her classmates. And in addition to studying, she also had the opportunity to work as a language assistant in the Centrolorka. Me surgio the possibility

to give classes as an assistant of Spanish in the Centrolorka. And she absolutely loved that. Not only because she enjoyed teaching, but she happened to meet a very interesting young man there. A tall, strong, rather Scottish, yeah, Peli rojo, rather Scottish looking man, a red-haired man. And she, well, she got on very well with him.

This young man studied marine biology and he absolutely loves diving. He's also passionate about the Spanish language. He did indeed live a He did indeed live some time in Argentina. He did indeed live some time in Argentina. Now Maria seems to be quite in love with Rory. She says he's the most beautiful

or the most handsome and interesting guy in the world. Now Maria talks about how she felt when she first saw him. In fact, she liked the look of him from the first time she saw him. In fact, she went as red as a tomato, she says. Now, Rory explains that his Spanish is very bad, and of course Maria is very happy to help him with his Spanish. And in fact, as they get to know each other a little more, it turns out that they lived very close by.

So they went home from class together. And resulto that we'd live very close. So we'll hear more about this love story as time goes on through our episodes. So Maria is now back in Major. and she mentions another person who will become an important person in this story and that is her favourite aunt Consuelo. She had coffee with her aunt the previous day

and she was telling her about the story of Rory. In fact, her aunt was delighted that she's met this nice Scottish young man and like all aunties, she's already invented this entire story herself. me I'm not quite sure if we're many people

we're not quite sure if Maria is ready for that yet but that's what our

aunt feels anyway so there we have it an explanation of the text in

English now this is where we say adios to our listeners who are

using the preview version of this episode we'll be

continuing to discuss the episode in fact we'll go

through every single word in our extended version the

premium version of Coffee Break Spanish Season 4 features extended audio episodes for each lesson with a full analysis of the text and further examples of the language covered. Of course, there's a transcript of the entire episode and also a bonus audio lesson featuring translation challenges. To find out how to access this premium version, please visit coffeebreakspanish season 4.com. We'll be back again in a couple of weeks with the next chapter in our story. In the meantime, head over to the website on coffeebreakspanish.com where you can join in the disclosurface.com.

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