Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.04 | Brindamos por el verano que nos espera

Episode Date: March 11, 2015

In this latest episode of our advanced Spanish course we join María in her latest diary entry. Rory has just arrived in Mallorca and María tells us of his first day on the island. As usual Mark and Carmen are on hand to discuss the interesting grammar points and idiomatic expressions covered in the text.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 Break Spanish Season 4, Episode 4. Hello, how are we all? How are you? How are you? Good, Mark. And you, what are you? Good. Yeah, very good.

Me, very much. This week, we have another text for you and this week we're going to learn the diary of Maria. Now, if this happens to be the first episode of Coffee Break Spanish that you've ever listened to,

you should know that there's a full back catalogue of lessons available where you can go from the absolute basics of Spanish up to a very advanced level with the season four of our show. Mark, I've got a preuntitita for you. Did you manage to use the expression

that we learned last week? That's wonderful expression about cecha. Perfect. Between ceja and ceja? Between cecha and ceja. Well, yes and no. Okay.

I didn't manage to use it in a conversation, but I do something as a language learner and I still feel I'm learning Spanish all the time. I keep a diary. And every night... Like Maria? Yes, like Maria. Uh-huh.

Every night I write in my diary in a language that I learn. Perfect. And one night this week, I did indeed write a diary entry in which I used that expression. Okay. Tell me how do you use it? Well, I was out for lunch with my mum. Uh-huh. And as usual, my mom wanted to pay.

But I was determined that she was not going to pay. So in my diary entry, I was able to write. it's, she me has metido between and ceja and the that's perfect,

Mark, very well made to be I got the idea in my head and I couldn't get rid of it Perfect,

I'm very very good I'm perfect, well, we're going to see with the text

of today no? Okay as we're going to hear the text of Maria

all together and then then then I give an example in English.

Well, we're to "'Kerido, "'Ayer, "'Iger was a "'meree very "'emone

"'I'm nervous "'when I went "'to go to "'Rorri "'to, "'muy nervous. "'Tan nervous "'that nervous

"'that, "'that, "'as' "'of-all-all-all- "'in-go-all- "'in-do-the-co- "'in-waffe-old-old- "'-a-waffe-old

"'-one-wom-wom-a-vvice-old. "'Demas-dmuch. "'Demasi-dum—dum—' "'When we've got to coach, had a multi-of-apartment. What disaster! After that

it was to come to my enfazard, we went to come to my parents, in Vinisalem, the center of the isla.

And then, it was Roryl that was nervous. And I, more content than some Pascas.

Come-emes Ensalada and Pescadito to-or-or- and post- my mother did a cato with

al-almendra, a tart typical of the Islas Balearer. Mm, Riquissim. And we We've tried a wine

black of the vineyards Cosecha of 2009, a yinada very good. Rory was a little timid but we've got a

good enough a good talking about the time that's in Spain and the very that's I think

they're well. After to take care coffee and Tess, me I left a

Rory to do a passe for the vignedos and he I'm in coach

to leave the maletta to his new abitation with vistas at the mar, in the hotel of Consuelo.

Then, we took him the coach and we went to the port of andrach, and we came to

see the light. Rory was euphoric, no parable to repeat. The passage is

the picture, and he was a post impressionant. The the sky rogizzo

was reflect in the water of the temperature of the air was delicious.

and we went to a dinner to have a restaurant that has a lot of the embarkado we're talking about what

about what and the and I'm was talking how difficult to go a good for his

doctorate in biology marina well it's all the very the

I'm sure that in Mayorka encounter the inspiration the

dinner was sublim we menu. One day is a day, no? And weindamos for the island and for the verano that we're that's great. That romantic. A bito and after Pronto. Maria.

Well, today we have a text very romantic, right, Mark? Yes, with the puesta of the sun in the Porte of Andrach. Spectacular. I think it's time to go through the text in English and I'll give you a little explanation, a summary of the text

in English. So we join Maria the day after she collected Rory from the airport. He's arrived in Majorca and when he arrived she was very nervous, in fact, so nervous that she ended up double parking her car at the airport and

was given a parking ticket. They went, as planned, to have lunch with Maria's parents. It was Rory's turn to be a bit nervous but they had a delicious lunch of typical Mayorkan fair accompanied by a delicious wine from her parents' 2009 harvest.

We've been we've beeno blanco of the vineyards of 2009, a very good year apparently. A very good year, apparently. During the meal, they talked about the fact that for a scot, lunch seemed to be very late, but as Maria points out, Spaniards feel that the meals are very early in Scotland. After lunch, Maria and Rory went for a walk in the vineyards, and then she took him to Consuelo's Hotel, where he dropped off his luggage in his room. He accompanied in coach to leave the mallet to his new abitation with business. a bit of the sea in the hotel of Consuelo.

One abidation with vistas at mar, no less. Afterwards, they went to the port of Andrach, arriving just in time for a beautiful sunset. Rory was very impressed with the sunset and the scenery. They ended up eating in a restaurant with a terrace beside the key, and they spent their time chatting about everything under the sun. We're about the divino and the mundano. Or perhaps they chatted about everything and nothing.

And Rory explained how difficult he's from finding it to choose a theme for his thesis. Maria is sure that he'll find his inspiration in the beautiful island of Majorca. They had a delicious dinner of the most expensive dishes on the menu and toasted to the summer which awaits them. And brindamos for the is a funny word. Brindar is a funny word. A strange word.

Brindar means to toast. Yes. And you call a toast, an brindis. A brindis, exactly. So that's a toast when you raise your glasses to something. And it's a brindis por something. Exactly. Because it's a brindis on behalf of something.

It's another use of that por. And here we can brindar por, in this case, La Isla and Por el barano. That no's Espera, which is waiting for us. The other thing to think about is brindamos is the preterate tense. we toasted the summer and the island. But in the present tense it would sound the same. Brindamos,

but how would we say let's toast something? In that situation we're using a slightly different form. It is, of course, the subjunctive because we're using a command form, even if it's a we do something, let's do something we would say. Brindemamos. So if ever you're in the situation

where you're wanting to toast something or to raise your glass, then you can say, brindemos, let's toast, and you can bring that for something. Exactly, also, we'll use, we'll bringer for. We'll bringer for... The verano.

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