Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.06 | Seguro que le hará ilusión

Episode Date: April 29, 2015

In this episode of our advanced Spanish course we listen to María’s latest diary entry in which she reveals an interesting story linked to her family’s past. As usual the episode is rich in idiomatic expressions and complex grammatical 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 6. Hello, all to welcome to Coffee Brick Spanish. We're back with another episode for you. I'm Mark. And I'm Mark. And I'm like, Carmen.

Well, the truth is that very well. I've been. I've been in the play with a good time. In Scotia? No, no, no. In Scotia, no, Mark. I've been in the coast Alicantina. Ah, very good.

You've visited this part of Spain? Yes, I know Alicante. but, but, other I know more the

more than the more than the more in the right, not. It's a south,

in Murcia. In Murcia, well, well, I'm sorry. No, no, no matter.

Class of Geography. Yes, true. Well, I've also. I've been

a little in the States in the United, of a business, well,

I'm a I'm in Phoenix in Arizona. Very well. And then I've returned to Scotland. And then, I've returned to States.

Another way. But again. But, well. Another conference this this time in Las Vegas. Very well. Very interesting. Well, this

bit we have another text, another chapter of our story, of Rory and Maria. And this this time

we're to to hear the diary of Maria. Very well. Well, to be what we'll be. We'll know.

Yeah, I know that it's a few years. The movie is of the 58. But for me, no has passed to a model.

He has a true addictive and he uses some resources cinematographic that still are

in the scene actual. And about and it's today

I'm called Consuel to invite to make to make to

so I go to the Rory was I was

I'm For that I've I've seen. The Tia was a little enigmatic for say it to do

a lot of a lot of we've been we've been two and he has said that Rory is a

magnificent employee and that's very content that all that all that he he has

he has he said that he he's he doesn't a little to the

different and not is that they're they can't I'm

told a story of my Tio that I know I don't know.

Resulta that, before that I knew, my Tio was a passionate of the

peska and the busseo to pulmone. Yes, of the buceo to pulmong.

I was that before to be a hotel, my Tio had been

a most idea, that he had been a busseator famous

in the decade of the 60. When he had two

years, he to go to pesker with a little arpon in Canpicafort, the zone north of the island. A part of there, he learned to bucear as a fish. Aguantable five minutes behind the water, without a case to respiration. It was a one of the best buceaders of Majorca of Pescassas Submarina. It was very popular, and even they gave some trophy.

What rarer of all this is that my abuelo was that my buceador of the family never had heard nothing about my tio. I suppose that my abuelo he ensued, I'll asker to my father some day. In any case, I'll teller Rory, I'll hear a illusion to know

that in my family has been great buceaders, like my tio and my abelo. Me go to the camera. Abrace, Maria. Oh, yeah, interesting, no, the history of

today. Yes, the fact of that the Tio of Maria also the marido

of Consuelo Yes, a family of buceadores, I'd exactly. Well, and what

you do you know what you know about the text of

what we're going to do now is talk a little in English about this text

to help everyone understand the text. After that, we will go through the

text in great detail. So as we've already mentioned, this is a diary

entry from Maria and she begins by talking about a film of Alfred Hitchcock, an Alfred Hitchcock film. She was watching an Alfred Hitchcock film and she's very into cinema so she talks a little about the fact that they were putting on this film in the open-air cinema at the cathedral. It was the film Vertigo, a suspense classic from Alfred Hitchcock. She says it's one of her favourite films, although her friends don't think it's that great. She herself has seen it about 50 times. She thinks it's a fantastic film in many ways. She realizes that it was made many years ago,

but for her it hasn't lost its appeal. And in vertigo, there certainly is a lot of intrigue. In fact, intrigue is something that Maria has experienced in another way today because Consuelo has called her and she invited her to go for a coffee to the hotel. Rory was busy with guests and so she didn't see him but Consuelo was a little bit mysterious.

La Tia was a tantal enigmatic. Enigmatic mysterious. So she was a little mysterious and everything started off well the ordered coffees and she was telling her that Rory is a fantastic employee and she's very

happy with everything that he is doing. But Then she started to talk a little about her husband, her husband who's passed away. In fact, Rory reminds Consuelo of her husband, not physically as such, but certainly there is something that makes her think about her husband. Consuelo started telling Maria a very interesting story, a story that she didn't know. It has told me story of my Tio that I no connocied. It turns out that before Maria was born, her uncle,

Consuelo's husband, was absolutely obsessed with fishing and deep sea diving. Diving a pulmon. Buseo at pulmon, yes. That would be diving without any tanks. Yes. Free diving, is that what we call it in English? Free diving? Free diving?

I think so. You tell me. You're the native. Anyway, it's diving without any oxygen, without any air tanks. 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. So Maria knew that her uncle was a fisherman that he fished, but she didn't have any idea that he had been in fact a famous diver in the 60s. When he was 12 years old, he learned to fish with a little harpoon in Can Bicafort, which is an area in the north of the island.

And then he learned to dive like a fish, she says. And it seems that he was able to stay under the water for five minutes without coming up for air. He became one of the most famous divers of Majorca for submarine fishing. So he was very popular and he even won some prizes. But Maria can't quite believe the coincidence. Here's Rory who loves diving and it turns out that Consuelo's husband also loved diving. Maria assumes that his father taught him how to do it, so that would be her grandfather. So she's going to ask her father someday because perhaps he also learned.

Anyway, she's going to explain this whole story to Rory, who will undoubtedly be very pleased to hear that in her family, there have been some famous divers like her uncle and indeed her grandfather. And with that, she heads to bed. some interesting revelations in this episode indeed. Yes, very interesting. Let's just go back and look at that one phrase just at the end of this text.

She says, anyway, I'll explain it to Rory. He's bound to be really chuffed, really pleased to know that in my family there have been great divers. In Spanish, the expression here is, let's hear the whole sentence. So, I'm sure that

to him know that in my family has been great buceadores. So, Seguro that

he will illusion. So sure that to him it will do illusion to know that in my

family there have been great divers. Now that's obviously a very bad translation there. It is.

But we understand what it means. Seuro that will be a illusion. This comes

from the construction to make an to someone. Yes.

And in his very basic form, we could say that he will surely be pleased. Exactly. That something is the case. Or that he will be very happy to know about this story. Yeah. It's another way of saying this. Exactly.

So, make it illusion to someone. Let's break it down and look at it in a different example. How would we say, for example, I am very happy to know that he is coming? me has much illusion to know or that he in this case

let's think about that again so let's hear that again I am very happy or I'm very chuffed perhaps we can use chuffed to be chuffed I don't know

whether that's a Scottish word to be chuffed I don't know we'll take that don't worry okay so I am very chuffed

that he to know that he's coming mm-hmm me has much illusion to say that he is a

so to me me it does much illusion, which is the bad translation, but we know what it means. To me it does much illusion to know that he is coming. Saber, that el vienes. Now, you might be thinking there, there are two subjects, what's going on here. But there is no subjunctive here because we've used the verb to know in the middle. Me has much illusion, saver that he'll viena. But for example.

But if we were to say, I am very chuffed or I'm very pleased that he is coming... We can use the subjunctive here, Mark. Of course. That's a different situation. Me a lot of illusion. That beenga, that he'll venga. Very bien, perfect. So in that situation, we're using a subjunctive because we do have that change of subject.

In the first example, it wasn't really a change of subject because it's me who is doing the knowing. I'm very pleased to know that he is coming. And there's no doubt there because I know he's coming. But in the second example, I'm very pleased that he is coming. I'm passing judgment. Two changes of, well, a change of subject. I am very happy that he is coming. Let's have one more example.

Me has much illusion visit Marjorca this vera. What curiosity. What casuality. In Mayorkin. Okay, so me a lot of illusion, visitar, major than this yearano. I am very chuffed to be visiting Majorca this summer. Straightforward example, me athi illusion plus an infinitive. And if we were changing this a little and using the situation where I lived in

Majorca and Carmen was coming to visit me, what would I say there? I am very chuffed, that you are very chuffed. visiting me in Majorca. Let's let our listeners think about that a little. So, Carmen, what would I say

in this situation? Me Afe much illusion that me visites this vera in

Majorca. So, me visites from the verb visitar, so it is a subjunctive. Me

much illusion that me visites in majorca this vera. Very very,

Mark. Perfect. Well, at this point, we are going to say adios and much

gratias to our our listeners who are listening to the preview episode of this particular episode. And we are going to now continue with the whole episode and discuss it in great detail. And of course, if you would like to have access to that full episode,

you can head over to coffeebreak Spanish Season 4.com, where you can find out all the information about getting access to our transcripts and our bonus materials. We'll be very soon, amigos. Much gracias, adios. This is the production of the Radio Linguo Network. at radiolinguer.com.