Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.08 | Tengo los pelos de punto - ¡no me lo puedo creer!

Episode Date: May 28, 2015

In this episode we listen to María’s latest diary entry in which she recounts a conversation she has had with her father in which she learns more about the history of her family. 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 8. Hello, and welcome to Coffee Brick Spanish. We're back. I'm Mark and I'm sorry Carmen. We're very content of being here with you once. This time we're having

an entry in the diary of Maria. Exactly. And we'll see what we're going to tell us about your family. We're newedades. Of the history. Yes. Intrigante.

Intrigante. Intrigante. Intrigante. the family of Maria. Well, before to start, how do you

do you know? Very good, Mark, very this time. This year I have been

a second of the time of and the really is that has served to relax me,

not do much, learn, many books. Ah, and what type of book you

like? Well, in this occasion I have been reading a book

of history of my public. And it's about how the the houses. So, then it's a

little bit of architecture, also about a little of culture, in definitive, the history of formation. And it's very interesting. And is a work of fiction or

No, no, it's real. It's real. It's a real. It's a great. So, it's a lot of actual. So, then, the fact is the truth is that

I like, I do. I'm just, I do do things. And I'm of works reales, but I don't

preferences. Very good, very very good, very interesting. And you, Mark? You're to say what type of

literature I like or in general? In general, what do you do you do? Well,

I'm quite very well. Because today. Because today has arrived a new

apparato. Tell me. Well, it's a relog and it has a manzana?

Well, I think I know that I'm know my Apple Watch. Madre my.

Only to know exactly how we use our podcasts in an Apple Watch. For sure. For sure. Entiento.

Well, well, Basta to chatlar. We're going to continue with the text of this

time. Okay, let us to do you. Thank you. Definitely. I'm Morninah. Between the

hours that I pass on the time last and the final past I can't to say it. Rory

he was a little the dominoes a lot. The escape touristic was great, we passed us

very well. We're visiting sites very good, comient well, we're much,

we've got much a palas, we're we're in different plas and we're

and we're and we're a year I've a very interesting with

my father. He I've asked, if he He responded, "'Beo that you've been "'with that's been talking to

"'and me told a story "'of when he and his brother, "'my tio, "'bucea-bucked and pescabed "'with my abelow. "'Se be that my abelow "'Jesus was a pioneer "'of a bull-and-of-the-pessca-submarina

"'in the years 40, "'theiririririr a lot "'but they said that my "'I've got a capacity "'pulmonar impressive "'and that was "'autodododacted. So, so,

before to casers with my Abuela, Carmen, Jesus was a peskador and buceador. One year

after of his boda, Nacio and 10 years more later,

he was my father. During 15 years, Jesus he showed to the little

to know and to get to the world of the peska submarina. The two

two brothers were they were with the little until that one day

he settow a torment terrible in the island. My father, my tio, and my father,

were going on the when a old old a rastered a man to get a man.

My tio was a little bit he was able to get to the water to save to my

father. He set inconsient and some the the fishers he helped

to reanimarly. From that day that's a real a couple of a and he

made a little hotel front of my father decided away

and my and my tio abandoned his brilliant career

as a bullmorn. When my my abel when my

my tios are the little I'm menud story. I'm going to

the Peltos to put a point. I'm a story. Basta of emotions

fursions for today. I'm going to try to work. That's I'm going to work.

Well, Mark, I'm also I'm the Peltas this year. A story very interesting

with much intrigue. We're to talk a little of this text in English

for that all all all all all. Okay, we'll be

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Maria and Rory have had a great weekend and Maria is glad that she's a bit more brown. For her, obviously having a sun tan means that the summer has arrived. In Rory's case, perhaps he spent a bit too long in the sun and so is a bit burned. They saw lots of interesting things on their tourist weekend in Bal de Mosa and up in Mesquida and so on. They ate well, they relaxed, they played at beach tennis and it snoozed on the beach. She goes on. Ayer, I've got a charla very interesting chat that she has had with her father. Following the revelations of Tia Consuelo in a couple of episodes ago,

she asked her father if he knew how to dive and he answered, I see you've been talking to your aunt Maria's father then started to tell her a story about one day when he and his brother were diving and fishing with their father Maria's grandfather Maria starts with a bit of the back story if you like we know that her uncle who is Consuelo's husband was a famous diver we know that already but the story about diving seems to begin further back with her grandfather. In the 40s, people didn't really know much about diving,

but Jesus, her grandfather, was very much involved in both diving and underwater fishing. He married Carmen, Maria's grandmother, and a year later, her uncle was born, and then 10 years after that, her father was born. So we've got a little bit of the family history here. Jesus, Maria's grandfather, taught the boys to swim, and he got them interested in underwater fishing. During 15 years, Jesus ensued to nassos to know and to interest for the world

of the pesca submarine. So the two brothers used to play with little harpoons and catch fish. Of course, we need to remember that Maria's father was ten years younger than her uncle

and her uncle had already established himself as a well-known diver. Then one day there was a terrible storm on the island. The two boys and their father were fishing near the shore.

When a huge wave dragged Maria his father into the sea. Her uncle didn't know what to do, and Jesus, her grandfather, threw himself into the water to save her father. When he managed to get her father out of the water, he was unconscious and some passing fisherman helped Jesus to resuscitate him. He set him unconscious and some pescadores he helped to reanimarly. From that day on, Jesus never fished or dived again. Instead, he decided to build a hotel opposite the sea, facing the sea. Maria's father decided to take some time away from the water,

and her uncle abandoned his career as a free diver. When her grandparents retired, her uncle and her aunt took charge of the hotel. Maria exclaims, what a story. She can't quite believe all the things which happened so long ago. Menuda history, no me lo poe'est, it seems like a scene from a film, she says. However, it's time for bed, and she's working in the morning. So she ends her diary entry for now. Let's talk about that final phrase there. No me lo poedo creer. An interesting phrase.

Obviously, if we think about poedo is I can from the verb, a radical changing verb. The O from the infinitive obviously goes to U.E in certain parts of the verb. But no me lo poedo creer is interesting because of those two pronouns. No me lo poedo creer. I can't believe it. So here the lo is referring to it, the thing that she's told the story. But the no me lo poido creer is quite tricky to get our heads around this.

It is, yeah. It's not really reflexive. You couldn't say I believe myself or something like that. However, it does remind me of another expression when, for example, we're eating something all up. Me lo, I eat it all up to myself. Exactly. So here we're saying, me lo creo. I believe it all.

I sort of have taken it all in and I believe it. Or no me lo creo. I don't believe it. It's like to highlight more, to put more emphasis on the story. So you could say, I don't believe it, no lo creo. Exactly. But when you say, no me lo creo, you're pushing it that bit further. Yes.

No me lo creo. I don't believe it. Anyone who watched One Foot in the Grave will remember Victor Meldrew. This is very much a UK reference. I don't know whether this made it to the States, but Victor Meldry you always used to say, I don't believe it. No me do I can't believe it.

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