Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.09 | Tu castellano mejoró un montón, ¡sos una fiera!

Episode Date: June 10, 2015

In the latest episode in our series we eavesdrop on a phone call between Rory and his Argentinian friend Alejandro who is on holiday in Spain and wants to come over to Mallorca to see Rory and to meet María. The episode is rich in idiomatic expressions and interesting grammar points, and you’ll also get the chance to become more familiar with the use of the Argentinian ‘vos’ form of the verb.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 9 Good days to all, and welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm called Mark. And we're here again with you're to help yourself and with a new episode in

our story of Maria and of Rory. Very interesting, for sure. And today, with a new personage. Madre my, who is it? Well, we're talking

of Alejandro, the friend of Rory. Very well, we give the welcome to our story. Exactly. Quintam, Carmen, what has

done to interesting from the last episode? Well, this year, this year I've been in the inauguration

of a new restaurant. Ah, yeah? What type of a restaurant? Aftonist. Very good.

You know? The food American's about? So, tell us. What type of inauguration? It was the first that this

restaurant had his doors and invited to a group little to try the sushi. and, well,

all the variety of food. And the fact is that I'm very content. Well, I'm sorry. And you,

Mar, what has done? Well, I've been ten years in Spain. Madre

Mia. And then four days in Italy. No, paras to get to many years.

Much of many years. The voyage to Spain was very interesting because we're

there to filmar the first episodes of High Fives Spanish. our program of

Spanish for the children. A project new. A project new. Exactly. And the is that

is that I'm doing I'm doing a little something. In accent Andalus. Okay. Okay.

We'll get us. Entendemes. And then, because in Italy, with my family. Very some vacations.

Very well. I'm very. I'm a very much. Well, we're to start this episode. Perfect.

between Rory and Alejandro. Very well, let's. Yes. Mr. Rory McGregor? Alexander! What do you? What is it? What I'm doing you?

Well, I'm very well. I'm in Majorca, as you commented in the email, working in a hotel and just the play and of the sun, with Maria. So, with a newia formal and all, that's good, you know, that's good, is.

Yeah, the truth is that I'm very very happy with Maria. It's a girl very active and alexer, and also of Guatissima that I'm

a guy with a type and you how do you still? You're still being a

little little. Yes, you know you know the busseo and my vases

are my family are my very well passing the summer in Spain

with some we're we're we're going to north to

I'm I'm this country and I'm I'm I'm

I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm many many

you, eh? And what has done with your piece in Buenos Aires? She was I'm just my primus during they're all the time, they're doing the cat, and live in there. they're in the piece in that you're both

I can take a Majorca. So I know for fin a Maria and you and we could do we're doing superminesism

like in the old times. What do you do? It's perfect. My friends are in Madrid some days

so I could go a a week and then I'm to return to me to get to I'm sorry

to get a good to get you a set to get to a view and you

don't you don't you can't be you flaco, I'll when I've got

a feachas for sure, you know a lot of a lot of you're a

great. Thank you mind you mind you know a great. Cularete Colorado,

I'll be Proto. Today we're a accent new, a accent new, an accent

new, an accent Argentino. And also the accent, some other words

different and a form a form a form grammatical also distinct of what

we're we're accustomed to listen. Very interesting. The very interesting. We're really that there's much

problems to understand to Alexander. I don't think there's no problem. Okay, we'll be back

in just a moment. 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. Well, I'm going to speak a little bit of the text in English now. So we begin this text, and of course, it's a telephone call between Rory and Alejandro.

And Alejandro is phoning just for an update on how Rory is getting on. and Rory is delighted to hear his friend. He says, So he's delighted to hear him. So he's delighted to hear him. What illusion oirte. As he has told him in an email, he's working in a hotel

and enjoying the beach and the sunshine with his girlfriend, Maria. And of course, Alejandro takes the opportunity to tease him a little about this. He says, ah, you've got the official girlfriend now and everything. And it's quite obvious that Rory is quite taken with Maria.

He says that she's a very active and cheerful girl. And of course, she's also very pretty. He is a lucky chap, as he says. So Rory goes on and asks Alejandro how are things. And it turns out that Alejandro is in Spain with his friends. They've hired a minivan and they are traveling from the north of Spain to the south of Spain. Alejandro loves Spain. He is really enjoying the country and indeed its food.

although he does say that he's missing some of the more traditional Argentine delicacies that he is used to. But nonetheless, he has lots of adventures to tell Rory about. Now, Rory wants to know what has happened or what he's doing with his flat in Buenos Aires. And what has done with your piece in Buenos Aires?

It turns out that Alejandro has left the flat to his cousins for some months. They are looking after it. They are watering the plants. And they are feeding the cat. And also they are living there. In actual fact, they're living in the room that Rory was in when he lived with Alejandro in Buenos Aires. Dech, he's installed on the piece in that boss vivias, because the mia is more chiquita.

And there we have an example of that boss form, which we'll be talking more about later. So Alejandro explains that since he's in Spain already with his friends, he could perhaps come over to Mayorka and see Rory and indeed meet Maria. And of course, Rory thinks this is a fantastic reason for them to get back together and do some. diving together, just like the old times. Everyone thinks this is a great idea, and Rory confirms that he will get everything organized. He will speak to Maria and to Consuelo

and see if he can find Alejandro somewhere to stay. He does, after all, work in the hotel. He tells, Alejandro, just buy your plane ticket and don't worry about anything. Compra your billet of avion, and not be preoccupies for nothing. So he is inviting Alejandro to stay with him in the hotel, in Majorca. So the friends are looking forward to seeing each other again. And indeed, Alejandro also tells Rory that his Castellano, his Spanish, has improved hugely. He says,

Tu castellano mejore a monon. So's una fiera. Another interesting expression, indeed, which we'll come back to in just a moment. With that, they bid each other farewell and Rory's very pleased to be seeing Alejandro very soon. Okay, let's come back to this Sos una fiera. And we also heard another expression earlier. Can we hear that whole sentence again, Carmen? De etchocetio, they installed in the piece in that

you was bivias, because the Mia is more chiquita. Okay, so in fact, they installed themselves, literally they've moved in to the room that you were living in, the piece in laque boss vivias. Now, in Spain, Spanish,

and indeed in Spanish of many, many other Spanish-speaking countries, we wouldn't say in laque vos vivias, what would we say? In laque tu vivias. Exactly. In la que tu vivias. And that's a normal

imperfect tense there. In laque tu vivias. But here in Argentina and the way in which Alejandro is talking, he uses this new form, boss, and it's particular to Argentina

and a couple of other Latin American countries. Yeah, but mostly in Argentina, I would say. Okay, mostly in Argentina. So the funny thing is that there is actually different verb form

for boss. and we'll be talking more about that in our full extended episode. But here, let's just focus on the one that we've seen a little later in the paragraph where he says, you are a una fiera. Well, so's a lot, let's talk about fiera. That's una fiera. A fiera is someone who's very good in something. So someone who's very gifted something.

And fiera literally is... It's a animal salvage. Okay, so it's a wild animal. It's not a specific wild animal. It's just the term that's used. Exactly, like in general, yeah. Yeah. So it's linked to the English word feral.

Oh, right, okay. We can sometimes use that word sometimes of human beings, but let's not go there. So Fiera, sos a fiera or eres an fiera would be you are like a wild animal when it comes to Spanish. No, but with a positive meaning. Okay. So normally we would say, You're a fierre, and this is the different parts of the

Hispanic. If you're not in Argentina, yes. Well, in Argentina, no we're saying, you're not a fierre, but s, a fierre.

And soss is the part of you for boss. The verb ser. So, that also, we also, we also,

so's from ser, and it's used with boss, boss, sos. and therefore we can use boss-sos, whatever it happens to be. Bossos professor. Perfect. Yes.

Not just when we're talking about wild animals. Or indeed being good at Spanish. Okay. That is where we are going to leave our preview episode for this week. And we hope that you've enjoyed listening to the latest installment in our story of Maria Rory. And now our third main character, Alejandro. Very well. Well, we'll see us pronto.

Of course, if you want to get the full extended version, then head over to. to Coffee Break Spanish Season 4.com where you'll be able to find all the information as to how to get hold of our extending version and indeed our bonus listening materials and the transcript. Very well, Mark. Much thanks.

Bena. Vena. Bye, after the next. Adios, amigos. This is a production of the Radiolingua Network. Find out more at Radiolingua.com.