Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.11 | Decidido, ¡haré mi primera inmersión!

Episode Date: August 5, 2015

In episode 11 of Coffee Break Spanish Season 4, we read María’s diary entry about the latest events in Mallorca. Rory has arranged for his friend Alejandro to stay in Consuelo’s hotel, and we find out about the preparations which Rory must undertake ahead of his arrival. As usual there are many examples of interesting grammar points and idiomatic expressions in this episode.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 11. Hello, Hello, and welcome to Coffee Brick Spanish. We're back. I'm Mark. And we're very content. And we're very content. And we're very content.

And we're going to be with you. Exactly. Mark, how are you? Very relaxed. I've heard that you've been been doing vacations. A little bit. And you too, too.

Yeah, but less than you. Well, well. Quintam. Where has been. Well, the truth is that I've been in Mallorca. Yes. Buscando a Rorya and a Maria.

Well, I have to say to you, too. In serious. Well, I'm alex. What, what's a casualty, no? What kind of casuality? As you said in Majorquit, no? I've been practicing my...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And what, then? Where did you? Well, I'm in Palma. Very good. But alkylamos a coach, and we've been on the route

for all the island. Very good. precious, Mark. I'm really. I'm really a lot of course.

Well, I'm to do that all all right. And I'm exactly where is the

Palma. Palma is the capital of the island. And it's all the

air all the and then there are many places that you can

visit in all all parts of New York. Yes, it's a point

strategic. And as the island is a little those places

are very very in the north of the isla, in almost one hour, one hour and a little. We're not. We're not doing vacations,

familiarers, in the east of the island. Well, at the side of a city that's called Calador. Caledor. We've been in a finca that was perfect.

Perfect. And, so very relaxed, taking the sun, banning us in the pistina and also in the mar. So, perfect.

In definitive, He was, Descansando, right? Descansing. And, and working a little.

Also, Mark. But very good, good, good, me, I'm very very good.

We're here another episode of Coffee Break Spanish, and, we're going to see

with the history of Maria and Erori. As know, there's Alejandro, the

friend Argentino of Erori, that will to come to see us. So,

we're to be today, the story. What What we're going to pass in the story of today? Very well.

We're going to listen to the text. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. It's all resolved. Alejandro, the American of Rory, he will be to

doorme in the hotel of Consuelo. There's an abitation that nobody uses in the attic. What what is that nobody

has used in an 20 years approximately. The hotel has two plantas with abitations

and the lactic. The third The first plant is the almacen. There is sabanas, almoadas, toadias, mantels, and other recambios for the habitations of the wespels. At the front of the almacen, there is a portecita that a little room with vistas at the

mar. This space was one day the the abitation of the cociner, but was kept very aparted and my tios decided to put to put a personal of the work in the second plant, for that were more comod to start the job workal.

So the atic was aftical left over and my tia only sub-sue to clean the polvo and to goger a

recamble to recamble to get a-conditioned the boardilla, is that has that has much to do,

limpire the pollbo, ordenar, barred, frere, make the camera, to prove

that the duch function correctly, and to clean the windows, that palisa.

I know that Rory now right now should be not the part,

but who something does, something he'll do it a time.

So, and I'm there may be that I'm for some I'm

for a time, because I imagine that those two

are tram some plan. I'm thinking that, I think that I would

have to do a summer and this. For one I'd like to try to

but I'm a little bit a bit of me do you have been I'm not dormer. I know

that's question of control the respiration, not putner and

to be a little bit but I'm but I do you do this Rory

says that he me to teach us that's all the trucos, that will a pleasure

to be a world new. But, he's a professional. The truth is that

I'm I'm not I'm never more. And if me I'm I'm

aficion. Okay, decided, I'll do, I'm a baptize, as I'm

called the people, I'm a surprise Rory. I'm to ducharm and to

put me that I've kept with my parents to go to go to a restaurant new to

have a portals. That's good. A best great. Maria. Okay,

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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. Very interesting, right, the text of today, Mark? Yes, very interesting.

And now what we're going to do is listen it in English. Okay, so I'm going to explain a little about the text in English for that all understand exactly what happened. So this is, of course, a diary entry, a diary entry from Maria. And she begins by saying that everything has resolved itself. Everything is organized. Alejandro, Rory's Argentinian friend, is going to be staying in Consuelo's hotel. There's actually a room in the attic that no one uses.

In fact, no one has actually used this room for about 20 years. What what is that nobody has used it in an 20 years approximately. Wow. Okay, so the hotel has got two floors with rooms and then there's also the attic. and on that third floor that's where the sort of store is. That's where they keep all the sheets and the towels and everything that they need for the guests in the hotel. At the end of the store, at the back of the store, there's a little door which leads to a small room with the sea views. And this used to be the room that the cook used in the hotel.

But it was very isolated. It was in a different part of the building. and that's why Maria's aunt and uncle decided that the cook and all the rest of the staff would be together on the second floor making everything easier and handier for them to begin their working day and of course this has meant

that the attic has remained uninhabited for many many years with Consuelo only going up to clean the room a little and make some changes from time to time so since it's Rory's friend who's coming to stay he has been charged with basically getting the room room ready. So he's got lots to do. He's got to clean the dust. He's got to sort things out. He's got to sweep. He's got to make the bed and do lots of other things to get the room ready for his friend.

Yes. He has much to do. Limpyed the polvo. Ordenar. Barret, fregar, make the camera, comprobar that the ducha function

correctly and then many those are yeah yeah yeah yeah

yeah they're we would call them the tasks the house

or the tasks of the house so so Maria thinks

that Rory is going to be knocking his head against the brick

wall with all these tasks that he's got to do but of

course as she says if you want something you have to pay

for it in whatever way perhaps it's not monetary but

it has to be paid for with the work that he's got to do. However, he still has time because Alejandro isn't arriving for another three days. And Maria says that she really needs to get ready for some days of adventure and excitement because she's guessing that the two of them, Alejandro and Rory, will be planning some plan. They'll be getting up to some adventure while Alejandro is there. And there's something else that Maria is thinking about, the fact that perhaps she should also consider going diving. It's obviously Rory's passion, but she's not done it before. On the one hand, she would like to try it, but on the other, she is a little scared. And she's heard many, many stories that really put her off.

However, she knows that it's a question of controlling her breathing, not getting too nervous and enjoying. The feeling of being like a fish under the water. She realizes that it is something that does frighten her. and of course Rory says that he'll teach her all the tricks all the things that she needs to know and indeed that he'll enjoy doing so and that she'll discover a new world underwater but of course he's a professional at the end of the day Maria realizes that she's got nothing to lose

the truth is that no piety not for intentarlo if no me gustav no I'll do never more and if she doesn't like it she'll not do it again and if she does like it she's got a new hobby for herself So by the end of this diary entry, she has decided that she's going to go for her baptism or her underwater baptism and she will surprise Rory with this news. She's going to go for a shower and then make herself pretty, ponermé guapa, because she has actually made an arrangement with her parents to go and eat in a restaurant, a new restaurant in Port Portaise. And there we have Maria's diary entry. Well, Carmen, you went to this

restaurant in Port Portals when you in New York? No, I don't but and you? Tampocoe? Well, well, we'll

have to go back. Sure, sure. So, especially with this time Scocese.

Yes. But, well, we're not we don't we're here to talk about the

time Scoce for sure we're here. We're we're here to talk about.

One thing I'd like to point out or talk about is an interesting expression just in

that last last sentence. Can you read for us again what Maria says from I'm docharmie? I'm docharmie and to put me wapa. That I've kept with my parents to go to a restaurant new that are in por portals. Now the reason I'm picking up on this is the key in there because it's a

key that joins one part of the sentence to another and it's really, really Spanish. Yes, it is. We use this for everything. It's not a porque. it's just a kind of linking word that joins two clauses, two parts of the sentence. So the first part of the sentence, I'm going to have a shower

and make myself pretty, so she doesn't say, she just says, and it's just very Spanish. I think it's quite tricky to get into the way of using this as a non-native speaker because it's something that you hear often all the time.

I'm not quite sure when to use it. But it's definitely worth pointing out. And I think some of our listeners might be wondering what that K means. It's not really... And it's certainly not going to be followed by a subjunctive or anything like that. No, no, no, no. For once. So here it's just a linking kee and it's very, very common.

Very used. Now, we'll be talking more about that K and giving you some further examples in our extended version of this episode. And you can find out more about that at Coffee Break, Spanish Season 4. dot com. Of course the extended version of this lesson, we'll discuss the entire text and we'll talk about all the language contained in the text and there's also a full transcript and another translation exercise to help you test what you've learned. So head over to coffee break Spanish season 4.com to find out more about this. For now, much thanks and hasta la proxima.

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