Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.13 | A mí no me digas nada… ¡tengo un hambre que no veo!

Episode Date: September 6, 2015

In episode 13 of Coffee Break Spanish Season 4, we hear the continuation of the conversation between María and Rory as they clean the attic ahead of Alejandro’s arrival and discover something which will play an important role in the story moving forward! 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 13. Good days to all. Here we are with another episode of Coffee Brick Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Mark? And I'm Mark? How are you? Very good.

And you? Very well. This is a lot, much, much, a job. Yes, you're very occupied? Very occupied. But that's good. Well, that's good.

Yes, but I don't have much time for to do all those things that I need to do. Oh, sure that's just to go to vacations, Mark. Could be. It's hard. There. We have to do

every time to be to be to be to be and so and also to be

to be able the backations Exactly. Well, this time we're interesting.

Also, of really. Because, well, it's something. Suced

something something in the text of today. So, no we're

not let us to do the next. We're so, we're we're

we're we're a little and we we're a a day.

We've got four hours limping without far. And we're to open the middle of the caras and then we're

not bad, Maria. I'm thinking you're not never. But where you're doing you're doing

the duro, but I'm doing all the muscles of my body. It's that I have done

two times. The first in the house of my parents before to go to work and

the second here with you with you. Oh, I'm talking to come to

come. It's the time. A me not you know me don't me do you know about.

I'm a lot of I'm going to see. Well, let me that I let me that's

the stentary for that get more dispegated the piece. Coge the escalera, if you

you're you're up and I you're the passes that they're

a lot and the the endteria is very all

okay Lister, D'am the Cache more Cajel that I can't

I'm I'm going to I'm here there's a little little

and let's you the you're the you're another this

not never never never never this this car

looks very quite pyl oh, how Pover A

B see Abel let's see there there is

a Cartas, Yehas? Cartas Veyas? Of who are? What emotion?

Baja down. Toma. God. Oh, are my my abuelos Jesus and

Carmen. You do you tell you that my abelel was a man?

Well, these cards are and of your mother, my abuel a Carmen,

no me I can't know I'm the years, are the

year before that was the before that was a

Tio, I think, Fickate what I'd say, that in that year I don't know they'd have been 18 years. Are you? Are you?

Are you? You know, see? You're we can't let us directly to Consuelo? No, I

think that to your Tia no you'll be if they let's, you're your family?

I'm do agree. Rory, Hey, how Fuerte. We've encountered a

little treasure. You're a question. But, carino, I'm change the

theme. But if not come something, I'm going to dismaying. Oh, I'm going

to be using the little and then we're going to learn a card.

I'm I'm going to get a story, Mark. Well, we're

to talk a little about the content or no. Okay.

I'm going to talk a little about the text now in English just

so that everyone understands what's and then we'll talk a little about some of the phrases contained in the text. So in this episode, we have an interesting development in our story. As you'll remember from last time, Rory and Maria were cleaning out the attic ahead of Alejandro's arrival. And as we join the conversation this time, they've been cleaning for four hours without a break.

Maria suggests that they have a break because they still have to open half of the boxes and label them. And Rory is quite delighted at Maria's suggestion because he is exhausted but doesn't want to show. what, every bit of his body is sore. Me dueling all the muscles of my body. Maria explains that her energy is as a result of eating breakfast twice, once at home with her parents

before heading out, and then again with Rory. And talking of food, it's already 3pm, so time for lunch, although for Rory, it's long after lunch, given that he's trying to get used to the Spanish eating times. He's starving, so they decide to go out for lunch.

Before leaving, Rory wants to put some of the boxes up onto the shelf so that the room appears a bit less messy, a bit cleaner. So Maria suggests that he goes up the ladder and that she hands the boxes up to him because the shelf is very high. Rory climbs the ladder and

just as Maria is about to pass him the biggest box, he notices something. Espera Maria, here is another cajana pecanita and metallic. He tells Maria to put down the box she's holding and he lifts down the smaller metal box. It's an old box covered. bird and dust. As they open it, they realise it's full of old letters, letters written between

Maria's grandparents, Jesus and Carmen. Good name. They date from 1949 before her aunt was born, and they weren't even married at that point. Maria's grandmother would only have been about 18 years old. Rory asks, therefore, if they are love letters, and Maria replies that they probably are. She asks him if he thinks they should read them, or perhaps they should give them straight to Consuelo? Cres that we can't let us, or we're we're directly to Consuelo?

Rory doesn't know, but he figures that her grandparents were her family too, so Consuelo won't mind if they read them. It looks like they've discovered a treasure, a little tesoro, in these letters, and they're desperate to read them. But Rory does point out that he's going to faint if he doesn't eat something

soon. Maria had completely forgotten about food by the stage, with the excitement, but she suggests that they have lunch, then they can read some of the letters and we'll have to wait until the next episode to find out what the letters contain. 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 You turn your downtime into your due time. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. A wonderful, Mark. A wonderful. Well, before to talk of the text in general, we're going to talk a little of a phrase in particular, that is a phrase that I love,

an expression that I love much. And it's when Maria she'd have been totally forgotten what of the food because they're so muchinous. It's the phrase, Se me has gone

the santo to the world. You can explain us this phrase, for

favor. Well, it has a little of a pre

so it's a little bit religious in its sort of reference here. Se

me haido el santo to so se me a

let's let this up and break it down. So we've got Se

me a Iido. We've got the verb irse in the

perfect tense. but there's also an object in here too. Irse means to go away. A-ido has gone. Se a-a-ido has gone away. Se me a-a-e-me-a-idel has gone away to me, the saint to the sky.

So this is an expression that basically means that you've totally forgotten something. You've totally forgotten something, yeah. So literally, my saint has gone off to the sky. Yes. My saint has left me off to the sky. Does it make any sense in English, Mark? Not really. You've got to really think about it in order for it to make sense. But it's quite a common expression. It is indeed. I think it would be... It's because we are forgetful people, but... Okay. I think there would be an English expression that we could use to translate this, something that's quite idiomatic. I would say perhaps I completely lost track of time. It's maybe not exactly the ideal expression for this one, but se ma'i, se me aided el-santo al-Chielo,

could mean I lost track of time, and therefore, because we were involved in these other things, I completely lost track of time and I didn't realize it was time to go for lunch, something like that. We can maybe say my mind went blank as well. My mind went blank, I think, would be perhaps in a slightly different context.

My mind blank is still a good translation of, but that would be more, for example, if you had been asked a question. Ah, okay. If you're asked a question and your mind went blank, then in that case, you could say, Ah, I don't know what to answer.

Okay. If I made the saint of the cello and no supe to respond. Okay, okay. Okay, because I lost my train of thought also in that kind of idea. Okay, okay. If my either,

the santo at the cello, I lost my train of thought and then I realized what I was talking about and continued there. Okay. It's quite specific, but it's good to know

that we can use that expression, one expression in Spanish for different situations that we might use different expressions for in English. So useful phrase then? A useful phrase, yes. A useful phrase. And there are lots more useful phrases in this text. But for now, we're going to have to say goodbye to our listeners to the preview version of this text. And we will be back again with another episode when the next installment in our story in a couple of weeks. Of course, we are going to be going on and talking about the full text in our extended version and you can find out more about how to get access

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