Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.14 | Espero que mis palabras te encuentren con buena salud

Episode Date: September 18, 2015

In this latest episode of Coffee Break Spanish Season 4 we join María and Rory as they read the first of the love letters they’ve discovered in the attic. We’re immediately transported to 1949 when María’s grandparents were engaged and start to build a picture of what life was like at the time. The text contains a new style of language and, as usual, is rich in expressions and grammar 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 Break Spanish Season 4 Episode 14. Good days to all. Hello, Mar, how are you? And you, Carmen? Very well. Deseating to go to vacations. Yes, very, very soon, no? The next Friday. Perfect, where you go?

Well, I'm going to do a route for the north of Spain. Very well. Tell us a little. She cased a friend of my, in Pamplona. Very well. Has been a lot of one ever. No, no. No.

Well, Pamplona is a city famous because the the fiestas principal are the of Sanfermin. Yes, with the

people gore the people are the and the lot of the and we're and we're

a Pamplona to the very well and then a route an entire a one first

we're going to first to go to Belbao then then then then San

Sebastian and then then I'm going to my I'm a

Basca and then a Asturian, no? Perfect. Well, much thanks for for contarned this. We're here

again with another episode of Coffee Break Spanish for you for you with the history of Maria Alejandro and Rory. But today

we have something a little bit distinct, no? The abuelos. Toman part. We have been,

of course, following the story, which involves Maria and Rory, her boyfriend, as they spent time in Majorca

over the summer. And as you remember, Alejandro, Rory's friend, has plan to come and stay with them in Consuelo's hotel. That's Consuelo, who is Maria's aunt. It's all a little bit complicated if you've not followed the previous 13 episodes.

What happened the last time was, as you'll remember, Rory and Maria discovered a cana de cartas. Very bien. The cartes of amor. A mystery, we're here to discover today. So these love letters are what we're going to be looking at over the next four weeks, and they will help us develop further parts. of the study.

So, we're going to hear or hear the first card of Jesus, that is the Abuelo

of Maria. Very well, let's see. 20th of April of 1949. Dear Carmencita,

how you're going I'm going that my words you're with good and

good. I'm still, I've recovered of the total of the

catarro that I cogia a month. How is your family? My parents are a little flojews of health, so I'm encargo I to go to the loggia to vendor what we peskamos. Every day, my father and I

we all over the barca, before that amazabeths, we'll have a bit of pan and a a vase of wine to enter in color, and we realize inversions a pulmon, near the cala in Basset, for the zone of San Elm. My father, ultimately, not she sent with forces of descender, so I'm trying the double,

for that we can't eat pescadito fresh. Menos mal that my mother is very good, modista, and have many many clients that

they make in cargos, between what they they're paying for the vestido, and the and the

peskable, we, we, we, we're not we're in little, but with all the

thing we need we're a seniority to be to come to come to give-a- of regalos, Carmen, but you

know you know that, it's very difficult to live well. I'm poor, but I'm a good body to work, and a heart very great. When I'll ever I, I'll record, I'm going to do this day our last encounter in the

Baile of the Fiesta Major of your people, Campicafort. You imagine, while while doing your brothers, and that blusa of color black with buttons dorados. Stavas tan

Bonita. I'd observe about from the other point of the plaza Sintiending

the man more affortunated of the island. I've got to celebrate

our compromise and to start our together our my

my my I'm I'm that you I'm I know

you can't you can't the posada but I,

Tozudo continue I horriding a little to little to

invite to the little to be I'm I'm I'm sure to ask

your response your your promise Jesus that good

how we're a first a very a very

very very so we're going to we're going to listen

a so in this episode as you know we are reading

the first of the love letters shared between Maria's grandparents when the

they first met each other. Jesus, Maria's grandfather, begins by saying that he hopes his letter finds Carmen in good health, Carmen being Maria's grandmother. He's feeling better as he has recovered from the cold he had a month ago. He asks how Carmen's family is and explains that his own parents are a bit weak, so he's going daily to the market to sell the fish that they catch. Me encargo I to go to the lonja to vend what peskamos. He goes on to explain, that each day he and his father go out in the boat at 4 a.m. before dawn. They eat a piece of bread and have a glass of wine to warm up, and they dive in Kalain Baset near Santel.

His father isn't feeling strong enough to dive at the moment, so it turns out that Jesus is doing double the work, just so that they can make a living. He tells Carmen that, fortunately, his mother is a good dressmaker, and she gets lots of work, so between the prices the customers pay for the dresses and the fish that he and his father sell in the market, they get by. Between what they pay for the vestiges and the pescado that we

vendemes in the loganha, my father and I, us appaniams, for a living. Jesus wishes he were a wealthy young man so that he could shower Carmen with gifts. But for the time being, it's difficult to live well. He may be poor, but he has a strong body to work and a very big heart. He asks Carmen when he'll see her. He remembers every every.

day their last meeting at the village festival. He can still see her dancing with her sisters wearing a white blouse with golden buttons. He tells her that she was so pretty as he watched her from the other side of the square, feeling like the luckiest man on the island. He is very much looking forward to celebrating their engagement and to starting their life together. So we're finding out some crucial parts of the story here. They have just become engaged. And he knows that Carmen's family is much richer than his own. that they have land and that they own the inn in the village. But he is stubborn enough to continue saving gradually

in order to ask her out to the cinema. You'd apeteceria to go? With this invitation, he ends his letter. I'menka, Mark. You're all right. I'm a, my abuelos. No, is that I was that I'd be there to be there, but I remember that my abuela also me contabwe.

Yes, of love. It's, it's of a different. Exactly. Completely distinct. In what year we're in these

cards? As well, as Jesus, at the principle of the card, we're in 1949.

So, a little after the war, and then it's a an epoca distinct.

Very distant. Very difficult. 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. Just before we go on to talk about the episode in greater detail, can we look at that phrase, Te apatheceria, ir. Te apattheria, year? Me encantar. So that's a nice way of asking someone if you fancy doing something.

Do you feel like doing something? Using the verb, apatiser. A petecer, we've seen before. We've talked about it before. But just here we've got it in the conditional tense, which is a little different. Can you give us this again? Let's hear it. So in this case,

the apateteria to go, or would you like? Would you feel like to go? So would you feel like doing something? Would you like to do something? Do you fancy in its present tense form? Te apete? Te apeteetece to go to cinema?

Te apeteenthe. So, te appetce, but here, te apatheceria. It's quite tricky to say for a non-native speaker. Te apeteeteria. A lot of appetizeria. I'd like to think out how that's spelled.

I need to ask people to go to the cinema. Exactly. Very good. Is there another way of seeing that using, again, something a little different from, you'd like, or wisheras or... You'd like, clear. You'd like to go to the cinema with me.

And I'll say another a little bit more complicated. What do you perhaps if we're to see if we're at cinema? Okay. What does it see? What does it see? of what does it seem to you if we go to the cinema?

Exactly, very well. What do you pay that a little stage further? Yes, sure, for sure. Can I ask you, could we say, what'd be say, what'd be sure, if we were to make, very good, that? So they were using a conditional, what'd beaerer, if we were to go to the cinema.

How would it seem to you if we were to go to the cinema? And it's almost a stage back from directness when we're asking. How would it seem if we were too good to the cinema? It's maybe a way to ask a question if you're less confident of getting a yes. But I'm sure that Jesus has a yes, definitely. So, very well.

Obviously, we are going to be going on to discuss all the text in great detail now for our members in the extended version. But for now, we are going to leave our preview version of this show. We hope that you've enjoyed it. We hope that you've enjoyed listening to this slightly new area of the story. And we will be back again very soon

with the next installment when we'll hear Carmen's response to Jesus' letter. Now, don't forget that you can head over to coffeebreakspanish season 4.com to find out how you can get access to all our members' materials, including the full extended version of this text, the transcript, and indeed

our bonus listening exercises, which will help you test the language. phrases, the challenges that we've given you in this episode. Find out all you need to know at coffeebricksmanish season 4.com. Well, yeah is for today. Very well. Much thanks, Mark. Much thanks. Thank you. And much thanks to all. Until the next. Adios. This is a production of the Radiolingua Network. Find out more at radiolingwa.com.