Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.15 | Me hizo muchísima ilusión recibir tu carta

Episode Date: October 7, 2015

In this lesson of Coffee Break Spanish we listen to Carmen’s response to the letter of Jesús which we read in the last episode. This provides a further opportunity to look at a different, more formal, style of language which 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 Bricks Spanish Season 4 Episode 15 Hello to Hello, to welcome to Coffee Brick Spanish We're back. How are you? A bit can't saddough. Because I've been. Because I've been much.

Sure, as always. As soon, but we have to work to be to be to be able to relaxate after, no? Descancerty. From there, that's not,

talking about the vacations. Yes. Well, we're talking before you you go in some days Oh, I can't expect

more. And now it's exactly what's exactly what's or maybe the wind, because here in

this vera this verano that's... This verano? What, it's a very far? No.

You're a reason. No, no. No, it's done very good time, but well,

no, I think it was a train that has passed. Of all all those you're

you go to vacations in some days. Yeah, I've almost the

The mallet is all prepared. Very good. A point. Excellent. Well, I'm going. Oh, yeah. Where is? No, vacations.

Of the time. I'm going to go to Madrid. Well, and what you're going to do in Madrid? Well, I'm a reunion. A day of reunion and then another day of a grabation and, maybe a day of... Do you?

No. To film. We're going to film. Very good. Well, well, secret. Well, so secret. Secret. No,

you know, to nobody. Well, we're going the second card of our mini-serie in the grand

series of the coffee break Spanish season four. And of course, if this is the first time you're joining us,

this happens to be the first ever episode of Coffee Break Spanish you're listening to, you will be wondering what on earth

is going on. We are following the story of Maria and Rory as they spend their summer in Mallorca,

in the island of Majorca. And of course, they've got a friend Alejandro is coming to stay. And in order for Alejandro to come and stay,

they've been cleaning up the attic. In the attic, they've found some letters, letters of Maria's grandmother and grandfather before they were married. Love letters, cards of love letters, cartes of love. So in this moment, we're saying these cards of love.

And in the episode of today, we're the response of Carmen to Jesus. Very well. Well, we're going to do. 25 of April, of 1949. Estimadissimo, Jesus, how you You know, I've got made

much-illusion to receive your card and know that all marches on the roadas. Lamento much that your parents not goce in good health, but it's certain

that we all we're different etaps in the life, one's better and others pears. I'm sure

of that they're to turn to the they're they're are people are people and

lot of their I'm I'm want to my family is

all all very very very very very my

men don't don't to can't do and they

want to me I try I'm not I'm

not I'm I'd endowed and for so I would be that your

mother he did some a couple. For you know you know you know

you know you're you know you're bad a sure last year we're

we're we're talking and pastas and my tias they're

to ask to how had been the I'm the I'm

I put colorada Howt indiscretion! But my Santo Padre responded for me, he said, "'Keridas,

Jesus was a whole a caballiero. He presented in house with with the family,

and he said to talk in private with me. In my aposentos

me he told that I was locaement enamored of Carmencita and

that had present her respectos and to to pay her man. I was I'm imagineable,

and I knew that my little would corresponderia. He responded,

that would be a honor that my his was to that

and that a person and a very, I

know, and we're my c' abrotadisis- abrotadis- my

I looked with envied and illusion. I sent me like a princessita in his throne. As you see, no I think in other thing that not

you know you don't you think you think we we're the way to every day more.

A me me it's a little that you that's so that you're

very good buceando and that you canas the life of this but no

I can't ever think in the stories that they're that's the

the man is very very very you never you

when we we we're we we're we could

we we're our own and to do your but

we we're we we're we're we that is

soon I'm impacient for nature Jesus, I would

like to get to the things and I'm when and I know I

know I'm know they're they're not a second until

we get us a good and after pretty you

know I'm okay we'll be back in just a moment when you're not

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Very sympathetic. Very sympathetic. Another card romantic. We are listening here to Carmen's response. And of course, what we'll do now is go through this in English so that everyone understands exactly what the content of the letter is. And you can pair this up with what you've already heard in Spanish. So, Carmen begins her letter by asking Jesus how he's feeling. She was delighted to receive his letter and to know that everything was going well.

for him. She regrets that his parents aren't enjoying good health, but as she says, we all pass through different stages of life, some of which are better and others are worse. Carmen is sure that things will improve and that they'll get through their problems, their fighters, after all. She wishes them a fast recovery. As you'll already have heard, Carmen is using, again, a slightly more formal type of language, perhaps I was going to say more old-fashioned, but maybe it's not old-fashioned for the time, because of course these letters date from 1949, the letters that they found in the attic. So as far as her own family is concerned, they are all well,

and they're very excited about the prospect of the forthcoming wedding. Now, Carmen is getting a bit of a hard time from her sisters, as they won't stop singing love songs to her, and they all want her to try on her mother's wedding dress. She's not sure if it will fit her, and perhaps Hesu's mother will be able to help with some adjustments given her dress-making skills. Of course, she insists that he won't see their dress until their wedding day, because that would bring bad luck. Carmen goes on to explain that yesterday afternoon, they were having coffee and cake, and her aunts took the opportunity to ask her how Jesus had proposed. Of course, Carmen was very embarrassed at their indiscretion, but her father replied for her

and explained that Chesos was quite the gentleman. He arrived at the house with presents for everyone and asked to speak to him privately. Hesos explained to her father that he was in love with Carmen and he had come to ask for her hand in marriage. Garmin's father had already guessed this and knew that he was a good match for his beloved daughter. He therefore replied that it would be an honour for his daughter to marry such a good and responsible young man. He responded, that it would be a

honor that my his wife was a person who's responsible and good. Jesus embraced Carmen's father

and they went off to give the good news to Carmen with her aunts looking on with both

envy and excitement. She says she felt like a princess. Of course, we're just thinking about

the narrative here and Carmen is telling Jesus everything that he already knew because he was the

one that went to propose. But perhaps she's just letting him know that she knew, she now knows how it all went. Anyway, she continues her letter to Chesot by saying that she can't think about anything other than him and that he shouldn't worry about money.

She knows that they'll get by and that their situation will improve each day. She knows that he has a talent for diving and that he earns his living by doing this. Even so, she can't help but think about the dangers that this profession involves. She suggests that when they get married and perhaps with a little help from her parents, they'll be able to set up their own business and look after Jesus' parents. When we'll casemos, and with a little of help of my parents, could we'll build our own business and guide of your parents. But perhaps she is moving too fast.

They'll talk about this when the time comes. She's just naturally impatient. She ends her letter by saying that she would be delighted to go to the cinema with him. He simply needs to say where and when and she'll be there. With her sisters and aunts who won't let her out of their sight until they're married. Very well, a text,

a card very interesting and very romantic. Yes, very ambientada in the time, right?

Exactly. Let's just talk about one part of it before we go on. When do we casemos, when we

get married. Of course, that's an example of using this subjunctive. After when we get

married, we don't actually know that it's going to happen. Therefore, there's a little bit of

uncertainty about it. When no casemos, when we get married, we will do such and such, or we could, in this case, could also construct a little bit of uncertainty,

because we don't know when that's going to be. Now, when, referring to a future situation there, how would Carmen have said, when we are married? When we are casados. Okay, so when we are married, the R has to become a gay. even though she's inferring that that's going to happen when we are married, that has to become a subjunctive. When do we're using wheno with a future,

the future becomes a subjunctive. Remember Mark and listeners, of course, that the same thing happens with a, after that, of course. As to we are married. Or until we are married. or

after we're for example my tias and my times are all the

time and and and and and and and

and verififing and verifying and just to go back to our discussion

about a about a couple of weeks ago okay now there's lots

more to see about this text but for now this is where we're going to

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