Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.16 | Corrí como si me persiguiera el diablo

Episode Date: November 11, 2015

In this lesson of Coffee Break Spanish we listen to the response from Jesús to Carmen’s latest email. As usual the episode is rich in idiomatic expressions and complex grammar points. Mark and Carmen are on hand to discuss the Spanish used 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 16. Hello to all, and welcome to Coffee Brick Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Carmen. How are you? I'm very good, Mark, and you? Very well. What you know.

What do you know? Well, I've been much things to tell you. Veng. I've been spending a few day. In Barcelona? Have you? Has you been? Has you been?

Yeah, some way? Some way? Yeah. Well, for me, it was the first time. My first visit to this city. And I've got to say that me has I've liked much.

I'm a city a city a very cosmopolita, very interesting, but my city

favorite was the park whale. The park whale is fantastic. I'm really.

I'm so. I'm very much encan't. I've some years film us a series

of a one part of a series of a coffee break Spanish

magazine in the park well. It was phenomenal. Precioso very

precious, with people of many countries. As Ditch is a like a you know,

as a city, is a city is a city of so you can't you can

get you with people and you and many accents Spanish different. Yes,

yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,

yes, yes, yes, we're here, we're another week

Spanish, and this second another card, another card of Jesus.

For Carmen? For Carmen. And, well, we're going to start, no? We're going to. Let's hear the text now. 30th of April, of 1949. Dear Carmen, how you're you

want to find out? I'm because I want to tell you a thing that will be allowed. I'm good. No, you're not to be for me. Ayer had a mal to but I'd peteer

to give me a a walkie a portals, that's a that's quite very resguarded of the olas.

So, the night was there was a night was there was a tenue and the

wind soplable very very in direction to the coast. The

mar was was very there was very the one

I'm I'm I'm a chepo' I think that

was too I decided recoged conchas and the stars of the mar that the

o'las were depositing in the orilla of the cala, and of a reaper, I heard a-and-sorteater tumbled,

so they were crugied on the rocks, and grittos of mariners. Then, it was the silence.

I'm all my little little these little the water and I'm the most rapid

that I did the catylado. From there's there's good visibility, and I

see a park, undiades in the water, the combustible even calient on the solace, and the mariners, intentando poners'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n' thinking that I was lco to attar, and others were with me

to get to the restate of the people. The tavernero called for telephone to the guardacostas.

When we got to the accident, no she saw absolutely nothing. It was too much

too was a and the police, and the police didn't a way to

help us until the matter of the mother's a new in the carmen

that's that impotence my Carmencita. No could have absolutely nothing to to save a

those mariners. This morning, before that an ane my father, the

chachos of the people and we've been to the same place. Mientras

it and the mar was more calm we've seen how the water

spupia the little the barco no, there no rastro of the

tribulation. What In your last card, me said that the mar is very treasioner. Today only I can't give you the

reason. We know we're at this barco, and the families of the marineros never

know what they they'll say they're they're going, others that the sirenas they're

and so they're that they're so terrible. I'm still still still

even the impression. This night I have pegged ojo and I want

I need to dormit me. I'll think I'm I need to be and we're about our future. No, I want that the mar me anguja

a day. Igual not a bad idea, and we're we're going to a little bit of a posada in

Calvia. I'm form a family with you and to learn to the days tranquill of

September. Abrace. Jesus. 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, in this occasion, we don't have a card very nice,

very sad, very emotional, but, but, it's a bad manner. Yes, yes,

well, we're going to explain a little, the text in English, and then we'll talk a little

of the language of the phrases and expressions. Very well. So, in this letter,

Jesus has something shocking to share with his beloved Carmen. It's not something which happened to him, but something which he experienced the night before. The sea was rough the previous night and he wanted to go for a walk.

It was already getting dark at 9pm and there was a strong wind. As a result, there were huge waves in the sea. Chesos did consider going for a swim but decided it was too dangerous. Instead, he started to collect shells and starfish from the shore. Suddenly, he heard a deafening noise. the ground shook and there were noises in the rocks and he heard shouts from sailors. Then, nothing but silence.

Then, he did the silence. Jesus left all the shells he had collected in the sand and ran towards the cliffs so that he would be able to see what was happening. Out in the sea he saw a ship sinking and there was burning fuel on the water and sailors trying desperately to save themselves. But it got dark so quickly

he didn't have time to do anything. He ran as if the devil himself were chasing him to the bar and the village, and out of breath he told everyone what he'd just witnessed. Some ignored him thinking he was crazy, and others went with him in an attempt to save the poor people lost at sea. The innkeeper called the Coast Guard,

but when they arrived at the scene of the accident, there was nothing to be seen. It was already too late. There was not a single voice and the Coast Guard had no way to help until the tide went out. Jesus returned home, feeling awful. He was powerless. He hadn't been able to do anything to save the sailors. This morning, before dawn, he went with his father and some friends from the village to the same spot.

As the sun rose, the sea was calmer, and they saw parts of the sunken ship, but no sign of the crew. What a disaster. Chesos points out that Carmen had mentioned in her last letter, that the sea is indeed very dangerous and he now agrees with her. He doesn't know where the ship was from and the sailors' families will never know what happened to them. There will be legends of the sea swallowing the ship and of mermaids calling to the sailors. And the legends will go on. But Jesus says he is still shaking.

He's not slept a wink and he doesn't want to fall asleep. because he knows he will have nightmares. This night nighte he no I peggado ojo, and no I want to dormit me, I know that I tendre pesadillas. He says he needs to see Carmen

and they need to talk about their future. He doesn't want the sea to take him someday. Perhaps they should set up their business together, as Carmen has suggested, a hotel in Carbia. Jesus wants to have a family with Carmen and to teach his children to swim in the calm days of September.

With this, he finishes his point. poignant letter. Very interesting, we're not, we're doing of expressions new, right?

Yes, yes, yes. Expressions Tristes, but expressions new.

Exactly, exactly. And we are going to talk about those expressions. Before we do,

let's look at one of them in particular and it's the expression no peg ojo. He said,

this night no he pegado ojo. Now, pegar literally means to stick.

Yeah. So if you stick your eye, it's like sticking your eye. It's together, yeah.

So this night, no I peggado ojo, this night, or last night, really, the night that has just gone by. I haven't stuck my eyes together. I didn't sleep a wink. And it's a nice expression. There are other words in this sentence also associated with sleeping or indeed not sleeping. He says, Se que tendre pesadillas.

A nightmare. A nightmare. So, I know I will have nightmares. What's the normal verb to dream? Soñar. Soñar. And note that it's a radical changing verb. So it's soniar in the infinitive, but the first person singular is,

Sueño. Sueño. Yo Sueño. You Sueno, which is also a noun, El Sueno. Which means both the sleep and the dream. And the verb, yes. So let's think about this. Sueño could mean I sleep.

It could mean I dream. it could mean a dream A dream, a dream, a dream, a dream, and it could also be the word to use when we say, Tener Sueño, I am sleepy. So if I say, I've tenied a dream, that would be,

I have dreamed. I have dreamed or I've had a dream. Exactly, yes. I've had a dream. If I say, I've been a a dream incredible. Well, well,

it can significar two things. Exactly. The first is that has been very canceive all day. You've been very sleepy all day. So I've been a dream incredible all the day. I've been really sleepy.

That's from Tenorsueño. Okay, I've tenido an sunno incredible. And the reason it's un-sueño is because we've qualified that sleep. Un-sueing creible. But the other meaning, of course, is that you had an incredible dream.

Yeah, so. Dreaming with castles and dragons and princesses, for example. Now, that's interesting, because Carmen said that you have been dreaming with, but of course in English we dream about, but it reminds us that in Spanish you say, Soñar con, no?

Thank you, Mark. Sorry, it's good that it's always been the next mistakes. So, soniard con. So in Spanish, it would say, I sonido with castillos and phantas and princesses and all that. Okay, soñar con.

Important to remember. Okay, that's where we're going to leave our preview episode for this week. There's lots more to say about this text, but we'll be doing that in our extended edition. If you'd like to find out more about the extended edition, head over to coffeebreakspanish season 4.com, where we'll be able to share some more information about that. For now, that's all. Very well. Well, we'll see in two semanas.

In two semanas. In two semanas. Bye. This is a production of the Radiolingua Network. Find out more at radiolingua.com.