Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.17 | Menuda historia para no dormir

Episode Date: November 25, 2015

In the latest lesson of our course, we join Carmen and read her letter which includes further details of the dramatic events which occurred in the Bay of Portals in 1949. As usual the text features many complex grammar points and interesting idiomatic expressions, and these are discussed by our hosts.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 17. Hello, and welcome to Coffee Brick Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm sorry, and we're here with another episode for you.

The number 17, 17, 17. Dichase, how is, how is it is Italian, I've got to terminate an episode of Coffee Brick,

Italian. So, today I'm going to talk in Italian. No, no? But that me say you guys,

no? Yes, Yes, yes. I'm talking of Italian. You know we'll tell okay.

Perfect. What do you tell, how do you? Well, I'm a little little bit

a lot of because the end of a year I'm in a carrera. Yes. 10 kilometers.

And, well, me dole all the body, but I did the career and I'm very

content. That's enuerabena and we want to tell the time? How is it's like

that? Yeah, the mark the mark. One hour. One hour and a minute. Very well. It's my first career, Mark.

I'm very orgios. And I'm very excited. Well, we're going to talk about the text of today because we have another card. Another card. Another card, very interesting. This time,

of Carmen, that's responding to Jesus. And in the last episode, we've seen that there was a incident, a tragedy. And then we're to see the erection of Carmen.

To see what we'll tell. Exactly. Well, we're going to let's go. 3. 3.

May of of 1,49. Dear Jesus, how is you? I've received your card this morning, and me

have been of a pietra. I'm so agongoated for what you have gone to

callerce to me father. No, you'll do you'll care you, but it's be that my father yeah saw that had been a accident in the

coasts of Majorca. No, I knew that had been so close of portals, nor that you you had presencied,

clear. He has a misdust with a good-of- the island, a certain Murdoch-Machintosh.

This distinguished Lord, he told to my father, that a barco-escess had disappeared in the Mediterranean.

The proprietor of the embarkation is a lord very rich and eccentric, that I wanted

to transport four baules of content incerto. It's rumorea that in

the baules there had piers precious traided of the Tierras Lehanes. The captain and his 10 tripulants

had orders of getting to get to Puyter of Andracks and disembarked the mercantia and to giveersela to a mysterious woman. I go mysterious, because nobody knows who is. The Sir Macintosh is convinced that this woman should be the amant of the duchosal lord,

and for so the sir no quissor rebelled a other, except to the captain, to whom they'd

be an their botin. Also, he probably probably never nobody reclamar the cargament, because

they'd evidence the double bid of the Lord. In resum one, once mariners

Scoceses have had been the life. The cargament has undied in the mar, and the Lord and his man never willveran to

find us. You have been a lot. No, you're going to do not to dream? I hope that you get more recuperated of the susto. I also want to

see to go to the movies and plan our casement and to to talk of the plans of the future. A posada in Calvia sounds well. I have experience with the countability

and with the wespetees. You know that I'll help my family always that they need. I'd like that my marido would be in

house with me and not in the mar, where they're things difficult to explain. and, when

form us a family it's more it's more more easy if you take you know

you're you're and you know to be a me I make much

that you have that you and I think my family does that my

family and us all you can't that they're so that we're

that we're I have a good presagio. I think that our posada will be known by all the island and we'll have many wespels.

Me despido for today. I'm with illusion our next encounter. Tuja, Carmen. Fifate, that's surprise,

that Carmen yeah had heard about this tragedy that Jesus he told the same earlier.

The actually, it's that Carmen knows more than Jesus.

Like the proper Jesus. Well, as always we're going to talk a little in English now, for that all understand perfectly

the text. 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

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through 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. Okay, this letter is of course all about Carmen's reaction to the terrible story Jesus shared with her in the last episode. But it turns out, as we've mentioned, that Carmen herself has found out more about the background to the story. She begins by asking Jesus how he's feeling today.

She received his letter this morning and was turned to stone by the story. She was so distressed a congochada, quite a good word there, by what she had read, that she ran straight to her father to tell him about it. Carmen says that Jesus won't believe it, but it was immediately clear that her father already knew that there had been an accident in Mayorkan waters. He didn't know it had been so close to Portals, nor that Jesus had witnessed it. Carmen's father is friendly with a Scottish governor, someone who works for either the local of the national government, and he happens to be holidaying on the island. He's called Murdoch McIntosh. I good a Scottish name there.

And this Murdoch McIntosh had told her father that a Scottish boat had disappeared in Mediterranean waters. The owner of the boat is a very rich and eccentric lord who was transporting four chests or trunks. and the contents of these trunks were unclear, but rumour has it, that the chests contain precious stones brought from far-off lands. The word the ters-lejanas-lejanas always makes me think of a fairy story. Okay, so the captain and his ten strong crew had orders to sail to the port of Andrads and deliver their cargo to a mysterious woman. No one knows the identity of this woman and Mr McIntosh is sure that she must be the Lord's lover.

And for this reason only the captain knew to whom they had to deliver this treasure. Mr McIntosh also explained that no one will ever claim the cargo because this would be evidence of the Lord's double life. So 11 Scottish sailors have lost their life, the cargo has sunk to the bottom of the sea and the Lord and his lover will never see each other again. In resummen, Once mariners Scocese

have lost the life. The cargament has undied in the

mar, and the Lord and his never will never

to find to see. Carmen says what a story,

a story that would make you lose sleep she hopes

that Jesus has recovered from the shock Carmen

also wants to see him soon and to go to the cinema

and plan their home and speak about the future together

the idea of a hotel in Calvia sounds good. Indeed, Carmen says that she has experience with accounts and with guests, because she helps her family whenever she can. She would like her husband to be at home with her, not a way at sea where things happen that are difficult to explain.

I'd like to my marido estuited to come home with me, and not in the mar, where passin cases difficult to explain. And when children come along, it will be easier if she has her husband close by. She's pleased that Jesus doesn't want to go off to see and she's sure that her family will help and support them so that they can be happy. And Carmen says that she has a good feeling, a good presagio, that their hotel will become well known throughout the island, and that they'll be successful. She awaits their next meeting excitedly,

and with that she ends the letter. Very interesting. Yes, yes. We're going to a word to a phrase that has said Carmen. then, Carmen in the studio, but also Carmen in the

card. And it's the phrase, me would be that my madido would

in the house with me so, me would like that I would like that my

husband would be a interesting word. I'm sure our listeners have heard it before. It is in

fact which tends Carmen. Imperfecto de subjuntive. Imperfecto de

subjuntive. imperfect subjunctive. So it is used because what Carmen is saying here is I would like, to me it would please that something were the case. In English we use a similar word sometimes. I wish that you were here. Me would like you to be here. The complication is that when we translate it into English, we use I would like you to be here. and the to be conjures up an infinitive idea in our minds when we're translating that into Spanish. But of course, we have to change the meaning slightly. I would like that you were here, and that where has to be a subjunctive.

And of course, it's a subjunctive in the past. So estuvieras. Or there's another form of that. It could be. Estubeses. So two alternatives when we are looking at the imperfect subjunctive. Let's take the whole imperfect subjunctive of estar and conjugated. So it would be,

you estuiera, you estuieras, El or ella estuiera, nosotros estuieres, vosotros estuieres,

and of course there's a little alternative form. So, Carmen, can you explain that? I'd stubias, he or she stubias, we're westubesemos, you, you,

you're not they're very I'm a question for you. What do you use you?

The truth is that I use those two. Depend of a situation or depends

of the moment in my case but those are both are most

of all just make sure you recognize both of those forms they're

both the imperfect subjunctive And choose which other one suits best. You can use whichever one you prefer. Okay, so there is a little bit of information about the imperfect subjunctive. Okay, so we're now going to go on and look at the text in greater detail.

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