Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.18 | Tienes la cabeza llena de pajaritos

Episode Date: December 9, 2015

In this lesson we join María and Rory as they discuss the letters between Carmen and Jesús which they found in the attic. The dialogue 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 18. Good news. Good. And I'm Mark. And we're back with another episode of Coffee Brick Spanish for you. The number 18, yeah, Mark. The number 18. Almost the middle of the course, no?

Yes, we're almost in the Ecuador. In Ecuador, yeah. About to Ecuador, you have been to a voyage, no? I've been in vacations, yes. But in Ecuador, no, no. No, no, in Ecuador. I've been in Thailand.

That's good. Counten us then. I've been a good. It's a good so it's a

so it's not so it's so it's really to get back and I've visited Bangkok, I've visited the South of

Thailandia and I've visited the north also I've been a little of all the visions of

the country and what most me has been the food. Very good. It's very

very good No. Very good, everything. Delicious. A little a little bit of

maybe. But, but I've had gone well. And one question. You've

have been a little about a little. Well, I've learned to say,

Kpunka. What I mean? Thank you. Very good. And I've learned to also.

And I've learned also that's important too. That's important. My car. My car. More

or less. Okay. Maybe a coffee break high A day. Well, okay, so we can study? Very well. So, then if we

have a in Thailand, maybe we can teach a little more of Thailand's? Exactly. Well, we're going to

we're going to our texts. But it's a little different this week because, well, we'll be

the texts normales of Maria, Rory, and Alejandro. Those have to be to be

to be to Maria and Rory. Yes, yeah. But, well, we're going to hear a to hear of hear of hear of in the call

they're going to talk of the cards that have read in the attic of the hotel of consuelo. Perfect. Well, we're going to start. Maria, wait a moment. These cards are a

little difficult for me. No, I know if I just I've got to understand. Your abuel was present in an accident of a barco, no? And it'sulta

that your abuela, Carmen, he said that the barco that was a man that's under a lord of Scots, very rich, and that transported a bolless, that had in those baules?

Oh, Rory, no he said, it was that they were full of joys, but nobody was sure, it was only a rumor. And nobody those encountered?

The baules? No, I know. In the card it says that nobody was reclamo. is that could be they're still

in the front of the well it could be but after the years

it's impossible they're they're in the arena the mar has the

man has what's with the barco with the barco you know you're

you're you're you're a document that's the year you're a

beautiful. It's incredible that we have found these cards here, in the attic of the hotel that they used built. But I thought that this hotel was of your Tia Consuelo? And of my

diffunto Tio. Or so, my abuelos, Carmen, and Jesus, construed this building in the year 50, and when they were

too major to be over to him, they were to do it and a new and a new also.

Also, they were they were to be my father and my mother, but my father

always knew that he wanted he was a winicultor the winicultor

the in the in English I think is wine grower well well

total my father no did my and my called my my

and it and it and your abel never was never more

was a the person for what he said in the partes that he that decided

to change of life. Yes, I suppose that's seeing a accident so in

live, should have been to have been very traumatic. Maria, I'm

thinking that I would... Rory, no. I know. I know what you

want to say. You could go to look to look at

exactly. I think it's a lot of I'm I'm that's putriending

in the front of the that is very dangerous to make an

immersion in that there's a lot of there's very important and the the treasure

is having has encountered and put it. Vunga not that would be

a adventure magnificent you have the little of

pageritos 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, I see a Rory, submissuiting under the water. Yes, that is the idea that has. Madre my. I think Maria has other ideas. Yes, I think that's very determinant.

We're going to learn a little, well, we're going to study a little bit of the text, and now I'm going to give us an explanation of the text in English. Okay. So, of course, in this episode. We are listening to Rory and Maria's response to reading the letters between Carmen and Jesus. As we join the conversation, Rory's not quite sure if he has understood

exactly what has happened, given the different style of language in the letters. He summarises what he's understood of the story by explaining to Maria, your grandfather was there when a boat got into difficulties, and it turns out that your grandmother, Carmen, told him that the boat sank in Portals, and it belonged to a very rich Scottish lord, and that it contained trunks. Rory asks Maria what was in the trunks, so we know this story already. Obviously we've heard the story over the past few weeks, but this is now Rory and Maria understanding the story for themselves. So Maria responds that no one knows for sure, but it's said that they were full of jewels. There, Rory, no

He said that They were full of joys. Rory asks if anyone ever found the trunks, but Maria doesn't know because it doesn't say so in the letters. We can see where Rory's mind is going, he asks, could they still be

at the bottom of the sea? Maria responds that they could be, but after so many years it will be impossible to find them because they'll have sunk into the sand. No one really knows what happened to the ship, the sailors and the chest.

She reminds Rory that the letters date from 1949. Changing the topic slightly, Maria says, don't you find that this is a beautiful love story? It's incredible that they found these letters here in the attic of the hotel that Maria's grandparents built together. Now, at this point, Rory needs some clarification. He thought that it was Aunt Consuelo's hotel. However, Maria explains that Carmen and Jesus built the hotel in 1950,

and then when they were too old to look after it, they gave it to her uncle and his wife. My abuelos, Carmen and Jesus, construed this edificio in the year 50. And when they were too many years to occupy him, they were given to my Tio and his wife. Now, it seems they also offered it to Maria's parents,

but her father always knew he wanted to be a wine producer, a vinicultur, a word that Rory doesn't understand, but Maria explains. Since her father didn't, want La Posada, the inn, as her grandparents used to call it, it ended up with her aunt and uncle. Rory asks if her grandfather Jesus ever returned to the sea, or more to the point, did he ever look for the treasure? From what she has read in the letters, his experience of witnessing this

sinking ship convinced him to change the path of his life, something which Rory understands, but his mind is already focused on an idea, and Maria realizes that he thinks he thinks he could try to find the trunks. Maria firmly puts him in his place. She says it would be madness that the trunks will already have turned to dust at the bottom of the sea. It's very dangerous to dive in that area

where the currents are strong and most importantly, I think the cards are very interesting and the treasure is to have them encountered. And point. So, according to Maria, the treasure is not hidden at the bottom of the sea.

The treasure is the discovery of the letters. And that's all. Rory is not convinced. Well, a story very interesting. And point. It's a good phrase to use. It puts the end to any kind of conversation. It really is. I use it a lot of times.

And point is literally the full stop or period at the end of a sentence. We wouldn't say, and full stop. End of story, you would say. End of story. Yeah. We would indeed say end of story. You are not going and that's it. End of story.

I think probably I'm thinking of the situation where you're perhaps telling your child that they're not going out at night or something like you're not going out. That's it. End of story. And point. Has this ever been said to you, Carmen? A few times.

I've also said that a few times as well. Yeah. Well, tell us. For example, I was about to vacations, to return to Thailand

I was very very can't and I'm very can't and my my wife wanted

to go this this end of this end I'm going to nothing I'm like to

go to and put so we've got like much which in English is the kind of like

saying at the absolute most at the most I'll go to the cinema and that's it and putto

and putto well Well, this is where we're going to have to say adios and point to our listeners for the preview episode of Coffee Break Spanish Season 4, Episode 18. And if you'd like to get our full access to the full version of the episode, the extended audio, the transcripts and indeed the bonus listening, then you can head over to Coffee Break Spanish Season 4.com to find out about that. Much thanks a lot.

And we'll see in the next chapter. Exactly. This is a production of the Radiolingua Network. Find out more at radiolingua.com.