Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.20 | Ya lo sé, a veces peco de ser demasiado prudente

Episode Date: January 27, 2016

In this lesson we join María for a diary entry in which she talks about Rory’s plans to go searching for the sunken treasure. 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 20 Hello to Coffee Brick Spanish We're back I'm Mark And I'm sorry Mark How are you, Carmen? Very good, this week

And you, Mark? Very well, this Semana, too, very Good, less dolorido Yes, Yeah, it's better Very well, Yeah, like you

I'm talking, Every day, Every day, more Well, this This time, we're We're back With another text Of our history

This time We're with Maria And his diario And your diario, very well. So, today, so we're going to a voice, no? One voice, the voice of Maria,

and no accent Argentino. Ah, okay, very well. So, then we'll hear about the text now. Okay, to see what we're

going to be. Dear Diary, Alejandro, has arrived to the island, we've seen us and yesterday, and me

was a chico and I'm now I'm know why Rory and Alejandro are so so good friends,

are so far which. Cenamos in a restaurant Japanese that there's a lot of a

me I'm I'm a food that's not a restaurant

has something is the best is the most I'm that

the part of the place so so it's

so it's so I'm and then then we're we're

we're we we're we at the last we're we're

we're Rory is very content, but also a little pesado, since we've got those cards of my abhorrence. He wants my approbation to go to look the treasure with Alejandro. No-se-to-do, so I don't say, so I don't know what, but I recognize that me put nervous to think

in this. No-se-for-ke, but I think that the buceo is dangerous of the for-sie, as to go-ah-asksonging desoros. I'm perfect that they're a

unrescapable to record old old times, but I know, I know, I'm not

a bit I'm to beco to be very very I'm I'm

I'm I'm I'm I'm a little I'm really that I

dole that you don't be to be this story this

has I've discovered thanks to the cards of my abelos. For other

other is logical that that I'd say to we're going to we're going to I'm going to see your

when she's the I'm going to know if you know that they're going to but I think that they're very surprised

when they're that we're we're we're we're while we're we're now that

now that's now that's I'm going to go to go to the passage the city to be

if I can't if I can't I can't find my mark personal and well, we'll have a clear in the ideas. We'll have a look at this. And I'll explain a little in English about what this text has been about. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment. As you know, this is a preview episode of the coffee breaks. 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. So in this episode, as we know, we're joining Maria for another diary entry. She starts by explaining that Alejandro has arrived in Mallorca and they had dinner all together. He seems like a nice guy and she understands why Rory gets on with them. They are cut from the same cloth. It's a nice expression in Spanish that we'll come back to for that one. They ate in a Japanese restaurant in Portats.

Maria loves Asian food generally, but there's something special about that restaurant. It's the best Japanese food she's ever tasted. I mean me I'm a lot of a community Asianica in general

but that restaurant has a great Japanese that I have tried okay it's also

right beside the Puerto Deportivo I suppose that would be something like a marina

literally the water sports harbour or the place where all the the boats the pleasure

boats are stored and it's also very close to the beach so it's nice to

have dinner there and afterwards walk along the pier they had booked a table for

o'clock, so before dinner, they enjoyed watching the sunset. Maria writes that since they discovered her grandparents' letters, Rory has been very happy, but at the same time, a bit annoying, as he wants her approval to go and look for the treasure with Alejandro. She doesn't know what to say, so she ends up saying nothing. She feels that diving is already dangerous in itself, never mind going to drive for treasure. She totally accepts that they want to have an adventure, just like the old days, but she's afraid that something might happen. But she knows that sometimes she's just far too cautious. Yeah, lo see.

A-beckos de ser demasiado prudent. That is a very interesting expression, which we'll come back to later on. Maria doesn't want to get angry at Rory. The thing is, she admits that she's actually a bit jealous that he doesn't seem to want her to be involved in his adventure. After all, the whole story has come about as a result of the letters which belong to her grandparents.

But on the other hand, it makes sense. that he wants to search for the treasure with Alejandro, who, like Rory, loves all things to do with this eat. Maria realizes that she'll have to resign herself to the fact that they want to do this, and accept it in the best way possible. It's not that bad. They love diving, they want to do something exciting, and they've come up with the perfect plan. She decides to sleep on it. Maria mentions that she's arranged to have a coffee with Consuelo tomorrow,

and that she's going for lunch at her parents' house. She should tell them that they found the letters. in the attic. She's looking forward to seeing their faces when she tells them. She doesn't know if her parents even know the letters exist but she knows that they'll be very surprised when they learn that she and Rory found them by chance while they were

cleaning and tidying. I think she'll be very surprised when they know that Rory and I us find out of casuality while we're doing-merea Maria finishes by deciding that since it's a bit cooler she's going to go for a run along the Paceal Maritimo

that's the road that goes along beside the sea, to see if she can beat her personal best and if her run will help her to think more clearly. Well, the text, very interesting. There was an expression that we saw there in this text, and I have to be honest, it's something that I had never come across in this particular construction before, and it was when Maria said, Aeces, peco de ser demasioidééi, I had never seen that before. And you couldn't even guess from the contest?

Well, yes and no in that peccar is a verb that means to sin so to sin literally then a veces sometimes peco de ser

demasio de ser demasio so I sin of being too careful to cautious perhaps so I have a tendency to be perhaps exactly I might be guilty of yeah that's the one that we were really looking for yeah I might be guilty

sometimes I'm guilty of being too careful or to extravagant or to not cautious enough or something like that. So peco de plus an infinitive or peco de ser plus an adjective? Yes, those two mark. Okay, so let's take a look at some different examples.

Perhaps we should start with peco de ser or peccar de ser plus an adjective first of all. Okay, peco de ser, Demasio de ser, demasiado I'm guilty of being too talkative. Okay, so peco de ser Demasio ablador. In my case.

And with the verb, a veces peco of a black. Oh, okay. That makes sense. So I'm guilty of talking too much. In English we're using a gerin form, talking or being or so on.

But in Spanish, an infinitive. So peco de ser, Demasio ablador or Peco de Ablar Demasio. Exactly. Very good. Okay.

Any other examples that you can think of? A veces peco de ser I've got that problem too. So sometimes I'm guilty of being a little un punctual or too un punctual, not being very punctual. Exactly. Or a veces peco de get tarde. Yeah, peco de jegar tarde. Okay.

So let's see if you can think up a way to use peccar de ser plus an adjective or peccar to do something in your spoken Spanish or you're written Spanish this week. And we will wait for your question. comments. Absolutely. You can post them on Facebook. That's where we're going to leave our preview version for this episode of Coffee Break Spanish. Of course, you can get a full transcript of this text and also our discussion of the text in great detail by heading over to Coffee Break Spanish Season 4.com where you can find out all the information that you need. To head over to Facebook, facebook.com slash coffeebreak Spanish, where you can post a comment on this week's episode and you can let

know how you would use peco de ser or just the verb peccar to do something. Very well, perfect. Well, we're just going to beckos for today. Exactly. Much thanks. And until the next. Adios, amigos. This is the production of the Radiolingua Network.

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