Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.21 | ¡María, eres la mejor, te quiero!

Episode Date: February 4, 2016

We’re back with a new episode of Coffee Break Spanish, catching up with our story featuring Scottish student Rory who’s spending the summer in Mallorca with his Spanish girlfriend María and their friend Alejandro. Things have moved on, and María is now keen to be involved in the plan to search for sunken treasure, revealing a surprise to Rory about how she can help them in their adventure.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 Break Spanish Season 4, Episode 21. Hello, Hello, and Felice Anew New! Felice year new! Amigo, how has you? How about you? What you tell? Very well, Mark.

I've been in Spain, with the family, so, very content. Descanza. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm carried of energy. With the piles

cargadas. Well, perfect. Perfect. Well, we've been passed very very with a

family and a little, and I'm eating much very, yeah. That's

so, but that happens. And so we're going for us we're doing for

re-empe the year. New purposes. Exactly. So, we're back with

another episode of Coffee Brick Spanish and we're still still still with

this story of Rory Alejandro and Maria and we know

that before the Navidates was Rory was thinking in

doing this immersion with Alejandro to look the treasure. Yeah, Maria, was a

little... Not was very very convinced No, no, but at the end of

the end of what we're exactly what and we're we're and we're we and the

actually, we're going to know some things about Maria. Okay,

so we're going to hear so we're having much in what me

said, I've to look at the treasure where there was the accident. Me sabe bad to have reacted to be a

very pretty much, but I'm thinking it's more. To say the truth, me

still seem being more but you don't be too to be how I

say this I've had do you that you have to be that

this about I'm I think I'm a pretty

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come to do superanism with me so I know it's I'm

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didn't I didn't I I want to make my

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so you don't you don't you you'll be ablerish so. But I've always

me've been with you. Well, but I thought that we'd be in the three. I know that

the submarineism is a part important of your life and I'd like to do it

also. Well, to what I was, that I was a little frie when

me you've you when I have been I've been I'm that I

thought that I want to participate in your the out. Obviously, I'll buceive with you, but

if you'll be able to do you. You know, do you know, do you know, yes? No, you know, you know, I'm not you know, the title of patron of barco, because with my parents, solioms go to go to see a menudo with the barca.

But, wait, wait, your parents have a barca? No, I know. Well, yes. What's the past is that this month has been reparando, but you

are ready. is that she's that she's I'm going to I'm going to and get us to get us

to get us to get us to get a barca or a in a really? You know,

that Alejandro and I go and we go and you'll get us your barca Maria,

you're the mejo I'm the I'm but but, but, I'm

I'm I'm you can't you can't do you do you do? How time

you'll be in the water. What day want you to go? All what you do you occur. It's that I'm more tranquil if you're you're going to tell you. This is done it, preciosa. Ah,

listen, I've got to my tia for coming today. You're going and we we'll tell us that we're the cards? Of course. But I'm to work at the time, so I'm not

I can't get to take a coffee. Okay, well, well, let's be it. Very well, I've been, it's been

very very very that I'm that I'm a patron of that's, that's...

Find us on Facebook. Just search for coffee break Spanish. We're Learn Spanish on Twitter. And you can keep up with the team 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. So in this episode, we are back with Rory and Maria. As they discuss the possible treasure hunt, Maria begins by saying that she's been thinking a lot about the fact. that Rory wants to go in search of this famous treasure. She feels bad about her initial reaction.

She told them at first that it was very dangerous and she's had second thoughts. Not about the fact that it's dangerous as such, it's still dangerous, but it's perhaps not such a bad idea. She's not quite sure how to tell him, but her reticence seems to be more related to the fact that she was hurt that Rory didn't want to involve her in the adventure.

She likes to think that she's an adventurous girl, Rory has dolied that not you have done that you've got to be a ventura. Rory explains that he didn't suggest that she should be involved because he didn't think she'd want to. She never wants to go diving with them

so it didn't even occur to him to ask her. Maria accepts this. She doesn't go diving because she's a bit scared but she really does want to try it. In fact, just a few days ago she decided that she wanted to go diving She thought that now that Alejandro is with them, she could have her baptism of diving, and since there are three of them, it won't be as boring for Rory. Rory says that he always has fun with Maria.

She understands, but she thought that they'd enjoy doing it altogether. She knows that diving is an important part of his life, and she would like to be able to enjoy it too. Anyway, she was a bit put out when Rory told her about the plan with Alejandro, but she has been thinking that she took it badly, and she would now like to take part in the way. their adventure. She'll obviously not dive with them as such, but she suggests that she could drive the boat. Obviously, no buceare with bothotros, but if you want, conducerer the barco, I. Rory is shocked at this revelation. He had no idea that Maria has boating skills. Maria explains that she has a skipper's permit, because she often used to go sailing with her parents. Another revelation, Rory can't believe that her parents have a boat. Maria fills him in. The boat has been in,

for repairs this month, but it's ready now, so Maria will be able to take them to the location by boat. Rory can't quite believe that Maria has gone full circle. Not only is she happy for Rory and Alejandro to go in search of the treasure, but she'll even take them there in her parents' boat. Te-parene to beaacquhart, and you will bea to look at a treasured and us You'll get us with your barca? Maria, you're the best. However, there's one condition. As Maria explains, she wants them to explain in great detail

exactly what they're going to do, how long they'll be under the water, what day they want to go every last detail. This way she'll be a bit more relaxed. Rory promises to do just that. Maria finally invites Rory to join her when she meets Consuelo. Rory's working at four, so he won't stay for

coffee, but he will join them for lunch. And with that, they head off. Well, it's just that is all getting perfect in the plan of the buskedom of the treasure. Well, yeah we'll be. In principle. In principle.

Let's just go back to that last phrase that you read there from the text. Carmen, can you read that again for us? You can you read that again for us? Okay, so let's look at the beginning of that. to you make that Alejandro

and I let's translate it literally. So to you does it seem well that Alejandro and I

go to look for a treasure. Now the goal part there is obviously an interesting verb. We'lliamos.

It's the presence subjunctive. Why is it a present subjunctive there in that situation? He's looking for an opinion here. Okay. So Rory is asking,

Te parese bien to you, as in to Maria, do you think it's okay, that Alejandro and I go to look? So because he's asking for Maria's opinion, and if Maria were to give her opinion, she would be answering it with, me parese bien, so I think it is good that you go, but again, the go is a subjunctive. So she's giving her opinion and she's following that. opinion with the subjunctive. I think it's good that you go, but the question equally,

do you think that it's good that we go, do you think that it's good that we go? Mark, do you think that we come most in a restaurant Italian? Me parece perfecto, that we come out in a restaurant Italian.

So, that we eat. However, Carmen has just asked me, do I think it's a good idea that we eat tomorrow in an Italian restaurant. And in that situation, because the subject wouldn't change,

you could equally have said... You'd be able to comeer in a restaurant Italian? So there, the infinitive comer is being used to refer to both of us because the subject isn't changing. If, for example, Carmen wanted to ask me, do I think it's a good idea that Anna and Louisa eat in a restaurant, an Italian restaurant tomorrow,

then the subject is changing there. So listen to this. So in that situation we're talking about someone different. Me parese bien that Anna and Luisa come in a restaurant Italian. Or no me parece bien that Anna and Luisa come in a restaurant Italian because Anna no one likes the food Italian. For example, yeah.

So there we're talking again about a different subject, a change of subject and therefore we need a subjunctive. Whereas if it's Anna, if it's Carmen and me, if we are going to be eating and Carmen is asking me or I am saying to Carmen, we can use the infinitive or the subjunctive. You've got a choice there. The wonders of the subjunctive. But we love them. We do love them, yes. A good case of subjunctiveitis from time to time.

Yes. That is where we're going to leave our preview version of this episode of Coffee Break Spanish. Of course, if you want to get access to the full transcripts, and our extended audio in which we'll go through every sentence of this text, then you can find out more about that at coffeebreakspanish season 4.com. For now, much thanks very. And we're going to. Until we all.

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