Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.24 | No te preocupes, me lo monto bien

Episode Date: March 16, 2016

It's time for a new lesson of Coffee Break Spanish and we join Rory and María again for the latest instalment in the story of their search for the sunken treasure. This lesson continues our advanced series for Spanish learners, and Carmen and Mark are on hand to discuss the complex language points throughout the lesson.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 24 Hello to coffee brick Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Mark. How are you? How are you? How are you? How are all?

All right. All right? These are you? Yes. A little, well, a little agobliant. Yes. Yes. Because what has passed?

Well, much things. Much of things. I've been a lot for all the parts. I've been traveling. But you always have been driving? Mark? Well. But yeah.

But yeah, traveling, and also doing a, how is it, a conference? Conferences, which was the language show

in Scotland in Scotland. Ah, very very. Interesting. And what most me was the

fact of the fact of the people who could listen coffee bricks Spanish. Ah, but that's

very good. That's very good. Very good. And you, how? Well, Mark,

I'm very content this visit of my family. So, so I'm, very content, very content.

Organizantolo everything. And well, we're going to keep doing sun. Yes, we're going to

get a time, for the least, that no year. I'm I'm going to

do you know, I'm perfect. Well, we're back with another episode of Coffee

Break, Spanish, and in this episode, we are going to be listening to a phone

call between Maria and Rory. Of course, they're getting ready to plan their their search

for the treasure, the sun can treasure, and we're going to hear what happens in this story. Now, before we get started, there are a couple of things we need to say. First of all, the fact that we did indeed speak to many people at the Scottish language show earlier over the weekend, and we were talking to one person in particular who mentioned that we've made a little bit of a mistake, not with Spanish. Two mistakes, yes, two mistakes, you're quite right, yeah. Apologies. The mistake is not really with the Spanish. The Spanish is fine. It's more the sort of diving

technology and terminology and everything. So we must apologize for this. Of course, we're concentrating on a Spanish story here, but perhaps we should mention that we got things a little bit wrong with the word popa. Popa does indeed mean the stern, but of course we mentioned that

the stern is at the front of the boat, but of course the stern is actually at the back of the boat. So, lo sentimos much. The other thing that we should mention. And of course, we wouldn't expect anyone to take instructions on anything but Spanish from these episodes. Don't try this at home. Apparently, the oxygen in the diving tanks is kind of important because it can't really be oxygen apparently because after a certain depth, oxygen becomes poisonous.

So as we said, we hope nobody is going to attempt any of this at home. It's very much a story and we do apologize for this, but let's get on with today's episode. Very well, we'll begin by listening to our recording of the phone call between Rory and Maria. Maria, how you're going to be sorry that you name me so hard. You're doing now? Hello, Rory. I'm doing a little bit, even despier. I'm seeing a movie that they're on the TV. It's despise. My parents have gone yet the camera.

It's all right. Yeah, yeah, all but we're a little problem with on the I've been I've been

reading the part meteorological for internet and he says that the marthes at the time it's

that's so I think it better to be more to be better the time.

Ombre, well, I think well it can't come back again. But if

continue anonon news, it's better to be better This time I've got a catablanca in the

work. Consuelo me three days free days but I'm going to get in no guise in no. So,

I can go to go every week, and you'll have problems to change the day

of the day of the day of the time? No, not you don't

do you do you do you do you do you do you do do you

yes, it's an expression montarsel well it means to

say to the situations. For example, how well you're on you're doing you, you're in Majorca of vacations. Ah, okay, yeah, I'm trying. So, so you can't change your day of a fiesta?

Exactly, chico, list. Stupendo. I've been studying the map to get to there with the barco. I think it's very easy. The only thing is that does that go good time and the

mar's report well. That good. I don't know that you think you've got the carnet of patron of embarkations of recreo. I never I never

I'm because no surged the conversation I'm not a secret because I

know that I'm that I'm that I'm thought I'm I'm you're you're

and I never imagine that you you're the conductor I

well I'm I'm I'm I'm to find that can't

get a that that's some those are my many those

are I'm that the barca, you're all right we're doing a second

a part of going to go to get a question. You're not you're not never you're never you're

I'm going to the movie. We'll see tomorrow for the morning and we'll be a man and we're

a good great and that you're a bit nice good news goodn't goodn't

very very well the thing is interesting Mark yeah finally

yeah after after 24 collections and... But and all what we've learned about? Yes.

A lot of things. A lot of things about the idiom Spanish. But not about the

Bucceo, no. 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.

Okay, let's have a listen to our English explanation of this episode. In this episode, we're eavesdropping on a telephone conversation between Rory and Maria. Rory has called Maria late at night and he begins by asking her if she was asleep already. Maria has actually been watching a spy film on TV but her parents are already in bed. As we know, they've been planning to go and search for the sunken treasure and they're hoping to sail out to the location of the wreck on Tuesday. The reason for Rory's call is in fact to let Maria know that it's possible that there's going to be a bit of a problem. It's going to be a bit of a problem. It's likely that Tuesday is going to be difficult for

their diving adventure, because according to the weather forecast, it looks like on Tuesday afternoon there's going to be an increase in the amount of wind. So he's thinking that it'll be better to wait to see if the weather is better on Wednesday. Maria agrees that it would be better to wait and suggests that they should check the forecast again tomorrow. Rory has three days off and hasn't used any of them, so they could potentially go out on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. He asks Maria if it would be difficult for her to change her days off, but this doesn't seem to pose too much of a problem. Maria will sort things out.

She uses an interesting expression, me lo, monto bien. And we'll come back to that a little later on. Maria has been studying the map, and she doesn't envisage any problems in finding the exact location. The only thing they need is for the weather to be good and for it not to be too rough.

Rory is happy with this, and he still can't believe that Maria happens to be qualified in skipping a boat. Maria laughs. She hadn't told him simply because the topic had never come up in conversation. It's no secret that she loves going out in the boat during the summer. Rory knew this, but he thought she was just going out in the boat with a friend or someone else in her family, skippering the boat. Maria explains that she loves going off in search of coves which can't be reached on foot, and now that the boat is repaired, they can do the same. in addition, of course, to looking for the treasure. Rory finishes the conversation by saying that she will never stop surprising him.

He leaves her to watch her film and they'll talk again tomorrow. Te dejo can continue the movie. We'll see tomorrow for the morning and we'll talk with calm. Very well. Okay, let's go back to that expression, me lo monto bien. It's quite a tricky expression, the whole concept of montarselow bien,

because there are, I would say there are two, main ways in which this is used. First of all, in the context of this particular part of the dialogue, Maria says, me lo monta bien. No te preoccupies, me lo monto bien. So I think there are a couple of situations here, two different situations that are very similar, but one's general and one's more specific. Carmen, can you help us with this? I'm going to give you a general example, okay? Let's see what we come up with. Solo he's

three days a week, but he has a good so he's got a

lot lot good. Okay, se lo have montado well, let's go

through this exactly as Carmen has explained there. So, he only works three days

per week. But he has a good salary, he's got a good salary, he has

done well for himself. Yes. He has he has, he has put it all together well so he's done well for himself

he's doing well for himself he's living the good life kind of idea so that is the general idea he's doing well out of the situation let's think about a specific idea for example in the text we're seeing that Maria is going to sort things out for

getting the time off in order to do the dive and she says me it's a very good I'm on top of things That's another very good example When it has to do with time For example

To arrange times or to sort out your time table That's a very good example Also We were saying earlier on That you've been in a conference This weekend Let's say that you had to do One of the speech

For example And I tell you Mark, what you Mark, at what you You're saying No, tranquilla, let's get been montado

that means you've got everything in place everything's in place everything is covered I'm on top of things okay so that's nice because it's a slightly different

version of it but it's still the same context using the verb montar so lo I'm being montado so so lo

I have literally got it well mounted montado in that kind of sense so so lo I also say

me it's me it's So we can use the same expression, but different grammatical contexts. Me lo monto bien, me lo I'm onto being, me lo have montado bien. Perfect. Different ways. So there's a really, really useful phrase. And of course, we're using here, me lo monto bien, but se lo monta

bien, not we're monta much, and all. All those persons, yeah. Okay, perfect. Well, that is where we're going to leave our free version, our preview version of this episode. of Coffee Break Spanish. Of course, if you would like to get a full translation of the text or a full interpretation of the text, then you can join us for our members' version. We're going on to talk about that now, but unfortunately we've got to say goodbye to all our preview listeners. Much thanks, as to the next. Adios, amigos. This is the production of the Radiolingua Network. Find out more at radiolingua.com.