Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.26 | Venga chicos, ¡al agua, patos!

Episode Date: April 20, 2016

It’s time for another episode in our series for advanced Spanish learners. Join Mark and Carmen as they discuss the latest developments in our story featuring María, her Scottish boyfriend Rory and his Argentinian friend Alejandro as they embark upon the search for sunken treasure off the coast of the island of Mallorca. The text, as ever, is rich in idiomatic expressions, complex grammar points, and useful vocabulary which you’ll be able to put into use in your own speaking and writing.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 26. Hello, and welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm sorry. And we're very content of being with you. As always.

As you. As soon. Well, what? What you know what? Well, a pagerieck. Well, a pacharit. Me has said something. Mark?

Well, a jay. What day is? Today. Oh, thank you. Felicidays. Much thanks. You have some plan? Preparated for today?

Well, after. After we're going to grab. After we're going to we're going to to finish the job and then we're going to

go to come with a family and then see. A bit you they're a surprise. Surreza.

Very good, very well. So, so I'm very content of to be able to pass a little of

time with my family today. Very well. Well, I'm very much. Before to pass this

time with my family, we're going to to talk of our history because it's a

very important no? A day very important that is the second day of the

busseo of the immersion We are going of course to listen to our text

and actually this time we've got quite an interesting text because it's it's not

just a text it's a conversation between Rory Alejandro and

Maria between the three of them yeah it's the day of the second

immersion immersion immersion. It's the day immersion in English of the dive, the second dive,

and we're going to be with them as they head out to see in the morning. Let's see what happened. Well, let's see what I'm going. What I'm going to say-you-lawed writing and I went to dream tardissimo. It's too soon and it's free in the barca. Let me go back to my camera. Vena co-upeasima.

That's traided one of a sur-fresa. Coffee in a term. In serious? Now, I'm sorry. That good. Alejandro, you tomas coffee for for dinner? Abitually I take

but the coffee also I'm and today is a day special so the coffee of Rory will be really perfect.

If you we're we're we're going to get to the barca and we're and then you're

you're put you're wapos with the troy to explore with the eyes very

to be Look, the really is that I like the tea, the coffee, and the if I'm

only, I'm prepared tea, if I'm with my and I'm with you, a lot of

sometimes also I'm a matter. Depend to the peer pressure. The pressure of the

group. But what morrow you have Pell and you're you're up you're

to be to be to me to come to me to make newas times

to make some rituals typical of Spain or Argentina and you if you now are you in

Scotia would be a week cup of tea and some scones you're reason

that's that we have done a Scos a Scos a Spanish and a

American tea tea and all in the same well

we're we're we're we're getting the topas the

pan with time the day with force. Look, today we can

do three inversions of those 50 minutes and we're inspecting the

area more difficult. It's a one of many arras,

where we find we find we we're we're we're very so we

see the visibility will be better. The mar is

there is there I'm the I'm the right

the The disjuno was good enough I recoo while you're

you're you're playing the and you're you're sure you know it's all over

patos Pats it's only a expression Disbrutat Guapos you're

I'm very interesting Mark but I was I'm still I'm

I'm I'm how it How we're how in English Good things come to those who wait.

In Spanish can Can't say that? And, well, no, but we say, all the good is to expect.

All the good is to expect. Yes. Well, we do like to spend some time working on the

Spanish and not just the story. Okay, okay. Let's go back through and talk about this particular episode. And of course,

we'll do so with a little bit of English to help us. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment. As you know, this is a preview

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coffeebreakacademy.com. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. We join Rory, Alejandro and Maria for this on the morning of their second day of diving for the sunken treasure. Maria is very tired because she was up late writing her diary. She says it's too early. It's cold and she wants to go back to bed. Rory tries to cheer her up by revealing a flask of hot coffee. And Maria offers some to Alejandro who says that he normally has matte instead of coffee, but he's happy to enjoy Rory's delicious coffee on this special day.

Normally I tom a mate, but the coffee also me good. And today is a day special, so the coffee of Rory is tarryquishim. Maria suggests that the head to the location of the dive drop the anchor and have breakfast there. Then the boys can get their diving gear on and they'll be ready to explore underwater, los ojoe bien-abiertos.

Alejandro thinks that sounds good, but he doesn't miss an opportunity to tease Rory about his Britishness, suggesting that he had expected him to bring tea, not coffee. However, Rory points, out that his experiences in Argentina, Spain and Britain, means that he can enjoy mate, coffee or tea. So ensues a conversation about the curious fact

that an Argentinian, a Scot and a Spaniard have found themselves together in this adventure. Oye, what casualidad, that we have done a Scots, a Spanish and an Argentino. Tea, coffee and mate, all in the same boat. By this time, they've reached the spot.

Maria tells the boys to get the table ready and they'll prepare some panwain. with tomato, bread with tomato, a very traditional Spanish breakfast. They need energy to begin the day. Rory explains that they're going to do three dives of 50 minutes and they'll begin by investigating the most difficult area, an area with lots of rocks and seaweed and it's where they found the barrel full of sand. Hopefully there will be very little current so the visibility will be better.

Alejandro suggests that the sea is calm, there's almost no wind and the sun is shining, so luck hopefully will be on their side. The mar is at tranquil. Casi no hay vento and brillia the sun. I think that the suerte is to our side. With breakfast finished, Maria cleans up and the boys get themselves

and their equipment ready for the dive. She says, Al-Agua, literally to the water ducks, a new expression for Rory. With that, the boys enter the water in search of the sunken treasure and yet another cliffhanger

for this episode. It's the dejan in the best, always. Can we go back to one of those sentences that you read there, Carmen? And it's the sentence where it meant something like, what a coincidence that we've ended up together on the boat? What casuality that we've joined up together on the boat? Okay, so, what casuality.

Now, casualidad, I suppose casuality. Yeah. But in English we'd say coincidence. what a coincidence that we've ended up together. But it's interesting for a couple of reasons. First of all, could we say coincidencia? Is there such a word? What coincidencia?

What coincidencia? That we're going to be quanted a Scolese, blah, blah, blah. Okay, but the interesting thing I guess here is that is being followed by a subjunctive. You're saying, what a coincidence that. And because you're passing judgment, you're saying it is a coincidence that this is the case, that's, that we've

done a Scots, a Spanish, a and an Argentino. So, nos we'll

have done, to join up together. Yeah, to meet. Yeah. And the

that's the a yamos, that would be the auxiliary verb Aver in the subjunctive form.

And of course is junta to join up together to meet up. So What a coincidence that we have met up together on the boat, the Scott, the Spaniard, and the Argentinian.

Let's have another example of, what casuality that, K plus a subjunctive. Oye, what a casuality that we've seen each other. We've seen each other after work. What about, could you give us one where we're not using a perfect tense? yes, for example, what a coincidence that you're here if you bump into someone in the street and you don't expect to see them,

what casuality, that's here. You can also say, What casuality, verte here. Ah, so avoiding the subjunctive altogether. Exactly. Of course. What a casualty

here. What a coincidence seeing you here. Again, in English, we're using the N-form, the Jaron form, but in Spanish we'd be using an infinitive. What casualidad

Berta Here That casualida Very well In actual fact In Majorca They would be saying Quina casualit

Sure Recurda That's that Mayorkin I think we've actually mentioned that before It's one of those

expressions that you hear lots in Majorca Quina casualita Moly Okay, that's enough We're not going to go into

Mayorquine in this episode What a very interesting phrase nonetheless Okay That's where we're going to

leave our preview episode for this week. We hope that you've enjoyed it as ever and we'll be back again soon with the next installment of our story. Very well. Until the next. Adios. This is the production of the Radiolingua Network. Find out more at Radiolingua.com.