Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.32 | Por increíble que parezca, ¡juntos hemos hecho historia!

Episode Date: August 3, 2016

In this latest episode of Coffee Break Spanish Season 4 we join María for another diary entry in which she recounts the latest happenings in the story of finding the treasure and the aftermath. She��s now told her parents about the events, and she’s delighted to report that Rory is going to be rewarded for his part in finding the treasure. As usual, there is a huge range of complex grammar and advanced vocabulary covered, and Mark and Carmen are on hand to discuss the text in detail.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 32. Hello to all, and well, I'm Mark. And I'm Mark. And I'm Mark. And you, how are you? Very good, very well. With such a lot.

Here in Scotland, this vera? It's incredible. Oh, yeah, I'm very content. Because I'm having verano in Scotland and Verano in Spain, too.

Well, perfect. I've returned vacations. Otter back. Otter backgions? Yeah. This year, this year,

I'm doing many vacations. Well, is that you much a suerty, no? I'm very content. And where

you've been? I've been been a lot of a city very, very, very, very beautiful. Very good. Very good.

The truth is that me really has that really good time. Well, that's it's still so it's

so, so, so, so. So, so, so, so I'm glad here we're another episode of Coffee Break Spanish

and this This week, we're reading a diary of Maria. A bit what happens? A bit what happens? So, as well, as we'll hear the text,

and then we'll talk to it. Okay, perfect. Well, we're going to hear you. Dear Diary, Ayer, we went to to dinner at Puerreau

Alejandro and I. We'd have many things to celebrate. Ace 10 days, I didn't I even knew the famous Alejandro, and in this week we've passed many hours together,

together, eating the sun in the play, banning us, planning a adventure. For incredible that it mays, we've done history. We've encountered a treasure of joyas. The little, me enchantable in the stories like Robinson Crusoe, or the Isla of the Treasure, it's a matter that we've

encountered a ball in the front of the mar and all thanks to the cards between my abelos and to the obsession of horror and for bucear the despondida was a little

but I see that we're going to in some place my parents back on the domino but even not I've seen,

I'm going to come and I'll putre the day of all the newities "'les I'm "'to tell us

"'and, "'and, "'and, "'and they were "'timore. "'Then I'll "'lare "'ot again

"'to say "'that "'can't "'the TV "'and put in the "'notice. "'My mother "'no see a "'Rory

"'and I see a "'Rory, "'and she "'in't-entered "'of-a-oh- "'and-a-old- "'Oh, and "'are-stotentis-a-

"'Coh, "'as-stor-hore-a---art- of art, me I feel very affortunated to put all the pieces.

I'm the cards they're that my letters, and I'm that I'm sure my abuel, for the endro and

my brother, and we're going and waltes, lupa and in a barco. And, also, it seems that a Rory they're going to give a good recompense economic. The divide we're

between the three, so I can't quech. No-seek, I know how money is, but the truth no me important. Ah, and the best is that Rory has done a beka for that he has a doctorate in the university that I want.

So, that, even in September we could be in Argentina or Mexico or where we're I want I want I'm

know I'm to go to be to live to be a lot of now that I'm

already I'm I'm would be studying and we could we go ahead and when

yeah the really is that I'm okay I'm okay

so so you make because they're they're the opportunity to have

that to Rory, that's good. Very well, well, what we're going to do now is

to learn the text or to be able of the text in English for that all

understand perfectly what is as we know we are joining Maria

for a diary entry in this episode and it's the day after

the night before last night Rory Alejandro and Maria went for

dinner in the Port of Andrach to celebrate I actually

got a message a photo from my friend the other day who was

sitting having dinner in the Porto Van Trach. She sent me a photo of that. And you were like, can you check if Maria and Alejandro and already are there? Absolutely. Anyway, as Maria explains in her diary, only 10 days ago, she had never even met Alejandro. Since then, they've spent lots of time together eating, sunbathing on the beach, swimming and planning an adventure. Together, they've made history.

As a child, Maria loved stories like Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island, and she can't quite believe they've found a treasure chest at the bottom of the sea, just like all these stories, all thanks to her grandparents' letters and Rory's obsession about diving. All thanks to the cards between my abelos and the obsession of Rory for bucear. Of course, Maria has now had to say her farewells to Alejandro, but she's sure that they'll see each other again somewhere. Her parents returned on Sunday, but she's not yet seen them. She's planning to do so tomorrow, and she'll update them all on the news.

She called them yesterday to tell them the whole story and they thought she was joking. She says that she'll call them back when she sees Rory on the television and tell them to switch on the news and her mother won't believe her eyes when she sees Rory being interviewed on the television. As far as Tia Consuelo is concerned,

she's fully aware of what's been happening. Rory has been sharing all the details and Consuelo is delighted. 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. As we know, Maria's studies focus on arts history, and she's feeling really lucky to have been able to piece a whole story together. The letters recounted the fact that her grandfather witnessed the sinking of the boat, her grandfather discovered to whom the boat belonged, and what it contained. They had all the details. They just needed to find the treasure,

and that's exactly what they did. It was Maria, who examined the chest inside an announcement, complete with gloves and magnifying glass while they were still in the boat. And it seems that Rory is going to receive some kind of financial reward. They'll be shitting it between the three of them, so Maria can't complain. She's quite philosophical about the whole thing. La divide us entrees. So, no me puto kejard.

No se how money is, but the truth, no me import. No le import. But the best thing, according to Maria, is the fact that Rory is going to be given a grant to do his PhD in whichever university he wants. Come September, they may find themselves in Argentina, Mexico, or wherever they choose. Maria is desperate to travel, and she's quite amenable to go and live somewhere else for some time. Now that she's qualified, she could find a good job. Rory would be studying, and they could spend some time traveling.

It all seems to be exactly what Maria is hoping for. That's great, isn't it? Perfecta, yes. Very, very well. Okay, I'm going to go back to one of the things that you said there. You actually said the words of Maria, Carmen, and you said, we'll divide it between the three of us, so I can't complain. La divide us between the three, so I can't quechre.

No me puldekech. An extremely, extremely common phrase. Kejarse is the verb, of course, to complain. So how would we say, let's give our listeners some things to work out on the spot. A challenge. A challenge, yes. A challenge, yes. Your Desafio is to translate some phrases using the verb kejarse on the spot. Let's begin with, I don't want to complain, but this soup is cold. I don't want to complain, but this soup is cold. Now, given that we are looking at a reflexive verb and we've got a pronoun in there, we can actually do this two ways with our modal verb.

Exactly. Let's look at one of them. first. I don't want to complain. No, we could take the me from the end of the infinitive and put it in front of our modal verb. No me quero kejaro. So either way, no me quixar or no

I'm quixarme. But. But there's a butt coming. La sopa is free. The soup is cold. Now, the problem is it may be gazpacho. In which case, it should be cold. That's fine.

So no me quiro kejar. I don't want to complain. Okay, let's take another one. What about this morning? He has complained several times. This morning, he has complained several times. If we're looking at this morning, which tense should we be using? Pretorito perfecto.

So the perfect tense. And therefore, this morning, he has complained several times would be This morning, El se ha ha hajado, or just se hakechado, if we don't need to be specific about who it is that's complaining. He has complained many times,

much times, much veces. One more, one more. This one, a little more tricky. Don't complain, you've already got enough ice cream. Don't complain, you've already got enough ice cream. Okay, this one is a little more tricky

because we're using an imperative, an imperative, and I guess we're probably using the tool form, given the context. Don't complain. You've already got enough ice cream. Mark, no tekehes, that you're just sufficient alado.

It wasn't me, I was talking about you. Yeah, yeah. So, no te keges. The verb is kejar, but because we're using an imperative form, here we take the subjunctive forms and therefore kej hard the

endings become E, no tekeges, don't complain, that you have sufficient elado. Sufficient elad. More than sufficient. You've got more than enough there.

So no tekeges, don't complain. How would we see that in the formal form? No se quehe. No se queje. Again, using the subjunctive there because it's a formal

command and it's in the negative. Of course, the formal command in the positive, and the affirmative would also be the the kej form, the subjunctive form. Just while we're talking about kej forms, I'm just thinking about a form, actually something that you encounter

in pretty much every official Spanish building. Yes. You see where I'm going here, Calvin? I know what you mean, exactly what you mean. Mostly in restaurants and bars, you can find a oja de reclamations. Okay, and that's for anyone who's got a complaint, about the service, about the food,

about anything related to the place they are in. The service that they've had. Yes, they can put an official complaint and going through the law process and all that, yes. Okay, so there you go. If you really do need to complain in a Spanish institution or bar or a restaurant, you can do it. And you'll often see a notice up in the bar or in the restaurant saying

if you, a list of... Yeah, this place has a offer of reclamations. reclamations or quejas. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Okay, so a slightly more formal word reclamations. Okay, that's all. Very bien.

We hope that you don't have any complaints about Coffee Break Spanish. And we hope that you've enjoyed this episode. Of course, if you would like to access the full version of this episode, then you can head over to Coffee Break Spanish Season 4. You'll get a full transcript, a full extended version of the audio, of course. plus the bonus listening exercise, which actually is more translation challenges just like the ones we did in this episode today.

So, Coffee Break Spanish Season 4.com for more information about that. Much thanks and until the next. We're not right, amigos, amigos. Adios. This is a production of the Radiolingua Network. Find out more at radiolingua.com.