Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.36 | El verano llega a su fin...

Episode Date: October 12, 2016

In this episode of our advanced Spanish course we’re joining María for a diary entry in which she’s thinking about the possibilities of living and working in Argentina with Rory. Of course, with Alejandro already in Argentina, he would be able to help them get settled. From a language point of view, Mark and Carmen discuss various aspects of grammar and idiomatic expressions including the use of “una vez” with the imperfect subjunctive.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 Briggs Spanish Season 4 Episode 36. Good days to all, and well-veniness. I'm Mark. And I'm Mark. How are you? How are you? How are you? Well, the fact, everything?

Well, the factorediae. Yes, because what are you're doing? Well, how you know, the audience, perhaps not, but you know, this semester, radiolingua is a London. For what? For the Language Show. Very well.

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to learn to learn and then we're we're and then there's a part of

the team of the yeah I don't be able but to the

people that the during these days so you more than well to come

to come to come to come to this is going out when I think this is published on the 12th of October,

which is in a couple of days time. We're recording this a few days ahead of time. And if you happen to be in London on the 14th to the 16th of October 2016, then please do come along and say hello to the team, the radio-lingua team. Of course, we should say that if you're listening to this many years of the future, then it was lovely to see you or not as the case being. Now, we have obviously got a normal episode here for you.

Today we're going to be looking at a diary entry from Maria telling part of our story. We're listening to The Story of Maria of Rory and of Alejandro. And let's have a listen to our text now. Very well, we're going to hear it. Territory, Diary, the verano gets to its fin. We're just at final of the season, and Rory and to me, we, us together one time, to go backcations in the job.

Vacations mericidissimas. ultimately we've been working as burros, doing much hours and practically no we've

been done time free. I, as always, I'm going to see to my parents

and I do you, I'm going to take coffee. Rory also also is

also when we're a rattle and when we have a time we're to go to

the play or to take elads for there. The other day, we're in Baldamosa,

and the passage, and tomorrow, surely, we'll goer to probears the alas the alas of ananja. Rory, even has proved, and has delet, the cause, because it's one of the products

most typical and rickes of the island. We're going to train, from the Plaza, Spain, of Palma. The train is an old and

very beautiful. It's made made of the madeira, like those of the antes. It's a excursion very emblematic,

both for majorquins, as for tourists, so there's very good environment and much a new mix

of people in the track. With Rory, All-Marcha phenomenal. We're about what we really and

I think we have a project of future very solid together. The last we

we're looking guides of different countries Latin American, between them, Argentina, Costa Rica, and Brazil. It's very difficult to decide a destination

without ever been ever been ever ever been ever before there, because in all the countries there are things interesting-scentrismas to do, sites that visit and cultures that knower. For one side, me has much illusion to go to Brazil, to learn Portuguese and to

do a samba, but, for other side, I always have wanted to go to the glaciers in the Patagonia. And also could learn

to play to dance. I imagine a Rory in a class of tango and me die of Risa.

Another point positive for Argentina is that Alejandro live in Buenos Aires and and without

a great advantage to know to know a good to be sure that would

not would be able and we would be I think that not it's very easy to find

work as a art in Argentina but of course in Brazil for the language.

The first months could be to work in a place or a carer

in a bar and one we're more situated and could

be a more qualified in a in some museum

in some I'm many things in the head right right

right right right better to I'm going to get to get to

the home and the another we're to go to go to this

where they will they're a mention honor to I'm

I've done I'm nervous good good good good

very very interesting as as we're we're we're

so all all all all all all all

is 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. So a few days have passed since the last installment, and this time Maria is writing her diary entry as the summer is coming to an end. She and Rory only have one week left to use up their holiday before their contracts end, and any holidays would be very well deserved because they've been working very hard without any free time. vacations mercedidismas. Ultimately, we've been

working as far back and we're having much hours, and practically, no-mose to be able to the beach. Indeed, as we know, they took the opportunity to go up to Vallemosa the other day. And tomorrow, it looks like they're going to Sollier to experience the traditional orange ice cream, one of the most typical and delicious products of the area, which Rory has yet to try. They're planning to take the old tourist train from the Plaza de Spain in Palma for this

trip, which is as important for locals as it is for tourists, so there's always a good mix of people on the trip. It's an excursion very emblematic, both for majorquins, as for tourists. So, there's very good ambience and much a mecla of people in the trajectory. Maria mentions that everything is going very well with Rory. They can talk to each other about what's worrying them, about their future plans, but she believes that they have a solid future together. She says that last week they were looking at travel guides for various Latin American

countries, including Argentina, Costa Rica, and Brazil. Given that she's never been to any of these countries, Maria is finding it difficult to decide where she'd most like to go. On the one hand, she'd love to learn Portuguese and to dance the samba in Brazil, but on the other hand, she's always wanted to visit the glaciers of Patagonia, and indeed the thought of witnessing Rory learning to dance the tango cracks her up. Of course, the other major point of going to Argentina is the fact that Alejandro is there. It's a huge advantage knowing someone in a new country.

He would help them find an apartment, and as a local, he would be of great help. She doesn't think it would be particularly difficult to find work in art history in Argentina, but it may well be more of a challenge in Brazil because of the language. Maria thinks that she could work as a lifeguard, or indeed as a waitress for the first few months, but once they're a bit more established, she could look for a job which would give her a chance to use her qualifications. One of best we're more situated,

you'd probably to look a job more qualified in some museum or in some center of information. Her head is full of things right now So the best thing to do is Consult it with the pillow Consulta with the almoada Not least because tomorrow they have the event Where Rory will be honored by the local politicians More to the point

Maria hasn't yet decided what she's going to wear So more of our story Another part of our story And one thing that I thought was very interesting Is this One Aves Let's just listen to the sentence again that Carmen has just read One-one

If we're more situated yeah could find a job more

qualified in some museum or in a place

of one of the more complex ways of using unave

because it's kind of in reported speech there but

let's think about unave just in a normal sentence

it's translated literally as one time or once so

we can use once in English once we arrive we'll

know what's happening how would we say that in Spanish. Once we arrive, we'll know what's happening.

One way we'll know what's happening. So, one way that we've used a subjunctive there, because it's kind of like saying when we arrive. We don't actually know if it's going to happen. So, one that way we get us, once we arrived, and I've forgotten what it is we're going to do when we arrive, yeah same demes what's happening or something like that. We'll know what's happening. Now, another way of saying this, to avoid the subjunctive, would be once arrived and using a past participle. So rather than saying, Una Ves que Yegeemos, what could we say alternatively? Now, notice, Yegados would have to agree with whoever it is that's speaking. So if it's a male and

female speaking, then we would say, Yegados. If it were one female, And if it were just me speaking Yeah, so one Yeah, yeah yeah then yeah we'll know what he's going to be Now if we come back and look at this example

from our text One bit Estubiamos Mastituados Yeah could be a job More qualified And so on

We could actually drop the Estubieramos there One way Mastituados So simplifying it To avoid a subjunctive a bit more situated I could already

or I could even look for a more qualified job and so she's talking about rather than being a life card she could look for a job that's linked to her career, her art history but one a bit estubiamos

that would be an imperfect subjunctive there if we'd also use a hypothetical situation a hypothetical situation we could also say one we could also say, kind of taking the

hypothesis out a little bit more because we're going so once we're a little bit more settled then I could look for a job so different ways of saying things

and we can use both just these nuances of the language that are a little tricky sometimes to work out well yeah yeah

well I've got much the episode of course more to this episode and you can find that by going to coffee break Spanish season 4.com where you'll be able to access

the full extended version of our text in which we go through the whole text and we talk about all of the language contained in that translating everything and going through some further examples of the language used. There's also a bonus listening episode where we give you some translations

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