Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.37 | ¡Al final todo salió perfecto!

Episode Date: October 27, 2016

It’s time for another episode of Coffee Break Spanish and this time we’re reading Rory’s email to Alejandro in which he updates his friend on the recent happenings in Mallorca, including the reception held in their honour in Palma. This episode gives us an opportunity to take a closer look at a range of interesting language points including the use of pedir que + 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 Brick Spanish Season 4 Episode 37. Good days to all, and welcome to Coffee Brick Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm sorry. And we're very content of being with you. Yes, sure. How are you?

What is, Carmen? Well, I'm a little bit of a lot of course. Because this day of time, I've been a body. And, well, the truth is that I've been in Spain.

In Spain. My prima. Your prima. Ah, well, your prima. Ah, well, thank you. And what? And how is a

How is a wedding in Spain? Well, we've been used all the family and his friends

and the fact is it's been a ceremony very because has been the

air free. It's no has been so much and we

have we've passed a very very very well

here in Scotland not to do a order

to an air free I I know I

know for why for the time so well Well, the

No, the Novia Could have a paraguas Blanco Yes, but It's not really

The same No, no I'm sure That's So I'm sure of Yeah, are very Bonita

Yes, Yes, Yes, Sure, Okay, Well, We're not talking about

weddings as such But we are talking about a special ceremony That Rory and Alejand No,

Rori and Alejandro Rory and Mardia have attended Alejandro is of course On his travels And in this episode

we're going to be reading an email from Rory to Alejandro in which Rory tells Alejandro about what happened at this special ceremony. Let's listen to the email now. Okay, I'm going to do. I'm saying to say what happened. I'm sorry, esteemate, how you're going to? Now,

to tell you the newties of the verandum as you know as a few last Maria and

you were to make a event official in the city of the city of the consul

Scos the president of the island of the islands Baleare and much

people important of the world of the political also there

there a model and some actor and I and I got

the of my second tenist favorite, Rafael Nadal. I Klede with Maria in the house of his parents, after the time when I was made

a fury. She had encoged his vestido in the lavator and not saw what to put to get to and I'm

he's almost me to get the that I was the vestigeable to that I that the bestido She put contentissima and he said that

me would have at the same time while she did she how complicated are the kids. I was there

last moment to give us because I wanted to be a good surprise. She ensured in the

bathroom during one hour and and when she looked gorgeous, that good of a good

I was worth the time at the that was very nervous because I thought that

We'd to get a time. At the final it's

all the perfect. We've very very elegant those both. The

put you put this. We've some canapes richis and charl with people

like Raffanad and other deportists and actors that I know I know

I'm was a emosionadis and was, the she was

the chica that he pedied all the rata, that I would have to write to

the English all the of the time until they were and I

know and I did it and I know to say much thanks

to Maria and to have had never never

never a no I don't and I don't

and I bowed on the the scene with the

shirt that what the Avergwenza, Paseche. In fact, I'll go to Scotia a couple of of years to have a

my family and to my friends. I'll explainer all this adventure, and I'll say that, Maria and I will, we'll go to New York.

Yes, Alejandro, at final, we've decided that we're going to Argentina. I've been with an professor very important

of the UBA, and he has said that would be Encan't have my thesis. So, in four weeks, we'll see

in your city natal. Pronto, I'll will be from more calm. I'm sure you've

your time in Norway. I'm deseating to hear your adventures for the north. Abrace

great, Pive, Rory. That good, Mark, I am so that's

so much after after after time. We've been waiting for this for some time.

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Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Okay, for that all the world understand perfectly what is going to be now to explain a little in

English what has been in Ruey's email. He has much to tell Alejandro because a lot has happened since their last

communication. By this time Alejandro will be in Norway as Rudy says Disfrutando Del Frio and the

Fjordos enjoying the cold and the fjords. It's Alejandro's last week of traveling

before returning to Argentina and it's time for Rory to count the most recent events of his Mayorkan summer. Rory and Maria have attended this special event which took place in the government buildings in Palma. The event was attended by the Scottish Consul, the president of the Balearic Islands and lots of important people from the world of politics.

As Rory said, there were also lots of beautiful people, including models and actors, and he even managed to get the autograph of his second favourite tennis player, Rafa Nadal. also. We have much people wapa, a

model and a other and I got the autograph of my second

tenista favorite Rafael Nadal. We have to of course assume that Rory's

favorite his first favorite tennis player would be his fellow Scott

Andy Murray of course he goes on to tell Alejandro about

what happened before he and he and Maria left

for the event after after lunch he had arranged to

meet Maria in her parents house and when he

arrived she was a favourite dress had been caught in the washing machine, so she had no idea what to put on. Rory's rather foolhardy response to this was to laugh, and when met with Maria's understandable fury, he presented her with the gift that he had brought her, the dress he had already mentioned to Alejandro in a previous message. Maria was both delighted and furious at the same time. Rory had hoped that by waiting to the last minute it would be a great surprise for Maria, but in retrospect he probably would have made a better impression.

if he had given her the dress a bit earlier. Anyway, she looked fantastic when she came out of the bathroom wearing the dress. It had been worth the wait, although Rory by this time was a little bit worried that they would be late for the event. It turned out that he had nothing to worry about. They arrived on time, both very elegant, and he promises to attach a photo with his email to Alejandro, and they enjoyed delicious canopies while chatting to sportsmen and women, actors and other people that Rory didn't know. Maria was very excited and indeed, according to Rory,

she was the prettiest girl there. However, Rory was very nervous. He spent the entire time asking Maria to translate what people were saying over the microphone until they called him to the stage. I was so nervous that he pedia all the rato that me traduher to the English,

all what they said for the microphone, until he was shaking like a leaf or wobbling like a flan. The only thing thing he managed to say was thank you very much to Maria and Alejandro. Without them I wouldn't have been able to find any treasure. Not bad to get a pluperfect subjunctive in there despite his nerves. Everyone applauded, he smiled and he came down from the stage having collected a medal in recognition of his achievements. Rory goes on to explain that he's heading home to Scotland for a couple of weeks

to see his family and friends. He'll recount the whole story to them and... Les dirie that Maria and I will go to Buenos Aires in a month. Yes, they've finally made. made their decision. Maria and Rory are going to Argentina. He's been in touch with an esteemed professor from the University of Buenos Aires who has confirmed that he'll be delighted to support Rory with his PhD. So it seems that within a month they'll be seeing Alejandro in his native city. Rory promises to write again when things are a bit calmer in Scotland. He hopes that Alejandro enjoys his final week in Norway and he's looking forward to hearing all about his northern adventure.

And yeah is that. Well, Menos mal that Rory had a regal

and that was a because I know what had been pasted if not had been

a yeah. At the same time he did wait a little too long I

think to give the person yeah if I would have done yeah

she's obviously quite a patient person okay let's go back to the

phrase where Rory was saying that he was constantly asking Maria to translate for him. Let's hear it again in Spanish, Carmen.

I was so nervous that he had all the rato that he tradujara to the English, all what they said for the microphone. Okay, so I was so nervous that I was always asking her, talking about Maria,

that she translated everything that they were saying on the microphone for me. That's from the verb traducer. and it's a quite irregular, imperfect subjunctive tradugera. She could equally have said tradugese.

But there we're looking at pedir to someone to do something. In English we say to ask someone to do something, but in Spanish we need to say to ask someone that they do something. So it's a different construction there to ask someone that they do something. Pedi to ask a al-alien to make a something.

So let's see if we should. can use our translation skills here and see if our listeners can come up with a couple of translations using this construction. And we're going to go both times from English and to Spanish, but one is going to be in the present and then another is going to be in the past. So, Carmen, can we have our first translation sentence in English, please? I keep asking you all the time to tell me what to do. Okay, I keep asking you all the time. So we're using a similar phrase to the one we've just seen in the passage, I keep asking you all the time to tell me what to do. Have a good translating that.

Okay, it's quite tricky to translate because this idea of keep doing something, we're going to use a continuous tense in Spanish. I keep asking you all the time. We could translate that as saying, Te'estoy piding to do the rato. Mm-hmm, very good. I am asking of you all the rato all the time

and then the second part was that you tell me what to do so we need to change that into Spanglish and then we'll need to say something like I keep asking you all the time that you tell me what to do

doesn't sound as natural in English when we say that but it helps us translate it into Spanish that you present subjunctive what I'm

what I'm to do what I'm so I'm so I'm so I'm so

I'm that I think I do you do you make good okay

okay next one let's move on to our slightly more difficult one

which is going into the past how many times have I asked you

to let me come home late this sounds like the kind of thing that a teenager would say to as are her parents. How many times have I asked you to let me come home late?

It gets quite tricky into Spanish there. How many times have I asked you to let me come home late? Okay. How many times have I asked you? Quantas veces te'e pedido or perhaps os I've pedido if you're talking to parents. How many times do you have pedido or os have been? To let me come home late. Okay, so we're going to be talking about

Volver to Come home Tarde late. But we're using this to let me come home late. So I think this would be, how times I've paidido, or you've paidido, that me dejaras, if it's the one person, that me dejara's, that if it's two people, Very bien.

Volver to house Tardé Very well Mark and now the whole thing together

Oh, how times you have said you know, I'm perfect Omar well,

and if it were the the Vosotros for I'm talking to both my parents

how times you're that I think me to come to

great good I hope our listeners managed with that as well

quite tricky stuff but you're doing very well much thanks

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