Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 4.40 | ¡Empieza la cuenta atrás!

Episode Date: January 11, 2017

In this final episode of the season, María is putting the final touches to her plans for travelling to Argentina with Rory as they start on the next chapter in their life. This episode looks at the sequence of tenses with pedir que + subjunctive among other topics. As usual Mark and Carmen are on hand to discuss the complex aspects of the language featured in this lesson. In the preview episode available here on the Radio Lingua site, you'll be able to listen to Carmen and Mark's introduction, to the core text of this episode, and to the summary in English of what happens in the text.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 40. Well, Carmen, here we are. In the last episode of the time, Mark. I don't know what I'm going to create. A story very large. Yes. But very entertaining.

Very entreatened. And the most important, with many, many, many expressions, interesting and grammatica, complicated. And vocabulary. Yes, we, we're, very complete. We hope that you've been enjoying these episodes

from Coffee Brick Spanish. the final episode in our fourth season when we're going to be finding just the last part of the story, in fact. Today we're listening to our response from Maria to Rory just as they get ready to head off

onto the next stage of their journey together. Well, tell us, Carmen, what does you? Well, I'm very well, Mark, and you, what this semanas? That we've seen. Well, very well, a little bit I'm very much of Berlin. I've been

in, in Germany this week. I've been recording material for Coffee Brick German. Ah, very interesting. With Julia. Okay. In Berlin.

So, we've passed very well, because it's the period of the Mercados of New York. Ah, sure, sure,

sure. So, it's markets of navidna or Mercados Navidue. Qualier of those two options is correct.

Very well. And me has brought a gift of a of a well, I've got

some of Leibkuggen, Leibkugent Krored hearts Yes, okay Okay,

gadgets, not? Kallemannas Yeah, but for after the podcast Okay,

very well, very very, very. Very good. Well, we're going to be to our

text of this time, which is as, as we have explained,

a last, a Mary, a Rory, a email. Very well,

we're to listen to it. I'm I've gone to I've been to get a

visit to and they're ready to do you I'm I'm I'm going to I'm

a lot of my lot of my house and you know you're a house house

of winter of verano robes of verano botas abrigos

bolso to me to me don't be this to get

this to but I'm to go to what kepa in two

a lotetas, a maleta a row-dass-grand and a mochila of excursionist to go to mochilero, as very well, you know, I'm going to buy the billets of from Madrid,

you're incargues to buy a billet Edinburgh or Madrid, and the Trajects, Buenos Aires, I'll come I, then

we'll reallem Countas. So, when I've got the billets from Madrid, you'll I'll be aviso for that you can't

buy the I'm trying to think we're in barrages with time for to give a a breath, to make a

coffee and embarked the maletas. That's very, Rory, that we're going to another continent.

I've much much ghanas. Morning, I've kept with my friends to

go to go to whatever excuse is good to be and give us and give us

a world to see I'm see and in Argentina, just it's just the winter.

How is your family? My parents are all the day pendentous of me. My father me has a day before to go to

work and I imagine that it's that we're so much and they're mimar me a little.

I'm I'm doing. You know, you know, you know, I like that I do you

when we when we're Feches of the voyage, we're going to to give to Alejandro to say to what day and to what hour we get us. And, although you, you know, I've been looking for internet.

From Zeiza, the airport international of Buenos Aires, there's to goger a taxi to get to the city. So, if Alejandro is free, we could we'd be to get to get, because we're

very cargados. I think he's offered, no? If not could to come, no no problem. Tomariams a taxi,

as they're the Argentinians. I think we're all ready. In a rathito I'll I'll write with

the details of the little bit I'm barrages, wapissim. Empeza A Quenta A-Wenturor

Aventuror you're Maria. That good, Mark, it's a Kempier the new

adventure in Argentina? New Rectual. Yes, and, well, no, and we'll

we'll accompany us to Rory and Maria in Argentino? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

it's ever for now let's come back to our text and we'll talk through the English version or at least an

explanation of the text. So in this final email from Maria to Rory she is updating him on her own preparations for the next chapter in their life together.

She's been to organize her own visa ahead of their departure for Argentina and she too has requested the express service As far as packing is concerned, everything is up in the air. She doesn't know which suitcase to take and her room is a complete mess

as she tries to sort out her winter and summer clothes. She's not very good at travelling light either, but she's decided to limit herself to whatever she can fit in two cases. A me, too, I don't know this to be a little bit of lifeer little. But I'll give what kepe in two maletas. She suggests that she'll buy the one-way tickets from Madrid and that Rory should organise his ticket from Edinburgh to Madrid. She'll pay for the Madrid to Buenos Aires ticket,

but they can sort that out afterwards. As soon as she has bought the tickets, she'll let him know so that he can buy his own for the connecting flight from Edinburgh. To be honest, we don't really need to know all this, but it's just all there in the text. Maria thinks the most practical solution would be for them to meet in Barajas,

that's the main airport in Madrid, giving themselves enough time for a hug, a coffee, and to check in their bags for Buenos Aires. Maria is very excited at the whole prospect of going to live in another continent. Tomorrow she's meeting her friends to go shopping and she admits that any excuse to see her friends and go for a wander down Cagie San Miguel in Palma is a good one. She's going to try to find a new bikini since this summer is just starting in Argentina. So thinking both about summer clothes and indeed all the winter clothes that she and Rory will need

for their year spent in Argentina. She asks Rory how his family is. her own parents are looking after her very well just now her father is even making her breakfast before going off to work she guesses that they're sad that she and Rory are going so far away and they're spoiling her a bit and she's letting them do it she likes being taken care of I'm let go to do it, you know, that I like to be

okay we'll be back in just a moment as you know this is a preview episode of the coffee break Spanish season four 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.

Maria tells Rory that as soon as they have their departure dates they should write to Alejandro to tell him the day and the time they'll arrive. She knows that Rory knows his way about a bit having lived there before, but she's been doing her own research and sees that they need to take a taxi

from Ezaida, Buenos Aires airport, into the centre of town. It makes sense then if Alejandro is free that he could come and pick them up since they will have quite a bit of luggage. If Alejandro is is free, we could we could ask that

we need to recoges because we are very cargated. Maria is sure that Alejandro had

already offered to do that. If not, they can always take a taxi. And that's

about it. They're almost all set. She'll send Rory the flight details as soon as she has

them and in a few days she'll meet him in Madrid. The countdown has started for their

next adventure. That's good not news. Good Notices. For them.

For of them. Maybe not for us. No, for so I'm specific So, so we're

going to end up the history, no? I'm much a pain for I'm very

very content for them. And I also. Okay, let's go back and

talk a little bit about one interesting sentence. In fact, a sentence that you've just read

Carmen from from Maria's email, and that is Le Podiams Beidier to come

to recoger. It's fairly, it sounds like a simple phrase, but It's full of complex stuff.

Le podriamos beaier. We're talking about when Maria is saying that we could ask Alejandro that we could ask Alejandro to come and pick us up. However, we're thinking about the progression of tenses here. We're thinking about a subjunctive. We're also thinking about position of the pronouns and also about how we translate this. So let's talk about this a little bit.

bit further. Le podriamos pedir. So to him, we could ask that he came to pick us up. First of all, Carmen, why is it an imperfect

subjunctive here? Because of the conditional. Okay, so this is our sequence of tenses. When we've got the conditional and the conditional and the conditional then has a verb that takes the subjunctive following it, the verb needs to be in the imperfect

subjunctive. Yes. Okay. So we could ask him, we would be able to ask him, le podriamos pedier, that no vinyera from the imperfect

subjunctive of benir. It could also be the alternative one there, couldn't it? Le podriamos to be that we needes to recoger. That's an alternative form of the imperfects of Jungdiv. Let's say, let's simplify this. And say, we can ask him to come and pick us up.

There we're going to change things. And let's see if our listeners can work this one out. We can ask him that he comes to pick us up or we can ask him to come and pick us up. How would we say that in Spanish? Okay, Carmen, can you help us with this? We can't we have straightforward

present tense of Podemos from Poder Le Podemos we can ask him that us

benga and that's our present subjunctive that's our present subjunctive that's still subjunctive because we're asking him to do something

which becomes asking him that he does something Le we can be able to bea recoger.

Now, when you were translating that, you may have come up with an alternative, and that's to do with the position of these pronouns.

Because while we can say, let's split it up, we can say, Le Podemoseerimus pedir, we can swap that around and say, Podemos pedirle. And equally,

that nos benga recoger, we could say that be to bringa to so we can put our direct object pronoun, nos, at the end

of the infinitive, and the indirect object pronoun le at the end of the infinitive of pedir. Podemos pedirle that be a recogernos.

Carmen, a question. Could we say, would it be normal in Spanish to say we'd pedine that we'll be

to get to and equally could we say let we pedier that beeng to get to

get to so there's no preference we have to stick with all of the ones when we're

sticking the pronoun on the end of the The infinitive. The two are the corrects. Okay.

So, then we could say, too, we could we'd asker to and we'd be a position the time.

And the position of the other numbers. We'd we'd give us to get to

get us. Yes. Much possibilities, no? Mm-hmm. You'll choose the

most you'd another subjunk today. You can choose the

that most the the one which pleases you most, whichever one that may be, that may well be. So, la that most teguste. La that most me is, is le, we'd

we'd probably ask, that we needer to recogher. I don't know why, I don't you can't explain, but I prefer to put those pronombers Delante. Okay, very well, Mark. Very good.

Now, the fact that we've spent the final few moments of this episode of our preview version of Coffee Break Spanish Season 4 episode 40 talking about the subjunctive is probably fairly expected given the amount of discussion

we've had about the subjunctive over the course of this season. We love the subjunctive. We do, we do. And we don't want you to develop that whole subjunctiveitis that you put it in everywhere. But of course, hopefully with the lessons that you've been following, you now know exactly when to use it in lots of different situations

and you've mastered the imperfect subjunctives as well. We very much hope that you have enjoyed listening to Coffee Break Spanish Season 4. We thank you for downloading the episodes, for listening to them and for following the story. We hope you've enjoyed the story. Who knows, we may hear more of this story in the future, but we will be back sometime in the future with a season 5. For all the information about Coffee Break Spanish, please head to Coffee Break Spanish.com, where you'll be able to ask to be kept up to date with our developments and you'll be the first to know about any future seasons and indeed the following adventures of Maria, Rory and Alejandro and who knows who else.

Finally, Carmen, muchisim thanks for having been here with us all this temperate. Thank you. And I'm very content of having been here explaining the grammatica, the expressions and Any other, any question, here we are guys,

a pleasure like you always. Thank you. And after the next. Adios. This is

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