Coffee Break Spanish - CBS EM 1.01 | ¡Bienvenidos a Málaga!

Episode Date: February 1, 2019

In this first episode of the new series, Mark and the Coffee Break team arrive in Málaga, the beautiful city in the south of Spain. This episode sets the scene for the series and you'll be eavesdropping on Mark's conversations in Spanish with native speakers, while experiencing the sounds of the city.This season of En Marcha con Coffee Break Spanish features 10 audio episodes, 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 transcripts, bonus audio materials including our "Language Study" audio episodes which explain some of the language points introduced in the conversations, exercise packs, vocabulary lists and exclusive video materials, you can access the En Marcha online course 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, and access regular language challenges, follow @coffeebreaklanguages on Instagram.For all information on Coffee Break Spanish, visit coffeebreaklanguages.com/spanish/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You're listening to En Marcha with Coffee Brick Spanish, Season 1, Episode 1. Well, here we are. I'm in the airport. And this is the first episode of a new series of Coffee Brick Spanish. This is En Marcha with Coffee Brick Spanish. And I am just about to board a flight to Malaga in the south of Spain. We are going to be spending a week interviewing people who love there, the people that live there,

the people who live there, the people, for example, that travel there, the people also, like I, that's visiting this region in Spain. And we're going to be much, much Spanish. The idea of In Marcha is that we're going to be speaking

to real Spanish speakers, some of whom will be native speakers and others won't be native speakers, but the idea is that we will have opportunities to practice listening to Spanish, hearing different accents, some native, some non-native, and that's all real. It's all the experience

that you go through when you're learning a language. because some of the people that you'll speak to are native speakers and others won't be. Over the next seven days we've got a number of interviews planned. We're going to be speaking to people from different parts of this region. We're going to be travelling around the area in Malaga itself and also in some of the other towns like Ronda and Cordoba and also travelling a little further east to Nerha and Fijiliana. We will be bringing you different episodes.

In each episode we're going to be covering one theme and this first episode is more about just getting there and experiencing arrival in Malaga and hopefully the conversations that we have and the interviews that we make will help you in your own Spanish learning journey. Well, yeah is hour to embark, then until very soon in Malaga.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board the Cesarjet flight and departing to Malaga. manager of both tonight's flight working alongside with the front of the cabin we have Andrew at the end of the cabin we have short ladies and gentlemen welcome to Malaga where the local time is 14 minutes fast night we would ask you you remain at your seats until she bells fast until the sign has been switched off

and until the aircraft comes to complete final stop well, here we are we in Malaga in the airport of Malaga and we're waiting the malayas we're waiting the maleta and, and in a little we'll go to the hotel.

Of the actually, we've chosen an hotel at the station, and so

we'll be able to be to a Cordova in train and also

to be a lot of the station because we have to go

in a NERja and a Ronda also. The really

is that we're very very can't. Because we have

always a good verb being to make you tired. It tires you out. And viaar always canza. So, yeah, we already

want to be in the hotel. So, until very pronto. While much of this episode, and indeed the whole series, was recorded on location in Malaga and the surrounding area, we're also going to be adding in some content that we're recording here in the studio. And that will frame everything else,

and we can also explain some things. So on our way in from the airport to the city, of Malaga to our hotel. We got talking to the taxi driver. Now it's perhaps a bit ironic that the first person we speak to in this whole series is not from Malaga.

I asked him to introduce himself and to tell us a little more about himself and where he's from. We're from. William. William. A name, well, is a very Malague-eanian. An English.

And you're from Malaga? I've been 15 years living in Malaga and I've been in Medellin, Colombia. That good, I never have been in Colombia,

but I'd like much, much if it was to go to go to go to what we have to see here in

Malaga? Hormre, Malaga has of all. Malaga has a real estate,

first of a good living, a good well-estar, good food, good places,

good plays, good and good people, no? Very good people, I'm very good

and you. And you do you work as a taxi since much time? No.

I mean my profession I'm so I'm engineer technical agricultural for the

crisis economic that has been here in Spain I've to have done

other things between you have a taxi well it has

been very interesting to do the taxi also and to

talk with much people, no? Sure, here there's people of

the world. And some Colombianos of a time when? Yes, of Colombian,

of Brazil, Portugal, of all the world. And do you also tourists

of, well, the English? Yes, the great majority

of the people that transport in the airport is people

that not Spanish. And you are English? And

Little a little, A little. Well, if you You know William, you have to

talk about for the little no? Oh, obviously. Obio. I'm defiant

me defiant if you. If not cogered a taxi, how can get to the

city of Malaga from the airport? Well, there are two of transport

is the bus and the train, the train of the train of the

car that is directly the station Maria Sanbrano.

Very very but we we No? Oh, man, it's a comod, you'd get in the door and you know

you have to be up to and up to stop them to the other, it's like, the 100, the 100%. Perfect,

well, much, thanks. Oh, with much good. I'm very good to

my little little little, my little we're to serve us, okay?

Perfect, much thanks, ah? According to William, Madagha Tiena de todo. It has of all. It's got something for everyone. Malaga has tranquillidad. It's got tranquility. A good way of living. A good way of being. Buena comida. Good food. Buos Paisages.

Good scenery. Buenas playas. Good beaches. And very good people. So having arrived in Malaga, it's time to go out and start exploring and you can come with me. One of the best bits about visiting Malaga is that you can sit down in any one of the many pavement cafes and restaurants and have some absolutely fantastic food. And I'm here with Dana who works in one of these restaurants and we're going to have a little chat about Malaga, about the food of Malaga and also of the tourists that come in Malaga, et cetera. Buenos days, Dana. Very good. First, a thing.

Where is you? I'm in Argentina, Mendoza, Argentina, one of the capitals of the wine. Very well. And you, you've worked here in Malaga since then? Hasn't three years that I'm in Malaga, and I'm working for the same company, in three years, too. And you like? Yes, I've studied tourism, then, well, it's a little,

there's a lot of movement of tourism, during all the year, if you've been, it's in the months of the verano, but then it's the time. And so, so for you, what is the the most time of the year? Well, to be, in the winter, there's much movement and it's

general, the fact, much interchamble cultural, but at the long of the year, when it's a little the time, when it's the year when you can

do you get more of that interchambio that no there's much for the people, and the time. I think the

to the totoe is the good time. And in In about the food of Malaga, the food Malagane, what are the the plato most of the plato most of the pescatito frito, those qualities have calamares, fritos, calamaries, salmonds, boquerones, calamaritos,

and calamaritos, and, for suppose, the spetos that are in the plains, the Chiringittos. That is very typical of here of Malaga. And Malaga is very distinct, as a city of Mendoza? Yes, quite. Mendoza, no, no mansehue, no, no mansever, because it's a Mendoza, is in what is the cordillera,

where is the peak more high of America, that is the Aconcagua. So, it has other type of tourism. But here, the movement that's generally the

of what is all Europe, has more movement and more rickness in quanto to, also, also, the fact that the variety of tourists that are is very

ample. And when you not a job, what you like to do during the end of the time, for example? Well, I intend to

go to and know a little bit more of what are the zones and well also as I'm my friends,

to know different sites of the gastronomia a little and here is very typical the terraces for to

take the cups and then I'm so I know the so I'm very much thanks

thank you thank you so so how did you find that conversation it was certainly

quite fast Dana speaks with an Argentinian accent. You may not necessarily be used to an Argentinian accent. It's not a Malageno accent. We've yet to meet our true Malageno. But there are a few interesting things in what she said. We're going to listen to a couple of segments of this again. First of all, I asked her a question.

What is the best season of the year? Basically, what is the best season of the year here in Malaga? what is the best time of the year? Let's listen to an answer

and see if you can identify what she says here about the best season of the year and why. And then

for you what is the best time the year? Well, in the very much movement

and it generate a very much interchamio cultural but at the long the year

when it when it starts when it is the the one is when it can do you

can be that there's a change, that no, there's many people for the guys and the most. I think the Otoño is the best time. This is one of those situations where you've probably recognized

some key words, El Otoño, is the key word that we're looking for here, the autumn. But she explains why she likes the Otoño. She says, in verano, there's much

movement, so there's lots of movement or lots of people around. And, the much interchambo cultural and much interchange of cultures. So there's lots of different cultures giving people the chance to get to know people from other countries and that's a

great thing for Dana. But she says that you can actually benefit from this cultural exchange, this interchamio cultural, when there are fewer people around. When no there are tant a gente for las calles. Because if there are too many people, it's very

difficult to get the full benefit of that cultural exchange. I also asked Dana what she likes to do when she's not working. When you're not working, when you do you want to do. Now, she mentioned a few things. Let's see if you can identify what these are.

And when you're not a work, what you're going to do do for example? Well, I intend to travel and know a little bit more of what are the zones. And, well, also, as I'm young, I'm going to my

my amissad, at a lot of different sites of the gastronomia a few

and the place. Here's very typical the terraces for to make

the other and I'm so I'm so I'm know the community that's

pretty fast. Hopefully you've been able to identify a few keywords. She said

Intentto I try to travel and to know a little more and get to know a little

more about the different zones, the different areas of the And of course, since she's young, as I'm young, as I'm going with my friends. I go out with my friends, the people that I know,

to know different sitios of the gastronomia, a poco too. So to get to know different places related to food. And food is a common theme, both in this interview and indeed in many interviews that we've recorded in Malaga because it's such an important aspect of life in this part of Spain. One of my favorite things to do is sit at the Teatro Romano in the Cagde de la Catava.

Around about 7 o'clock in the evening, just as the sun is going behind the trees and behind the buildings of the old town. And it is a wonderful sight here because basically everyone's out for their paseo. Parents are pushing buggies with children playing around on the ground and running around and chasing each other. and it's always good to eavesdrop in some conversations although sometimes are quite difficult to follow and as the evening draws on the sun will go down and the square will be full of buskers and people enjoying meals in the restaurants nearby

and the lights at the Agathaba will come on and it will be a wonderful sight now this audio episode that you're listening to is just part of the whole Enmarcha experience if you're using the premium version If you've purchased the premium version, then you'll be able to access the transcript, that all-important transcript of all the Spanish elements included in this episode and indeed the rest of the episodes of the series.

And for each episode, we've also included some kind of bonus materials that could be perhaps a video, a video where we will help you see where we are. So, for example, the Buenos Paisaches mentioned by William, you'll be able to see them in the video, or perhaps it would be a video version of one of the interviews that has been included in our episode. Some episodes will include bonus audio materials. So, for example, if we've only included part of an audio interview in one of our episodes,

then you may get the entire audio interview in the bonus materials. And of course, there will be a transcript of that too. To find out about the full version of the Enmarcha course, head to coffeebreaktravels.com and there you'll find the link for the coffee break academy and you'll be able to purchase the full version of EnMarcha there. Now it will be published over the coming weeks so as each episode is published you'll get access to those bonus materials for that episode.

So just once again, coffeebreaktravels.com and that's where you'll find the premium version of EnMarcha. Well, yeah is. I hope that you have liked this episode of Coffee Brick Spanish

and Marcia with Coffee Break Spanish and we're in the next episode. In the next episode, we're going to know a

people of Malaga, to the Malagaeans and we learn how they live in this

city so precious. If you'd like to find it more about En Marcha with Coffee

Brick Spanish just head to CoffeeBrick Travels.com Join us again soon then for another episode of In Marcha with Coffee Break Spanish. For now, much thanks, and until the next. You have been listening to a production of the Coffee Break Academy for the Radio Linguar Network. Copyright 2019 Radio Lingual Limited.

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