Coffee Break Spanish - CBS EM 1.02 | La Vida Malagueña

Episode Date: February 15, 2019

What's it like to live and work in Málaga? In this episode of En Marcha, Mark talks to Sara who works in the Tourism department of the Ayuntamiento de Málaga. They discuss the town, how it has changed over the years, and tourism in the surrounding area. There are also interviews with other Malagueños, and you can challenge yourself to follow the conversations and recognise the different accents used.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.

En Marcha with Coffee Break Spanish Season 1 episode 2 Hello and well, and welcome to another episode of Coffee Brick Spanish of In Marcha with Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark and I'm very content of being with you. Well, today, what we're going to talk? Well, we're going to be talking to the people,

or more than we're going to be speaking about people in this episode, people that we've met while we've been visiting the Syria, people who are working here, the people who are working here, the people who work here, the people that visit, like us, the people that live here. And every person with the which we've been

made a different. It's always a pleasure to speak to people, to get to know them a little, and to find out what has brought them here, why they're living and working in this area, or indeed why they're visiting this area. And over the course of this episode, we'll be speaking to lots of people. You'll hear different accents, different speeds of Spanish,

but most of all, you'll hear lots of stories, stories about people. So let's get on with the show. We'll start. Well, as I've said, in this episode, we're going to know Malaga a through the people that live there. And also, we're going to begin by talking to Sarah Quintero-Kesada.

And Sarah works for the Ajunctaminto, literally the town hall. But she works with the local authority, and we'll be finding it more about one of the most important aspects for the economy of, of the local area, clero, el Tourism. Now the first part of this episode focuses on our interview with Sarah because she had lots to explain,

lots to tell us about the city of Malaga and its surrounding area. After that, we'll be talking to some other people who live and work in Malaga and you'll get to know more about this wonderful part of the Spanish-speaking world. One of the first places we decided to come to find out a little bit more about Malaga

was to the Auntamian the tourist office and to find out a little bit more about what happens here in Malaga, we are speaking with Sarah Quintero Casada. Very good days. Very good days. What, very. Thank you. Here we are taking a coffee, no?

Well, yeah, taking a coffee break with a difference because we're going to be talking a little about Malaga and what there is in Malaga to do and tourism in Malaga and so on. Can you tell us how many tourists do in Malaga every year? Well, according the statistics, at the finales of the 2016, over the four million

of tourists and excursionists. What is the difference between tourist and excursionist? Well, tourist is the

that is the pecknorta in Malaga, is the that's the that's the personist is the

that comes to a day and he will be to get to his city, where is

getting to definitely. I'm Where are the tourists that are the tourists that are in Malaga? Suellen are Spanish or are ex-anjeros? Well, the majority of the tourists

that are in Malaga are not a number of tourists extra-estrangers, especially Europeans. In order, more or men, of nationalities, we'd say that

the first are the Britannical, then the Italians, those Germans, Frenches, and old-Landes. And, ultimately, they're on the more

high-level, more lejos, are augmenting the United Okay, so we've had Spanioles

British people Italianos, Alemanes, Frenches, Hollandes and Estabunis people from the United States.

But what should all these visitors do when they come to Malaga? I asked Sarah this question and

listen carefully to the way in which I phrased the question. I use an imperfect subjunctive

fear if you had to say if you had to say one thing which a tourist shouldn't miss when they come to Malaga, what would it be? Let's have a listen to the next part of the interview.

If you had to say one thing that can't perverse a tourist that visit Malaga, what would be? Well, look, as we know what type of tourists we're going to find, I think that what all tourist is callehear. is to geters and perverse and perverse for the callers of Malaga to go

observando the buildings are an edificio of the city of today totally rehabilitated pararse at a lot of

a time to take a typical tap Malaga with a winito and in in any square in a lot of

a lot of a guitar someone playing someone and unings also and I think you know a good vision

of what is Malaga Sarah goes on to talk about some of the other towns and villages in the area and some of these are places you should be looking out for later in this cities of in Marcha with Coffee Break Spanish And if someone is in Malaga to visit what are the other cities or the peoples around the Malaga that we can't put them.

Well, what in the province of Malaga, well, people very beautiful. If we're, for example, to the east, the zone of the exarchia, we can visit Narja, which is a world very beautiful, entranial, the coast,

precious accantilades, and then, a little bit more to the interior, we have a question of ten minutes, a couple also has been very

premiums, no, competa, there we can do the route of the bino, there are little little little. And then,

if we're going to the other part, we're going to the other part, we can visit Ronda, which is a world precious also with a tajo

that's a well, you know internationally and also many many things of things

of like artistic reliquias there are monuments there are very interesting and very interesting

and and in plan touristic yeah all the coast what she see at the Mado

Mijas a little more a level of Sol and a level of Sol and so on the

sunshine and beach level. Now, before we go on to speak to some other people who live in Malaga, one of the important things to mention is the Andalusian accent. And Sarah actually talked a little about this. I asked her to explain a little more about

the accento Andalus. We have a different. Yes, we'll viamos a little at final, the SES, intonamos more suave than in the north, but we have to to have to be in all the countries

exist, let's these changes in different parts or zones of each other of the most important

things I think there is about learning a foreign language. You tend to associate the perfect pronunciation of your language

course with the right accent. But of course there are many right accents and with a language like Spanish

where there are so many different accents and so many different accents and so many different regional variations. It's important to try to be as open as possible to these different accents. Now we're going to be hearing some Andaluth accents in Marta, but we'll also be hearing some accents from other parts of the Spanish speaking world. And when it comes to accents, it's not

just Spanish. As Sarah says, every country, every language has different accents and the language isn't spoken the same way throughout the area where that language is spoken. So let's find out a little more about how Spanish is spoken by talking to some of the other people that we met as we walked about the streets of Malaga. As you listen to these interviews, try to tune your ear a little to these new accents that you may well not be used to yet, but of course the more you hear them, the more comfortable you'll become with a different accent in Spanish. Hello, how do you call? Hello, I'm Nassau.

And tell me Nasa, in what you work? Well, I'm a work in Segway as a guide touristic. So, tell us what you do those days with the tourists that come in Malaga. Well, basically, we sub we're to capture, to teach how to use the Segway, and if the clients are you sure, then we'll start with a tour. They can't move to the mountain or pass out for the port, or here, for the city. And the truth is that's very good. It's very cool. And what are the zones

that most are the ones that are the high of the mountain it's super well yeah, it's all the and well also they like the center of the city, so they know a little

of a little bit of history and all that I went on to ask Natha what the advantages are of doing a tour by Segway rather than by foot what is the advantage of doing a tour

for Segway in instead of a pie? Ombre, the best is that not you can't No, you have to march to much, no? No, that's going to be the city super rapid, no, you know, you know, you're going to

pass the cold, and, no, I know, the truth is that has much advantages. If you don't have been afraid of the sewe, it's the perfect. You are you of Malaga? No, I'm of Cordoba. And prefer is Malaga or Cordoba?

Malaga, because it's a mar. And many tourists, it's very well. And in Cordoba, it's much a lot, no? Yes, yes, yes, in verano. 47 grado? Ma'o meno. There you go.

Even in a few words, we can hear that southern accent, the Andalusian accent. 47 grado, ma'o meno. So 47 degrees, mas or meno. These eses, at the end of the words,

are very often swallowed, or they're not pronounced. So 47 degrees, 47 degrees, ma'o menos, ma'o men, more or less. Now, 47 degrees heat, we're talking about Celsius here, so that's 116.

Fahrenheit. Yeah, I think that would be even a little too much for a segue tour. Now, just as we were finishing talking to Natha, we also spoke to her colleague, and we mentioned that we're recording for Coffee Break Spanish, and she just happened to say that she listens to Coffee Break French. Hello! Bonjour! No, we're going to talk to, in French, no? Tranquil.

Well, tell us, how is that you're studying French or something? No, my partner is of origin French, so. So, of a bit when I've heard a coffee break, but it's a lot of, the truth. No, I've done my demeres. And what's your French now? I'm, I'm... Entiento more than what I can't

be able to be a word. It's always difficult to maintain a language, no? Yes, much. And there are many Frenches that are here in Malaga? Yes, now in the verano there are a lot of Frenches

that are you? As if you can practice your French, no? Yes, well, my companion NASA has more opportunity in the theme of sex way than I, the fact. If I had one piece of advice For any language learner

Who's going to be traveling to a part of the world Where the language that they're learning is spoken It would be to learn to talk about the weather The weather is such a great topic of conversation Because you can always talk about it to anyone Everyone is always willing to talk about the weather And I did just that with a florist Who was working in the Alameda principal

One of the main streets heading into Malaga. I asked her, what is the station of the year that you most like best? Which is the

season of the year that you like best. Man, I don't, I hate. Otoe, in the winter, here,

a winter, there's a very much, there's a day of free, relatively not, it's not

because I talk with my my daughter, when I see the when I'm when I

see, at the most 35 grad, I say, that's, I think, has to pass more calum than I,

I'm used to be accustomed to them, but I'm not. Well, I see that's a much cold. More calor than we're more, because not you're accustomed to, I'm when, more than that,

because, like, my daughter is going to talk about the time and and I'm saying, oh, that's free,

because she's que jean, no, when, I'm, I'm, so, I've been, I've been

to put on the chaquetteon. And that's, and I'm, and I'm, and the the other than the the air

the cold at the four of the time, a 30, 40 degrees, he has to molest to more than

us. He has to molest to more than us. It has to bother him or her

more than it does us. Okay, let's move on and talk to someone else. This time we're talking to

Jose Luis and he was talking about Malaga from the point of view of a young person.

Well, we're here we're talking with Jose Luis Malaga for the Jovers. So, good days, Jose Luis. Good days.

Dime, what is there for the young here in Malaga? It's a city that is in constant growing and, ultimately we're superating a lot of classic as, like, for example, it could have been

Valencia or Bilbao. And it's a a level cultural very and also at the entertainment, because many of young, in the

play, or to visit a many of the cities, and to be a as new-do-so, and then it's a very well, in my opinion. I think that is a city that can get

to be the most important of Spain and a city of in Europe, that has a lot of materials primas, like, for example, are the cultivos of the and it's a city that's also with an alcaldia, a, a better better than, is a much better and I think that can get to be a punterer in Spain. Very well. And you are you?

I am from Malaga. I am, when you go backations, when you do you go to vacations, to where you go? Well, well, I know that I'm going to go to places like capitals European as, for example, can be Roma, London, or Prague, for what I like to know, to know, that not have to have obligatoryly the place. Although, I'm visiting people, and things so that are so that are quite beautiful and me are halleys to what is a city.

Very well. And do you? Do you? Yes, I'm a lot. What's your English? Well, I've been I've been very much, ultimately, and I think, in my opinion, I have a good level for the age I have.

So, I'm going to do you think it's important that young people learn foreign languages? Yes, I think so, because maybe when you get older, you are going to need to have jobs, to work, sorry. And you have to know languages for work. For example, if I can find a job here, I may go to Italy or British, or Great Britain, sorry, or Germany.

So I have to know languages. Well, you're very well. Thank you. Well, much more than Jesus. No, no. So, Jose Luis thinks it's important to learn other languages in order to be able to travel or to find work somewhere else. We also spoke to Estet from Belgium who's learning Spanish and is visiting

Malaga with her friends. I'm from Belgium, of Amberes. And you're visiting Malaga? Yes, I'm of vacations, here with some friends. And, tell me, is the first that you're here in Malaga? Yes, it's the first time.

And you like? I'm a much. We visit also in Valencia and me also, but I I like much also, but I think

many cities in Spain are very nice. And since how time do you do you Spanish?

Now two years. You're very good. Thanks. Okay, it's getting towards the end of the

day. And just before heading back to the hotel, we managed to speak to two more Malaga

natives. Malagueinos. The adjective for someone from Malaga is Malaga. Let's speak to Stefanii.

I asked Stefania if she'd always lived in Malaga. Yes, I've, since I've lived here. Very well. And for you, what is the thing better of Malaga? I think the time, the environment, to me, for the least that I'm from a lot of the outside, me like to come here to the center, to passer, the people,

the streets, the rinkoons that you have. I think there's much encanto. And what job is you? In what do you? administrative. What is your city or a place of the country? Well, first

I'd probably Malaga and then I'd like much to Barcelona. And has any a good social for the people that come to visit Spain? Well, that no,

that they'll enjoy at the maximum, because that they're a lot of the people, of the environment, that's a

country, a country, and that, that, especially that, so, that, try, that, that,

they're, that, try to know, We also spoke to Alejandro, and I asked him about his favorite places in Spain. What are, my name is Alejandro, and I'm from Malaga, I'm from the coast of the sol, in the Cala of My Hes. Fittles very beautiful. Very good.

What is your place preferred of vacations here in Spain? If I'm... Well, the fact that, the truth, that, I know it, I know much. I know the north of Spain but the fact that I've visited I've got to what I'm

like to where I live where I live in a city spectacular Well, you know, in this episode. In this episode,

we've talked with much people very orgoyosa of being from Malaga this beautiful part of Spain

obviously some of these interviews have been quite challenging in terms of accent and the speed

that which people speak. So if you would like to get more out of In Marcha, you can access the transcripts for all of the interviews in this episode and indeed bonus materials on the Coffee Break Academy. If you're already subscribed to the bonus version, then of course you'll have access to that immediately and you can go and look at all of those bonus materials associated with this episode already. If you'd like to find out more, head over to coffeebreaktravels.com. We'll be back very soon

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