Coffee Break Spanish - CBS EM 1.03 | Nos vamos a Córdoba

Episode Date: March 1, 2019

In this episode, join Mark and the Coffee Break team as they take the train to Córdoba for the day. You’ll hear them asking about what there is to see and do in Córdoba, before heading on a trip into the city’s famous Mezquita-Catedral. The team will also sample some of Spain’s best tortilla, and we’ll hear from other tourists who are spending the day in 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.

In Marta with Coffee Break Spanish Season 1, Episode 3. Hello. I need to three minutes. The idea of return to Cordoba, for favor. The idea for today? Yes. And the world? Also, in what train is going to go now?

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Thank you. Thank you. I see. Much. Thank you. Hello. Hello, all. And, welcome to Coffee Break Spanish.

A, in March, with Coffee Break Spanish. As you may have guessed, we are heading on a day trip today for our episode of in Marcha, and we are on our way to Cordoba. Cordoba is to one hour, more or less, of Malaura, and we're going to coge the train, and we'll get into the 10th and 4th. So let's see what Cordoba has in store for us. Asta very pronto. So we're almost arriving in Cordoba, and we've been chatting on the train with the team

about what we're going to be doing when we get there in Florida, what did we decide? So I think we're going to go in to head first to the Mezquita Caterral, which is a really famous building in Cordoba. And it's interesting because it's a mosque and also a cathedral. And then I think we might go and try some famous tortilla espionola and have a look at the Alcazar, which is another famous building. And also, of course, in a lot. In Spanish. Very good.

As many many people, we're to Cordova, where effectuaries a brief parada. For favor, not forgets their objects personal. Renfell's thanks to have

been with us waiting to see them on the people who continue on the train during the

parada. As with all episodes of Enmata, we're going to be taking a closer look at some of the language used in some of the interviews or the sound clips that you're hearing,

that we recorded in Cordoba and in Malaga and so on. And this one is, I think, very interesting. It's the train announcement, but as with all train announcements and official announcements, what we're hearing here are formal command forms. So for example, the announcer said, for favor, no olivin sus objectos personales.

Don't forget your personal objects, literally. No olivin, and that's your subjunctive form used as a command. So no Obviden The verb is Obidar but here no

olivin with an E-N at the end so don't forget your personal possessions

then we heard Renfe that's the Red National of Ferrocariles

Spanish so the train network in Spain Renfe les thanks

to have via have via with us so

Renfe thanks you for having traveled with us

Renfe them, and then the final and then the final sentence, rogamos, that's the verb rogar, which means to request or to ask someone to do something. It can actually mean to beg someone or to plead with someone to do something,

but it's very often used to request that you do something in this formal way. So the announcer said, rogamos to los villagers that continue in the journey, so we ask that the travellers who may be continuing their journey

no baugen del train, that they do not get down from the train, that they do not leave the train during the parada. And that's bagen from the verb, bahar, meaning to descend or to go down, or in the context of traveling to disembark.

But of course, again, we've got an example of the subjunctive or a command form. Don't get down of the train during the stop. So even in that simple announcement, we've got lots of really interesting grammar points. Okay, so we finally arrived in Cordoba. But we needed to get from the station into the centre of town and therefore we needed to ask for some directions.

It was my first time in the city, so I was looking forward to seeing lots of interesting sites, but we needed those directions. Good days. We can explain how to get to the center of the city, for favor? Sure, that is. We're here in the station of train.

You can go, turning to the left, just in that corner of the area, and they're the Paceo of the Victoria. At the final of the Paceo of the Victoria,

will you're the old murgalla Roman and an arc, that is the entry to the Judo. For there, can get directly

to the Mezquita Cathedral. It's like about, 20 minutes approximately. As ever, we're looking for keywords. So some of the keywords

mentioned by this lady were the muralla, the oldie, an old year, a old, that kind of idea. She also mentioned an arco, an arch,

which is the entry to the old Jewish quarter. And there, you can arrive directly to the Meshita, cathedral. We've spoken already about the mosque and the cathedral, which are the one building. It will take us around 20 minutes, so we hurried off towards the centre of town, and on the way, we stopped by another

tourist office and had a chat with the person who worked there. I started by asking, if I were a tourist, what would you recommend to me? How would you say that in Spanish? If I were a tourist, we're looking for an imperfect subjunctive there, so see you foira? or if I was a tourist, what would you recommend to me? So we're looking now for a conditional tense. Recommendar to recommend, what me recommendarias. Let's listen to what she recommended. In what you're doing.

I'm doing visits guide for the tourists. So if I were a tourist here in Cordoba, what would recommendarys? Well, in first place, the mequita, that is the joy of Cordoba. and then we're in Alcaza we have a judey a rica in patrimonial like the synagogue and, for

the Jacemiento Archaeological of Medinazar. Okay, there are some quite complex vocabulary in there. She mentions La Mechita, which is the Joya of Cordoba, the jewel of Cordoba. And then she also mentions the

Alcazar, which is a fortress or a castle. in a sense. We already spoke about the word juderia, the Jewish quarter, and this particular Jewish quarter in Cordoba, she says is rich in patrimonial, rich in heritage, and she

mentions also the synagogue, and, of course, the Yacimiento Archaeological of Madina Azaara. So the archaeological site. Acymiento is an archaeological site. And in this case, we're talking about the Medina Azaara archaeological site.

So pretty complex vocabulary in there. I also asked this lady, if there were one thing that a tourist shouldn't miss in Cordoba, what would it be? And what is the thing that the tourists not have been paid to? Of course, the Mesquita Cathedral of Cordoba. Well, we're going to now. Perfecto. Almost everyone we've spoken to so far has recommended that we visit the Mechita Cathedral. So let's see if we can find someone now who,

can give us a bit more information about this fascinating building's history. To start, we have to clarify that the Mezquita Caterallal, which is as commonly as it's from 1236, from the year 1236 is Caterral. Although, a good part of the monument has aspect of a mezzquita, but it's exclusively a cathedral. This was conquisted, the Cordova, the city of Corkdova, was conquisted in this year in the

236 and the day the next of the conquest was consagrared to cult of Catholic the temple. When it's visit, there are many parts that its architecture has aspect Musliman but

really we're entering in a temple religious. The Mezquita, Antigua, Mezquita of Cordova in his day, took three ampliations, the first construction of the Mezkita Aljama, that was Mezkita Aljama,

it was in the year 786, and the ultimate ampliation, it was at the finales of the 10th, the 1st, if we don't have much time to visit all, what is the thing most important that we we have? The most important, situated in the Muro of the Kibla, that is at the final of the

the building, the part of the temple, the Antiguo Mughla and in the center the Mirab. And, for sure, as not, the Altar Major of the Cathedral, with a magnificent retablo, and with the silleria of the choro, which is a work magnificent of banisteria. Perfect, muchissima, thank you. I'm glad we were able to speak to Raphael

before coming into the Medquita Cathedral. It really is quite an astounding building, and unlike any I've ever visited before, I have been to mosques and cathedrals, but never both under the one roof. and a very impressive roof at that. This juxtaposition of Islamic and Christian cultures is very common throughout Spain.

In most cities, the same areas are home to both churches and mosques, but there's something special about one building, which is both cathedral and mechita. The day of our trip to Cordoba was extremely hot, around 40 degrees. We were pretty hot and pretty hungry by this time. So we felt it was time to stop off and get something to eat, and we're better than the legendary Bar Santos. Why legendary?

Well, Bar Santos is the home to the tortilla Mass Grande del Mundo. Now we're talking Spanish tortilla, Spanish omelet here. So let's find out why. No trip to Cordoba is complete without sampling the tortilla in Bar Santos. We're going to be talking to Jesus,

who has very much an Andalusian accent. So listen carefully to what he says, and remember there may be some essays missing at the end of words. In the first part, he tells us how long the establishment has been open. Have a listen. This establishment, well, he's

52 years abjerto, it's my t'yot, and, we, we, we, we know, we're our speciality, that's, we're our specialty,

we're our specialty Spanish. Did you pick up how long the establishment has been open for? He said, he's got 52 years so it's been open

for 52 years, and the focus on tortilla. We're deduble, to sell tortillas. But I wanted to learn a bit more about these tortillas. They're not just any

tortillas'uilla. Right, correct. It's that what is that is quite more great than what habitual, because it's a lot of habitual. Because it's five kilos of potatoes and 30 eggs.

30 eggs and five kilos of potatoes? Yes, yes, correct. 30 eggs and 5 kilos. And how how is it?

If it's normally or in a different way? It's like, that any person would have with a sartain, whirta with his plate, all normal. Only that's how it's it's a secret of the house,

logically. Very well. Well, now we have to to prove a little, no? And, of course, logically. If not you've been passed by Cordova, it's a ditcho that is here. Perfect.

And now it's time to cheese the tortilla. Let's see. Mm, mm. Super rica. Super dica. That's great. That's a preveche. Despite this being a tortilla made with 30 eggs and 5 kilograms of potatoes,

it's made in the normal way. Igualmente, that any person would make it. With your frying pan, suelta with your plate on top. Turning it over with the plate on top. If you've never seen how a tortilla is made, then you need to check out season 3, episode 29, in which Alba and I made a tortilla Spaniola.

and I think there are some photos around there too, so I'll make sure that we share these on the website. Very well, then, we'll continue with our visit to Cordova. Before we head back to the station and to Malaga, we're going to take a wonder over the famous Pwente Romano and see if we can have a chat with some other people who are visiting the city.

I began by asking Abraham and Patricia from Seville if they were on holiday in Cordoba. Well, the reality is that we've been to visit, because I work with Guia touristic and I'm impopathing me of Cordoba. Very good.

And you know much of Corbara? Well, I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. So, then,

then you're going to do tours with the tourists? Yes. Tour with tourists of Seville. I'll try here in Fugonneta and we do and we're doing the tour.

Then, we're going to the mechita and that's and to see via again. Okay, did you get all that? Abraham was saying that he comes from Seville and he's a tour guide.

So he is in Cordoba, in a sense, preparing for the tours that he's going to be running to Cordoba with tourists. So he says, Los Traio here in Furgoneta. I bring them here in a van. It's like one of these mini buses, if you like, or a very large station wagon, if you like. And we'll do the tour.

then we go to the Mezquita then we go to the Mezquita and all that and to Seville again and then returning to Seville once more so he's running day trips to Cordoba from Seville and he's doing a little bit of research today

we also spoke to Magdalena a Cordoba native and she told my colleague Flora what she liked most about the city To me what I'm most about the city Toes. I'm the barrio of la Joderya and the Plaza of the Corredera are the cities most beautiful for me of Cordoba

Mezquita, too. Preciousa. The mechita is that from metient to the mesquita and it's divine. What the past is that we have

very vistas. But it's precious. It's a marvellina. So Magdalena mentions two places, the Barrio

de la Joderia, the Jewish quarter, and the Plaza of the Corredera. That's not somewhere we've been yet. However,

hopefully we'll get there at some point. Zura asked if Magdalena also liked the Mezita Cathedral.

And although she does like that, she said that they've been visiting it since so she was a child, so she's seen it many times. It's beautiful. It's a marvel, but she's seen it many times. One of the things most interesting when we're

on vacation or to visit in other city is to talk to talk. And I'm here with one of tourists, two tourists, Australians, Australianas. Hello, what how tell? Hello. That's not the right word. That is indeed the right word.

Tell us why you're visiting Cordoba. I've came to Spain many times. as a child with my family, but only to Costa de Brava, Costa del Sol. And Ava's learning Spanish at school, so we thought it would be a good opportunity to come and discover some places I don't know. Very well. Eva, what do you tell? Very well, thank you. How do you know, Eva? How many. How many years have?

Tried years. Very good. And where you're from? From where? Australia. Very well. And you're very well. The Spanish. Thank you. This really has been the hottest time of the day.

It was about 40 degrees while we were recording the interviews on the Puente Romano. It's time to head back to the station and to head back to Malaganao. If you'd like to see more of Cordoba and see some of the video that we filmed while we were there, including the video in the Bar santos, then you can check out the full version of Enmata on Coffee Break Spanish on the Coffee Break Academy. Each episode comes with a full transcript of all of the Spanish that you've heard in this episode, and also our language study episode where my colleague Anne and I

discuss the language contained each episode and give you further practice of the constructions, the grammar and the vocabulary. We also provide a full vocabulary list and exercises and activity pack to help you get the most out of what you're learning in each episode. If you've not yet signed up for the full online course of Enmata then you can do so at coffeebreaktravels.com

And of course if you have signed up, then you can access to all of those bonus materials already in the Coffee Break Academy. Well, as you've just heard, we are now returning to Malaga from a wonderful day spent in Cordoba. It has been very well. It has done much a cold, but, well, it's all good, all good, all good. We hope you've enjoyed this episode of In Marcha with Coffee Break Spanish, and you've enjoyed listening to some of the interviews and the information that we shared about the beautiful city of Cordoba. We'll be back again soon with more Coffee Break Spanish in the meantime. Much thanks.

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