Coffee Break Spanish - CBS Mag 4.02 | Ritmos latinos: la bachata

Episode Date: May 3, 2022

Welcome to another episode of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine! This time Mark and Anabel go through a text about bachata, a popular type of Latin music, and discuss its origin and influences. Along the way, we provide explanations about a range of grammar and vocabulary points including: how to use se trata de and trata de to mean 'it’s about'; using the prefix des- in words like desamor and deshacer; and using the passive se. To finish, Marina joins Mark to discuss our cherry on top: dar el do de pecho.In each episode of this 10-lesson season for intermediate learners you can build your vocabulary, increase your understanding of grammar and learn to use the Spanish language in a more natural way. This series is aimed at intermediate Spanish learners.There will be a total of 10 episodes of Season 2 of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. If you'd like to benefit from lesson notes, transcripts, vocabulary. lists and exercises, you can access the premium version of the Magazine here.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.

Coffee Break Spanish Magazine, Season 4, Episode 2. Hello, all, and bienveniles to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Annabelle. What, Mark? Super bien. And you, how, how are you? Well, very well, so.

Very well. Today, we're back with another episode of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. Now, you may have noticed our slightly Latin American-flavored music there. I should point out, this is our kind of Andean music, Andina version of the coffee break Spanish theme tune. And that's because we're focusing on a Latin American topic today.

Although that topic is not anything to do with Andy in music, it's more to do with another type of music. Anabel, what we're going to be going to talk today. The bachata. Okay, we're going to get straight into this. We're joined today by Sebastian.

We'll take it away. You're ready? Yes. We'll take it away. Hello, Sebastian. Thank you, Mark. Thanks, Annabelle. Today, we are talking about

Rhytmos Latinos, La Batchata. Empecemos. When we're about music Latino-American, we make reference to the rhythms popular that have their origin in this region.

Dada its ample diversity cultural, and thanks to their rickas traditions millenarias, Latin America, us regala a sin-fing

of stilos musicales. The experts assure that the music Latin is a fusion of the

different rhythms that were in America Latina, between those that is including

the influence indigena, European, and African. The concept of music Latin began to

use to in the years in the United to to different the

rhythm afro-american and And, in it, it's in the genders, like the

merengue, the bachata, the rumba, or the reggeton, and other. Discovering what is the bachata?

In this genre musical, music and ballet, band-de-the- -money. It's

a type of music ballable. Nacian in Republic Dominicana, as part

of the folklore urban. It's considered a derivative of bolero rhythmical, although

it's a influence of some styles Cubano, like the merengue. The fusion of styles it's more.

In the Batchata traditional, the maracas propies of the bolero were substituted by the Uyra,

so impused the bongo Cubano and the guitars of Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.

The Batchata Nacio at finales of the 60, in the marginality urban

of Santo Domingo, and was disdegnaed as music of the poor. It was called the Music of Amarge, that has a allusion to the melancholia

for the desamor. Sin embargo, a part of the 80, it was popularized, and in the actuality,

it's a great public in all the world. Some of his representatives more

are, Romeo Santos, Maite Perroni or Prince Royce. Well, very

interesting, Thank you, much thanks, Sebastian. Now, we would definitely suggest, obviously we can include examples of copyright music here on the podcast, but we would definitely suggest that you have a look for some of these names,

Romeo Santos, Maidi Peroni, and Prince Royce on YouTube, and you'll get a flavor for what the batata sound is, if you're not familiar with it already. We're going to now go through our text again, and we'll talk about all of the language, some really interesting vocabulary in here.

Annabel, you want to start with the lecture of the question. Sure.

Let's when we talk about about music Latin American we're a lot of the rhythms

popular that have their origin in this region. Okay, when we talk,

the music Latin American when we talk about Latin American music, we make reference or

we refer to the Rhymns popular rhythms that have their origin in this region, which have their origin in this region. If instead

of saying, we'll prefer to use a reflexive verb, then is, we're referring to a those rhythms. Ah, very well, then referrise to something. So you either use referenceia to something or referriss

to something. One or the other. That's right. Dada So, Dada's a amplia diversity cultural and

thanks to the rich traditions millenaries, Latin America no regala

a sin of styles musical So Dada a

diversity cultural given its wide cultural diversity again

looking at lots of words that are cognates there Dada your

Amplia Diversid cultural And this given it's infeminine Yes, because we're talking about diversity.

Yep. Very good. And thanks to its rich traditions millenarias, and thanks to its rich traditions, millenarias, which go back thousands of years, or dating back thousands of years, millenarias, Latin America, us regala an sin-fin of stilis musicales.

We've seen this lovely word before, a sin-fin without end. Latin America us it presents us, it offers us it gifts us a myriad,

an endless number of estios musical styles. Okay. The experts assurts that the music Latina is

a fusion of the different rhythms that have a lot okay. The experts assurals

asegu-as-sueur- Asegular, kind of means to ensure. But here we could just translate it as see, experts see or experts claim that the music Latin music is a fusion, it's a fusion of the different rhythms that took place, which were present or have been present

in America Latina, in Latin America, Okay, entre those who they include the influence indigena, European, and African

Okay, entre those who's between or among, those which include

the influence indigena, the indigenous influence European, still we're talking about the

influence, the European influence and African and the African influence. So just to clarify here, experts say that Latin music is a fusion of the different rhythms

that have been present in Latin America between those that are included the influence indigena, European, European and African influences. The concept of music Latin began to use in the years 50 in States

United to differentiate the of the rhythms afroamericanos. Okay.

The concept of Latin music began to use to in the years 50 in

States So it began to use itself or be used. We would use a passive

in English there in the 50s in the 50s in the States in

United States. to differentiate la of the arduresacemiricanos in order to differentiate it from the Afro-American rhythms and la

that la refers to music latina and goes after the infinitive that's right so when we've got the pronoun

la there is stuck onto the end of the infinitive because we've got an infinitive construction here to differentiate la

it's stuck onto the infinitives like we've seen in many examples. So in order to differentiate it from Latin American rhythms. And dentro of El, they're including genres like El Merengue, la Batchata, La Rumba, or the Regetone,

entre others. Okay. And dentro of El, so this L is interesting because what exactly does the El refer to there? El Concepto. It cannot be music Latina because it's masculine. So the subject of the sentence, the concepto de music latina. It's mentioned way back at the beginning,

but Dentro de El, we're referring back to that there. So within it, i.e. the concept of music, of the music, of Latin music, so includeen are included generos,

like the merengue, la bachata, la rumba, or the reggaeton. So are included styles such as, genres, such as merengue, bachata, rumba, and regeton, entre others, among others, because as we've mentioned

there are many, many types of musica Latina, including the type in our jingle, which we're just going to hear because we'll be back in just a moment. If you'd like to take your Coffee Break magazine experience further, why not consider our online course version, which includes additional materials to help you build your knowledge of the language through lesson notes, additional explanations, vocabulary lists and transcripts to accompany each episode. Like all our online courses, the magazine course is available on the course. Coffee Break Academy. Just head to coffeebreaklanguages.com slash magazine where you'll find all the information you need. Okay, let's continue with our text. Discovering what is the Batchata? So this is a question. Descubrimos. Will we discover what Batchata is? In this genre musical, music and ballet, van de la man

so it's a type of music ballable okay in this musical genre

music and this musical genre music and violin so ir de la man means literally

to go with the hand but is the expression that we use for English to go hand in hand

Anabel can say two people can be the man for example Miguel and

Raul van de la man they're holding hands? Yes, yes, it's a and also

two things are in the man are in just like. Okay. So it can be

used both figuratively and physically you can be holding hands but you can also things go hand

in hand with each other. As is. Very good. I've got a question as well.

Would we, the thing that surprised me in this example here in this general

music and music and violin very often when we use abstract nouns in Spanish we tend to have to use the definite article, La music and the ballet. Why don't we use the article there?

We can't say, La music and the ballet, ban de la man, but suena mehore sin la music and el baile. So it's a little more natural. It sounds a little more natural, just to say, music and ballet, band de la mano. And as a result of this, we've said in this musical genre,

music and dance go hand in hand, So what we're talking about here is a very danceable type of music, a type of music, a type of music, a type of music. Aalabelle, is an interesting expression. Annabel, we kind of know what it means. It's about a danceable type of music, but it's one of those tricky things to translate, isn't it? It is, yeah.

It's a difficult or defiant. It's about something. But we cannot change that it. It's like its message is about something. Yeah, that's it. So we couldn't say, for example, the film, it's not talking about the blah, blah, blah.

Because the say is not talking about the movie. It's talking about the message of the film or the message of the song, the meaning behind the song, the story or whatever. So that's why we would need to say, for example, in the film, se traita de the messages, to demonstrate the difference between an adult and a child or

el-a-or-or-or-whatever it happens to be. But it's about the message. The message is about something. So it's quite tricky to get an accurate or an effective translation of Saitrata. Here we can just say that we're talking about we're talking about a very danceable type

of music. Let's see. Nacio in Republic Dominican as part of urban. Okay, it was born

from Nasser in Republic Dominican in the Dominican Republic as part of urban as a part

of urban folklore. So, It is a derivative of the bolero

rhythm although the influence of some styles Cubano like

the mereng Okay, it is considered. Just watch the pronunciation and the stress

of that word. Se Consider in English we say considered but

consider a consider a derivative of the bolero rhythm so it's

considered as a derivative of the rhythmic bolero, another type of music, although it's a influence of some Estesils Cubano, but it also

highlights the influence of some Cuban styles of some Cubans, like the merengue, such as the merengue. La fusion of styles la enriquece even more. Okay, a nice verb enriquecer. So we've got

Rico in there, and because the The E sound is part of the infinitive. The C, the sea of Rico, becomes a QU, so enriquecer. It enriches it. La fusion of styles, the fusion of styles, la enriquece even more. It enriches it even more. And here, also can say, still more. Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Even more, yet more. Very well. in the bachata traditional the maracas propias of bolero were substituted for the

Uyra okay so here we're getting some musical vocabulary in the traditional bachata

the maracas propias of the bolero so the maracas which are typical of the bolero

were substituted for the guira they were replaced by the Guira

or sometimes it's called Aguero in English So Impuso the bongo Cubano and the guitaras

propias of Cuba, Mexico and Puerto Rico Okay, so so, so

literally the bongo was imposed was introduced and so another example of introduced and

so introduced the guitars propius of Cuba, Mexico and the guitars typical of Cuba,

Mexico, in Puerto Rico were introduced. Se Introdujeron. Now that's quite a tricky verb tense

there. We're looking at the preterate but of course it's introducir in the infinitive and in the

preterate that takes on a different form. Let's go through that introduce verb in the

preterate. So I introduced introduce You introduced You introduced He or she or you polite introduced Introduced

Introduced We introduce We introduce We all plural and formal introduced Introduced Introductus And they or you all

polite introduced Introduced Introduceron Intradujer Very So the J and there is the typical of the preterate. And the same goes for conducée, condujit, condujita, condujo,

condujimus, conduitis, condujero. Very well. Okay, let's find it more about the Batchata. The Batchata nacio, in the marginalidad urban of Santo Domingo, and was disdainedada as music of the poores. So, La Batchata Nacio,

we've seen this before, it was born. at finales de los 60 in the end of the 60s so in the late 1960s and was desdeñada

so this looks like disdain in English we could say and it was scorned in a sense as music of the povres it was looked down upon as music of the poor the word

he gave the name of music of Amarge that has a to the melancholia for the desamor. Okay, so

so, so it was given the name or one gave it the name of music de amarge. Now this is interesting, music of amarge. The word amargo

means bitter, but can you help us understand amarge? Amarge comes from amarigar. So amargar is

when you embitter someone. So you make someone bitter or you can also amargar a video to

someone. So that's when you suck the light out the life out of someone it's not very pleasant so it's got this idea of bitter music or embittering music

it's not the best translation but Musica de Amarge works in Spanish and this a lucion it alludes to the melancholia for elizamor

the melancholy of heartbreak my goodness we're getting getting quite deep into all of this now. So, La Melancholia for El Desamore through heartbreak. Sin embargo, a part of the 80,

so it's popularized and in the actuality it's with a grand public in all the world. Okay, sin embargo, however, a part of the 80s, from the 80s onwards, Los 80s, we always use los 80, los 60 and so on,

for the decade, the 80s here. of the 60s. It became popular. And in the actuality, and literally in the actuality, but that means nowadays, it's a grand public in all the world. Literally, it counts with a great public in the whole world. It enjoys a large audience all over the world.

Some of his representatives are Romeo Santos Maite Perroni or Prince Royce. So, some of his best known representatives are Romeo Santos, Maite Perroni or Prince Royce.

Well, very well, as we suggested earlier, we would definitely suggest that you have a look on YouTube to see some of these representatives, representatives, representants of the bachata. But what we'll do now is listen once more to the text

and hopefully this time things will make a little more sense as we went through everything together. When we talk about to music Latino American, we make a lothism populares that have their origin in this region.

Dada his ample diversity cultural and thanks to its rich traditions millenaries, Latin America, us regala even-fin-of-stil musicales. The experts

assure that the music Latin is a fusion of the different rhythms that have been in America Latina, between those

that is including the influence indigena, European, and African. The concept of music

Latina started to in the years 50 in States United, to differentiate the

rhythms Afro-American and in it, So, we include in generos like the merengue, the bachata, the rumba, or the reggaeton, among us.

Discovered what is the bachata? In this genre musical, music and ballet, band-the-law. It's a type of music ballable. Naccio in Republic Dominican,

as part of the folklore urban. It's considered a derivative of bolero rhythmical, although that's the influence of some styles Cubans, like the merengue.

The fusion of styles it enriches even more. In the Batchata traditional, the maracas propers of Bolero were substituted by the Uyra. She impused the bongotubano and the guitars

propious of Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. The Batchata naceda, in the marginality urban of St.O.M.O.N.O.O.N. Domingo, and was deignated as music of the poor.

It's a name of Music of Amargue, that has a allusion to the melancholia for the disamor. Sin embargo, a part of the 80 it was popularized,

and in the actuality, it's a great public in all the world. Some of his representatives more known are Romeo Santos,

Maite Perroni, or Prince Royce. Well, we know We know. So, so we're going to marches, but before to marches, we're going to

the ginda of the pastel that we're trying, Marina. Well, hello, Marina. Hello, Mark. How are you? Well, very very well. What have you got for us

today on the ginda of the pastel? Well, we're a new expression. Dar the Doe of Pecho. Okay, dar the do

de pecho. The do, the do, is that the musical note? Do. That is. Very bien. Okay.

So we've got, if you've ever seen this out of music, you'll know that it's do. Re mi, Vaso, Latido, and so on. Or si-do, depending on what version you want to use. But, so we're talking about do, but this is the do de pecho from the breath, from the chest. That's right. So we are saying, like, we are giving the do from our chest. And this is related, the origin of this expression, has to do as. you can guess with music.

Okay. So, we can say that this expression proceeds of the world of the can't.

And we a tenor that does the do of pecho that is the most aguda that can

reproduce with his voice. Right. So this is the high sea, I guess from a musical

point of view that a tenor would that's a fairly high note to reach for a tenor I have to say.

But yeah, so I have no idea to be Well, I'm definitely more a baritone or a bass, but there's no way I could reach high C in a tenor voice. So it is la Nota Mass Aguda. It's the highest note that can reproduce that his voice can reproduce.

Now, it's only really good tenors that can get up to there, isn't it? Yes, really good. And they also have to work really hard to get to this point. Yes. So that's the relation to this expression. Because when we say in Spanish, that'll do de pecho, signific that we're doing

a great effort, an effort extraordinary for to achieve an objective. Okay. Give us an example of this expression then. For example, the child took to give the do of pecho in the examines finales

to obtain these magnificent results. Okay, so the chico took to give his absolute best, make a huge effort or sing that high see in the final exams to obtain those magnificent results in order to obtain those magnificent results.

Marina, I'm thinking about something here when in English, certainly in Scottish English, we have an expression to be up to high dough. But that's when you're very worried about things rather than when you're making a huge effort in English. It's a slightly different meaning. But we do have, if you describe someone,

oh, they're up to high dough, then I guess it's coming from a similar reason, although I'm not quite sure about the origins of that. So they are worried about something? Yeah, if you're up to high dough, you're running around all concerned about things, trying to get everything ready for something, or you're up to high dough and worry about perhaps

your son who's taking his final exams. Okay, so we know definitely Doe is something really difficult. So people, when they want to reach that dough, they have to either make a great effort or they are very stressed about the thing. Indeed, indeed. Well, let's hope no one is up to high dough

and that we're all making a great effort with our Spanish in the coming week. For now, much gracias, Marina. Nothing, much thanks to you. next. After soon. Well,

much thanks, Marina. As you're for this episode of Coffee Break

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be focusing on a different topic. We'll be returning to Spain next time because we're

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