Coffee Break Spanish - CBS Mag 4.03 | Días de fiesta en Bilbao

Episode Date: May 17, 2022

Our Coffee Break Spanish Magazine hosts, Mark and Anabel, are back for another episode! This time we hear a text about a Basque celebration which takes place in Bilbao. Throughout the text, we come across some interesting language points, including the expression por todo lo alto; the verbs asomarse and quemar; and the structure of hay que. Marina joins Mark at the end of the episode to discuss the phrase: pasarlo bomba, pasarla chévere, ser la leche/la bomba.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 Brick Spanish Magazine Season 4 Episode 3 Hello to Coffee Brick Spanish I'm Mark And I'm Annabelle, what are Mark? Very well, and you? Yeah, fantastic. Well, I'm very content to be here with you again in the studio

to grab another episode of Coffee Brick Spanish. Today, well, what we're going to talk? Well, today we're going to beaugh. Very well, very interesting. Can you know Any of

Bilbao? Well, no, but after this episode, I think I'm sure that's

So as usual in our Coffee Break Spanish magazine, we are going to be listening to

a text we're going to be joined by Marina in just a moment for the text

and then afterwards we'll go through the entire text talking about all of the

language contained in that text. You do Annabel? Me

is stupend Well, we're going to hear the text we'll to say to

Marina Hello Mark Oh, Annavel how you're how are

today we're to talk to talk about some some different

different fiest people days in Bilbao you got

the parties in Spain if is so you

can you can be a same the Bilbao, also known as Bilbo-Astegucia in Eusquera.

This celebration of the Assumption of Our Signora is one of the most popular and important of the country Basco. It's at finales of August, in the allrederedores of the Theatre Arriaga, from whose balcony is alcoe Mariah, the symbol official of the festival from 1997,

after the famous chupinazzo. For suppose, that's not so it has appeared the pregoner. With this, they're initiates and diversion

in those that the culture Basque for all the alto. There are concerts of music Basque, championships of sports rural,

like the corte of tronco or a rastre of pietra, and competitions of Fuegos Artificial, among others. Lever

centenaries of activities that inunds the capital Vizcaina. The entertainment of the most peques

also is assured. Disfrutar of the desfile of gigantes and

they'll a gargantua. This is a figure mythica of the country Basco,

although is of French. The first gargantua was created in

1854, although 20 years more later, was destroyed during one of the guerras carlistas. During the defile,

the parents will be how Gargantua devora the children that are the fauces, but no

you have to beupers because in the interior Gargantua has a tobogan. After

of nine days, it's Marihaya of new, but in this occasion

is to to despid the future this this is made with

his quem before the spectators. Marihaya appears and with the arms in

alto, as a signal of optimism and a great very

very interesting no? Yes, I have much got

to go and I do there are also quite a

number of interesting words in this particular text. And we also heard a couple of words which would be linked to or would have their origin

in Eusquera. Eosquera being the Basque language, a language that's not related in any way to Spanish or indeed any other language in the region. Do you ablisheera? No, ohla. It's a one a language difficult for me because no has no has nothing of relation with the Spanish. Exactly.

Yes. But very interesting of the point of view linguistic, no? Yes. Yes,

let's go back through our text. And as usual, we'll talk through the whole thing explaining any difficult words and phrases

and there are quite a number of interesting items to discuss. So, Anabel, you want to start to

hear, for favor? Empecemos. You do the Fiestas Populares of Spain?

Annabel, can you explain us what is a Fiesta Popular? Because I think is a concept in Hispanic

culture, a Fiesta Popular. How would you describe a fiesta popular? So, a fiesta popular is a

celebration that gathers people or like the population in a certain town or city. So they celebrate something.

Okay. So with that idea of popular. We look at popular and think it means popular. And of course, these festivals or these these celebrations are very popular among the, the locals. But popular actually means of the people. And indeed, the roots of the English word are the same. So these are celebrations of the people. And the question is, te gusts de gusts de loses de spas populares de Spain. Do you like these fiestas populares of Spain. A me

I'm a time. To you, Mark? Yes, a me too. Let's continue with our text.

If it's so, you're going to encanar the Semana Grand of Bilbao, also

known as Bilboko Atsta Nagucia in Uskera. Okay, so if it is

like that, so if this is the case, you want to encanar the Semana

Grand of Bilbao. So you're going to love the big week of Bilbao. Let's look at that teva a encanar. You can use me encanta to describe something that you love. So literally, to me it enchanes. Me en canta. But if we put it into an immediate future using iir a plus infinitive,

then we use ba, because we're talking about the third person, it, the festival, te va a encanter. To you, it's going to enchantive. chant. Teva to you're going to love the Semana

Grand of Bilbao. And then we also hear it's other name. This other name is

Bilbo Asthenaguzia. So this is a name in Eusquera, the Basque language. We also

call the Basque language El Basco, but the name for the Basque language in Basque is Eusquera.

That's Okay. This celebration of the Assumcion of Our

Sioner is one of the most populares and important of the Paix Basco. So like many of these fiestas

popular, there is a religious element. It is based on or it surrounds the celebration of the Assumcion of Nuestra Senora, the assumption of our lady. And it is one of the most popular and

importantes of the pastco. And it's one of the most popular. And here we're using popular in the sort of normal sense that we've come to use it. It's one of the most popular and important festivals in the Pasco. We also see there, it's one of the most populares e-importantes. We know the normal word for and in Spanish is what, Annabelle? E. But why does it change to E here? Because the next word starts with an I, so we are not going to say i-importantes, because that is like a

long E, so we just change it into an E or E in Spanish. So E importantes. It complicates things when we're comparing the letters in English and Spanish. E importantes, it just sounds better. Okay, let's find out more about the Semana Grande. Empeza at finales of Augusto in the Allrede D'Eager, from whose balcony

is Marihaya the symbol official of the first from 1978

after the famous chupinazzo Okay, a very interesting word at the end we'll come back to Empeza

Finale's of August so it begins towards the end of August Now at final is a really

useful expression of the month. What would we call around the beginning of the month, Annabelle? A principios de. So, for example, a principios de, August or a principios de, so that's around the beginning. We're not actually saying it's the first of the month or the second of the month. It's just around the beginning of the month. A principios de, and then the month. Is there a word for around the middle of the month? Yes, there is. A mediados, August. Perfect. So we've got

a principios de, and a finales de, extremely useful Spanish expressions there for talking about the beginning, the middle, and the end of the month. So this festival begins at the finales of August. It begins at the end of the month of August. In Los Alrede Degos del Teatro Arjaga. So it begins around the

Arjaga theater. And then an interesting expression here, from whose balcony, so we've mentioned the Teatro Ariaga, and then from the balcony thereof, the balcony of the Teatro Ariago, from whose balcony Saléryhaya. So what is Marijaya? The symbolo official of the festival, or the celebration. And it's Desde, Mnard178, from 1978.

It's always tricky to get numbers when they come like that. There's a date later on, see if you can work that one when we get to it. And Marijaya comes out on the balcony, Tras el Famoso Chupinazo. So a really interesting word there. Tras here is meaning kind of after. So immediately after El Famozo Chupinazzo. Annabel,

you can't explain what is the tupinazo? The chupinazzo is a word Basque and it

means the coete or the signal that initial the celebration. Okay.

So it is like a firework. It's a rocket that goes off announces the beginning

of the celebration. Very well. Let's continue on. For supposed, Eso no so no se after

he has appeared the pregonero. Okay, for sure, Eso no se does not do itself.

This isn't done. After has appeared the pregonero. Can you give us another word for pregonero? Is the

person that does the notices? or in this case, the one who just holds a speech. Okay, so I think we would probably call this person the town crier in English. The person who announces things.

You can imagine in old English it would be, oh yeah, oh yeah, there is something happening and so on. With a bell, right? Yeah, exactly. So this is the pregonero. And the pregonero appears first, then the chupinazzo, and then the marijaya. the official symbol will appear on the balcony of Teatro Ariaga. Okay, very specific orders to the beginning of this festival. So, with this,

with this, nine days of activities and diversion in those that's celebara the culture Basque for all the alto. Okay, so con this, with this kind of combination of things, So nine days of activities and Diversion. So nine days of activities and fun,

se initiin begin. In those that's the culture Basque for all the alto. So in which we're talking about these nine days, in which the Basque culture

se celebra culture, so all the world. Literally, for all the high, but it's how you would say to celebrate something in style. Is that how you would translate that, Annabelle? Asi or like luxurious

without thinking on the budget, just like doing it, like for todo lo alto. So no expense spared or something like that. Ase is. Very good. Okay, let's find out what there are in this festival. There are.

of sports rural as like the Corte of Tronco or Arrastre of Piedra and competitions of Fegos Artificial, among others.

So there are concerts of Basque Music Basque, championships or competitions of rural sports, Deportes Rurales Rurales and then some

examples are given like the Corte of Tronco. So that would be log chopping or arrastre of stone dragging I guess

when you drag a stone along it must be a heavy stone or something like that and competitions of fireworks and competitions of fireworks among other things you have seen

you have seen something like that's not and you I see there's like the Highlands Games I think they are called. Okay,

clear. Yes, I thought you were meaning in Spain. Have I seen something like this in Spain? But yes, I've seen many

Highland games here in Scotland with the caper tossing and the like. Yes. For me they are quite similar. They are not the same, but similar.

I think there are quite a number of links culturally between the north of Spain and Scotland, that whole Celtic culture. But yeah, that's for another podcast. Let's finish this paragraph of Yeah,

Yeah, A Aver Centenaries of that inunded the capital Biscayna. Right, so we've got

the word aye, which means there is. Here we've got Jega Aver. So Aver is

the infinitive of aye, and so what we're really saying here is there ends up being or there

arrives at being. which sounds very strange in English. So there ends up being hundreds, centenaries of activities that innundan, so inundar is a verb meaning to flood. So these flood the capital Biscayina.

So Bithcaina is the adjective linked to Bithcaya, which is the region. So the region of Bithcaya in the north of Spain. So, Mark. Paramos a bit. Yes, okay, we'll be back

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Like all our online courses, the magazine course is available on the Coffee Break Academy. Just head to Coffee Break Language G's.com slash magazine where you'll find all the information you need. Okay, today we are talking about the Semana Grande in Bilbao in the north of Spain. Let's continue finding out more about all of the entertainment in this festival. The entertainment of the entertainment of the bestis also is aseurado.

Okay, Los most peques, how else could we see that expression? The most Pequinos? Yes, okay, we're talking, of course, about Los Niños, the children here. So, the entertainment of the most peques

of the littlest ones, the children, also, so there's lots on offer also for the little ones for younger children. And Aseurado, we've seen words like this before.

Seguro means sure. So, Aseurado, assured, or garseurado. guaranteed. Disfrutaran del desfile of gigantes

and cabesudos and they're a gargantua. This is a figure mythica of the

Basco, although is the origin French. Okay. Disfrutaran. We've got a future tense

of the verb Disfrutar and it's Disfrutar de something so they will

enjoy the desfile of gigantes and cabisudos. So

This is a parade of giants and cabesudos. These are big heads. Can you explain that, Annabelle? So, muñecos or marionettes, grandes, and are gigantes, because they're very grandes or cabesudos,

because their head are too big. They're very grandes. Okay, so these are, I remember seeing these in Barcelona, in a festival there, in a celebration there. and their enormous heads maybe I don't know

five meters high or something like that and people walking through the streets with these on themselves carrying them the heads so it's quite a sight to behold so the children will enjoy these parades of gigantes and cabezudos and they will see

another future tense there from ber they will see gargantua this is a figure mythic of the Basco it's a mythical figure from the Basque country, although it is the origin French origin. The first gargantua

was created in 1854, although 20 years more later, was destroyed during one of the guerras carlistas. Okay, so some historical information here, and we got another

date. The first gargantua was created in 1854. So the first gargantua was created in, did you get the date, 1854? Although 20 years later, it was destroyed during one of the Cargantusas during one of the Carlist Wars. During the delfts, the parents could run how Gargantua devora to the Foucauxes. Okay, this sounds quite scary, especially for younger children.

During the desphile, during the parade, the parents will be able to see how gargantua devora to the children. How gargantua devours the children that se asomen to his fauchess. So a little bit technical there. So asomarse means to kind of lean out, to lean out of something.

You can astroa Marce of a window, so you can lean out of a window but there are children that are leaning out of his jaws. Are these real children? Or is this all made of papio-Marche?

They are real children but now we are going to see what there's inside, what is going to happen. Okay. But no there's to be preoccuparse because in

your interior gargantua has a tobogan. Okay, so no to be preoccuparce. You mustn't worry because in its interior, gargantua has a tobogan. There's a slide in the

interior of gargantua. So these are, they are real children hanging out its jaws, but the jaws are just part of the structure. Okay, let's finish off. the text. After

of nine days, it's Mariah again, but in this occasion is to

despeding the pastes until the next year. Okay. So

after nine days later, Aparece Mariah again. Mariah appears again. But in

this occasion, is to dispedir the fiestas. But on this occasion, it's in

order to say goodbye to the festivities, until the following year. It's interesting to see Despedier, because there we're seeing Despedier las fiestas to say goodbye

to the festivities. You can also use despidier in a reflexive form, despediarse. And in that sense, it is more about saying goodbye yourself. Mm-hmm, that's yes. Can you give us an example of that, Annabel?

Me despied of my parents in the airport. Ah, okay. So despediurates in the preterate tense, me despedi. I said goodbye to, a my parents, in the airport, in the airport. Very well. But, still no no we don't say goodbye yet, Mark. You're quite right. Let's finish off the text then. This is so with his chema, delante of the spectators. This is done with her chema.

So, chemar is the verb to burn. So it is her burning. Marihaya is burning, delante of the spectators. So the Marihaya, the symbol, is burned in front of the spectators. Marihaya appears,

and with the brazos in so Mariahiaia appears playing, she appears dancing and with her arms raised as a signal as a sign of optimism and fun. Very good. Okay, let's go back and listen to the text once more. And as we do so, see if you can identify some of these things that we've talked about, So the dates, make sure you listen out for the dates. Let's have a listen to the text again.

Dias of Fiesta in Bilbao. You got the fiestas populares of Spain? If it's so, you'll be to encantar the Semana Grand of Bilbao, also known as Bilboqa, Asti, Nagucia, in Euskera. This celebration of the Assumption of Our Senior is one of the most popular and important

of the Pa-Basco. It's at finales of August in the surroundings of the theatre Arriaga, from whose balcony is called Marijaya, the symbol official of the feast

from 1997 after the famous chupinazzo. For support, that no is not so that has appeared the pregoner With this,

there are nine days of activities and diversion in those that the culture Basque for all the alto. There are concerts of music Basque, championships of deportes rural as the

court of tronco or a rastre of and competitions of fuels artificial, among others. There are centenaries of

activities that inunds the capital Viscayina. The entertainment of the most pecs also is also sured, disfuteran of the defile

of gigantes and cabisudos and will a gargantua. This is a figure mythic of the country

Basque, although it's the origin French. The first Gargantua was created in 1854,

although 20 years more later, was destroyed during one of the

Guarras Carlistas, during the desfile, the parents can't be how Gargantua devora the children that are some fauces, but

no is to be preoccupation, because in their interior, Gargantua has a tobogan. After 9 days, it appears Marijaya again, but in this occasion is

to give the pastes after the next year. This is with her kemah Delante of the spectators. Marijaya appears

and with the arms in alt as a signal of optimism and diversion. It's time now for our Ginda del Pastel

for this episode. We've been talking about festivals and parties and so on in Bilbao and I'm sure the people there

were having a great time and I think that's something to do with the expression that Marina

has for us today. Hello Marina. Hello Mark, what tell? Yes, the expression

of today, the truth is that me can't. Do you discoverer? Yes, clear. Passarlo

bomba. Ah, okay, now this is something that I remember learning very early in my Spanish

learning and this idea of me lo paso bomba or lo passo bomba, I'm having a great time

or I suppose a very similar expression in English would be I'm having a blast linking the

bomb to blast. Yeah, I would say this is like an explosion of fun time that you're having. Yeah, it's nice. And I really like it.

There are some similar expressions like passarlo chatchi or pasarlo why. I think, but passarlo bomb is like bigger. Okay. It gives an example in a sentence then.

For example, me it's a campo with my primos. So I love going to the countryside with my friends or with my cousins rather, Siempre lo passo bomba. I always have a great time.

We always have a blast. Interestingly, Marina, we can say lo paso bomba, but we can also say me lo passu bomba, can we? Yeah, that's right. We can say passar lo bomba or passarselobombe. So I could say, or if we were talking about other people for example Marina and Annabel

se lo passan bomba as graber coffee break Spanish So is perfecto So so lo passan bomba Or just lo pass and bomba if they prefer Either we What about in Latin America Is this expression used as commonly

Well there's a slightly different thing here Because normally in Latin America they would say Pasarla instead of Pasarlo Okay and would

Bomba fit or do we have other words there there are similar expressions that are

really really used in there for example Pasarla Chido Pasarla chevere or

Pasarla Padissimo Okay and all of these would mean something similar having a

great time yeah that's right okay now one other question I had

about this Marina, was about the expression bomba. Can you describe something as la bomb? Yes. We can also say that something is la bomba when we think that something is great. For example, you can be telling a friend about a new face cream that you've discovered

and it's absolutely amazing and you can say, this new crema facial is the bomba. Tienes to So this new face cream literally is the bomb. It's fantastic. Tienes to try it. Or let's see a second example. Imagine there's a teacher, a new teacher at school, and the children love the teacher and you think it's an excellent teacher. You can say something like, Los Ninos are felicit with the new professor, and I also is the bomb. So the kids are really happy with

The new teacher, Me Too, is La Bomba. The teacher is the bomb. They are fantastic. Very well. Well, we hope that this episode has been fantastic for you. And we hope that you have passed, Bomba. Very well. Much thanks, Marina.

Thanks to you. Thanks to you. After soon, Mark. Annabel, is that a phrase that you use often, Isla Bomba? Yes, but I have to admit that I prefer to say, is the leche. Okay.

It's the milk. So for me things are la leche are the milk when they are really good. Okay. So there you have it. Two for the price of one there. Indeed, three for the price of one. We've got Pasar la bomba and the other expressions that Marina said. Is la bomba or is la leche? Very well.

Well, much gracias. I definitely hope to experience the festivals in Bilbao sometime. And I hope you've all enjoyed this episode of Coffee Break Spanish. Thank you very much. Muchisemas and thank you. And after the next.

Adios.