Coffee Break Spanish - CBS Mag 4.06 | Isabel Allende

Episode Date: June 28, 2022

In this episode of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine, Mark and Anabel discuss a text about the life and work of a very famous novelist who was born in Chile - Isabel Allende. While learning more about Isabel Allende throughout the text, we discuss some interesting language points including regular and irregular participles and the difference between ser and estar. As always, Marina joins Mark at the end of the episode and this time, we learn the meaning behind an interesting Spanish expression.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 6. Hello, all, and welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Mark? What are you? All right. And you? I'm very well and very content to be here.

Let's see what today's text is about. Well, today's about. Today's about a writer, Chilean, that's called Isabel Allende. You've seen, something of her? Well, I see, I've seen many years I've seen a

book of her, that's the house of the spirits. And it's a book very interesting.

Well, I have to admit that I have read nothing of and I have much

got to know and see what more has published. Well, we're to learn the

text and then then we'll talk a little about a

about the grammatica, about the vocabulary and the words interesting that's interesting

in this text, all right? It's stupend Perfect. Well, then we'll hand you over

to someone else to read the text and that is Sebastian. Hello, Sebastian. Thank you, Mark. Thanks,

Annabel. Today, we are talking about Isabella Allende. Empecemos. Isabel Allende is a

celebrity of origin Chilean, a child of a diplomatico that was who inspired

his gusto for the letters. He studied periodism and his first

creations written about works of the theater and literature infantile.

Also he also also work and the press

and the television. It has been a woman

committed with a time in the F.A.O. A.O.,

an organization of the Nations Unitas that He's encarred of the major of the level of

the population. He was with Miguel Frias, with who two children, Paula, who moved

a cause of a cause of a disease, and served to do his works,

titled Paula, and Nicholas. Pocos years after they were divorced. His preoccupation for

things political is, and it's that his life personal was that

was a very much marked by the political. One of the the things most tragic was the assesinato of his Tio, the president, Salvador Allende, in the Gulf Militilitar Chilean

encabeased by Pinocet. After this success, Isabel was in Caracas and there commenced his prosperous production literary.

His first work was The Casa of the Spirits which in many can englovan in the realism

magical and that no tardue in a bestseller in numerous places Latin American, Spain, and other countries European,

a person, to have been rejected by various editorials. Other titles important are Eva Luna,

the Plan Infinite, Aphrodita, or Retrato in Sepia, among others. His books

have been translated to more to 25 idiomas, and are always in

the lists of rentas. You animas a practice Spanish

reading a Ysabel Allende? Well, then now you know

about Isabel Aynde Annael? No, yes, a very interesting.

Yes, yes. Okay, what we'll do now, as ever, is go through our text

in more detail and we'll talk about all the words, the vocabulary and all the grammar

in here to help you understand everything and after that we'll listen again. Let's

take it away then. Isabel Ayende is a Celebre Escriter

of origin Chilean I'm a diplomatico who was who inspired

his good for the letters Okay, so we've got Isabel

Ayende is a celebre escriptor so she's a famous writer.

Is there a difference between Celebre and Famos in the case of

Isabel? Celebre is more like celebrated and famous is a famous

person. Usually if you are famous you don't Like you don't have like to be Celebrate. It's a little bit more like you're famous but also good for being

what you do. Okay so I'm almost there's honor bestowed on her that kind of idea. So she's a famous and a celebrated writer of Origen Chilean origin Ija de un Diplomatico so she was the daughter of a diplomat who was who inspired

her gusto for las letters So this diplomat who was who inspired her taste for literature. A little bit complicated. We don't actually need that. We could just say, a diplomatio,

who inspired her gusto for the letters. That's correct. That's right. Okay, let's see. Estudio periodism and his first creations written were works of theater and

literature infantil. Okay, so studied periodism. Periodism is journalism, a periodical and newspaper, and therefore she studied, preterate tense, journalism,

and his first creations and her first written works, her first written creations, were works of theater, they were works of theater or plays, and literature

and children's literature. Also, also, she worked as redactora and columnist in the press and the television. Okay, so some more information about her. Also, she also worked

as an editor and columnist and a columnist in the press and on television. It has been always a woman compromised with her country. In 1960, she

made a member of the section Chilean of the FAO, an organization of the

Nations Unidas that's in charge of the level of the population.

Right, that was a long sentence. So, has been always a woman compromised

with their country. So Compromatida kind of looks a little

bit like compromised, but really means committed. So when someone is

committed, to her country in this case, a woman compromised with her country. She was committed to her country. Hasido Siempre, that's our perfect tense there. She has always been

a very committed, a woman very committed to her country. In 1960, so in 1960, she is a member of the section Chilean of the FAO. So she became a member

of the Chilean section of the the FAO. So that's the food and agricultural organization. But that's, that's in English. What would it be in Spanish? It will be on new AA, agriculture and alimentation. A little bit more difficult than in English. Yeah, so FAO, we'll stick with FAO. And we've got a little explanation of what it is. One organization of the United Nations. So it's an organization of the United Nations. that's

so so encargar is to take charge of to take responsibility for that's encargar

of the level of the population so it takes responsibility for improving

the standard of living of the population she casso with Miguel Frias

with who two children Paula that was a cause

of a and served to inspiration for one of his works titled Paula and Nicholas. Okay, so

she casto from casarse to get married so she married with Miguel Frias. So she married

Miguel Frias just remember to get married with someone rather than to someone in Spanish. With whom,

talking about Miguel, he had two children. Paola and Nicholas. So two children, Paula and Nicholas, and then we get more information about Paula. Paula, that muriouiou a cause of a

so who died a cause of a because of, or she died of an illness, and she served as inspiration, and she served as inspiration, or she was the inspiration for one of his works titled Paula, for one of her works in type. titled Paula. Pocos a short sentence

here, Pocos a years later, se diorciaron, they got divorced. And divorceyarse again is also reflexive like casarsse.

That's right. And just to be clear, you divorcehers de someone. Because it's like from someone and then casarsse con because it's with someone.

So preoccupation for Temes Politico's political, and is that his life personal

was a very much marked by the political. Right. This sentence is very interesting because it's got

a really interesting verb in it. It's called the verb palpar. I will come to that in a

moment. So preoccupation, her preoccupation for things political issues or with political issues,

perhaps, se palpa in much of his So there is a word in English palpable and that means when you can really feel something. And that's in a sense what this is here. So we can really feel her political issues being evident in many of her works in much of

those works. But this se palpa, the say is not, it's not reflexive, Annabelle. No, it's not reflexive. This is the passive structure with se. So it's just because palpar needs someone who does it. So usually you use this verb when you go to the doctor. And the doctor just like try to feel where the pain is. So that is palpar.

So we do have a word in English palpate, although it's quite a medical word. But it really is this kind of idea of being palpable when we're talking in a figurative sense. So this preoccupation with political issues is evident. It's palpable. It's really visible in her. her works in that sense. And then the sentence goes on. And is that

personal, it was that's who furtemente marked by the political. So the fact is, is that her personal life, estuvo furtemented marcada, it was

strongly marked for the political by politics. Anabel, why would that not be Fuert, Because markeda Markada works like an adjective

and using CER instead of a start then we will say that something happened and then that's what Mark her life and mark a change in her life and it's not actually what we are saying here we are just describing. Right. So if there

had been a particular event like I don't know the result of an election that was particularly marked her life then that in that sense that would be her life was marked by that. Her life was marked by that.

So, that was marked by the election. So here we're just describing her life. So during her life, her life was happy. Suida estuco ferrous.

In this case, it was marked by politics. So it was furtemented by the politics. As he is. It's always a little

difficult to work out these more complex estar and ser rules. It's not as simple, oh, it's a location, therefore you must use a start. It doesn't work like that all the time. And that's when we can get into the language that little bit more, and it's always very interesting to do so. Yeah, and it's also fun. I think it's part of the language is the fun that we find in it. Absolutely. Okay, let's continue on. One of the issues more tragicos was the assassinato of his Tio, the president, Salvador Allende, in the GOLP military Chile no, encabezzado for Pinocet.

So this is obviously one of the key events that did mark her life, and it represents one of the parts of the politics that were ongoing marking her life in a sense. So one of the most tragic events, or one of the most tragic facts, we can sometimes use etcho as a fact, but here it would be an event. was the assassination of her uncle, the president Salvador Allende, so president Salvador Allende, in the Golpe Militur Chilean, in the Chilean military coup, encabezado for Pinotet,

so led by Pinochet. Tras this success, Isabel was installed in Caracas and there he commenced his prosperous production literary. Okay, so Tras This Suceso

Now we've got to be careful with Suceso because it doesn't mean a success it means an event So as a result of this event or after this event

Isabel she settled in Caracas So she settled in Caracas in Venezuela And there commenced her prosperous

Propura Producion Literaria and there she began her thriving literary production She began writing

all of these works of literature. Okay, we're going to take a short break and then we'll be back in just a moment to continue working through our text. 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 Coffee Break Academy. Just head to you.

to coffeebreaklanguages.com slash magazine where you'll find all the information you need. Welcome back. And before we go on, Mark, I really liked your translation of Estaloen, that you said, to settle. And that is exactly the difference between mudarse and installarse.

Of course, yeah. So mudarse to move to a different place. But when you installarse, you really get settled there. You begin to live your life there. Exactly. So it's like one step farther to mudarse, to move. So really like that. Much like that. Yes. Let's continue on there in our next sentence.

His first work was The House of the Spirits, 1982, that much englobuncts, into the realism magical, and that no tard in convertors in numerous countries Latin American, Spain, and other countries European, a past of

having been rechas by various editorials. Quite a long sentence.

So let's put it up. So her first work was the House of the Spirits

1, 1988 1982 in 1982 that much enloban

which many classify in the realism magical magical they

classified as magic realism or magical realism and that no tardo in convertis

in a bestseller which didn't hesitate it didn't take long to become a bestseller in numerous countries

in many Latin American countries Spain and other European European countries and then we

get a little extra bit of information a a past of having been been recas

by various editorials So despite having been rejected, rechazzada, for various editorials by several publishers. Otros titulos important are Evaluna, El Plan Infinite, Aphrodita, or Retrato in Sepia,

entre others. Okay, so these are some of the other titles. Other titles are Evaluna, so the R, or we could see they include Evaluna, and plan infinito, so the infinite plan, Aphrodita, or Aphrodite, or Retrato and Sepia.

So that is like a portrait in Scipia, entre otros, among others. Sus libros have traducid to more of 25 idiomas, and are always in the lists of ventas. Okay, so those

books, her books, se have translated themselves, but it's not a reflexive say there, It's a passive say. So they have been translated a more of 25 idiomas.

They've been translated into, it's interesting to see that a there because when we think about languages we sometimes think about in Spanish, in English. But here we're translating to English or to Spanish.

So in this case, they've been translated to more than 25 languages and they're always in las listes de ventas. And they're always on the lists of sales or in better English the bestseller lists.

So, you anima's a practicare Spanish leyen to? So, te anima's, would you like to, do you fancy practicing your Spanish, a practicare Spanish leagendo a Isabel Allende? So reading Isabel Allende. And it's interesting to see that personal a in there

because, of course, leyendo reading, what are you reading or who are you reading? you're reading Isabel Allende and the object, therefore, is a person, and that's why we need the personal A, reading A Isabel Allende. I haven't read Isabel Allende yet, but I will after this. Now, so, very well, we'll have to read this.

And we'll re-excuter all this text and we'll see how much, what we understand this time. Isabel Allende is a celebrity pre-escriterer of origin Chilean, a daughter of a diplomatical that was

who was who inspired her good for the letters. He studied periodism and his first creations

written were works of theater and literature infantil. Also he worked

as a columnist in the press and the television. It has been

always a woman compromatied with her country. In 1960, he was a member of the section Chilean of the FAO, an organization of the Nations Unidas, that is

encarge of the level of life of the population. He castes with Miguel Frias, with who had two children. Paula, who moved to a cause of a

family and served of inspiration for one of his works, titled Paula, and Nicolace. Pocos years after,

they were their preoccupation for the politics is that is that his

life personal was was very was a one of the

other the other the president Salvador Allend in the

in the gold military Chile in inc the under

after this socese Isabel is installed in Caracas

and And there It was his prosperous production literary. His first

work was the Cases of the Spirits 1989 that many

englob in the realism and that it not turned

in a bestseller in numerous countries Latin American Spain

and other countries European and to have been

been read Rechazada for various editorials. Other titles important are Eva Luna, The Plan Infinite, Aphrodita, or Retrato in Sepia, among others.

His books have been translated to five languages, and are always in the lists of ventas. You anima and you're time now for the Ginda del Pasteel

for this episode, and we're delighted to, welcome back, Marina. How are you? Hello, Mark. Very how you?

Very well. Thank you. With much of the things to know what you have to us in the ginda of

pastel. Well, the ginda of the pastel today we put with the expression

to know of a good tinta. Okay, so literally to know from

good ink. That's right, yeah. So, it's a little strange

is yeah. I've been doing some research like thinking about this expression

and there is not like an specific origin but if we think about the ink the ink, the tinta, we can't think about the ink, in periodical, for example. And,

and maybe would be the idea of the idea of to know something a through this tint written with a boligrap or with the impressor. Okay, so we're looking as something that, information that we find out as a result of reading it in ink, be that from

a pen or, as you say, a newspaper that's printed with ink ultimately. Yeah, that's right. And now you might be thinking, okay, and what's like the real meaning of this? What does it mean? When do we use it? Well, we use Saber de Buena Tinta when we think that the founte the source of the

information is very very source of the information is very trustworthy is trustable

and in that case we know from good ink or we know for a fact or we have it on good

authority in English is a nice expression in that so give us an example of this

in Spanish for example say of good tinta that

Pedro and are to announce your boda this same night.

No, it's true. Debrimard, aye, so you have it on good

authority that Pedro and Mar are going to announce their engagement, their wedding

this very evening. Se de Buena Tinta. That's a lovely expression I really

like this one. Saber de good tinta. It's nice and easy to use

too. Yes, it's nice and you can imagine I haven't read that but I've

heard and I'm telling you, I know where this is coming from and something is going to happen. Very well.

Well, as always, much thanks, Marina. It's a pleasure. And until the next. Until very pronto. Much thanks, Marina. I have to admit, I really like this expression. Saber de Buena Tinta.

Perfect. Okay, well, that is where we're going to leave this episode of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. Of course, you can find this one along with all of the others in the series and access our bonus materials. That includes a transcript and the lesson notes, the exercises that go along with the lesson notes and our vocabulary list to help you test your vocabulary.

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