Coffee Break Spanish - CBS Mag 4.10 | Maíz

Episode Date: August 23, 2022

We have reached the tenth and final episode in this series of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine and we're rounding off the season by talking about one of the most cultivated cereals in the world - corn! Through the text featured in this episode, we find out where the term 'corn' comes from and its importance in Latin America. Of course, Mark and Anabel pick up on the important language points along the way. Alongside the range of nouns, verbs and adverbs, we hear some interesting phrases such as tener en común, querer decir and por cierto. That's not all! We also have the opportunity to practise forming plural phrases in Spanish and learn more about how to use propio/a and mismo/a.There are 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 10. Hello, other time, and for last time, this time, we're back with Coffee Break Spanish. This is the magazine. I'm Mark. And I'm here. We're going to be here to help us with your Spanish.

And in this episode, we're going to be looking at a text all about the maith. Mm-hmm. So, and there are many things interesting

about the so I'm curious let's have a look Yeah, an interesting text let's find out more about the whole topic

of the maith. Over to you, Sebastian. Thank you, Mark. Thanks, Annabelle.

Today, we are talking about corn. Empeces The tortillas, the arpeas, the tamales,

the empanadas, what have in common all these delicious delicious platos typical of the gastronomia Latino-American. Exactly. All they're

the same ingredient principal, the maize. Juntal with the rice and the trigo, this is one of the cereals

more cultivated in all the world and the most cultivated in the continent American. The term

maiz provien of the word maize, which was aborigines of the Isla of Haiti, they're called a this cereal and

it's a signific the the life. Although, today it's produced in all the continents, a exception of the Antartida, the maize

is from the continent American. This cereal has a origin very old and a important role in some mythos and

legends propies of the culture of the nativos American. Segun they're these

legends, the mais was the food of the people are the earth.

So, we can say that the manis is a food but

even there is a good. In first place, it's very

very easy to cultivate. The actually, it's so that in

one time the can have even have to

other Two Cosechas. Another of its high value nutritional and his delicious uses

culinary, the maize is a good for alimenting to the land. Of it,

they're also products like the the food and it and it

and of those soh see fiber to take sombrer

sombrer canastas and tapets. For if all this were

a many properties, permiten employing as bio-combustible. Conocis

the numerous -simus of the mais? Well, Annabelle, I know much more

about the my and I also also. Very interesting. Okay, let's have a

look through our text. We'll talk through all the vocabulary. There's quite a lot of technical

words in here, but we'll go through each of them and make sure you understand everything. So let's

take it away. The tortillas, the arpeas, the tamales, the empanadas, what have

in common all these delicious platos typical of the gastronomia Latino-American? Okay, so

this is great because we've got four nouns, four different types of food, and then a long description of these with lots of

adjectives. So, the tortillas, the arrepas, those tamales, the empanadas. So we've got tortillas,

arrepas, tamales, and empanadas. What do they have in common? all these delicious platos of the

gastronomia Latin American. So all of these delicious dishes typical of the gastronomia

Latin American gastronomy. Exactly. All they're the same ingredient principal.

The main So exactly, exactly. The Oshare they all share, the

same ingredient They all share the same main ingredient, the maize corn. Juno with the arroft and the trigo, this is one of the cereals more cultivated in all the world and the most cultivated in the continent American. Juno with the arroft together with or along with rice and the wheat. This is one of the cereals most cultivated. This is one of the

the cereals which are most cultivated in the world and the most cultivated in the world. And it's the most cultivated cereal in the Americas and the continent or the American continent. The term mayis proviener of the word maize, which was like the aborigines of the island of Haiti were a estele, and it's the cereal.

And it's the that's the restenta the life. Okay, so we're talking about the term Ma'is. We use one word in Spanish, maith, but we've actually got two words in English. We've got both corn and maize. And if I understand it correctly, I'm not 100% sure about these things, but if I understand it correctly, maize is the crop, and then corn is the word that is used for the food products that come from that crop. So corn flour, corn starch, and so on. So the term maiz, provine de la palabre. So the term maize, comes from, from the word maize,

which was what the indigenous people, the aborigines of the island of Haiti, called this cereal, what they called the cereal, and it's signific the one that sustenta the life. And it means the one that sustains life. Although today

it's in all the contests the maiz provienes of the

continent American I remember the first time I saw Antarctica and I

thought it's not a typo because I thought why is it not Antarctica

but that is a different word in Spanish is that correct it is

yeah when we refer to the continent then we are going to say

the Antarctica and what is Antarctica You know like this place where the Little Mermaid lives or this imaginary place. So Atlantis? Atlantis, yes.

Okay, very interesting. So don't get mixed up with Antarctica. Well, you're more likely to find Antarctica than Antarctica in Spanish, yeah? That is correct. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, let's go back to the sentence. Although today, today, it's produced on all continents.

So although today it's produced on all continents, a exception of the Antartida, with the exception of Antarctic, of Antarctica

or the Antarctic and who knows whether it is produced or not in Atlantis. That's another story. El maiz

comes of the continent American American continent. This cereal has a

origin very antigo and a important role in some mythos and

legends, propias of the culture of the Native Americans. Okay, so this

serial, the serial, has a origin very ancient origin, and he has a important role,

and it plays an important rule, I'll come back to that, because I've got a question,

in some myths and some myths and legends propias of the culture of the

nativus American, so they belong to the culture of the Native Now, coming back to that word role,

Juega an important role. There's another word that is used for a role when it comes to like the role in a play, an actor is taking a role, and that would be the paper. And here we can also use paper, an important paper. But could you use role in the acting sense

when you're talking about the actor playing a character? Yes, you can. And you can say, Juega a role of a policea instead of a paper. of the police. Perfect. Okay. Segun they're these legends, the maiz

was the alimento of the gods that created the earth. So, according to what these legends tell, according to these legends, basically, the maiz was the food of the gods. So, Maze was the food of the gods

that created the earth. So, so, we're not the earth. So, we can say that the maiz is an alimento of dioces. So we can say that that maiz is an alimento de gioses. We can say that maize

is a food of the gods. Okay, let's break there for a quick pause. And I'm going to get a coffee and then we'll be back for the remainder of this episode. 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 Coffee Break Languages.com slash magazine where you'll find all the information you need. Well, I have my coffee. Annabel? And I have a te. Perfect. Well, we'll continue talking about del maize. Because because because

there is still more Conoces the benefits of the So do you know the benefice

do you know the benefits of a corn of maize in first is

very easy to cultivate of it is so

that in one time time they can have to

two coseches Right so the first part of the sentence

very in first place in the first instance is very easy to

cultivate. In fact, in fact, it's so easy that in a same that in one season,

in one same season, or in the same season, sepue can have two cossets.

You can have up to two harvests. the other the high value

and his delicious uses the mys the man is

not the the the also the food and

the and the the and the the and

to take sombrer sandas and tapets we're really

going for it with a long sentence there Okay. Addmast of

his alto value, so in addition to its high nutritional value

and his delicious us culinary and its delicious culinary you see

the the maith is a grano for alimentar al

so it is also used as a green to feed alganado now,

Annabel, there's a funny thing going on there with Alimentar Al-Ganado, because is that kind of like a personal a? It is a personal a.

With the personal a, we usually going to use the proposition a if the direct object is human. But it's also a little bit trickier when it's an animal. In this case, it's ganado. So if it's like domesticated or it's like, you know, you're closer to it. Your little cat. Exactly. Then you will use that personal a. So in a sense, if we're talking about the importance of this grain

and we're talking about the importance of the livestock that we are breeding for food or for other purposes, so there we're reinforcing the importance of it by using the person inla. But we could equally have said to alimentar el-gano. You can say alimentar el-ganado, but with that al-ganado is what you say. We are just reinforcing that. Okay, good.

So it can be used as a grain to feed livestock. of him so from it also derive products like the food such as cooking oil very economic, very cheap by the way and of its sojas secas and from its dry leaves

is extract fiber fiber is extracted for tejer sombros in order to weave hats canastas and tapetes, baskets and rugs. Well, I'm not sure if it's a rack, but more like a mat, because you can put it on furniture. Ah, of course, right. So a mat on a table or something like that. So, and of course that would be made of the same fiber that is from the dried leaves. Very well.

For if all this were a little, his numerous properties permiten employing as a tricky start of that

sentence for si this fue I would suggest that we just look at that

as a piece of vocabulary and as a phrase all in its own as if all this

were not enough because it's got a complicated verb in there the fuera

is an imperfect subjunct we don't need to worry about but the

for si for si a just in case for all this

were a little as if all of this were not enough

those numerous properties permit them employ it to be used

as a biofuel. Conocis the numerous isimas virtues of maith

so did you know about the many many virtues of Mez

well I didn't know I didn't know I don't I don't

Okay, let's listen again to the whole text. There are a few tricky words in here and a few tricky grammar expressions. So listen out for them as you go through this for a second time. The tortillas, the arpeas, those tamales, the empanadas,

what have in common all these deliciouses platos typical of the gastronomia Latino-American? Exactly. All parten the same ingredient principal, the

maize. Juno with the aros and the trigo, this is one of the cereals more more cultivated in

the most cultivated in the continent American. The term maize proviened of the

word maize, that was how the aborigines of the island they were

to be this cereal and it signific the that the

life. Although today it is produce in all the

continents, a exception of the Antarctic, the maize provienes of the continent American. This cereal has a origin very ancient and a important role

in some myths and legends propies of the culture of the nativos American. According to

these legends, the maize was the animal of the gods that created the earth. So,

we can't say that the mais is an aliment of the gods. But even there

more. Conoces the the benefits of the maize? In first it's very easy to cultivate.

Of each, it's so that in one same time that can't have to two

coseches. Also of his high value nutritional and his delicious

uses culinary the the mais is also as

the ground to the and of his sojas seks is extract fiber

to take sombreros, canastas, and tapetes. For if this were a little, its numerous

properties permit them use it use you know the numerous virtues of the mais?

It's time for our final guinda of pastel for this episode and

also for this time and as we're like I'm like

I'm very very you how you are Mark.

Well, but a little that this is the last episode of this year of the

last year we're going to a magnificent ginda of pastel then. Well,

tell us what you have. We have an expression very very

habitual that is to get to the grano. Okay, the

green. So to go to the green. Well, we use the expression

to when we're without rodeos and we're doing the important. Okay, so to cut to the point or cut to the chest, go straight to the important

information and tell us that. That's an example, for favor. Yes. Dejade de jade of rodeos and be at the gran. Right, so cut the nonsense and go straight to the point, get to the point.

Mm-hmm, that's it. Can you tell us about the origin of this? I mean, presumably it's got something to do with cultivation of the grain, cultivation of the corn? Yes, the origin we found in the trilla,

which is when separas the gran of the paja. Okay, so some technical terms in there. First of all, pacha is the straw, and the trilla,

la triella is the threshing when we separate the grain from the chaff or we're removing the seed from the stock on which it grows. That is. How is the important

in this moment is to get the grano that is the semilla and it's separate the paja and he coge the grano, that is the important thing then is the grano and so we

remove that from everything else around it and that's the same idea of going straight to the point, getting straight to the point of the discussion, you know, stop beating about the bush and get straight to the point Yeah and we can use the word paja

to talk about an important information. Okay, so you would say, behate, beja la paja a one side, and be direct to the grano. Okay, so cut the nonsense and go straight to the,

literally cut the straw and go straight to the point, get straight to the point. Well, hopefully that's exactly what we've done with this Guinda del Pastel and the dollar guindas del pastel of this season. Much thanks,

as always, Marina. It's an enormous pleasure. And, well, after the next, after the next time. After the next very pronto. Well, that's it

for this final episode. We hope that you've enjoyed learning lots of things about the Spanish-speaking world. I know that I certainly have picked up some very interesting information both in terms of

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Well, can I say where are we going maybe? I think you can see that. Okay, so we are traveling through the coast, the east coast of Spain. and the language, I think that our listeners are going to like it, because it's a couple of people from Mexico are going to visit it and we are going to discover some really nice things altogether. Excellent. So a little combination of Latin American Spanish about Spain's Spanish places.

So we're looking forward to this and we hope you'll join us for that sometime soon on Coffee Break Spanish. For now, muchissimas, gratis. And after very soon. Thank you. You have been listening to a Coffee Break Languages production for the Radiolingua Network. Copyright 2022 Radio Lingua Limited. Recording copyright, 2022, Radiolingua Limited. All rights reserved.