Coffee Break Spanish - CBS Scenes 1.02 | El nuevo miembro

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

In Chapter 2 of Scenes, our series for intermediate Spanish learners, we return to Isabel's café, where we meet the charming group of older gentlemen she affectionately calls sus Chicos de oro. This time, there’s a new, younger addition to the mix. ¿Quieres saber más? Join Mark and Pablo in this exciting new chapter!As the story continues, Mark and Pablo will draw your attention to useful grammar points and vocabulary in the text. For example, in this chapter, they’ll learn the meanings of a gusto, parar de hacer algo, and saltar a la vista.¡No te pierdas el nuevo capítulo de Scenes y continúa mejorando tu español!Click here to access the premium course of Scenes, which includes access to lesson notes, vocabulary lists, exercises, quizzes (and much more!) to check your understanding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scenes from the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe lesson to. Hello, all, and bienninoes to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Paul. What is Stupendamente. And with much gas to see what we're going to see what we're saying, Isabel, Desuart.

This is the scenes from the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe. And we are following the story of what happens in a typical Spanish bar and seeing scenes from that bar and getting to know some of the regulars there. In the last episode, we've

known to some of some of some of yes, Isabelle, the dwean

the bar us present to three the women and the

hospital and the and the and the men and the people

and and we're and we're we're we're he

did a little error in his job because

he did a pedido double and his he said

a good bronca. Yes. Mejou the fat Miriam. Yes, but

well, thanks to this he could ligar a little with the

celador that was that was to correct to

correct. Exactly. Well, we going to other other people

and we we going to learn the text first then

we have a little there in the text and finally we'll

to hear the text. It's fantastic. Well, then we're to do you. Sins from

the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe Capitulo 2. Today amnice

despegated, but the time has been very jubiosa, so not has passed

much people for the local after the day. Although the day

was too and a little-appetecible within the bar, we've been very a-gust. In his mesa of always

were they're Joseph, Anthony, Francisco, and Matias, our clients more fieles and my

chicos of the how I like to call those. Today they're playing

at Muz and talking of all football, political, family, the time.

With them, never me aburro, but today we have passed especially

well. So, about the four has a young, of an

20 years. It was very delgado and a white,

ruby and he was a vestiment very particular. Sus

Delgated Pyrnecillas were in the air because he'd a

past of the day he had a pantalon short calcettines and

zapatias and above I was a chubasquero a mariel

with capuch and and a camisetta a jacket

and he was a back he he's a

I've paid a a Cerveza. Me has told that he was of Erasmus and me has

said that I'm going to learn very well and for that he had decided

to go to the more traditional to talk always with natives.

I've been what's were the local are the people

but at final he has had I've had been Encan'ted with the four

seniors major to whom I'm My Chicoes the Oro. It has passed so well

that Harvey assurua that will and Don Mattias no has not been to teach

words in Spanish and repeat to he has to have to have

to have been very very very very good It's sound, no?

Yes. And other people, that we know the text now. And we will start with the first

sentence. So, Pablo, can you read that for us? And we'll talk about the interesting language in this.

For sure. There's boy. Today amanecyed despejado. But the time has

been very jubiosa. So, no has passed much people for the local

after the middle day. I'm liking this idea that we start with a little

weather report. I think the weather probably has a lot to, it has a role to play in what happens in the bar, because it depends on how sunny or wet or whatever it is, who comes in. So, So, Oi, amanecio, despejado. So that's that amanecer verb again. The same as what we saw at the beginning of chapter one. It's the preterate tense. So it's telling us what happened. Aminio despechado. It donned clear or cloudless. Very well. And despejado, a me is an adjective that

I love much. Because really what we're saying is that the sky is that there's a sun and no there's no one.

But for that idea of the idea of that'spejado. We can also use despejado in other senses when we can talk

about a person. Yes, for example. Imagine that you did it did allie the

and today you know you think you're saying today I'm

more despejated or also if you're in a space with much

people and you're and you say you say I'm going to say I'm going to

get out of so you can become clearheaded either after having a headache

or just having that kind of aspect of having a clear head when you've got

space to think Okay, but the But the afternoon was very rainy So, so no has passed much people for the local after the mediodia. So not many people came into the local,

the place, the area after lunchtime. Exactly. And Mark, there's a word very interesting at final, that is mediody that means Nun. Exactly. Very good.

You're putting a Prueva. That's that we're a word. But if if we

had written separate a day, in bed than noon, it would half a day.

Half a day. Yeah. For example, we've passed a media in the bar.

Exactly. Perfect. Okay. So not many people came, I said the place for

the local, but the local is more the premises. Yes. The establishment, we'd

say. Exactly. Okay, let's continue. Although the day was dark and a peteceible, dentro of the

bar, we've been been very a good. Okay, so, although the day was dark,

and a petechable. What a lovely word. Yes, you've probably heard of me apetece plus an

infinitive, or do you apeteetee to go into the cinema? So, appetisible means

appealing. Exactly, yes. Poco appetizable. It's quite a tongue twister. Appeteceible. So, Pococeible means quite unappealing. So although the day was dark and quite unappealing,

dentro of the bar, we've been a gusto. I love that expression. Start very august. It means to be comfortable. Yes, yeah. Also, we could say, being very comod.

Very comodo. Okay. Give us another example of using being a gust to, very a good. For example, I would

say, that's I'm going this episode. Well, me I'm a good.

How comfortable I feel or happy I feel grabbing grabbing this recording, recording this episode grabbing this episode,

grabbing this episode. Very well. Let's see. Let's see it. In the mesa of the same

were Jose, Antonio Francisco and Mattias. our clients more fieless and my chikos de

this is lovely so in their table of always in their usual table were in their usual table were so Jose Antonio Antonio Francisco and Matias

were in their usual table we're changing the order we're exactly our most clients more fieles are most faithful customers also

we can we can't say leal and my children of my children boys,

the way I like to call them. Very well. Today they're playing to

Mous and about all the football, political, family, the time. I have to

see, this is a new word for me, Pablo here. Mous. What is Mous?

Well, the Mous is a game of cards. Uh, I'd say that is super popular in Spain. And for playing al-MUS,

very important, we need a barraja Spanish. Okay, a barraja is a deck of cards. A barraja. And in Spain, a deck of cards

has different face cards. Yes, exactly. So, swords. Copas. Copas. Ours.

They're like, golden coins. Yes. And, for ultimate, bastos. Bastos.

And those are actually clubs, but more a kind of wooden club, the kind of club that you might see in a cartoon or

something like that. Yes, exactly. Now, I've heard the word Naipe. Is Naipi a game that you play with the cards,

or is that the word that you use for the baraja? I'm not I'm not I'm sure, but I'd think it's

other way of referrish a barraja. Okay, okay. A game card games, that kind of idea. Okay, so they're playing

Moose with their barraja Spanish and what else were they doing? Let's take a look. Today, they were talking about everything. So we've got two examples here of

Estar plus the gerent. Estaban and they're playing. We don't need to repeat the Estaban. What were they talking about? Football, political,

family. time. The time typical of a barb. So football politics,

family and the weather. With them never I'm aburro, but today

we've passed especially well. So aburirirse can mean to get bored.

Yeah. So with them never get bored. With them I never get bored.

They're always entertaining. But today we have especially well,

but today we had an special good time. We had a really good time. Yes, exactly. Passarlo bien, signify that's lots of ways of saying passarlo bien. We can say passarlo phenomenal,

passarlo bomb. Passerlo bonba. If that was one of the phrases I learned, you know, 30 years ago. Passarro de maravilla, too. Okay, let's continue on. So, let's continue on. So sobre last four has arrived a young

of a 20 years. Okay, so So about four o'clock, has arrived a young guy arrived of around 20 years. So it was about 20 years old. If you're not sure of the age of someone, it's very good idea to use of those 20,

of those 30, of 40, so not we're metemes in any problem. No, we'll met him the pat. Yeah. It was very delgado, of the pale clear,

rubio, and he'd a vestimenta very particular. Okay, so it was very delgadito, so delgado is slim. Delgadoito, why would we see the delgatito there? Well, here we could we see the delgatito there. One is, that is more delgado of the normal, or extremely

delgado, or also, um, a mode of, like, more, more carinioso. Okay. The pale clara, so he had clear skin, light skin. He was blonde and he was a vestimenta and he was wearing particular style of clothing. Yes, an outfit.

An outfit. Okay. So here we've got a description of someone probably who perhaps looks a little bit out of the ordinary for the bar. Let's go on to find it more. Let's see it more. Let's see. His delgadas piernecillas

were because heavada a So we've got a So we've got So we've got So we've got Delgatito

Piernesias So another diminutive We had Delgadoito No Piernesias Exactly So his little thin legs Yeah

Yeah, also Yeah, also So his little thin legs They were literally in the ear they were exposed because he was wearing

a peser of the day it was, despite the day it was effectively there, despite the weather, a pantalon corto, shorts,

calcettines, socks, and zapatillas and trainers. Okay. So he does give the impression of being a bit of a holiday maker, a tourist

in the bar. I'll tell you a story after this, but let's continue. Okay. For Arriba Bestia Aemoisquero

Amarillo With capucha And deba A Camisetta A Manga Korta Okay So on the top

Half For Arribesvvvvvvv So So Bestir Algo means to Wear something

To be Waiting something So Bestia A Chubasquero He was A yellow Rinko

With a With a hood Very Discretto And And de Bebe A Camiseta

And Underneath A Short Sousousous sleeve t-shirt, although I have to say, I don't quite know how they knew it was short-sleeved if it was wearing his raincoat. Yeah. But anyway.

So it was jumping out from the side. That he was not from here. I'm just a expression, saltar to the vis-of-the-vista. It's very expressive. Exactly. I'm a bit of hamon,

a pinch of tortilla and a crevice. So he asked me for a bocadillo of ham sandwich,

a pinch of tortilla, a little bit of tortilla, and a beer. Exactly. Mark, I have to

make a incis with a bocadillo. Tell me, tell us. Because vocadillo

normally is a sandwich but we In Spain, particularly, if we do the distinction between

sandwich, the word sandwich, that we've pressed out of the English, and the word

a bocadillo. So, for me, a sandwich is with the pan quadrado of molde,

and a bocadillo, for it's for so to say to do you. Okay,

but a sandwich not a to a to a to a to not.

No. No, no has no, because you can't have a toastada of pan or a barra of pan. Okay, okay. So, it's more than like a baguette,

a sandwich of baguette. Exactly, yes. So when I think of bocadillo, I can see them lined up in the beakers and so on when you have your bocadillo of tautia, of hamom,

of cheese, of pettuga of pollo. Even so, maybe the audience, have heard the word bocata, which is very

like a vocadillo is, maybe more informal. Okay, so now you know what to ask for. If you're looking for a square, typically white bread sandwich, then you go for a sandwich.

Or a toastada, if you want it toasted. But if you want crusty bread with a filling, then it's a bocadillo. A bocadillo, yes. And a pincho is another another word that's

in the north of Spain to denominar a las tapas. Okay, so it's a little a little portion. Yes, a small portion. Okay. Right, so far so good.

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the second chapter of the Cines from the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe. I promised you

a little story, Pablo. A be, a bit more I'm super intrigued Well,

it's just with the description of this guy with his shorts and his raincoat and you know what's coming

probably. I think when I went to France for my year abroad when I was at university

studying. I arrived and I was in the south of France. I'll tell in Spanish.

Yeah, I'm going. I was, I went to, I went on, I went on, the front of Italian, and,

I was there was a very good time, much cold and all. So I went in September, and in the

last days of September of that year, it was, the time was horrible so,

jubed to can't all the days, and I had a frio inimaginable.

But, I was Like if it was summer And like Like if it was Verano And sure

All the I'm Yeah, I'm Even Even in In October In November

When I When I Did I'm Cauton Carta And And so

And And so You know And Just Ropa For For good

Time Yeah Because I Because I'm My I

And I I'm To I They I going to

bring more more for the winter, let's they're in your rescue.

Yes, exactly. Anyway, let's get on with our text for today. Me has

told that was of Erasmus and me has said, he said, he had

decided to go only to go to the other different with

native. Okay. Very good idea. So he told me me, me

has called that he was on an Erasmus exchange year. Now, perhaps some of our listeners aren't familiar

with Erasmus. Pablo, can you explain what is our Erasmus? Yes, sure. Well, the

Erasmus is a program of interchambo promoted by the Union European to fomentar the mobility

of students in the different countries of Europe for a period limited of time.

I, for example, I studied in Barcelona, but I did an year of Erasmus in Berlin

Okay so likewise I did it wasn't Erasmus at the time because I'm much older than you

I did the precursor to the precursor to Erasmus I went abroad in France Well, we know that he

was doing an Erasmus here and me had said that he he told me that he wanted to learn

Spanish really well and for that reason, he had decided to go only to the cities more traditional and so he decided to only

go to the most traditional places to always with native speakers. So that he was always talking to native speakers. Exactly, yeah. He has been what's their locales of the modern, but at

final, he has been enchanted, playing to the Muz with the four Seniors Major, to whom my

Chichos of Oh, okay, so Le I had

said I was telling him we'll come back to that because it's quite

interesting from a grammatical point of view. Why were those

local of the people so which were the fashionable

spots among the young people? Effectively and what is here

has the pronoun interrogative Okay, so it's the same idea as if the young guy asked which ones are the spots for the young people. So, what are the locals of the moda between the young, but at final, but in the end, he ended up delighted, jugging at Moose with the four older gentlemen,

playing at Moose with the four older gentlemen, to whom is called my golden, that I call my golden boys. Effectively. Now, earlier I said, Le E E. Estado Why would the narrator use a perfect of estar

and the gerund here and not Le Estabba Contando? Is there a difference between I was telling and I've been telling Paul? Oh, Mark, that good question.

Pardon? No, no, tranquill. Well, here we use the perfect because really has occurred in that moment, that morning,

and no, for example, if we'd have used to the preterito, we'd we'd interpret it's

a year, because it was an action finalized that took a year. So, it's not

much sense that has been today, we use the preterito. Okay, that may not

be the case where we're reading this text and if it had been written by Latin American writer.

There we would see more a preterate. So it would be estuble, Le Estube contando. But because this is written by a Spanish writer, we're seeing Le E E E Stado Contando. And it's linked to today, with this morning, Le E.

I've been told. And for other other side, no usamos the imperfecto, because if, if usasemos the imperfect,

normally is an option that is occurring in a time in the past

and in this case, it would be interrupied for other.

Yeah. I'm doing this when other other thing. Yeah.

So, for example, if I was telling him about the the, the, the

trendy places for young people when Miriam arrived, that's when we would see

the imperfect there. He was was when came Median

or something like that. Good. Okay, tricky to sometimes identify exactly which tens we're using, but there's nine times at a ten, there's a reason. Yes. And we've got reasons here, so it's all good. Very well. Let's continue.

What has happened. also that Harvey has said that he'll will be and Don Mattias not have

to teach words in Spanish and repeat that he has been to

to go back to play with them. It's been very fun to

me can imagine in the bar there's like to how

to play a mus. Well, they'll have to me

how to do you do do so, they had such

a good time that Harvey who is our Erasm student ass

he will he confirms he is absolutely sure of

returning that he will return the future tense

and Don Matias no has parado to teach him and Don Matias didn't stop teaching him

Spanish words and repeat to him that he has to come back to play with them I've seen very divertido

it was really a lot of fun and here me I'm just we're being an example of Don

Mattias that we we use not with the name not with the name Don Matias.

And I me a me a professor of primary that I had when had a eight or nine

years, that he called, Don Emilio. Don Emilio. Yeah. It was a little

very exigente of the old school but we learned much much with him. Okay.

So Don is used to show respect, isn't it? Yes, and for example,

if it was a woman, we'd say, for example, Doe Isabelle,

the Doña of the bar. Yes, perfect. Very well, Well, what we're to do now is

to learn and to hear and to hear the text. Sins from the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe

Capitulo 2. Today Ameneceo Despegated, but the time has been very jubiosa,

so not has passed much people for the local after the day.

Although the day was a in a obscure and a peteceible within of the bar we've

been a good. In his mess of the every were they're

Joseph, Anthony, Francis and Matias, our clients more fieles

and my chicos of how me like them

they're they they're playing at Muz and about

all football political family, the time. With them, I never I'm aburro, but

today we have been especially well. So, about the four has

had gone a young, of two years. It was very

very delgado of the white, ruby and he was

a vestiment very particular. Sus Delgated Piernecillas They're in Air because

I'd a past of the day that I had a pantalone short,

calcettines and zapatillas. For above bestia a chubasquero a

marilla with capuch and a capuch a shirt

a he was a back he's he had a

bocadio of a pinch of tortilla and a Cereveza. Me has told that I was

of Erasmus and me has said that I'm going to learn very in Spanish and for

that he had decided to go only to the other to talk to be

with natives I've been what's are the locales

the people young, but at final, has been encamped with the four seigneur to the four

my boys'em the Oro. It has been that Harvey assurua that willvera, and Don Matias no has

been to teach him in Spanish and repeat that he has to go to go back with them.

It has been very Well, very well, this is all for today. We hope that you've enjoyed the second

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