Coffee Break Spanish - CBS Scenes 1.07 | Gracias por la suerte

Episode Date: May 15, 2025

In Chapter 7 of Scenes, our course for intermediate Spanish learners, we return to Isabel’s café and catch up with Miguel—someone we’ve met before. ¿Te acuerdas de él? Join Mark and Pablo as the story continues!As always, Mark and Pablo will guide you through key grammar points and vocabulary. In this chapter, you’ll discover the meanings of ajetreado, mono, and celestina, as well as look into ojalá, a useful subjunctive trigger.Don’t miss the latest episode of Scenes—keep improving your Spanish in a fun and engaging way!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.

Sins from the Coffee Brick Spanish Cafe Lesson 7. Hello, all, and bienveniles. I'm Mark. And I'm Paul. What's phenomenal. The fact, Pablo? Well, phenomenal. The fact, I'm content to be here again. And you, how are you?

Well, I'm very content to be able to grab an episode of Cins in the studio. This is, of course, our scenes from the Coffee Break Cafe podcast or course cities where we are flying on the wall of a local cafe somewhere in Spain. in each episode, seeing the life that happens in that cafe. Well, today, as always, we're going to read the text, and then we're going to talk a little

of the vocabulary and the grammar, of the grammar, the grammar, the, of the, of the, the, the grammar, the, the question, but first, pablo, what happened in the episode anterior?

Well, in the chapter anterior, Isabel was having a week that was doing a little quester-rived. Are you, right? Yes, I remember.

But at final, he was super content because Antonio, that is one of the Chicoes of the child, he commented that

he and his woman were very content of having to have been alquilated the piece to

the professor of the institute. Exactly. Very well. So, then in this

episode, what we going to know? I'm I know. I'm so I'm very intrigued because I think Isabel is a little bit of hands.

Oh, we'll try the algo entre manos. We'll find more about that expression after we read the chapter. Since from the coffee break, Spanish coffee, Caffe, Capitulo 7. It's still doing

a time a greatable, fresh but very solead. The morning of today has been ajetreada, and that I love. Many groups of tourists have passed to to take churros,

before, or after, of your visit, to casco historical. The clients of always with his asiaries, aperitivs of a media-mauna,

and cerebecitas of the day. Also, the coffes of the time and the

men of the people of the barrio, at the school, that have used the day solead

to play in the park of the Palomas. I'm think they the days in the bar

is full of the people and going and out and the clients of here and

the visit that's that's that's the that's the of the

the one of my he has said his name. The

chico that he did the interview a few a a

good at a great the coffee of the he

had he had done in the bar and me

he had been great and that he he

had the second interview for that there only

there two candidates today today I also I'm

much more more more more that the next time that will be

that's the next to work, and that he'll will be to

that we're that that be so so that

she has choked with Elena who in the I

had to get to do a special a

coffee and coffee with coffee They're making a pair monissima. Hmm.

I'm going to start my work of Celestina. The destiny is doing your part,

but I am I am decided to to help. Oh, I'm really, I'm

really, I think, planing to pair to pair to Elena, the

professor and a Miguel, the abogado. With, with his

L'Avore of Celestina. Yes, very, so we're going to find out more about what that means and indeed about what the whole chapter means.

So let's go back through it now with Pablo reading each phrase. Sigea a time a great time a great, fresh but

very soleado. As of her, we're starting with a little weather report. So this is Seguier plus the gerund which refers to

a continuation of an ongoing state. So it is continuing to be nice weather, a time a great fresh, but very sunny. The morning of

has been a hetreada and so me encaughta. It's a great word agetreado, agetreada. It has been this morning has been

hectic. Mm-hmm, very busy and that I love that. I love it when it's like that. And I know that you

you can't this word agetre or in this case

the adjective agetreada and you know the word is

a pretty that's also mean it's I know

I first came across trahin in it is a really interesting

set of songs by the Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardinal

and they talked about the Trachin de a day

and it's actually called the Misa Campes Campesina Micraguanse. And it's a really, really interesting

set of songs in a liberation theology idea, which we probably wouldn't go into in this podcast, but El Trajinn de cada day. It's very interesting, yeah. The busyness of every day. Yes. Much of groups of tourists

have passed to take churros before or after their visit to the casco historical. Okay, so much groups of tourists. Many groups of tourists. they've passed to to take churros they came by to have

churros the sort of fried dough before or after their visit before or after their visit to the

casco historic and that is the old town of the historic center of the town also

in the cartels of the public the the word casco

bio in the the motor. Sorry, I just took a sip of my tea there. A casco is a helmet. Yes, yeah. De la moto, okay, a motorcycle helmet.

But it's used as this old town or historic center when you're talking about a town. That's the clientes of always, with his desayunos, aperitivos of media, and cerebecitas of mediodia. Ooh, this is too much to me. So, Los Clients de see, you know what's interesting about this?

It's not really a sentence. There's no verb in it. No, yeah. The 5thons de SEMpre, so the usual customers, the regular customers, with their breakfasts, appetivos, their aperitives, de media-maana of the middle of the morning, eat cermeditas de medi-day. And they're little beers of midday,

their lunchtime day. So this is not all happening at the same time, it's happening over the course of the morning, the very busy morning. also the cafes of the and the

merendas of those of the boys of the school that have made

the day solead for to play in the park of the palomas

okay so more going on here more explanation of the trahin

also the for the so also the afternoon coffies

and the snacks and the snacks that's a really important cultural thing in Spain, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. You know, it's a afternoon snack. Yeah. You know, it's a can't be anything. For example, I when was a little, I remember that

my merienda soliaeer a bocadillo little, with a fruit, a sumo. For, you know, you know, in Spain,

we're very too, so, to wait, until the time to dinner, we need to need to eat a

okay. So these are the of some of the of the children of the local area when they got out of school upon leaving school, that have made the day soliado. So these are still the ninios who have taken

advantage of or made them most of the sunny day to play in the park de las palomas. Paloma can mean dove or pigeon, can't it? Yes, yeah. Let's call it the dove park. I think I like a dove park sounds like a song. It's more. It's

a more beautiful. Pigeon Park. Okay, let's continue on. Venga. I'm I'm just the days in the bar

is full of life, of people entering and out of and the clients of here and there. So I love those days

in those in which the bar is full of life, the people entering and coming in

and leaving, arriving and leaving, and leaving. And the clientes, of here and of customers from here and there. A lovely image there.

Totally. Very good. Let's break there for a little moment and we'll be back soon with the rest of the chapter. In each episode of the scenes from the Coffee Break Cafe podcast, you'll enjoy listening to the story and our discussion of keywords and phrases from each chapter. But what if you could explore the language even further

and take your learning to the next level? That's where the scenes are. online course comes in. For every chapter you'll get comprehensive lesson notes, a video version of the reading, exercises, vocabulary and even spotlight videos that help break down the key expressions and grammar points with additional examples. It's the perfect way to deepen your understanding and get even more from the story. To access this wealth of learning resources, visit coffeebreaklanguages.com slash scenes. So we are today in the cafe as ever and we are heating about a kind of normal day, but I think something's now going to happen.

Yes, see, let's. But the visit that most illusion me has done, has been the Miguel. Today me has said his name. But the visit, which most illusion did to me, so the visit, which most illusion did to me, so the one that made me most happy, has been the La de Miguel, was the one from Miguel. In English, we're saying the one from, la de,

Because La, there is a pronoun referring back to La Bissita. So now we know his name. So now we know his name. He told me his name today. Let's find out more about Miguel then. Yes, yeah. The chico that he did the interview a few days. So this is the boy who did the interview a few days ago. And he has come back to thank me. He has been to aggreeneer me,

the cafe of la Suerte to thank me for the coffee of good luck so if we think back to chapter four I think it was when Miguel as we now know was preparing for his interview and he got a free coffee

an offer of a coffee in the cafe and now it's time for him to pay that back he has taken another this time sent out of the barra and me has told that that was great, and that today has

the second interview for the only two candidates. Oh, fingers crossed, it goes

well. So, he had another to himself. It's that use of the reflexive

just to make it a little more. It's a emphatico that's a lot he's he had

another one, another coffee. This time sent out in the bar this time it's seated at the

bar. And me he has He told me that he was great and that today he has the second interview, for the last

only there's a nice relative close there, for the one that, for which, only two candidates left. There are only two candidates left. And it's important here not confunding this,

para laque, with for-a-k-k that would need to the subjunctive this here,

as you know, it's a subordination of a relative, but imagineate

that we had said the exam for the I'm studying, it's important

that that that the pronoun concuer in gender and the

antecedent And also in the plural it would seem would happen for

those that just one thing to talk about and that is Kedar.

It's a really, really versatile verb. It can mean so many different things. And here we're using Kedar, as in there are two candidates left.

There only remain two candidates. Okay, let's continue. So today he was nervous. He was also nervous today. He was also nervous today.

But much more sure of himself. Oh, I'm super nervous when I have to do a

interview to do work. So, he has so bad.

He has said that the next time he will be before

to start to and that he will be that

we have said, he told me that the next

time he he comes. Now that's a subjunctive there and it's

kind of like saying when he comes back, when he comes back, when he'll, we don't know if he's actually going to, hopefully will. Sure, yeah. It's like no te compromises to

to go to go back. So the next time he comes back, it's before he is going into work, before he's starting work, and that he will invite me to the coffee that we agreed on. So this is when they agreed to that he would buy the owner a coffee if he got the job.

And hopefully this is what's going to happen next time. Oh, johal it's like that. Let's hope it's like that. Let's hope that's what happens. Yes. Okay. All All right on the door,

who in the descanso of recreo had to his habitual media and coffee

with leech. Okay. At salir by the door, on leaving

by the door, he has chocado with he bumped into to

chocars with someone. He bumped into Elena who in the rescanso

at school break time had a desaluner her habitual and coffee with leitze who was coming for her usual

half a piece of toast which it seems like a very small breakfast but it's quite typical and coffee and

a white coffee yeah they're an parja monissima oh so Isabel is definitely

imagining things here I think. They make a lovely couple. Yes, I'm a lot of monos. Here we have the

superlative monissima. Mono literally means a monkey. Yes, but it's a word that you can describe a child as very mono, very cute.

And so, especially in Spain. Okay. I'm going to start my work of Celestina. The destiny is doing

her part, but I'm decided to help. I'm excited to help. Excellent. Now, La Celestina. The Celestina is a famous

word of a work of Spanish literature, and I'm trying to think, was it Fernando de Rojas? That is, yeah, very good. It's of the cycle 15, yeah, and it's one of the

most important, of the literature Spanish. And the, the title real is the tragically of Calisto and Melibia but to

the work is a know a celestina and the Celestina was one

of the protagonists and she was a little to emperejar to the

people yeah so this Celestina the main character was a matchmaker

basically and a go between going between the different characters and bringing them together

and manipulating all these relationships and so on. I'm almost certain we did La Celestina at university, but it was so long ago, I kind of quite remember. I don't know.

I think this is the great thing about this understanding little bits of the culture of a country or countries where the language that you're learning is spoken because when you get these little

these references, knowing the background to that, just transform. It's fascinating, right? I mean me I'm going to completely.

So just that last sentence then, let's go through it in total. I'm going to begin my job of matchmaker. The destiny

is already is already playing its role. It's taking its part, but I'm determined to help. Oh, I want

to know how continue to this, for God. Well, we'll need to wait until a future chapter to I know what happens.

If anything happens between Miguel and Elena. Let's go back through the whole text now, and hopefully now that we've gone through the language in detail, everything will make more sense. Since from the coffee break Spanish Caffe, Capitulo 7. SIGY Hesquhartable, fresh but very soleado.

The morning of today has been ahetreada, and that me encanta. Many groups of tourists have passed to to take churros before or after their visit to the casco-historic. The clients of always with his desayunos,

aperitivos of media and cerebecitas of the mid-day. Also the coffees of the afternoon and the merendas of some of the children of the

barrio at the school, that have have been, the day solead to play in the

park of the palmas. I think they the day in the bar is full of

life, of people and out and and the clients of the and the

but the visit that most illusion me has been the the

the the one he has said his name the

the the the interview after a few days has been to thank you the coffee

of the suerte. He has had tomated this bit sentado in the barra

and me has told that was great and that today he has the second

interview for that only there's two candidates. Today

I'm also was nervous but much more more

more more I'm sure. Me has said that the next time that will be it's going to enter to work and that

me invite to the coffee that we're so that's that's so that

he has choked with Elena who in the the I'm a day to

get a his usual medium toastada and coffee coffee

my labor of Celestina. The destiny is doing his part but I am decided to help.

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coffeebreakspanish. com and sign up. Perfect. Well, much thanks, Pablo. Thank you, Mark.

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