Coffee Break Spanish - CBS Scenes 1.08 | Sin vuelta atrás

Episode Date: May 22, 2025

In Chapter 8 of Scenes, our course for intermediate Spanish learners, we return to Isabel’s café, where she witnesses an emotional and unexpected moment between a couple. No obstante, cuando se cierra una puerta, se abre una ventana.As always, Mark and Pablo will guide us through any challenging grammar and vocabulary in the text, helping to deepen our understanding of the language. This chapter introduces useful verbs like disculparse, abandonar, and quedarse helado/a.¡No te pierdas el nuevo capítulo de Scenes y sigue avanzando en 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 eight. Hello, Mar, how are you? Very bien. And you, Pablo? Also, very well. But the truth is that I'm intriguedissimo with all what is happening

in Casa, Issa and Manu. Our bar of Sins. Exactly. We're back with another episode of Sines and, as Pablo says, he is intrigued, very intrigued to find out what happens as we continue our story.

And this is basically a story which takes place in a local cafe, a charming local cafe. somewhere in Spain, and we are following the little scenes that happen there of everyday life with the locals and with the regulars, with visitors, and so on. You can follow along with the text if you access our premium version, and you can find that at coffeebreaklanguages.com Slash scenes. But otherwise, enjoy the podcast that's about to come. Pablo, before we get started, do you want to resumir a bit of what has passed in the episode, in the episode seven?

Yes, well, anteriorly, Isabel us told about that he had received the visit

of Miguel, the child that had had been an interview and the

he had invited to a coffee. Well, well, at final,

we know that that he brought very good because the

child was a phase final of the process of selection,

we could say, and this is the most important,

Isabel us insinue that Miguel and Elena could be a good pairha. A pairha monissima, no? So, so we'll see what it's what it.

Maybe nothing in this chapter. But... Maybe nothing. Yeah, we'll see. Okay, let us read the chapter now, and then we'll talk about all the interesting language

they're in. Since from the coffee break Spanish Cafe, Capitulo 8. I've I've got to a

house with a little a although for other

part I do remember what I'm I'm my

mother no there no there there is very

that in occasions the changes can make not

the more when it when it it's the

thing of a relation. But, a bit of one thing means the start

of other, of experiences new, that are there for us. Today I'm

I'm heard, because I heard a conversation something something something something and

two first has made she I think that I'm quite

before the hour prevista, because he has expected a rato long. He had a car of preoccupation,

and a sometimes he wascapable a little a lachryma. He'd a manzanilla, and no

I wanted to take nothing more. Media hour after went to

a chico that sawed she, he was with a so so that

was that was clear that were he was very very very

very I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I'm sorry he said he's he was he was taking

a infusion me pina a can't a and aceitunilla and she went talking with enthusiasm and illusion? I kept elated, at o'erer the chick,

to hear a child, I'd say to talk. This is serious, he said. Apparently, she was not was convinced of nothing.

I had taken the decision, and no had a return to work as a volunteer to Ethiopia during six months,

and no he no he nor could be never to he's disulp he deso

he desired and abandoned the bar a few minutes he he paid the

he went oh that I'm I've I'm a sad

but well how says Isabel no there no

there no there no we'll be explaining that expression

and everything else as we go through the text in detail. So over to you, Paolo. I've got to you, Paolo. Okay. So the phrase itself, a little complicated grammatically, but we'll get

to that in a moment. I got home, with the animo a little bit, with my spirit a little low, feeling down a little. although on the other hand, I need to remember what my mother always used to say. And they said there an imperfect tense, a really nice way to translate it with used to say, as my mother would say or used to say, no way, that's a Spanish proverb.

Yes, yes. Literally, there is no bad that by good doesn't come. It's rarest when it means the equivalent of every cloud has a silver lining.

I'm thinking that some example similar of a refrain and it's a when one a door is a

open, I think in English also you know? When one door closes another one open somewhere. Let's find

out more about why we're hearing this particular Spanish verb from Isabel. It's true that in occasions those can't

seem to be the worse, especially when it's true that in the end of a relation. So it's true that in occasions sometimes, those can't

make us the changes can seem to us to be the worst thing, especially when it's true of the end of a relation. Above all, when it is about, when it concerns.

the end of our relationship. And Mark, here we have separate separate but also we can't write it

all together so so if I'm so I'm a so

a well it means it kind of covers all yeah so there's

there are the things yeah there can be a a

something a Chubasquero. A chubesquero. So, it's a rain quote? Yes,

a subretto. I did not know that. So there you go. I'm learning you things. A sobreto.

So it covers everything is something that you would put on. Okay. Good. Okay. But a a

time of one thing of a thing of different new as there for us.

So, very so far. But sometimes, but sometimes the fin of one thing means, it means or it marks the beginning of another, the experiences new ones that are there for us, of experiences

that are kind of out there waiting for us. Today, I'm profound, because I've heard a conversation, something something, something that's something that's a little bit of two clients. Okay, so, an

explanation now for the philosophical approach that Isabel's taking. Today I'm deep. I'm feeling reflective. Because I've heard a lot of a conversation, because I heard quite a sad conversation between two customers. Algo normally means something, but we can use it to mean somewhat also when we combine it with

an adjective. First, I've arrived I think quite before the hour

prevista because he has expected a rato long. So, first of

all, has arrived first. She arrived first. I think that was a

pastante before the hour prevista, I believe quite a bit before the

expected time because he has expected a rato long

because she waited for a long while. Tenia care of preoccupation and a

sometimes she lees leescapable a dear. So Tenia care of

preoccupation she had a face of worry. She looked worried and we can say

had a car to describe how someone's looking emotionally and a

sometimes she le was a lagrima and at times she le escapaba

there escaped from her some a tear would escape now and then exactly and then exactly and it's a word

escape and it has a structure a little a pretty a for example

a me can be a larkina when I see a a

picture a so it's the lagrim a a a

that's a me a me okay okay good let's continue.

Pidio a manzanilla and no I want to never never a word manzanilla in English.

Of actually now I'm am I'm am sure. Is it Camamelty? Yes, that's so I

know manzanilla well. Don't get it mixed up with the olive though because the manzanilla olives I love them too

but I wouldn't mix Olives with Camomelty I found some gourdal olives the other day

Oh my goodness But, Marr, I have to confess one thing that I don't know I'm not like the olives and is that not you're going to

And that and that person that insist in that the paella that has Well, but some

things completely different is a sacrilegio to put chorizo in the paella for

favor, no do that's a totally different story I will see

that It took me until I was about maybe 35, 40 to enjoy all of, so you know, you're young. Maybe I'm going to get it. Okay. Anyway, pidio a manzanilla. She asked for a caramel milk tea and no care of nothing else. Media hour after, entro a chico that sonri-o-law. Okay, so half an hour later.

Media hour después, entro a chico, a boy, entered, that sonried at her, who smiled upon seeing her. La saluded with a so he was clear that they were a pairha. Okay, so la

saludo, he greeted her with a warm affectionate kiss. So it was clear that they were a couple. So far so good. Good. So you see, we don't know what's going to happen, but let's take a short break, and we'll be back in just a moment. 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 Sien's 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. Okay, let's find out what's going on in the cafe. We've got a young boy and girl, young man and woman.

We are going to find out why she is letting a tear escape every now and then. He was very he was about the DJ, of invitations to his

friends that were out of Okay, so he was very happy. He was talking about

the DJ about the DJ, about the DJ, about invitations to friends who perhaps

lived abroad who were from far away. Yes. But the expression in the car of the

chick no me I mean a good spina. This is a nice idea. Me, but the expression on the face of the girl, but the expression in the car of the chick, no me daba buena.

So literally, wasn't giving me good spine. So, an espina, I think that's what a porcupine or a hedgehog would have, spines. Yes, but, for example, also, could be the spina of a rose. The thorn of a rose.

Or the spina of a peskado. So that's like a fishbone. Okay, interesting. But in this idiom, it's basically saying that the expression on the face of the girl was giving me a bad feeling. I had a bad vibe about this. Me asked to ask her to ask him, and exclamo, surprised, all ver that she was taking a infusion. Okay, me a setque to ask him.

I approached to ask him, so she's already ordered her camomile. he, what he wanted to have, he exclam, surprised, as he was surprised, at her he was surprised when he saw that she

was having a herbal tea. Yes, he's, he's interpreting as a signal of that something that's going to be a lot of

is going. Let's continue. Me he asked a can, a cana and some acionillas and he said he

said he asked me for a canya and an acetunillas so a small beer and some little

olives not the gordal ones obviously the small one is very interesting because if if we

divide us in two we can obtain two one Spain that says olivas which is,

I'd say that the part more oriental and in the rest, it's

pretty the term the term acetunas. So it's funny because when you said Olivas

earlier, I thought oh, Pablo uses olives because as a because as

soly say olivers more than a than what do you see in

Valenciano Olives for so for so okay and he continued

I'm going to enthusiasm, e-lusion, and he continued speaking with enthusiasm and excitement. I just noticed that

e-illusion. It's not i because it's following it's followed by i. Me kept elada at oir to the chick

to say, I'm just to talk. It's a lovely grammatical phrase, but it's a bit sad.

Um, me quede elada. I was frozen. I was shocked. Al-O-ear on hearing. We've seen lots of al plus

the infinity. It's a structure very common. So I was frozen stiff when I heard a la chica pedirle, that dejase de-de-hase-de-a-blat. When I heard the girl asking him to stop talking. Now in English we say asking him to stop doing something or

asking her to start doing something or whatever it is. But in Spanish we have to use this different construction. The chika, the girl asked him that he should bechase de-a-a-a-la-la-la-that he stop talking using the imperfect subjunctive. That's, and I was thinking,

Mark, the expression, quederselad, also could we say, queder, I'd be deader, a little bit of ear a chick, also, it would be turned to stone. Yes. There's a word we use in English. Petrified, petrified.

Petrified is a bit more fear rather than shock, I think. If someone's petrified. I never had thought this. I think, yeah. Okay. She says to him, This is serious.

Let's he told him. Apparently, she was convinced of nothing. So apparently she wasn't convinced about anything. She had a total doubt

about what was going to happen. Yeah. Had he'd had taken the decision and no had brought back. It's very

very very so she had taken the decision, had and there was no way back, there was no turning back. No, it's decided. She was going to work as a volunteer to Ethiopia during six months,

and no care you know to know anything of him, nor do you. So, so she was going to go to work. This year, in this case, year, so I was going to hear. she was going off to work as a volunteer at Ethiopia in Ethiopia during six months

and no carea said not to know she didn't want to hear anything about him or about the wedding. So here we've got during six months literally during six months could we use another word there?

Yes, we could use another word there? But importantly, not para. No. So we say in English, I'm going there for six months. So we've got two options in Spanish. Por or during. So, she disculpo,

le deso suerte, and abandoned the bar. Wow. So she apologized. She disculpo, le deso suerte, she wished him luck, and abandonedo el bar. And she left the bar. Menudo drama. Yeah, it's not even

just left the bar. She abandoned the bar. She stormed out. Well, she didn't storm out. She just left the bar. No, me had been to be in the

place of Isabel being testigo of this Mm-hmm Mm-hmm

Okay Some minutes after he pago the account and he's

he went. So a few minutes later he paid the bill and he left.

See. Now, like any scene in any bar, there's always

nice scenes and not so nice scenes. Me has a bad a bad

of a boca, but, well, I'm sure that in the next Capitul, Isabel us will tell something more more than we

think we're going to read all the chapter and now I hope that all understand

what you see how listen. Since from the coffee break Spanish Cafitul

8 I have I got to a house with

a little a little For other part, I've got to record what always said my mother.

No, there's mal that for well not it is a fact that in occasions

the changes can't make us the more when it is the thing of a relation.

But a a reason the end of a cause sign the first of other,

of experiences new that They're there for us. Today I'm because I've heard a conversation something something

something something that one of first has made you she's I think that it's

before the hour prevista because has expected a rato long.

He had a care of preoccupation and a a

Sometimes, sometimes, she'd scapable a little a lachry. He'd a manzanilla and

he'd take nothing more. Media hour after after

went a little he saw she and she

was with a very so he was that

he was he was very very very he

was he the DJ, of invitations to his friends that were but the expression in the car of the chick, no me dave a good

spin. I'm ack I'm to askerke a question to make, and exclamed surprised, all ver that she was taking a

infusion. Me piti-o a caon and some acyto-eas, and she went with enthusiasm and illusion. I'm

I'm held elated at when I'm saying to hear to hear

this is serious he said he said apparently she she

she not she had had made the decision

and he had back back he he No,

the boda. She disulp he deso suerte and abandoned the bar. Some minutes after, he paid the

account and he's left. That's it for this episode. We hope that you've enjoyed it even though it wasn't

perhaps the happiest had seen in the cafe. We will be back next time with of course hopefully

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you're waiting. Well, I'm going to see the history of these two. We're super enganchated

and intriguadissimo. We'll be back soon with more. For now, much thanks. And until the next. Much thanks

to you, Mark. You have been listening to a coffee brick language's production for the

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