Coffee Break Spanish - CBS Travel Diaries 2.01 | Llegada a Lima

Episode Date: April 22, 2021

We're back with a second season of the Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries for intermediate learners of Spanish. Throughout this 10-episode series, we join Ainhoa, her friend Luisa and her brother Esteban from Spain as they travel through western South America on an adventure after finishing college. In the very first episode of the series, we're in Lima, the capital of Peru, for a jam-packed day of sightseeing and local cuisine. We find out what the trio get up to through Ainhoa's travel diary entry, and hosts Mark and Marina discuss the interesting language featured along the way. ¡Vámanos!Our premium version includes lesson notes with additional examples and explanations of the language in each lesson, and a pronunciation practice video to help you improve your speaking. Click here to access the course on the Coffee Break Academy.At Coffee Break Spanish we provide content for beginners, intermediate and advanced learners, along with regular mini lessons on social media. Visit coffeebreakspanish.com for all the information you need to build your confidence in Spanish, whatever your level. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coffee Brick Spanish Travel Diaries, Season 2, Episode 1. Hello, all, and welcome to Coffee Brick Spanish. We're very content of being back with another episode and other temporary of Coffee Brick Spanish. Today I'm with Marina. Hello, Marina. Hello, what, Mark. I'm super good.

And you? Well, very good, too, thanks. Me alegr. Well, we need to presentart to our audience, no? Sure that Marina was with us for the first season of the travel diaries

but she was reading the part of Victoria in our first season this time round however you've got a different job to do because you are our co-host well we're very content us and I'm very much

contented Well, count us a you have worked with us in many projects No Well, yeah I've been a lot time and the

fact is that I've formed part of different projects and nothing I'm very very happy very perfect

okay those of you who listened to the masterclass will recognize Marina's voice and also our live lessons that we've been doing

over on Facebook and YouTube so Marina is here to help us with our travel diaries and this this this time we

we have a project a voyage a little different no? Yes it's a

bit more more We're going to go to Sudamerica. A Sudamerica, perfect. Okay, what's going to happen, as ever, is we're going to listen to each text. So in this case, Ainoa, is our protagonist, and we're going to listen to her travel diary. And we listen to the text. You'll get to hear what she says in the text.

And then Marina and I are going to discuss the language and the expressions and the grammar and so on, all contained in there. So, we're going to start? Well, sure, we're going to start. I'm Ainoa,

and I've to end up to terminate the university. So, a voyage for the oest of

South America with my amiga and his brother Esteban, it was a good

way to celebrate it. After two days, we've we're to through the

charco and with the jet lag only don't don't know In change,

I don't parable there were many things to see and little time.

Madrugam and we got the bus to see the point of the

sun the the is that the point that

the you do do do you do do

then we we we we're we the north

the part the far of the Also, weakapagyana, the ruins of a pyramid escalonada of the first. It's in the middle of the city, for what was quite surprising.

Before to continue, we came from the center. Pedimus Causa Rejena, Papa Al-Wancaina, and Kao-Kao-Kao. We've chosen those Plotos because they'd a name peculiar, but all was

good-it- finalized the day being the Plaza of the Parmas and the Place

of San Francisco and the Mercado Municipal Grand Mariscal Ramon Castilla Lima

is a city of contrastes very interesting Marina, you know, Lima? Well, no.

For this I don't know I know Lima, but I'd like a much

I'm too. I'd be to go to Peru and for the moment

we're to discover the the I know and his friends. Sure

that they're they're a little more to Peru.

Exactly. Now these texts are being written by native speakers

of Spanish from Spain so we're listening to we're

experiencing South America South America through the eyes and through the voice, if you like, of a native Spanish speaker from Spain. So when it comes to some of the words, perhaps they would be pronounced differently in South American Spanish. But we'll come to that and we'll talk about that when we reach those. For now, let's go through the text in greater detail. So if you could perhaps read each sentence one by one, we'll talk about the language contained. I knowa

And I'mo de end up to terminate the university Okay so Ainoa is an interesting name Can you tell us a little more about this name

Marina Yes this name is common from the north of Spain from Paiz Basco From the Basque Okay and it's spelled A-I-N-H-O-A

A-N-H-O-A So Ainoa is from the north of Spain from the Basque country And she says And I-Cabo De-E-A-L-U-E-E-E-Récii-E-E-L-E-E-Sid and I have just finished university. So she's just finished her studies.

So, So, um, a voyage for the Oeste of South America with my amiga, and her brother Esteban, it was a good form to celebrate it. Okay, so this sentence starts with

Asique. And Asique is like saying therefore, or so. So, a voyage for the west of South America, so a journey along the west of South America,

with my my friend Luisa and her brother Esteban so with my friend Louisa and her brother Esteban was a good form of celebrate

so parecia is from what verb Parecer and which tense is it It's an imperfect tense So it seemed it was seeming to be a good way A good way,

a good form to celebrate What is it that she's celebrating The fact that she has just finished university. Exactly. So the law is referring to all of that. She says, Acabo de terminate the university.

And so blah, blah, blah. It's a good way to celebrate that fact, of celebrate it. Perfecto. Okay, we're going to continue. Okay, so after two days, we're going to Peru, but after to cross

the charco and with the jet lag, only dormimos. Okay, so Aze two days ago, we can use Aze with a time to say however long ago, we gotamos

to Peru. We arrived in Peru. And that we get almost there, it might look like a present tense, but in actual fact it's a past tense. Isn't it? Which tense is it, Marina?

It is another past tense, and it confuses, it can be confusing because it looks exactly the same as the present tense for the first person of the plural. So, Diegoamos could be, we arrive or the preterate, we arrived. And that's what it is here. So two days ago, we arrived in Peru. but after to cross the

charco but after crossing the charco a puddle this is an interesting expression

in Spanish what what means it means in Spanish we use cross

the charco to say that we're to cross the ocean atlantic

so we're crossing the Atlantic Ocean I think we could also see in

English crossing the pond. We refer to the Atlantic Ocean as the pond. No, I didn't know that. Very well. Well, we know that. Well, we did. We're, well. We're, well, we guess. We're, so after crossing the pond or after crossing the puddle or the Atlantic Ocean. And with the jet lag. Now, there's other word for jet lag? Well, no. The truth is that in Spanish,

we always use jet lag. Jet lag. Well, then, and it's a, a man masculine, the jet lag. Yes. Perfecto. So what did they do after crossing the channel and with the jet lag? Solo Dormimos. They only slept. And here again, it looks like a present tense, but it's the same case as Jelamos and it's a past tense.

It is indeed. So another preterate that looks just like the present there. Solo Dormimos. We just slept. We simply slept. So that was a few days, two days ago. However, a year yesterday, everything changed. Marina, let's have the next sentence. In canbyo, ayer no paramos for Lima. There were much things to be, and poco

time. So in canvio, literally in change, but for a change or by contrasting that or in contrast, a year no paramos for Lima. We didn't stop all the way through Lima.

And that's paramos yet another verb, which we're seeing the same situation, paramos looks like the present tense, but here it's the preterate. Ayer, no paramos for Lima. Marina, why is it for Lima

here? Because you are moving around a city, so then you would use por? Well, I would say that in this case, you could also use in Lima, but it would be a little bit confusing, so it's better

for Lima because you're moving around the Perfect. Earlier we saw a voyage por el-Oeste of South America. The idea is that you're moving along or around in this case, probably along the west coast of South America. Although they do go inland later

as we'll find out in future episodes. But yeah, as you said, they're for Lima, around Lima. They didn't stop all the way around Lima. And the end of the sentence there much things to be and poco-tiempo. So there were many things to

and little time. So they had to fit lots into the time that they had in Lima. Marina, we can over a little bit of to be. Could we say, also,

there were much things to be. Yes, and probably a native of Spanish in South America would say

for-beer. Ah, okay. So there many things for-beer, para-ver, and also what-be-er.

There's a difference yeah? No, really the significal is the same,

it's simply you think you can't see, then you can be, or that you

can be, we could use para ver, we could use what but also you may hear a Latin American

speaker saying por ver. Yes, so lots of things to do, but a little time to do it

in. Okay, so let's find out how exactly they spent their day. Madrugamos and we cogimos the bus

to see the puente of those suspiros I love this verb madrugar madrugar

Marina explain to us what madrugar means it means to wake up early very early

and we have a time of the day or the night more specifically called La Madrugada Yes that's right La Madrugada

is that period during the night when you should be sleeping. Okay, so at night you can go out for dinner, but then you go back home and you go to bed. But if you're still out partying, for example, then that time would be called madrugada. Okay, so we wouldn't use the verb madrugar for to describe being out until that time, however. No, no. You can say I was partying until very late. So you can say, Estue de fiesta, until the

madrugada but when we use madrugar it means after having gone to sleep you got up very early that's right so normally you have to madrugar if you go to work

very early but if you're well if you're, well if you're, well you're, you're, then you're you're a problem, no? You're a little problem

or a grand problem. So I know that says madrugamos and We got out really early and we caught the bus. We caught the bus. I think if we were looking at South American, Spanish, probably we would see Tomamos the bus to see the point of size of the suspicions. In Latin American, we would never use the verb coger for that. Okay. Then the final sentence of this paragraph then? The legend says that if

the point, the water, your desire, your desire, you're

talking about the legend. So the legend says, the legend says, if it's cruza the point, if one

crosses the bridge or if the bridge is crossed, so the respiration or breath, and if you hangar

the respiration that's you holding your breath, your desire will come true. Your wish will be granted. Very well. Well, me seems very interesting. To me, I'd like to go to see the point of those suspicions. And, of course, to hold the respiration. Well, yes, but we'll be back in just a moment with the next section of the text.

We wanted to let you know that there's a premium version of the Travel Diaries course, and this includes a set of lesson notes where you'll be able to read the text from each of the diaries and work through the vocabulary and any explanations that we've provided. There's also a video version of the text where we've left space for you to repeat the words and phrases used, giving you an opportunity to practice your speaking and your pronunciation. For more information about this, head to coffeebreakacademy.com. Well, today we're in Lima, in Peru,

with Ainoa and his friends. So, we're going to the text, for favor. Then we went to the

north, for the coast, to see the faro of the marina. Okay, we're seeing

Por, and Parra are two words that every learner of Spanish has come across and every learner of Spanish

probably wishes they hadn't come across sometimes, but Por is really, useful for this idea of going along or through as we've seen. So I know it says

Despois, we went towards the north, por la Costa, along the coast. Para ver in order to see El Faro de la Marina. So the faro is the lighthouse and it's the marina lighthouse. So in this one sentence we've got por and we've got para both doing very different jobs. And interestingly, neither of them are translarsely. And interestingly, neither of them are as four, because we always think of por and para being translated as four, but here neither of them are four. Por la Costa, along the coast, para ver, in order to see the faro de la Marina. Is your faro? Well, yes, that seems.

Well, then, Marina, we can continue with the next phrase. We're going. Also Weeemos Waka Pugjana the ruins of a pyramid escalonada

of the single first. Very well. Okay, so we've got a first interesting location here.

Also Vipipyana so this is a ruin the ruins of a pyramid escalonada.

I'm sure you're familiar with the types of pyramids that are are kind of stepped. So it's a stepped pyramid of the Siglo One

from the first century. It's in the middle of the city. For what was quite surprising. This is interesting. It's in the middle of the city.

It's in the middle of the city. For what was quite surprising. And for that reason, the fact that it's in the middle of the city, it was quite surprising.

I guess you don't expect to see a pyramid in the middle of the city. It's surprising, yeah. Okay. So before going on, before going on, before we continue, comimos, for the center.

So there we have another preterate, but this time there is a difference between the preterod and the present tense of comer. If we were using the present tense, said, we eat around the center, we would say, Comeemos for the center. Okay, so for example,

every, cada, comemos for the center. We eat every day, every lunchtime in the center. But here we've got we ate in the preterate, and therefore it is... Comeimos. Okay, let's just run through the full conjugation of comer in the preterate tense. So I ate

You ate You ate You ate He or she ate He or she ate Eil or she ate Watch that one Comeo

And then we ate Nosotros Comimus You all ate Vosotros Comestes And they ate Ejos

Comeerun Okay And of course we would have The Ustead and Ustead As well For the third person in each case Now, because we're talking about preterates, let's also do a quick review of the AR verbs. We had an ER verb there, Comer.

Let's go back to another ER verb, parar, that we've seen in this episode too. So let's go through the preterate form of parar. I stopped. You stopped. You stopped. He, she or you polite stopped. we all stopped We all stopped

We all stopped You all stopped You plural polite stopped They're you plural polite stopped Ejos, Ejos U,s, you, pararon Okay, so pararon

And of course The U plural polite would just be you plural If we're talking in Latin American Spanish So Ustés would be used there And here we also have another por that could be changed to an end

so you could say comimos in el cendro but if we use por this gives us the idea of like we are moving around the center is not like specifically in a place in the center okay so they are eating in the center

and let's find out what they ate because some of these dishes sound amazing We need Causa Rejena Papa A la Wancaina and Kaou

Marina Canoes these Plato? Well, I have to say that

I've only I have one of them Cosa Rejena that

in Spain is it's name for Yeah of Lima

Yeah of Lima Causa and Causa What is It's

like a Ensalary Yeah It's It's like It's a potato,

it's mayonnaise, pollo, it's very good I'm not entirely sure if we

call this a Russian salad in English. I've seen Olivier salad as well

but basically it's diced vegetables with mayonnaise and as you say

in this case in the Causa Riena it has chicken or perhaps

tuna as well sometimes Yeah in Spain we call it Ensaladilla Rusa

and it similar to this Caus Alemenia, but the one I tried, it was with chicken, yeah. It was just chicken. Okay, okay. Then they also had Papa Al-Wancaina.

So, Wancaina is the adjective that links to the town of Wancayo. And do you know what Papa la Wancaina is? I actually haven't tried this dish, but I guess that as Papa is how we say potato in Latin American Spanish. So probably Papa Al-Wancaina, it's as you said, something related to the style they cook potatoes in Wangayo. I am led to believe that it has a yellow, spicy, cheesy sauce, and it is often served with black olives and boiled egg on top. Wow, amazing. And finally we have cow cow.

know. No, the fact is that I'm probably I'm probably that cow cow

is a type of stew made from tripe so there we go I'm not sure if I know that Victoria

and Abel had lots of tripe in their journey through the north of Spain and we're back to the

tripe here but it's apparently a must try for adventurous eaters who are visiting

Peru excellent let's continue on We chose those Because They had a name peculiar

But all It was Buenissimo So it sounds like I know and her friends decided to choose those dishes

Because they had a peculiar name They were interesting names for them But everything was delicious Allo

was delicious Allo Finalizam the day By the Plaza of the Arms

And the Plaza of San Martin the Basilica of San Francisco and the Mercado Municipal Grand Mariscal

Ramon Castilla Very well many interesting to find out these different places we'll need to find out one of them so I'm good to look them up

after this episode so we ended the day finalisamos the day being the place of the arms so literally the square of the arms the place of the arms

and the place of San Martin, the square of San Martin, the Basilica of San Francisco, so the St. Francis's Basilica, and the Mercado Municipal Grand Mariscal Ramon Castilla. So a municipal market, I love going to markets when I'm traveling, because there's just so rich in smells and tastes

and flavors and colors. It's a great place to take photos. Well, what he said, I know, at the final of this text, well, me per se, it's perfectly right. So it's a city of contrasts. So it's a city of contrasts. Perfect.

Well, what we do we do now is re-excuching the text. And as, as we've been about the vocabulary and the grammatica, all of all right. Let's see. So I knowa and I've got to terminate the university. So a voyage for the west of South America with my my friend Luisa and his Ehrman,

it was a good form to celebrate it. Ace two days, we got to Peru, but after the

cruiser the charco and with the jet lag, only we're only we didn't

we're not we're there, there much things to see and a little time.

Madrugam and we took him the bus to see the Puan't the

suspicions. The legend says that if she cruises the point, aguantando the respiration, your desire will be done. Then, we went to the north,

for the coast, to see the faro of the marina. Also, weakakjana, the ruins

of a pyramid escalonada of the first. It's in middle of the city, for what

was a It's a pretty surprising. Before to continue, we came from the center. Pedimus Causa Rejena, Papa Al-Wancaina, and Kaoucao. We chose those plates because they'd a number peculiar, but all over time very much. finalis the day

being the Plaza of the Paras the Plaza of San Martin the Basilica of San Francisco and the

Mercado Municipal Grand Mariscal Ramon Castilla Lima is a city of contrastes

well yeah that has been our first text our first chapter of our new

Travel Diary series and we hope that you've enjoyed listening to the Adventures

of Ainoa as they arrive in Lima. Marina, do you've a good? I mean, the fact is that me has

been really these places and these places that peculiares that I'm doing trying to

try to get more. Okay, now if you're wondering how you can get more out of

the Coffee Break Spanish travel diaries, you can head over to the Coffee Break Academy

where we've got the full course version of this available and you can access the

lesson notes which provide extra materials and further help with the words and phrases

contained in each lesson and also our video version which will help you practice your pronunciation as you read aloud with Ianoa as she reads each sentence so all of that is at the coffeebreak academy at coffeebreakacademy.com don't forget that you can follow the travel diaries on Instagram too each week we're posting photos of the amazing places visited by Inoa Luisa and Esteban on the coffee break languages Instagram account Perhaps you've been to one of these places too.

Let us know. Search for coffee break languages on Instagram and we look forward to your comments. We will be back next time with the next installment of their journey and they'll be moving on from Lima to another place that I've always wanted to visit in Peru. But more of that next time. Marina, as always, much thanks.

Muchismas thanks to you. And we're going to return the next time. Asa-Lueh! Asta Luego! You have been listening to a coffee break-languages production for the Radiolingoi network. Copyright, 2021 Radiolingua Limited. Recording copyright, 2021, Radiolingua Limited. All rights reserved.