Coffee Break Spanish - CBS Travel Diaries 2.06 | La Paz

Episode Date: May 27, 2021

We're joining Ainhoa, Luisa and Esteban in La Paz for Episode 6 of the Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries Season 2. While exploring the city and tasting local cuisine, hosts Mark and Marina delve into the language featured in this week's diary entry and discuss the preterite continuous tense.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 6 Hello to Hello to coffee break Spanish I'm Mark And I'm Marina How are you guys Marina?

I'm phenomenal, How are you, Mark? Very well, well, I'm a little bit of being quite to be here again in the studio

grabbing coffee break Spanish with you for our audience If this is the first episode of Coffee Brick Spanish you've ever listened to First of all,

you're very welcome. Secondly, we are traveling in South America at the moment. Well, we're actually not. We're in our studios. I'm in Scotland, Marines, and Spain. But we're following the journey of Ainoa, Luisa, and Esteban, as they travel

through South America on their travel diary, as it were. They're keeping a diary of their journey and we are reading it to improve our Spanish. Well, Marina, what, what you know what you want to? Well, today we're going to get to a a place new. We're in Bolivia,

concretely, in La Paz. Perfect. We're in Bolivia. We're going to visit the capital of Bolivia,

the Paz. And, well, we're to read the text, first, and then we will be the

grammatica, of the vocabulary interesting that there and we're, we're we're

that we understand perfectly the text. So, let's Let's start. Ving, let's.

In La Paz, we're there and over a lot food to try to eat.

Desiunamous in the market of Nicolas Bravo and we we're visiting

the center of the city. We the Basilica of

San Francisco and the Plaza Murillo. The Plaza was full of

Palomas. How Estevan they had phobia, no we'll get us much time.

Luisa took photos from the distance and did a in the that he appeared a

person who he was a manico. Povercito, although was a greatios. To

compensate the maltrago we invite us to eat a pulpo to

the diabla. When we're we we pass for the market

of Bruchas where they from records, to pocions. I bought an amuletto and I cogied

a pair of souvenirs for my parents. After that strange, although interesting a visit, we went to the Kiyikili,

the that was the best the bestor of the Paz. And no deceptiona because we

kept us boqui-abirtos. No we pass for the prison of San Pedro because

it was it was It's hard and we'd go to Sopokachi, the

barrio more modern of the path. We're going to turn around jathe.

You'd surprise to know what are the hattes? Well, well,

shall we find out what jatts are Yes, we are going to discover we're going to

discover what hates are because this is a cultural but also I would say in Spanish this is

a A voyage gastronomico. Yes, you know, yeah, a voyage gastronomico. Right, okay, let's go back through our text. And there are quite a number of interesting things in here. So let's talk about it. Marina is going to read each sentence,

and then we'll talk about the, what's in there. In La Paz, no, she's ever, and, over all, much food for provar. Okay, so we've got two interesting things here, because we've got two, Much of infiniteers.

Much of course to ver and much food to provide. Now, let's talk about what it means first of all and then we'll go back to these two infinitives and think a little about them. So in La Paz, nos esperaban much things to be.

So in La Paz, to us, we're waiting many things to see. So there were lots of things for us to see waiting for us. And, over total, much food to prove. And above all,

lots of food to try. So Marina, we've got much things to be and much food para probar. Why do we have one k and one para here? Well, in these two, we could interchange them. We could say

much things to be and much food to prove. Okay. So both work here in much things to be, much of much things, para ver and much food

or much food to provide. Are there situations where we would say ke over para or

para over ke? So we could say Tengo much to study and in that situation

it's kind of like the obligation you've got to study it Tengo much to study

I've got lots of things to study. That's right maybe if we use ke

it has a little bit more a sense of obligation rather than having para that are things that you have to do like different options. I have a lot of things to choose between. So for example I've got much pictures to be. Okay. Right. So there you can choose between them but if it's,

I'm much as perikulas to be that may be because you have got an assignment and you're working through the list of films that you've got to watch that kind of idea. That's right. Perfect. Okay, let's continue on. Let's continue on. Let's see. Desajunamos in the Mercado of Nicholas Bravo. And we've visited the center of the city. Okay. So, desayunamos. We had breakfast. Remember to have breakfast in Spanish has its own verb, Desaunar. And they had breakfast in the Mercado of Nicholas Bravo. And we're visiting the center of the city. And we were visiting the center.

of the city. Now, some of our listeners might be wondering here, why estuimos? That's a preterate there. The preterate combined with the geron form, so we were visiting. But why is it the preterate? Why wouldn't we say, estabamos visitando? If you, if we said estabamos, then we were like describing a thing that was going on. And in this case, we are describing a thing that happened in the past. And it, It has finished. So maybe if we were describing a situation where we're talking, we're visiting a miscellul.

When? GEOGOO un-estperado. Okay, that's a perfect example, because it's, we're doing something when something else happened. So we were doing something, when something else happened, when something occurred,

a preterate interrupting the imperfect there. However, could we have said here as well, desayunamos in the market? and visitamos the center of the city. What would be the difference there between visitamos and Estubimus visitando the center of the city? Okay, we could perfectly say and visitamos the center of the city, but here if we use the gerund,

visitando, we are giving the idea of an action going on. There's not a huge difference, but it's just describing the action differently. Okay, perfect. Let us continue on. And then see what else they saw? Vimos la Basilica of San Francisco and the Plaza Murillo. La Plaza Estaballiola was full of palomas. Okay, so they saw the Basilica of San Francisco

and La Plaza Murillo. So another square in La Paz. And Ainoa describes this place as Estaballena of palomas. It was full of, now, Palomas could be doves or they could be pigeons. do we know what we're talking about here? I would say pigeons.

Pigeons, okay. Mucha palomas. So how would you describe a dove? Okay, a dove is more like a tortola. Those are kind of palomas, but they are white and nicer, I would say. Okay. Now, we've not got anything against pigeons, of course, but a tortoise, like a turtle dove, I guess, a tortoise, a tortoise.

But the word paloma can be used for both, for both, even. and you may be familiar with the song A Paloma Blanca, but we're not going to sing that. And it also can be a name for a woman in Spanish. We can call a girl or a woman Paloma. Paloma. I'm sure many of our listeners have heard of Paloma Faith, if not other palomas.

Okay, let's continue on. As Esteban, Les Tenia Fobia, no us kidamos much time. Okay, this is interesting. So, Tener phobia a algo or a alguien. or a alien means to be very afraid of something

to have a phobia of something so here as Esteban Les had phobia as Esteban to them had phobia so as he was scared of them no

no us kept much time we didn't stay alone can you give us another example of a failure to someone or something? Yes, sure that for example, I have phobia to the ratas Okay, so you're scared of rats

So there are much Rattas here Les Tienes Fobia So let's That's, also Toes Fobia, not only to animals or a persons,

also, you can't have phobia, for example, to the spaces Serrados. So, we'd say Klaustrophobia. Okay, so claustrophobia would be a phobia

a fear of enclosed spaces, claustrophobia in English. So phobia can work on its own, but you can also have specific types of phobia and so on. Okay, so, so, como Esteban, Les Tenia fobia, to them he had phobia.

No, no, no kettamos much time. We didn't stay long. Now, just before we go on, let's talk a little about quedarse, because it's a very, very interesting verb, and it can be used in many situations.

Here we've got, no nos quedamos much time. We didn't stay for long. But quedarse can be used in other situations too, Marina, can't it? Yes, that's right. We can have it like stay in a place. We could say,

nos quedamos de piedra. If you were saying, how you stayed like physically, if you were surprised for something, you could say I was shocked. Me Ked, de Piedra. Me Ked De Piedra. So literally I stayed myself

of stone. I turned to stone. Me Kede de Piedra. Very good. And if we used the verb like, instead of Kedarsse, we say Kedar, then we can use that

to explain that we're meeting someone. For example. I've quedado with my amigos at 6. I will meet my friends at 6. And that's quite tricky because

listen to what Marina said there. I've quedado with my friends at 6th, using a perfect tense, I have Kedado with my friends at 6 o'clock. And then you translated it as, I will meet my friends at 6 using a future tense in English, which I'm sure is a little complex. However, if you think of it as I have arranged to meet my friends at 6, then that Kedar takes all the meaning of a range to do something to arrange to meet in that case. There is one other use that I want to pick up of Kedar.

And that's when something is left. So there are things left over. Kedan, a bit, Kedan 5 episodes of the travel diaries, no? That's right? Or there's very little food left. Okay, so there's a very little

food left. We need to go shopping. And that one's different. That's not arranging to meet. That's about things are being left over. So that is a really tricky verb, but a very useful one too. Yeah, it is. We use it quite a lot in Spanish. Very well. Okay, let's continue on.

Luisa tomo photos from the distance and he did make one in that her brother with a car of panic. Okay, Povercito. That's how it goes on. Per, per, Esteban here. Luisa took photos

from the distance. So, Luisa was taking photos from the distance. and she managed. She was successful in doing one and taking a photo so she managed to get one. In laque appeared his brother appeared her mano. In which her brother appeared

with a panicked face with a panicked expression. Okay, let's talk about I'll make a In fact, let's talk about Logro first of all. Logar a very useful verb to succeed in doing something. Again, Marina, can you give us

some more examples of this? For example, this was very difficult for me, but I've done to superarlo. Okay, so that was very, or this was very difficult for me,

but I managed to complete it to succeed in it, superarlo. I managed to get over it. Okay, so logar to manage to do something, to succeed in doing something. Can you loger with an exam? No, you've got to say, I've logado, approbary the examin. But you cannot say,

I've logado, elogado, el exam. Good. Okay, so in that case, we need to say, he logrado, approbara, el examin. I managed to approve to succeed in the exam. but the the lograr part is the managing to do something. However, there is a noun, El l'gro, no?

Yes. And that means? It's when you get something. So imagine that you get a merit after doing something. So that would be a loggro. It's like a merit or... Yeah, so some kind of award or reward or something like that. In Spanish, we wouldn't say lograr plus noun.

we would say, he logado ganar a premium, but we wouldn't use he logado a premium. Perfect. So we need the verb

in there. Lograr plus a verb, not the noun. But we can win a prize a ganadu a premium as you say. Okay, so that's Logro Acerer

Acer managed to get one or to take one in la that appeared a so my question is, could we say also, in la qual, apperecia suerano?

Yes, we could perfectly change in la que, to in la qual, and that would be perfect. Good, okay, so it's useful to see that, that we can swap those relative pronouns there. We can change in laque apparecia su emano to in la qual apparecia su hermana, suerano even. Okay, and poor thing,

Pomericito, although it was funny. Although it was very good. Okay, so let's continue. To compensate the mal trago, we invite us to eat chili reenno

of pulpo to the diabla. Wow, okay, that sounds quite spicy. Okay, for compensar the mal trago. Now,

trago is a, a tricky word because it can mean a few things. Well, it can mean two main things. When you have a swallow of something, a gulp of something, or even a sip, that's a drago, isn't it? That's right. But here we're talking about a different type of drago.

Yes. Even when you have a drink, you can say, to drink something. But in this case, this is not a literal meaning and it means like a bad thing he went through. So that situation that wasn't very nice for him would be a maltrao. Perfect. I think we would probably translate it into English as or something like that. So to make up for this bad ordeal that he had experienced,

le invitamos to come Chile rejeno de pulpo to la Diablo. Right. So we invited him to eat Chile-rejeno, so stuffed chili pepper de pulpo, it was stuffed with octopus to a da diabla.

Well, you know, something of that, Marina? Yes. Only with listening the name,

we can intuit that is a little a little a little a octopus.

It does pretty spicy. So yes, this is mainly made up of pulp a

ajo, ceboa, cheese and has some some salsa of tomato

and of the jugo of an orange alright, okay a little bit of everything good, okay let's continue when we're

we're coming we're we're pastamos where the brujas where they were from

these records to pociones wow okay so when we ended when we finished we're pastamos for the mercado of bruchas

so pass we went for a walk through for the market of bruchas so this the Witches Market,

where they sold from Recurdos to Pociones. So they sold everything from souvenirs to potions. Me Compre an amuleto

and I cogis a pair of souvenirs for my parents. Okay, me I bought for myself an amuleto. An amuleto would be an amulet, a charm,

some kind of good charm and I got a pair of souvenirs for my my parents and I got, I collected, I took a pair of souvenirs, a couple of souvenirs for my parents. Okay, let's pause just there for a little break and we'll be back in just a moment to finish off the rest of this 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. Very well, then, we're going to continue with our text of today. We're going to After that After that strange

Although interesting Paseo We went to Kiy Kiy Kiy, the that was considered the best the best

the path Okay So after that strange but interesting walk after that

strange although interesting Paseo we went to Kiy Kiyiyi Kiyi, the that was considered the

most mirador of la Paz, the one which was considered the best viewpoint of La Paz. Why is it El Que era considered? And not just,

Ke, was what was said both. We could say that he was considered and Elke was considered. If we include El, we are just being a little bit more specific and we are

like repeating what we are referring to. So making sure that we're talking about a masculine singular thing that would be el mirador. Okay. So we went to the kiyiyiyiy, so we went to the kidji-kidji, the one that was considered something like that, that might be a little too much in English, but which was considered the best viewpoint, mirador of la bath. And in this case, we could also change it as before we were talking about and say

the which was considered good okay it's always good to have multiple options okay

and no deceptiona because we're not kept boqui abiotos so here we've got

another use of the kiddarsse here different from the previous one no no

no we didn't stay for long here it is we we're we're we're

similarly to what you said earlier about we we were left boqui abjirtos with our mouths open we were gobsmacked we were flabbergasted something like that it's a great word boki abjitos no no no us passamos for the prison of san pedro because se nos is too tardy and preferiamos go to Sopokachi,

the barrio most modern of the path. So this is a little bit tricky. Se nos is so Arsese means to become and here it's se nos it took us became

late. So basically it got late but we have to use this construction here. So the day to us made late. It became late. it became late to us and therefore we are seeing that it got late.

We're not yet. And we preferial most to go to Sopo Katsi, and we were preferring to go to Sopo Katsi, the bario most modern of La Paz. The most modern area of La Paz.

Tomamos something there, and we're finished, Cennando Jate. You'd surprise to know what are the Jatts. Okay, so

we'll Tomamos Alway. So to Tomar something to eat, to have something to

drink. And we ended up eating jate. And as I know I said, Te sorpreendaria to know

what jatts. You would be surprised to know what jatts are. Okay, Marina, what are

those jatis? So this is a contraction of the English word. word or name for this food, hot dog. Okay.

So this is a Bolivian way to refer to a hot dog, ghatty, catty dog. Yeah, but they consider this a special, it's like very a traditional, I wouldn't consider it a dish, maybe, but it's something really typical from this area, from what they call La Baja California. And there they cook it in a different way.

they have like they made three main changes the bread is very important for them so they have a specific bread and they also included a tocino enrolado okay so tucino is like bacon and the bacon is like in a specific way and it's wrapped around the sausage okay right so it's a sausage wrapped in bacon. And they have a special cream that is mainly mayonnaise with milk. So if you are wondering what to try the next time you're in La Paz, then why not try Jate? And in there they call them Jates, Paseños or Paceños. Of course. So the path, La Paz, we're saying La Paz because we are speaking with a Spain-Spanish pronunciation. Of course, if you are in Bolivia, you'd be much more likely to hear

La Paz and therefore the adjective that is linked to La Paz or La Paz is Paceno or Paseño. Very well. Perfecto. Okay, so we've covered quite a few things. What I would like you to do here is listen out for these uses of Kedar or Kedarsse in this text again as we're listening through and you'll see what we've talked about and recognize the different versions of Kedarsie. Let's have another listen. many things to be and, and, over all, much food to prove. Desajunam most in the

market of Nicholas Bravo, and we're visiting the center of the city. We've seen the basilica of San Francisco and the Plaza Murillo. The Plaza was full of palomas.

As Esteban had a phobia, no us we'd get us much time. Luisa took photos from the distance and he did a little bit of a in that he appeared a

mano, poor-cito, although it was graciously. To compensate the mal-trago, we invite us to eat chili

re-enno of pulpo to the diabla. When we we're we we pass- for the market of

bruchas where they from from from some I'm a muleto

and I I took a pair of souvenirs for my parents. After that strange, although interesting, pass-o, we went to Kiyuki, the that was considered the best-mirator

of the Paz, and no deception because we kept both-li-abirtos. No, we pass us for the prison of San Pedro because it was

he was too hard, and we'd go to Sopokachi, the barrio the more modern of the path.

Tomamos something and we termed ternando jat. You'll surprise to

know what are the jatts. Well, yeah is that. That's it for this

episode of the coffee break Spanish travel diaries. And we hope you've enjoyed

spending some time with us in Bolivia in La Path. Now next time we're heading on further.

We're going to Cochabamba and we'll hear more about that next time. If you'd like to

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We hope you've enjoyed this. Marina, as always, much thanks. Much thanks to you. It's a pleasure. And much thanks a all those most others. Thank you for listening.

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