Coffee Break Spanish - CBS Travel Diaries 2.07 | Comida en Cochabamba

Episode Date: June 3, 2021

Ainhoa, Luisa and Esteban have arrived in Cochabamba, the gastronomic capital of Bolivia! The trio are kept busy with lots of sightseeing as they visit the Plaza 14 de Septiembre and the Paseo de la Independencia. Join Mark and Marina as they discuss the language featured in this episode and listen out for the use of the verb saber and the conditional 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 7. Hello, all, and bienveniles to Coffee Brick Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Marina. How are you? Well, I'm very well, today. What is you? Yeah, super bien today.

And very content to be back to another episode of our Coffee Brick Spanish Travel Diaries. And these, in the series, we're following the adventures of Ainoa, Esteban and Luisa, as they travel through South America. They've already been to Peru, and now we're in Bolivia. Last time we were in La Paz, or La Paz. And this time we're heading to Cochabamba, the gastronomic capital of the country. So, Marina, what we're going to do in this episode? Well, in this episode, we're going to eat.

But, also we're going to do a bit of tourism. Okay, well, okay, perfect. Well, as soon, we'll hear us the text, and then we'll be able to be. of the grammatica, of the vocabulary, and of all the interesting that there in the text. Let's go to do you. We're going to... We're going to...

...we're going to... ...the capital gastronomical of Bolivia. Proposed the idea of our stanchure... And, even though Esteban was to agree, Luisa wanted to do photography of the city.

At final, we're going to the accord of that we'd comeeriams to impacharned for the time, while that for the morning, visitar we

all the he offered a Cochabamba. So, we did we we're going, we're the plaza of

the 14th to seep the Fenty of the Three Gras and the column of the heroes,

an obelisk that rind rende a reintrodual to the 1810. Also, we sitam

the Cathedral of San Sebastian, that was built on the base of an ancient temple. From there, we were to the Plaza Colon and we came down for the Paceo of the Independence,

where Luisa saw incredible photos of the architecture of the era of the republic. For support, we took him's the telephyrical to get to Christ. We'd have to do it

but to no one of us he'd apetecis. The sculpture media 34 meters of altitude,

and is the second sculpture of Christ the most high

the world. The vistas those were incredible after the

after the last the rest of the day eating and provand

it panpac scabech with papitas chanc de poe

many many were in Quechua and with all

rebawnamos the plate. I knew the food had to come and boy did it come. We'll get to that all in good time. Let's go back to the beginning of the text and read the text now. We're going to

Cochabamba, Sabiento, that's considered the capital gastronomical of Bolivia. Okay, so we arrived in Cochabamba, we came to Cochabamba, Sabiento K, that's the general form of to know. So,

knowing that is that is that considered the capital gastronomica of Bolivia. So it's

considered the gastronomic capital, the food capital of Bolivia. Why is it is it

ista considered? Here you could use either is considered or is considered

so you probably are going to read it's more common to read is considered

than is considered but both are correct. Okay, so just to remember, you can't always switch between S and esth in other situations. So ser and estat are not normally interchangeable, but here they would be, so you could see S considered or is considered both work here.

Proposed the idea of passing all our stanza, comient, and although Esteban was still de-acquered, Luisa wanted to do photographs of the city

Okay, so Propuse is an interesting verb it's an irregular form from

proponer and if we take off the pro and we just look at poner it means

to put and therefore we can conjugate to put in the the preterate

I think we've done that before so Puse Pustiste posis posis

and just stick the pro in front and we got Prop Puse I proposed the idea of spending the whole of our stay to pass at all our stature,

eating. And although Esteban was in agreement, to be in agreement with someone, Louisa wanted to make photographs of the city. Louisa wanted to take photos of the city. At final, we'll get us to the

accord to come we're going to end up our time, while that for the

morning visitariams all what was he offered Cochabamba Okay, so they came to a

decision, they came to an agreement at the end at the end. At final we came to the agreement

of that we came to the agreement of we're to makecharnes for the time

so that we're we would eat, that's your conditional there, comeriamos, so what's this empacharse? Empacherses is like to fill up your stomach. So if you eat a lot and you are absolutely full, is that. Okay, so you eat until you're full empacharnos.

And it's reflexive, so we need the nos in here because of course I know it's talking about herself and this day, and Louisa. So, until empacharnos for the that's what they were going to do in the afternoon

the evening. Mientras, that for the morning, visitariams so while in the morning, for the morning, we would visit

it would visit everything that Cochabamba, everything that Cochabamba had to offer. Let's look at these conditionals a little more. Marina, the

conditional is is really straightforward to form. For regular verbs, we just take the infinitive, don't we? So we just need to take the infinity form and add the conditional endings. Okay, so let's take an example. Let's take a nice simple verb like

Ablaar. Mm-hmm. Yo ablaria. Tu ablarias. El, ella woulda. Nosotros, nosotras, nosotras

haveiamos. Vosotros, vosotras avaliyas. they would Perfect So in each case we're using the word

Wood to translate this I would speak you would speak he she would speak you would speak we would speak you would speak they would speak so it's a wood

form of the translation So at final we're getting the accord of Comeriams so they were putting the yamos ending on the end of

Comer we would eat until empacharned for the time Minutres that for la manna, mania, again, the iamos ending is just going on the end of the infinitive, visitar.

However, not all verbs use the infinitive. We do have some verbs which have a, what we would call an irregular future stem because we use the same stem for the future

and the conditional. So let's take an example of... Benir, for example. Benir, yeah, good, yeah, good example. So benir, we don't use the infinitive. We may a new future stem which is V-E-N-D-R and then our conditional endings.

So that would become I would come. Bendria. You would come. Bendrias. He or she would come. Bendria. We would come. Bendriamos.

You, plural, would come. Bendriais. And then they would come. Bendrian. Okay, so Bendria. Pendrias, pendria and so on. So just watch out for the irregular future stems for these verbs, but the actual endings of the conditional are very straightforward.

Very well. Well, then, we'll continue with the text. So, we did. We'll start for the Plaza of 14th of September to visit the Fountain of the Three Gras and the Column of the Heroes, an obelisk that rende

a menace to Rewski Okay, so in that way it we did so basically that's exactly what we did

so they were going to see things in the morning and then eat in the afternoon we're going to the plaza of 14th of September so we began with the square

of the 14th of September to visit the Fwente of the three graces in order to visit the fountain of the three thank yous and the column of the heroes. And the column of the heroes. And then a little explanation of this,

an obelisk that rende hominage to the Revolution of 18010. So this is an obelisk which renders homage, which pays homage to the 1810 revolution. So about these two fountains, I can tell you that the one that is called Las Treas Gratias is really nice to visit it at night when everything is like with a very nice illumination and the lights are really, really nice to visit.

And also another interesting thing about La Column of Los Erie is that it's a gift from the Spanish king Charles III that gave it to the Pueblo of Cochabamba in the 18th century. Very well, very interesting. Okay, what more did you? Also, we also visited the Cathedral of San Sebastian that was built on the base of an Antigua Temple.

Okay, so, also visited the Cathedral of San Sebastian. So we also visited the Cathedral of San Sebastian that was constructed on the base of an ancient temple. So it was constructed on the base of a

ancient temple of a former temple okay just a question about the word Antiguo here Marina

is coming before temple could we have said an temple an temple Antigua Yes we can move the adjective

if we place it after the noun normally we are not trying to emphasize that characteristic but maybe if we place it

before it's just that we are trying to give a little bit more of importance to the Okay. And would I be right in thinking here that if we say an Antiguo templo, it could have the sense of a former temple, which is now a shopping center or something like that?

That's right. And in that case, we couldn't place the adjective after the word, the noun temple. Okay. So in that case, yes, you could say an Antiguo temple, that now is a center commercial. Okay. However, here, an Antigua temple, there's no. no real explanation as to what it is now other than the cathedral. So it could just simply be an ancient or an old temple, an Antigua temple. How do we say, for example, ancient Egypt? Antigua Egypto. Yeah, so it comes before there in that sense. I guess they were really refitting to the fact that we're talking about a long time ago, ancient Egypt, Antigua Egypt.

Very well. Well, we'll go. From there, we We're going to And we're for the Paseo of the Independence

where Luisa saw incredible photos of the architecture of the Republic. Okay, there's an interesting thing in

here that we'll get to in just a moment De Allie We went to the Plac Colon, from there we went to the Plaza Colon Columbus Square

and we cameamos for the Paceo of the And we walked along the Paseo de la Independencia, where Luisa saco

incredible photos of the architecture, of the epocha, de la Epoca. So where Luisa took incredible photos of the architecture of the

time of the Republic. So, the architecture of the epoca of the Republic style architecture that she took the incredible photos of. But Marina,

Luisa saco increibles photos. I've always been taught that we always need to put in an article. Why don't we say here, Luisa saco unas incredible photos? We could say saco unas increivables photos, but having the adjective before and having anything else around it make these photos even more incredible because we're focusing on the idea that these photos were incredible.

Okay. So they are not just some incredible photos. These are incredible photos. Okay. So there we can take out the Unas, the indefinite article there, and we just are using the adjective to emphasize that. If it had just been, Doresa saw photos of the architecture, would that have worked too? Yes. You could say photos or unas photos would work. Okay, so Louisa has been taking these photos. of the architecture in the area. We're going to take a pause here and we'll be back in just a moment to continue the rest 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. Okay, well, then, we're in Cochabama, and now they're at the point of going up to the Christ. Let's find out what that means. for

So they took the telephyrico for So they took the cable car in order to go up to the Christ So there's a statue of Christ on a hill in Kottabamba

and this is very famous there is well we'll find it more about it in just a moment We'd We'd do it at foot But a no one of us He'de Okay so apparently

there is the option of climbing 2,000 steps to reach this statue. But they didn't fancy this. Podiamos to do it by foot. But to none of us, a ninguno of us, a none of us, a none of us usle apetecia. So, apetezer means to fancy doing something. Me apeteze to go into the cinema.

he apetece go to to see to he or she fancies going up to the statue of Christ

now it is tricky especially because we've got a of us to none of us we need that

extra a in there because it is an indirect structure Marina you want to help

us yes we could here we could make it a little bit simpler and we could have

said, but a no no apetetetia. So that way we would like avoid saying de nosotros that it's just making it a little bit more clear

and we could straight say a ninguno nos apetetia. Yeah, because the, uh, ninguino de nosotros changes, the person that we're talking about

um, a nosotros nos apetetia. Um, so to us, we fancied going up there. but a non of us

the subject is becoming no one and none of us although it's the subject in English

it's actually the object in Spanish it's pretty tricky yeah and here because we are

saying a ninguno de we are like making it single so we would be considered

individuals each of us and that's why we have le apetetetia instead of having us apetetia

yeah Very tricky stuff. Okay, let's move on and find out more about this sculpture, this statue. The sculpture media 34 meters of altitude and is

the second sculpture of Christ most alt of the world. Okay, so the sculpture media 34 meters of altitude. So the statue the sculpture measures 34 meters

high, so it's 34 meters high and is the second sculpture of Christ most Alta of Christ and it's

the second sculpture of Christ most tall in the world so it's the second

most tall statue of Christ in the world Marina you

know where is the most the world yeah I

see where I know I can pronounce the name is

in Poland not is so I think that's

pronounced Schiaibodzen or something but the fact my polo

not is super well I think the funny thing here is that depending

on your source sometimes the statues are regarded as higher than the

others or taller than the others depending on whether they include

the base and the crown and so and so I think it depends

there are there are different opinions on this I believe okay so they

took the cable cat up there and then She goes on to see. The vistas from the

top were incredible. Okay, the views from the high part up there were incredible. They were amazing.

After the whole the last of the day, coming and probing it all.

Pampaku Eskabe with papitas chanca of pollo. Okay, let's stop there. I'm getting hungry. So, despite all of this

hiking, this trekking, we passam the rest of the day eating and trying it all, probando lo, to do. And trying it all, probando lo to do. Now, there are a number of dishes referred to here. Pampaku, what's that? Pampaku is

one of the plato's most traditionales of Coachabamba. And it's like a mixed dish. It has, it can be cooked with chicken or other kind of meat. And it also has some potatoes.

It has a, what they called choklo, that has different names, that choklo, maiz, elote they call it. So it's like that corn. Meas corn. Yeah, corn.

And they also have like platano for freer. So that's like plantin. Yes, that's right. Okay. Very well. And then Escabece with papitas.

Yes, that's it. Eskabeche is a special way of cooking. It's like a sauce and it's also very typical in Spain. And it's mainly cooked with

Laurele, and vinegar or bino okay so vinagre vinegar or bino wine you also said

the boya onion and then laurel as in lorl the type of tree yes okay leaves of laurel very good okay

and then chanka de pollo okay chanca de pollo is another traditional dish and this is more like um, um, um, a guiso. Okay, so like a stew. Yeah, that's it. And when I was reading about it, locals said that it's very important to cook it with a

pollo, so it cannot be like a young chicken because they are not, they haven't got enough like flavor or it has to be a chicken that has already had some eggs. Okay, right. So it has to be older than nine months. Right. Very, very specific. Okay, good to know. Very good.

So these are these dishes that they've tried. And then let's finish it off. Much of platos were in Quechua. And with all, rebañamos the plato. So many of the dishes were in Quechua,

which is the language, an indigenous language in Bolivia. And with all So we all of them, with all of these dishes, rebañamos the plato. So they had to literally take bread and mop up every last bit of the dish. They enjoyed it so much. Yeah, that's right.

They ate until the last little thing in the dish. Excellent. Well, very well. Okay, let's listen again to the text. Hopefully now that we've went through things, all of these dishes in particular and the other places that we've, mentioned, will all make more sense. We'll get more sense.

We'll get to Cochabamba, knowing that is considered the capital gastronomical of Bolivia. I proposed the idea to pass all our stanchure, and even though Esteban

was to agree, Luisa wanted to do photographs of the city. At final, we'd get us to comeeriams to impacharnes for the time,

while for the morning visitariams all the everything we've got to so we

we did we we're going we're first we're to visit the Fuente of the Three Graces and

the column of the heroes an obelisk that rende a renalation of the

1810 also we've also we the cathedral of San Sebastian that

was on the base of an Antiguo. From there, we went to the Plaza Colon, and we cameamos for the Paceo of the Independence, where Luisa saw incredible photos of the architecture of the

Republic. For support, we took the telephyrical to move to Christ. We'd have to do it, but to no one of us he'd apetecchio. The sculpture media 34 meters of altitude, and is the second sculpture of Christ

more high of the world. The vistas from the alt, were incredible. After the whole the rest of the day eating and

probing all all, Pampaku, Eskabeche with papitas, chanca de poe, many plato

were in Ketchua, and with all, we're, we're all over, we're

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then check out our Instagram account where we're following Ainoa, Esteban and Luisa's journey. Just search for coffee break languages and you can follow our coffee break German, French, and Italian Travel Diaries there too. Very well. Well, yeah, there's thank you for joining us. Much thanks, like always, Marina.

Thank you. And thanks to our students. We hope that you are enjoying this. We will be continuing our journey next time. Until then, until then, until then, until the next time. You have been listening

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