Coffee Break Spanish - CBS Travel Diaries 2.08 | Sucre: la ciudad blanca

Episode Date: June 10, 2021

In Episode 8 of the Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries Season 2, we're in Sucre, the constitutional capital of Bolivia, also known as La ciudad blanca for its white buildings. Join Coffee Break Spanish hosts Mark and Marina as they explain some of the language used in this episode, including the useful phrases contar con and tomar rumbo.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 8. Hello, all, and welcome to Coffee Brick Spanish. I'm Mark. I'm Marina. How are you, Marina? Well, I'm doing great. How are you? I'm also quite.

And very content to be back to another episode of our Coffee Brick Spanish Travel Diaries. We're following the adventures of Ainua, Esteban and Luisa, as they travel through the South America in various countries. they've been to Peru. They've been to Bolivia. In fact, they're still in Bolivia for one more episode. And where we're today? We're going to Sucre, the city Blanca. The Ciudad Blanca, very interesting. Well, as always, we're going to hear all together and then, we're going to, Marina and I'll have about the grammatica, of the vocabulary and all those things interesting that there in the text.

And, well, you're Is this list? I'm prepared. We're going to start. We're going to start. All right. All in Bolivia us had

about the Uyuni and the desert of salt. No, but as long we don't we'd with many

days to do a tour for the salar, visit us the capital sucre, that no

is moco of pavo. In 1991 was declared a patrimonion of the humanity

and it was easy to understand why. Visit us the plaza of 25th of May, where we could see the contrast of the young with rob actual and some people with the trages traditionales. There, also visit us the cathedral. Then we did a visit guided to the Casa of the Liberty, where I learned many things about the history pre-columbina. As we had hungry,

we passed through the market central, where we took some batidos of fruit and recant-cheworthed, and we took rumbo to the mirador of recoleta. Luisa us did some photos genial with the city of Fondo.

Lamentablemently, it seems that the batido he sent to mal a Luisa, because he had to retirers to the hostel. So, Esteban and I

went to the Plaza of the Liberty, where we took a photo of the

obelisco for Louisa. I know how occurred but we're

we we're passing by the park of Simon Bolivar

of the man I think we've been expecting something like

this for a few episodes since we heard we heard

tir the can until now Okay, let's go back through the text now. Can you begin by reading the first sentence, please? All in Bolivia

Nos have been about of Uyuni and the Desereto de Sal. Okay, so I'm sure you've heard of the salt plains of Ujuni and as I know says, Toos in Bolivia Nos had spoken to us.

So everyone in Bolivia had spoken to us. So that's a nice plume perfect tense there. We use the imperfect of the auxiliary verb, Aver, and then the past participle. And it means had done something. So, nos have been said to us. They had spoken of Ojuni and the desert de salt desert. No, as much okay,

now we're not contabes for a tour for the salar visit us the capital

suk that is moco of pavo okay now this is quite interesting because we're

talking about contar with something and normally that means to count on or to

rely on in the sense of you can count with me you can

rely on me but here it kind of simply means to have. So nevertheless, as we don't countamos with

many days to do a tour for the Salar, so nevertheless, as we didn't have so many days in order to do a tour through the salt field, visit us the capital we visited the capital sukre, that no is moco de pavo.

Marina, no, you have to explain this expression. Yeah, I, That's like it's a very graphic idiom, I would say, or expression. So here, when we say that something is not moco de pavo, we are saying that something has a value or it's important. So in this case, I know it's telling us that sucre is something important because it's not moco de pavo.

Okay, okay. So they previously spoke about ujuni and the salt desert and so on. Nonetheless, Sukri itself still is well worth the visit. Let's just talk a little about Moko di Paavo. You told me that Mokodipo is the thing that hangs down from a turkey's throat. Is that correct? Yeah, that's it. But it's interesting to know the origin of this expression

because it comes from a very, very long time ago. In the 16th century, when thieves used to rob clocks that were hanging on a chain they used to take the clock and left the chain hanging on the jacket

or the suit of the man they were stealing to so that chain hanging was compared to a moco de pavo okay I get it so we're talking about a watch like a watch on a chain attached to someone's jacket or something like that and so when they stole the watch they just left the chain dangling and that was the unimportant part

therefore it was like moco de babo. So when you say no es moco de babo, you're saying it's not something unimportant therefore it really is something important. Can I give you another example and can you let me know if I'm right in thinking of this? Let's say you tell me you walked 20 kilometers yesterday.

So, Iyer, I cameen 20 kilometers. Okay? And if I said in response to that, well, I cameen 10 kilometers, but no is moco de pavo.

Yeah, that's perfect. You could say, that no is moco de pavo, like telling me, but that's something really good as well. Yeah. So it's not to be sniffed at or something like that.

We could use that expression in English. Very well. I like that. That's a good new expression for me. Okay, let's continue on. In 1991, was declared patrimonio of the humanity and it was easy

to understand why. So in 1991, it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Patrimonio of the Humanidad. And it was easy to understand why. Visit us the Plaza of 25th of May. where we could see the contrast of the

young with roba actual and some people with the trages traditional. Okay, so we visited the square of the 25th of May, where pudimos ver the contraste. Pudimos comes from Poder, is the preteret, where we were able to see the contraste of the jocles with the

contrast between the young people with modern clothing, with every clothing and some people with traditional and some people with traditional outfits.

There also visit us the cathedral. There also visit the cathedral. We also visited the cathedral. Let's continue on. Then we did a visit

Guieda to the house of the liberty where I learned many

many things about the history pre-colombina Okay then

we did a visit guided tour we did a city to the

literally the house of freedom where I learned many things

about the history pre-colomom So where I learned many things about pre-Columbian history. Marina, could say also de-la-historian pre-colonina. Yes, here you could say about, like,

is about a topic or in Spanish, you could also use the story, like linking it to that concept or idea. Okay. Well, very well, we're going to take a pause. 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, so we're in Sukhrette today with I know Esteban and Louisa, and I think that they're probably just going to get something to eat, which has been definitely an ongoing theme throughout our episodes here. They have been a long time now without eating, so we are missing the food now.

Okay, we're going to see it. As we had We had hungry We passers We passers for the Mercado Central Where we We took

Some bit of fruit Recien Echos And we Tomams Rumbo Rector

So, As we literally had hunger As we were having hunger As we were getting hungry

We We had a walk Through the the Mercado Central Market, where we don't know some batitos

of fruit recient etchos where we had some fruit milkshakes that had been recently made recien etchus. We can just use that

as a description of something that's been recently made, recent etches. It's very important always when we're to come, that the food

is recient made a value special. Sure that is very important that things are recient etcho because that makes things much better. And we're headed to the viewpoint of recoleta. And we headed to the viewpoint of recoleta. So there is a word, an adjective, recoleto, recoleta.

And that kind of means secluded. Is that right? The word recoleto or recoleta is used to describe a place that is not very like it hasn't got a lot of people going through. Okay, so it's a calm place, a solitary place or something like that.

That's it, that's right. Here we have the expression. Tomamos rumbo. And here we could use another verb and say, we can also say, Poner rumbo a un-lugar. Okay, good.

So poner-rumbot, tomar-rumbo, they both work. Perfect. Okay, let's continue. means to sit or to be seated. So me siento, I sit myself down, which is different from sentier, of course, which is the same verb. Me Siento, I sit myself, I feel as well as me siento senta. However, here, it's when something in a sense doesn't sit well with you, or it doesn't agree with you. So you can use it with food, can you? How would you say the oysters didn't

agree with me. Las Ostras me sent well or Las O Ostras

Ostras no me sentaron bien Right, so we've got two

options. Either they sat badly with me or they didn't sit well

with me me sentar mal or no me sentar well.

But here we've got the batido which is the milkshake Le

sent mal a Luisa. So the milkshake didn't agree with Luisa or it didn't sit well with Louisa if we want to stick to the sitting idea. So it didn't agree with her

Puehue to retirese to the hostel. Given that, she had to return to the hostel. Retirase literally to retire herself to take a rest at the hostel.

And we could go a step forward and talk a little bit more about this expression because Scentar mal or Scentar bien can also be used referring to something that happened that hasn't been, you haven't felt it in a good way. So maybe a comment or something that has happened for any reason. I could say, my mother has made a

commentio and me has sated a right okay so my

mother made a comment and it I guess didn't sit well with me

could you say that you were offended by this comment yes that's it

okay so also can we use it in the sense of if you're

put out by something so for example if perhaps you

something was changed for you at work your your timetable at work was changed. And it's kind of bothered you. It's put you out because you're now going to have to make new arrangements to do something else.

That's right. We could say, me have changed the horario of work and me has sentado mal. Okay, so they've changed my working hours and this hasn't gone down well with me. Or I'm a bit annoyed. I'm a bit put out, something like that. Yes, but we could also have the. positive version and we could say

something, me has sentado well, for example. I've dormied a siesta and me has sentado very well. Okay, so I've had a siesta and it's gone down very well with me. It was just the ticket.

I like that. It was just the thing I needed. Just the ticket. Connoces that expression in English? No, I didn't know it. Well, then we're we're trying to. We're doing. Okay, very Okay, we're going to So, so So, Esteban and I

We went to the Plaza of the Liberty where we took a photo of the obelisco for Louisa. Okay, so, so So, Esteban and I went to the

Liberty, the Square of Freedom literally, where we took a photo of the Obeliskgo for Luisa. a photo of the obelisk for Louisa. No see how occurred, but we're coming up

the park of Simon Bolivar De La Mano. Okay, so I don't know how it happened. No see how it occurred but we terminamos passing by the Park of Simon Bolivar De La Mano. But we ended up

walking through the Simon Bolivar Park hand in hand, De La Mano. And you can just say, de la Mano. need to say with someone, just the man means hand in hand. Well, very well.

We'll re-sucal the text now that we've gone through things, you'll recognize more of this vocabulary and it will all make perfect sense. All in Bolivia, us had been about of Uyuni and the desert of salt. No, but as much we don't

countamos with tantos days to do a tour for the salar, visit us the capital sucre, that no is moco de pavo. In 1991, was declared a patrimonial of the humanity, and it was easy to understand why. Visit us the plaza of 25th of May, where we could see the contrast of the young with rob actual and some people with the trages traditional. There, also we did the cathedral.

Then we did we visit a visit guided to the Casa of the Liberty where I learned many things about the history pre-columbina.

As we had we went for the market central, where we took some some

batidos of fruit and we we're to come to run-to- recoleta.

Luisa us did some photos genial with the city of the

fond of the lamentablement it was that the batido he sent a

luisah because he had to get to the hostel

so so we went to the place of

the where we took a photo of for Luisa

I know how it but we we we're

we we're we the part of this text

and indeed this country because next time we're heading to Chile the third country and the final country of our trip around this part at least of South America. Now if you'd like to get more out of the Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries then you can do so

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this will help other Spanish learners like you discover the podcast and they can enjoy I Knowas Travel Diaries too. Perfecto. Well, as like always, much thanks, Marina. Much thanks to all those. We hope that you are continuing to enjoy this trip through South America with us and practicing your Spanish at the same time. Next time, we'll see you in Chile.

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