Coffee Break Spanish - CBS Travel Diaries 2.09 | Entrada en Chile

Episode Date: June 17, 2021

In the penultimate episode of the series, Ainhoa, Luisa and Esteban arrive in Chile and make the most of the last few days of their trip visiting the coastal city of La Serena, tasting local specialities and visiting the peaceful Japanese Gardens. Discover what the city has to offer through Ainhoa's diary entry and find out when the word aunque triggers the subjunctive.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 Break Spanish Travel Diaries, Season 2, Episode 9. Hello, all, and welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Marina. How are you? Well, I'm very, very well. And how are you? The truth is that today I'm a little bit

because I've worked a lot in this year. But, well, I'm content to be again to be a other way in the studio with you. Very well. Well, we're going to a new country today in our travel diaries. This is, of course, our travel diaries where we're following the adventures of Ainoa, Esteban, and Luisa as they travel through South America. And they're heading to a new country

today. And that new country is... Chile. Chile. They're going to La Serena. So, as we're going to hear us the text and then we'll have the content, of the language, of the grammatica, of the vocabulary and all. What do you think, Marina? Me, it's a plan perfect. Well, then we're going to

start. The three had many want to see that but we're also not even

it was about that we're that was coming were there were many

the places that had to visit in Chile but only

we only we're time time for so our

first was the Serena a a city costter

We started doing a pass-o for the avenue of the faro monumental. The photo

that subed Luisa to Instagram was spectacular. It was great to be

to be a sun. To eat, we take paila

marina and empanadas of marisco. There there many

Ploters with Marisco? More tard, with the stomach-yenned, we've got the food visiting the Plaza Novel Gabriel Amistral. There also

we're enthram in the Jardine Japanese, a park of contemplation that we have used much

much. It was very interesting to be a park of style Japanese in the

a new edificio in whose interior was the market of the city. We'll buy some artisanies and records of the voyage. We're at the comedore of the hostel,

talking with other voyagers and partying our experiences. Before to go to go to that, even the voyage was

that even he was we'd bees more a menudo. He said that's very interesting I know

I've been in Chile but I'm very interesting this city Yeah the really is that I've never

been in Chile but after to hear this I'm much visit Chile We saw

me apete or he apete last time I think so good use of that

thank you very much let us now go back through the text and we'll go through

sentence by sentence and talk about the language contained. The three we had

much wanted to see Chile. So, also we had been a matter

that our time was terminated. Okay, then those three we had

much guys were so the three, we had many desires

to see Chile, literally, but obviously we wouldn't translate it like that.

Here, we're seeing all three of us really wanted to see Chile. Now, all three of us in English, we tend to think of that as a slightly different verb form,

but here we need to use the Nosotros form in Spanish. Los three times to see Chile. We all wanted to see, all three of us wanted to see Chile. Sin embargo, also, also not's interesting. The verb apennar is kind of to see. sadden, isn't it? It's to give you pain.

Yes. Normally, we would say us daba pena is something that we use more frequently. But apenar is just the same thing. These are two synonyms, so we can say either dar pena or apenar.

Okay, and it's apenar a alien. Then me apena, it gives me sadness. It saddens me to know something. And here, nos apenava, in the imperfect tense. So,

we'd have been that our journey was ending or coming to an end. They're much the places that had to visit in Chile, but only

we only had time for two. So our first parada was the Serena, a city costera. Okay,

There are muchos los Lugares that had to visit in Chile. So literally this means they were many the places which were necessary to visit or which one had to visit in Chile. But the

interesting thing here is that there are much those places is a slightly different way of saying there were much of visiting or that we had to visit or that we So there were many places. The places were many that we had to visit in Chile.

Yes, here we are just trying to avoid repetition of the verb Aver, because if we say, there had to visitar and there are much of the other bit repetitive. Indeed, okay? But only we only had time for two, given the length of their entire trip. So,

so therefore, first stop was the Serena, one of a city, a coastal city. We're we're going

a walk for the avenue of the main to visit the faro monumental. The photo that subed

Luisa to Instagram was spectacular. Okay, so we're going a Paseo. We began by going for a walk. Remember, Dar a Paceo, literally to give a walk.

But we use that very commonly in Spanish. It means to go for a walk. So, we've got done a passio for the Avenida del Mar. Along the Avivina del Mar. To visit the Faro Monumental in order to visit the monumental lighthouse. Okay. And as I know I said, the photo that subio Luisa to Instagram

was spectacular. So the photo that Louisa literally put up on Instagram was spectacular. It was genial, to be a bit of a

banio and to take the sun. Okay, it was genial to be doing a so it was great, it was brilliant,

to be able to benefit it from a bath and to sunbathe. Now, a banio is not a bath in the sense of going to the bathroom and having a bath. It is, of course, a bathe in the sea. So they really enjoyed having a dip in the sea

and doing some sunbathing. Yeah, and we can use banjo for both situations. So we can say to have a bath when you're in the bathroom and you have a shower. or we can use it if you're going to the swimming pool or to have a bath in the sea we would use the same

Just don't take your shampoo you might look a little bit a little bit strange Okay To come we're Paila Marina And empanadas of marisco There's tantos

Platos with marisco Okay So for lunchtime Tomomomus Paila Marina This is not paella, Marina. Marina, what is paella marina? Well, here they call it also mariscal caliente.

It's a guiseo that's a guiseo that's a piece of with a cuchoara and is co-cined to be made of mariscos locales. So as we said, we are in a city on the coast. So this is a typical dish cooked with different type of fish and seafood.

Yeah, so a kind of a hot seafood stew with local seafood. And there is something about there's a tradition and it says that this dish is great for the hangover. Oh, okay. Well, I don't think anybody's mentioned that recently. I think it's perhaps at one point Esteban had a little bit too much beer in Kuthko, I think. But that's good to know, good to know. Okay.

The hangover in Spanish is of course Unare-saca. Okay, so there was this paila Marina and empanadas de marisco. So seafood, shellfish empanadas. And as I know it says,

there were so many dishes with seafood with shellfish. More later, with the stomach full, we've got to the food, visitando La Plaza Nobel Gabriela Mistral.

Okay, so more tarde, con el estomago jeno, even. So later on, with a full stomach. And notice, they say con el estomago yeno. So with the stomach full. I think in

English, we would probably personalize that and make it with our stomach's full. Or just saying with a full stomach. Yes. And that is like a really common mistake when people are learning Spanish, you normally tend to say, me dule my kabeza. And in Spanish, we would never say that. We just say me dule la because we have me. Yeah, so me to me hurts the head. Of course, it's your head that's

hurting. You're not going to say to me hurts your head or her head or anyone else's head. So that's why you can use just la kabeza there. And here again, con el el stomago yeno, with this stomach full, Bahamas la Comida, so we encouraged our food to go down, basically. When you're feeling your stomach is very full, it goes down

because we're moving there. So it's worth pointing out here that Bahamas la Comida means to make your food go down. Okay, it's to help digest your food. It's not downing your food. In English, we have an expression to down your food,

which I guess means to put it into your mouth and put it down your throat as it were. But here their stomach is already full. So they've already down their food. And now they're going to make their food go down. That's right. They're going for a walk like to try to to stop feeling that full stomach. Okay. So they helped their food go down by visiting or while they were visiting La Plaza Novel Gabriel Mistral.

And Gabriel Amistral was a poet. and a diplomat and an educator. And she has a square named after her in La Serena. Okay, let's continue on. Allie, also us adentramos in the garden Japanese. A park of contemplation that we enjoy muchissimo. Okay, an interesting verb here,

adentrase. So we've got enter in there, but it's a little more than enter Marina. Can you help us understand what adentrase means? Yes, adentrar has the like the feeling it gives us

the feeling of getting inside but even more. So if you say, me going to enter in this place, you're trying to explain that you are going deeper than if you're just going in the place. Okay, so for example we could enter in la Selva

to go into the forest, but if we adentrarnos in la selva, we're going really further, deeper into the forest and perhaps kind of, oh, now there's a nice expression. You can say adentrarsse in se to get lost in your thoughts. So you're kind of getting deeper into your own mind, as it were. Or even you can use it when you are reading a book and you are just loving it. You can say, me istoy adentrando in this libr. So you can actually get into the book that way. So me I'm going to in this

book. Perfect. Well, there also we entered in the Jardin Japanese

Japanese. So they went further into the garden, the Japanese garden, a park

of contemplation that we did we much much a contemplation park which we really enjoyed.

And that reminds me, I actually noticed on my my historical Facebook photos this

morning that I was in the Japanese garden in Balboa park in San Diego this very day last year and I was enjoying a bit of contemplation there. So that's spooky that they were in the Japanese garden in La Serena today.

It was very interesting. Okay, it was very interesting. It was very interesting. see a Japanese-style park seeing a Japanese-style park in the very heart of Chile. And that's a super nice way to describe

like the main central part of a place. Pleno-corazone. Plenorazon. Well, we're in Plenocorazon of the episode in this moment. So we'll take a little break here and we'll be back in just a moment. 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, we're We're going to continue on our trip around the Serena. For favor, Marina.

We're going to continue. Although we're tired, we're not we're taking us, we're not going to get our recoba, a building in whose interior was the market of the city. Okay. although we were tired

no podiamos retinarned we couldn't go for a rest, return to the hostel or whatever sin ver the recoba now a recoba is I believe a poultry market traditionally

where you buy chickens and eggs yes okay so it's la recoba which is capital letters here, a edificio in an cuyo interior was the

market of the city. And it makes sense. Like if it was before for that, but nowadays

it has become the market. Yeah. So an edificio, a building in cuyo interior,

in whose interior, that's quite tricky, was the market of the city. So let's just

talk a little more about this sentence. Because there's quite a lot in it. First of all, this Enkuyo interior. It's not just in el qual. It's not an edificio in el qual a building in which. It's an edificio in cuyo interior.

In whose interior. Marina, can you give us some more examples of cuyo? Yes, cuckio does a significat of pertinencia. Then, So we'd say, me dier

a sobre in whose interior encountered the clave of all.

Wow, looking you. So they gave me an envelope in whose interior I found

the key to everything. Okay, a great example there. But there, we could simply say

an a sobre in el which? Also, we're saying in the

but we're talking, there's, as we're saying, we're saying that the interior,

we're saying that the example, if I'm, I'm, I'm a child, who's

problem were the mathematics. So, the problem perteneene to the child.

So that verb pertine is using. It means to belong to something

pertinecere. So, yeah, There you've said, I spoke with a girl, whose problem was mathes or math's whose problem was maths or math. So the problem belongs to that girl, cuyo problem.

Now, note that since cuyo is basically an adjective, it has different forms. So if we were talking about, I spoke to a girl whose house, is white. I'm with a chica

whose house is blank. Okay. Or I spoke to a girl

whose books were lost. I said were lost. Or I spoke to a girl

whose keys were under the table. I with a little little

the house were the back to the Kuyu, kuya, kuyos, kuyas, just a normal adjective in that sense. Now, the other thing I wanted to pick up on here in this sentence was this lovely word,

Aonke. I say it's a lovely word, but I think for lots of learners, it kind of rings alarm bells, because we see this word and we think, oh, no, I don't know whether this should be followed with an indicative or a subjunctive. And I should say that if you are not familiar with subjunctives, then just ignore this little part. You can skip on ahead of this. Just press that forward 15 second button on your podcast player and a little.

ignore this. But if you are ready for this, then although, when it means even though or although, then it takes the indicative. If it means even if, then it takes the subjunctive. That's a kind of general rule that will work most of the time and I think what we should do is give a couple of examples. So even though we are tired, we are going to see La Recova. So that's the kind of thing that I know

I could have said to Luis and Esteban Although we're tired We've got our stomachs full we've walked through the Japanese garden and everything We know we are tired there's no doubt Although we're tired We're not yet we're almost can'tas We can't have translated that as Although we are tired

We're going to say see the Recova. However, if we change this slightly and think about a future time, perhaps, and if we said, whether we're tired or not tomorrow, we will go and see La Recova. So, then we're, even if we are tired, So there, So there, although we're can't be tired

or whether we are tired or not tomorrow. We don't know yet whether we're going to be tired depends how good asleep we get tonight. So in that situation there is doubt. It means even if, it means whether or not. And in that situation, that's when we use an anunctive. That's right.

Okay, very well. Well, we're going to continue with the rest of the text, for favor. Compramous some artesanies and the record of the time.

Cenamos together in the Cometor of the hostel, talking with other voyagers, and partying our experiences. Okay, so

we've got some artisanies and the record of the voyage. So in the market, They bought, we bought some artisanias, locally handmade things, our handicrafts, and recourdos of the voyage and some souvenirs, some things to remember the journey, the trip.

Cenamos, juntos in the Comedor del Hostile. We ate together, or we had dinner together in the dining room, the restaurant of the hostel, talking with other travelers, speaking with other travelers, and competing with other travelers, and sharing our experiences. Before to go to

do not even to dream, Esteban me said that, although the voyage had been terminated, he was more a menudo.

He said that is our sentence of the week, I think. This one is full of complications. But let's go through it. And the interesting thing is we've got a perfect example of that other aunke here.

So what I'm going to do is suggest that we imagine we're listening to Esteban telling I know this. So she says before going to bed, before going to bed, Esteban me diho ke. So Esteban told me that. So Marina, tell us exactly. the words that Esteban said.

Although the voyage is te terminando, I'm sure that let's just take that first part of the sentence there that you've said in the words of Esteban live as it were

present tense, okay? Although the voyage is te terminando, not it's ta terminando and here he's saying even if

the journey is coming to an end at least their journey in Chile is coming to an end but they don't know what about their their romantic journey perhaps so even if whether the journey is coming to an end or not Espero

that nozbeamos so I hope that we see each other more often and that we see another subjunctive and that's dependent on the Espero que I hope that so in the present tense one more time

although the journey is terminando I'm sure that we're we're

more a men so now let's add this next layer of time

and we're going to add the next layer of time because of course

this is reported speech what I know is writing is Esteban me

said so Esteban told me that although the via

the journey end and that's where we need to take that este, present subjunctive, and put it into estubese, the past subjunctive or the imperfect subjunctive. And it's one of two forms we could have said estubesi or

estubiera, terminando there, both work. So although the journey was coming to an end, or rather, even if the journey was coming to an end, whether the journey was coming to an end or not, and expecta that's be yesemos and again that's taking

bear from the present into the imperfect subjunctive he hoped that we saw each other

could see each other more often so biesemos imperfect subjunctive of bear an alternative could be

vieramos Esperaba that us beeramos more a menudo Yeah

that's perfect explanation Well much thank you. And Ainoa, le diage, he said, well, I told him that yes. I agreed. I said to him, yes. I agreed.

I told him, yes. Okay. Lots of stuff in there. Listen out for these ankes as we go back through this text. And hopefully, now that we've explained things, you'll be understanding that even though or although tends to be

an indicative, but if it's even if or whether, then that's where you come with the subjunctive. Let's listen again. The three, we're going to see it. But, however, also, it was apennav's saying that our voyage was coming. They're many the places that had to visit in Chile, but only we only had time for two, so our first parada was the Serena, a city costterer. We started doing a walk for the avenue of the mar to visit the faro monumental. The photo that subed Luisa to Instagram was spectacular.

It was great to enjoy to enjoy the sun. To comeer, we took paila-marina and empanadas of marisco. There were tantos with marisco?

More tard, with the stomach-y-enow-gamous the food visiting the Plaza Novel Gabriel Amistral. There also we also we entrap in the garden

Japanese, a park of contemplation that we did we're very interesting. It was very interesting to see a park of style Japanese in the plainly of Chile. Although we were can't get ourselves, no we'd not we'd return without ver the recoba,

an edificio in whose interior was the market of the city. We've bought some artesanies and records of the the trip. Cenamos in the commedor

of the hostel talking with other people and and partying our experiences. Before

to get us to do get us he said that even the time he was

that we see us we used more a men he said and I did

our penultimate visit our penultimate stage of the trip and of course

we'll be back together for the the final episode next time in this series when they are heading to Santiago, Santiago, the capital of Chile. Okay, if you would like to get more out of this episode and indeed the whole Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries season, then you can head over to the Coffee Break Academy and access the full course. There you can see the lesson notes where we provide additional

information, additional examples of some of these tricky elements of language, and also the video version where you can practice your pronunciation by reading a long. with Ainoa. All of that is at coffeebreakacademy.com And as ever would like to remind you that each step

of the journey is being recorded on the Coffee Break Language's Instagram account. This week, we've got an impressive photo

of the city of La Serena. Well, not quite as impressive as Luisa's photo of the Faro Monumental but still pretty impressionante.

Search for coffee break languages on Instagram and make sure you follow us there. And if you've visited La Serena, please tell us all about your experiences too. We would love to hear

all about your travels in South America. That's it for this episode. That's it for this episode. We hope you've enjoyed it as ever and we'll be back soon with more Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries. Until then, much thanks. And after the next. After pronto. You have been listening to a Coffee Break

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