Coffee Break Spanish - Clue #1 (español) | The Great Coffee Break Treasure Hunt 2024

Episode Date: November 4, 2024

Welcome to the first episode of La fantástica caza del tesoro de Coffee Break de 2024, our virtual treasure hunt across Europe! Join Pablo and Mark in this first episode as they reveal the initial clue. As you continue through this mini series you’ll discover further clues, solve the mystery and practise your Spanish.For further details about how you can take part visit coffeebreaklanguages.com/treasurehunt.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the fantastic Caza del Tesoro of Coffee Break Join us for a virtual treasure hunt across Europe, episode one. Hello, I'm Mark. Hello, I'm sorry, Pablo. What's how, Pablo? Very bien, and you, Mark? Today, I'm really excited because we've got a brand new

miniseries from Coffee Break. Tell us all about it, Pablo. I am very excited, too, because along with the Coffee Break team, we are sending you, Mark, on a virtual mission across Europe. Madre my, okay, so where is this mission going to take me? So that's exactly what you are going to discover with the help of our four clues. We've hidden clues in four different cities, and each of these cities will be the checkpoints on your route.

And these clues, these pistas, are in Spanish, no? Sure that so, Mark, for that so you can practice your Spanish. And so we can practice our Spanish, all together. So it's good, right? Yes, it's very well. So when we start? We're going. Let's go on the treasure hunt.

But before we do, Pablo, we need to introduce you because you're new to the coffee-brink Spanish team on the podcast. Hello, all, what all? Well, I'm very well. You, what tell? Well, super content to be here for the first time. Yeah has participated in many videos and all that, but for the podcast is your first, experience.

Yeah, and vienna. Yeah, and that way to start, no, with this adventure. With this adventure. explain for our listeners. This is a competition. It's not just another podcast series. This is a competition where you can take part in the Treasure Hunt too. We do not suggest that you travel to all of these destinations, just do it virtually along with us here. And you can follow the clues that we'll be publishing over the next few days. Today is Monday the 4th of November. Episode 2 comes out on Wednesday the 6th of November for Clue 2. Then you'll get Clue 3 on Friday

the 8th of November and Clue 4 on Sunday the 10th of November and on Tuesday the 12th of November we'll reveal the winners of our competition But Mark, if it's a concurso, what can gain? Well, anyone who correctly guesses all four checkpoints wins a free month of the Coffee Break Club and the club is our on-demand video library of language lessons so you can enjoy a coffee break lesson from one of our fantastic tutors on the go with her app or from the Coffee Break TV website. But that's not all, because everyone who takes part

will also be entered into a draw to win lifetime access to our entire collection of courses in your chosen language. And there will be one winner for each language, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Madre my, that good. So to find out everything you need to know about the competition aspect of our podcast,

then head to coffeebreaklanguages.com slash treasure hunt or simply search for coffee break. treasure hunt and you'll find everything you need there. But Pablo, we're going to start with our first piece. Very bien. So we are starting in Glasgow,

the home of coffee break. And so we'll be traveling somewhere in Europe. Exactly. And you have the clue that will give us an indication as to where this place is. So here's the clue. One A ciudad of Puentes and

water sin. Mascaradas and barcos that they're chan San Marcos observe with noble power.

There the history is for doquier. Oh, some interesting words in here.

I like it. I love that word trajim. We'll come to that in a moment. Perhaps if you could read

it again, perhaps a little slower this time. Vena, a city a point of

pentes and water sin and maskaras and barcos that occulted

his drahin San Marcos observe with noble power there the history

is por do doquier Okay right so I picked up a few

words and they a few kind of really big pistas first of all

one a city of pentes so bridges is a city of bridges

exactly and Aguas Sin Fin so waters without end. Endless waters, yeah.

They go on forever. Then the next line. Mascaradas and barcos that occultan so maskaras are masks and barcos which would be boats

that occultan which hide so trajin. Now trajin is a word I think I've heard in a line of a song El Trajin de cada I really, really like this word.

It could be translated as the hustle and bustle. Exactly, the hustle and bustle. The trachin de cada dea, the busyness of the day of every day, El Trachin or so masks and boats which hide its hustle and bustle.

Let's take a look at the third line. San Marcos Obser with Noble Poder. So San Marcos is St. Mark And St. Mark is observing with noble power. So with noble power. Or superior

could be translated as both. Okay. And then the final line All right. So there the history is that for doquier. Now this I have to say is a new word for me, doquire. So doquire.

actually means por doquire all over the place. And you can say, there's restaurants por doquire. Right. And is this an everyday word? I guess like you would find it more in narrative tags. Okay. So is it a little bit like saying Dondequiera? Yes, exact.

Okay, so maybe a more poetic way. Exactly. And it really handily rhymes with power. Yes. So their history is all over the. place. So some good clues so far. We've got masks, we've got boats, we've got a busy hustle and bustle of a city, we've got bridges, we've got St. Mark. You're getting there. Wint per cente. Now we do have another clue, I believe. What is the additional clue that you can share with me?

So if you happen to be learning the language which was the fourth to be introduced as a coffee break language. I think you could definitely practice in this wonderful place. Right. Okay. So the fourth coffee break language to be introduced. I know which that was. I'm not going to share it because that would spoil the challenge for everyone. There's one more piece of information that you can share and that is the distance from our starting point and also the direction that we need to travel. Mm-hmm. The distance is 119 miles or in kilometers, 1,639 kilometers.

Okay, so I'm guessing this is as the crew flies, yeah? So 1019 miles, so 1,019 miles or 1639 kilometers. 1,639 kilometers. In what direction? Sureseste. So heading southeast from Glasgow for 1,639 kilometers or 1,019 miles. And that should give us our destination. Very interesting.

Well, Mark, you know where we're going to say? I'm not going to say it just yet. Remember, for all you need to know about our treasure hunt, head to coffeebreaklanguages.com slash treasure hunt or search for coffee break, treasured. hunt. I'll I'm the next

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