Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Espresso 001

Episode Date: September 26, 2014

In this first episode of the Coffee Break Spanish Espresso you’ll learn about informal command forms (the imperative), Fernanda will help you get to grips with the subjunctive after cuando, and our Spanish quotation of the week looks at the theme of generosity.This season of Coffee Break Spanish Espresso features a total of 10 lessons, all of which are included in the podcast feed. If you’d like to benefit from video versions, lesson notes and bonus audio materials, you can access the premium version of Coffee Break Spanish in the Coffee Break Academy.Don’t forget to follow Coffee Break Spanish on Facebook where we post language activities, cultural points and review materials to help you practise your Spanish. Remember - a few minutes a day can help you build your confidence in the language. Access the Coffee Break Spanish Facebook page here.If you’d like to find out what goes on behind the scenes here at Coffee Break Languages, follow @coffeebreaklanguages on Instagram.You can also check out our Coffee Break Spanish Twitter page and the Coffee Break Languages YouTube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coffee Break Spanish Espresso, episode 1. Hello, bien-minidos. This is the Coffee Break Spanish Espresso show, in which we'll be bringing you a quick shot of Spanish to help you keep thinking about your Spanish on a regular basis. My name is Mark, me diamo Mark, and I'm the teacher here at Coffee Break Spanish. There will hopefully be something for everyone in each episode,

so let's get started. Empefemos yeah. In the first part of this episode, we'll be focusing on an example of real-life Spanish. Initially, most of these examples are going to be from photos which our team has taken out and about in various parts of the Spanish-speaking world. We hope that in the future,

we can include examples of real-life Spanish from our community. If you're travelling, or indeed if you live in a Spanish-speaking part of the world, and you see something interesting on a poster, an advertor. A shop window, then, take a photo of it and send it to us. In this episode, we're focusing in a poster of which I saw recently in Mexico. Now this was a special promotion for a certain brand of iced tea And the poster says, as you can see from the photo that's linked to this episode

Compra bestapa Junta and Ghana Now we'll go over what all of that means in just a moment But the idea is that you buy a bottle of iced tea You take off the lid You check for a part of a word written on the underside of the lid And match it up with another lid on another bottle of ice tea that you've bought. If two lids match up then you can win a prize. So let's go back and think about

the Spanish here. Combra, destapa, junta, and gana. So these are four examples of command forms. It's sometimes called the imperative. And it's the form that you use of the verb to give someone a command. In this case, compra, from the verb, comprar to buy. Destapa, from the verb de stapar to take the lid off something. junta from the verb Juntaar literally to join and gana from the verb ganar meaning to win so in each case

we have a command to the purchaser of the bottle of ice tea buy take off the lid join and win now these are all two imperatives they are informal and they're addressing one person the person who is buying the body

of ice t. And to form that part of the verb, it's really straightforward. We go to the infinitive, in this case, for example, ganar to win, we take off the R of the infinitive and we're left with ganna. The stress is on the penultimate syllable, or here, obviously that's the first syllable in a two-syllable word. Gana. If we take destapa, then we see it's the penultimate syllable, destapar, destapa. That's how we would get the imperative form of these And all four verbs are ER-r there. Comprar, destapar, hontar and ganar. Let's think about an ER verb.

We could think of Comer, for example. Exactly the same thing happens. We go to the infinitive, Comer, we take off that R, and we're left with Come. Come, la manana, eat the apple. Or, bender, to sell. Bende la casa.

Sell the house. Again, a too imperative. You're talking to someone that you know well. With IR verbs it's slightly different we take off the IR this time and add E. So if we were using Abri la Ventana, Abre la Puerta Open the window or open the door

So if you're lucky enough to be living in a part of the world Or indeed to be traveling in a part of the world Where Spanish is spoken Then look around you all the time And try to see examples, real life examples of Spanish And think about how those sentences and how those statements are formed. Now before we continue, we need to make our little disclaimer,

and that is, of course, we would like to point out that there are other brands of iced tea available, and indeed you can make your own. There's no association implied between this particular brand of ice tea and coffee break Spanish. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment. In between lessons of coffee break Spanish, why not check out our social media accounts?

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Okay, it's time to move on to the next part of our episode. And this is where we're going to look at a slightly more complicated area of the Spanish language, because it's time for Subjunctive of the week Yep, you thought it couldn't get any more cheesy but indeed it can This is the subjunctive of the week

And for this I'd like to say Ola to our friend, Fernanda Hello, Mark, The subjunctive of this is wheno When it's talking about the future When something's going to happen in the future Yes, very well

When When I get my father, we'll see the alambra When when I get my Padre, we're going to

see the Alambra. Mark, you know, I think we're in a Spanish city for this one I believe.

Yes, in Granada. In Granada because we're going to see the Alambra. So when my father

arrives, when I get my father, we're going to see the Alambra Palace. We'll visit

the Alambra. Yes, the subjunivo in this oration is Yege and And it's an interesting one because we've got to stick an extra U in the air. It's

double L-E-G-U-E because otherwise it would be Yej or something like that. So when my father arrives, when I get my father my father, we'll get the alambra. Okay, excellent. The next one. The next one is, well, one of my favorites when I was a little, I always was, when I'm when I'm I'm when

I'm a when I am I'm know what means what means Mark when I

grow up I want to be an astronaut yeah still still I'm working when

when I am older when I am older when I am big I'm astronaut I want to

be an astronaut yeah very very so So here the subjunctive is SEA, that comes of course. So we've got ser, a very common verb here to be, and

in this case, it becomes sea. When I am older, or when I am big, I want to be an astronaut. Yes, excellent. Well, much gracias. Thanks a ti. Adios. So that was our

subjunctive of the week with Fernanda, and we were looking at When do use in the future when we have to use a subjunctive. Okay, it's time for our final part of this week's episode. And this is where we slow things down a little, and we think about una cita, for our Latin American Spanish listeners. One cita, which is a quotation.

And these quotations that we're going to be using may sometimes be Spanish language original quotations by Spanish authors or Spanish famous people. But in this case, we're actually going to be using a Spanish version of a quote in English. And this is by the theologian John Wesley. And it goes like this, Gana todo lo que puas. Ahorra,

all what you can't. Da, todo what you can't. So it's interesting because it introduces an alternative form or an alternative meaning of the word ganar. We know ganar means to win. as in the competition that we heard about earlier. But ganar also means to earn. So, gana

to do what you can, earn everything that you can, earn all you can. Ahura, from the verb aura to save, save everything that you can, and da all what you can give everything that you can. So this quote encouraging us to be,

generous and to give everything that we can. Okay, well, that is it for this first episode of our coffee break Spanish espresso. Let us know what you think. Head over to iTunes and you can leave us a review or indeed at radiolingwa.com. You'll be able to leave us our review there. Muchissimas and hasta la proxima. We hope you've enjoyed this espresso shot of coffee break Spanish. However, this has been only a small taste of our full menu of courses available. Whether you're an absolute beginner, getting ready for a trip to a Spanish-speaking country, or you're studying Spanish at an advanced level and want to improve your grammar or increase your range of expression, we have a course for you.

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