Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Espresso 003

Episode Date: October 11, 2014

In this first episode of the Coffee Break Spanish Espresso you’ll learn how to us the word ni, Fernanda will help you get to grips with the subjunctive after es importante que, and our Spanish quotation of the week looks at the theme of the fear of danger.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 3. Hello, and bien-veneos to Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to the Coffee Break Spanish Espresso, in which we'll be bringing you a quick shot of Spanish to help you keep thinking about the language on a regular basis. My name's Mark. Me Y'I'm Mark and I'm The Coffee Break Spanish.

Thanks again for your comments, your reviews, and your emails this week, in particular. We'd like to say much gracias to Janice West on Facebook. who was putting what she has learned into practice. She said, Nunca had heard of the expression Ser Decine. I had never heard of the expression Ser Decine, the expression that we learned last week. Janice also likes our subjunctive of the week segment.

She says, The Formato of the Presentation has that it's more easy to understand the use of the subjunctive. Well done to you on your use of the subjunctive there. Damos las graces, too, at Aaron Minaj, who left us a review on iTunes this week, saying, I'm so happy this podcast is finally expanding.

And Aaron, we are too. If you've not left a review over an iTunes or indeed on whichever platform you used to listen to podcasts, we'd be really grateful if you would help other people discover Coffee Break Spanish by posting a review. Okay, it's time to get on with the lesson. Well, as you know very well, I live here in Scotland. I live here in Scotland, and here we tend not to have to worry too much about coming face to face with man-eating reptiles other than the particularly nasty midges,

which will eat you alive in a summer's evening. We don't, however, need to worry too much about those cockodrillos, crocodiles. And my photo this week is of a notice. It's a warning, an advertencia. And I took this while walking along the banks of the Nichote Lagoon in Cancun, Mexico. Now, if you're listening to this episode on the podcast app of your mobile device, then you should be able to see the photo.

If not, head over to coffeebreakspanish espresso.com. Okay, this photo says, crocodrillos in total la laguna Nichubte. So, crocodiles in the whole of the Nichupte lagoon. Even if you don't speak any Spanish, the word crocodilos, and indeed the picture, should be enough to keep you on your toes. However, the real interest in this photo is in the other Spanish words.

It says, This Lugar no is apto to practice the pesca, ni el nado. Let's think about this. This place, no is apto. Apto could literally be translated as apt, appropriate.

So this place is a place is. not appropriate. Para practicar for to practice la pesca that's fishing ni el nado nor swimming

so this place isn't suitable for fishing or swimming. Now in English we're saying for fishing or swimming. However in Spanish think carefully about how we have to do this. We've got a no to indicate the negative

this place no is apt to to practice the pesca

ni the nado let's think of another couple of examples with

ni first of all the basic example is when we have ni

neither nor so for example ni Juan nor know where are

where are the crocodiles are now when we change the change this around and say something in a negative sense. So for example, I don't eat meat or fish,

or I eat neither meat nor fish. That becomes no como carne, ni pescado. So you don't need that first knee in there. No como carne, ni pescado. And that's what's happening in our example. Now there's actually lots more that we could say about the Spanish on this poster, including the lovely use of paraque and the interesting verb extremar. But we'll cover all of these in the lesson notes which form part of our premium materials. If you've not already signed up for a membership, then you can find out all you need to know at coffee break Spanish espresso.com. Okay, it's time to move on because it's time for...

It is indeed time for the subjunctive of the week. And here's Fernanda. Hello, Mar, what do? Very good. Thank you. So, the subjunctive of this is, is important that's important that something happens. Very well.

So the first oration is, is important that you're saying the ventana when you you know, it's important that you're the window when you're what is the

traducion, Mark? I think this would be it's important that you close the window when you go out Yes, excellent. This month we have two subjunctives

in one oration two for one. So we're that comes of the verb serrar and you salgas that comes

of the verb to say So, sires or sires from the verb to close. So it's important that you close. It's important that you close. It's important that sires with the ES ending, although it's an AR verb, because of course it's the subjunctive. And salgas from the verb, salier, to go out. So when you go out, and we've seen that when, the subjunctus before.

Yes, yeah we've learned. Now, the second is, it's important that you learn as Spanish if you go to Guatemala.

It's important that you learn as Spanish if you go to what's Mark. Well, I think

this is, it's important that you learn Spanish if you're going to Guatemala. Yes, or if

you're going to say it exactly. So, the subjunitive in this oration is Apprendas

that comes of the verb Aprendes. So the subjunctive here is Aprendas from the verb Apreendar,

Apreendar is an ER verb, but of course the subjunctive forms take E S endings Aprenda, Aprendas, Apprendamos,

Aprendais, Apretas, Mark, for the explanation. And well, until the next Semana.

Much Thank you. Ady. Subjunctive of the week. Okay. We'll be back. in just a moment. In between lessons of Coffee Break Spanish, why not check out our social media accounts? On Facebook, just search for Coffee Break Spanish. We post regular language challenges and cultural information.

We are Learn Spanish on Twitter, and you can come behind the scenes with the coffee break team by searching for Coffee Break Languages on Instagram. Practice your Spanish and join the conversation with Coffee Break Spanish. Okay, let's get on with the last. lesson. Okay, let's slow things down a little because it's time for our final part of this week's episode, La Cita de la Semana. This week we've been talking about Los Cockodrillos and our quotation has got more than a little to do with danger. Author Daniel Defoe said I'll see that, the MEDYOLDEL BELZEGICO

MES TORO KELIGO MISMO. I'll see that again. The MEDO del Pelligero is 10,000 more terrorifico than the So let's think about what this means. The MEDO? The Miedo is the fear. The Miedo del Pelligro, the fear of.

danger is 10,000 or 10,000 is 10,000 times more terrifying more frightening than the danger itself. So the fear of danger

is 10,000 times more frightening than danger itself. The MEDAW And that is 10,000 more terrorifico than the danger and that is where we're going to leave this episode of the Coffee Break Spanish espresso.

However, just before we finish this episode, there are a few things I'd like to tell you because there's lots happening this week for Coffee Break Spanish listeners. First of all, over on Facebook, we've launched a new series of posts. On Mondays, we are looking at words and helping you develop your vocabulary with our word builder posts.

On Wednesdays, we're looking at grammar and helping you develop your understanding of the patterns of the Spanish language. And on Fridays, it's time to look at knowledge in general, looking at how you can develop your knowledge of the Spanish-speaking world. So do head over to Facebook and join us there and post your comments trying out your Spanish. We've also launched a brand-new podcast. this week. It's called the two-minute challenge, the coffee break Spanish two-minute challenge,

and this is a video podcast where you can put your vocabulary to the test and see if you can work out our anagrams. That happens on a Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, so three episodes of that new podcast every week. Please do go over to coffeebreakspanish.com where you can find out all the information you need to know about these new exciting developments. And finally, just a reminder that if you're interested in becoming a member of the Coffee Break Spanish Espresso program, then you can join up for our monthly membership, which provides a full set of lesson notes and an exercise for each of the episodes, and also the video version of these lessons. Once again, you can find out more about this at Coffee Break Spanish Espresso.com.

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