Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Espresso 006

Episode Date: November 8, 2014

In this week’s Coffee Break Spanish Espresso we’re looking at the verb gustar and how it’s used. Fernanda talks about the expression hasta que and how the subjunctive is used, and our thought-provoking quotation of the week comes from Martin Luther King Jr.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 6. Hello to allo, and bienveninos at Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to this Coffee Break Spanish Espresso show, in which we're bringing you a regular quick shot of Spanish to help you keep thinking about the language on a regular basis. Before we finish today's episode, I must remember to tell you about the Coffee Break Spanish Two-Minute Challenge, which is a new podcast that we've released,

which will help you to build your Spanish vocabulary in our video episodes. But I'll tell you more about that later. For now, let's get on with the episode. In this episode, we're taking a look at a poster, which I saw recently on landing in Barajas Airport in Madrid, El Aeropo Alto de Barajas. Everywhere I looked, there were different examples over this advertisement. 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 coffeebreakspanishespresso.com and just click on episode 6. Now, the slogan on the poster is as follows. A to dos nos gusta bolar. I'll say that again. A to todos nos gusta bolar. It's relatively straightforward,

but it made me think of how it can sometimes be tricky to use the verb, gustar. Let's think about nos gusta bolar. We like to fly. Making it I like to fly, me gusta volar.

And then when we add in the a to-dos, then that's the equivalent of putting in the word all in English. At todos nos gusta bolar. We all like to fly. Now, first of all, let's think about ghostar. Remember that it's the opposite way around from in English. I say, I like chocolate, but that becomes in Spanish, chocolate pleases me or chocolate is pleasing to me. Me Gusta el chocolate or el chocolate me Gusta.

Now with her freeze, A todos nos gustavolar. We're also thinking about the fact that me gusta or nos gusta is followed by an infinitive. We all like to fly. But an equally valid translation of this is we all like flying. A todos nos gusta ballar. We all like flying.

However, it's important to remember that although we use the ing form in English, I like flying, I like singing, I like dancing, in Spanish we have to use the infinitive. Me gusta bolar, me gusta cantar, me gusta ballar, and so on. Now, something else that we need to think about with gustar is how to say that someone else likes doing something. in English, I like flying, Maria likes flying. There's no real change there. But in Spanish, we have to change it slightly. I like flying, me gustavolar, but Maria likes flying. A Maria le gusta molar.

So the le is to her, it pleases. Le gustavolar. But we also have to put in a. A Maria le gustavola. a Maria le gustavolar or a Maria le gusta eat paella. Maria likes eating paella

and we can use this also when we want to reinforce who it is that's liking something for example I could say a me me gustan los chimions but a ti no te gustan those champignons. I like mushrooms

but you don't. A me me gusts those chimpiones a t not te like those champiniones. So this is

where we get the a to do a to molar we all

like flying literally to all a to all to us is pleasing or to

us pleases to fly molar a to us got molar so how

would we say then they all like flying here we need to say, a toos les gusta molar.

A todos les gustavola. What about you all using the mostotros form in Spain? You all like flying. That would become, a todos os gusta molar, or if it's a question, a todos us gustavola. Do you all

like flying? A todos os gusta molar. Just one more thing before we move on from molar, because obviously we can use bolar, the verb to fly, as in planes and birds flying, but there's also a nice expression, como wuela el tempo,

how time flies. Bolar is a radical changing verb. That means it changes from the O in the infinitive, volar to U.E, when it's conjugated in the Yo, tu, El, Eja, and Ejos-Ellias form. Vuelo, wuelas, wuela, vola,

volamos, bolais, wuelan. So here, how time flies, como wuela el tempo. So there's lots to say about this one poster and it just goes to show that if you're lucky enough to be able to visit a place where Spanish is spoken, then you really do need to look around you and see the richness of the language in posters and adverts and really in every example of Spanish that you see. There is more information about bolar and this expression nos guista bolar in this week's notes.

If you've not already signed up for a membership, then you can find out how you can do that at coffeebreak Spanish espresso.com. Okay, it's time for... Subjunctive of the week. I love that jingle. It's so cheesy. Fernanda, how would say cheesy in Spanish?

In Spanish, it would be courcy. Curzy, sure. Very cursi. Very courcy. Well, hello, Fernanda. Hello, Mark. How much? Very well, thanks.

Well, the subjunctive of this week is Ah, Ashta K? Yes. What do you? Yes, very well, very very well, there are

many many, very well, there's many things that are Yeah, so let's see. Well, the first oration is I'm here

until that you get you. Let's repeat I'm, I'm here until you get you. You know what

means, Mark. Okay. I will wait for you here. In Spanish, it's the present, no? I am waiting for you here. But in English, I will wait for you here, until you arrive. Perfect.

Very good. And the subjunctive is, you guess, that comes from the verb, Yegare. You know what it means. To arrive. Yes, perfect.

Very well. I suppose this is a little bit like when When when you're going to arrive or not It's a hypothesis, so So we'll use the When do you get is the subjunctive So we'll wait here or I'll wait here until you arrive And that's a hypothesis

So we don't know if it's going to happen or not A hypothesis, yes. Very well Now the second oration It says, We'll get him in the fiesta until that I'll

repitamously we'll we'll we're in the party until that

I'm what is the traducion Mark okay we're we're

in the face in these situation is to stay so we'll stay at the party

until it finishes yes perfect is something that is something

that to get us to last the final and well

now Now, the subjunctive of this oration is termine, that comes from the verb terminar. Sure.

Terminar means to finish. Yes. Terminar ends an ER, but in the subjunctive forms we use

the e endings, termines, terminemes, terminemes, terminem. Perfect. Mark, you've done

made all those devers. Well, much thanks, Fernanda. Thank you, Mark, Adios.

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Practice your Spanish and join the conversation with Coffee Break Spanish. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. And now it's time for the final part of this espresso shot. And of course, it's time for La Cita de la Semana, our quotation of the week. In our advert this week, we talked about the verb, Bolar, flying. And we've chosen a thought-provoking quotation from Martin Luther King Jr. It goes like this.

we've learned to to fly like the and to know how the but not we've learned the simple

art of living as the other we've learned to be to be able as the the paris

to to nade like the but we've learned the simple art

to live as Let's go through this and talk about the language in this thought-provoking quote. So, we have learned to do something. Aprendido is the past participle of the verb, Aprender. So we have learned, we've learned,

we've learned to fly like birds. One pacharo is a bird. A nadar as a peces. to swim like fish a fish pehs or a fish peces or peces fish the plural form

so we've learned to fly like birds to nadar like the to swim like fish and notice we need to repeat that we've learned to fly we've learned to fly we've learned to fly and then to swim

to swim to nadar so we've learned to ball as the birds, to nader

as the but no we've learned the simple

art of living as we have not learned the simple art

the simple art of living as brothers and sisters The simple,

or simple is the word for simple. The simple art of living like brothers. We've not learned the simple art of living like brothers. Let's have a listen to the phrase

one more time. We've learned to to be able to beas, to know, like the peces, but no we've learned

the Senzillo Arte to live as a manos Now that's almost it for this week but I'd like to remind you about what I mentioned at the beginning of the lesson and that is that we've got a new podcast It's called the Coffee Break Spanish

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