Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Espresso 007

Episode Date: November 15, 2014

In this week’s Coffee Break Spanish Espresso Mark talks about the word por and also looks at feminine nouns which use masculine articles. Fernanda introduces the expression es una lástima que in the Subjunctive of the Week segment, and our quotation focuses on knowledge and how little – or how much – we have.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 7. Hello, welcome back to the Coffee Break Spanish Espresso, in which we are bringing you a quick shot of Spanish to help you keep thinking about the language on a regular basis. Mucha gratis, Otrave. Thanks again for your comments, reviews and emails this week. Please keep them coming. In particular, we'd like to say much thanks to Worm 30,

who left a review on iTunes. Worm 30 has followed Radio Lingua for some time and says the Coffee Break Spanish series is the best Spanish podcast I've found. He or she says Showtime Spanish was exactly at my level, engaging and wonderfully executed by the hosts. Then the Coffee Break Spanish magazine came out and that was even better. The espresso is just as good as the other two, but unfortunately it's shorter in length. Well, I suppose that the espresso has to be shorter by the nature of its name. Wormthirty goes on.

The subjunctive of the week helps take the mystery out of the subjunctive and also mitigates my frustration with it. Muchisgratia. Worm 30, if you'd like to let us know what you think of the coffee break Spanish espresso, please head over to iTunes and leave us a review. Or indeed, post a comment on the website. Your views encourage

us to continue to produce fantastic content and help other learners of Spanish discover our show. Okay, it's time to get on with today's episode. This week's image is of an advert on the side of delivery van that I saw in Mexico. It's for a brand of sun protection

cream and the wording is as follows. Resistente al-A-A-Wa-Pour-Has. I'll say that again. Resistente al-A-A-Wa-Pour-Quach-Rouras. Now, if you're listening to this episode on the podcast app of your mobile device, you should be able to see the photo. If not, head over to coffeebreak, Spanish espresso.com. So let's think about this slogan or this wording on the side of the van.

Resistente al-A-A-Wa-Pu-4-4-4-4. So I'm sure that you've worked out what this means. Resistente al-A-A-Wa-Wa is, of course, the water. So it's resistant to water for four hours. Or is water-resistant for four hours? But let's think a little more about it. First of all, let's think about the word el-Agua. El-Agua is an interesting word because it's a feminine word,

although it uses the masculine definite article, El-Agua. Now, the reason for this is because if you said la Agua, it doesn't sound very nice, it doesn't, it's not easy to say la Agua, la Agua. You have to say El Agua. And the same works with the indefinite article. To ask for a mineral water, for example, you would say Unagua Mineral. You couldn't say, Una Agua, because again it sounds strange. So El Agua, an agua and the same works for other words for example the word el agila el agila is the eagle el agila the eagle and unagila an eagle again it's feminine coming back to agua because it's feminine we have to use feminine adjectives with agua el agua fresca fresh water el agua fresca okay enough about Agua just now. Let's think about the other interesting aspect of this phrase, Resistente Al-Awa por-four-hours. And it is, of course, the word por. Por is one of two words in Spanish, which means for. We could say por or para. But both por and para are used in very specific

situations. And one of the situations when we use por is when we're talking about time. Resistente to the water for four hours. It's resistant to water for four hours. We could equally say, for example, a year, Estudie for two hours. Yesterday I studied for two hours. Or,

we're in Spain, por, so por is used when we're talking about time. Now, it's important to say here that this use of of port, Estudie for two hours, is more used in Latin America

than it is in Spain. in Spain you would be more likely to say, Estudie during those hours, or even Estudie two hours. But as usual, it's important to be able to recognize language structures from all parts of the Spanish-speaking world. Now, Por is used in a number of other situations.

For example, we all say, thanks for por. For example, Grazieus por-regal. Thank you for the present. Thank you for the regalo And por is also used when you're talking about prices So for example, a coffee for one euro

is a coffee for one euro And this idea is really in exchange for So I will give you one euro And you will give me the coffee So I'm giving you one euro in exchange for the coffee In a sense gratias for a regalo is the same. I'm giving you my thanks in exchange for the present that you've given me.

So think about por in those senses. Three examples of port today. One, when we're talking about time. Two, when we're talking about giving thanks for something. And three, when we're talking about paying for something. There will no doubt be other examples of por in future episodes of the coffee break Spanish espresso. For now, let's continue on to.

to the next part of our show. And of course, that is... Subjunctive of the week. I, Mark, our jingle, me can't. It's so moved that's. Very good.

Hello, Fernando. How are you? Very good. So, well, the subjunctive of this semester is is a lastime that. Ah. You know what he's what it's a shame that

or it's a pity that. Yeah, very well. also could be a it's a it's a a pain, is a

lastime, are the same, so they're very very very one of the first thing

is it's a lastime that you can't be a repitamos it,

it's a lastime that you can't mean what's it's a

lastima it's a pity or it's a shame that no you

can't come It's a shame that you can't come. Yes, very good. A phrase a quite very good. Now,

the subjunctive of this oration is you know, that comes of the verb. A very common verb.

Yes, we use a lot to be able to. So, you can, or that you can't. Yes,

very well, that you can't. Now, the second oration of the one of the second of the lastime

that's a very you're not a fiesta another fiesta if you know we're not going to

we're not a last time it's a lastime that's a friend and that you know

that's the signifety well here it's a pity or it's a shame that you are ill and that

you're not going to the party yeah very well we're we've got the Fiesta,

then to your house. Here the verbos are this is

that comes to be to start and the second is that you

know that we've seen that verb before it's a very irregular

verb year becomes vallas that you that you not

that you not that's so well we use we're we're we're

Well, we're going to conjugate the verb In the subjunctive. Yes, well, well, do you do. So, that you vallas, that he'll that,

that we're that we're that you that they they're going. But, Fernanda, you've

already, I, is that I'm that you're always, well, well, for that you

know, so you know, so much thanks, Fernanda. Of nothing, Mark, Adios.

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by searching for Coffee Break Languages on Instagram. Practice your Spanish and join the conversation with Coffee Break. break Spanish. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Okay, it's time for the final section of this week's episode. And of course, that's when we turn to La Cita de la Semana, the quotation of the week. We've talked earlier about el-a-water, and we're continuing on a watery theme with our quotation. And this comes from Isaac Newton, who said, what we know is a

gota of water what we ignore is the ocean I'll say that again what we know is a got of water what we ignore most

is the ocean so what we know that which we know is a got of water a drop a drop

a got of a that which we know is a drop of water, lo que ignoramos, that which we don't know is el oceano, is the ocean. So ignore is an interesting verb because it means

not to know something. To be ignorant of something, if you like. So ignore not to know something. Lo que ignoramos, that which we do not know is the amount of knowledge that we have is tiny in comparison to the amount of knowledge that there is what we know is a drop what we don't know is the ocean so something to think about there what we know is a drop what we don't know is the ocean lo que seamus is a goatherer of water what we know is

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