Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Espresso 009

Episode Date: December 21, 2014

In this week’s Coffee Break Spanish Espresso Mark discusses the verb irse which he saw on a poster in the Spanish town of Málaga. This poster gives us the opportunity to look at the difference between ir and irse. In the Subjunctive of the Week segment, Fernanda introduces us to dudar que, and our Quotation of the Week looks at a lovely quotation about travel from St Augustine.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 9. Hello, allo, and welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. This is the espresso in which we're bringing you a quick shot of Spanish to help you keep thinking about the language on a regular basis. As usual, we have three sections in this first section. I'm going to be talking about an example of Spanish, real-life Spanish, that I have seen on the streets of Spain.

And then in our second segment, we are going to be joined by Fernanda, and we'll be looking at a particular use of the subjunctive, and then finally we'll finish with an inspirational quotation for you. Let's get started. Now, I was lucky enough to be in Malaga in the south of Spain last week for some meetings, and I noticed this poster in the window of a travel agency. As usual, 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 click on episode 9 where you'll see the photo that we're talking about today. So let's take a look at this poster. It says, in December, nos vamos. In December, no vamos.

So literally, in December, we are heading off, we are going away. Now, it's encouraging people to take a holiday to head off on vacation over Christmas and New Year. And I like this because of the use of the verb ear in the reflexive form,

irse. and it's that bit more emphatic than just the normal ear. Ear, of course, means to go. But irse has a more emphatic form. It means more to go away, to go away further, perhaps. So let's look at this in more detail. First of all, ear is to go, but for shorter trips. I'm going to the bathroom.

Ba al-medico, he is going to the doctor. or we're going to the market. But irse is used when you're going away, when you're going further, or when you're going away for perhaps a more significant trip. So, nos vamoes, we are heading off to Spain for Christmas

or for the Christmas period. Nos vamos to Spain. We're using it in the reflexive form, so we get the full conjugation as me boy, Te vas Se va We're

We're going to say that again. I'm going to say that again This time with the personal pronouns in there too So the subject pronoun and the reflexive pronoun I am heading off Tu te vas You are heading off El or she's va

Nosotros nos vamos Vososososososososososososososososososososososososososososos and Egos or Ejas se van. Now, Irse is also used commonly in command forms or imperatives. So, for example, we've got the expression

Bamosos, a very, very common phrase, Bamos. And that's literally saying let us all head off. Bamos, it's the Nosotros form, and we've got the nos in there as the reflexive pronoun, and it goes on to the end in that form, bamos. It's really bamos nos, but we can't see that s there before the nos at the end. Bamanos, let's go. And another imperative form using irse that's quite popular or that's quite

common at least, maybe not popular, is bette, go off, as in go away. When you tell someone, bette, it means go away. It's not particularly polite. So you're saying to someone, go away from here, head off, bette, yeah, go away. Another point I'd like to pick up on here is this use of irse is very similar to marcharse, marchar literally to march, but marcharse can be used like irse, meaning to head off. Me voy, I'm off, or me marcho, I'm heading off.

Me marcho, I'm heading off now. So marcharsees can also be used in this way. Now one other point before we finish talking about in Decembre, nos wamos, and that is the use of capital letters in this advert. Obviously, it's an advert. They're using capitals to capture our attention, but what we need to remember is that in Spanish, the months of the year don't have capital letters.

So Deciambre would normally be written with a small initial letter, an initial D that's in the lower case. So De Tiembre, as in all of the months of the year, not written with a capital letter. Now, there is more practice of irse in our exercise that you can find in this week's notes, and they're available as part of our premium version of the Coffee Break Spanish Espresso. Head over to Coffee Break Spanish Espresso.com, where you can find out all you need to know about the espresso. 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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Ay, aye, aye, aye, aye. How is this, Fernandah? How is this, Fernandah? Very well, and you, Mark. Very well, what do you have for us today? Well, this semester, we're doing that. Ah, dudar-ke, more subjunctive. Very well.

Quintan-nows, what are the orations of today? Well, the first, that I'd say when I'm talking about when I'm going to some I'm a friend, I'm a a question.

Dudo that Carlos, it's more like a chisement or a cutilleo, as

they're like a bit of gossip. Yeah, that you know, that you know, that you know,

that's part of the culture. Well, tell us another let's let's let's

say, Dudo that Carlos, via Greece, in Dijembr. So, here we've got Dudo

Duda, first of all, means to doubt. So, dudar And since the subjunctive always involves a little bit of doubt then we know that we're going to need a subjunctive here.

Dudo that Carlos Baja, that's quite irregular that one. Yes, always. Dudo that Carlos to Gerecia in December. So I doubt that Carlos is going to Greece

in December. So what would be the situation there, why would we be doubting that Carlos? For example, if we know that Carlos, or no see, or has a problem amoroso. So if Carlos has a problem amoroso, no, not go to

go to Greece? No, maybe he was with the novia, but they're problems, and now no va. Okay. So this is the kind of thing that you would be saying, I doubt that Carlos is going to be going to Greece in December after all, yeah? I doubt that Carlos

that's going to Greece in December. but do-o-ke, more subjunctive? Very well, because we know still. Perfect. Another example, for favor.

Now, this is a question. Dudas that's saying the truth. Uy. You're just disputing

with someone. Yeah. Also, in a end of chisme or cotillia here.

So, repitamos do, dudas that's saying the truth. You know

what means, Mark. So here we've got Dudas-K, so do you doubt

that it. Interesting. Because this comes from the verb, start of course. So,

start saying to be telling the truth. So do you doubt that I'm telling the truth? But in actual fact, we would probably say,

do you not think I'm telling the truth? We would change the verb in English. We wouldn't say, do you doubt that I'm telling the truth? And the other

is that is continuo, no? Yes, yes, for the that's that's saying

the fact start saying or I am seeing I am telling but here it lives into

the subjunctive after dudas that is that is saying the really Mark

excellent well it's all for very thanks Fernanda thank Mark

and the next we're we're we're we're we're we're

we're sure So some very interesting examples of of Budarke with the subjunctive. Now it's time for our Cita de la Semana or Cita de la Semana. It's the quotation of the week and for this week we're going to a quotation about traveling, a lovely quotation about traveling from St. Augustine,

San Agustin. And the quotation goes like this. I'll see that the world is a book and those that no viajian, so leen one page. I'll see that again. El Mundo is a book. And those who no viajahs, only leen one a pagena.

So let's translate this. The world is a book. And those, those ones, those ones that no viachan and those ones or those people

who do not travel solo leen one page only read one page so leen from the verb

leer one page they read one page and solo you may see solo written in this quotation

with an accent on the O the first O of solo however based on the new spelling

agreements or the arrangements from the Real Academia, you don't put an accent on solo. So, even here, solo is spelled S-O-L-O. So the world is a book, and those who do not travel only read one page of that book. El Mundo is a book, and those who no viachan, solo leen one page. 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,

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