Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Espresso 010

Episode Date: December 24, 2014

In this final episode of the season, Mark discusses the Sorteo de Navidad, the Spanish Christmas lottery known as El Gordo. In the Subjunctive of the Week segment, Fernanda talks about es bueno que… and our festive Quotation of the Week focuses on a quotation about the Christmas spirit.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 10. Hello, allo, and bienveninos to Coffee Break Spanish. This is your 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. This is, in fact, the final episode in this first season of our espresso, but don't worry, we'll be back again soon with more. For now, let's get straight on with the episode. Now, as we record this episode of the espresso, it's the 22nd of the espresso. it's the 22nd of December and this is an interesting day in Spain

it's the day of El Gordo which literally means the fat one and it's traditionally the biggest lottery in the year in Spain El shorte de Navidad By the time this episode goes live the lottery will have been drawn and some lucky people in various parts of the country

will be celebrating even more than usual this Christmas this week's photo is of an advert for El Shorto de Naviadé and that's the official name for El Gordo. However, it is known as El Gordo by most people. El Sorteo de Navidad has been running since 1812, and a ticket for this lottery costs 200 euros. However, it's also possible to purchase 1 decimo,

a 10th of a ticket, and therefore win a 10th of the price. It's often the case that groups of family members, friends, or what colleagues buy a ticket together, and then share the price. If they're suites, clear. As usual, if you're not. 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 coffeebreakspanish espresso.com.

Let's take a look at the poster that says, Sorteo de navidad. Tu coupon ganador, Puede estar aqui. So let's think about some of the vocabulary here. El sortéo, a shorteo is a raffle or a draw. And that gives us the verb sorteer, to raffle.

This word is linked. to the noun, la Suerte, meaning luck. And if we think a little about the way in which the words are formed, then we see the O of sortéo, or sortiar, becoming a U-I in Suerte. Let's think about this, because this happens very often in Spanish verbs. Think of the verb, Poder, meaning to be able to. In the first person singular, that becomes Puedo.

the O of the infinitive P-O-D-E-R becomes a U-E in P-U-E-D-O. P-U-E-O-P-O-O-I- can. So the same thing happens here. We've got la Suerte using the U-E and El Sortteo and Sortear. And it's all to do with stress. The syllable Suerte is obviously stressed on Suerte, but in the case of sortio and sortiare, then that first syllable is not stressed.

And if it's not stressed, then the O is fine. Sortéo, sortiare. But when it is stressed, that particular O, in the makeup of these words, becomes a U.E. La Suerte, Tener Suerte, to be lucky, literally to have luck, Tengo Suerte, I am lucky, I have luck. And a sortteo, a raffle, and sortiare.

the verb to raffle. Now the word Navidad obviously means Christmas. El shorte of Navida, the Christmas lottery. Un coupon is a coupon or a ticket. And the adjective, ganador, means winning. We know the verb ganar to win, and in this case it becomes an adjective, ganadour. If it's a feminine word, then ganadour becomes ganadora.

So we could talk about a receta ganada, a winning recipe or a company a company, the winning company. So, your coupon ganadour can be here.

Literally, your winning coupon or your winning ticket can be here. Of course, if we were translating that into English, we would probably be saying your winning ticket could be here, using a conditional tense. And if that were

into Spanish, that could would be. It would be Podria, the conditional of the verb Poder. Podria, do coupon ganador, could be here. Perhaps the lottery company is trying to convince the purchasers of these tickets

that there is a better chance rather than it could. It can be here. You really can win this lottery. Well, as I said, when this goes live, we'll know who or which areas in Spain the lottery winners are living in and that's published on the official website we'll put a link to that in the lesson notes

okay so that is a little bit of culture this time about the shorteo de navidad but also a little bit of language too as we looked at the formation of those words but now it's time for subjunctive of the week so here we are in our tenth subjunctive of the week our listeners

must be getting completely perfect with their subjunctus vinyl. How are you, Fernandah? Very well. And you, Mark. Very well. For our mini-anniversaries. Yes, we have to celebrate.

Exactly. Well, what we celebrate today? What do you have to festigar? Well, for festeer. We have, it's good what? There, is good what? Yes. Well, then the first oration of the

the second is good that there is a supermarket for here. Well, if you want, Yeah. Well, I would say a bar, but well,

it's good that's good that there's a good that you may see if

you're on holiday and you decide that oh, it's quite handy to have a supermarket right near here.

It's good that, it's good that or it's a good thing that. Very bien.

A yeah would be a subjunitive to a be. So the

verb a ver, which we use normally as there is a supermarket for here. There is a supermarket around here or near here. But in this situation, we have to change the ai to aya. Very bien, aya. And that's a subjunctive

form of aye. Let's hear the phrase again. It's good that there is a supermarket for here. So it's good that there is a supermarket around here, near here. Excellent. Perfect. Very fast.

Yes, and you can't change for any other other thing. Ah, that's the second or a second

or a second question, for favor. It's good that you understand

how it is a subjunitive in Castellian very important this. Very important.

And after 10 sections, clearly, obviously, you know they're

all right, again, it's it's good that it's good that use the

subjunitive in Castellano. Okay, let's think about this one. It's good

Okay. It's good that or it's a good thing that. Entiendas. Yes. So, Endender is the verb to understand. So here it's good that you understand. And that is the subjunctive form of Entendez.

It's a radical changing verb. So we need to change the E in the middle to IE. Entiendas. Perfect. How is use? How is. used. How one uses?

Good traduction. The subjunctive in Castellano. So it's good or is a good thing that you understand how the subjunctive is used in Spanish.

Perfect. How is the subjunctive in Castellano? Excellent. Well, it's good that our audience

understand how the subjunctive in castellano now, no? Perfect. Mark. Very good. Well,

and then that. Grazie, Mark. Adios. Subjunctive of the week. And it was interesting to hear there, Fernanda, talking about radical changing verbs. Of course, that's exactly what we're referring to when we were looking at Poder.

Earlier, Pue, from the infinitive Poder with the O, changing to U.E. Just like in the words sortio, sortier, and the noun, la Suerte. Obviously not verbs in that situation,

but it's still those vowel sounds changing, depending on the stress of the word. 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. Join the conversation with Coffee Break Spanish. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. It's now time for Our Cita de la Semana, our quotation of the week. And like some other parts of this week's espresso, we're sticking with a bit of a festive theme. And we're looking at a much-sighted quotation

about Christmas by the newspaper columnist Harlan Miller. This quotation is as follows. I'll we're we're going to get the spirit of the Naviidad

in harrows and open a jarro every month of the year.

I'll say that again. Ohhala pudiermos met the spirit of the Navidad

in harros and to bring a jarro every month of the year.

So there's a couple of things in here that we need to think about. First of all this

wonderful word ohala ohala now this comes originally from the phrase o alla as in appealing to allah we know that many parts of the spanish language and indeed spanish culture have arabic influences so if you are appealing to allah or a god then it's like saying i hope to god that such and such is the case and that's why we need to use a subjunctive because you don't know if that's the case. You're appealing that that be the case. And ohalah is always followed by a subjunctive. For example, we could say, Ohalah, that ha'a guern time. Please let it be good weather. I hope, I really hope, that it's good weather, or I hope to God that it's good weather. This ohalla idea. You can use the

ohalah with or without the ke. You could say, Ohalah, agueuentech. Or, ohla, que aga good time of year.

Or another example for this time of year, ohalah that Pender Noel. I hope, to goodness, that Father Christmas

comes. Ohhala that's come the Padre Noel. Now, if only we could, or if only I wear,

that's slightly different because you're seeing there that I am not, if only I wear. If something is less possible, then we need to take it back a stage. And here we're using the imperfect subjunctive. Ohela pudieramos. If only we could, it's virtually impossible to do that. If only we could, for example, ohala, if only I could be with my family this year for Navidates, but

no put. If only I could be with my family for this Christmas, but I can't. Ohhalla fuerreico. If only I wear rich, but I'm not. It's the idea that if only I wear something, and our quotation is,

ohla, pudieramos, met the spirit of the Navidad in harrows. If only we could put the Christmas spirit in jars, the Spiritu de la Navidad, the Christmas Spirit, in jars, and

to open a jarro every month of the year. And open one jar each month of the year. Now, the original quotation in English is, I wish we could put some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. And in Spanish, Ohela,

So that's it for the spirit of the Naviadad in jarros and to be it for this episode of the Coffee Break Spanish Espresso. And on behalf of the whole team here at RadioLengua, I would like to wish you Felices Fiestas, Felid Navidad, and Feliz Enew Novo. We'll be back again in 2015 with more of Coffee Brick Spanish espresso. And also, we're going to be back with Coffee Break Spanish Season 4. You can find out more about that by heading to coffeebreak Spanish season 4.com. We hope you've enjoyed this espresso shot of coffee break Spanish.

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