Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Magazine Episode 102

Episode Date: October 15, 2012

This is the second episode of our Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this edition:Laura introduces us to the expression por si las moscas;JP and Nahyeli answer Steve’s question about using the verb fingir, meaning “to pretend”and in our interviews, Alba asks ¿Qué es para ti un buen profesor?This season of Coffee Break Spanish Magazine 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 the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine 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.

This is the free edition of the Coffee Break Spanish magazine, and it's the 10th of October 2012. You're listening to Coffee Break Spanish. You're listening to the Coffee Break Spanish magazine. My name is Mark, and I'm your host for the show. I'll be guiding you through this episode, helping you understand all their fantastic content. This week, we'll be joining Alba on the streets of Barcelona, where she is talking to passers-by, about a good professor. Laura's idiomatic phrase this week is Porci Les Mosques, We'll find out more about that, and we'll find out what JP and Naili have for us in our CUNY Spanish section. All of this and more coming up in this episode of...

We've had some fantastic feedback already from last week's first episode of the Coffee Break Spanish magazine. Some of you have been wondering exactly what level we're aiming the Coffee Break Spanish magazine at. Well, in fact, we're actually trying to target both intermediate and advanced learners with the content. with our interviews, sometimes we have very complicated and long answers. Other times our answers are much more succinct and easier to understand. Equally, with our listeners' questions, it depends entirely on what the questions you have asked are. So last week's question was perhaps more straightforward, and this week's question involves the subjunctive and it's a little more complicated.

And likewise, with Laura's phrase idiomatic of la Semean, we can sometimes have more complex phrases, our more straightforward phrases. So hopefully with our magazine, we are providing something that all of our intermediate and advanced learners can access. Okay, it's time to begin this week's lesson.

And in our first section this week, we're going over to Laura for the phrase idiomatica of the Semana. And we're here with Laura. Hello, Laura. Hello, Mark. What are you? Very well.

What is you? I'm very well. What has chosen for us? This week. This Semana. This week I'm

a lot of this time. It's a for-s- muskas. Okay, for-s- most-s-

Yes. The moscas. The flies. The flies. Yeah, I thought that were the flies.

The flies that were in the sky. Exactly. So, for-s- most-

mosques. Mm-hmm. So, you can you give an example of this phrase,

for favor? Yes. For example, when you're in the door of your house and you say

your mother, Laura, coge the paraguas for si the moscas. It's say,

coge the paraguas for if to be to be a case. Yes, exactly.

In English, just in case. Exactly. So, get the umbrella just in case.

Yes. For si the mosques. And you know, And you know something of the

origins of this phrase? Yes, the origins are graciousos. Resulta

that they used they used they were when they wanted that the

food was took by the musk so the people

could cover the the the musk and not

they were they they didn't the so the to prevent

something. Perfect. It's a explanation very interesting. We can use the same phrase

in other examples. Yes, for example. Imagineate that you're in class and the day

next you a day and you know, it's a time here, I'm going to do you know, the moscas. It's

I mean, you're going to do you want to say you're going to get. Perfect.

Well, I'm going to in English, for if the moscas. So you're in class

and your friend asks you are you going to study theme number five because you've got an exam

tomorrow and you say, yeah, I'm going to study it just in case for si the moscas. Exactly.

And one this phrase is a Informal, no? Yes, we can say that we use

that's used between people who or between families, for example. But with your

hefe, no? Well, better, no. Okay, well, Well, Laura, you'll be

back the next time that's another phrase idiomatic maybe. Something I'll

tryer, I'm, I'm great. Perfect. Well, much thanks

to you. Thanks to Laura. Thanks to Laura. for her interesting contribution to this week's Coffee Break Spanish magazine. Now, this week, we have an interesting question from listener Steve, don't we, JP? That's right, Mark, we do indeed.

Hi, everyone, this is JP here with Q&A Spanish for the Coffee Break magazine. I'm here, as always, with the lovely and talented Naili. Hello, Naeli. Hello, J.P. So, Naili, here's a great question that you can help us answer. Steve writes in, and he found this sentence, I'll just read it to you. He says, El Abria finchido

that he liked the party. So he would have pretended that he liked the party. Since liking the party is a hypothetical, Steve is wondering if he shouldn't use the subjunctive in this case.

What do you think, Naili? El abria fingido that he changed guzto to a subjunctive form? Never. No. No. No.

You don't like it. You don't like that guesta la fiesta or that le gustata or gustase the fiesta? No, it hurts my ears. It hurts your ears. It does.

It does. Okay, so there you have it straight from Naili. It's not something that native speakers will want to do. And Steve, I think I know why. The form that they would use is an indicative. Either preterito or imperfecto would be more appropriate. Right, so preterite would be le gusto, and imperfect would be le gustaba la fiesta.

So the phrase would read, Elabria finged that le gusts-la fiesta or el-abria finged that he gustavs da fiesta. Okay, definitely. indicative and not subjunctive. Steve, I can tell you why we don't use the subjunctive there. The independent clause, El Abil Fingido, is not one of the phrases that triggers the subjunctive. So if the subjunctive is not triggered, then we're not going to use the subjunctive. All right, so you heard it here first. Steve, don't use the subjunctive in this case.

Thanks for your question. Folks, if you have questions, please come to our website, which is Q&A Spanish.com. When you get to the website, you can find all sorts of ways to ask us your own Spanish questions. Now, this is going to wrap it up for the Q&A Spanish segment in this Coffee Break Spanish magazine. But remember, we have our own show over at our website. That's Q&A Spanish.com. Q&A Spanish. Remember the word and is spelled out, Q&A Spanish.com. So thanks to Steve for this week's question. It's time to return to Mark for the rest of this week's CBS magazine. Asa-muego. Thank you.

Thank you, Jepi and Naili. As always. 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 lesson. Okay, it's now time for the final part of this week's Coffee Break Spanish magazine, for which we'll be joining Alba in Barcelona. Hello, Alba, tell us, what is the question of the day? Hello, Mark, the question of the day is,

what is for you a good professor? So this week's question from Alba literally means, what is for you a good teacher? What is, for you, a good professor? What is for you, a good teacher, or what makes a good teacher in your opinion? A good professor is someone who's helping to take the better of you for you, to learn of you and of the other. Someone who can see what I need to know.

Someone who is to say to. So, a person that's, that's, that's that has to learn, but that has got interest in, in to teach what he has to learn, but over all his ganas of to teach you, not because be a professor and has to say, well,

we'll do this, this, and this, but that pung a ganas and that you transmit, so, so sure you learn. So quite a lot of Spanish to listen to there, and to understand. What we're going to do is go back and listen to each answer in turn and I'll help you understand

what the speakers have said. Okay, let's listen to the first response. A good professor is someone who to take the better of you so that you can learn of you myself and of the other. So,

a good professor is someone that you help you or she helps you to bring out the best in yourself so that you can learn from yourself. So that you can learn from yourself. and from those around you. Let's listen to the next answer. And this example is using a subjunctive response.

Alien who knows how to teach what I need to know, that which I need to know, someone who knows how to teach what I need to know. And the subjunctive response is used because the speaker isn't sure if that person exists. They're talking about a hypothetical person. So the speaker says, A good professor is someone that's going to teach what I need to know. A good teacher is someone who knows how to teach what I need to know.

Let's listen to answer number three. This is a very quick response. This speaker is saying that a good teacher is someone who knows how to explain him or herself. Let's go on and listen to our fourth answer, which is certainly a bit longer. Well, a person that you can't, that knows to, but has got to do it, do you see what you want to

make interest in in what he know what you have to learn but over

all the sense to teach not because be a professor and has to say

well we're going to do this this and this and that you're

that you transmit so sure that you're so much longer answer this time

let's split it up and listen to each section individually well

a person that that that's that he knows but that has the chance to do you know,

what you see in in the he says he has to learn or what you have to learn, but so

all his ganas. So this speaker thinks that the important thing for a good teacher is

his or her ganas. Sobretto his ganas. Above all, his desire or her

desire. Of teach not because he's a professor and he has to say,

well, well, well, we're going to do this and this, but that it's not just a

garner and that you transmit. So it's not just a case of being a teacher and having to say, okay,

we're going to do this and this and this, but it's more a question of having the desire to teach and to transmit that desire

to the students that the person is teaching. We're going to work to work. We're going to make

a much his opinion. Mark, what is for you a good professor? Well, good

I'm I'm going to the last person, with the question. I think a good professor

has to show a interest and transmit this interest to his students. And I hope that

I do this lessons of coffee break Spanish. Much thanks, Alva,

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