Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Magazine Episode 105

Episode Date: October 28, 2012

The Coffee Break Spanish team is back with a new episode of the Magazine. In this edition:Alba asks passers-by in the streets of Barcelona, ¿De qué pasarías horas hablando?;Laura teaches us the expression se me ha ido el santo al cielo, meaning “I completely lost track of the time”;and JP and Nahyeli answer listener Emily’s question about using the subjunctive when talking about the recent past.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. It's the 16th of November 2012. You're listening to the Coffee Break Spanish. You're listening to the Coffee Break Spanish magazine. My name is Mark, and I'm your host for this show. This week we join Alba on the streets of Barcelona, where she's asking the question, What would you spend hours talking about?

What would you spend hours talking about? We will be talking to Laura, who has another interesting phrase idiomatica de la Semana for us. And we'll join J.P. and Naili who'll answer listener Emily's question on using the subjunctive in the past. All this and more coming up in this week's edition of... Well, this semester, we're going to do with much to do. So, we'll start now with the question of day. Hello, Alba.

Dino's what we're asking today? Our question of today is, What passarias hours? So Alba's question this week, Deke, passarias, hours about? Literally, of what would you spend hours talking? What would you spend hours

talking about? Let's listen to our interviewees and see what they would spend hours talking about. Of philosophy, of urbanism, and design. What? What would be hours

about? Well, I'm going to do It's probably of the things that I like to do, or I'm only, doing the sport going to the play that I'm

listening music in lines general is all of that That's probably I'd probably me probably would be talking hours of politics without any type of accord, but well, I'd

would be, well, we'd would be hours about, certainly, of the So there we've got to get with the ganas

to do some view of a lot of so there we've heard four different answers. We'll go back through these now and consider them in more detail. Let's begin with our first interviewee.

He's answering the question of what passarias hours talking? De philosophy, of urbanism, and the designo. So three words there.

The philosophy philosophy? The second one was a little less common. Urbanism. Urbanism is town planning. And the third thing that he mentioned was design. Design.

So obviously this person is into town planning and design. And of course, philosophy, philosophy, philosophy, too. Let's listen to our second interview. What would be? What's going? Well,

I'm sure of the things that I do, He's family or or I doing the sport, going to the play, that I'm listening music.

In lines of general, is all of that. He begins by saying surely, of the things that I like to do. Surely,

surely, of the things that I do of the things which I like to do. So to begin with, I'd spend

hours talking about the things that I like to do. Well, I'm sure of the things that I like to do. So I talk about the things I like to do, whether in my family, as a family, or on my own. Let's listen on to see what these things are. He mentions three different activities. Have a listen and see if you can identify them.

So there are three activities he mentions here, doing to the beach and listening to music. So yeah, all that kind of thing in general. So yet all that kind of thing in general. Let's listen to our next interviewee. Probably probably me pass around hours of politics, have a listen to this again and see if you can identify what he's talking about. He mentions La Politica, but he also says some other things. Probably me passarie about hours of politics, without getting to any type of accord.

But, well, he would spend hours talking about politics. So he would talk about politics, even if he doesn't end up. arriving at an agreement about the topic with his conversation partner. Okay, let's listen to our final responses. Well, we'll passer hours about, sure, of voyages. And this year, we're going to get with the ganas to do some voyage

but we love much to beaja. If you're using the premium version of the course, then you'll have watched the video in which this particular couple is interviewed and they are holding in their arms a newborn baby. So that has a role to play in what they say in their answer. They mention one particular word, voyages. I'm sure you know what that is, journeys, travels, trips. Listen again and see if you can understand what they say.

Well, we'd passers hours talking, surely, of viages. And this year, we're going to get with the ganas to do a little, but we're just a much to beaher. So as new parents, going on the journey that they, would like to do might be a bit more difficult. Nonetheless, they really like traveling, and that's what they would spend hours talking about. Let's listen one more time to all four responses. Our question of today is, what passarias hours talking?

Of philosophy, of urbanism, and of design. What would I passers about? Well, certainly, of the things that I love. either family or or I doing the sport going to the play that I'm

listening music so in lines general is all of that probably probably I would probably I'd probably about about any type of

accord but well I would but we'd we'd we'd probably about and this year we'd

we're going to We'll be doing a little bit, but we're much to beaher. We've talked so much today, that's it. 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. It's the moment of pass to the phrase idiomatic of the week. And then, then, we'll say,

hello to Laura. Hello, Mark. Hello, my friends. What are you? We're very, we're doing. So, what phrase is for us today? So, so I'm going, the saint

to the So I'm saying, The saint, The saint, The saint, has gone off to the sky. The saint has gone off to the sky.

The saint has gone off to the sky. But the version traditional of the phrase, So me has gone the santo to the sky.

So, you can't explain how is how is this phrase? Yes,

I'll put a example I'm I'm I'm but I'm

because I'm I'm doing and I and I and I'm another

and then another and then I think I when I came I'm

I'm I'm the time with that I had had

So, it's the santo to the so you completely lost

track of time. Yes. It's me has been the santo

to the thing. And there other situation in the which

could use this phrase? Yes, there other aspect

that can give significate to this phrase and

is when you when you and completely you get

the thing of you you're talking. You're in blank and

you know recuperas the conversation. So, you have gone to the santo

to the world. So, so can say also, me have been

in blank, Kedars in blank. It's like for your mind to go blank.

My mind went blank. Exactly. I'm I've kept in blank.

And using this new phrase of the Semana. Se me

a I Ido El Santo to see me

a Iido el santo to the so let's

think about this grammatically for a moment say me

a I said we're using irse which means to go

off to leave in a sense yes and se

me a we're in the perfect tense here and because

it's a reflexive verb the saint me aided, the saint went off and it went off from me and that's where the me comes from. Se me haido,

the santo, al-Chielo. Yes, it's it has been to you are who has the hiridu. Exactly. Well, much thanks.

A vosotros. And in the final section of this week's show, let's head over to Seattle and find it what J.P. and Naili have for us today. And I believe, we have an interesting question from listener Emily.

We do indeed. Everyone, this is J.P. And I'm here with this week's Q&A Spanish for Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. And as always, I'm here with a lovely and talented Naili. Hello, Neelie. Hello, J.P. How's this? Here we have a question from Emily.

Emily is wondering about the subjunctive. Oh, for goodness sakes. So she wants to know how we use the subjunctive when referring to a past situation, but the first part is in the present. For example, I hope you had fun last night. She needs help. She does. She does.

I hope you had fun last night. Well, Emily, there's two parts to this subjunctive sentence, and I'm glad that you recognize that this sentence needed the subjunctive. You probably heard yourself say, I hope that. Esper okay. And you wanted to know how to finish it, knowing that it's going to be in the subjunctive. Now here, the first part of the sentence is in the present. Esper okay.

When we have the first part in the presence and the relative action is in the past, we're going to use what's called the present perfect subjunctive. And we make the present perfect subjunctive in the present subjunctive plus the past participle. So the verb for to have fun is passal lo bien. Since we're going to use the past participle, that would be passado, passado. So Naili, how would we combine that with

to say, I hope you had fun last night? I'm sorry that. Okay, I hope that you hear the verb, Aver in the presence ofjunctive. plus the verb Passar plus the verb Passar

and the past participle Pasado. The other way we could do it, JP, is I'm I hope that you

had fun and there we're using the verb divertis. And we're still using aya. Right,

that's the present perfect subjunctive. Emily, I hope that answers your question and if you or anyone else

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