Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Magazine Episode 106

Episode Date: October 29, 2012

This week’s Coffee Break Spanish Magazine episode is now available. Join the team and improve your Spanish! In this edition:Alba has an interesting question for some women on the streets of Barcelona. She asks ¿qué puedes aprender de un hombre si hablas con su madre? – what can you learn about a man if you speak to his mother?;Learn to avoid difficult questions with Laura’s frase idiomática, hacerse el sueco;and JP and Nahyeli help listener Ana answer the door in Spanish.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 23rd 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's Pregunda del Dia is an interesting one. Alba asks, What can you learn of a man,

if you're talking with her mother? Laura's phrase idiomatic is Acerce el Sweco. Find it exactly what that means later in this episode. And finally, J.P. and Nayel will help listener Anna answer the door in Spanish. It might sound a little strange, but you'll understand everything later in this episode.

It's time now for... Before getting started on today's episode, I'd like to remind you that every single week you can participate in the discussion by heading over to radiolingua.com. That's r-a-d-o-l-I-N-G-U-A dot com, where we post the episode, and indeed where we invite you to give us

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perhaps you'd consider reviewing Coffee Break Spanish magazine. And if you feel we're worth it, perhaps Cinco Estrejas is the way to go. Okay, let's get on with today's lesson. And we're heading over to Barcelona with Alba. Quintanos Alba. What we're asking this summer? And a very Mark

Our question of today is What can you Can you learn of a man If you're And a very interesting question

From Alba this week What can learn Of a man What can you learn About a man If you speak

With his mother That you Can you Can't You know If you Let's have Listen to

These answers Well So, well, it's to learn the customs that I can get to have. And,

and I don't see. Evidently those defects, no. Uh, more

well, his abilities, the things good that has and all what he does

do you do much things. So, so is a good person for

me or no. So some interesting responses there. Let's go back and take

a closer look at what people have said in these interviews. Well, so can learn the customs that could get to have to be and, and I don't see. So

can learn, the customs, literally the customs or the habits. So can learn that could learn the Pueda get a Tener.

Now there are two things in here. There's the puida, the subjunctive, and get to Tener.

So the Pueda implies the may or may not element. One can learn about the habits that

he may or may not end up having. That Pueda to get to have. Well, so can

learn the customs that can get to get to get, and she didn't know much else to say there and, well, no see, no se.

Let's listen to the second response and this interviewee was perhaps a little more cynical. Evidently, his defectors, no. More well, his abilities, the things good that have and everything so she starts by saying evidentemente those defectors no obviously according to this lady you wouldn't learn about a man's weaknesses from his mother

instead you would learn about the things that he can do his abilities his skills let's listen to the final response so many things so another interviewee says muchismas things. Above all, especially if he is a good person

for me or not. If he is a good person for me or not. Let's listen again to the three responses in this week's interviews and hopefully you'll understand everything this time. Our question of today is, what you can learn of a man? If you're going to learn the customs that can get to have?

And, I don't know. Evidently, his defectors, no. More well, his abilities, the things good things that he has, and all what he's able to do.

Muchismas things. So, especially if it's a good person for me or no. Respusts very interesting. Today, we'll come with you to the studio. As always, much thanks

to Alva. Okay, it's time now to turn to our idiomatic freeze section and we'll join Laura.

Well, to see Laura what has Laura for us Oh laura. Hello, Mark, hello,

so you So, you know a phrase interesting for us today? Yes,

I have a phrase that I love much. Quintan us. It is to

the Sweko. The Sweco, then the Sweco is a

person of Sweco is a person of Suecia, but here no has that significado. So just to be clear, Sweko is the adjective for Swedish, or

a Swedish person, but here to make a Swedish person does not have anything to do with a Swedish person, and I'm sure Laura is going to explain everything. The phrase makes reference when for example I do a favor

and you, you canvias the theme, or evitas responder me, or or you do you the impression of not

understand to not to know to know of what I'm okay and in

this sense I do I do the sweco you make the

I do the so I go soke then then you have no to

have to a suce that is a a suco provien

of a word latina socus that is referred

to the Calzado of the Roman that had the comic

So I'm to explain that I'm a type of shoe Exactly A type of shoes

A shoe worn by actors in a comic situation Okay So when these actors were

wearing this shoe people knew that they were the comics they were the buffoon

in the in the play Yes playing the fool playing the fool

and this was the What was the word socus? Socus. Which has become in Spanish, El Sweco. Acerse El Sweco. So you're playing the fool

as if not to understand what someone is saying to you. Yes. Could we say that one person, for example, if we're talking of Miguel, Miguel, always is the Sweco.

That phrase is perfecta. If a person always evita responsibilities, evita, to give the car, evita to

take part in asuntas always he's we're we're that

always it's a second this summer and we we're

we're you can use this this time. And not those

Swecos exactly. Exactly. Well much thanks Laura. Much

thanks thanks Thank you we'll be back in just a moment in

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Coffee Break Spanish magazine, we are returning to J.P. and Naili in Seattle. What have you got for us this week in our Q&A Spanish section? Well, Mark, we have a very interesting question from our friend Anna. But before we get started, I just want to say my name is J.P. from Q&A Spanish, and I'm here, as always with Naili. Ola Neelie. Ola, J.P. Our friend Anna wants to know how we answer the door. How we answer the door? Apparently, there's a difference between English and Spanish. In English, we say, I'm coming, but in Spain and the rest of Spanish-speaking world, we would say boy. Okay. So she's confused about why we're using ir instead of ven-ir and then coming.

Right. Ir means to go and benir means to come, but when you're walking toward the door, you say boy. Why? Why? Well, there's two ways to look at it, Anna. One way is to just accept it. It's to just say, we have different cultures and they say different things when they're to the door and we don't translate.

Which is the route. I'm going. Okay. Here's the semantic route. Eid is always going to describe motion away from where you are. So if you're going to a different destination, you're going to use the verb Eir to go. Benid, on the other hand, is always describing motion toward the speaker. And since you're moving toward the door, the door is not the speaker, obviously, because you're the speaker. So you're not going to say, bengal, right? You're going to say, boy. You're going to say boy, right? Now people were going to ask, well, when will I ever say bingo? And of course, there are many ways to say bengal. You can use it in a general way.

Like, for example, I come to the market every Wednesday. Bengo to the market all those mirekoles. Okay, now the question is, where is the person when they say that? They're probably at the market, right? Correcto. You would be at the market talking to someone who asked you, when do you come to the market? Right. Do you come here often?

And you say, Veng, what? Mercado all those Miercoles. Okay, well, there you go. Well,

there you go. So, Anna, the short answer to your question is when you answer the door, when you're going to the door,

you say, boy. Yeah, boy. Yeah, boy. Okay. So now I think we should go

back to Mark. Okay, but before we do, you have been listening to the Q&A Spanish segment of

the Coffee Break Spanish magazine, and if you'd like to hear more from us, we have our own podcast

we can answer more your questions. Join us at Q&A Spanish.com. The word and is spelled out. So Q&A Spanish.com. Or follow the links from the radio lingual website.

And that's where we're going to leave you this week. We'll say adios from Seattle and return to Mark in Scotland. Much thanks, J.P. And much thanks to JPM. And thanks to all. Thanks a Laura. Thanks a Alba. And over all,

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