Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Magazine Episode 110

Episode Date: November 5, 2012

It’s time for the final lesson in this season of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this episode:It’s a time for making New Year’s Resolutions and examining what we want to change about ourselves. This week Alba is asking the question, ¿cuál es tu peor hábito?;Laura’s frase idiomática is an interesting one today: irse por los cerros de Úbeda. Find out what this means in this lesson;and JP and Nahyeli answer a question from listener Rodney about an interesting use of the word que.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 3rd of January 2013. 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. In the final episode of this series, we'll be talking about bad habits, as Alba is asking, what is your peor habit? Laura's phrase idiomatic is,

irse for Los Cerros de Uvira, a strange one this week, but all will be revealed. And J.P. and Ieli answer Rodney's question about a curious use of the word all this and more. In this week's episode of... It's that time of year when we're considering our bad habits and also thinking about changing them with our New Year's resolutions. So we are asking the question this week, What is your pejor habit? Let's go over to Alba and find out more. So a really

Chicoes Today we're asking What is your peor Abito? So a really straightforward

question this week What is your worst habit? What is your peor abit? Let's have a listen to some of the responses.

Fumar. Fumar also. My my pejor habit is to fumar and I hope

some day to let him The The worst habit? Trabhaired Yeah Yeah

Majorityity He'll Sacko a little time For the family I'm I'd I'd

I'd like to more time with them And do more things And then The real

That's that Every every time I'm a little I'm I'm

I'm I'm I'm My Puer A bit A The food,

without, let me I'm going to eat like the Kiko. And we're eating

all the day always that we're going but I think it form a culture of this

country. So another set of interesting answers there. The peores of the

people with the people, Alba has been back through the answers and

have a listen to each one and then we'll talk about the language

that each interview has used. Fumar. Fumar too. So I'm sure you've picked up here fumar to smoke. Smoking, in this case both the man and women said that their worst habit was smoking. Let's have a listen to the

next speaker now. My pejor habit is fumar and I hope to be able to let him. So this speaker also mentioned fumar. She said I hope that one day I'll be able to stop it. Listen to the next answer and see if you can spot the word majoritiamente.

And see if you can work out what it means from the context. So this couple is asked the same question. And after some thought, the husband answers, Travajar, Demasio, working too much. And his wife says,

si, majoritiamente, he, mainly him. So, mostly he is doing too much work. Someone else working too hard is our fourth interviewee. Have a listen to this longer answer and see how much you understand on the first listening. Sacko a little time for the family. I'd love to spend more time with them and do more things interesting with them.

But, well, the truth is that, every time of the book, I'm a little bit of time, I'm a little bit of time to live. And I always I love to start with them. So the interviewee does speak quite quickly here. I'll listen again. He begins by saying, Saco Pocopo Tiempo

for La Familia. Now, Sackat Tiempo is perhaps a phrase that you've not heard before. But once again, from the context, you can work out what it means. Sacco Poco Tienpo for the family. I'd love to spend more time with them and do more things interesting with them.

But, well, the truth is that, that every time of the book, I'm going to I'm so here he's saying I find little time I don't find enough time for the family

I don't spend enough time with the family because I work too much the next part of what he says is straightforward but it is quite fast he says me encantaria to pass more time with them

I would love to spend more time with them and make more things interesting with them and to do more interesting things with them. But oh, no, but, you know. So he's finishing by saying, every time I find a little bit of time,

every time I have some time, I dedicate it to them, I spend it with them, because I love being with them. Listen to that last fast part again of his answer and see if you can pick out the words. The fact is that, that every

every time I have a little of time the book I think I'm always to be to be able to this really is what the

Coffee Break Spanish magazine is all about this is the way Spanish is used by real native

speakers indeed from all parts of the Spanish speaking world and we're

trying to help you pick out the words and understand speakers as they would be

speaking in real life okay let's listen to our final answer now my

my peor my food, no way, I'm going to eat like the Kiko.

And we're eating all the day, always that we think it form a part of the culture of this

country. So another fast answer, and this one is concentrating on the food. So the

speaker is saying me Pongue like Kiko. I start to stuff myself using this idiomatic expression.

He goes on to say, we're doing all the day. So, we're eating all day long. And he finishes by saying,

I think it forms part of the culture of this country. I think it forms part of the culture of this country. Okay, so it's time now to listen once again to all five of this week's interviews. And once more, see how much you can understand when you listen to them for a second time. Fumar. Fumar, too.

My pejor habit is fumar and I hope some day to be to be a better the peor habit? Trabbaugh too. Majorityity

he I'm going to take a little time for the family, I'd I'd be more time

with them and do more things interesting with them, but well, the

fact that every that I'm a little time the book, I'm always to be

my The worst habit, the food, no doubt. Let me put to eat like the Kiko. And we're eating all the

day, always that we're but I think it's part of the culture of this country.

We've heard many many secrets intimos today. We'll thank you. Much

thanks, Alba, 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. And one way, we're going to learn to Laura for our phrase idiomatic of the good days, Laura.

Good days, Mark. How are you this this week? Stupenda. Today, great.

Well, you know, your phrase for us today. Today I I'm going to go

the Cerros of Ubeda. Wow, this me seems a bit a

complicated. Irse for the Cerros of Ubeda So it's something to

do with going about in the hills, the hills, the hills,

of Ubeda. Where's Ubeda? Ubeda. Ubeda is in Haem, a province of Andalusia. Okay, then you're talking of your country, no? Of my territory, so. Vena, then, go ahead, then, the phrase,

that a phrase, that a person starts and he says and and it's variegando the theme, and it's changing of the theme, and at final, the theme of the thing of the name of the

that's about to be with what he has been to say. So he's lost the

the line of the conversation. That's the meaning. I think in English would go off

on a tangent in Spanish would be in Spanish. It's in

Spanish. Yes, but why these terrors of Ubeda? The

hills. Montanias Pecanas Hill. Colinas. Colinas, exactly. And why? So, the cerros.

What have these cerros of uvida? For what do you mean, it's not. It's a thing. It's a long extension of

land, of colynas, of mountain-itats. Exactly. And for that they're very spread out. For that's it's referred

to in a conversation, you can't pervert easily for different themes. And one question. So, I'm thinking

in the phrase that we've learned a few years. And then, I'm talking, I'm, I'm and I'm going for the errors of Ubeda. I'm done to that I've been perded completely. I can use that phrase that we've learned before some

a few years. If, if you're in a point, without return, and no you're not you're talking, it's going to the saint to the santo to the field. Well, two for the price of one there. Well, much

Thank you, like always, Laura. Much thanks to you. For the final time in this series of the Coffee Break

Spanish magazine, we're heading over to Seattle, where J.P. and Naili have an interesting listeners question for us.

Well, Mark, we have a very interesting question from our friend Rodney. And before we get started, I have to introduce myself. My name is J.P.

And I'm here, as always, with Naili. Hi, J.P. Hi, Naili and I are here to answer your questions at Q&A Spanish.com. What do you got for us today, Naili?

So we have a question from Rodney. He has heard some expressions, like, Cuidado, that voy to pass. All right, careful. I want to get by. And, Dale, that viener el bus.

Hey, the bus is coming. He's not sure what's going on with the ke part. Okay, so we're focusing on this word, so he's going to say, Cuidado, that I'm going to pass, and d'ale, that comes the bus.

This is a pretty straightforward explanation. Would you like me to take it? Sure. Both of Rodney's exactly. examples are precautionary. Rodney, you'll notice that in these examples, what follows the what follows the ke is an explanation. You'll often hear Spanish speakers start off an explanation with the word que or eske. So in this case, if somebody says, Cuidado, you're going to wonder why. Why should I? What's the problem? And they could say,

que will be passar or es what I'm trying to get by. Which is saying careful that I'm passing by or careful that I'm getting by. Right. It's the reason. warning you. Exactly. It's the reason to be careful. And then JP with the Dale that the bus is coming. So you either have a bus coming straight on towards you or hurry. It's saying go, run because the bus is coming and you may be trying to catch it. The point is the bus is in vision, in our line of vision and we've got to get either away from it or to it. Right. So we start off the phrase with K to mark off that it's going to be an explanation for the reason that you have to do this important thing. Correct.

Well, that's it for this week. Folks, don't forget to keep sending to your questions. We love to help you out. You can find out how to send us a question at our website, which is Q&Aspanish.com. For now, it's back to Mark in the studio. It is indeed back to me here in the studio in Scotland, and I'd like to say thank you. Mucha grazi to J.P. and Naili and all our listeners who have sent in their comments and their questions for the Q&E Spanish segment. I'd like to thank you. Thank Laura for her Frase Idiomatica, and of course Alba and all the interviewees who have contributed to this season of the Coffee Break Spanish magazine. We'll be back again soon with more Coffee Break Spanish magazine. But in the meantime, you can join JPM Naili for a new season of Q&A Spanish.

And that will be coming very soon with more details on their Radio Linguay website. We are also very excited about the launch of Coffee Break German, which is happening in just a couple of weeks. time. So again, there's more information at radulingua.com. And if you fancy learning some German, then you can join me. I'm going to be learning this time. And Thomas, our teacher, along with our grammar guru and our cultural correspondent for our weekly German lessons. If you've been listening to the free version of this episode, don't forget that you can still get access to all the premium content for this season of the Coffee Break Spanish magazine. That includes videos for each of the interview segments and also full transcripts of all the Spanish used with notes and further materials

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