Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Magazine – Episode 201

Episode Date: April 27, 2013

We’re back with a new season of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine! In this episode:Alba asks the question, ¿cuál es tu forma favorita de ligar? – what’s your best chat-up line?JP and Nahyeli answer a question from listener Jess about using quantities in Spanish;and we’re introducing a new member of the team – Mark is joined by Fernanda from Chile for the first leg of a journey around the tourist highlights of Latin America.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 27th of April, 2013. It's going to Coffee Break Spanish. You're listening to the Coffee Break Spanish magazine. My name is Mark, and I'm your host for this show. It's the very first episode of a new series, and we're delighted to be back. In this episode, Alba has an interesting question

involving the verb, Ligar. J.P. and Naili are back with more listener questions, and I'm joined by a Chilean friend, Fernando, who will be with us throughout the series. to talk about Latin America. You can join Fernanda and me as we have a coffee and a chat in Spanish, all this and more

in this week's episode of Just before we get started, I'd like to explain that the Coffee Break Spanish magazine is made available in two versions. This version that you're listening to is the free version. So we cover the interviews with Alba in Barcelona. We have the section with Fernando

in the cafe when we're talking about all things Latin American. And then there is is also the listener's question which is featured at the end of the show. Now there's also a premium version and the premium version is much longer so you have an extended audio of the main lesson plus the video interviews from Alba's questions

in the streets of Barcelona. The premium version also includes comprehensive lesson notes so that you're able to understand fully all the words and phrases covered in the lessons. To find out more about how to access the premium version head over to radiolingua.com slash CBS Mag. That's CBS for Coffee Break Spanish, MagM-A-G for magazine. Radiolingua.com slash CBSMag.

Let's now get on with the show. Well, as soon, we're going to start with the part of the interviews in the streets of Barcelona. And for this part, we're going to say, hello to Alba. And it seems that today you have a question very interesting. Hello Mark.

The question of today is a little more atrebida and we're asking what is your form

favorite to ligar. It is indeed a question atrebida a daring question this week. What is your

favorite way to chat someone up? What's your favorite method of pulling we would probably say in the

UK? Or what's your favorite chat up line? Let's see what our interviewees came up with

for this question. My form favorite is very basic. I think to ask any other tontory and try to and then talk and, well, I'll just be talking. Well, I'm going to talk that I don't know,

but I think the most result me does is to come a chick guinear a an eye that, not so, and it's redone to my feet. That is if, she leapted in-segirdone, but it's redone.

I'm so much Ligando So, phew Ligando, I'm Muno I'm really I'm gonna

I'm gonna go to my house Like all the My Rihalda A miradita A An inquest

A question A false Also A bit A stonrisa You talk So it's A bit

A little Pelo You So are I'm Well, I don't know I'm going to I hope you,

I hope you, too, I'll have enough time, yeah, that we know we we've seen, so some interesting answers there from the people that we spoke to in Barcelona.

Okay, it's time now to go through these answers in more detail. I'll help you understand them, and we'll talk about some of the words and phrases that the interviews have used. Let's begin with the first answer. So my form a favorite, is very basic.

I think to question any don'ther and try to talk and then start and say and keep

talking. So this man's methods involve talking. And there's another example of where we use talking,

the gerent form in English. And in Spanish you would use the infinitive Ablar, Ablar. And

continue to the first part of what this interview he said. So he has a basic method and his method is... Very basic. I think to ask any other than to-tortar and try to talk and, so he's suggesting that he basically asks something silly, strikes up a conversation and then keeps talking.

Let's move on and listen to our second interview now. And of course I should warn you that this one is very tongue in cheek. It's, I think, I think the speaker begins by saying, is that I lyego tithe a little bit of a chick, ginaily a little bit of my feet. The speaker begins by saying, is that I ligo tantos, that I don't know. The thing is, I chat people up so much that I don't know. Obviously, he's been facetious here. But then he goes on to say, the method that works best for him is to get close to a girl and to wink at her. So with this chica, guinearle an eye that not so

so with this particular method the girl falls for him immediately. It's the love at first sight she falls for him immediately caire redonda literally to keel over and it can be used in that sense but also it can have this

romantic meaning that you fall for someone suddenly and immediately. Okay, moving on to another interview. So the key part of this answer. So, f-oh. Ligando, I'm not so mal, I hope that me licking to me. If no, for nothing,

me go to my house, like all the day. So the key part of this answer is, I'm going to me. Now, Espero can mean I hope or I wait. So if you're waiting until

someone does something, something, then you need to follow that with the subjunctive. So I wait for them to chat me up. I hope that me liegean to me. Listen again to the answer, and we'll see if we can recognize anything else. So if he has no lucking. So, p,

ligand, I'm very mal, very mal, mal. I hope that me lique me. If no, no, no, go to my house, like all the day. So if he has no luck chatting people up, then he goes home like every other day. Let's continue with the next interview. And this one features three teenage girls,

all talking at once, so it's quite a challenge. The mirada, a miradita, a see, that's going to ask. A question. A sonrisa, you touch a little of the fellow. Again, it's quite difficult to identify some of the things that the girl.

girls say in their answers. They mentioned una mirada, a miradita, a look, a little look. They also mentioned, a sonrisa, a smile. Now, let's listen to our final interview. Well, I don't know what I'm agree. I hope you, I hope you, don't know,

it's a lot of time, yeah, that we know we're going to. So this couple can't remember how, they chat people up or what their best chat up line is because it's so long since they've actually done any chatting up of anyone. We're going to now go back and listen to all five interviews again. Hopefully now you'll recognize much more of the language used. My form a favorite, well, is very basic. I think to to ask any tontriness and try to

and talk and, then, then, and, you can't go and say, well, I think, but, I think the,

the, the most result me does, is, to get a a look, a eye,

that I'm so, and it's redond to my feet. That, so,

so, they get because they're really, but I'm very,

so, so, Fug. Ligand, I'm not so, very really, very mal. I hope that I'm gonna be to me. If not,

I'm going to my house, like, every day. And, with ligar. Without ligar. The mirada, the miradita,

that you're, a inquest, a encuester, that's a case, a thing like, a smile, you know,

a sonrisa, you know, so, that's a lot. I'm, I'm not, I'm a quote. and I hope

you, I'm going to talk. It's a lot of time now that we're

going to let's we're going to talk about Mark tell us your

way your my favorite to ligar well is

to talk romantically in Spanish okay I think we really

ought to move on now now as I said earlier we are going to be

joined for this season of Coffee Brick Spanish magazine by Fernanda from Chile.

Fernanda and I had a chat in a cafe earlier this week. And we've got this recording lined up now to play you over conversation. Well, we're going to see you of our conversation. And as you can't hear, we're going to be a coffee. I'm here with a friend my Chilean. And I'm present to Fernanda. Hello, Fernanda. What are?

Hello, very good. What are? I'm perfect. And very content to be here with you. Fernando us will to accompany

every this this year and we're going to tell some things

interesting and we about what you're to what you're going to this

year during this time we're to talk of Latin America

we we're going to get from from the north

of America Oh, a so a so so

so what you what you're going to you to talk about these

places. We're going to talk of the places more most famous and more interesting for know. And also

some tips and ideas of things that we're doing. So, if if were I planning a

way to America Latina, that is that would be useful, no? If all be very, very

useful, so you have to make a detail. Perfect. So, then, tell us

what we going to talk to what we're going to start for the South

of Latin America. You know what is the place most remote of Latin America? The place more remote?

Well, we're going to to go to the Patagonia Chilean. No, there's

also a Patagonia Argentina. Yes, the Patagonia is between Argentina and Chile.

And the last part of the Fire of the fire of the landererer

very very near the Antarctica. Mark, you know you know

was inhabited by the zones that were the natives of that that year? That's not knew.

Well, the zones have it these years ago 1010 years. 1010

siglos. Yes, imagineate. And they were the idiom Yagan and were a

nomad of casators recollectors also. Lamentable this people just got

so over 40 years. Now only they're notives mestisos.

Well, look when you you go to the Patagonia, you can do the Ruta Selknam, which is the route of the zones, and it combines history, culture, and geography. All is related

with this people very interesting of South America. Very interesting. What more can you can't tell of the Patagonia? Well, the Patagonia was discovered by Fernando de Magallens, that was an explorer Portuguese. He was the first

ex-rangerer in Bair of the Fuego. And, for if you know what you know, there a stretch that the stretch of Magallanes, in their honor.

That was the first channel in the which could pass the barcos from the ocean atlantic

to the Pacific, before to have the canal of Panama, you know. Very interesting.

And, let me, Fernanda, we can see penguins in our voyage? Yes,

there's there. There's a park that's a park to make a people to In this

place Unique of South America we can observe the penguin king without

that's impressive that's that's it's a great it's a great

but it's you you're going to you're well well well thank

thank thanks fernanda much thanks Mark and we have

to invite to all our people that go

to Facebook and that put on on Facebook

if you have visited the patogogion yeah and also that we'll do you know,

good idea. Well, this has been all for today, with you know, before we we're going to the third

part of the revista, the QM and Spanish, I'm going to ask you a where we're the same

the next? Well, the semester that we're going to the Tango, we're going to our country,

we're going, so, hey, hey, hey, hey, so, we're going, thanks, Fernanda.

Thanks to Fernanda, and we hope that you've enjoyed this conversation. 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 time for the third and final part of this week's magazine. And for this, I'm handing you over to J.P. and Naili in Seattle. Thanks, Mark.

This is J.P. and Naili from Q&A Spanish. Ola Naili. Hello, J.P. And our questions day, Naili is in audio form. Hello, JPM and Naili. I suspect that I might be asking one of those you just have to memorize it questions, but I'll give it a shot. Anyway, I learned French before I learned Spanish, and in French there's a do in so many places,

and so I often insert a de in my Spanish where it doesn't belong. My husband and I actually have a running joke now for how often he has to say no de to me, when I say something like Mucho de dienero. Is there any place where Spanish uses dee to refer to an amount of something? Or do I just need to cut it out of my expressions of quantity altogether? please help me with my de addiction thank you okay quantities so what do you think jp i studied french before i actually before i studied spanish

you know what i did too so i understand what she's saying yes she's talking about the french partitif and the spanish patitif patitibo is different i think it is how do you explain this to her i can tell you that when we use the word they for quantities in spanish which we do it's always with what we call a classifier. Words like quantity, kilo, libras. Now, these are all words that we use to measure. For example, let's talk about water for a second. Water is a mass noun in English and in Spanish too,

Al-Agua. When we talk about quantities of water, we use these classifier nouns like a teaspoon of water, a cup of water, a tachara of water, let's see, a bucket of water, A cupeta of water? How about 100 million gallons of water? 100,000 million of gallons of water.

So here we use the word galones, cuchara, tasa. We used all these classifier words that are nouns that help us measure water. We can also do it with money. We can say, I have a handful of money. Tengo a punio of money.

Wow, a fistful of dollars. A fistful. How about I have a suitcase full of money? I have a maleta Dino. All right. And we're using the word with these other nouns

that help us measure these classifier nouns. We can call them actually in Chinese we call them measure words but nobody cares about that. Oh, okay. No, we're not doing Chinese

Q&A. So we can talk about quantities of water or money or pizza or whatever without these measure words but what happens is in Spanish then you don't use the day.

So I can say a lot of water. Mucha agua. little water. Poca water. Too much water. Demacienda water. Okay.

In all those cases, when you're not using measure words, we don't use they. All right, folks, before I send you back to Mark in Scotland, I want you to know that if you have a question for us,

you can come to our website, which is Q&A Spanish.com. That and is spelled out, so Q-A-N-D-A-Spanish.com. Or you can find us on Facebook, and that's actually where most of the discussion happens, just right on our Facebook page,

Q and A-S-S-Spanish. All right. Let's send it back to Mark. Thank you, JPM and Naili. That is where we're going to leave it for this week. We hope that you've enjoyed this first episode of our new season and that you'll continue to enjoy each episode as we release it on a weekly basis. Don't forget that you can head over to radiolingua.com slash CBSMag

and find out more about how you can get more out of this series. We'd also like to remind you that there's lots of discussion about the content of this episode and indeed about lots more on the coffee break Spanish Facebook page. So in addition to Q&A Spanish, we also have a coffee break Spanish Facebook page. So please do go over there. And as Fernanda suggested, if you've ever been to Patagonia, then please do post some photos on the page if you can. We'll be back again next week.

In the meantime, please feel free to leave a review on iTunes. Let us know what you think of the magazine. In the meantime, from the whole team, much a great yes. Until the next. This is a production of the Radiolingua Network. Find out more at Radiolingua.com.