Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Magazine – Episode 202

Episode Date: May 5, 2013

We’re back with a new season of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this episode:Alba asks, ¿qué te llevarías a una isla desierta? – what would you take to a desert island?Fernanda tells Mark all about the the city of Buenos Aires;and JP and Nahyeli answer an interesting question about a word which listener Rodney has come across in a Mexican soap opera!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 4th of May 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 this week's episode, Alba is asking the question, What'd Tejavarias to an Isla Deserta? You'll recognize an Isla Deserta immediately.

What would you take to a desert island? Fernanda is back, and this week we're traveling to Buenos Aires, Argentina. and JP and Naili answer an interesting question about a regional word encountered by one of our listeners. 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 Fernanda in the cafe when we're talking about all things Latin American. And then there is also. 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, mag, M-A-G for magazine.

Radiolingua.com slash CBSMag. Let's now get on with the show. For the first part of the Revista, as always, we're going to start in Barcelona with Alba and his question of the day. Venga, Alba,

what is the question of the day of today? Hello, chikas, today, our question is, What'd you get to an island deserta? So this week's question is a fairly straightforward one. What would you take with you to a desert island? Let's have a listen to some of this week's responses.

What would I get to a one of this week's responses? What would be a little bit? A... A... A... A card in black and a lapis. Only that. A my family.

I would... First, first, first, ...augner... ...aught a snorkel to bucea, to evil the bottom of the mar. ...a my new and my mother,

without, without, ...me those would have to be ... A television me would. A bit

what I think more me a woman because at the island there's no

there's so I'm a woman and a television and a something and I'm

something because that's to do you to go bich

and that no that's not my so as in previous

episodes we have quite a range of different accents in

the answers to this question let's have a closer

listen to the answers from our interviews Please. Listen again to this answer and try to see how much you can understand of it. What would I would have a little bit of it?

Well, me would have a manta, a, a, a, a, a, a, a card in black and a lapis, only that. a mantle, a shawl or a blanket, a quaderno in blank notebook, a lapid, and a pencil. Let's listen to our next interview. A my family. So this was a very quick interview.

She simply said, A my family. She's going to take her family with her to the desert island. Let's have a listen to the next interview now. I would listen again to listen again to this answer So this interviewer

So this interviewee said that he would take water And his girlfriend Let's listen now to our fourth interviewee A snorkel To booze to To be in the front of the mar So this interviewee would take a snorfer oracle in order to dive and to look at the bottom of the sea, the

Fondo del Mar. On to interviewee number five? To my niño and a my mother, no doubt, I'd love it, me those deverea de a cabesa. So this person would take his nina and his

mother, his daughter and his wife. For our final answer, we are returning to a person that we've interviewed on a number of occasions and whose accent is quite a challenge to understand. Let's listen to this final answer. A television. Not quite sure where he'd plug it in, but nonetheless,

he also mentioned a woman, and he mentioned something to eat. Listen again. Well, me would give a, a television, a television me to give me, to be what I think, what I think more, me'd say,

a woman? Because at the island of Certa, no, no, no, there's women, so, so I'd would get a woman and a television, and a lot of coming. Because that of subrism to the arbor,

and I'm a bit of that's the no, that's not the most. After of

many we're we're we're to we're we're and now.

And now we're going to the second another way a coffee, a coffee preferer here in

Glasgow with my friend of Chile Fernanda Hello Fernanda

Hello Mark, how you're very well and the last last

you know we're that we've to go to The land of the tango, today. Today we're going to

to go to the highways. As you know, it's the land that he's called to say to Carlos Gardele

and that has seen to football to Maradona. Well, what can you can't tell of

Buenos Aires? Well, as much know, Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and is

located in the coast of the Rue of the Plata. Buenos Aires is a

place a lot because it has 48 barrios to recover.

48 barrios? Yes, and all the barries are full of culture, bars, cafes,

places, canches of football, and also there are milongas. You know, you know,

the milongas are where those Bonaheenses to do those those Bonaherenses

that is the people of Buenos Aires? Yes, that's not so many that's too?

Well, that would recommend you would you imagine are you in buenos aires well bernoises has something special for every person if you're fanatic of football for example is the place perfect for

you is the stadium of the bocai is where he's the boca juniors and is the who saw jrmando maradona the man of god if you're an incha of the boca no you can't per se one of his partios and if you have suites you can't even get Entrads for the Super Classico.

That's the Super Classical. Ah, the Super Classico is the part of the Boca Juniors and the

River Plate. This part has to have to 70% of the insh archentines. The

environment should be goody good. Yes, or re- good, as the

Argentinians. Re-bue. So, goodissim. Very well. But you that I mean

the football is really a thing really a thing, more bit culture,

music, What's what can do in Argentina or what can eat? Look, if you're going to get the good mesa, Argentina is one of the most places to eat, or a good asada. In Buenos Aires, you have to prove the different cortes of

carnes, typical of the country, like, for example, the entrecote or the beef of chorizo. That's all right, that you're diverted, that you're going to have to go to someone because the plato are gigantes. If you're not done the postres, you have to

for example, the arros with leech, the alfajore with dulce of leech and all the surti

of pastelitos Argentinus. What are the aljafores? The alfajores. The alfajores. Yes, very good.

They're like two gadgets with sweet of little and are in chocolate. Oh,

that's me da a hundred. Yes, they're richisimous. And where we can

we can't passire in Buenos Aires? In Buenos Aires, you have to go to passer for the

historic Plaza of Mayo. Also you have to get photos to make

to make the house Rosas that's the palacio presidential.

It seems there are many things there in Buenos Aires

Well, Mark, you you, you're fanatic of the culture.

You're have been about the Luna Park. Luna Park no.

Yeah, well the Luna Park is one of the studios more

great of Buenos Aires and more known. You know that's you can

see to be there. No. Well, you can go to be works of theaters,

concerts, and spectacles of variety. Very very interesting. Yes. And then we're going

to be to turn to but tell me to the time that next we're going

to Chile, but this this time we're to be to the mysterious

Isla of Pasqua. That good. So, we're we're we're

the next thanks and Adios. Much gracias. Chao. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment. In between lessons of coffee break Spanish,

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Passemos then to the third part of this revista. And for that third and final part, I'm going to hand you over to J.P. and Naili in Seattle. Thanks, Mark. This is J.P. here with Naili, and we're here with a question from Rodney for Q&A Spanish. Nellie, I think you should answer this question. Rodney says he heard this word de chungars, and he thinks it means the same as peliars. Deschongarse, the word, if we see it, in the middle it says chongard. And I really think this is a Mexican made up verb. Okay, well, what is an chongo?

An chongo refers to a hair bun. Oh, okay. So you could, you know, you could have a sloppy bun. You could have a French bun. The point is that your hair is up in a bun. Okay. So I'm thinking of older women with long dresses and, yeah? You could think of a high school team.

teenager with a ponytail. Okay. It's just your hair is gathered. Okay, that's what it's referring to. So when we say deschongarse is that your bun came apart. Okay. So the reason it means to fight, it does typically mean a fight between women. Because only women wear buns.

Right. I don't wear any buns. Right. So let's think about how men fight, stereotypically. men punch each other. Women scratch and they pull each other's hair, right? Okay. So if I'm going to pull someone's hair, I'm going to grab her not by the bangs.

How am I going to grab her hair? I can't, but I can grab on to her bun or to her ponytail and shake her head. Oh my goodness. Nailia, it seems like you're speaking from experience. I have watched enough movies. Okay. And this is how you see it in the movies, women going for. their hair. Okay. The chunggarsa means to have your bun

undone. Okay. Your hair bun undone. Right. And then when we put it in the plural, reciprocal, say this chongadun, they did it to each other. Right. You're aiming to grab to what you can hold on to. Okay. The chungo is more of a ponytail. It really is more of a bun. The chungo refers to the bun. But again, it's an expression. So it doesn't mean that the fight between the women actually happened. It does not mean that they both had buns on their head. Okay. Just like in English, there's not necessarily a cat in the room. Right. Right. That means they got into an argument or they got into a fight. Okay. Okay. Rodney also tell us that he heard this expression while watching a telenovela, while watching a program, a Mexican program, and he noticed that they use the word arreglarse el chungo for the end of the fight. Now that obviously means to, if chongo means the bun, then it means to put the bun back together. Right. I think it's more about the individual. person fixing herself up again.

Okay, so the fight's over. The fight's over and you just kind of put yourself back together. Okay, so it doesn't have anything to do with resolution. It just means that the actual violence is over. Right. Oh, my goodness. And the women are putting themselves back together. What a topic.

Nalia, I don't know if I have the stomach for this kind of violent language in our podcasts. It's a good thing. This is a short little cultural context. Exactly. All right, we're going to send it back to Mark in Scotland for Coffee Break Spanish magazine. If you have a question for Naili and I, please find us on Facebook. It's Q&A Spanish. The and is spelled out, so Q&A Spanish. Or you can come to our website at Q&A Spanish. For now, we'll send it back to Mark in Scotland. Thanks, Jepi, and thanks, Naeli. A very interesting word there today, so thank you to our listener Rodney for finding that word in his Mexican telenovelas. Okay, that is it for this week's Coffee Break Spanish magazine.

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