Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Magazine – Episode 203

Episode Date: May 22, 2013

We’re back with a new episode of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this episode:Alba asks, ¿qué es lo primero que has pensado esta mañana? – what was the first thing you thought about this morning?Mark joins Fernanda on a virtual tour of Easter Island;and JP and Nahyeli answer a question from listener Iván who wants to know about the nuances of using the immediate future tense (voy a mandar una carta) or the simple future tense (mandaré una carta).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 18th 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 the show. In this week's episode, Alba's question is, What was the first thing you thought about this morning?

What was the first thing you thought about this morning? I'll be taking a trip with Fernanda to the famous Isla de Pasqua, or Easter Island. And at JPM Naili are back. like with another Q&A segment answering a question from listener Ivan. All this and more coming up in this week's episode of... As always, we're going to start in Barcelona with Alba for this first part of the revista.

And as always, Alba has a question. Quintan us, Alva, what is the question of today? Hello, chicos and chicas. The question is, what is the first that has been said this morning. This week's question uses the perfect tense, has thought. So, what is

the first, the first thing that you have thought this morning? So what was your first thought this morning? Or what was the first thing you thought about this morning? The first thing I thought about this morning. The first that I've thought in this morning. That was happy. What day more beautiful is there today?

What lot of to get to start me, but, but, it's being to be to get to

a time I'm I'm I'm that I'm too but,

but how we to do you we're going to we've been to

in that not going to not for the day, and I'm to a to take the

best instantaneously that could of the people that the people that the people of

the history of this territory. Well, some responses very interesting this

time. Let's start by going through the first few answers. And these were quite

quick answers. So we'll just take each one individually and help you understand it. I'm

happy. So the first thing that she thought about was the fact that she was

happy. Let's listen to the next answer. This lady said, what a beautiful day today is going to be. What a beautiful day will be. What a beautiful day today will be, or will be today in that order.

Let's listen to our third answer. So, that's to get to start to come here and to enjoy a day in Barcelona. So this answer certainly is a little, longer. So, Kailata, despertarm me a pain waking up early. So he's going on

to say, it's good to be here, nonetheless, and he's going to go out and enjoy an afternoon in Barcelona. Okay, let's move on to our next interview. Well, I've thought it's going to do, that lastime that bad time, but, well,

how we have to do something to entertain a monstreeto all the days that are a feast, well, we've been to to Barcelona. Let's listen again to each part of this answer.

Well, I've thought in what I'm to do. So she thought about what she's going to do, what I'm going to do,

and what a shame at such bad weather. Well, as there to do something for the days that are a festival,

we're going to go to Barcelona. But because she has to entertain the little little monster she's holding in her arms. Entretener Al Monstruito,

the days which are holiday, then that's why they've come to Barcelona. Our next interviewee certainly wasn't expecting one particular thing to happen when he woke up this morning. So the first thing that he thought about was the fact that he wasn't expecting to be interviewed. In that no me going to find

any camera, grabbing me, for the style. Let's move on to our final interviewer, and he mentions the word instantanias. He's talking about snapshots. He's a photographer. Let's have a listen. Today, it's a great day in which I'm going to go to the capital of Catalonia to take the people that can, of the people that passae, of the edificios historicos, and the history of this territory. So he thought to himself, I'm going to go to the capital of Catalonia and Barcelona. So in the capital of Catalonia, he's going to be taking the best snapshots, Las Instantaneas, that he can of people who are walking by. He's also going to take

photos of historic buildings, edificios historicos, and of the history of this area, La Historia Deistoria de este territorio. Okay, it's time now to listen once more to all of our interviews, and hopefully this time you'll pick up a lot of of what they've said. The first thing I've thought in this morning, that was happy. What day more beautiful is it today. That's the last to start me,

too, but, it's good to be here and to enjoy a day in Barcelona. Well, I've been to what I'm to do, that's it that bad time, but, well, how you have to do something to entertainer a monster and all the days that are a fiest,

we've been to Barcelona in that I'm going to find any of my to make a lot of

to be a lot of the country that's the same thing that's the people that's the city of this territory. Good days, Mark. How about you are you? Well, but with much

Garnas to know where we're today, well, I know where we're going to more of the mysterious island of Pasqua. Oh, well, look, as we're going to promise us the year we're going to cross the cordillera of the Andes today, to fly over the Pacific and get to Isla of Pascua.

The Isla of Pasqua, always I've wanted to visit. Mark, You know, that the original of the Ish

Rapa Nui? I think I'm heard of I'm going to see, and you know what

means. Of that's no idea. Well, Rapa Nui is a word of the

language of the name and it means Rapa Grand but the

name the name the obligo of the world in English? The

belly button like the World Belly Button Yeah, Yes, well, in Isla of Pascua, there are two idiomas official.

You know, are you? Serian, for casuality, the Spanish and the Rapanui? Yes, very well.

In the idioma Pascuanse, for example, Ola, is Yorana. Yorana. Okay. Welcome to

Coffee Break, Rapa Nui. Very, very good. And what you can tell us to the Isla

of Pasqua? Look, according was populated in the 6th, when the isleans were guided

by his first rey Otomatua from an island a tisla of Pasqua is part of

the Polynesia in the Oceano Pacific and well, now the island is part of

my region in Chile the Kintas region. The capital of Rapanui is Angarroa

which signific Bahia Grand and in the which live in

the most Pascoences. But you have You've been one the

Isla a No, I've I've seen no, I've seen Moais. You've

have seen Moais? What are the Moais? Yes, well, the Moais are the statues that

are the island. I don't that's that's a name. And, well,

they're made of a monolitica and exist more of

six hundred moyes and even you can't find behind behind the

behind. Bajo the Mar? Yes, yeah, behind the

Well, it's said that the platforms in that's in the island are made with the same technique that occupier the incas

to construct. Still, there are many mysteries related with the moaies, how were constructed and

how were moved to one to one to the island. Interesting. Dime, what

things we can do we all things we're in Isla of Pasqua? Well, apart to visit to

the Moais and to to be to be to be able to take a lot of photos with them. For example, the pacifico, the pacifico, has a lot of the islands. Also in the isla, you can't just to beailles,

docees on caboooo, and I recommend to visit the volcano Ranu-Raraku. Ranu Raraku? Yes, that is the name of the volcano. Okay. Well, it's said that in this

volcano, it's a little bit of the water volcanic to do the moai's, and not only that, if you're the volcano, that is now inactive, for

supposed. Now, there's a laguna very beautiful. You've put it, I've put it, that is the place perfect for making photos, no? Yes, for sure. Well, also, also. Also, you know, of the shows with vailes Poliniscos

typical of the island. For the general, you can't participate in a ceremony typical, and comersed to a curantto. That is a curant? The curanto is a common typical Chilean,

traditionally in an hole in the land they put in peteras they put in mariscus, carnes

vegetables and then it is really and it's really and you do much energy oh yeah

me it yeah if we is just not we're after to turn

to I'd know to know to the next next

next time we're to we're to the town

the town the people the that is a a shue

a machu Picchu. Yes, also it's a dream my own. Well,

so much thanks for today. We've learned many. Yes,

many words Rapa Nui. Exactly. Well, much thanks and the

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languages on Instagram. Practice your Spanish and join the conversation with coffee break Spanish. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Now, we're going to continue with the last part of this revista. And we're going to say, hello, a JP and Anaeli. Thanks, Mark. Hello, this is J.P.

As always, I'm here with Nayeli. Hello, Nayeli. Hello, J.P. So, Nayeli, today we have an audio question. You ready to hear it? Yes. Okay. It's better to say,

I'm going to mandar a letter this afternoon, or mandare a card this time. Thanks. Which is better to say. I'm going to send a letter this afternoon. Versus, mandare a carda

I shall send a letter this afternoon So he's wondering which way is the best way to say I'm sending a letter this afternoon

Okay I'm gonna mandare Well, to me it means exactly the same thing Because it's the future tense It's the future I'm going to send a letter All right so I guess it's time

For me to go in a teacher mode Professor JP For favor Okay so So I'm mandar Means I'm going to go Mandare means I will go They both mean the future

They're not that different and you don't feel that they're that different either. No, it just means he's sending a letter this afternoon. Is one better than the other? Well, they are slightly different. They're not that different. Boye mandar is the normal way to say I'm going to send a letter. Notice in English we say, I'm going to send the letter. That's exactly what we say in Spanish. I'm going to mandar. As for mandare a carda. This mandare is the future tense, the futuro simple of mandare. Mandaré. Mandaras, mandara. And it's kind of an intention, I think, right? It is, it is.

It's not only, I'm going to send the letter, but it's also, you can put your fist in the air and say, mandaree. An imperative. Yeah, there's kind of a moral imperative to do it. It's like, I shall send the letter. Ah, you have said it, shall. Now, we don't always talk like that in, you know, in Seattle. I don't always go around saying shall, but sometimes when I need to, or I'll say will, and I'll say will very strongly. I will send a letter.

Okay. So I'm kind of not only showing that I'm going to do something. in the future, but that I very much intend to. Sometimes I call this the civil rights future in my Spanish classes because you say, we shall overcome. It's not just we will and we're going to and it's boring, but we shall and we're going to accomplish it. Okay.

Right. So linguists call this the jussive. So if there's anything that you want to look up at that dictionary, you should look up the word jessive. It's to have a very strong intention. And how do you spell that? J-U-S-I-V-E. I'm happy to spell for you.

Okay. Thank you. I had never heard that. So we shall overcome. How would you say that in Spanish? Benceremos. Benceremos. Oh, that makes me feel like standing up straight.

And it's not the same. When you say benceremos, it's not the same as saying, Boa Vencer. Boa and win, right? Boya-bencerer means I'm going to win. Benceres. We shall overcome, right? Right.

Okay. So there you go. There's more emotion. Exactly. There's more intention. All right, folks. That's it for this question. Let's go back to Mark.

Okay, let's go back to Mark and Scotland. Take it away, Mark. Thank youepi, and we'll be we shall talk next week. Thanks indeed to the whole coffee break Spanish team and we look forward to being back with you very soon.

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