Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Magazine – Episode 205

Episode Date: June 15, 2013

Welcome to this latest edition of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this episode:Alba asks, ¿qué ves cuando miras en el espejo? – what do you see when you look in the mirror?Mark joins Fernanda on a virtual tour of Bogotá, Colombia;and JP and Nahyeli answer a question from listener Georgie about the pronunciation of ‘b’ and ‘v’.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 15th of June 2013. You're listening once again to the Coffee Break Spanish. You're listening once again to the Coffee Break Spanish magazine. I'm Mark and I'm the host of this show. This week I'm joined by Alba, who's asking the interesting question, What do you see when you look in the mirror? Quite a deep question this week. We're off to Bogota, Colombia, with Fernanda, for a virtual tour of the city,

and in our Q&A segment, J.P. and Naili answered Georgie's question about the pronunciation of bees and viz in Spanish. All this and more in this week's episode of... As soon, we're going to start the magazine of... With the interviews of Alba in the streets of Barcelona. Hello, Alva. Quintan us your question of the day. Hello, Mark.

The question of the day is, You what is when you look at the mirror in the space? So today's question. You, what do you see when you look at yourself in the mirror? Tu, what do you see from the verb bed to see? When you look at yourself in the mirror. In the mirror. Uff, what I see in the mirror?

Well, I don't know, a woman, with her husband and with a little, precious. I see a little alternative, but, but, I see to someone who's accept to himself. Well, I see a mother, a woman, a young too, and, well, I don't know much importance to what I see in the the mirror.

Well, to me. I don't know. I see many things when I do. Depend of the day and it depends on the moment. When I'm in the mirror, I see a a potential, a future that has to be discovered and, well, much a legria.

When I'm in the mirror that I'm, that I have to makegiatry and peon-me, and to me, a peon-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a . The proof. Oh, I don't have another cajillo

So I'm going to move to. And I'm when Myrater, I see. Um, I'm going to be a bit of Pica Piedra. So some interesting answers And indeed some rather strange answers,

particularly that last one. But we'll come to that in a moment. Okay, it's time to take a closer look at these answers. And we're going to go through each answer and help you understand everything. I just listen to our first interviewee now. Uff, what I see in the Spejo?

Well, no see, a woman with her and with a little precious. So after

repeating the question, the lady says A woman, a woman, with her marido and with a

little little little with a small child a small precious little child

Precioso means precious literally. I see a little alternative but, so on looking in the mirror this person sees someone who is a little bit alternative but who accepts himself

for what he is. Let's move on and listen to a further answer. Well, I see a mother, a woman, youngtou and, well, So, I don't know

much importance to what I see in the question. So this answer starts quite slowly but then certainly picks up speed towards the end. Let's listen again to this lady and see if you can work out exactly what she says in the second part. Well,

I see a mother, a woman, and, well, I don't know I don't know much importance to what I'm in the So as we heard, she sees a woman, a mother, she sees youth, Juventud, La Juventud. She doesn't really give much importance to what she sees in the mirror to tell the truth.

Our next interviewer begins by saying, well, he sees himself, a me. Well, it's a me. I don't know. I mean, I see many things when I do. Depend of the day and depending on the moment. So this speaker is saying that he sees lots of things when he sees himself. But it depends on the day, depends on the day, and the moment. And del momento.

Let's listen to our next interviewee. When I see in the spejo, I see a potential, a future, that has to be discovered. And, well, much a legria. So this speaker is looking towards the future, the future, that has to be discovered, which is yet to be discovered. Our next interviewee looked at things perhaps a little more practically.

So when she looks in the mirror, she realizes that she has to do her makeup every day and all those kind of things. Now, our final interviewees are a little bit different. And if you have seen the video, if you're using the premium materials, then you'll have seen the video and you'll see that these two people are dressed up in fancy dress. They're actually on a despaidida de nobios, a stag and hen do, or the bachelor party and bachelorette party, if you like. And they're dressed, in fact, as Fred and Wilma Flintstone. That might help you in understanding exactly what they say.

Of course, it makes much more sense if you can see this. Let's have a listen. So there's quite a lot of hesitation there, as they think up something suitably witty to answer in response to our question. Now, if I explain that the guy is wearing a Fred Flintstone outfit and a rather, well,

not the nicest of wigs, and it does look like, in fact, he's got a shaggy dog on his hair, which is why he answers, a perro in my head, a dog on my head. When asked the same question, the lady says,

me a Wilma, pica piedra. So I see Wilma Flintstone. Okay, let's now go back and have a listen to all of the answers and hopefully now you'll understand everything much better. What I see in the

space? Well, no see, a woman is a woman with his marido and with a little, precious. I see a young, a little alternative

but, over all over a person that's accept to himself. Well, I see a mother, a woman, and, you know, and, well, I don't know I do much importance to what I see in the

the mirror. Well, it's me. I don't know. I mean much things when I do. Depends of the day and depends on the moment. When I see in the space, I see a potential, a future that has to be discovered, and, well, much

a good, a lot of gregia. When I'm looking in the spejo, that I have to makegillard me, and pein'rame and those things. A pyrr in my head. The proof. Now I have another drollia to that I'm not mured. And I, when I'm, when I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm,

see a Bima Pica Piedra. Today we've heard some very interesting. Volvamos to the studio with you. Okay, we'll be back

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Okay, let's get on with the lesson. It's time now to move to the second part of our magazine for this week. And therefore, it's time to say hello to Fernanda. Hello, Fernanda, what are you? Hello, Mark, very well. I'm very good, with much ganes to that you're going to go ahead. Well, let's go.

As many people know, Bogota is the capital of Colombia. And, well, Bogotah is a good place to beacar if you're a tourist, yeah that the city is divided as a maya in and carreras.

Careras? Yes, is the name that's the that's the that's in a city in form vertical.

Very well. We can't tell a little of the history of Bogotah or of Colombia. In the time of the

colony, the population of Bogotah was a combination of blackes, mestisos, indigenous, and Sclavos.

Colombia in that era was called the Grand Columbia and was formed by Venezuela,

New Granada and Qito. And this population dured about about

10 years. So, what things we can do we in Bogotah? Well,

Colombia is very known for all those his people, there are artists

like Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fernando Botero and well, the known

Shakira is that I know personally In the same thing, I'd like to know it personally. But, well, that's another thing. I'm enchanted the love in the times of cholera,

of Garcia-Marquez. Yes, is a book very good. Look, Mar, as you interest, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, we're going to talk to some places related to him. Very well. Yes. Well, it's about six years

that's in Bogota, the center cultural, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. This center is in the barrio, the candelaria, and this is a barrio very typical Colombian, full of culture and architecture.

This center cultural has a biblioteca, spaces abjureds, and a gallery of art. And there another other place with Gabriel Garcia

Marquez, to be? If you have time, and, well, as fanatic of Garcia Marquez,

you have to visit Aracataka. Ah, the people natal of the writer, no? Yes,

very well, it's a visit it for some days and, well, recorrent all the

places that have inspired to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Well, I'm here then.

Also, of a coffee-cice with Shakira, if not is not we're doing, what

we're doing? Well, you can visit the garden botanico Jose

Celestino Mutis. There you can find the vegetation typical of Colombia,

the Bosque of the desert, Selva, and that's a

good, that's a amants of the naturala. That good. A me like in the places like the

nature of the nature. Also, you have to visit the Cerro Monserate. This is an icon of

the city. And how we can do you? Well, you can get the the

hill to by a few on the telephorical. And when we're we're doing

what we can't do you can't do much things from from

from the city. So, you can make such you Also, there's a Sanctuary

Catholic, the that has five years being visited by the

people, there's also there some there's there's there probably

the food what you're there's some there's there sometimes

times, and these tortillas are you can make fritas or in an they're doing reenons.

That's really. Yeah, also you have to try the sancho. The sancocho.

The sancocho. I like this word. Well, the sancocho is a soup made

with with the food, and condiments, and it is a

soup that's the soups from it's very very

reponidora. Very well, now I know what I'm going to come

when to Colombia. And tell me for the music. There's a

a little place special? Yes. Well, Colombia is very known for

all his cantances and for your music. For example, the music like the cumbia

and the bachata. The cumbia? Yeah, the cumbia is the ballet folklorico of Colombia

and is a combination of different races and is very movied and is very to do you

do things to make to get to the town. This theater is the principal

of the city and always many spectacles typical and battles traditional there are many things

there are in Bogota no? Yes, it's a place full of culture and

history. Well, Fernanda, another time, it's got to the

next week. The next time, we're going to Venezuela. Very

well. Well, much thanks Fernanda. Thank you, Mark. Adios.

Adios. So thanks to Fernanda for that very interesting conversation about Bogota.

And as usual, it's giving me the desire to head off on travels and discover lots of interesting places in South America. Okay, for our final part of this week's magazine, we're heading over to Seattle, to JP and Nayeli. And I believe they have an interesting question for us today from listener, Georgie. Thanks, Mark. This is JP, and I'm here with Nayeli. Hi, J.B. Ola. So, Naili, what question are we answering today? We have a question from Georgie, who wants to know the difference between,

The B and the V. B. B de burro and V. Okay. Or Uve, which is V. Yes, my Spaniard friends, my Spanish friends say Ube. All right, let's get to the answer. The answer, Georgie, is that phonologically, acoustically, there is no difference. Some of your Spanish-speaking friends might be annoyed by my answer, but no, there is no difference. If you say so, I trust you.

Nailene and I were just talking about some acoustic stuff, because when we record these podcasts, I look a lot of audio waves, and there is no physical. acoustical differences between the B's and the Vs. And of course, in people's minds, there are big differences, and those differences are important. And for spelling purposes, it is important. Absolutely. Here's the quick description of the Spanish B and V.

I want you to think of it as a bilabial fricative, which is a sound that doesn't exist in English. Oh, my God. I mean, you make it all the time, Naili. Do I? Yes, it's this sound. V, right? In English, we have b, and we have V.

right, the B and the V. And in Spanish they have this V. Now, it doesn't always come out that way, but most of the times, especially when a B or a V is between two vowels, it will come out that way. So, Naili... For example, La Cava.

La Cava. Now that's C-A-V-A, and we all heard Naili say cava. And then we have El Ave. El A-V, all right. Now, that's not an English B, and it's not an English V. It's somewhere in the middle.

El Abe. And La A beha. La A beha. Now, this is the bee, right? The insect. The bee. Now, la beja has the letter, what is that? Is that a bediburro or be de bacca?

Bedebizu. Bde-Berzalona. And it's pronounced in the same way as you said, La Cava and... El Abea. Now, as I said before, this letter is not pronounced as this soft bee in all contexts. Sometimes in very specific contexts, you will hear this as a hard bee. And the easiest way to show the hard bee in Spanish is to put the B sound or the V sound,

whichever one, after a letter M. Um bombazo. Um bombaso, that's a hard bee. Su bombazzo. Su bombaso, that's a softer bee. Why? You just did it. Do it again.

Um bombasso. Uh-huh. You said bombaso. And su bombazzo. Sub-bombasel. Sin variar. Sin variar. That's a hard bee.

No variar. No variar. That was a softer bee. I'm going to be definitely. Lo boy to be. That was a soft bee, definitely. Now, Naili, sometimes you read these. You choose the soft bee even though it's in the hard bee context, which is just fine.

It really is a soft bee in people's minds. And it turns hard in the context of an M or an N. In a bolzo? In a bolso, yes. In a bolza. In a bolso. That was, Enum bolso was harder because there was an N before it. And in a bolza was softer.

because there was an A before. And I was going to say, when you say that I have a softer B, they have been right after a vowel. Exactly. Okay. Okay. I've learned something new today along with our listeners. Excellent. All right, folks, if you have a question for us, please don't hesitate to come to our website, which is Q&A Spanish.com.

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