Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Magazine – Episode 206

Episode Date: June 28, 2013

We’re back with another edition of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this episode:Alba asks, ¿adónde te irás de vacaciones este verano? – where will you be going on holiday this summer?Mark joins Fernanda on a virtual tour of Venezuela;and JP and Nahyeli answer Richard’s question about the difference between el mismo and lo mismo.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 26th of June, 2013. You're listening to the Coffee Break Spanish. You're listening to the Coffee Break Spanish magazine, and we're back with another episode. I'm Mark, and I'm going to be your teacher and host for the next 20 minutes or so. This week, Alba is talking to people in the streets of Barcelona about their summer plans. I'll be joined by Fernanda for a virtual tour of Venezuela,

and J.P. and Naili answer a question from listener Richard. about the difference between el-missmo and the same. All this and more in this week's episode of... For the first part of this TVista, we'll say to say to Alba, that's in Barcelona. Well, Alba, what is the question of the day?

The question of Alba is, A-Dondi te iris de vacations. So the question Alba is asking this week, Where would you go on holiday? where would you go on holiday is an interesting one. And in fact, when we were asking this question to a number of our interviewees, it became,

adon de iras de vacations. Where will you go on holiday? So in the answers, you'll hear both conditional tenses, I would go or iriamos, we would go. But you'll also hear the future tense, I'll go, or I will go, we will go. Let's listen to the answers,

No. This vera in Chile, I think I'll go to the play to enjoy with the friends and the of the vera. This vera we've thought to go to Barbados of vacations. Well, yeah we've got to be

not we're very very much, we're going to we're going to the north of Catalonia, is to the Costa Brava. Well, vacations, vacations,

we're going to New York and that's very very long. We have to use the charco but no we'll do not do. Well, more than vacations, we're like a moon of meal. Also,

to come to a Zara of the Atunes. I have a group of amygos and they're they're doing a bandy to us, we're all the rites of chachondeo,

we're all the rissas, we're, we're doing, we're doing, we're doing things different with them. a few interesting. Let's go back and have a listen to some of the answers, and we'll help you understand them with some vocabulary and some grammar.

In this first answer, I'd let you to listen out for one word in Spanish that can be used to mean to enjoy. This verano in Chile, I think I'll go to the play to enjoy. So the word I was thinking of was, disfurtar. Disfrutar to enjoy or to enjoy yourself. And it can also have this sense of disfurtar de algo or disfurtar, doing something. So enjoying something, or disfurtar doing something. So this speaker said that he would enjoy the summer with his friends at the beach. Let's now have a listen to our second interview. So this one's a straightforward answer.

We've thought about going to Barbados. We have thought about going to Barbados. We've been said to hear a barbados of vacations. Let's have a listen to the next answer. And this one's a little more complex. because, yeah we've got to be parents, not we're going to go to

Kadaquess, for example, that's at the north of Catalonia to the Costa Brava. So, they'll not go

very far since they've just become parents. They'll go to Kadaquess in the north of

Catalonia in the Costa Brava. In the next interview, listen out for the phrase to cross

the pond because these people are talking about going to New York. Well, vacations, vacations, we'll go to New York And that's very long.

We have to use the charco. But no, we'll do to do a lot. Well, more than vacations, we're going to like Luna of Miel. Also. So this is a tricky one to understand fully. Basically, the man says that they're going to go to New York. We're going to cross the charco. You need to cross the puddle, literally, to cross the pond.

but no lo do we'll not go there swimming and then the lady explains that it's not going to be a holiday that they're going on in fact it's more a luna de mila a honeymoon let's now listen to our final interviewee and for this one you'll need to know two names first of all cadiz a town in the south of Spain a city in the south of Spain indeed and then another place Zara de los Atunes which is a holiday

resort again in the south of Spain. To Cadiz, a Zara of the Atunes. I have a group of friends there, and they're children, they're doing pandilla to us, we're doing a lot of

chastondeo, we're playing, we're playing, and we're playing, we're going to be good, the truth. We don't paramos to do things different with them.

So there's quite a lot in this answer. Basically, this man is going to go to Thara, of the Atunes. He's got some friends there. They've got children.

And they all enjoy themselves together. They do many different things together. You'll have heard, bailando, dancing, cantando, singing. No paramos to do things different things with them. We never stop doing different things with them.

Okay, let's now listen to all the answers one more time. This verano in Chile, I think I'll go to the playa, to enjoy with the friends and the of the vera

this vera we've thought to go to barbado of vacations well yeah we're

we're going to we're very long we're going to we're going to that's at the

north of Catalonia to in the Costa Brava well vacations we're

going to go to New York and that's very there's there's

there's there's to Well, more than vacations, we're going to like a moon of meal. Also, toad. A saddam of the tundas. I have a group of friends there, and, well, they're children, and they're doing pandilla to us,

we're doing a lot of risas, of cachondeo, we're playing, and we're playing. It's a very well, the truth. No, we're doing to do things different with them. I'm this veraunner, I'm going to go very And you, where you

Where do you? Good question, Alba. I, this year go to Italy and Austria of vacations. But, yeah,

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Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Over the weekend, I had a coffee with Fernanda, and we continued our tour of Latin American countries this week heading to Venezuela. Hello, Fernanda. Hello, Mark. How has been? And you? Very well, thanks.

Today? Today, we're going to Venezuela, no? Yes, of Venezuela. Of what places of Venezuela we're going to

talk? Well, we're going to talk of Caracas and the Salto Angel in Canaima.

Oh, two places. If you you're going to go to go to Angel.

Well, then we start to the Salto Angel. Very well. Well,

the Salto Angel is the cascada most and it's in the Park

National Canaima. To To get to Canaima you to take an avion

from Caracas and this, well, it's a time to make a hour and maybe. Also there

there are posadas and and there can't do you can't do you do that we're doing the

park national and see the impression vegetation and animals unical of the

area. Also, if you see you see a people, we're autoctonos

of Venezuela and are considered the guardians of this The Earth Sagrada. Wow, Fernanda. What kind of tours

we can do in Canaima? Well, some excursions you get a through the savanna. Others you get in cano indigena,

some of the islands and you can't also the different canyons and see the cascados in helicopter.

I think that me would be going to go in canoa. Yes, the canoas

be entertaining very well. Let me let us then we can't do Caracas.

Well, as all know, Caracas is the capital of Venezuela, and as a capital, there's many

places to visit and places historic. For example, if you like the history,

you have to visit the house Natal of Simon Bolivar. Let me think.

Simon Bolivar, who was? Well, it's the father of the country of

Venezuela, and was one of the person that did the process of independence

in the countries Latin American. And what we can see in this

house? In this house, there are different Pertenances of the Libertador. Also, there are moubles and paintings of the century 18 and 19 and works

of the artist Venezuelan Tito Salas. For the admirators of Simon Bolivar can visit also

their cenis in the Panteon National. This building has style neogotico

and also there's other other other other other

other other other other other other other you

recommendarias? Also you can go to a museum sacred of Caracas. In this

museum you can't see the cases antithes on access to the

cemetery and you can't recor the rest of the ancient ecclesiastica

It's there's many many places in Caracas and

yeah and what food typical we can in

Venezuela well in the food Venezuel is very known

for all the colors. As in Colombia, you can try the but Venezolans

and there compare the difference. Also, you have to try the empanadas of the

manned to the main. The empanadas are a typical of many countries of the Hispanic.

Has tried? Yes, one bit. Very very good. Well, for those

who know what are the empanadas, are some some massita reenas in form of a

circle or quadratitos. That depends of the country, and the time also can be more

great or more little and it's different reenos. They're very very good. I have to have to

what I'm what I'm what you do you do you know as well? Well, as Venezuela

is that far as the Caribbean, it has many many fruits exotic and freshas. In

Caraca you have to try the jalea of mango, I'm conservas

of guayava and the turrone of Cuco. Very well. And I think that there are much

Zumos of savours exotical, no? Yes, there are jugos of all the savors imaginables. Sure, you say jugo, I do you say

sumo. Yes, well, Fernando, before that we'll finish to where we're the next next.

The semester that we're going to the Republic Dominican. Very good. Well, as always

we're always we're having us talked about many things about about As, as always,

there are to record to the people that are the people who are visiting these places. And that also also they can

make in comments and more data about these tibedales. Well, much thanks. Thanks, Mark. Until the

the same time. Adjus. And for the final part of this week's magazine, we're heading off to Seattle,

where we'll say hello to JP and Naili, who have a question for us. Thanks, Mark. This is J.P

and I'm here with Naili. Hello, we have a question today from Richard, Richard has a very good question about el-mismo and lo-mismo. What is the difference between El-Mismo and lo-missimo?

Do you got this, Naili? I think so. I know that in English, El Mismo, the feminine, would be La Misma. Uh-huh. Usually refers to a noun. Okay, so if I say the same cat. El Mismo gato. Or the same chair.

La Misma Silla. Okay, so there's El Mismo and La Misma. Right. And so then when we say lo-mismo, that does mean, The same. The difference is that lo miso doesn't have a noun attached to it. So if I say, I'm feeling sad. Me Siento Triste.

Mm-hmm. And you say, I'm feeling the same thing. Siento lo miso. I feel the same thing, the same concept, right? Or when we're at a restaurant, I could order fish. Okay. And you could order the same thing. Lo miso.

I want the same thing I want. Okay. When there's no noun there, when it's just the same thing, the same general thing, we're going to use lo-missimo. So Richard, when you have a specific noun like cat or chair, you can say el-mismo or la-misma. For example, look at that black cat, and I could say to you,

it's the same black cat we saw yesterday. Okay. It's el-missmo gato. Ah, la silla. Is new? No, it's the same as last week. It's the same chair as last week. So we're being very specific with the noun.

I noticed when you said, Es la Misma de la Simea pasta, you didn't have the noun right there after Misma, but it was in my mind. Well, because you asked me about the chair. Exactly. So when we're holding in our minds what exactly the noun is, then we can use El Mismo and La Misma,

whether we say it or not. But when there's no noun there, we're going to use Lo Mismo. Does that make sense? It makes sense to me. I hope it makes sense to our listeners. All right, Richard, good luck with that. Folks, thank you for listening.

We're going to send it back to Mark now, but before we go, I just want to let you know that if you have a question for us, Naili and I would be happy to take it to send it to our website, which is qendasepanish.com, or find us on Facebook, and we'd love to hear what you have to say. Thank you both for that very interesting answer to the question from listener Richard about elmismo and lo miso. Now, just to reiterate what jp said there, if you do have a question, please do get in touch. You can do so using the Facebook group or through qandaspanish.com, as jp said. if you have ever been to Venezuela, Caracas or any of the other places that we've mentioned,

then please post an image on Facebook and let us know what you thought of that particular place. That's where we're going to leave this edition of the Coffee Break Spanish magazine. We hope you've enjoyed it as ever, and we'll be back again soon with more Spanish for you. Much a greatias and hasta la proxima. This is the production of the Radiolingua Network. Find out more at Radiolingua.com.