Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Magazine – Episode 208

Episode Date: August 13, 2013

Coming up in this week’s edition of the Coffee Break Magazine:Alba asks, ¿a quién admiras más en el mundo? – whom do you admire most in the world?Mark joins Fernanda on a virtual tour of Havana;and JP and Nahyeli answer listener Jessica’s question about how to translate “something else altogether”.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 12th of August 2013. Estes'esthocating Coffee Break Spanish and we're back with another episode of the Coffee Break Spanish magazine. I'm Mark and I'll be your teacher and host for the next 20 minutes or so. This week, Alba is trying to find out who our interviewees admire most. A who you admirers more in the world? J.P. and Naili answer listener Jessica's question about how best to translate the expression another thing altogether.

And I join Fernando for a virtual tour of Havana in Cuba. All this and more in this week's episode of... As much, for the first part of the show... We're going to talk to Alba, that's in the call yes of Barcelona. Quintan us, Alva, what is the question of the day? Our question of the day is, a who admiras more in the world?

So this week's question, to who admires more in the world? So to whom do you admire most in the world? But we know that admiral to admire someone using the personal a. So it's not really to whom, but just whom. Whom do you admire most in the world? Uff.

That's all right. To me, I don't know what I'm going to admire more or who I admire less. I don't know, I suppose a much people, to my mother, one of them. I don't know, is very valiant. To my mom, well, because I always find solutions for all,

always I've been at my side, is a person very very very. A who you admire you in the world? A good question. You have a good response? Yes, I,

to my son and my my marido. Because, well, Well, to my marido because I want and because my dad has given my and my son because he's the first, with what that... And because he's very well.

And because... ...a ...aweller. Why? I don't know. Because... I admire, and I'm point. To my mother and to my father.

It's that they're all. They're all. They're always. They're all. My mother. My mother. My mother. My mother, my father, my

abuel, well, the family in general, but my mother. I'm my own man, my mom. My mom, because of my little, I'd have a little bit of a new a little bit of a different. And I'm going to be affronted super well. Admirate more, well, I suppose that my family, to my father.

Well, it's also the person that most I've been, no? My family, a my wife, and my his children, are the encantadores. They're the better. I always am surprised and I love to be with them. There's always,

there's always there's a little thing that I know that I'm some different. Some response very interesting, as always.

Let's have a listen to the answers now. We'll go through each one helping you understand. Uff. This, I have to think, I know,

right now who I'm not who I'm more or who I'm more to see, I suppose a much people, to my mother,

one of them. I don't know, is very valiant. This speaker does speak quite quickly, so perhaps we should listen again and see if you can spot one particular family member he mentions. Uff, oh, this is all I don't know what I'm going to look more or who I'm not less. I don't know, I suppose a much people, to my mother, one of them.

I don't know, is very valiant. So the family member he mentions is his mother, my mother. But it's fair to say that he's not quite sure at the beginning. He said, no se, I don't know right now. He also uses a word to describe his mother. He said, is very valiant.

Baliente means brave or courageous. So she's a very brave person. Es very valiante. Okay, let's move on and listen to our second interview. And this answer, full sound familiar. My mom, well, because always

encounters for everything always I've been at my side, is a person

very very very very very my mother. And this

lady's mother is a very strong person. Our next interview

is with a couple who have recently had a baby and as you'll hear

the man found it a little more difficult to come up with an answer

than the lady did. Have a listen. To who admires more in the world? A good question. Do you have a good response? Yes, I'm a my son and my

my marido. Because, well, to my man because I love much and because me has given my his first,

with what what he's the good. Sure. I can't help but feel that the husband is kicking himself

thereafter not realizing he could have answered a my esposa. Anyway, what he had said was it's a good question. After thinking about it, he asks his wife, do you have an answer? And of course his wife comes straight back with yes, my son and my husband.

So she admires her husband because he gave her her son and her son because he's the firstborn and he behaved. very well. Another family member is mentioned in our next interview. To my abuela, because I admire and puttso. This interviewee can't really think of a reason why he admires his grandmother, My Abuela. He says, I admire her. That's it. Full stop. Punto.

In the next interview, we also have some more family members mentioned. And it's quite difficult to follow all of this one, so listen carefully. Ah, my mother, and to my father. It's that they're all. I always are all. I always are there. My mother.

My mother. My mother, my father, my abuel. Well, the family in general, but my mother. I'm my brother. My brother, because of my little, he'd have a little bit of a a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little. And they've got to confronted. So, well.

Now there were actually three interviews there So let's split them up and talk through each one individually So my mother and to get them They always be there, so she mentions both her mother and her father A my mother and her father They're always there for her So even if I happen to get angry with them They will still be there for me

although me enfade with them, always they're always family members. I'm my mother, my mother,

my father, my father, my father, but my mother. So she talks about her family in general, her mother, her father,

her grandparents, the family in general, but most of all her mother. And the final person in this group of interviews is really quite

tricky to understand. Let's have a listen. So my my brother, because my little he'd have a a little a little bit of

a little so this girl is saying that she admires her little brother because from a young age

he had an illness but nonetheless was able to face it very well affrontar meaning to

confront something or someone we have two more interviews to go to go

admire more I suppose to my family, to my father. Well, it's also the person that's

I've been so yet another example of a family member perhaps suggesting that family is very important indeed in Spain

he says I suppose my family to my father I suppose my family my father let's move

to our final answer to my family to my my wife and my children are incantadores are the more always

always me surprise and I love to start with them always there's

always I'm a thing I'm so this speaker speaks about his family

a family a my my wife remember that in Spain

Mujer is very much the word used for wife it just doesn't mean

my women a my my women and my children he describes

them as encanadores are those Mjores they're They're enchanting. They're wonderful. They're the best.

Son los Mijores. So we've heard our interviews, and we're going to have another listen now. And see if you can understand much more this time now that we've gone through the interviews in more detail. Have a listen. Uff. This is, I know, now the same, to who I'm not even, to who I admire more or who I'm more. I don't know, I suppose, a much people. To me, one of them.

I don't know, is very valiant. My mom, well, because I always find solutions for all, I've always been at my side, is a person very very strong. To who you admire you more in the world? A good question. You have a good response?

Yes, I, to my and my marid, because, well, to my marid because I want to my and because my father and my because he's the first, with what why... And because she's very well. Sure.

To my abuela? Why? I don't know. Because... I admire, and I'm... ...and my mother. And my father. They are all.

They're all. They're always they, always are there. My mother. My mother. My mother, my father, my abuel. Well, the family in general,

but my mother. I'm my brother, because of my little, I've got a a new a little bit of a new pecanidate and they he's had to be affronted super well. Admirate more, I suppose that my family, my father. Well, it's also the person that

most I've been seen, no? To my family, a my wife and my my children, are encantadores, are the bests, they're always and I'm just to be with them. there's always there's

something that I I'm going to confessing a secret. I'm just admiro to all those who have responded all these

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Practice your Spanish and join the conversation with coffee break Spanish. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Okay, it's time to move on to the next part of our magazine. And for this, it's time to say hello to Fernanda. Fernanda and I are going to be taking a virtual tour to Havana in Cuba this week. Hello, Fernanda. Buenos days, Mark. How are you, Fernanda?

Very well, thank you. I have many I'm much more than to hear of all of about what you're going to about about. Well, as you know,

as always, we're going to a little about the history, culture, and one of the more of the places to know.

You know, how old is the Havana? Well, some years. Very well. Well, it was built

actually five years, and it has many many years as the most the cities most

the most of the Latin. For example, when the Havana was recently constructed, it was around of five great places. One of those places is, today, is now known as a year, but in a principle, it was

a new. So, they changed the name for the years? Yes, yes. They changed the name when was made a place more new, the Plaza of the Santa Christ, and, well, in the Plaza, Veeha, Antiguamene,

the people were the people were exchangeers, and also had interchambs commercial. Very interesting. What place you recommenderias to visit

first? Well, first you have to visit the Havana Veeja. This

place is the central colonial most important of the Caribbean, and well, it's the

center historical of the Havana. In 1982, the Havana Vaja was declared a patrimon

of the UNESCO. And, when you recorras you can start by the

Cuy Obispo, and the area, also is the Plaza Caterral, the Castillo of the Real Fuerza, and the Plaza of Arms. It's better to do a tour for the Havana,

Vieja. The best you can't do is to go ahead for your account. All the parts are very close, and there are many good for food typical Cuban or a cafe-cuit Cuban. A cafe-cubano, what is? Well, the cafe Cuban is like a coffee expresso, but more cargated, and you'd have to despirted all the day. Necessi one.

Now, I think. Yeah, well, we'd be there a pair. That good, that should be one of those coffees for the morning, no? If you're well, you're getting well, now

that you're talking of the bevvvvies and food, there's a restaurant that we can't go to the Havana Veeha?

Yeah, all the world recommend to go to the Floridita and the bodegita of the

middle. These restaurants are typical of the zone and you can you can't put them in them?

Oh, well, we're empanaditas of meat or churrasco with chimichurri or chicharrones

of poe with yucca frita ui much words new words let fernando first what is the chimichurri

the chimichurri is a salsca that gives different types of yerbae and is very good

with the we'll be we're going and then and the other another another word that is

what are the chichirones chicharones chichrones well those chichichrrron are very typical in Latin America. They're like some

little bit of pork or the cedar and they're freeing. They're like the croquettes in Spain? A little, well, they're more small and

it's the meat that's free. Ah, okay, well, well, well, as like all the food

seems very very fresh too, too, very fresh too. There's a museum special to we can

go in Havana There, there are many and for many for example,

you can go to Museum of Art Colonial, to the Museum of the City, the Template, the Casa of the House of the Opera Pia, and the Africa. And, you know, much, much, many, you know, the Museums, and then. Yeah, you know, it's a one of the Havana, you can visit the Antigua of the Maraiaeus of the city. That's a quantity of things cultural we can

do in the Havana. Yes, muchisimus. Well, Fernanda, where you'll

you know the next year? The next time we go to the Riviera Maya in

Mexico Lindo. That is another of the places to I've

always I've never I'm I'm all all thank

thank you thank thank and Avana is indeed one of the

many parts of Latin America Spanish speaking America

that I love to visit we're heading over to America just now, heading over to the United States, to Seattle, where we are going to join JP and Nayeli, who have an interesting question this week. Quintanos, JP.

What is the question of the day? Thanks, Mark. This is JP. I'm here with Nayeli. Hello, JP. Hello, Jolie. We have a question from Jessica, so let's get right to it. Jessica wants to know how to say something else altogether.

She has an example. I thought it was the sound of a bullet, but it turned out it was something else altogether. How would you say that name? In Spanish, I would say, I thought it was a sound of a bullet. But it resulted be other cause. But it ended up being something else.

Otra cosa. So for something else altogether, you said, Otra Cosa. And that's when something turned out to be something different than you expected. So, for example,

I was sick. And I thought it was cancer. And I thought it was cancer. But it turned out to be something else. I love the use of the use of the cancer. the verb resulto there ended up being. Right.

We're using resulto. It turns out. You know, Natalie, we have a couple different ways to say that in English. We could say it was a whole other story. Was other things. It was the same. Or was a completely different thing. Okay.

Yeah, a completely different thing, right? Or I can say that was a horse of a different color. It was a cabo de other color, but I don't think that's what we'd say in Spanish. No, you couldn't say that in Spanish. I'm sure there's some kind of phrase for it. But that's another story. It's other rollo, it's other quento, or it's other

cause. All right. It's another rolloo, is other quinto, is other coza. Do you have a favorite among those three? Which one do you say the most?

I think I probably say es is another quento. Because that would mean I need to sit down, take more time, and tell you a whole different story. Which you're good at, Naili.

I don't know about you, but does Orojo sound a little more European to you? Or am I making that up? It might be. It might be one of those colloquial, depending which country you're in, kind of thing. Yeah, I can hear my Spanish friends saying, esotro rio, but I wanted to check with you before I made that claim. I don't know. That's not very common in Mexico. I don't, or you'd hear it, but I don't know that it'd be, I understood. What the heck. Use it. Okay, cool. All right, Jessica, I hope that helps you out. Let's send it back to Mark in Scotland. But before we do,

I just want to mention our website, which is Q&A Spanish.com, or our Facebook page where we take a lot of the questions for this show. Folks, asa-Luego. After-luego. Much thanks, Naili. And, of, sure, much thanks a Alba and to all those people that have responded to the questions in the streets of Barcelona. Also, we give them those gracias to Fernanda.

Because me encantan these voyages for all parts of Latin America. And to me, me has liked. much the conversation about the Havana of the Oi. That is where we're going to leave this episode of the Coffee Break Spanish magazine.

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