Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Magazine – Episode 209

Episode Date: August 27, 2013

Coming up in this week’s edition of the Coffee Break Magazine:Alba asks, si esta noche tuvieras una cita a ciegas, ¿qué estarías haciendo ahora mismo? – if you had a blind date tonight, what would you be doing right now?Mark joins Fernanda on a virtual tour of La Riviera Maya in Mexico;and JP and Nahyeli answer a very interesting question from listener Steve about using ser or estar with food.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 24th of August 2013. Hello to all. You're going to coffee break Spanish and we're back. It's time for another episode of the Coffee Break Spanish magazine. I'm Mark and I'm your teacher and host for this lesson. This week, Alba is asking a question a daring question. If you wereas a titic-tiegas, what would you be doing now-missom?

J.P. and Naili answer a great question from listener Steve about the use of ser and estar when referring to food, and I joined Fernanda for a virtual tour of La Riviera Maya in Mexico. All this and more in this week's episode of... As always, we're going to start, La Revista, with the interviews of Alba in the streets of Barcelona. Quintan us, Alva, do you know, have some question interesting today?

Hello Mark. So, this week's So this week's question A question A bit trebid If this night Tewiars What'd be you're

doing Now right So this week's Question features some interesting But quite tricky Grammar If this night

Tüjana Tewas If you had A Blind Date This evening If Tubieras Tubieras Tuvieras is the imperfect subjunctive.

So if you had a blind date, what would you be doing right now? And estar plus the gerund, in this case is in the conditional tense. What would you be doing right now? What would you be doing right now? If this night, you were an cita,

cedges, what would you are doing now I don't know. I'd like a moment of time in the space I'm preparing me and then then

it's a question that are that's, it's that I'm to go to my friends to know what because I'd super nervos,

with with my wife, with the help of my friends and I would and I'd would ask an opinion to my mother.

I don't. Oh my mother, that's a very very pesada. I would be super pesada. I would say in some where could go? I suppose that the Cita Cigua would be in a restaurant, a cafeteria or something.

No, I don't know. Now, if you'd have a cita ciga, this is difficult, but if you'd have a cita ciegas right I'm, I'm acicaling. Ponding me waping me, afitam, luching me,

and scotiento the rope and, well, I imagine that is what I'm going to some interesting

answers this week as usual. We're going to now go through these answers and help you understand what has been said.

The first interviewee has, once again quite a tricky accent to understand. Let's have a

listen to this first answer. Uff, no see. So, me would have a month of time before the space, I'm preparing me. And then,

it's a question that is that's not, it's that he's to be previsto. So this interviewee starts by saying, me would a ton of time before the space.

So he'd spend ages in front of the mirror preparing himself. And then he goes on to say, Me coges de impreisto. So you're taking me by surprise with this question. The next interview involves three girls who are being interviewed and each of them give their answer.

One in particular speaks very, very quickly. Let's have a listen to the whole answer and then we'll go back through it in more detail. I'll talk with my friends, to know what do because I'd be super nervosa, fido. With the help of my friends. With the help of my friends. and I'd

I'd like opinion to my mother I'm sorry, I'm sorry Oh my mother, that's a pesada She'd be super pesado Now the first girl does speak Particularly Quickly listen again to that part So I'd like with my

Amiga to what I'm sorry So already if you picked up Amigas and nerviosa Then you're most of the way There to understanding what she says She would speak to her friends To see what to do because she would be really, really nervous.

Then two of the girls speak at the same time. One says, Me Pondria Guapa. I would put myself pretty, literally. And the other says, and the other says, with the help of my friends. So then this second one

goes on to talk more about how she would be getting ready. With the help of our amigos. So she would be asking her mother for her opinion. And the other girls don't necessarily agree. I know. Oh no, my mother, that's a very pesada. She pondra super pesada.

So her mom would make a big fuss. She pondria super pesada. It is difficult to understand very fast Spanish like this, especially when multiple people are. talking at the same time and you're dealing with different accents. But I guess that's part of learning and other language and being able to understand it in a real context. And it's the point behind our Coffee Break Spanish magazine. It's perhaps worth mentioning here that you're listening currently to the free version of the Coffee Break Spanish magazine. And in this edition, we try to

help you understand what's being said. We'll give you some translations of the Spanish used and focus on one or two of the words covered in each of the responses. However, we also produce a different version of this magazine show, and in that version, it's an extended audio program, and in the extended audio program, we go through in great detail every response from our interviewees, talking about the words and phrases and the constructions that they use. For example, in this last interview,

we actually slow down what the interviewees say and use a slowed down version to help you understand, and very often we'll repeat what the interviewees say in slower Spanish to help you get the just of the conversation and indeed not just get the just of the conversation but to understand exactly what is being said and of course that extended version is just one part of the premium version of the magazine because in addition to the extended audio you also get access to the videos so that's the videos filmed in Barcelona with Alba interviewing our interviewees and also lesson notes which cover all the language included in the interviews,

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Spanish magazine premium version. Okay, enough of an advert. Let's get back to the content. Let's have a listen to our next interviewee answering the question, if you'd have a Cita Ciegas this night, what would you

do now myself? I'd in some where I'd know that would be a seta

would be in a restaurant, a cafeteria or something or something. No, no, I don't know. So this

interview, he doesn't seem to be too bothered about the prospect of a blind date. So he'd be

thinking more about where they'd be going to a restaurant or something like that. And he says

he wouldn't really think much about it. Okay, so let's listen to our final interviewer now. Now, if you'd have a cita ciega, this is difficult, but if you'd have a seta now I suppose that I'd be acicalar me, putting me wapos, afitandum, luchamme, and, you're going to the rope, and, well, me imagine that, that, being what I'm feeling what I feel better. He'd be thinking about making himself look at the way. look nice, shaving, showering, and so on. He'd be preparing for his date by having a shave,

having a shower, getting his clothes choice ready, seeing what suits him best. Okay, so as usual, it's time now to listen through to the interviews again, and hopefully this time you'll understand all of them. Uff, no see. I'd have a moment of time before the space I'm preparing me and then

it's a question that no, it's that I'm going to goreviso. I'd like to be sure what I'm saying to do because I'd be very nervous, fido, go, go, with my help, with my friends.

With the help of my friends and I'd like an ass'amigas and I'd like opinion to my mother. I don't. I don't. Oh my mother, that's a pesada. It would be super pesada. No.

I would say in some where you could go? I suppose the Cita Cigua is in a restaurant, a cafeteria or something. I don't think. No, no, I don't know. Now, if you'd have a cita cedar, it's difficult, but if you'd have a cita ciegas now, I'm, I suppose that I'd acical me. Ponding me waping me waping.

afitam, duching me, and, well, me imagine that, that's what I'm feeling that I'm more.

Mark, I have to have a date. Much thanks, Alba. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment.

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Good days, Fernanda. What does you? Good day, Mark. Very well. Thanks. Refreshame the memory. to what place we're going to today? Today we

we're going to visit the Riviera Maya in Mexico. Well, what you can't

tell of the Riviera Maya? Well, the Riviera Maya is the

coast of the Peninsula of Yucatan. The Riviera Maya was baptized only

only in 1999. This place, well, has a very much attractive,

yeah, bina the and all the the sorrows archaeological of the Mayas. Yeah we've

talked about much of the Incas. Quintanos a little what you know the about the

world of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and part of Honduras. The Mayas us have

a great legado scientific and astronomical a level world. In the Riviera

Maya, for example, we can we can find the capital of the empire

Maya that's called Chichens Itza. Yes. And, well,

a pyramid that was constructed about the year 435. This place was

declared recently one of the seven marvillas of the world. And we

can't visit the capital Maya? Yes, we can the spectacular

pyramid of Kukulkan and the camps of the play of a polota.

The camps of the play the play was the play

was the play were the two day, when you go to the Riviera Maya, still see

the bestigues of this game and can be all the ruins. Very well. And what other

other places we can visit? Well, another place to visit it is the city

of Tulum. This is the only city pre-Hispanica constructed in the coast and amuralliated.

It's also was the first city Maya that discovered the

Spaniian and also you have to visit the Actun Chen.

Tant T' The actun, or tantos Numbres, for the less. Actunchen? Yes,

Actun Chen, in the idiom of Maya, it's a place with a poe and it

in the name. And, well, as it's a coveve impressionant with a

laguna subterrania. So, so it is a way, recorrelrel and recorrel

all those his allredderderer because is about 400 hectares of Selva

Virgen and the recorri is perfect for the adventurors. Fernanda,

I had I heard that's you can see many that's it's very

yeah, it's very, you mark, it's can be in Akumal. Acumal, another

word new? That's a word Maya, also. Yeah, well,

Akumal means a place and it and well, it's so you know,

because all the years get hundreds of tortugas birdes to put

his webos. It's a special I'm I'm I'm

know. A Mark, too, for the Mar, too, can bucear in the grand arrecife

Maya. This is the second arrecife most grand of the world, and is the only place in the place in which is speleo-busseo. Is, what? Espeleo.

I imagine I'm imagine that is buceo, but what type? This type of busseo, so the gososos and the lago subterranios of the covebas

in the part continental, and as, as you had said before, only it's only it's only it can be

a place in the penisula in the island of it's the place it's the

place so it for the very many people very very much very

thank you thank you much thank you about the year we're the

next the next we're we're we're we're we're

to we're going to our episodes in Mexico

D.F in the Rue Aftey Tenoch Titlan Okay Very well.

Well, much thanks. Adios. Until the next I'm already looking forward to returning to

Mexico next week. Now, one thing that learners often find difficult, and I'll include myself

in this too, is when to use ser and to start in a very specific area and that is

when you're talking about food, because I'm quite sure you'll have heard both ser and

estar used with food. Now, listener Steve has got in touch with us and he is asking

that very question. So let's hand you over to JP and Nayeli who will provide an answer. Thanks Mark. This is JP and I am here with Naili. Hello, Naili.

Hello, JP. And we have a question today. Steve wants to know the usage of SED versus Estar with food. Okay, let's hear it. He has heard La Tarta is Duleze. Okay, the cake is sweet. And he would have used CED. So he's wondering, is it correct to also say La Tarta is Duleze.

And if so, does it mean the same thing? Okay. Okay, well, La Tarta is Duleze means the cake is sweet, and La Tarte is Duce means cake is sweet, and no, it doesn't mean the same thing. I would pose a question where I just walked into a bakery, and I'm looking at a cake or a tart, and I'm thinking, well, I don't know if it's sweet, if it's savory.

So you would say, is dulce or is salado. Okay, so in this case we're using ser. Is it sweet or is it salty? Right, but then once I buy the piece and I dig into it, then I would say, ah, The pastel is ta dulce. Exactly. When you're commenting on the taste of a food or how it turned out, we always use estat with food.

So it's delicious. It's delicious. It's cold. It's free. Okay. Or the coffee is too. Or it's excellent. It's excellent.

Okay. So use estad to talk about the result of somebody's cooking to talk about how something ends up tasting. Ser, on the other hand, ser we always use it with identities. And so, so when we want to identify. identify food with their intrinsic flavors, like cakes being sweet. You're making me hungry, J.P. Okay, so let's use sad with cakes. So cake in general is sweet.

Los pasteles are dulces. And just like Neely was saying, if you're making a choice, if you're inquiring to a baker about some cakes that are in the display case, you're asking in general about the cakes that you're seeing. You're not asking about how this certain cake ended up. up. Right. Because if you pointed to a chocolate cake and say, how is the response is usually going to be well. Would you say is well or is ta'ueno? But it's saying two different things.

The pastel is good. But that's that specific cake that you're pointing at. Right. And the pastel is good for the health. Okay. It's good for your health. Right. Which is a whole different story. The cake is good versus is the cake good for you. That would be the different. Okay. So just in summary, to describe something that's the part of the cake's identity, you can use said. But if you're talking about how it ended up tasting, use estat. Correct. If you have questions for us, we would love to hear from you.

Our webpage is, our web page is Q&A Spanish.com. And we answer all the questions on our Facebook page. Just find us on Facebook with Q&A Spanish. All right, Mark, back to you. Thank you to JP and Naili, and we hope that Steve has found that. answer useful. Now, as JEP said, if you have a question, then don't hesitate to get in touch. We'll do our best to answer the question and a future episode of the Coffee Break Spanish magazine, or indeed in our separate Q&A Spanish podcast. For now, that's where we're going to

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