Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish Magazine – Promo episode

Episode Date: September 26, 2012

In this promo episode of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine, Mark outlines what listeners can expect from each episode of the show. The video episode (normally part of the premium materials) is included below to give you a feel for the new style of show:Subscribe to the CBS Magazine in iTunes | RSS Feed Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coffee Break Spanish Magazine, Season 1, promo episode. Hello to all, and biennizabeth to this revista of Coffee Break Spanish. This is the Coffee Break Spanish magazine, and you're listening to a promo episode in which I am going to tell you a little more about what you can expect to hear in the first season of Coffee Break Spanish Magazine starting the 3rd of October. That's next week. Well, me name Mark, but I think you already know you already. I'm the teacher from Coffee Brick Spanish and I'm going to be here helping you understand all the content of our magazine. A veces I'm going to be able to speak in Spanish and a sometimes I'm going to be able to understand perfectly what we're saying.

There are three parts of the magazine. So there are three parts of the magazine. And the first part is we're going to transfer you over to Spain and we're going to be hearing some live Spanish on the streets of Spain. And you'll be very pleased to hear a familiar voice in these recordings. Yes, Alba from Showtime Spanish is helping us out with these recordings and she has been interviewing people on the streets of Spain. In each episode, we are going to have one question, La Prégunta del Dia, the question of the day. And Alba will put that question to lots of different people and we'll hear their answers. After we hear them, we'll talk about the language

that these people have used. Of course, this time round, it's authentic Spanish you're hearing completely natural authentic Spanish, sometimes spoken at quite a fast speed, but I am sure that you will understand this and that you will find it useful listening to real Spanish speakers from indeed around the world. In our interviews, we've spoken to people from all over the Spanish speaking world who happen to be living in Barcelona or just there on vacation. Now there's also a video version of these interviews. We filmed Alba asking her questions to passers-by in various locations around Barcelona and you can find out more about how to access this video version from our website atradiolingua.com. Our normal episodes will feature one question and a number of answers. But to give you a

taster of what's to come, here's a little montage of some of the answers and indeed some of the questions that Alba has asked the people in our interviews. We hope you enjoy this little montage. Hello, my name is Pablo. I'm of Mexico and I'm here in Barcelona, of vacations. Hello, good days. My name's Anna. I'm from Javier, Alicante, Pueblo Costero, and we've been to vacations, some days. My name is Susanna and I I live in Madrid and I've been to Barcelona of vacations. Hello, I'm

Nouria, I'm in Tarasa, that's a media hour of Barcelona and we've been to pass the day to the play. Hello, I'm Laura, I'm of Peru and I live in Barcelona. So just before we go on, you've heard some people introducing themselves before

their interviews. We've had Pablo from Mexico, we've had Laura from Peru, and we've also had Anna, Nouria and Susanna, all of them are from Spain, but different parts of Spain. So you're really going to be hearing some different accents in the answers that people provide to our questions. Okay, it's over to Alba now. Her first question is, who do you admire most in the world? So the question of the day is,

to who you admire more in the world? Do you know what response? Yes, I, to my son and to my marido. So here the man wasn't quite sure who he admired most, but his wife really, responded correctly by saying she admires her son and her husband the most. Okay, let's listen to another question from Alba. The question of the day is, what is the first that has thought this morning?

That was very happy to be here and have some days of vacations with my marido. We've been at the concert of Mrs. Pristin and we've enjoyed much. So another question here from Alba was, what was the first thing you thought about this morning? and our interviewee thought about how happy she was on holiday with her husband. I'd have one more question from Alba and this one's a little bit more daring. She's asking,

What's your favorite way of chatting someone up? Our question of your way of chatting someone up. Um, in a manner favorite of ligar. My form a favorite, well, is very basic. I think to ask any other tontory and try to talk. Well, to acercar me, put me to conversar. Ligand not so, very, very mal.

I hope I'm, I'm sorry, I'm. Probably, I'm going to be able to be able to. And I'm going to play a part of that. and well. So you're seeing coffee break Spanish. You're seeing coffee break Spanish.

They're seeing coffee break Spanish. You're seeing coffee break Spanish. You're seeing coffee break Spanish. So some interesting answers to that final question, especially from the guy who decided that he would rather wait until people chatted him up

than chat anyone else up. Now, in a normal episode, we'd let you hear the whole of the recording with lots of different responses, and then we'll go through the recording in detail so that you're understanding all the words and phrases that people are using to answer these questions. We hope that you enjoy this part of the Coffee Break Spanish magazine, where we're listening to real conversations with real people giving their own opinions about things and indeed hesitating and speaking quickly and speaking slowly and thinking about

things, but very much authentic language used by speakers of Spanish from all around the world. Well, these interviews are the first part of the revista. Now, I'll explain the second part, the phrase idiomatic of the week.

And for this, I'm going to be joined by a new member of our team. Laura is going to be shitting with us each week one of her favorite idioms, a Spanish idiom, the equivalent of reading cats and dogs and things like that.

where she's going to be helping us really expand a range of vocabulary by using these idioms. And she'll talk about the origin of the idiom and explain why it means what it means, giving us lots of good examples. Laura is from Granada, the Spanish town of Granada. And you'll soon hear that she's got quite a different accent from the accents that we've been used to previously on Coffee Break Spanish. So yet more practice in hearing different types of Spanish used from different parts of the Spanish-speaking world. We'll be joined by Laura for the first episode next week when we can look forward to a very interesting phrase idiomatica of the seminar.

And now, the third part of the revista. Let's see. This third part involves you, the community, the coffee break Spanish learning community, who have been sending in your questions and your voicemails and asking questions of our resident experts. You know that most of our shows are based in Scotland,

although we film and record in other countries for the authentic language. But for our Q&A section here, we're going to Seattle. J.P., are you there? I'm here, Mark. It's great to speak to you, J.P. And thank you for joining us for this special announcement today. Oh, I'm excited about it. I'm excited about this Coffee Break Spanish magazine.

So tell us what your input is going to be on our magazine show. Well, as you know, I'm over at Q&A Spanish answering listeners' questions. with my friend Naili. So on the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine, we'll be having little Q&A Spanish mini segments where we'll take one question from a listener and answer it in our little segments. And that'll be part of the whole Coffee Break Spanish magazine.

I'm very excited about it. Perfect. And we're delighted that Naili will also be able to join us on the magazine. Oh, she wouldn't miss it. Excellent. JP, thank you for joining us today. And we'll be back with you very soon for the first installment of our,

Q&A Spanish on Coffee Break Magazine. After later. Well, that's it for this introduction to

our Coffee Break Spanish magazine. We hope that you found this useful. We hope that you really enjoy the

magazine and that you'll join us every week for our interviews from Spain, for our fracidimatic

of the Semana from Laura and of course for your questions. Let us know what

you think. You can do so at radiolingua.com by posting a comment there or indeed join us on Facebook or Twitter.

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