Coffee Break Spanish - El pueblo de Guernica - Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries Episode 2

Episode Date: September 3, 2020

Are you ready for the next stop on Victoria and Abel's honeymoon adventure in the north of Spain? In this week's episode, we're in the town of Guernica doing some sightseeing before making our way to Bilbao to sample some tasty Spanish dishes! Of course, Mark and Anabel discuss the language used in Victoria's diary entry, including the phrase antes de que and the construction ir a + an infinitive. We also hear some useful pronunciation tips along the way!Travel Diaries will be published in one season of ten episodes weekly from 27th August. If you’d like to access lesson notes and a video version which features pauses after each sentence to allow you to practise your pronunciation, check out the full course on the Coffee Break Academy.At Coffee Break Spanish we provide content for beginners, intermediate and advanced learners, along with regular mini lessons on social media. Visit coffeebreakspanish.com for all the information you need to build your confidence in Spanish, whatever your level. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coffee Brick Spanish Travel Diaries Season 1, Episode 2. Hello, and welcome to Coffee Brick Spanish. I'm Mark. Hello, and I'm Annabelle. What, how are you? I'm sorry, and you, what are you? I'm pretty well, and with much of this new episode.

Yes, well, we're saying about a people, a, a, place very interesting and very historical, also, with much history. You're listening, of course, to the Coffee Brick Spanish travel diaries and these are a set of 10 episodes that we are releasing while it's not quite as straightforward to travel in real life but we're doing some virtual travel with our friends who are on honeymoon that's Victoria and Abel they're on honeymoon through the north of

Spain last episode they were in San Sebastian and then they headed from there to Gernica and today we're going to find out more about Gernica now as usual we're going to be listening to the episode. We're going to be listening to the text. And then afterwards, we'll talk about that text and really get into the details of the text because there's lots and lots of interesting vocabulary in this episode. Not is right, Anabel? Yes, yes. There are much things and, and, again, we'll get more forward. Empezamos fuerte, exactly. Okay, let us get on with this. We will give you more information later on about how you can get more out of this, but for now, let us get straight in to our story for

today. Let us see. We got a Gernica just before that the reception of the hostel. After to to leave our maletas, we went to

a dinner a restaurant and we did a a walk for the the it was very

romantic although we could see the the damage that suffered the people

for the bombardee of the war civil. A the morning next, we went to do tourism.

No we'd not much without the mural of Picasso of Gernica. No,

Abel, and I were to go to go to museums, but it was a

experience that we don't we could get. The site

was precious, but only we just saw we the

we'd get to Bilbao we decided we're going

some a bookadiel for the way in the

in the coach there had to go car

car car car but we we we we

we we we we end we on a

time there there many many bach and me

result inco incommod. But A Abel it was like much that route. I think

that he was going that was skibing cascars of platano of Mario

Cart. We got to Bilbao with some but we could

see the Museum Cougenheim we we're we're we're

eating ravas and bacalal al Pilpil before to give a a

place for the river to the hospital Well, we've

done of this episode we've gone from Picasso

to Mario Cart in the one episode let's find

out more about this now as I said we're going to go through this in

detail and Annabel's going to read each sentence and then we'll

talk about the sentences and the grammar and the vocabulary in

here and as you said we're starting strongly with quite a

tricky expression in that first sentence. Let's see. We're going to get. in San Sebastian and they ended up leaving two hours late for Guernica. So they

arrived there just before they closed the hotel reception. Let's look at this verb serrasen. Anabelle, can you explain us a little what what's going to here? Well, Cerrasen,

as subjunctive. It's our lovely subjunctive. Why is it there? Because antes de-de-ke always trigger subjunctive. Exactly. So Theracin is one of two versions of what we call the imperfect subjunctive.

There are two options. We could say Theracin or Theraran. Both are perfectly okay, both are completely acceptable, and it's just exactly which one you want to use. There's two forms. The Asse form and the Ara form. So we're taking off the AR at the end of the infinitive Therar and then adding these endings. So it will be Asse, Ases, Assemos, Asesis, and. So the full verb, Annabel, would be,

Cerrase, Cerrases, Cerrase, Cerrase, Cerraseys, Cerrassen. Okay, or, if you prefer, we could use the Ara endings. So, Annabelle, let's hear the verb cerrar in the Ara endings of the imperfect subjunctive. Cerrara, cerrara, cerrara, cerrara, cerramos, cerrarais, cerrara. Do you have a preference? Yes, I do. Which one?

I prefer the cerrase. Oh, interesting. I always go for the ARA ones, but it's personal preference. Yeah. And it has like less ours, so probably it's easier for some people. For the listeners, yeah, absolutely. So Antece Deke, as Annabelle explained, is one of these expressions that triggers the subjunctive. Don't worry about this. If you're listening to this and thinking, oh, I don't know anything about the subjunctive is too complicated for me. That's absolutely fine. But you, the crucial thing is here, you'll recognize the ferra. the stem of this verb in here. So you know it's got something to do with closing. So we arrived in Gernica just before they closed the reception of the Ostana in the hostel. So let's move on.

Despite to leave our mailetas, we went to dinner to a restaurant a circano and we made a a walk for the streets. Okay, so what's happening here? after leaving off our suitcases, we must have a cenar a restaurant cercanone. This is interesting, I think, because first of all,

Femmos is the preterate of which verb? Iir, del verb, ear, uh-huh. It's also the preterate of the verb, ser, just to confuse things, but in this case, it's ir. So, we went to have dinner to a restaurant cercano.

in a local restaurant, a nearby restaurant. Now, I think as English speakers and as Spanish learners, very often we may think here, we went to eat in a restaurant, in a nearby restaurant, and you would say, we were to dinner in a restaurant in a restaurant. But, Annabelle, that doesn't work, does it? No, no, no, no, no, no, function. Why not?

because it's I'm going to a restaurant to dinner okay so the a is dependent on the year we went to a

restaurant and because we're going to that restaurant we're going there to the restaurant rather than in the restaurant

so we're going to eat at a restaurant or we're going to eat to the restaurant so we're always going we're always going we're

to dinner and Abel can you give us another example of where we would use this a after

I'm a to do a So I For example Fui At CENTro A

or Fui to Compra at center So I went to go shopping

in the center of town but you have to say to the center of town in

Spanish So Fui Al Cormar or Fui to Compra that kind

of exemplifies what we're talking about here perfectly So Fui

Mos A restaurant circano. We went to have dinner in a nearby restaurant and we

did a place on a nice expression to give a walk for the past years.

We saw por in the last episode too Por las the streets. What was it we saw last time?

Yes, we saw last time. We saw make a route for the north of

Spain. Very so for the north of Spain through the

north of Spain. And here we're going for a walk for the streets. There's a lovely song, Caminando for the Calley, I see. Do you know that one? Do you know that one? Connoces that that conceded? No, I think no. I don't know where it's where it's, but, well, comeinando

for the callche, I see. Anyway, let's continue on. It was very romantic. Although we could see the damage that the people for the bombarding

of the war civil. Okay, so it was a very romantic walk. It was a very romantic walk. It was very romantic. However, we could

see the damage that suffered the people so we were able to see the damage or the damage

Jesus is a plural thing in Spanish, the danios that the town or the village suffered for

the bombardee of the guerra civil. So here's another port here, but it's a slightly different port this time. Por el bombardo de la guerra civil. So this is a through or as a result of the bombing during the civil war. So Gernica was badly damaged

during the civil war. As like almost everybody knows, Gernica, the Picasso's painting, it's right now in Reina Sofia, in the museum in Madrid. And if someone goes to see it, you can see the reflection of all the damages and the cruelty of that, of that bombing that happened in Garnica in Spain. Very well. Okay, so let's go on and find out a little more because indeed Abel and Victoria see more of this.

A la manana next day. Okay, so here we've got a la manna siquente. The next morning. when we're talking about during the morning in the morning, we can say for the manana, but that means during the morning, it's that idea of through the morning, through the period of the morning.

But here we're talking about the next morning a la manina next morning. And what did they do? We went to do tourism, literally. We did some touristy things. No podiamos marches without ver the mural of Picasso, Del Guernica.

No podiams marcharnos. We couldn't leave. So marcharse is when you go away, when you leave. Sin bear el mural de Picasso, del Guernica. So we couldn't leave without seeing Picasso's mural of Guernica. So sin bear el mural de Picasso del Gernica. Why is it del Gernica, not just the Gernica?

Because they refer to the painting, not to the town. So it's El Guernica. Okay, perfect. Okay, now the next sentence has a fantastic expression in it. Let's look at this. Ni Abel, nor I, we're a museum,

but it was a experience that no us could be able to perder. Okay, so first of all, we've got Ni Abel, ni, neither Abel nor I.

Somos de to go to museum. Now, this is from the expression Ser de plus something. So we are not the kind of people to go to museums. We're not into going to museums. Annabel, can you tell us more about this?

I love that you asked that question because we can revise something that we covered last week. So, Mark, recallas what significa casero? Yes, okay. So Abel is very casero last time. That means that he is a home buddy. He likes to stay at home. He's a kind of home person. or we can also say

Abel is De Kedarsse in Kasa Okay so there we've got S-D plus a verb Miguel is de Kedarsse in Casa

He is the kind of person who likes to stay at home He stays at home lots So here we've got Somos de So we've got Ser de plus a an infinitive again Somos de

We are into going to museums or in this case we are not into going to museums. Can you give us some more examples of this Annabelle? Yes, I can. In fact, we can also use a noun instead of an infinitive. So Mark, you're just one of the garros, I think. And you? I think that of gatos, but the perros also I also So, be perros or gatos. Are you more into

dogs or cats? Do you like dogs or cats more? Other examples? Well, to be this. Are you de-ducce or desalado? Ah, very interesting. I have to say that I'm of dulce. And you?

I'm too. I prefer the chocolate. So they're talking, it sounds as if we're using adjectives, they are dulce and salado. But actually what we're talking about is Comida, dulce, comida salada, no?

Uh-huh, as he is. Okay, so are you more savory than sweet or sweet than savory and so on? So serde are really useful expression. And it's a nice expression. It's much nicer than just saying,

me gusta, el chocolate, I'm de chocolate or I'm de something like that. Very well. Okay, so coming back to the sentence, niabeli, ni yo, Somos de ira mousseos. neither, Avel nor I really are that into museums,

but it was a experience that that no nos podiams per die. Now, this is nice because this is an expression that is perversy, or no perversy something that we couldn't miss. Now, perdere is to lose, but when you're talking about perverse, it's when you miss something.

Annabel, us does other examples of this, for favor. Yes, for example, The Casa de Papel is a series very interesting. No, Te la Puedes

Perder. Very well. The Casa De Pabel, we've talked about this in one of our magazine episodes. La Caza de Papel is known as

Money Haist in English and it's a series that you can't miss. No te la Puedes Perder. So we've got La in there referring to

the series, no te la Puedes perder. So the T is the reflex of pronoun that's going with

Perder, because it's perverse. No te la you can't to yourself it miss.

Something like that. You can't miss it. No te la you can't miss it. No te la let's see. The site was a precious.

But only we only saw the place, the museum. The site was beautiful. It was precious. It was beautiful. But only

saw the basics. We only saw the basics. We only saw a little. As we wanted to get Pronto to Bilbao, we decided to buy

some a bocadillos for the Camino. Okay, so as we wanted to arrive early in Bilbao,

as we were, as we wanted to get to get to Bront to Bilbao, we decided to

buy some sandwiches for the journey, for the way, for the route there. Okay. We are going

to take a short break and we'll be back in just a moment with more of the diary entry from episode two from Victoria. We wanted to let you know that there's a premium version of the travel diaries course and this includes a set of lesson notes where you'll be able to read the text from each of the diaries and work through the vocabulary and any explanations that we've provided. There's also a video version of the text where we've left space for you to repeat the words and phrases used, giving you an opportunity to practice your story.

speaking and your pronunciation. For more information about this, head to coffeebrickacademy.com. Very well, we're going to GERNICA with Victoria and Abel, and are a point of marches of Gernica and they're in the way to Bilbao. Is the right? Yes, so is. Okay, we're going to continue, then, with the text. In coach There was to go For carreteras But as

But as We've got to go By a cross On a road Of a Okay, lots of stuff in here Let's begin with

Incoche Hadia Yeah To go for Carretera Secondaries So by By car

we had to go by literally secondary roads So these are like In the UK We'd refer to

these as B roads They're not the A roads. They're not the main roads, but these are small roads, the more rural roads, if you like. And something happened. No secibokamos in a cruce. Now, equivocarse, Annabelle, is a useful verb. Can you give us some examples of equivocarse and we'll see if we can work out what it means? In Spanish, when I use the subjunctive, me equivoco. Okay. And I'm too, and all the world So when I'm using the subjunctive in Spanish,

me equivoco, I make mistakes. I get it wrong. Okay, so equivocarse to get something wrong, to make a mistake. In this case, no secivocamos in a cruce. A cruce is a crossroads, and they made a mistake in a crossroads,

in these little country roads, and what happened, terminamos, going for a camino de Tierra. We ended, it up going, we'll come back to that, for a Camino de Tierra, literally along an earth road,

so a dirt track, a dusty, dirty track that they were going along in the country. But let's look at Yendo. What does Yendo come from? Is the gerundio of the verb Yir. El herundio, the gerundian form of the verb Iir. So Yendo or Yendo, can you say it for us, Annabelle?

Yendo. Yendo. Okay, you'll hear that Annabel is pronouncing that a little like a j-sou sound almost, yendo, yendo. And that's what we hear when we're looking at double-ells and Y's in Spanish, certainly in parts of Spain, you'll hear this, yendo, yendo. In other parts of the world, of course, you'll hear that slightly differently. You'll hear maybe something that sounds a little more like a y,

or something almost that sounds like a sh. So, gendo in Argentina, that would be probably how you would hear that. So just be careful with your pronunciation of the Y's and the double L sounds, because you can pronounce them whatever way you like, but you'll hear them differently depending on where you are. Yendo por un Camino de Tierra. Very well. Let's go on.

There were much baches and me resulted incommodo. But Abel parecio used to love that route. Okay. There were much baches. Now this is a new word for me. I have to be honest. a pachche is a pothole It's a new word for me in English

Excellent A bache is basically holes in the road So a pothole There were many potholes And me resulto And to me it resulted Uncomfortable So it was uncomfortable

But A bel Parecio Mustardly much That route But Abel seemed to really Like that road, that route Let's look at the construction here A belle

So let's take out the Parasio. We could just say A Abel le gusto much that route. So Abel really liked that road. But we're talking about it seemed to please him. A Abel, parecio, gustave and we need the a-Abel

because it's gustave to someone. Okay. So but Abel, it's gustavut her much that route. Abel seemed to like that road. Let's find it why. I think he was skivando cascaras of platano of Mario Kart.

Okay. Now, if you play games like Mario Kart, then you will probably be aware that Mario Kart has to dodge banana peels as he drives along the racetrack. So in this case,

Victoria thinks I think that he was Eskivando Kaskaras de Platano. What is that? Eskivar to dodge, not Eskia to ski. A completely different sport there. But he was dodging

cascadas de Platano. So banana pills Del Mariocat from Mario Kart. Okay, let's continue on. Gygamos to Bilbao with a little bitraso, but we could see the Museum Guggenheim.

Okay. So we are arrived at Bilbao and notice that's the preterate there. It looks exactly the same as the present but in this case it's the preterate. We'll getemus a bit late. Nice expression. With Algo de retrasso. We can use Algo de for a little.

Annabelle, again can you give us some further examples of Algo de? Tengo Algo de Sueno. Nice. Tengo Algo de de sueuio to be sleepy to feel tired. Tengu Algo de Sueue. I'm a little bit tired. Very well. Otro example?

Have you got some fruit? So, Tienes Algo de Fruta. Again, it's just a little or some here. We're looking at Algo de Retrasso. We arrived in Bilbao just a little bit late. However, they were able to see the Guggenheim Museum, but we could see the Guggenheim. Very well.

Terminamos the day, Cenando Ravas and Bacalao at Pilpil, before to give a passio for the rio

to be the day. We ended the day terminamos the way and then we're going to use a geron there

doing something than can't do ravas and bacalau al pilpil right so when we come

to food vocabulary sometimes it's a little difficult because there's so much to know and it's all very

regional so bacalau is cod and then the pilpil is a kind of garlic sauce

basically oil and garlic so you very often have gambas al-pil-pil. This is baccalao al-pil-pil-cod in a pil-pil sauce. And ravas. An arava on an animal is the tail of the animal. Annabelle, can you explain what rhabas are?

Ravas are calamarees. Calamarees fritos. Okay, so fried squid. So very much a typical dish from the region. They're at the coast. So in Bilbao, Ravas and baccalao, pilpil. Very traditional and very rich too.

Yes, that's okay, so they finished the day dining on Ravas and Bacalao before to give a passio for the

rio de Camino to the hostel before going for a walk along the river on the way back to the hostel. Now let's look at one thing here because we've got

an before to give a but at the beginning we started with anst that they serrasen the reception of the hostel.

we need to look at what the difference is between an antes de plus an infinitive and antes de ke plus the subjunctive and Abel can you help us with this when the subject or the reference is the same than antes de

plus infinitive but when it changes then it's with subjunctive so here we've got we ended the day eating that before we went for a walk along so it's the same subject it's not we finish the day before someone else arrived.

We finished the day and then we went for a walk. However, in our first example at the beginning of this episode, we had, We had, We GERNica justo antes de Cerasen la Recession of the Hotel. So we arrived in Gernica just before they closed the hotel reception. So referring to the staff at the hotel, there are two different subjects there.

And that's why we need the subjunctive with before they closed they closed or ceran but here we finish the day before leaving, before going for a walk along the river

on the way to the hostel. I think what we should do now is listen again to the full text and this time now that we've gone through everything hopefully everyone will understand it perfectly. Let's see We got herniko just before that

they're going to be the reception of the hostel after to leave our maletas we went to a dinner a restaurant

and we did a walk for the the case it was very romantic although we could

see the the damage that suffered the people for the bombardee of the war civil. To the morning

next, we went to do tourism. No could marchar-nors without the mural of Picasso

of Gernica. Neither Abel and I are to go to use, but it was a experience

that no we could we'd know. The site was precious, but

only we saw we basic. As we we're going to get to Bilbao, we decided to buy

some vocadillos for the road. In the coach there had to

go to carterters second but as we we're we're we're

we're we're going for a way of the there

there many baches and me result inco but to Abel

it seemed good that Ruta I think I'm that I'm

he's he's he's skisking the black of Mario

Cart we got to get a but we

could see the Museum Guggenheim we we we're

we're we're eating Ravas and Bacalal Al Pilp before

to give a passe for the rio to the road

to the old very well we hope that that all made more sense

that time through and we hope that you've learned something in this

episode it's been an interesting one both culturally and

linguistically we've looked at a few interesting things from the point of

of the subjunctives there with an de and an

infinitive with an subjunct with an de and also

we've learned a little about some Spanish history and some Spanish art. If you've not seen the Gernica painting or the mural, then do look that up and see what you can find out about that. Annabel, do you've got this episode? A me has been loved, so much the part of the food.

That's is important. You've been in Gernica, you? No, still not. You has been? No, I don't. Don't. I'd be back again next time with more. travels from Victoria and Abel. They will be spending some time in Bilbao. And don't forget that you can also check out our Instagram account where you can follow the travels of Avil and Victoria and also the other travels of our other Coffee Break travel diaries. We've already had 10 episodes of French and Italian travels. And we are joining also Karin and her family as they travel along the German Alp route in Coffee Break German travel diaries. So you can find all that over at Coffee Break. languages on Instagram. Also, there are the premium versions of all our courses, so you can access the video version of this, where you'll see the words on the screen and you can practice your pronunciation, and also the lesson notes. All that is at the Coffee Break Academy. For now, I'd like to say much gracias, and as always, happy coffee breaking. Adios. Adios. You have been

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