Coffee Break Spanish - How to react like a native speaker - Spanish conversational filler words | CBS Show 2.10

Episode Date: August 1, 2024

How many Spanish filler words do you know? These handy words can help you blend in with the locals when engaging in conversations. Familiarise yourself with some of them in this episode of the Coffee Break Spanish Show!Prefer to watch these lessons? You can do exactly that for free on Coffee Break TV, and download the episodes to your device so you can access them on the go. Or, you can head to our Coffee Break Spanish YouTube channel to access the video version of each podcast episode there. Remember to subscribe to our channel so that you don’t miss an episode.That's not all... each episode of the Show is accompanied by a blog article to increase your understanding of the topics covered.➡️ Click the link to access the blog article and worksheet that accompany this lesson ⬅️ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome to the Coffee Break Spanish Show. I'm Annabelle and I am Annabelle. I'm very well, you're good, you're I'm very content of being here. I'm also delighted to be here in this last episode of this season, here of the Coffee Break Spanish show. And in these weekly episodes of the Coffee Break Spanish show,

we help you to improve your Spanish one coffee break at a time. That's it. So if you're watching the video, on YouTube, make sure that you subscribe to our channel. And if you're listening to the podcast version, just make sure that you subscribe wherever you are listening. So for this last episode of this season, we have brought you something quite interesting.

Oh, de what we're going to help you to react. Well, in a Spanish conversation, just imagine that you are having a conversation with your Spanish friend or Hispanic friend. and they are telling you a story. So we are going to help you to know how to react in those situations. That is. Well, it's very interesting. We're going to.

So as we have just said, we are going to teach you just to show you how to react when having a conversation with your native speakers' friends. And we're going to see some of the most common reaction phrases. Yeah? Okay. So the first one is, in serious. Oh, I like this one. I use it all the time. Same. And En Serio just means really.

And we use this to show surprise and it can be either good or bad surprise. We're going to see this in an example. So this is a conversation. And if you could, I would like you to react to my sentence. I will. I'm ready. Okay. So the example is me go dos meses at Thailand. I'm going two months to Thailand. In serious?

So really, that's great. En Serio as really. And it's a reaction to a positive or like just a good news. So en serio. But imagine that I really don't want to go to Thailand because I don't know any reason. So then I will say, me go two months to Thailand. In serio, what rollo. So then we have to en serio that is just really.

So positive one, en serio. and negative one, En Serio. And I can see, I can hear in the way that you're saying it that the tone changes a little bit, no? Yes, yes, yes, yes. And you have added something else in the last one when I was like, oh, I'm going to months,

for two months to Thailand. Uh-huh. What have you said? I said, in se, no, in serio, what is this? What is this? What do you think? Because this is another reaction,

another way to react to something. Yeah, exactly. So, Ke rollo means, oh, no. that's that's not good no what a hassle as well yes see rollo

I like that word because it's the strong art so just like to show that you find something boring or bothersome like oh

she's just reacting to my sentence of oh I have like to go to Thailand so just oh in serio yeah I like that

as well because it repeats I said it as well in the previous expression I say oh okay bien So we tend to, when we react to things like this, we normally use the word

which is something that surprises our learners a lot because they're like, why are you saying this with k? So yeah, that's just the way we react. Que bien, what rollo. And we have another one that starts with ke and it's, Ke pena. See, so that's, oh, what a pity. And so, so, what a shame. So just like in English, it expresses like condolences about a situation.

So just like, oh, yeah, such a shame. So if I said to you something like, well, no, we don't go to vacations. Oh no. In serious? What pena. So we have added, oh no, in serious.

What pen. I feel like this is something that we, Spanish speakers do a lot. We say lots of expressions. Yeah. In one goal. So the good thing is that just to keep in mind that we are not only using one, we can just use multiple.

And three, four, well, don't overuse it, right? But yeah, I mean, It's not going to sound like you're overusing it, if that makes sense. If it sounds like you're, you are overusing it. To us, it doesn't. Well, so we have, Ke pena, what rollo,

que bien. And now let's get again like that surprise with, Keme dithes. I like this one. Yes. So this is to say something like, really? No way.

But literally, we are saying, what are you saying? What are you talking about? But it's just like, oh, really? Kemi d'i this is. What do you say to me? And again, we use it for surprise, but either good or bad.

And it could be interchangeable with Enserio. So instead of using Enserio, we can use Ke me Dices or both. That is. So if I say something like, Annabel, my friends me prepared on a voyage surprise and we went one a semester. What me Dices? What way.

Aha. That is. And now Kewi is just like how cool. like saying, Ke bien. So I hear like, Kemi says, positive thing.

Yes, and we have something similar with no me don't tell me. Yeah. I think I would use them both interchangeably,

actually. I agree, I agree. So, for example, me going to get a next year.

No me digas. In serious, que bien. So is. And I love it because, yeah,

you have just used three. I love it. I like this one particularly. Oh, that's a really good one. It's like, what a mess. Uh-huh, exactly.

So we would express that a situation is complex or is a mess. So if I said something like, I thought that I had to do a presentation on Monday. So I thought I had to give a presentation on Monday. But my boss told me that it was on Tuesday. It's Hega the lunas

and he said He had to do it So Monday came Okay Monday And they told me that I had

to do it that day So this is We are presenting a very messy situation Right And no

I was expecting anything So now my reaction would be What me Diss

in serious Like Really Yes Yes And result that

the theme of the presentation that I had to give, was other of the one of the one that they had told me previously. No me digas, what lio. Exactly. So all of them there. So presenting the information and you're expressing surprise, what me did you, in serious? No way, really.

And then, no me digas, what lio. So again, what are you saying? What a mess. So is, that. So just like, yeah, we can combine them. And, well, there are more, but I think that here we had to add it one filler or one like way to react that is very simple but also like mostly used. And it's, yeah, and see. Bueno, obviously.

We have seen some fillers, but there are more. Sadly, we cannot like cover all of them in this video. Oh, it would be an hour and a half long. Yeah. But we will like to finish with one that is like quite useful and is yeah and si. And we use these just to show that we are following the conversation. So it doesn't add any meaning. It's just like, oh, yeah, I'm following.

So we can just not, but actually in Spanish we nod and also say yeah, and see. Don't worry because we have an example here. So what we're going to do is I am going to tell anabella story of what I'm going to do this weekend. I'm just going to make it up on the spot. Yeah, so that you can see the reactions that Annabel is having to my story. And I'm also going to try to use the other expressions that we've seen. Exactly. Don't worry if you don't understand everything from the beginning

because then we will go back and analyze all the sentences. So, yeah, for now, just listen out for those fillers that we have been studying. Perfect. Okay, well, what you're going to do this end of the month? This end of the same time, Annabelle, me go to Paris. Ah, that Yeah, I go to Paris to see a

Yeah, and we're going to visit many museums. Oh, that good Yeah, but I think

it's going to oh, that's bad yeah, no, no, I'm sorry, so here we could have seen

like some of those like see and yeah, I also have it like said uh-huh, uh-huh

is the same that yeah and see and also some other reactions can you

like tell us a little bit briefly what you've said in English? Exactly. So I said, this fine of the semester, I am going to go to Paris. And so I haven't reacted.

I can remember what you said. But I said like, oh, que bien, no? Exactly, que bien. So it's one of the ones that we've seen. And, yeah, I explained that I am going to go to Paris to see my friends. So I'm going to see a my friend, so I'm going to see a my friend, that's going to be there. And then I said, We're going to visit much

museums. So we are going to visit plenty of museums. And then the tone of the conversation changed a little bit because I remembered that I saw that it was going to rain. So I said, But I think it's going to rain.

And that's not good news. So that's why we reacted in a sad way. Exactly. And then I said, I hope it doesn't rain. And if you have seen the episode of the subjunctive, then you may know why.

I was using the subjunctive there. But yeah, I hope it doesn't rain. Excellent. So before finishing, shall we just wrap up and remember all the expressions that we've seen?

Venga. So to say really and just to react to show surprise to something that it's either good or bad, we have, En Serio,

what me dises, and no me digas. And depending on the tone, no me digas, or no me digas. That's how you know. And we have also seen some reactions that are ke plus something else. For example, the one that I just mentioned

when you were talking about your weekend, it was ke mal. I'm sure that you know what mal is and it just is please to say, oh no, how bad, no? And what rollo, which is how boring or what a pain. What a pain. What a shame. And also one that you said that you liked a lot. Yeah. What a mess. Excellent. So I think that's all for this video. Yeah. I think we've covered some of the fillers as many as we could today. Excellent. Well, that's all for this video. I hope you have enjoyed the lesson and also this season two of the Coffee Break Spanish show.

There are like these examples that we have been talking about and just information. You can find it on the blog and the link is in the description. Yes, so is. And if you would like more help with your Spanish and you would like to receive regular free email lessons, you can sign up on coffeebreaklanguages.com slash Spanish. So look out for your next mealy lesson in your inbox and continue practicing and improving your Spanish. So I think that's all for now.

Yeah, I think that's a good wrap-up for the season. Yeah, it's Saturday's the last episode, but I think it has been a really good last episode of this season too, right? Yes, I'm sorry. Well, much thanks to you, Concha, and to you, and to the next. That's it. Happy coffee breaking. You have been listening to a Copybreak Language's production for the Radiolingo network.

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