Coffee Break Spanish - La costa norte - Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries Episode 6

Episode Date: October 1, 2020

Join Victoria and Abel in Episode 6 of The Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries as they embark on the next leg of their trip around the north of Spain. This time, they head off from San Vicente de la Barquera in Cantabria as they make their way to the village of Lastres in Asturias and visit the Bufones de Arenillas geysers and the Playa de Gulpiyuri - an inland beach. Mark and Anabel talk about these places being de ensueño (dreamlike) and discuss the use of the verb madrugar (to get up early) among many other interesting expressions and phrases.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 6. Hello, all, and well-in-viness. I'm Mark. And I'm Annabelle. What, Mark? How is you? Very well, and with much more than to continue our voyage, well, not is our voyage,

but the voyage of Victoria and Abel, for the north of Spain. But we do with them, so it also is our. I'm totally of course. We hope that you're all very well and enjoying our journey around the north of Spain with Abel and Victoria as they celebrate their honeymoon travelling through these beautiful villages and towns and cities throughout the north of Spain.

Now, last time we were in Santilliana del Mar, well, that's where we arrived and they, as usual, had some delicious food, Cucido Montaignees and anchovas de Santonia. And let's see what happens this time. Where do they van, Oi, Annabelle? Well, in this episode, Abel and Victoria Vana to Asturias.

Has been in Asturias, Mark? Well, yes, the truth is that I've been in the destiny of

today, in San Vicente of the barquera, but the fact that I'm not a

maybe this episode you refresh a little a memory, Mark. You're right.

I am aware that I'm saying this almost every week because we've

come to different destinations and I'm don't really remember much. It was

20 years ago when we did this one trip, so that's why I don't remember much. I'm looking indeed to have my memory refreshed by this episode. Let's get straight on with it now. I think that until Abel, as I, we're, we're not sure about to madruged. We're not even though. But, no dormiaeumous the sufficient. Menos mal that it was a a day a single.

We're going to a San Vicente of the Barquera, a pueblo costero with the streets and edifices of ensue

was like to bea a year after the imprescindible we'll we'll come to the

coach and we we took rumbo at lastres, Asturias, where we'd passers the night. But we did various parades before. The best was buffones of arrenillas, some chimeneas natural, to the coast, for those that

that was the water of the mar. A Abel he enchanted the

play of Gulpiyuri, a playa that no does the mar incredible. Decid

we did do you a picnic and mojarn the feet. We're at last

three at a media time, we're we're we're and we

did a a shorter entry this time from Victoria but still full of lots of suggestions for our next trip to the north of Spain and Abel let's go through it as ever

I think that T'Abel as I'm We're tired Okay, so Canzado of course means tired and we were tired of well what will be tired of Madrugar is an interesting verb because you can't really

translate it with a single word in English. Madrugar. What does mean madrugar? Quere to say, desperer time. Exactly. So to get up early.

Now, we'll come back to that in just a moment. So, Abel and I were tired of madrugar. We were tired getting up early. But what Victoria actually says is, I think that Tanto Abel like I,

Tanto, one thing, as another thing, is as much as. So Abel was as tired as I was of getting up early in the morning. I think that Tantauvel as we, we, we, and just watch the verb that it's the wee form.

Nosotros, I think that both Abel, as we, we're not sure we're castles of madrugar. Now, Annabelle, madrugar does indeed mean getting up early. However, when we talk about the madrugada,

what are we talking about there? for the morning, to the moment of the morning. And this

early moment of the morning, could this actually be before we go to bed? For example,

if we are in juerga? Oh, yeah, it depends of how you're

to do to dream. Exactly. So it depends how late you're going to

sleep. So if you're out and enjoying a night out Spanish style,

which Spanish style would probably But you wouldn't start until, well, very late. And then you would go on partying until the early hours of the morning. Those early hours of the morning are indeed la madrugada. So you can be out until the madrugada, but the word madrugar means to get up early.

So if you've been out until the madrugada and then you madrugar, you're going to be tired the next day, I think. You're going to be tired the next day, I think. Yes, okay, then Victoria goes on to see

No, We're Encantando El Viage, but no dormiams the sufficient. Right.

We probably know what Nos Encanta El Viage means. We are loving the journey. Nos Enca

El Viage. But here, what we've done is change Encanta to a

continuous tense using Estar plus the Gerund. So no sestava encanando

the voyage literally to us was enchanting the journey so the journey was enchanting us or we were loving every minute

of the journey we were enchantando the voyage however what was happening no dormium

so no dormia that's an imperfect tense there no dormiams the sufficient we were

not sleeping the sufficient. We weren't getting enough sleep because I think they're being, they've been very busy on their, on their journey. Could we say, but no stabbosduminess, yeah, also we can say it. But no, we're not stabbasduring, the worded, d. You are, durmienda, the general form of dormier, the vowel changes in there. Dormine in the infinitive Dormiando with a you in the gerund. We weren't sleeping enough. Okay, let's continue.

Menos mal that I was to be a a day simple. Okay, Menos mal that I waser a day

a single another imperfect tense here. Thank goodness it was going to be a simple day. Menos mal that is a thank goodness something like that.

Menos mal at least it was going to be a simple day. A day a day a day simple day. We're going

to San Vicente de la barquera, a poebo costero with

the old and unseeing so yendo is another gerend we're seeing

quite a few jorins in this episode so far we've started by going to San

Vicente de la barquera which is a poebo costero coastal village or town, with

galles and edificios de ensueño. If something is described as de ensueño, it means they're like a dream, they're fantastic, they're magnificent. So these are streets and buildings which are dreamlike. They're so amazing. For example,

the voyage of Abel and Victoria is de ensueño. No, you know, it's? Yes, me per se. So, Abelin and Victoria's journey is a dream trip, a dream journey. Perfecto. It was as if we were traveling back to the Middle Ages, La Edad Media, the Middle Ages.

So have a look at the image that we've put on the Instagram account for San Vicente La Barquera, and you'll get a feel for these medieval buildings. And of course, you can look at other images online. It's a beautiful place. Tras ver the imprescendible we'll come

rumbo to lastres, Asturias, where we'll passeriams the night. Okay, so another example

of something we've seen before in this and that's that conditional used in the past to refer to what the plan was. Okay,

we'll see that in just a moment. Tras ver what imprescindible. Tras ver what impresendible. Lo imprescindible is the essential things. So, tras ver lo imprescindible, having seen the essential things,

once we'd seen the essential things, we returned to the car, and we tomamos rumbo at lastres. And we took the journey we headed towards lastres, which is in Asturias, so that's a new province, where we passariamos la noche, we planned to spend the night, literally where we would spend the night.

Or where we would spend the night. Or where we would say also, exactly. Exactly. Mark, before to continue, let's have a look at Tras ver what imprescindible. Tras ver here is like after-de-beer. But in despite-de-beer,

Yes, de, can be combined with an infinitive or a conjugated verb if it's después de, que, conjugated verb. But with truss, we can only use an infinitive. And it is usually put at the beginning of the sentence, not infinitive, but the structure. Yep. So here we've got tras ver, lo imprescindible, after seeing the essential things

or having seen the essential things and so on that we translated alike. but we could also use this place. How would that be, Annabel? Despite Devere, the imprescindible. So with

then después we need the D after it. And there's also one other option and this is the slightly more complicated version because we're going to use a conjugated verb.

Anabel, let's hear what that would be. Despite de that weiramos the impresindible. Okay, so

there, Despo de dee that viramos, viamos is an imperfect subjunctive. So for those of you who are a little further on with your Spanish,

you recognize guiramos or viesemos as an imperfect subjunctive. And the reason for that is it comes after, despoise de que we need a subjunctive after that. Okay, one more question, Anabel, and that is, would we speak? Would we use transver in speaking in spoken Spanish, or is that more written? I have to admit it's a little bit more written than spoken.

But now we know it, so it's all good and you'll be able to recognize that if you read that. Okay, let's continue on. One more sentence. But we did various parades antes. So before they got to Lasres, they did various stops beforehand.

I'll hear a little about those stops in just a minute. Let's take a short break now. 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 speaking and your pronunciation.

For more information about this, head to coffeebreakacademy.com. Okay, so Victoria, and that's why. are on their way to last three, and on the way to last three, they make a few stops. Let's find out a little more about these stops. Anabel. The best was buffones of arenillas, some chimeneas naturales, junto to the coast,

for those that was the water of the mar. Okay, the best thing was, the thing that they liked most, was buffones of arrenillas. Annabel, what is a buffon? Well, Mark, today, in

Spanish, a buffon is a pallasso. A pallasso? So, what is a pallasso? A pallasso is someone who

makes, that is a biterty and that is a buffon. Okay. So, we could we

have to the buffon of the class, for example? That is the gracios. The person,

Graciosa of the class clown. Okay, so we're talking here about the class clown. El Bufon, a Bufon is a clown in a kind of historical sense, a jester. But here Bufon has another sense, no? Yes, here is other thing. It's like a chimenea or a hazer. A geyser or a geyser, a geyser, a chiezer, a chiminea, literally a chimney. in this case

a chimineas natural chimneys or natural gaisers junto to the coast beside the coast for those that was that was the water through which came out

the seawater so the seawater is projected up through these geysers and that's what gives them the name the buffoons of aranillas Aranelle, I have another question. Here, for the

water of the water, we could say also for the which was the water of the

water? Yes, we can say it, but it's a little more formal. Okay,

then here for the that was the water of the water, it's

perfect. Very good. Okay, we're to see. A

Abel he he enchant the play the Playa of

Gulpiyuri, a playa that no da the mar

not a not a not a is interior interior okay

so Abel loved the beach of Gulpy I

love that name Gulpyjuri a play so dar a

something is when you look out over something it faces something so

a play that not a beach which doesn't

look out onto the sea Incredible. Incredible. Decidimus to do a picnic

and mojarno those pies. So I like this. Decidimos to do a picnic. We decided to

have a picnic there and mojarnos those feet. And to wet to ourselves the feet.

Okay, so have a paddle. But notice the way that's done in Spanish. Mojarnos los pies.

As with everything like this, We don't make the part of the body personal. Okay, you make the verb personal and make the part of the body impersonal. So, for example, if you were brushing your teeth, Annabelle, me lavo los dientes. So me lavo, make it reflexive. And then los dientes, not misdientes.

It doesn't matter. If you're brushing your teeth to yourself, then obviously they're your teeth. But the part of the body is just the los dentes or los pies here. And it's the action, the washing or the paddling here, dipping our toes in the water. Mojarnos los pies. So we got to last three a media tard. So we got to last three a media tard. This would be in the middle of the afternoon.

But remember the middle of the afternoon, maybe a little later in Spain. Annabel, at what hour? they're getting at the three. Dime First,

remember at what time the time? Well, over the three and three and

four? So so media after is at six, seven. Okay,

then in the middle of the afternoon you would not think about it certainly in a

UK context of that being about seven o'clock in the evening but here

we're looking at seven o'clock in the evening a media tard So we're

So the mirro And we're So the mirador is the viewpoint, it's the lookout point From which they can see a beautiful view of last 3 So they had an early dinner in the Mirador and then they went for a walk along the beach

Dimos a passio for the play Dar a walk, give a walk, dar a passio. Very well. Well, then we're going to to go to hear a hear

the text and this time we're to understand all. I think that

about we're we're we're we're we're we're we're

we're getting the year but not we're not

we're much that was to be a day a

single we we we're going to San Vicente

of the barquera, a poeble costero with colleges and edifices of ensue

was like to be a age media. Tras ver the imprescindible we

back to the and we take rumbo at last

three Asturias where we would the night but

we're we're many parades before. The best was

buffones of arenillas, a chimeneas natural along to the

coast for the that the water the the abel

he enchant the play of Gulpiyuri a play

that not that not incredible we decided we

do do We're now at last three a media tardy. Cenamos in the mirador. And we're

a walk the play. And yeah is that. They are now in Lasres and we'll find out a little

more about last three in the next episode. Now if you'd like to get more out of this episode and indeed the whole series,

you can check out the course version of this. That includes lesson notes which will give you more information

about the language used in further examples and also our video version where we pause after each part of each sentence and it gives you the chance to repeat and practice your pronunciation.

So you can find all of that at coffeebreakacademy.com. And don't forget to check out our Instagram account where you can see photos of some of the places visited by Abel and Victoria on their journey through the north of Spain. And you'll also be able to see the other journeys followed by our coffee break French, Italian and German travel diaries. All of that on our Instagram account. Yes, just search for coffee break languages. Well, we're back

the same week with another episode of the Travel Diaries, but entreatanto, much thanks. And until the next. Adios. You have been listening to a production of the Coffee Break Academy for the Radiolingua Network.

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