Coffee Break Spanish - La lluvia de Bilbao - Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries Episode 3

Episode Date: September 10, 2020

The Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries continue as this week, Victoria and Abel explore the Basque city of Bilbao, home to a branch of the famous Guggenheim Museum. Despite the stormy weather leaving them calados hasta los huesos, they make the most of their trip and enjoy some delicious local food. ¡Vamos a Bilbao!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 Break Spanish Travel Diaries Season 1 Episode 3 Buenos days to all, and welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark. Hello, and I'm Annabelle. How are, how is Mark? I'm super well, very content. And it's, it's all, it's cold and it's hot in Scotland today?

What is in England? Well, no, it's all, and also it's cold. Ah, okay. We're, we're, we're Svente, but well, we're going to, we're back

where you're going to stay your audience. Okay, we are back with another episode of the Coffee Break Spanish travel diaries. We're following the

adventures of Victoria and Abel as they take their honeymoon through the north of Spain. Now, the idea, of course, with this is that at the moment it's a little difficult to travel

ourselves. So we thought we'll do some virtual travel and we'll join Victoria and Abel and Victoria is keeping a diary of her travels

and that's exactly what we're following. So this gives us the opportunity to practice our vocabulary, to increase our knowledge of grammar, and crucially to learn something about this beautiful part of Spain. We hope you're enjoying the journey so far. Annabel, you're going to this voyage. De moment, me is can't want. The north of Spain is precious.

And the summer past, I've been in Garnica, and me had entered many years to go. you're going to you're just a good lot on you used a

great expression there Anabel me have been entrado ganas to

year literally to me have entered desires to go it's wonderful I

really fancy going there now because we learned about Guernica today we're going to

be learning about Bilbao the capital of the Basque country

so let's listen to the episode Amene with tormenta Abel, that detesta the jubia,

as our gato Alfredo, he wanted to change all the plans that we had. It was to finishing to buy some chubasqueros and to keep with what planed. He stoo-do-stoo-d-oomor-de-per-to-a-ma-mauna and no part of signallar

that the photos not lusied for the jubia, as if not it knew it. But

neither his humor or the torment impidier that did

that did find different places of the city like the

the city, the place and the parks and the

and the time we were we were we

We're not We're We're and cocoches or merlouza in the casuela Menos that the menu was in Basco and in

Spanish As we're really We're really We're taking the rest of the tarsing with a ternquil and we're

We're we're going to Perfect and more food Yes, always There's Very important Now something else that's very important

Is that we correct something That I just said before this episode began Or before we listened to the recording there I said that Birbal was the capital Of the Basqueh country but it's not It's the capital of Bithkaya province But the official capital Of the Basque country

Is what city Victoria? Vittoria Well done, yeah, it's Vittoria Birval is the largest city within the Basque country, but it's actually just the capital of Bithcaya province. So we wanted to make that clear and correct the little mistake that we got in there. Anyway, let's go back through the text and we will talk about the language and look at

interesting vocabulary as usual. Anabel, take it away. Ammanecimos con tormenta. Nice, short sentence to begin with. Ammanecimos con tormenta. So literally, we donned with. storm. So amanecer is the verb to dawn. But we can say amanece, it is dawning. We are experiencing dawn. But here, when we're personalizing it, we're saying we dawned. The day began for us

with a storm. So not the most unlikely thing to happen in this part of the world. No, In the north of Spain it's a lot and with frequently And for

that is a region very very very very very very

very very so we began the day with a storm let's go on

Abel that detesta the jubia as our Gato

Alfredo he wanted to Victoria and Abel are more of gatos than of perros. So they are

cat people as opposed to dog people. So Abel that detesta the jubia like our cat Alfredo. So Abel who hates the rain like our cat Alfredo, he wanted to change

all the plans that we had. He wanted to change all the plans that we had that we had that we had. So the imperfect verb, the imperfect tense of, the verb,

Tenor. Lo terminé convincing for to buy some chubasqueros and continue

with the plani okay, this is an interesting expression. Lo termine

convincing to end or to finish. Convencer is to convince. And the law here refers to

Abel, it refers to Abel. So I ended convincing him. I ended up

convincing him. Now, you may be wondering, is it convincing a Alien? And Anabel, is Convencer a direct or an indirect construction? It is a direct construction. So if we say Convencer aal a, that a is just a personal a. The personal A is not ticking on an indirect meaning or anything like that. It's not Escribier a Algin or anything like that.

However, you may see Le terminé convenieno. You can say le termini convene condensiendo. if it's like leismo, this is called leismo, and it's when a direct construction, when it's a masculine, it's taken as an indirect. Okay. This is correct,

but only if it refers to Abel and not to Victoria. If it's Victoria, then it has to be La Termine Convencinge. But since it is Abel, we can say either Lo terminine convincing or Le terminé convincing.

Both are correct. Okay. And that's something that you will see differences with, depending on where you are in the Spanish-speaking world. Sometimes le terminé convenieno would be accepted as more correct or less correct in different places. But anyway, lo terminé convenciendo is perfectly correct. Lo termini convincing him to do something to buy some raincoats and to continue with lo planiado. and to carry on to continue with the planiado

that which we had planned so the planned idea the plans Stubo de a manna and no paro de signal that the photos not lucied tantu for the jubia

Okay, Abel doesn't seem to be in the best of moods He was in a mood of dogs literally a mood of dogs but it means just a really bad mood He was very grumpy all the morning.

He's on his honeymoon. He shouldn't be grumpy. But anyway, he no paro to signalar that the

photos not lucian not for the juvia. And he didn't stop pointing out,

signalar to point out or to signal that the photos not lucian that the photos weren't as

bright as light. The light was different in the photos for the jubia because of

the rain. Como as if I didn't know. Como si no lo supiera. Now supiera is another example of the imperfect subjunctive and here it's really just used

in this phrase as if I didn't know how si no lo supiera. We could have said no lo supiece. Yeah, we can say also that. Como si no lo supiece. So both are absolutely correct. Okay, we're going to take a short break there and we'll be back in just a moment

to find out more about what they get up to in Bilbao. 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 Coffee Break Academy.

Okay, we are with Victoria and Abel, a rather grumpy Abel today in a rather rainy Bilbao. I have spent one afternoon in Bilbao. It was on the way back to the airport. We didn't have much time to spend there, but I do remember that it was about 38 degrees and it was very warm and not raining at all.

My memory of Bilbao. Well, that and not understanding a lot of the road signs because the bass came first and then the Spanish and there were so very often bass words are very long. So there was so much bass that you had to read before you got to the Spanish that it was quite tricky to get to the Spanish in time as you were driving along the motorway or whatever. But yeah, do you know Bilbao?

No, no, no. The moment, still not I've been. But I hope that they enter in ganas to go to Bilbao during this. episode. Yes, I'm trying going to

the sense. Perfect. Let's continue on with our text in Annabel.

But no his humor or the torment impidier that

did be the Bilbao. Okay, this is interesting. Ni

his torment so neither his bad mood nor the storm

impidier and impede is the verb to prevent to

stop someone from doing something They stopped. That's the bad mood and the storm. That's the disfutase

the Bilbao. Let's give our listeners some time to think about this. And I would like to know if you can work out who it was that was enjoying Bilbao. Was it Abel or was it Victoria? No, her humor, nor the tormenta

impidieron that disfutase of Bilbao. Annabel, what do you? I think you. I think that Victoria is who is who Disfrutando of Bilbao.

Yeah, I think we can see this from the context because ultimately Victoria is enjoying herself despite Abel's bad mood and the storm. If it were Abel, would we change the wording slightly?

But no his humor, nor the tormentor, Le impidierone that disfrutase of Bilbao. So there we would say Le impidieron to him

if we were speaking about to be about, Abel. And could we say equally, but neither

her humor, nor the torment, me impedier that disfretes of Bilbao. Me impidier that's like

Victoria, and she would like to remark that it's her. Exactly. So really for

emphasis there, she could have said, me impidierer, they prevented me from enjoying Bilbao. Disfrutar

of something, is to enjoy, to take full advantage of something. In this case, Victoria

doing so about Bilbao despite all the bad mood in the storm. We've seen different places of the center of the city, like the adjunctingtonment, the plaza, and the parks and gardens. Okay, we saw different places in the center of the city, like the town hall, the place, the square, and the parks and the gardens. When he went the hour of dinner, we're we're going to be able to the

wayso okay so this is a result of the tormenta calado means that you're soaked through and in English we are soaked to the skin but in Spanish you're soaked to the bones calados after those wesos so when the hour of lunchtime arrived when he got the hour of

to comeer we're calados to the usos we were soaked to the skin Tomamos some quixos and cocochas or merlouza

to the casuela Okay so we're back to foot what did they have those

pinches morunos uh you want you want to what are those

pinches marunos are those are tros of car pinched

in a palo do do you have something similar in the

UK Yes, but I don't think it would be a traditional British dish. We certainly have what I think would be referred to as shish kebab. Basically it's a brocett-a-brochette, sort of cubes of meat, if you like, on askewer. So the pincho morono is exactly that cubes of meat or cuts of meat on a skewer. And what else did they have? cocochas or merluse a la casuela So cocochas

That's another basque word We can see the TX in there Cochochas And it's fortunately given an explanation Merluta at la casuela So merlouza is Heik A type of fish

And it is A la Cazuela So how do we cook that hake In a cassero Yeah exactly So this is hake in a stew In a cassero The word merlouza is interesting

because in a masculine form, a merluzo, what does that mean, an abet? Alguyen, a little d'A, you can call somebody. It's a little nasty, but you can call them a merluzo. No sers merluzo.

Don't be silly, don't be a fool. Okay, let's continue on with the text. Menos mal because Victoria is explaining, thank goodness the menu was in both Basque and Spanish. So there was a Spanish translation of all these Basque dishes. Menos malque. And that's a really useful phrase because we can, and the best thing about it, we don't even need a subjunctive afterwards. Menos malque and then whatever.

Thank goodness. Such and such is the case. As we're really cansados, we don't know the rest of the day, doing tourism with with tranquillity and we're retitamos soon

we're really really tired and probably still a bit soggy we took the rest of the afternoon to ourselves doing the rest of the afternoon to ourselves

doing tourism with tranquillity so just doing some touristy things calmly quietly and we we retired

soon after that to the hostel very well Okay, it sounds like they've had an interesting day in Bilbao and of course doing a little bit of food tasting along the way they have the meat and the fish this time, Pinchos Morunos and Kokochas. Let's listen again to the full text. Aminecimos with tormenta. Abel, that detesta the jubia, as our gato Alfredo, I wanted to change

all the plans that we had. He was finished convincing to buy some chubasquero and to continue with

the planned. He'stubo de a humor of perros all the morning and no part of

that the photos not look so on the jubia as if not it

know, but no his humor, nor the torment, impidiering that disfutas of Bilbao. We were different

places of the city, like the town, the plaza, and the parks and the hardinies.

When came the hour of we're, we're we're we're weas,

we're some pinchos moreunos and cocochas. or merluza in the casuela. Menos that the menu

was in Basco and in Spanish. As we're really can't we're taking the rest of the time, making tourism

with tranquillity. And we we're retired to the hostel. And yeah that's it for our third episode of the

Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries. We hope that you're enjoying this and we hope that you're finding it useful.

finding out a little about these places. Of course, it's perhaps the starting point of some further research for your next trip to Spain. But we can also suggest that you take a little closer look at these texts by using our notes and the video version. The video version is great because it gives you the chance to practice your pronunciation. And Victoria, or Marina, who's reading Victoria's part, pronounces everything really clearly. So you can practice your pronunciation as she reads them, we leave some space for you to repeat the words and phrases. It's perfect to perfect your pronunciation.

You can find it all about that over at the Coffee Break Academy. That's coffeebreakacademy.com. And not you'll perdais all the images that we're on our account of Instagram, Coffee Break Languages. There you'll be able to see

some beautiful images of the places that Abel and Victoria are visiting and also our other Coffee Break languages, travel diaries. That's all at Instagram. We're on course on Facebook and on Twitter. You can check us out. Just search for coffee break Spanish everywhere. That's it for this episode. Thank you very much for listening. We hope you've enjoyed this and we'll be back next time for another episode with Abel and Victoria. Hopefully Abel's mood will have improved. Much thanks, Anabel, and until the next.

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