Coffee Break Spanish - Llegamos a Cantabria - Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries Episode 4

Episode Date: September 17, 2020

It's time for another episode of the Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries where we're following Victoria and Abel on their journey around the north of Spain. This week, we're leaving Bilbao behind and heading to the capital city of the Cantabria region of Spain - Santander! Victoria and Abel try some delicious fish at the Mercado de la Esperanza before visiting the Centro Botín, a famous arts centre on the seafront of the city. Listen our for the interesting vocabulary featured in this episode, as well as some useful phrases such as costarle a alguien (to find something difficult).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 4. Hello, and welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Annabel. What, how are you? Well, today I'm very well. And you, what tell?

I'm good. The truth is that good, with the other episode. Exactly. We are following our friends, Victoria Andabel, as they spend their honeymoon touring the north of Spain.

Now, this is a series that we're putting together when it's perhaps not quite as easy for everyone to travel. So we thought some virtual travel might help us get some ideas for our next journeys when we can travel once more.

But of course, it's giving us the perfect opportunity to do some learning, to do some work on our vocabulary and grammar. And in each episode, as we follow Victoria's diary, we are getting exactly that.

I need to say thank you very much. Muchissima. Thank you very much. Muchisimas to all of the travel diary so far. We're delighted that you're enjoying them. Well, Annabel, where we today? Well, in this episode,

van to Santander. Has been been a Santer, Mark? I see, but it's like 20 years or

something. So, I don't remember much, I've got to go to come. That's

any excuse. That's you're right. Well, we'll start the episode. As usual,

we will listen to Victoria's Diary, read slowly, and after that, we will

talk language contained. Let's have a listen. Let's have a listen. so we, so we went to the hostel and we conduit us to there. It was a a journey from all the coast of the coast of Spain, for what the vistas were incredible,

and we're in more of a occasion to make photos and to enjoy of the I think that that he made to forget to Abel the experience

of the day earlier in Bilbao. We're to Santander at 1st hour of

the time, for what we took time to see the the

government and the market of the place a

great so where we we're we we're we're

we're a fish We continue with the Cathedral Gautica and the Bank of Santander. Before to return to the hostel, we saw the center botan and Abel and I discusses about the aesthetic of the architecture vanguardist. Very well, very interesting vocabulary in this episode. Let's go back through it now.

So Anabel, can you read each sentence? and we'll talk about the language in the text. For sure. Now, this is a fantastic phrase to begin with because I think is incredibly useful. Costar a alien means that someone is going to find something difficult. Okay. So here, me costo.

To me, it cost a lot. Despedier me di de Bilbao. So to say goodbye to Bilbao. So I really enjoy. being in rabo. So it cost me a lot to say goodbye. I found it difficult. So that's the preterate of costar and it becomes me costo. But if this was the present tense, for example, how would we say I find it difficult to speak Spanish? Me cuesta, a brander Spanish. Good. So costar is what we call a radical changing verb. The O of the

infinitive becomes a U-E when it's conjugated in the present tense, certainly in the I-U hishi in it and the the they forms, as we know, with many radical changing verbs, in fact with all radical changing verbs, the nosotros and the vosotros forms

remain with the O of the infinitive, whereas the the, the, the, yo, you, el, he, yes, Eos, Eias forms, they take the U-I. So me questa, me questa,

to be So, me costo despeder me to Bilbao. Annabel, can you give us some more

examples of costar used in this way? In order to show that the pronoun is the in direct

pronoun, let's use he, find it difficult, something. Okay, good, yeah.

So, for example, a Luis le Cuesta A Prender Sueco. Okay.

So, a Luis costa A Prender Sweco. He's obviously not found coffee brick Swedish yet. So, a Luis, le cuesta to learn their suco. So we've got

two hymns in there. A Luis, our first to him and then le to him, questa, a prender Sweco. So he finds it difficult to learn Swedish. A Luis le cuista

and it's le cuesta not because of Luis, but the thing that is difficult, the thing that is difficult. The thing that is costing Luis stress, if you like. So a Luis lecoe to learn Swedish. Ottenesuech. For example, Mark,

a ti, what do you cost? A me me cost to cook. I find it difficult to cook. I can only cook like three things. I think, well, I can cook things if I need to.

My wife's a wonderful cooking. And I have to say, I let her do a lot of the cooking because what she makes is very good. But I can only really cook Tortilla and croquettes of polloos. These are my specialities

that I always get to cook. The croquettes are very difficult to do. To me, me cost to do croquettas. So, enorabweena. Thank you. Well, you send a photo of my croquettes.

Not are super good, but I me like. Yes. What you're going. And the recipe, for favor. Let's get on. Let's talk about the sentences here. The city is

enormous and there are muchismas things to be. From there, no is a place to go in a voyage express. Okay, now there are a couple of things in here that are interesting. First of all, the city is enormous.

That's straightforward enough. The city is enormous. And there are muchismas for a lot of things to see. Annabel, we'd say there are many times

things to be. We'd say it's like a slight difference between what's

and para to do usually what is a thing means that

it's a task something that you must do or you have to do but

for to do it's up to you to do it or not so I have

I have homework to do So have homework to do. is what you're going to do, but there are many things to do.

There are many things that we can do if we're going. Exactly. Good. Okay. That's a really good explanation there. So, muchismas things that they really had to do on their list. Then perhaps they would use that they would use to, there, there.

Yes. DeLue, of course, no is a city to go in a voyage express. It is not a place to which to go on a short journey, on a whistle stop tour. So no is a sitio al-que-ir in a voyage express. It's not a place you go to for a quick visit. Our next stop was Santander in Cantabria. Okay.

Our next stop was Santander in the region of Cantabria. So the Cantabria region stretches along the north coast of Spain. We had a long recorried in coach, so we salimus very temprano del hostel and we condugium to get us to-a-day. Okay, so we had a long journey by car, and the reason it's Teniyamos is because they were looking at this long journey that was ahead of them,

and they were saying we have or we had, we are having a long journey, so we are looking back at it now and saying we had a long journey by car. It's not, We've been a long recorido in coach, because that would be the journey that we've just done. That is, in fact, if we say,

we're saying, we are talking about a journey that happened this morning. So this morning, we've been a long voyage. And now we're in Santander, for example. Exactly. So in this case, we had a long journey by car. Therefore, so we salimus very early from the hostel.

And we left very early from the hostel. And condujimus to ye. Now there we have a lovely preterate of the verb conduciar, the verb to drive. Now, it conjugates slightly differently in the preterate because that J is introduced. Anabel, could you go through the full conjugation of conduciar in the preterterter? it please. I conduge. You condujiste.

He or she, conduho. Nosotros condujimos bothotos conduhisteys. They're

conducted. Perfecto. So there we've got that J that's present throughout the conjugation of conduci in the preterate.

And you'll hear it as the the h sound. condujimos until so we drove there and we have this irregularity

in all the verbs that ends with docir so for example produce or traduze

or we translated tradogimos produce is of course to produce so traduimos we translated and introduce

so to introduce introduce introduce introduce you all introduced something Very well. Excellent. Let's continue on.

It was a journey on. It was a journey in carretera for all the coast north of Spain for what the views were incredible. Okay, let's stop there because this is a long sentence.

It was a journey in carretera for all the coast of north of Spain. It was a journey by road in carretera along the whole north coast of Spain. For what and for this reason

the vistas were incredible. the views were incredible. And paramos in more of one occasion for making photos and disfurted of the

pageage. This is always what happens when we're going journeys. The journey takes twice as long because I always want to stop and take photos.

So this is exactly what's happening with Victoria Nabel and paramos in more of an occasion for a photo so we stopped

on more than one occasion to take photos and enjoy the countryside and enjoy the countryside, the view, the scenery.

I think that he made to forget to Abel the experience of the day

anterior in Bilbao. So of course Abel had been a little bit disappointed with the

weather in Bilbao especially from his photography point of view.

He didn't like the light and so on. But what Victoria is saying here is

I think that that that describing this whole situation of stopping for

photos le he did to to him made forget to Abel. So it made Abel forget the experience of the day

in Bilbao, the experience of the previous day in Milbao. Very well. Okay, we're going to take a short break there and we'll be back in just a moment. 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. Welcome back. We have just arrived in Santander with Victoria Andabel, and we will continue now with our first.

text. So Annabel, take it away. We'll get a Santander A First Hour of the Tard. Okay, so we'll stop there because this is a long sentence. A primer hour of the afternoon, Annabelle, for me, the first hour of the afternoon is probably

a bit different from your first hour of the afternoon. Could be, very probably to. A key hour is the first hour of the time for you? Well, for me, I think

that's midi-day to the one Oh, no, no, no, no, no. No. When someone meets with another

people, like with another person, a primer hour of the tard, don't expect it to be like before 4 p.m.

So 12 o'clock is like the middle of the morning for you? Mast or less, yes. Okay, so

it's all linked to meal times because obviously you're eating a lunch much later than we would hear in the UK. So you're going to be eating your lunch, your comida. What time? Around three o'clock?

Yes, between la una and the three, more or less. Okay, between the first hour of the afternoon after you eat will be between, you know, 3.30, 4 o'clock,

something around that time. So Victoria and Abel have arrived in Santhender at the first out of the afternoon, so around 4 o'clock. For what we've had time to see the the place where we're seeing another for lo-knotamiento and the market of the Mercado de la Esperanza. So we had time to see the town hall, the town hall, which is always a nice place to see. It's always an

impressive building and the Mercado de la Esperanza and the market of hope, literally. La Esperanza is hope. And it's a beautiful site, a marvelous site, where we came pescado fresco de dieh, where literally we ate fish fresh from 10. Pesperience from 10. Pescar fresh fit. The 10, that means that it's great. Okay, so it's 10

out of 10. So, um, like, um, the top the topest mark in a school is 10, so it's 10 out of 10. So that is great, amazing. Okay. So this fish is 10 out of 10. It's, we ate fresh fish that was 10 out of

10, spot on. Continuamos with the Caterral Botica and the Banco de Santander. So we continued with the Gothic Cathedral and the Banco de Santander's, the Santander Bank, which again is a famous building. It's the original bank of Santander. Obviously, that's become quite an international bank now, but the original one is, of course, in Santander. Before to return to the hostel, we've seen the central and Abel and I discusses

about the esthetic of the architecture vanguardista. Okay, now what we're seeing here is that even though they arrived for a UK person at 4 o'clock late in the afternoon, but for a Spanish person

early in the afternoon, all these places are still open, so it's still possible to see things, even if it is for you, a little bit later than you would expect. So, anice of to go to the hostel, before going back to the hostel,

we saw the Bautin. So they saw the Botin center, and Abel and I we discussed about the aesthetic of the architecture

vanguardist so we we chatted we discussed the aesthetics of the vanguardist architecture

hmm Annabel us can you tell us a architecture vanguardista well

there for all those gusts yeah it's for

it depends on how like you like you like you like you like someone says no, it's very

vanguardista. That means that it's odd, weird, like unusual. Okay. I think the word that I would probably translate this with in English would be avant garde.

So avant garde will perhaps appeal to some people it may not appeal to everyone. It's also probably a little bit forward looking perhaps ahead of its time or something like that. Would you agree? Yes, that's right. Perfecto.

Okay, so they discussed this avant-garde architecture of the Centro Botin. Now, all of these places that we have mentioned in this article, you can look for these online. You'll be able to see photos of them and get a feel for what

the couple are experiencing on their trip to Santander. I have to say that it's only a vague memory for me because it was so long since I've been but it does definitely make me want to return to this area and also the area where we're heading in the next episode,

is definitely something that I remember well. We've definitely been there. But we'll leave that for now. We're going to listen back to the whole episode now, the whole text, and hopefully everything will make more sense now that we've heard and discussed the language in this text. Me costed to despidire me of Bilbao. The city is enormous and there are muchisimas to be. from,

and it's a place to go in a a voyage express. Our next

was Santander in Cantabria. We had a long recorri in a so

we're we very very very time and we

we of Spain, for what the vistas were incredible, and we're in more of an occasion

to make photos and enjoy of the passage. I think that that he made to forget

to Abel the experience of the day earlier in Bilbao. We

got to Santander at first hour of the time for what we took

time to to have the I'm going to the market of the Esperance,

a place a place marvellous where we we're eating

fished fresh of 10. Continuam with the Cathedral Gautica

and the Bank of Santander. Before to return to the

hostel we we saw the central Botin and

Abel and I and we discussed about the aesthetic of the architecture

vanguardist. Okay, that is where we're going to leave this episode of the Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries. We hope that you're enjoying this. We also would suggest that you check our Instagram account where we're posting photos from their journey, along with photos from the other

coffee break travel diaries. So check Coffee Break languages on Instagram to see some photos of all of the travel diaries that we've been taking on this summer. You can also find the premium version of this course over in the Coffee Break Academy. And what we've done with this is provided lesson notes and also a video version with the words on screen, so the text on screen, with pauses where you can repeat each sentence after we say it.

And this gives you the opportunity to practice your pronunciation while reading the words on the screen. All of that is at coffeebreakacademy.com. Well, much more thanks. As always, Annabel. Thank you and we're and we're

and we're with the next episode of Coffee Brick Spanish very soon after oh,

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