Coffee Break Spanish - Scenes Season 2 | Chapter 1: El encuentro

Episode Date: January 22, 2026

Welcome back to Season 2 of Scenes from the Coffee Break Spanish Café! ¡Bienvenidos a la nueva temporada de Scenes!​​If you joined us in Season 1 then you will already be familiar with Isabel’s café - our charming Spanish café, where the aroma of fresh coffee lingers, conversations flow, and life unfolds around every table. In this immersive series, you’ll follow a compelling story set in a local café and build your language skills naturally through storytelling.Get ready to return to Isabel’s café, where every day brings something unexpected. In the first chapter of this new season, Elencuentro, Isabel finds herself in the middle of an intriguing situation, without even trying.Miguel, el abogado que se tomó el café de la suerte en la temporada anterior, vuelve al bar de Isabel con muy buenas noticas. No obstante, parece que el café de la suerte trajo más suerte de la esperada y Miguel conocerá a una persona… especial. ¿Surgirá el amor (o el interés) entre ellos?Join us to discover what happens when fate (and coffee!) bring people together. This chapter also introduces useful expressions like dar la enhora buena and congeniar, and gives you a chance to practise the subjunctive in relative clauses.✨ ¿Quieres saber más? Entonces, no te pierdas este primer capítulo.Want to take your learning further? Click here to access support materials and get more out of each chapter. Our 10-lesson premium course includes access to:Chapter text Audio discussionLesson notes / transcript featuring additional examplesVocabulary listsExercisesInteractive quizzes to check your understandingDownloadable files for offline useLifetime access to all lessons Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sins from the Coffee Brick Spanish Cafe Season 2, Lesson 1 Hello to Hello, welcome to Coffee Brick Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Paul. What's good, Stupendament.

And you, what are you? Very well, content to be here in the studio with you again, for a new episode and a new new episode. Yes,

that we're going to start a new temporary. I'm very emotional. We are back with a new season of scenes from the Coffee Brit Cafe.

We got so much fantastic feedback on season one. You asked for a new season, and here you are is the new season beginning today. So we're going to be revisiting our cafe the Casa Isay and we will be seeing some of our regulars, but we'll also

be seeing some new characters. Asi is, Mark. I have much ganas. I'm too. Well, what we're going to do is listen first the text. Then we'll have a little of the text, of the grammatica, of the vocabulary, and all of that. And at final, we'll

We'll listen the text another and then, well, I think fantastic. Well, pause for

it. Let's listen to the first reading of the text and we're going to begin by listening to a slightly

slower version. At the end, we'll hear a normal speed version. I'm I'm just that the

days begin to be more long. Me does much energy. The

arboles of the the streets, they're to have flowers. What I like the

primavera. Although even not has started officially, it's it's

to start to see. Today has been a day beautiful,

and I'm to good new good not things.

I think in the but today more than

never. Me has felted as a person secondary of a

comedy romantic. The protagonists are Miguel and Elena.

Today on the one of the day has made

Miguel. I was in the kitchen and I I'm terming to do a tortilla when I heard a Miguel,

asking to Manuel for me. Salie in when I finished. Al ver me, he said, entosiasmado, I don't know if it's hour of to take a coffee, but I'm to invite you to what you want. I've got to thank you for your

coffee of the suerte. Me gave an great to

know that they had contracted and that was in the buffet

in some days. When I was telling me all,

he came Elena and he sent in the barra.

Those present rapidly. And she did the enorabuna also. In the

bar there was more people that was to take the menu of the

day, for what I had to go to attend messes. They

were talking much a rather it was they

congeni when he went when he went he went a

the day and he sent to in a mess.

After to eat, he had his talk of the child of

Erasmus. When he gave the coffee, he confessed that

Miguel he had been he was he will

I, I think I I think he see

again well. Well, no can start better the

first Capitulo because, well, well, at final they're known

so we're what we're what let's go through it line by line now. I'm

love that the days start more more more energy. I love

this time of year too because I think the light always changes at this time of

year when the days begin to get a little longer and for me the light

changes it's the sign of spring of the warmth of the summer even in Scotland.

And we have the first subjunctive trigger. I mean, I love that. The days are starting to get longer. That the days are starting to get longer. Me does much energy. It gives me so much energy. For sure. The arboles of the streets

are beginning to have flowers. So the trees of the streets are starting to, literally, to have flowers. They're starting to bloom. Yes, I'm Mar, I know that you think to the periphrases verbales, like start to do

something. So it's always to start to do something. And we have the to do something in the infinitive in English. But in Spanish, we need to add in

that preposition A, start a, to do something. Quanto me a lot time never has

officiallyly, yeah it's to get a how much I love spring. And this quanto with an accent on it, we're kind of exclaiming how much, how I love springtime.

Aunke, a un no has been officially officially started yet. Although it hasn't officially started yet, yeah commienza to literally, already it starts to feel and then it's a reflexive. So it's a passive.

So you can already already feel it. It's already being felt. And if I don't recall, I think the first chapter of the time earlier, also we've had, then, too, so as well, you know,

our students, Aungue, can go with indicative or with subjunctive, but here it's a indicative, because it's a fact. So, Aonke is one of those words that can trigger the subjunctive, and I think when you're learning and you're beginning

to get used to using the subjunctive, you're thinking, ah, okay, right, I'll put in a subjunctive. But here it's a really good example because although it hasn't officially started yet, there's no doubt, it's a fact, although it hasn't officially started yet, although it hasn't officially started yet,

even if something hasn't started, then we might need a subject. And I will say although not have been, exactly. Okay, very good. So straight forward. Today has been a lovely day. Today has been a lovely day. Today has been a day bonito, Jeno of good news.

I love those kind of days. Sienpre I've creed in the destiny, but today, more than never. Sienpre he creed, from the verb, to believe, in the destiny. So I've always believed in destiny,

but today more than ever. Me has seen as the character secondary of a comedy romantic.

So me I have felt like like the person secondary now is that

the same wording that you would use let's say in an awards ceremony where you've got

a supporting actor or supporting actress let me let me think I think

that I'm a Actress of reparto. Ah, of Okay. But both

things denotan the same. Is this a supporting character? Yeah, but I'm thinking

in the Oscars and I think the category they're they're in more actor or

actress of reparto that means a person secondary. Okay. So, me

has seen as the person secondary I felt like a

supporting character or a secondary person of a comedy romantic

in a romantic comedy. Los protagonists are Miguel and Elena. Here's the big reveal. Of course we know it because we've heard it already, but the protagonists, the key characters, the main characters

of the protagonists are Miguel and Elena. Today, sobre la una of the mediodia, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha halle. So today, around 1 o'clock, Miguel arrived. And we're using the perfect tense there, ha, ha,

Yegato Miguel, mainly because it happened today. It's very much linked to the present. Yes, but we're saying perfectly, J. Jek-O-Migel. Okay. I was in the kitchen. Terminando to do a tortilla when I listened to Michael

asked him a Manuel for me. Okay, so I was inside, in the kitchen, in the kitchen, I was in a tortilla. Finishing making a tortilla. with with onion or without

when I when I heard a Miguel when I heard Miguel a personal

a Nairn I heard a Miguel and I'm asking Manuel asking Manuel

for me about me and here we have the classic example of

reduplication of indirect because we we don't ask a

manuel exactly so so Preguntandole means asking him. And then we're saying, okay, who? We're asking to Manuel. A Manuel.

Le, a Manuel. Preguntade a Manuel. So I came out as soon as I finished making the tortilla, presumably. Yes. Al ver me, me said, entusiasmado. No see if it's hour of time to take a coffee, but I'm to invite you to what you want. Okay.

So, all ver me, On seeing me, this is al plus the infinitive, but we've added in the me here as well, on seeing me, me diho entusiasmado. He said excitedly, no se is over to take a coffee, but I'm going to invite to whatever you. So I don't know if it's the time for a coffee, but I am coming to invite you or to, yeah, to buy for you, a lo quechie chiras, whatever you want. And that whatever you want is. triggering the subjunctive,

to what you because if he knew what he would, Isabel, would say to what you know what

says, we use the subjunctive. Perfect. I have to thank you for your coffee of

the suerte. So I have to thank you for your lucky coffee. Yes, me

gave an joy enormous to know that they had contracted and

that was in the buffete in some days. That

So me gave me an great it gave me an enormous joy I was overjoyed to know that they had

hired him or that he had been hired and that he was in the buffet in some days and that he

was starting at the law firm in a few days yes when when I was telling me all

he went Elena and he sent to in the barra So while Miguel was telling me everything, when he was contando me all

and they were called Contando, the Gertan form, me to me and lo it, as in everything he was telling, Jeko Elena, Elena arrived, and she sat down at the counter. Yes, Mark,

and here, I know if you've done that we're telling me everything, normally when we have everything, as complemento direct normally reduplicamos

the complemento do you do so very good let's pause there for a little break and then we'll find out what

happens after the break in each episode of the scenes from the coffee break cafe podcast you'll enjoy listening to the story and our discussion

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To access this wealth of learning resources, visit coffeebreaklanguages.com slash scenes. Okay, so Elena has just arrived and sat down at the bar. So they've known for fin, that we

have got to get us and Isabel is ready to do the

introductions. Los presente rapidly and she did the enorabuen

also so those presente rapidly introduced them and

she meaning Elena he gave the enorabuen the

congratulations too so she congratulated him too You know,

in the bar There was there was more people that were to take the menu of the day for what

I had to attender messes. Okay, so in the bar, in the bar, there were

every way more and more people coming in Mm-hmm. A me to read every every bit

to the language English. That's I mean, literally every time. more, but you would never say that.

So, like, increasingly, but increasingly sounds quite posh. I think there were just more and more people that came to take the menu of the day, who were coming in for like the set menu. So, for which reason, or just so, me took to go to go and serve tables.

Yes. They still talking about much rato. It's a nice word. Congeniar. So we can say to get along or to click as well. Yeah, yeah, but congenyar,

I know, it's a lot more. So they still talking for a long while. They seemed to get along. They seemed to hit it off. Exactly. When he was Eleanor me pied a menu

of the day and he sento in a mess. I wonder if this is a working day. Is Elena not, should she not be a school? Yes, you know I've

thought. Well, maybe it's a fine of the yeah, so when he left,

Elena me pivio a menu she asked me for the set menu and she sat down at a table

we've seen lots of preterutes there. She went me he said, me pivio,

she sent he. Despite to comeer he had his class of conversation

with Harvey the Chico of Erasmus Okay so I'm guessing probably isn't

a normal working day. So she's maybe organized her class. Could, maybe he has been out of the institute at the hour to comeer

to come there. So, after eating, he had a class of conversation seminal.

So she had our weekly conversation class with Harvey the Chico of Erasmus student.

When he gave the coffee, me confess that Miguel he had appeared monissimo.

I love that word. I love that word. I love that word. Yeah. So when I took her the coffee, me confessor, she confessed to me,

that Miguel, he had appeared monissimo, that Miguel to her had seemed monissimo really cute, really good-looking. Yes, yeah, exactly. So mono-mona can mean good-looking in that sense. But can you also use it for cute, like if you're describing an animal or something like that?

Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay, very good. I'm so you'll we've got a future tense there do you think

he'll return yeah and I'm thinking it's interesting because if we're saying if we'll think we'll

need to need a indicative in this case future but if we transform us to negative we need

the subjunitive no think he'll come back yeah so they're subjunctive when it's no

creer so So, but... So you're here with a future. Cres that will be back?

I asked me. Well, yeah we'll come back, and see you so Isabel is making her statement there. I hope he

comes back and see again. And then we see each other again. So we've got two subjunctives there and it's interesting

that we don't need to repeat the what? No, no, because it's done for So,

So I'm So I'm So I'm We're gonna say It's I'm going to We've seen quite a few Subjunctal triggers

In this episode We've seen Me Encanta Quee Also, What I always like And what else have we seen We've seen some interesting verbs

We saw perfect We've seen some Imperfect Imperfects Yeah And we've also seen some expressions with

Dar Yes, we've seen give Aligria dar but we're going to

say much about this no Mark Is that got something to do with the spotlight

video perhaps? So we've got these spotlight videos where we talk in greater detail about some

of the elements of the episode but I'll tell you a little more about that after we

hear the text again and listen out for these data expressions and the

subjunctos and the tensies so let's hear it now at a more

normal speaking speed I'm It's that the days begin to

more large. Me da much energy. The arboles

of the streets start to have flowers. What me a

great the time. Although even not has officially

it, it he's to see. Today has been

a day beautiful, Yenno of good news. I've

created in the destiny, but today, more than never.

I've felt as the person secondary of a

comedy romantic. The protagonists are Miguel and Elena.

Today on the one of the middle has

I've arrived Miguel. I was in the kitchen, terminated to a tortilla when I heard a Miguel,

asked him for me, I was, I'm quite I'm quite he said enthusiastic I'm, I know

if it's not if it's time to take a coffee, but I'm to invite to what

you want, I'm to thank you for your coffee of the suerty. Me gave an

an great to know that they had been and that was in the buffet

in some days. When I was telling me all, he went Elena,

and he sent in the barra. Those presented rapidly and she

did the enorabuen also. In the bar there was every

more people that came to take the menu of the day, for what

I've to go to attend messas. They're still talking much

a rato. It came they congeniaron. When he

went, Elena me asked a day and he

sent to a mess. Despite to his class of

conversation seminal with Harvey, the chico of Erasmus.

When he he gave the coffee, me confess that Miguel he had appeared monissimo.

Cres that willver? Me asked. I'm I'm I'm

see them again. Well, I mentioned earlier, in fact, Pablo mentioned the

spotlight videos. This time we're looking at Dar expressions. And the

idea of these spotlight videos is that we take more in depth what we've covered in our main lesson

and go into that in more detail and give you further examples. And these are part of the coffee break scenes course, which is available over on the Coffee Break Academy. We also provide lesson notes and exercises and vocabulary lists, lots of information, lots of content

to help you get the most out of scenes from the Coffee Break Cafe. And as I said, you can find all of this at coffeebreakacademy.com. Yeah, as Mark, we can also remind our listeners that they can subscribe to our Spanish newsletter where they can receive

weekly emails with mini lessons on everything Spanish. And all they need to do is to go to coffeebreakspanish.com and just sign up there. Perfect. Well, much thanks, Pablo. Much thanks to you, Mark.

And we'll... We'll see what happens. Because for the first episode, it has been very interesting, I think. Yeah, well, so much thanks. And after the next.

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