Coffee Break Spanish - Scenes Season 2 | Chapter 3: Suenan campanas

Episode Date: February 5, 2026

Welcome back to Erna’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, we follow a compelling story set in a local café and build your language skills naturally through storytelling.In this heartwarming chapter, Isabel experiences a quiet morning at the café, as her usual older customers settle in for their coffee. But everything changes when a mother and her two daughters arrive.En este capítulo, entran al bar una madre con sus dos hijas. Las tres mujeres están emocionadas y muy concentradas hablando de presupuestos, recortes de telas y vestidos. ¿Qué estarán preparando?Language wise, Mark and Pablo highlight useful vocabulary like recortes and presupuesto, and delve into spelling changes that you’ll need to watch out for in Spanish.Want to take your learning further? Click here to access support materials and get more out of each chapter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scenes from the Coffee Brick Spanish Cafe Season 2, Lesson 3 Hello to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark. And I am Pablo. Quintan us, what tell, Pablo? Well, very well, very well. Super content, like,

always, to be here recording in the studio with you. And I'm very content, and with much of the third capitol of scenes from the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe. Now, this is, of course, scenes from the Coffee Break Spanish at New Cities from Coffee Break,

and we hope that you're enjoying it. We hope that you're enjoying being part of the cafe and the life that happens there with each of our sins. Quintan us, Pablo, what happened in the second episode of the second time? Yes, well, in the second episode, we know a few guys' young, that, well, they had been selected for a team of football Italian, but one of them was a bit between and content

because, well, that would should be to live in Italy, and, well,

the novi would be in Spain, then it's a little, it's a little complicated, the relations

to but, well, his friends, he's had intended to give that,

well, that the relations at sometimes are possible. So,

are possible. Okay, so we're going to listen, as usual, to the

chapter now. We'll listen to a slightly slower version. Then we'll talk about the language in it. And then, of course, we'll listen to the normal speed version. You're going? Yes, yeah. Genial. Well, we're going. There's going. There's going. There's going. Matiosk.

over the hour of and we've served desalunos and menus of mediodia, but a little more. No, but we've been a visit

special at the hour of the merenda. So, the 5.5 of the time, have entered three women in the bar.

They're clearly a mother and his two daughters. Benian casadissimas, but

felices. They'd revistas and recortes of telas. They'd about presuppuces, colors

of the and types of vealos. They sent in one of the messes that da the ventanal

and they'd two coffes with leech and a red

also. Also, they were a croceau of limon and a croissant of chocolate. They were euphoricas,

no parable to charlard, mirro, and to tell us. When me

I was to the table to give their merienda, the herman

little me gave opinion. Busk complicity with his criteria, me animo to elective the type of vestige that more me gusts.

I was a rite a while with them. They're encantadores. At final, they were from the bar without put her and without nothing clear.

But it was going to Maravilla, because no parable to reirse. Me has made much a degree

to be a moment so entrable. These things me remember to my mother. I've

done much of the days in those we're all the details of my

boda with with an love these beautiful. Okay, let's go

back through each sentence line by line and we'll talk about all of the interesting expressions, grammar and vocabulary in here. I think this is an interesting sentence to start the chapter. There are days when it's a kind of set phrase and it's very natural. So, there is a day that it seems that the people agree with each other

to come. So it feels like the bar is quite empty today. No, practically no cliente. La Cosa Oi has been very tranquil.

This is interesting because you've got La Cosa singular but I think in English we would probably see things, plural. So La Cosa today has been

very quiet today but in English we're saying things in Spanish La Cosa. Could you ever see Las Cosa? Grammatically is correct.

The thing, the things today, we'd have to have been quite quite quite. But I think in this situation, because it's a situation

of that no there's nobody in the bar, and is the thing that I think we'd more the thing in singular.

Okay. I'm pretty. They've been the menide have been the

St. Matthew, Francis, and Antonio on the hour of and we've served

desayunos and menus of the day, but a little more. Okay, so,

have been the usual elderly gentlemen have come in, Matias, Jose, Francisco,

and Antonio, they came in at the usual time, sobre the hour of the same, and we

serve breakfast, and we serve breakfast, and menus of the midu-day and lunch menus, but a little else, but

not much else. Very good. No, Stant, we've been a visit special at

the hour of the merienda. Okay, so the hour of the merienda is like

snack time in the afternoon. So it's not dinner time, which would be much later.

Well, would this be about five o'clock, would you think? Yes, between at the six,

I'd say. So, no obstante, nevertheless, or however, we've had a special

special visit around five to six p.m. So, the five and a half of the time,

they've entered three women in the bar. They're clearly

one mother and his two daughters. So, about the five and

the time indicated specifically. Around half past five, had

entered three women came into the bar. They clearly one

mother and those two daughters. They were clearly a

mother and her two daughters. Benian So they came in absolutely exhausted, but felices. Leveres dearest and recortes of telas.

They were I think if you're maybe thinking about buying an item, maybe a piece of furniture or a piece of clothing, you might get a piece of the fabric. Very good. A new word for me, Mark. Thanks. And they know. And they were talking about budgets, colors, colors, colors, colors, and types of veils. Okay.

We see what's going on here. But we'll leave that for 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 of keywords and phrases from each chapter. But what if you could explore the language even further and take your learning to the next level? That's where the Sien's online course comes in. For every chapter, you'll get comprehensive lesson notes, a video version of the reading, exercises, vocabulary and even spotlight videos that help break down the key expressions and grammar points with additional examples. It's the perfect way to deepen your understanding and get even more from the story. To access this wealth of learning resources, visit coffeebreaklanguages.com slash scenes.

Okay, so we are back in the cafe in the bar, and we have got three ladies, a mother and her two daughters, and they seem to be talking about all things related to a boda. Yes. So they sat at one of the messes that da the ventanal and they're sitting at one of the tables they sat at one of the tables,

they sat at one of the tables, which looks out, well, it's the big window, isn't it, the ventanal? It's very interesting this expression that, uh, and a, and it's used a much, for example, you could say,

imagineate that you're in a bit of a new a place a abit to the mountain or that

de the mar or that you do you do it is a

room that looks out over the mountain or the sea or whatever and you're interestingly

using the subjunct of there because you don't necessarily know if this room exists. Exactly.

There may not be any rooms that look over the sea or it or it not not

is there many many many things many things

what is looking out over, it's less about what it's looking out over and more about the kind of shape of the room. So it's... Inclusive, like, leads to in a way, you know, is, that's,

it's by the big window, basically. And they piti and they order two, coffees with milk. And a teher rojo. What's a te rojo, Pablo? Oh, and then, Mark, you know, you know, you know, you know, so I'm not so much

of a tea so a red I think is a Chinese

I don't much I'm looking at the notes that we've got here and I'm afraid I do

know how to pronounce this but it seems to be like a Chinese tea

puir I'm never not sure but anyway a tea

rojo is it's a in in in the

in the cards of the restaurants te rojo

we will need to to find Anyway, let's continue on. Also, they also asked for a trotso de limon and a croissant of chocolate.

Okay. So they also asked for a trotso de bicoce de l'emone. So bicocho is like a sponge cake, isn't it? So a lemon sponge cake and a croissant de chocolate croissant. Yes, and our friends friends are not quite not

not quite, but the the word croissant in Spain it's pronounced very well. So, we've adapted to Spanish and they're like Croasan

with a okay. Stavans, not paravent to charlars, mirro photos and compare telas.

So they were euphoric. They were so happy. No paraban to charlard. They were constantly chatting.

They weren't stopping talking and looking at photos and comparat telas and comparing fabrics.

So all of those, the infinitives there, charlard, mirrofoto and compare tels

are all linked to the no paraband so they weren't stopping

doing all of those things. All of those things, yeah. When me

I came to give us a merrienda, the little, my

opinion. So when I approached the table, when I approached the merriended to

give them their snack, the younger sister me pizio opinion.

She asked for opinion. And Mark, here we we have when with indicative, because it's a action finalized

when me a second but we know that when a few when a when it's referring to

actions future. Futsu So, Buskando complicity with his criteria

me to choose the type of bestido that most me

would be wonderful sentence here. So Bucando Complicid with

your criteria. So literally looking for complicity with her criterion. Basically, I mean she said, in English,

this, me sound a little more. Basically, she's saying looking for some support for her

own decision or judgment, something like that, me animo to to eligir the type of bestido

that most me so me she encouraged me to choose the type of vestido,

the type of dress that I liked most. So gustase, here is in perfect subjunctive. Pablo explained to us, why we're using a subjunctive here. Because not is clear what is the type of vestige that he likes. So if we're supposed, we'd say the type of vestige that more me must.

There's absolutely clear what type of vestige is, but as how not it's, but as it's a lot of it's to. So basically there's an element of doubt here. The bestido that most me used to the type of or the type of dress that I might prefer

that I might like best. Well, but not you preoccupies because in our spotlight we're going to try this theme. Perfect. Okay. I'm a rato talking with them. They're encantadores.

So I literally was a while speaking with them, I spent a while chatting to them. They were delightful. At final, they were delirited. But, they were going to be able, but they were passing to maraville, because no parable

to reiss. So, at the end, they left the bar, without reaching an agreement, without agreeing, and without having anything decided, anything clear, but they were having a wonderful time because they no paraban to hear,

to reissue because they didn't stop laughing. They said very happy. That's all right. Me has done much a legria, to see a moment so entrañable. I love that word.

Entrañable. So me had done much a lot. It gave me great joy to be a moment time entraniable to see such a touching moment, This is such a heartwarming moment, perhaps?

It's very curious, Mar, because you know where you're from this adjective? Well, entranial. But entranial the verb also comes of a, of a stentive. Entrains. You know what are the entrains?

Are you the gout? Yes, like the gut, so. But it's kind of as it can be something like it's something that's that's a sensation

of that you move something to move in your interior. Nice. So just to go through that then, Las entrainas are your guts, your intestines basically. And so if something is affected you so deeply

that it's part of you, then it's really, to be perfectly honest, I like heartwarming better than the gut. Yeah, the truth of it. And also, and we can use for persons. For example,

here we're saying, a moment so entraiable, but you can say, oh, it's a man entraiable. In this case, maybe the traduction to the English would be a little,

and it would. It would be a good sympathetic, very majo that's a much for the other, that has a

personality very special. You know, as we're talking about this, I am thinking about the word gut wrenching.

In English, we can say if something is gut wrenching, but wrenching WR, E and C. But gut wrenching would be like

a really very emotional story, like a film or something like that that's very emotional, very hard to watch.

So we do use our gut with difference there, but it's a slightly different situation. Very interesting. Very interesting.

These things me record a my mother. So these things remind me of my mother.

When something reminds you of something, then you use the verb recordar. So me recordan

a my mother. And the other is a personal a, it's not an indirect. No.

The has made much of Menos and I remember the days in those we're doing

all the details of my body with with my love. So Isabel Singh,

La Echon much. I miss her very much. We'll come back to that. And I

remember the days in those that is in which we were preparing all the details of my wedding

with excitement. So etchard de menos is to miss some but that's quite a Spanish, Spain-Spanish phrase. In Latin America,

usearian, yeah. La extrano. Yeah, very well. Okay, lots of interesting things in this particular episode, some cultural things. We had merienda, we had the Biccoccio, the croissant.

And also the velo, the wedding. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we've seen various examples of imperfecto. and then and then entrañable

yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Listen out for these as we listen again to the whole text this time at a normal speaking speed.

There are days that it seems that people make to do not come. The cause

today has been very very tranquill have been the seniors mayores of always Matias,

Jose, Francis and Antonio about the hour of and we've served desalunos and menus of the mediodia, but a little

more. No, but we've had been a visit special at the hour of the merenda.

So, the 5.5 of the time, have entered three women in the bar.

They're clearly a mother and his two daughters. They were very

Censadissimas, but felices. Levered revistas and recortes of telas. They'd about about the presupposts, colors of the vows. They sat down one of the messes that did all ventanal, and they paid two coffees with leech and a terojo. Also, they were a trozo of bicoch of lemon

and a croasand of chocolate. They were euphoricas, not parable to charlare, mirrored photos, and comparatelas. When me I got to the table to

give her merriended, the hermana little me said, looking complicity

with your criteria, me an to make to make the type of the that

more of I'm I'm talking with they're they're encantators.

At final, they were from the bar without their and put out and without

clear. But it were going and they're because they're they're

not to be a time very this things me

remember to my mother. It's I've made much

and I'm the days in those the people we

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And remember that you can also sign up for our free Spanish newsletter where you'll receive weekly mini lessons on many different things. Just go to coffeebreakspanish.com and subscribe. Perfecto. That's it for this episode of scenes from the coffee break cafe. We hope you've enjoyed it. Join us again soon for more scenes. For now, much thanks, Pablo.

Nothing, Marr, much thanks to because I've learned two words new words today. And I'm

much. Well, much thanks. And after the next. Adios. You have

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