Coffee Break Spanish - Scenes Season 2 | Chapter 4: ¡Por fin, jubilado!

Episode Date: February 12, 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 help you build your language skills naturally through storytelling.In ¡Por fin, jubilado!, Isabel reconnects with don Julián, a retired doctor who’s feeling a bit lost after leaving his career behind. After 37 years in the hospital, he’s not sure how to fill his days. The sudden shift to retirement has left him uncertain about what comes next.Don Julián entra al bar de Isabel para hablar de su jubilación y de cuáles son las ventajas y desafíos que encuentra. Quizás Isabel tenga algunos consejos para él.In this chapter, you’ll discover the different meanings of aprovechar, and review how to express the idea of llevar tiempo haciendo algo in Spanish.¡No te pierdas este cuarto episodio si te pica la curiosidad! 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 Break Spanish Cafe, Season 2, Listen 4. Hello, Mark, how do you? Very well. And you, Pablo? Well, nothing, here, entusiasmato one way more, of being with you. And, nothing, a point of to start this gravation. Yeah, and I'm also very content to be

another episode of scenes from the Coffee Brick Spanish Cafe. Of course, this is our podcast series and course series where we are following the events of a Spanish coffee with all the regular. and some new customers too. This time, we're going to be meeting Don Julian.

Yes, yeah, and it has a story very interesting, the truth. And I think it's something that's a lot of this, that's going to tell us to be able to. We'll be we're going to, okay. As we always, we're going to read the text first and then

about the grammatica and the vocabulary and all of what there in the text, and then we'll re-excuching the text one more. Okay, perfect. Don Julian is, or more

well, it was a medical of the hospital the other. The

true is that he'd he'd be this this morning

has been to eat at at the bar and

we've been being a good rato he he

got over about the night when the thing

was more tranquil, well, the desajunos we'll serve especially between the 7 and

the 8 and and more later, between the 10 and the 1⁄ and the people

that's the time to make a morning to take something. Don Julian

has worked as a medical of the hospital during

the last 37 years. And after some days, he was jubiled, for fin. For fin. So, he said me was he, because he was a little surprised, desubicado.

He'd have a few years with gas to jubilars. All his friends he had been to be so marvellouso that was to be but he, after

he, after a day in his he sentia rare. He had

ordered his despatch, renovated the armario with his

and even had been on the bicycle static that he he

gave his his last his last a year

a year. I mean. Me I'd contaba that I'd know what to do, that he'd

he'd he'd time working, that he'd know he didn't be able

to be normal to be a little strange. It's a change great.

After a rato talking of the things that he used to do,

some there some ideas. He has animated to point to the classes of ballet

to the guys are my children to be to do you. And the better

will be to retomar the picture. I'm sure that he is great. Oh,

how beautiful. I've got to talk a little the grammatica and the

language that there. Vennar that for this we're Don Julian is or

more bien era a medical of the hospital so Don Julian is or more was so this idea of

more well yeah literally more well yes more more than we used to see rather he was a

medico of the hospital he was a doctor at the hospital next door and and we we've seen

in the first the first time Don Doña, that is like a way of refer to

someone with respect. Yes. Very yeah. The is that was that

was that was the certain thing or the truth is that was that was this idea

of leaving time doing time doing an infinitive with sin

so yeah yeah literally I was carrying time sin

verlo without seeing him. So it had been a while since I'd seen him. Exactly. This morning, he has been to sayuner at the bar and we've been talking a good rato. So this morning, this morning, and that's one of those triggers for a perfect tent, certainly in Spain. This morning has been to have breakfast at the bar. So he came to have breakfast at the bar and we

talked about a while. And we chatted for quite a while. So we spent quite a chatting. Okay, some technical when the time when the thing was more tranquillah.

Solemus solems serve those serve those over all seven and eight and media. Okay, some

technical information about when these air things. There's quite a lot of detail here. So, he arrived

around nine in the morning. When the thing was more tranquil. Now we saw that

La Cosa before, we use it to translate things. But it's in the singular. In Spanish, when we refer to a situation, to the ambient,

we use the singular, the cause. So when the thing was calmer, well, those desayunos, solomers serve those seven and a half-and-a-half-a-half-a-half-a-half-a-half-past. Because, or since the breakfasts, we tend to

serve them between half-past seven and half-past 8. And this is very Spanish word order feeling, isn't it? Yes, because, also we're just going to serve those. It's a reduplication of the complemente direct, because we have

those desayunos, solomeless for if not you get clear what they serve. So, los desayunos, the breakfasts, solemos serveos, we tend to serve them. In English, we would just say, because we usually serve breakfasts mainly between

half past seven and half past eight. So, and more later, between 10. And the people that

take a time to make a time to make a time. So more information

about how things work in the bar. And more later, between half past 10 and

half past 10 and half past 11, servimus to the people that

that makes the the day so we serve the

people who take advantage of their mid-morning break. So the people that

the time to have something. Sure, so we're talking here about a descanso de media

a day of a podcast. Me, we're not quite there at the middle but I think the next section of the story

it all happens together so we'll pause here for just a moment and we'll be back very soon. In each episode of the scenes from the Coffee Break Cafe

podcast 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. from the story. To access this wealth of learning resources, visit coffeebreaklanguages.com slash scenes. Okay, welcome back. We are now going to continue with the rest of the story. Don Julianne has worked as a medical of digestive in the hospital during the last 37 years. And after some days, he's jubiled over fin. Okay, so here we're seeing a couple of different tenses, and I think it's interesting to spot what's going on here. Don Julian has

a perfect tense and he worked or he has worked as a medical as a digestive doctor

or a gastroenterologist perhaps We have the word gastroenterolog in Spanish but even I

have to me I've got to cost to say a tricky word so a gastroenterologist

in the hospital in the hospital during the three seven years for the

past 37 years. So we're using a perfect tense there, despite the fact we're talking about something that started 37 years ago, because it happened right up until recently. That's, yes. And a few days ago, he's hobliro, for fin. He retired and finally retired. Pablo, here, could we have said, Don Julianne, he's called, as a medic. Yes, effectively. Yes. No, there'd be no problem. Okay. Perfect. So, So this is a little

said he, because he was a little complicated because we're talking here about the narrator basically quoting Don Julian. For fin, finally, or at last, as si me it was how he put it to me

because he was a little bit surprised. He, because he felt a little bit surprised, a little bit desubrived. a little bit desubicado, a little bit out of place. Uh-huh,

very well. Me this word desubicado. Yes, yeah, yeah. Levera

years with ghanas to jubilars. All his friends he had to the

marvellous that was to be a day in house, he sent rarro.

So this is I think something very common. Yes, yeah, He's a bit. He's been

some years with so he we've seen this quite a lot in this one chapter actually this

he's a time so he was he had been wanting to retire for a few years all his

his friends he had about the marvellous that was being all of his friends

spoke to him or told him about how wonderful it was to be retired but he

then, after a few days in but he, after a few days at home, he felt a bit strange, he sentia rare,

can we go back to de lo maravillo that was being because this is a little bit tricky because if we're

going from English into Spanish, we would be saying all his friends were telling him how wonderful it was to be retired,

de lo maravisoso that was give us another example of how we use this the law with an adjective in this kind of construction. Well, for example, me have been about what interesting

that was to work for that company. Okay, so they told me of the interesting it was, to work for this company. Working for that company. So we're seeing of the adjective

that part of ser, then in infinitive. Yes, it's a lot of complex. It is, in a sense, it's complex in the sense that there are a lot of different parts of it,

but once we get that construction... It's always the same. Exactly. Okay, so give us another example. Me has about what beautiful that is visit

this city. Okay, so they talked to me about how nice it is to visit this this town. You get the idea. Okay, let's continue on. Have you ordered his despatche, renovated the armory with help of his

mother, and even had mounted the bicycle static that he gave his son't even year. He has already a year. So this is all the things he's done just in the past few days. So, he had ordained his office, renovated his

office, renovated his armory, he had refreshed his wardrobe with help, and even had built a bicycle static, and he even had set up the exercise bike, that he gave him, which his son

had given him, for his last birthday, for his last birthday, has yet a year ago now. And here we're using the verb mountar, in the sense, as to set up or to assemble. Cuddle, because if we're

If we had done on the bicycle to say he got on it and started peddling.

Exactly. So, is that he's because in this case we need the preposition

A, in. But we use the preposition a, if we say,

mount a cabo. Yes. Interesting. So mount a useful word, but it

does have these different meanings. So mount a cabo, mont in

bike, and then when you just montaiding the bici you're setting up. Very well. He commented

that no said he was doing that he'd never to work and I know that I'm sure.

He said a lot people. So, me, he told me that he didn't know

what else to do. That he didn't know what else to do. He had been working for so long that no said to live without

he didn't know how to live without working. I think he should learn a new language. Well, yeah, that's upunt to coffee break languages. We'll go ahead. Fenomenal. Suppongo, I suppose, it's a bit strange. So, I suppose.

So, I suppose, that it must be normal. Sentence a little strange. It's a little strange. It's a big change. Quick question. It's a grand change. that would I mean, you've

nominated my apocope that we know how it's that we're to say we're

we're we're exactly it's a grand change. And the meaning wouldn't

change. Maybe could get more the significated of great. Yeah, so it's a

great change in a positive sense. So it's a grand change. But here, we're just

saying, it's a grand grand. when the word comes at the end and one of these kind of adjectives when it comes at the end after the word,

then it's the physical sense. It's a big change. Despite a rato about the things that he used to do some occurrieroen some ideas.

Okay, so after a little while talking, of the things that he likes to do about the things that he enjoys doing, some

occurreder on some well, some ideas occurred to us, we came up with some ideas. I find this really quite tricky, Pablo. And it's, the verb is, occurrissle something to someone. Okay, so we could see, we could imagine this is a kind of

reflexive verb. Officially, I think it would be a pronominal verb. Yeah, so, so that's when it looks like a reflexive, but it doesn't actually have a reflexive sense. You're not washing your teeth or putting on your makeup or anything like that. So, see nos occuredierron some ideas occurred to us and they occurred themselves to us

in a sense. So give us another example of this. For example, Mark, could you say, Um, Se me occurre an idea that we could

do. Okay, so, Se me occurred to me, an idea has occurred to me or I've come up with an idea that we could do. I think I know which idea you're talking about,

Pablo. A bit, Mied, me does. Pablo always always says to me that he thinks it would be a great idea to do a course all about Spanish swear words I'd like to be

my suenio You could let us know if that's something that would be interested to you I know that's not everyone's cup of tea But anyway So coming back to this Se me Occurre You're using the present tense there

An idea An idea to me occurs itself That might help you Work out of the It's very peculiar the structure because it is as if something, even though you are coming up with this idea,

but the idea is like approaching you. Yeah. One of the ways I quite like to think about it is if you imagine if someone were approaching you and they introduced themselves to you, so that person presents themselves. So I like to imagine it as an idea walking up to me and presenting itself to me saying,

hmm, me presento. It's a good strategy. Okay, but that's So they had some ideas. They came up with some ideas. Le have animated to point to the classes of Baile, to those that are

my chikos de Oro. He's unerce also to a club of senderism and what more, he's retomar the picture. Lots of good ideas. So,

Le E animado, so I literally animated him. So I suggested, I suggested to him, I encouraged him or apuntarse to sign up for the dance classes, to sign up for the dance classes,

a las that my chikos de Oro go to. He's going to unise also going to join a hiking club. And the best thing, best of all, is going to retomar the painting again. He's going to tick up painting again. Yes.

I'm sure that it will go great for him. So I am sure that it will go great for him. So irly genial to go really well for someone. So le he ira genial, it will go great for him.

And if this structure was in negative we need to the subjunctive. That's right. That's. I'm not. I'm sure that he is great.

Okay. Very well, Well, now we're going to re-excuching the text This is a little more a little

a little normal. Don Julian is, or more well, was a medical of the

hospital the last the the thing was that he was

he's been to have been to have to have been and we

have been a good RAT he he he

went about the 9 of the morning, when the thing is more

tranquil, because the desayunos we'll serve us over all the seven and

the eight and and the and more after the 10 and the and the first we

serve us to the people that the time to make a

time. Don Julian has worked as a doctor

in the hospital during the the last 37 years. And ago, he was he was given. For fin.

So, he was he said to because he was a little surprised. Desubicated. He'd about years with going to jubilarses. All his

his friends he had to be a marvellouso that was to be but he after a

day in his case in his I felt rarro. He had ordered his despatch, renovated the armory with

help of the mother, and even had been on the bicycle static that he gave

his his last his year. Ace a year. I was he was

he was that I had a time working, that he had never

living without I'm I suppose that it should be normal to be a normal, sentirese a little extrano. It's a change great.

After a while about the things that he used to do, some of course some ideas. He has animated to to point to

the classes of the ballet to those go my chikos to order. He's to unings

to a club of senderism. And the better. He's to retomar the

I'm a picture. I'm sure that that's great. So there we have it. This episode has been a part of our course that we have for scenes from the Coffee Break Cafe. And you can access that over at the Coffee Break Academy where you'll be able to access

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Well, much thanks, Pablo. Nothing, much thanks to you, like you know,

and a bit of what happens. A bit of what happens. There's a question that there's a lot of

the very much that's what we're to be our characters of Sins. Perfect.

Well, this, we'll do we're for the next episode. Yes. Until

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