Coffee Break Spanish - Scenes Season 2 | Chapter 5: Despedidas

Episode Date: February 19, 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 Despedidas, Isabel witnesses a tender farewell between two close friends. One of them is about to start a new chapter in Chile, and today, they’re enjoying their last coffee together at Isabel’s café.Después de una mañana lluviosa, el sol aparece y, entre risas y charlas, pasan horas en la terraza. Isabel observa cómo la mujer le da a su amigo un regalo muy especial. Un gesto que le llama la atención y la conmueve profundamente.¿Qué pasará cuando se despidan? No te pierdas este capítulo tan emotivo.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 5 Hello to Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Paul. What's Mark? What's you?

All right, all. All right. All right. Yeah, I'm very content of being other day in the studio, grabando an episode of scenes from the Coffee

Break Spanish Cafe. This is our podcast series and our course series where we are following the adventures of what happens in a typical Spanish cafe with all the regulars and also the visitors

that come to. the cafe. And Mark, if you it's like, before to put us a lio, we're a little resume of what happened in the chapter

four. So, tell us, what happened in the chapter four. You know of Don Julianne? Mark? Yes, I'm

I'm a quote. So, Don Julian was a doctor, a former doctor. He had just retired and he was talking

about all the things that he was going to do because he needed some ideas. Yeah, and it was a

a little that, as we we're saying, no, we're not a same because with a time

time free, not was very well what did but our

narrator and her and she said, well, various

plans. Perfect. Okay, well, let's find out what happens in this episode of

scenes from the coffee break cafe. Today has been a morning

of primaver very but very very jubios. This climate

I feel very engrossos and I have to start fruging the soil continually. Affortunately,

to that of the day, the day was the day and it was the

sun. At final, it has had been a day very very

very and beautiful. In the terrace, there were a lot of clients, disfutanting

of his cafes, sentados at the sun. In one of the messes

there were a pair of a little a little and a little

moreen and a quite guapete also. I have

really much the attention because they've been especially

like very very much good to have clients for what I've seen and what I've

told them was his last coffee together after into some months

to him he has he has an offer an ascento but the place

that is in Chile so so that, Mayna for the morning, she go to

that. They've been sent on the terrace about three hours,

about this and of this and the she can he has prepared a kit

of a as a gift of I that me

have been that I have there there a

big a chuches, a book, and a carder of Sudocus with a boli. Also, he has regalado a photo enmarked of the two. The chico bromew about

saying that he was to make of the menos, but not so as the food Spanish. No I've been able to get to give us a pair of pinchos of tortilla to count of the

house. It's like because they have been a pair of little bit

to get there. The despedida are difficult. So, yeah.

Okay, let's go back through our text and talk about all of the language in this

chapter. We're going to a morning of primavera very very

jubiosa. Very but very choosa. This makes me laugh because

this idea of it Very jubiosa. It was very, very, very rainy. Anyway, today has been a morning, today has been a

spring morning, very, very rainy. Perfect. This climate, me is very engrossos, and I have to be fregating the soil continually. That's a new word for me, engor-enorosso.

So what does it mean? Engorros is something that is difficult, basically, that costs a job to do, that is complicated, that is a

simple or that you can do you do so annoying, something that's troublesome, perhaps? Yes,

okay. This climate me is very engorroso. The climate, the weather seems really bothersome to me,

and I have to be frigando the soil continually and I have to keep mopping the floor constantly.

And Mark, we have the verb gerundio fregando, that comes to fregare, that a way, that's a fregona. So, a frugona is a mop? Yes. And you know,

you know, that's a thing, Mark? Dime. That's a fregona is an invento Spanish. No. That's sure?

That's sure. Well, we're going to look to look. I'm sorry. So, so, Manuel Jalon Carominas. In 1910

156. Oh, would have said that it was before. So apparently Halon

observed how the floors were being cleaned in U.S. military bases where a flat cloth

was run through rollers in a bucket. So he adapted the idea to create a mop with a handle and

a cleaning cloth paired with a bucket and rollers to wring out the mop. There you go.

A Spaniard invented the mop. Very well, we're going to continue. Affortunately

to that the 12 of the morning, the day was able and it was

unfortunately. So fortunately, to be around noon, the day was opened itself up, but it cleared up

and the sun came out. What I think is interesting about this is the day was the day

so the day cleaned up, cleared up and the sun came out, but look at the word order there. We've got the noun and then the verb and then the verb and then the noun.

I think because saliori sol, it feels like a normal thing to say. At final, it's a day very good and beautiful and so in the end it turned out to be a very pleasant and beautiful day. In the terrace, there were bastantes clients Disfrutando of his cafes Sentados

on the terrace There were quite a few customers Disfrutating of their coffees enjoying their coffees Sentados

Al Sol sitting in the sun And we And we're Remember Is impersonal So It's

It's It's We're We're We're We're We're There

There There There There There There's There In the

Present T In one of the Mesas There was a A chick and a bigita

and a little white and a great old one of the tables At one of

the tables there was a pair of friends a chick a short girl and very

pretty pretty and a little tall dark more and a

quite guapete and a tall dark-heared quite handsome guy too

And I'm because it's very curious how a suffix he can adder a connotation different, because not is

the same to say Baja and it's the same to say Wapo and Guapete.

Yeah, so Bajita is more carinioso, less offensive. So she was not quite

short. I said short, but maybe I don't know how would be described by it. A little.

A little. I think I'd say in English, yes. And Guapete is more affective,

more carignoso. So we've got Bajo, bagito, bagita, in this case a guapo Guapete.

Guapete would be either feminine or masculine. Yeah, of the actually,

we can add to a name, a time, at me, a little

and I know, and I know, I'd have said, because now you're

to use in my contra. So, Bablete, Why, not I don't you don't I

like. No, me sounds, me suena, what is the inference there? Is it just a little cute

Pablo? Yes, exactly. Well, now we'll call Pablo Pavlete in the office,

I think. Okay, let's continue. Me had called much the attention because

have been especially very good. Oh, that's nice. Me had

called much the attention. So they really caught my attention. Literally, they called

my attention. because they've been especially nice to me. It's a good so literally, it gives pleasure to have such customers. So it's nice to have customers like that or it's a pleasure to have customers like that.

Sure. For what I've been heard and for what they've told them had told us, it was his ultimate cafe together to under some months. For what I've

could hear. So from what I could hear, so from what I could here, and from what they told me, it was their last coffee together, until until within a few months. So for a few months, it was the last coffee together. A hell they have offered an ascento in his company, but the place that will occupy is in Chile,

so tomorrow for the morning, for the morning, he's a big promotion but quite a significant change. So to him, he has been offered a incoenso in his company. So he has been offered a promotion at his company, but the position that he's going to take is in Chile.

But the position that he's going to take is in Chile. So tomorrow, for the morning, he's leaving for there. Okay, very well, we might find out a little more, More about that in just a moment, but we'll take a short break there. 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 Cines 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 explore. 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 have seen on the terrace of the cafe today a pair of friends who are seeing goodbye to each other. He is off to work in Chile and she is not going.

Let's continue. in the terrace about this and the they were sitting on the terrace they sat on the terrace for about

three hours about three hours talking about this and that. A phrase perfect to not specificate of what they were

talking. Well, they were about this and that the she was a

she has prepared a kit of a little a gift of a

that has appeared of the most tierner. So the chicka

He has prepared a kit of whelo. So the girl to him has prepared a kit of flight. She prepared a flight kit as a farewell gift as a farewell gift as a regal of despedida. That seemed to me to be

the sweetest thing of the most tierno. In him, there was a grand bolsa of chuches, a book, and a quadern of Sudocus with a boli.

Well, me It's a very very appropriate. Okay. In El, in Ed, meaning the

kit, there was a grand bolsa of tutes. There was a big bag of sweets of

candy, a book, and a quaderno of Sudoku with a book of Sudokuus

with a pen. Yes, it would be interesting comment Boli, it's

a boli but only it only we use in the major part of

Latin America would say a pluma. A pluma? That a plume also is feather.

Yes. It doesn't necessarily mean that people are writing with the feather. Okay.

Also, he has given a photo enmarked of the two. So she also gave

him a framed photo of the two of them. The chico bromeyaba saying

that he was to but not so not much like the common

Spaniola. So bromear is the verb to joke. So El Chico Bromeyava, he was joking, by saying, that he was going to miss her. We'll come back to that. But not Tanto, como a comida Spanish spanish food. So this, that la Iiva ida

a chat de menos. And that la might shock you there because it feels like it should be a le. But of course, it's a direct object here. You miss someone and the ah that would come in there would just be a personal a but it's a direct object. But Mark

what would be a little bit? Okay. So, a chico, al-cual will be... How would you... How do you? How do you? That's a tricky question, Pablo, because it could be

either lo or lay. Effectively. The most correct, the option more correcta is lo. But in this case, the leism

is accepted. So it's acceptable to say le I was a tard de menos if it were a male

that you're going to be missing. Exactly. The reason being that leismo plays a role there. Is this

particular to Spain, Pablo? It's a phenomenon that is not only in

Spain, but also in other cities of the other

Hispanic, but as well we know, even the people are not the people who make sure

commites grammaticales so it's very common that the people commit a with

with these pronouns Okay, so it's good to know what's going on but it's definitely a

direct object that you've got there. Okay. So he was going to miss her but not as

much as Spanish food. I think a me has a something something.

No I've could have done a pair of pinchos of tortilla a counter

of the house. So I couldn't avoid, I couldn't resist bringing them a

part of pinchos a couple of little nibbles or slices of tortilla

of a Spanish omel a country to the house.

It has had done because they have been a

part of a two to So it seems that they liked it. It's like it. Because they've paid a pair of

trothos for they ordered a couple of pieces to take away. Genial. Yeah, that's that. We've seen lots

of interesting things in this lesson. Some interesting vocabulary we had Engorroso. Yes, if you've liked that.

Chiches as well. I think Chutis is good. The fregona. La fregona. And what more? also also how the suffixos

can add connotations different to the words we had Bahita and Guapete and Pablete no for a lot

don't worry we won't go it okay let's listen again to the whole text and listen out for those things

we've just mentioned today. Today has been a morning of pretty very but

very very jubiosa this climate me very engros

and I have to start fregando the soil continually. Unfortunately, to that's 12 of the morning, the day, it was due and

the sun. At final, it has been a day very very and beautiful. In the terrace,

there was many clients and the coffee, sentados on the one of the messas,

there was a part of a girl a bigita and very and a little white, morano, and a quite guapete, too.

Me has called much the attention because they've been especially very good-a-gradable with me. Da gusto to have clients so. For what I've been heard, and for what they've been told them, it was his ultimate café,

together until into the two months. A he has

offered an ascens in his but the place that

is in Chile so so that so that so

for the the house in the house about this and

this the she can have prepared a kit to

a Vuelo, as a regal of a despotida, that me have appeared

of the most tierno. In there was a great box of chuches,

a book and a card of the bodice with a

body. He has gave a photo enmark of

both. The chico bromed saying that he was

that he not not as the Comed a Spanish.

Now I've putido Evider a pair of pinchos of tortilla a country.

It's it's a good because they've asked a part of a time.

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