Coffee Break Spanish - Scenes Season 2 | Chapter 7: Imprevistos que salen bien

Episode Date: March 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 help you build your language skills naturally through storytelling.The latest episode of Scenes is here, and this one shows that sometimes, the unexpected can lead to the best moments.In Imprevistos que salen bien, Isabel is swept into a whirlwind of last-minute changes when a birthday celebration is thrown off course. But with a little teamwork, a lot of creativity, and some help from the café regulars, an unforgettable celebration takes shape.Hoy, el día ha dado un giro inesperado. Lo que parecía ser una fiesta arruinada se convierte en una celebración improvisada, llena de momentos divertidos y nuevos recuerdos. Con piñatas, comida casera y la mejor compañía, todos se unieron para hacer que el cumpleaños fuera un éxito, ¡a pesar de los imprevistos!We hope you enjoy Imprevistos que salen bien, where we see that sometimes the best moments happen when things don’t go as planned.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 7. Hello, all, and bienninoes to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Paul. How are you, Pablo? Very well, Mark. With a little bit of free, but I'm sorry.

But I thank you, we were recording today, so I thought, yeah, better put the heating on first thing so that the studio warmed up a little bit. You know, I'm back with another episode of scenes from the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe. and in this series we are taking a little slice of life each time from our Spanish Cafe. Pablo, can you tell us what happened in the last episode?

Sure that in the chapter anterior, no see if you you remember, that there was much aligria in the bar of Isabel because they took the lottery of the Extra of the Day of the Padres and all the clients habituales gained a little of so they're so much

so much so much and they're celebrating together together and they're doing a caroque

and then in this chapter we're first to first to first and then we talk about

we're about we talk about we're going to go I'm I've

deslomado I'm I'm I'm I'm very FELLIS. I've revived the infancy

of my children, because we've celebrated the Cumpleaigneus of one of the new of the new-of-the-Gos of Jose

and Nati in the bar. This morning at the morning, he has been Jose to be

a time a coffee and to read the periodico. As not has been

accompanied, he has sat down in the barra to charlars with Manuel. 10 minutes after,

has arrived Nati, very preoccupied and a little nerviosa. Resulta that today was the new year his nephew

Pablo. They're all organized to celebrate the the first of the family

in the house of his carolina, but has exploded a tubberia of the and the building, and the

the piece is completely inunded. Those was listening to

talk and were very very very very he had a great

idea. He's has proposed celebrate the couple years

in the bar. The friends the little not were

to get to last five the So, so, after

to serve the menus of the middial, Manuel has gone with the furgonetta

to recoged the house of Carolina. Elena, that was there was

when came with all the Bartulos, us has helped

to prepare the decoration and to call the piata. We've

prepared a mess enormous, covered with mantels of colors. The kitchen, they were big bandejas with the typical vocadillos of Cumple-Ans infantil. Medias noches with chopet, chorizo or sachichon,

sandwiches of nocilla, and bowls with patatas fritas and with bolitas of chocolate. For the final, the delicious Tartre of chocolate that was

his abuela Nati. That's funerty. I've made to cumplea years to those

that I went to when I was a very good. Very good. Let's go back

through each sentence one by one now. Today me deslomado. That's a great word.

Deslomars. So Lomo is, well, normally I associate Lomo

with food because it's pork loin, isn't it? Yes, exactly. But when you desloomarse, it's when you work your back off. Effectively, is like to be able to work hard,

for, for, to get to get a pale. Oh, I've done the peel. Me, I've left my back off today.

I've broken my back and working very hard. I'm tired. I'm tired. I am absolutely exhausted, but I am happy. Canzadissimo. That's the superlative form of Kansada. I've revived the infancy of my children because we've celebrated the new of the new of the nieptyches of Jose and Nati in the bar.

This is nice. I've re-vvived. I've relived the infancy of my children, because we've celebrated the birthday of my children, because we've celebrated the birthday-a-olde the nietos of Jose and Nati in the bar because we celebrated the birthday of one of Jose and Nati's grandchildren in the bar. Genial, yeah. This morning,

tomorrow, has been Jose to take a coffee and to learn the periodico. Okay, so this morning, early this morning, this morning, a time, a time, temprano, has been Jose

to tomarse a coffee and to learn the periodico. Now, this means that Jose came in to have a coffee and to have a coffee, and to read the newspaper. But it's interesting to see the

a there. So he came in to do something. He came in to have a coffee. It's not to take a again. It reflects, we've seen this many, many times. It's always good to consolidate these ideas. To grab a coffee for himself and to read the periodical. And to read the newspaper. Perfect. As no has been accompanied, he has

He's sat down in the barra to chatlar with Manuel. Okay. Come, he's not accompanied, so because, or since

he didn't come accompanied literally, he didn't come in with anyone, he has sat down at the counter, to chat with Manuel. Exactly.

10 minutes after, has arrived Nati, very preoccupated and a little nervous. So this is straightforward enough

again, 10 minutes then minutes later, has arrived, very worried, very worried, and a little nervous. I'm also seeing that nice word order there. It's a very, very Spanish.

Resulta that today was the birthday of his nephew, Pablo. They'd all organized to celebrate the fiesta of a couple-year-a-neous in house of her his daughter, but

has exploded a tubberia of the edificio and the piece is completely inunded so resulta

that this is so common I'm I'm and also we're more about this expression

and much other similar in our spotlight perfect much thanks the spotlight video part of

the course version of this result that so it turns out that today was the

birthday was the birthday of her San Pablo. They had all organized to celebrate

the fiesta of a family in the house of her everything organized to celebrate

the birthday the birthday, the birthday party in her daughter Carolina in her daughter Carolina in her daughter

Carolina's flat, but has exploded a tubery of the building. So this is a pipe,

a tubery? Yes, a pipe in the building burst, has exploded, literally exploded.

And the piece is completely inunded. And the flat, the apartment is completely flooded. Los

I was listening to talk and were very aburados. So those was listening

to them talking and were very upurados and they seemed very stressed.

Exactly. And here we could put the pronoun of complement direct, Los.

directly in the herundio but if we do we have to add a little accent over the A to maintain the pattern of accentuation. Exactly.

So, Los was listening to talk or was listening to talk. And Pablo, just a question

here, Liz. In theory, no. Yes. No. Because only do we we can

do we can do when it masculine a person and just to be clear there the reason I'm asking

about that is I was listening to them talking and the them if it were masculine it could be

less for leis purposes. Yes, but as we have said much it's

not a talk to a ablantes to say less was

listening but the correct is those was listening. Okay,

very Very well. And apurados, an interesting word. Yes, we've seen in the time earlier, if I don't remember,

a synonym would be agoviedos, that idea of that you're preoccupied, or nervous for, evidently,

the piece is an undunded, well, is a lot of, you know, it kind of, I don't know,

always gives me that feeling of real stress. It's like, oh, okay, yeah. The Pronto, Manuel,

has been a great idea. De Pronto, suddenly, Manuel had a great idea, or literally has had a great idea. Why did we use a perfect tense there? Probably because we're seeing the fact that he has had an idea with a relation direct in this moment, but, of course, you're asking. Completely perfect, perfectly, perfectly, could say,

But de-pronto Manuel took a great idea. Okay. Good. Okay. Well, we are going to find out what that idea is after the break.

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visit coffeebreaklanguages.com slash scenes. Okay, let's find out what Manuel's idea was. Venga, let's have proposed celebrate the cumpleaños in the bar.

Of course we know this already because we heard the full time. text, but Les have proposed celebrate the birthday

so to them and that's an indirect there, there's nothing to do with Leism there.

They, to them has suggested celebrate the birthday in the bar to celebrate

the birthday in the bar. And again, we're seeing a perfect tense there and it's part of

that narrative. It's part of the ongoing telling of the story that kind of brings it to the present.

Yes, but another other again also we proposed

to celebrate the Cumple-Ans in the bar and it's correct to also.

Okay. Propos from proponer. Yes. The friends little not

began to get to last the time. So, after to serve the menus

of the day, Manuel has gone with the furgonetta

to get the car of that you know.

The paragraph furgoneta I always. You like? Why?

I explain the So the little boy's friends no started to arrive until the 5 o'clock until 5 in the afternoon.

So, so after serving the lunchtime set menus, Manuel has gone with the Fugunette, so Manuel went off in the van to recoges the house to collect things from Carolina's place from her house.

And Mark, here we're seeing a use of the imperfecto a little different, I know if you

have done because we're saying not they're not to get but that doesn't

that still hasn't happened Yeah, so they weren't starting to arise. In English they would

say the same but this imperfect is the imperfect prospective used to refer to

something that was planned or expected to happen from a previous point in the

course of events. Okay. So give us another example of that. For example, Juan was running his first

marathon this end of this weekend. Right. So Juan was running his first marathon this weekend.

As you say, we do the same in English. In English, it's really good to point that out because it's always nice to see

when languages work the same with each other, even though when you think about it, Juan was running his first

marathon this weekend. It doesn't make sense. That does not make sense at all. I love these things to me personally. I mean,

And the Furgoneta. A bit Tell me the It made me think back to when, well, I'll do in Spanish.

When we filmed we did it a high-five Spanish Yeah, the series For the

For the That's Yeah, yeah, Yeah, we can find that on the Coffee Bick Academy

and in Coffee Break TV is a series for younger learners of Spanish and we were filming it

and we were filming it and we were filming in the South of Spain in Malaga in Fijian NERHans.

Oh, how beautiful, Frigian. Yeah, so, yeah, and we had one

a furgonetta to get a all the children, his parents, and et et cetera, for the

equipment to, the, and, and, as, when, well,

I don't, I don't know, it was, before I'm, had, had, had, had,

a photo of the furgoneta that we had we had given the logit of high-five

in the in the Fulgin, yes. So, so I to the families of the children that participated in this

project, and the children super illusioned with the idea of being in the furgonetta of high-five

with the logotiv in the furgoneta official. But it was only only Photoshop. No,

poor filios. They're with all the world. They arrived and said, where's the

logo? I felt very guilty. What gracious. Anyway, let's continue on. Elena, that was there when went to get with all the

Bartoulos, us has helped to prepare the decoration and to call out the piñata. Los Barthulos. That's a great one.

We could have talked about the Bartoulos for filming high five, all that gear and all that, all the stuff, basically. It's difficult

to traducing I was thinking to think or belongings maybe, something like that. So Elena, who was around there, when they arrived with all the gear, us had helped us prepare the decoration and to hold the piñata.

So she helped us prepare the decorations and hang up the piñata. We can't translate pinata. No, of actually, I've discovered, while I'm prepared for this episode, that, It's It's I always I think

that was a word of a Italian but it's we're in a question we're going

to be we're we're we're we're we're we're we're

we're we're made with mantels of colors of the kitchen

there's big bandheas with those typical vocations of

different we okay we'll stop there we've we've prepared

a big a huge table covered with manteles of colors. So covered with a colorful tablecloths, a mantel,

of the kitchen, salian grand bandejas with the typical vocadillos of a cumpli-a-year-auntil. So from the kitchen, there were coming out large trees with the typical sandwiches of children's birthdays, that kind of idea. I'm a pesado, always with this, but vocadillos no is sandwich. Baguette-style sandwich. I'm a person. Our students are going to

think that Pablo always says this all the episodes. Yeah, but I'd also

that sandwich. Sandwich not has a sandwich Spanish. Yes, a sandwich Spanish

of a bit of a bit of I accept. It's I'm Madiash Noches

with Chopet Chorizo or salchichon sandwiches of nocilla and bowls

with patatas fritas and with bolities of chocolate. Madre my What's

festival? So, Mereas Nottes Half nights What's this all about? Well,

this is a plato typical of the year and it's like

brioche rolls Yeah and and that they're in chopet

chorizo salchichon What's Chopet is luncheon lunchon meat?

And I imagine that's a chopped pork, I suppose. But we write

chopet, like and with a accent in lao. Chorizo or salsito sausage. I'm not going

to translate chorizo sausage. I think Pablo's looking at me with daggers

in his ice. Sandriete of Nogilla so that's Nogica is the equivalent of

Nutella exactly. It's a crema of cacao and aviana with

Hazelnut as well. Yes, I know what would say what I think Francesca of the Nocilla. Surement

I think that it's a copy So Nostija is the Spanish version of Natella. Okay.

And bowls with patatas fritas and bowls of crisps or potato chips with

little chocolate balls. Genial. For the final came to the delicious

Tarta and chocolate that had prepared his abuela

for the final, so literally for the final and to finish, Kedo, literally the remained, but it means came last, the last thing to come. Otra-mast, the last thing to come. U-S. Uses. Delverbo Kedar in Spanish.

Okay, and what was it? It was the delicious tarta Gadeta and chocolate. So it was a delicious biscuit and chocolate cake that had prepared her abuela Nati that his grandmother Natty had made. Yeah, so we have seen lots of things.

I think this has been interesting culturally because children's birthday parties happen differently. But to me have been open the stomach a little, not see to you, the truth, with a lot of money. Yeah, the chopper, a minute-night with chopper. I'm,

I don't know, no, I don't get that. No, you know what's sound? It's a rarer. It's a rarrow. It's super typical in Spain, of the of the how much you understand.

Today, I'm going to today. Today, I'm deslomado. I'm sorry but I've revived.

I've revived the infancy of my kids because we've celebrated the couple of one of the nieets of Jose and Natty in the bar. This morning

a day of the morning, he has been Jose to take a coffee and to learn the periodical. As no has been accompanied,

he has sated in the barra to charl with Manuel. 10 minutes after has arrived

Nati very preoccupied and a little nervous. Resulta that

today was the new his Nieto Pablo. They're all

organized to celebrate the a party of a birthday in his

his his his and he has exploded a tub

and the piece is completely inunded he was he

was very very very very he he had

a great idea he has proposed celebrate the

couple years in the bar. The friends of the little no began to get to the time. So,

after the menu's of the mediody, Manuel has gone with the furgonetta to recoges the house

of Carolina. Elena, that was there when came out of those Bartulos, us has

helped to prepare the decoration and to call the piata. We've prepared

a covered with mantels of colors. The kitchen sawed great bandejas with the typical vocadillos of a couple-a-year-in-fantil. Medias noches with chopet,

chorizoos al-chichon, sandwiches of nocilla, and bowls with potatoes-fritas and with bolitas of chocolate. For the final came,

the delicious tart of galleta and chocolate that had prepared her abuela Nati. Okay, so this episode of scenes is, like all the others, part of our course, and our course offers additional materials which help you make more progress with your Spanish.

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As far, I'm always, I'm always encantatism to be with a lot of time. And I'm too. Thank you for listening. We'll be back soon with the next episode of Scenes for now. Much thanks. And after the next.

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