Coffee Break Spanish - Scenes Season 2 | Chapter 9: La primavera y sus amores

Episode Date: March 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.The latest chapter of Scenes is here and this one captures a moment that’s as sweet as it is fleeting.In La primavera y sus amores, Isabel watches from a distance as young love quietly blossoms in the café. With the last of the spring celebrations fading and the day winding down, a chance encounter brings a special moment of connection. It’s impossible not to be swept up in the magic of it all.La tarde se va apagando y la luz de la primavera sigue llenando el ambiente. En el bar, entre risas y despedidas de última hora, una joven parece esperar algo… o más bien, a alguien. En un rincón tranquilo, dos miradas se cruzan y lo que comienza con una sonrisa tímida se convierte en una conversación llena de emoción. La primavera, siempre tan impredecible, trae consigo momentos únicos, como este.Step into La primavera y sus amores and enjoy the episode!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.

Sings from the Coffee Brick Spanish Cafe Season 2, Lesson 9. Hello, all, and bienninoes to Coffee Brick Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Paul. How is you? Very well. A little bit resfriado, but well. And you?

Well, but it's free, no? It's free, yeah. Finally, we're back with the Nivirno, and for that we're listening the stories of the coffee in Spain and to give us a little of the cold. Yes, yes, effectively. We're back with another episode of, the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe

and we will be experiencing another scene from that cafe today. If this is the first episode you've listened to, make sure you go back and listen to the first season and then our second season and you can follow the whole story as you go and learn some Spanish at the same time. Well, Pablo, what we're going to

do in the cafe? What we're going to see? Well, it's a very interesting and, well, no I want to anticipate nothing because I think our

our people we're going to do you're going to know, we're going to

explain the we're going to the language we're we're we're saying again?

Perfect. Let's see. We're going to. It's is for it's a time of time.

It's the day, but it's Now, the days are more long. And that's me jenna of energy positive. Ayer, she's celebrated the Fiesta Grand of the Barrio. Today is the last day of festejos.

Some feriants come to bar to despondes until the next year. These days we're much movement.

Desayunos of resaca or the end of a lunches before

to go to take a couple with the and and canas

tardies after a day of a a many can't

and bails. are days intense, but of the most Aligres. Today has been testigo of the tiernos results of these fiestas, the first,

amores. Intentanting to pass desapercivita, there was a chick of those 16 years. It was clear that I

had someone special. And is that, as they're, the primavera, the same, the spring,

he was a someone special. Entro with decision, hevably a casco of a

car of a and the and the and the color of his colony invadio

all the local. While he was he was with the mind

moving the head, to one side to other, she

was the interesting, miring the mobile, and onriending a

different in a cross of a little a man

I know to to say to incline the

side to the location of her when when

for fin I find to find her, we'll to share

my and I sonrised and I couldn't evite guinear a

o'clock animandol for his grand cit. She a the

and he saw with a mehia the chick he was with

a big in the eyes he he's sent to front

to her both were both were very emotionados and in bebbedos

the one in the other. That beautiful, that salseo so quecee in the ambient. I'm enchanted. Okay, let's go back through the whole text line by line as ever. It's termina

other calida tarde of primavera. So another calida tarde, another warm evening of springtime is coming to an end. I like this

start terminando. This idea is coming to an end. A progressive of action. Very well. Aun is

the day but Pronto oscurecera. Okay. So Aun is de day time.

It's still daylight I guess. But Pronto oscurecera. A nice future tense there from

oscurecere. It will get dark. Uh huh. Yeah. Very well. now the days are more longers and that

me jenna of energy positive as we record this at the other end of the year now the days are longer and that these are longer

and this fills me with positive energy what prefere you, Pablo, the the otoeing or the prevavera?

Well, I think that I don't to respond to this question. With Muchisman difference, the Primavera.

But not you like when the days are less long? If you are you see

sincere, I'm like the colors of the autumn. But there is a

melancholic in the to know that I don't to make to

because it the year in a way and it's like

a little a pretty but I I'm I

like this this this sensation of prepare to prepare to the

winter to be in the interior and all that's yeah but not I

like the dark that the days are so much in the other than

the post in spring when until the one of

the night is practically of that that I'm

very good let's continue on yesterday yesterday so

yesterday the Fiesta Grande of the Barrio. Today is the last day of festejos.

So, a year was celebrated. Or yesterday the Fiesta Grandi of the

big neighborhood festival was held. Today is the ultimate day of festejos. Today is the

last day of festivities of celebrations. Yes, many good. Some Ferians

came to bar to to despedice until the next year. So Ferriantes is an

interesting word because it's linked to the fair. Exactly, so are these people

who work at the fair? Effectively. Stollholders perhaps? Yes. Okay, so some

stallholders come to the bar to say goodbye, that reflects a verb, until the

next year. These days we have much movement. Desayunos of resaca or

end of the rest of the time to go to get a time to

make a time and then after a day of a time of a

time of the I love the sentence because there's lots in it. There's

split it up into the different sections So these days we have

much movement so these days literally we have a lot of

movement but it means there's lots going on so what are

these things that are going on well they're split into three sections

we first of got des So these are breakfasts of hangovers. Yes, very well. Tener resaca or start of resaca. You can use ambas.

Okay. So to have a hangover, to be hungover, or the fin de fiesta, or the hangover hasn't started yet because they're still the end of the, end of party breakfasts, basically. And then we have al-muertos, before to go to take a

a copas with the and we have lunches which are before

going for drinks and dancing with friends and dinas tardias

and late dinners after a day of a day of friends singing

and dancing I'm very thank we have the adjective tardiers

Cenas tardias, because you know, you know, that in Spain, the can't

be a very, so it's a lot of so we're so we're specifying that are

that they're very very late. So what time would you say that a

time would start? Maybe 10 and 10. 10. Yeah, I'm

when reserve for to dinner to my friends, normally

normally always the reserve we do at the nine

to be the or normal. So, more that's more

a bit of that. I mean, it's a different concept also because of the heat and so on especially if it's getting

hot. You don't want to be eating too early. No. But at the same time, I struggle a little

bit eating half ten a night. No, I have been accustomed much to the

or areas Britannico and I think more more sense. No

I'm in that. But when I'm Spain I'm still maintaining the

costum for sure one a question tell what's going in here because can't

that's not quite a well I expected the can't something different?

It's similar simply I'm I'm thinking the Kante flamenco that's

something something something something yeah maybe is more

typical in the South so maybe that's an

indication as to where this this coffee might be

Who knows? No, we know. Okay. So they are intense days, but of the most Aligres. So they are intense days. These are intense days,

but they are of the most happy. They are incredibly joyful ones. And here, as the first time, we can say also,

de lo more alagre. Mm-hmm. See, very interesting. So, de lo mas

alegres, because we, we're talking about the days, but also we can use the singular form of that adjective. Good. Thanks for pointing that out. Today has been testigo

of the ternos results of these fiestas, those primers amores. So, hoy has been witnessed today, or I witnessed today of the

tiernos results of these fiestas of the sweet, the tender results of these festivities. Los primros amores. The young first loves

or something like that. Yes, Intentando Passer Despercivida There was a chick of 16 years. Okay. So this is interesting.

Desapercivida. So that would be unnoticed. So Intentando Passer Desapercivita, trying to go unnoticed, there was a girl of about 16 years.

This girl of about 16 was trying to blend in. She was trying to go unnoticed. Yeah. It was clear that I'm sure. So it was clear.

It was clear. That she was waiting a someone special. And just to pick up on Esper, because we know that that verb

means to wait. That also means to hope. But when we expect a someone, we need the personal a. Yes. Because if

says, I'm, I don't, no, not we need. And the crucial thing in Spanish is that we remember that the word for is already in the verb. It's Esperar. So we don't introduce a word for for while in English we have to wait for in Spanish. It's just Esperad. So this girl was waiting for someone especial, someone special. And we are going to wait to find out who that is until after the break.

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To access this wealth of learning resources, visit coffeebreaklanguages.com slash sins. Well, we're going to someone special. Someone special. Who is, who is it, like, as they say, The Primevera, the Sangerer. Me encanta this refrain. So, that refrain is a saying, isn't it? So, and as they say,

the primadera, spring, the Sangre altera. So Altera means to alter to change. So springtime stirs the blood or something like that. Yeah, makes the blood raise or something like that.

I guess it makes people feel emotional or romantic, perhaps. Who knows? Yeah. De Pronto Jigo Ese Alguyen Special. So de pronto, suddenly,

Jigo. That's a preterate tends to there. arrived that someone. And someone is a very interesting

because we use as a neutral, but for example, if we're we're we're

we're we're we're using the more neutral, not you're saying, someone

wapa, you're to say someone who's so even if you are referring to

female, you would still use the masculine If you uses someone yes.

Okay, good. Entro with decision. He was a casco de motel in and the olor of his colony invadio

all the local. Entro with decision. He walked in literally with decision, but it kind of means he walked

in confidently or decisively. Yeah. He was carrying the motorcycle helmet on his arm. I can just

imagine him walking in. And the honor of his colonia invadio all the smell of

his has after she've invaded the whole place. Yes, me make sure that that's so pendient of who is having a first visit in his bar.

I have to recognize that when I'm in a cafeteria in a bar, and I always think, hmm, it's a first thing or no?

The fact I don't know. I mean, people watching is just such a good thing to do. Mientras he was looking

with the mirada, moving the head to one side to another, she was a interesting,

mirroing the mobile, and smiling I love this. She was a interesting. So,

Mientrasel was looking with the mirada, so while he was literally looking

with his look, so he was looking around, or scanning around with his eyes, moving the

head from one side to another. So he was moving the head from one side to

the other. So he was moving his head side to side, she was

playing it cool, she was acting like she's not interested, mirando the mobile, looking at her phone, and she was smiling playfully or an amusement. Yes, very well.

And you've mentioned the expression, to make the interesting or to be the interesting. And Annabel us will bring more expressions similar to this in the spotlight.

Very good. The other thing I like here is we've got two imperfect tenses that are balanced because while he was doing something, she was doing something else. And that's a really great use of that imperfect tense when we're talking about what was happening. In a cruce of miradas with the apuesto jovencito, I've made to indicate inclinando

the head a side of a position of your amy

a look in a brief exchange of looks with

the apuesto with a handsome young man yes

he is synonym of he said I take

to I took the opportunity to indicate to

him, or I took the chance to point out, inclinando la cava'a de one side, tilting my head to one side, the ubication of his friend. Ubikation is an interesting word because it sounds like quite a posh word, the vacation. But there's a verb as well. Yeah, ubicar. And that means to be located.

And I guess we could also just translate it as to be. Because how would we say, for example, the castle is located in the vicinity of the center? The castillo is a circle of the city or the people, or what that's ubiquarse, that's to be located. But if you locate

something, then you can ubiccar something, then you can ubiccar something as well. Okay. When, for fin he got to find her we'll we'll to

compare miras me sonri he's and I'm able to

give to give him a eye animando for his

grand fit so when he finally found when

he finally managed to find her we we returned

to share looks so we exchanged glances again

me sonrio he smiled at me I'm aggratefully and I couldn't help but wink at him

guinear a eye gnear an ojo, guinear an ojo, gnear anojo to his grand cita encouraging him for his big date. Yes, yes, see. You know, you know, a eye, a eye? Yes, yes, yeah.

No, I don't ask, because not a all the world is he does it. And when when he guinea the two eyes. It's always

guinea. Like when what I'm what I'm doing now? Yes. That's parpadear.

Paradear. Paradear. Right. So in English we have to wink and to blink. Exactly.

So to wink is guinea an ojo and then to blink is parpadear. A

one is a link to the parpados? Parpados that are the eyelids. The eyelids. Okay.

So parpados those parpados. Okay, good. A little extra. My capitality there. See, He acerco to the mesa and la so he went up to the table,

he acerco to the table, and he greeted her with a kiss on the cheek. The chick, the chick. Oh, that's romantic. Very romantic. So, the chick lo mirro, the girl looked at him

with a brillo magical in the eyes with a magic. Sparkle in her eyes. I'm a lot sparkle in English. It's

very well. He's sent to front to her. So he sat down across from her opposite her.

Mm-hmm. Those two were very embebidos the one in the other. Lovely one there.

So, those two were very emmionados they both seemed very excited and embevidos

the one in the other. So it's linked to the word Bebele and then the extension of that would be imbever. That's.

Which, how would we translate that to be absorbed? Embever significa absorb. So in bevibedos is like absorbed in each other. In each other. Very cursi. Curse. Oh, I love that word.

Curse is like cheesy. Cheesy. Yeah. Okay. Well, there we have a cheesy ending to our chapter today. Lots of interesting words in this. had a crude of miradas, we've had guinear an ojo,

to getse la interesting what else have we had some grammar things, interesting futures. We've had the reflexive expressions despedierse, to say the interesting again. Passer desercivieda. Yeah, lots in here.

So listen out for these interesting aspects. And we'll listen again. It's terminando other calida the time of Primavera. Aun is the day,

but it's it'scurecerer. Now the days are more long and that's

me a energy positive. Ayer was the first great of

the city. Today is the last day of the

firste some many are to get to to be to be a next year.

These days we're much movement. Desayunos of resaca or the end of a feast, almurts

before to take a couple with the friends and and we're and then after days

after a day of a day of dances and are some days intense

but of the most a Today I've been testigo of the tiernos results of these fiestas, the first, amores. Intentantinginging past disapercivied, there was a child of,

16 years. It was clear that I'd ever that evera someone special. And is that, as they, the primavera, the Sanger, Altera. De-pronto hego

that someone special. Entro with decision. Hevably a casco to motu

in the and the and the the olor of the and the while.

While he he was with the mind moving the the

head to one another, she had the interesting, mirrored the mobile and onrying, divertida.

In a cruce of miras with the apuesto I'll I'll take to indicate the head to one

side the location of her when for fin I got to find her

we'll we're to give my I'm he's I'm

And of course, and no could avoid guinearly an eye, animandolo for his visit. She

came to the table and her and he a big-in-the- little

the chica he looked with a big in the eyes. He was sent

to her two were very emosionated and in bebbed the

one on the other And of this episode of scenes

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Much thanks to you, as you, we are at the penultimate episode. Oh, what's of course means that next time it will be the last chapter in this series. We hope that you're looking forward to that

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