Coffee Break Spanish - Season 3 – Lesson 04 – Coffee Break Spanish

Episode Date: June 17, 2011

In this fourth episode of Coffee Break Spanish Season 3, Mark has just returned from a week in London and he discusses the advantages and disadvantages of living in a village, town or city with Alba. We also meet Laura from Verano Español, our forthcoming soap opera. In José’s intermedio he introduces two phrases which use the verb ponerse. Grammar points covered include the pluperfect tense, using the subjunctive and the use of the nosotros form of the present subjunctive to translate “let’s do something”. Please note that lesson 4 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 304 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.This season of Coffee Break Spanish features a total of 40 lessons, all of which will be included in the podcast feed. Just stay subscribed to the podcast to enjoy each episode. If you’d like to benefit from video versions, lesson notes and bonus audio materials, you can access the premium version of Coffee Break Spanish in the Coffee Break Academy.Don’t forget to follow Coffee Break Spanish on Facebook where we post language activities, cultural points and review materials to help you practise your Spanish. Remember - a few minutes a day can help you build your confidence in the language. Access the Coffee Break Spanish Facebook page here.If you’d like to find out what goes on behind the scenes here at Coffee Break Languages, follow @coffeebreaklanguages on Instagram.You can also check out our Coffee Break Spanish Twitter page and the Coffee Break Languages YouTube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Showtime Spanish, episode four. It's hour to pass to the next level, de los ensayos to the spectacle. This is your moment that's

that's over the telon. It's shouts the lights. It feels just like opening night. You've practiced hard, I know, but now it's time to start the show. Step into the spotlight, because you're the star tonight. With your Spanish skills at hand,

this language is an... Your command. Hello, how you're How much tell you're Very good, and you're Well, the truth is that this Semana, I'm MOLIDO, Molido, a word that

that has taught, Jose, the last. And what means Alba? Very can't I'm very

very can't this time. And for what, Mark? Why you're

this time? This time we've been in Londres for the language

show. Well, well, then then then then you then us explainers

a little more of course you are of course listening to Showtime Spanish from the Radiolingua network this is the podcast which will help you

take your Spanish to the next level as usual in Showtime Spanish we'll begin with Act 1 in which Alba and I will be talking

about something in Spanish and you'll have lots of Spanish to listen to then in the Intermedio we'll be having more Trabalanguas from Alba

and we'll also be hearing from Jose with another cool phrase hopefully. And in the final section, we'll be having a look at the language that we've used in both the first section and the intermedio. Well, Alba, let's start. Yes, that's ever, that's been the telon. Well, Mark, before, us has said that had been to London. We'll tell you a little more. Yes, we've been six days in London to assist to the language show,

that is an exposition or a fairia, a fairia? Yes, perfect. A fairia of many companies that have products, that have something to be with the idiomas. And we're about with much people that are interested in those languages or that is learning a language.

It's a super well, but now I'm molido. Me, I'm imagining. You know, a me I'm a lot of London's, the city

of London I'm but I think it during three or four days then what

what I'm so I can't I can't of the rude I can't of the I can't

also that the people that not that's that's not Mark

I'm sure that's because they're playing with a

podcast super-wai that's show Times Spanish this this

this can it You, you live in Barcelona, which is a city very great, no? You do you

live in the city? Look, me to live in the city. I'm really.

Why? Well, there are many reasons. First, because there's always there's a

thing to do. You can't go to the theater, you can't go to be a music

a a little a every hour of the night, there's always a

there, there, there's a lot of a bit of a way to be a bit a good, it's a

good, I'm sure I'm think you're I'm in a little and you know there

no there no, there's no, and if I'm going to go to the

theater then the fact I need to go to I'm to a

kind of a little a little over well maybe

not not not But, look, I mean, me I'm to live in the grand

city, because, for example, if you want to you're you're in you're

not going to make you. But there's that we live in the public, the media the

public are very good too. For example, for going to go to there's

there's there there's there can't you can you're

I'm I'm I'm not so Sure. Okay. I accept

that you can't go to a Glasgow without. But to go to other

other other then it's more difficult. But, I'm in a

little? I'm to go? To go? To go. To where you?

No. Well, very cultural very ample. If you are the

museums of contemporary there are many, there many, in fin, what you have to

all. Well, I'm a lot of Barcelona, then I have to say that

I'm in all what of Barcelona, I love, but well,

how London a little, I like to pass some some years in

the city, but I also to go to the camp

to to relax me a little a little so you think you

think there inconveniences too of a city? Yes, there are there

there's in the city for example I don't the noise, always

there's noise at all hours of the day you you

do you buses, people chieling in the people there can say

that no for the night I no no no

no in absolute that I mean me a much

Yes, the is that you have all the reason And also the light that there in the

city, there's light during the night but here there's the stars

in the yellow, that is peels. Another thing that I like of the

people is that the air is more pure so it's more

in the world no Yes, and and we have

we have many attacksos, as in the city. Dime, Mark, if you were the possibility of living where you'd like you

would be. Good question. A bit, no see, let me think a little. Meanwhile, a time,

you'll answer you. Well, all. A bit, I know, I'd like to live in

Australia, in Sydney. It's the I'm a dream that I've got, I know, 14 years. Why? Because Australia? Because there are kangaro, coales. Okay, okay.

No, really, I've got to know a lot of to know a continent, so great and so varied. Very well. Well, I think that I'd like to live in a place where no life a much, where the

people be able where I can practice my castellian my French my Italian

a little and where I'm content with my family well that's a good

that's probably probably I'd probably I'm we we're we're

we're okay it's no time to have a listen to the

resume the summary of what we've said. And before we do that, I just would like to point out that the only thing missing from where I currently live from what I said earlier was the fact that it does rain quite a lot here. I've very much here. Well, a resum. Mark,

he's took six days in London to participate in a fairia of idiomas. A Mark he likes the city of London, but only during three or four days. then he canza

of the movement or the noise, of the traffic, etc. Alba

live in other great city in Barcelona Alva he

he has to live in the city because there

there is there can go to a concert

there much culture there also the the people

are very good in the city Mark thinks that the

media of transport in their people are good too for the least to get to

the city and if he needs to be the public, all is so he

can't be able so that there is a good in that there's

there's there always there ruido by the the and the air is

much more pure in the the people. If could

live where I would be a love to see a

Australia. And a Mark would be in a place where

not year where the people be very and well

in fine, he would live where now. It's been

quite a long conversation today. Hopefully you've understood lots

of it. We'll be coming back to have a closer look at some of

the language covered in the conversation in the second half. For now, it's time to have a listen to Alba's Travalenguas and to find out what Jose has for us today.

Okay, to begin with, let's go straight over to Jose. Hello Alba, hello Mark. Well, I'm glad to devolver, as always. Biennidos to Intermedio the Showtime Spanish. Here is where you learn what it takes to sound like a native speaker, to say what we native speakers would say, and not just the tired old phrases you learned from the books. Well,

well, let's go. And that's precisely it. Today, I'm going to teach you how to get people moving. If you want to say, let's get going, in Spanish you can say Pongamonos en marcha,

which means just that. Let's get ourselves going. But you can also say Pongamonos en Camino, which also means let's get going. But it's rather more like, let's get on our way, as it does imply setting off for somewhere.

Right, so now you can get people moving, you can get people going. Why don't you repeat after me? Pongamonos in marcha. Pongamonos en camino. So that's it from me for now. Eso is all for now. Much thanks, and until the next intermedio, the Showtime Spanish. And now, back to Mark and Alba, who I know can wait together.

going. Pongamon us on our then. Okay, Jose, we're on

our we're going with our travel languages. And what do you do you

have to us Alba? Well, today I'm something very

very perfect there there come how, how, how,

how, how, how, how, okay that to me sounds like

you were using the same words lots of times yeah.

Yes, okay, so A ver Como, Como, Como, Como, Como, okay, so does that

mean Como, Como, how, Como, as in how, with an accent on it,

how do I eat? And the answer would be Como Como Como Como

Yeah, I eat as how I eat so I eat the way I eat Exactly,

Okay, so, Como, Como, como, como, Como, effectively. Very easy this time.

It's really. Otter another way? Como, Como, how, how, how,

or very rapidly How, Como, Como, Como, as someone who's working on Spanish

at an intermediate level, you may also be interested in our Coffee Break Spanish Magazine

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to develop your linguistic knowledge and also your cultural knowledge. We have presenters from Spain and also various parts of Latin America. So you'll be building your understanding of different accents throughout the series. Find out more about the Coffee Break Spanish magazine at coffeebreakacademy.com. It's the hour of repasar and study the phrases that Mark and I have used during our conversation. Mark, you pass the word. Now, as usual, we're not going to go through everything.

Hopefully you're understanding quite a bit of the conversations in Showtime Spanish. But I'm going to pick up on a couple of things that we covered in the conversation. And both of these, in fact, involve the subjunctive. The first is the phrase, Como Keras. You should know that Kieras comes from the verb KER, meaning to want or to love. Now, como Keras, Keras. is the subjunctive

form. It's the present subjunctive, which would go Kiera, Kieras, Kiera, Kieramos, Kierais, Kieran. Now obviously the indicative form is

Kero, Kieres, Keremos, Kareys, Keren. Now, in order to work out why we're using the subjunctive, I think we should look at another phrase which is very similar, and that is

Como Kieres. Como Kieres, that's using the indicative form of KERERER. Consider the sentence A-lo-como-Kieres or ask-lo-com-Ki-earnes using Latin American pronunciation.

Ad-lo-como-charees means do it the way you want. Ath comes from A-Cer and it's the imperative in the two form. So, a-lo, do it, Como-Keres.

Do it the way you want. Now compare that with, do it aslo as keras. Kieras here, meaning you want again, do it the way you want. So you might be thinking,

well, they both mean the same things, but in actual fact they don't. Because do it aslo as koreas means do it whichever way you want. And to be honest, I don't really mind or want to know which way you do it.

Just do it whichever way you want. do it, do it aslo como keras. But if you say do it as it that means do it

the way you want to do it that is the way you've already told me that you're going to do it so

do it the way you want to rather than add it as lo as you want to so when we say as you want

whatever you want to whatever you want to want however you wanted. Como Keiras? So another example here, if I were to ask Alba, you're saying to get at restaurant Italian or a restaurant Chinese Chinese restaurant? So do you want to go to the Italian restaurant or the Chinese restaurant?

And Alba says, Como Keeras? However you want. So in this situation, she's not bothered whether we go to the Italian or the Chinese restaurant. However, if I've already indicated to Alba, that I'd like to go to the Italian restaurant, say. Then she could say,

as you want, so the way you wanted, we'll go to the Italian one because I've previously indicated that I want to go to the Italian restaurant. Let's stick with this subjunctive and consider another construction that we used in the conversation. When Alba asked me where I would like to live

if I had the opportunity, I said, me would be to live in a local in a place where no lueva much, where the people be very

am able, and so on. So, yueva, se, and this other one I said, are all examples

of the subjunctive. And the reason I'm using these here is because I don't know if this place exists. I want to live in

a place where no so I want to live in a place where it doesn't rain lots, where the people are nice. Now, obviously, there are places where it doesn't rain lots, there are places where people are nice, but I don't know if there's a place that fills all of my criteria.

That's why I've got to use the subjunctive. When I was at university, I was taught a French phrase, I want a sheep that will live a long time. I want a mutton who vive long time. And that was using the subjunctive there, and that's always stuck in my head because you're specifying a particular type of thing that might not necessarily exist.

So, I want to live in a place where it doesn't rain much and Lueva is, of course, the subjunctive. Now, there are lots more explanations on all the language covered in this week's conversation, in the notes which you can find at showtimespanish.com. These notes are part of the premium membership and we've actually included some examples in the podcast feed this week.

So hopefully that will give you an idea of what is involved in the notes. Now before we finish today, you'll remember last week we met Antonio, Antonio, El Padre of La Familia de la Familia de Verano-Spanol. Verano-Spanol is, Claro, Our telenovela. Verano-Spanol

Empieza the same next week. It's starting next week. But today I'd like to introduce you to Laura, or indeed Laura. Let's listen to what Laura has to say. And remember, she's half Spanish.

Her father's Spanish, Antonio, Claro, and her mother, Ayona, is Scottish. But she does speak very good Spanish, so have a listen to what Laura has to say in her introduction. Again, the transatlash. of this is in the notes.

I'm my name's Laura, and I'm the daughter of Antonio. I think you're you know you guys the last year. I'm living with my father and my mother.

She's called Ayona. In Strasplaine in Scotia. As you see, also I've been Spanish because my father me has been in Spanish

from a little. But the fact is that I go fayos because I prefer I want to want to be in English. I'm going to pass the vera in Spain with my mother in

my Tia. As my father, my Tia muri-morrow and now the house is our own. I'm going to pass every day to the sun,

but I'm a little nervous because my mother no speaks much Spanish and I have to try to I'm going to

be able. But what what most I hope is to know a person of my age with who to go to the play. Well, after pronto. So thanks very much, Laura, or

much gracias, Laura. You've met Laura, and you've also met Antonio, his father. Laura said, that is the daughter of Antonio. She's the daughter of Antonio. Vive with his father and his mother in Strathblane in

in Scotia. Also, she's Spanish, Laura, because her father he has

been in Spanish so she also speak Spanish because her father le has spoken in

Spanish from when she was small. So since she was small, desde

Pepeña. You don't need to use a verb in Spanish. But the fact is that,

but the truth is that Laura has fajos. A fadio is a mistake. So, Laura makes mistakes because he prefers to speak in English. She says that she's going to spend the summer in Spain with her mother, in Casa de su tia.

So in her aunt's house. And as we already know, her aunt died a few months ago, and they have inherited the house. She says that she's looking forward to spending every day in the sun. Tengo ganas to pass every day to sol. But I'm

a little nervous. Why is she nervous? Because my mother no about much Spanish, and I tendre to traducer. So her mother doesn't speak much Spanish, and she will have to do the translating. Traducir, or traducer,

is to translate. She hopes she's capable of doing that. She says, Espero ser Capaz. The thing that she's most looking forward to, the thing that she's hoping for most, is Conocer a gent to my edad, con quien salier,

to go to the playa. So, getting to know people of her edad, which is age, so her age group, con quen salier with whom to go out, and to go to the beach. So we'll be meeting Laura again next week along with Antonio and Iona, and we'll be listening to the first episode of

Verano-Spanual. For now, that's where we're going to leave this episode. Well, yeah is. We're going to get this lecture and that you guys understood and learned much. The week that we're going to be the first episode of our telenovela, that's called, as you know, very well, verano

Spanish. So, no you don't you must not miss it. Well, until the time

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Showtime Spanish.com. Much thanks and after the next. Understood from Madrid

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