Coffee Break Spanish - Season 3 – Lesson 06 – Coffee Break Spanish

Episode Date: June 24, 2011

In episode 6 of Coffee Break Spanish Season 3, Mark and Alba discuss their recent visits to Edinburgh and will entertain you with some singing! José introduces two phrases to say that things are in a mess, and language points include the pluperfect tense and using double indirect pronouns, e.g. a mi madre le gusta la música. Please note that lesson 6 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 306 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 6. It's hour to pass to the next level. From the ensayos to the spectacle. This is your moment. That's the top. Well, Alba, how is you're going? And you, Mark? I'm sorry.

Thank you. This is the episode number six of Showtime Spanish. And we're we're going to the ultimate episode, that was the first episode of Verano-Spaniel. You have liked to you?

Well, yeah, me been so, I'm so much. I'm excited. I'm going to be the next time. Well, this time, we're going to

talk a little of what we've done from the last time. As usual, we're going to present the language, the conversation to you,

in the first act, in the first act, In the intermedio, we're going to do a thing a little different. Yeah, it's about language,

now we're many, now we're to go to the chists. Very well, and then in the second

act, I'm going to explain the grammatica, the language that we've used during

the first act. Well, now, we're going to start. Vena, we're going to

this. Well, Before to start to Mark and I have been talking. And it's

that the two have been in the same place this end of the same that we're to be

Edinburgh. Yes, the last, well, I was, ago, we're talking of the grand

city, because I had been in London, and this end of the time, it seems, that the two have been in Edinburgh. For different reasons, but we're both

in Edinburgh. And if you know you know, Edinburgh is the capital of Scotia. It's more or less a two

hours of where I live I. Well, Mark, What did you What did you This Finghambourg? Well, I went to be a

comedy musical, a work of a theatre very known that's called Mary Poppins that's that's

doing in the theatre Playhouse in Edinburgh But, but a very, Mary Poppins

not is for the children? Well, yes, for that I'm with my family.

I'm with my two children, I'm two two children, one of four

years, and the He has seven years now, and to them they've got it. How is the song

most famous of Mary Poppins? It's I think, well, I think super-calfragilistic expialidocious,

maybe? Ah! In Spanish, we're super-califragilist espialidoso. Supercalifragilist

ex- espialidosos. Spialid-I-I-Dos. Supercalifragilist espialid-y-y-y-y-y-dos. Very good. And how how is it? Well,

well, see, a bit, supercal and fragilistic, espialidoso, although it's extravagant, rarer and

spantos Wait, wait, wait, however, it's extravagante. Rarer and espantoso.

Okay, although it's a subjunctive in the folks, although swen extravagante, rare,

and spantosos as frightening, If you know, if it With soltura, sonar harmonioso. So, if you

do you do it, like, with much fluidness, it's sonar harmonioso.

And then Supercal and fragilistic espialidoos Very well, then we let us

let's go. Well, you're You're You're supercal and fragilistic espialidososon.

Although it's extravagante, Rarue and spantos So, So it's With his altura Soundar Harmoniosho

Supercal and fragilist Ospialidoo Well, Very good Okay Well, So then

I was I'm in Theatro With my family The Wednesday And then

the Saturday We were We're We're The Parliament Scocees I'm

The Parliament Scoce I have to say that was designed by an architect a Catalan.

Yes, it's a but it's an edificio very interesting in Idenburg I mean

I know, I know there's that there not but I mean

me I'm also we're we're we're that it's a

difficult to explain what is dynamic earth it's like

a a cave with an exposition about the principles of the life in the earth. For example, with the dinosaurs, the volcanoes,

and all that was very interesting. And for the children, it was interesting also. But I know I was

Alba in Edinburgh the Saturday. Dinos, for you were you to Edinburgh? Well,

I this the end of the time I've passed very well. The is that it was that the

Saturday was a day special for me because my novio and I celebrated

our anniversary. Thank you. Thanks. How many? How many? But, in hour good.

It's very beautiful. Well, we decided to go to Edinburgh the

Saturday and we had been the day. But at final, we decided

pass all the end of the end of the same of you know, you've seen, there's

a lot of there's much people, there's much people, and you know, why? Well,

yeah, there a party of rugby, yeah, and Scoti against New Yorker Ceyranda?

Yeah, the city was a whole of the great, so,

my novi and I knew we took a problem to to find a lojament, because

it was all full, it was for that, it was because there was much ambient that we decided to get to pass the night and to pass the domino.

Perfect. And what have you have you done? Have you done a little of tourism? Well, yes, we

did a little of tourism. For the Royal Mile, above and above. The Royal Mile is from

the castillo to the parliament. And, well, I had visited Edinburgh, but for

my novio was the first one of my boy, he was made in Edinburgh, but the little never

had been so that for him was even more hallucinant and what did you did you

did you something? Well, we went to a passer for the park and we know

we're we're we're doing we're we're doing and we did you

back to Glasgow for the night Very well. Okay, so we're now going to go through what we've said, but using more simple, straightforward Spanish. Mark was to Edinburgh with his family to see Mary Poppins in the theater. To his children, they're just a work, and I think that also a Mark and a her mother.

The Saturday They were The Parliament Scocese that was designed by an architect Spanish or

more well Catalan Alba also was in Edinburgh this day with his new

although they had been going to go only a day decided

they were going to pass all the time because there

much amient because there had a party of rugby of

Scocia against New in the Ciceland, in the stadium national. They did tourism, paseer on the Royal Mail, that goes from the castle, to the Parliament.

Alba, yeah had visited Edinburgh, but for his noviour, it was the first time. The domingo, dierone, a passage for a park very beautiful, and they were

in a Glasgow in train. Okay, hopefully that helps you understand the conversation and obviously you can go through the full conversation with the vocabulary in this week's lesson notes. We'll be back in just a moment after this short intermedio. Well, today in the intermedio, we're going to explain us a chiste.

Saboies what is a joke? A joke. There is the chistee. Two gatos are persecuted by a perfor. And so they're in the garden. Like the perro The cat's Orliskeating

The arbustos One of the gats He wants Heimiter And he's A-ladr Saying, Wow, wow!

The perro He hasusts And so, The gato He says He says It's very Util to

About other Idiom The thing is It's never a Good idea To explain a joke If you've got to

explain a joke Then perhaps The joke Has lost Something but this time we're talking about jokes in Spanish so I think it's okay to explain the joke let's just make sure we've all understood it

those gatos are persecuted by a perro so two cats are being chased by a dog and se sconden in the garden so they hide in the garden like the perro still oliskeando

those arbustos so while the dog is sniffing around the bushes one of the gatos wants imitar so one of the cats wants to imitate the dog

and he's a ladrar is the verb to bark so the dog says wah-wah now that's spelled G-U

A-U wow okay that's what dogs do in Spanish so on hearing this the perro the dog gets a surprise and it goes away and then the cat and then the cat says to the other cat,

it's very useful to learn other idioma. I'm sure you understand what that means. Okay, Alba, can we have the whole thing again, please? Well, there you go. Those gatos are persecuted for a per seaman and they're They're in the garden. As the perro still oliskeying the arbustos,

one of the gatos wants to imitate the perro, and he's to lader, saying, Wow, wow! The perro

is a susta and he's and then the gato he says to the other. Bess, it's very useful to

talk other another other idiom. A, H. Hello, Mark, and hello

Alva. Yes, that is certain that about other is very useful. Speaking another language is really useful. As always, it's an authentic pleasure to be here

with you. Well, it's all about pushing yourself that little bit harder to get to the next stage. To pass to the next level. Today you learn how to show surprise and react at the state something's been left in. It could be a messy house or an untidy bedroom, or indeed anything else that seemed better days. Well, in Spanish, you would say, something like, "...está etch etchre or etcha a disaster if you are describing

a feminine thing, like a house, for example, a casa. Echon desastre means it's a tip. A disaster zone, quite literally. You can say this about people as well, if they're a bit scruffy, for example.

Estas etchre something else you can say along those same lines is, Alle's da batas-arriva. Everything is upside down. Everything is a mess. Okay, so have a go yourself and repeat after me. It's made a chapter.

All right. That's all for today. Until the next intermedio, the Showtime Spanish. And now, straight back to Mark and Alba. Dimmie Mark, do you know, you know, well, Jose, the truth is that is that is because we're too much

When you're not listening to Coffee Break Spanish, you can still practice your Spanish with our regular posts on social media. Find us on Facebook, just search for Coffee Break Spanish. We're Learn Spanish on Twitter. And you can keep up with the team through our regular posts on Instagram. Follow Coffee Break languages. It's our mission to help you turn your downtime into your due time. Mark will explain the language that's used in the first act to for that we understand

more. Thank you, Alba. There are two things I'd like to pick up from this week's

conversation. The first of these is the phrase A Ejos Les Encanto. Here I was

talking about the play, Mary Poppins, and how it pleased or how my sons enjoyed it. They liked it.

A Ejos Les Encanto. But if you think about that sentence, a-e-os means to them, and les also means to them. It's the indirect object pronoun. Les encanto, to them, it pleased. But here we have,

a-e-e-os, to them, les to them, incant-o, it pleased. So we're actually repeating to them in this sentence. This is very common in Spanish. Consider, for example, Ami me gusta la music. Here you're saying, ami to me,

me, to me, goesa la music. So again, you're repeating the to me, or in the case of the example, to them. It's very common to use this, particularly when you're emphasizing the person or people

to whom something pleases. So, Ami me Gusta la musica is the equivalent, of saying I like music, stressingly, I. A mi me gusta la music. Well, as for me, I like music. Ami me me gusta la music. I would you say, what about you?

Do you like music? You'd say, A ti te gusta la musica? We're going to go through the whole range of people here, going through each person individually, and talking about both what's called the disjunctive pronoun, which is me, tea, and so on.

and also the indirect object pronoun, the me te, megusta, tegosta and so on. One thing that's extremely important is that you don't get mixed up with this being a reflexive pronoun. It's me te le, not me te se, as in me yamo, te yamas, se yama. Here we're talking about indirect object pronouns. me-gusta tegusta le-gusta anyway we'll come to that in a moment because we're going to go through the whole six parts or indeed in this case there are more because we're talking about to him and to her and so on so first of all to me using the disjunctive pronoun a me and that's m i with an accent it has an accent to differentiate it from the possessive adjective me meaning my my my mother M-I with no accent, but a-me, where it's stressed in the disjunctive pronoun form, it's M-I with an accent. So, a-me, and the tu form, the U-form would be a-tie, T-I. Now notice here that T is not spelled with an accent, and even Spanish native speakers get that wrong sometimes

because they think it must be the same as me, a me, me, me, me-gusta, but at-ti doesn't have an accent. The reason for this is very straightforward, because there is no other word in the Spanish language that's spelled T-I, so there is nothing to differentiate between. If you're talking about my mother, you say, my mother, my mother, m-I, but if you're using the disjunctive pronoun, you talk about a-me, m-I with an accent.

Otherwise, you get mixed up. However, with T, there's no other word because you say, Tu Madre, your mother. And compare that with ati. There's no confusion at all, so there's no accent on ati. Now, what about to him? That would be a el. And that does have an accent, a L, e-acute, L.

And the reason has an accent, obviously, is to differentiate it from the masculine definite article. El Libro. Okay. So a el, to him, and to her is a ella. A ella, E-U-L-A. No accents. She'll be pleased to know. Then we have a-o-steed to you. A-U-stead. There's also another disjunctive pronoun used for it. In some cases, you would use a el-yo. However, we're not going to worry too much about that. But Alba did use it in this episode when she says, let's get to it. As I say, we'll not worry about it just now, particularly when we're talking about gustar.

So, a me, a ti, a el, a ella, a Usted. To say, to us, you would say a nosotros. Nosotros is the same word for we. So no problem there. A nosotros. And then the same thing happens with, Vosotros, a vosotros.

And you've probably guessed it when it comes to them. You've got a masculine form and a feminine form. So you can have a a elios and a yias. A a yos. A edges.

Straightforward so far. And finally, a Ustez. A Usteades. To you. plural, polite, a Usteades. Okay, so much for the

disjunctive pronouns. However, in this construction, these have to be combined with indirect object pronouns. So let's just take out of the equation, the disjunctive pronouns, and talk about gusta here, and we're going to say, to me pleases.

So let's take La Muzica again. Ami, me gusta la musica. We're going to take out the ami part for the moment, and just talk about me-gusta me-gusta the indirect object pronoun is me me-gusta to me pleases tegusta t e to you pleases le le gosta to him or to her pleases le to us to us pleases

no's gusta osgusta osgusta o s that's the bosotros form to you plutal informal used in spain osgusta osgusta la music and to them pleases les gusta les gusta les gusta les guista la musica so so far we've got our indirect object pronouns, me te, le, nos os, le, and our disjunctive pronouns, a me, a ti, a el, a ella, a nosotros, a losotros, a yos, and also a Osteed, and

a Osteed, and A Usteads, thrown in there as well. So now what we need to do is put these together. So we're going to say, I like music, to me pleases the music. me, me a music. A you, you know, the music. A he

does the music. A he a yeah, he got the music. A you, he doesn't the music.

A we also, we know, we know the music. A bothotros you,

us got the music. A they, they Gusta la music. A Egas Les Gusta la music.

A Usteades Les Gusta la music. Now, I hope you don't feel this has been too pedantic. Hopefully it has really helped to get you used to this particular phrase, which is very, very common in Spanish. I said there were

two things I'd like to pick up on, and the other thing is the use of the Plu-Perfect tense. It's something that we've not really talked about before in Showtime. The Plu-Perfect, is used to translate what we say in English when we say, I had done something, or you had visited London, or he had been in Edinburgh before, and so on. In Spanish, we use the imperfect tense of the verb, A-E-R, H-A-B-E-R,

and that's combined with the past participle. Let's run through quickly the imperfect tense of A-E-R. It's a standard regular ER verb. So it becomes, Avia, avias, Avia, aviamos, aviais, avian. So if we combine this with the past participle of whichever verb we're working with,

we get the blue perfect tense. So let's take cantar to sing. Have you had sung. Avias cantado, you had sung. Have you cantado She or he had sung Or indeed you Formal had sung

Had sung Avivamos We had sung Avivais cantado You Vosotros had sung Avian

Cantado They had sung Now we will hear further examples of this In future lessons And there's also some practice of it Along with all of your

disjunctive And indirect object pronouns in this week's Encore podcast. That's where we're going to leave these explanations for just now. So once again, we hope you've found this a useful and enjoyable episode of Showtime Spanish. As I mentioned, there's lots more in this week's bonus materials which you can find on our website at Showtimespanish.com. There's a full transcript of our dialogue, the texts of the Chiste and Jose's Phrases,

and there's also further explanations of all the grammar that we've covered in today's lesson and full details on all the words and phrases used in the dialogues. Estimated, we're doing again next time for more showtime. I hope you guys a good time and we'll see the next time. Thanks to you, Alba, and thanks to allos us others. to the Vista You'll be understood

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