Coffee Break Spanish - Season 3 – Lesson 08 – Coffee Break Spanish

Episode Date: July 1, 2011

In episode 8, Alba and Mark discuss smoking laws in different countries. Language points covered include the future perfect tense, eg. “I will have stopped smoking”, the use of soler, and the phrase pillar a alguien desprevenido. José’s intermedio covers two phrases which you can use to describe how well you speak Spanish. Please note that lesson 08 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 308 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 8. It's hour to pass to the next level. From the ensayos to the spectacle. This is your moment. That's the table. You're listening to Showtime Spanish. This is the show which will help you take your Spanish to the next level. I'm called Mark Pendleton.

And I'm one of the presentators of this. program. Hello, I'm Alba Gomew, and I'm the other presenter of this program. Alba, what is you? Very well, thanks. And you, Mark? Good, yes, yes.

I'm doing, I'm going to back in Spain. I'm in Spain. I was two days in Geroon, in the North of Spain. Ah, in Catalan, Gerona, it's called Girona. If, you know, I've

talked a little in Catalan, too. Ah, yeah? And what do? Well, it's a lot. Well, it's a lot. I'm, more or less to the world

and I think that they understood to me too. Well, well, well, well,

well, well, today we're to talk to do something that was in Gerona.

And what you did you then? Well, the first night when I

went to I did quite to I'm a country, then I'm to a lot to do

And? Well, I busked a Mesa Libre and me sent to. I paid some tapas and a cup of tint. And just then, I did count of that the woman that was sat down in the mesa of the other

was at point of encendersoned a cigar. But, Mark, but if you're in a bar or in a cafeteria, in Spain, what do you want? Yes, but the

is that I pill you prevened. It's so much that's not time that can't fumar in the cafeterias here in Scotia?

Ah, okay, right, now, now I'm know, it's that in

Spain, we're a law anti-tabac but not is that

as this you can explain us a more. We

say, we say, I'm the duke of a restaurant or

a bar or a car, and my local, my restaurant

has less of 100 meters. If If it has less than 100 meters, I can decide if I want that the restaurant is for fumators or for no fumators.

Ah, now I'm seeing. For example, in Geroen, where was the restaurant, was very small. So, the people could have fumar and because he had a right to fumar. And, what happens if the restaurant has more of 100 meters quadrants? Well, if they have more than 100 meters quadrants, the majority of

restaurants have a zone separate for the fumators and a zone more great for the non-fumaders.

Well, it's different to what what happens in the restaurants, in the cafeterias, in the

bars, no-se no- and final. And the the truth is that me go well

because I don't want to eat a tabac. Yeah. Well, I'm perfectly your

attitude, but I'm a fumator and then also I like to fumar when I come a coffee or

I'm with my friends or my friends in a bar. So, I like that are two spaces,

each one, that's the one that and he what is? Well, it's the contrary

of what is in Spain. In Spain, fumar is considered as a

vicio social. It's to socialize, to start with the people. He fuma a lot of society, let's do you want to fumarme a cigar, I'm to partarm me of the people. You know what I want to say? Yes, exactly. And

then you're going to do you're going to be funer, and there's people who are fuming also? So, this is your group of... My new group social. Exactly. Well, I never have fumated. And for me, it's difficult to understand the point of

of view of a fumator. But no have to forget to the people that work in the bars or the restaurants. For example, I, as no-fumador, I don't want to work in a bar where the people are I'm doing. I've decided that no I'm not want to fumar, so, I don't want to respirate the humo of the other.

There is where They are where they're in conflict the interests of fumators and not fumators So, well, I'd like to have the response, but the truth is that

I don't know any idea. One question, do you think you that you'll do you guys? Yes, as a

limit, well, when I get embarrassed but I'm going to have a future

and this is what is what is what is what you do? Yes, for the most, the chicas,

we'll have a feature limit, and the children, well, also, I think. Sure, it depends. Yeah, it depends of every person. Have we'll talk about

the youth and the tobacco. At what age they're going to start to fumate the chabels? Well, well, it's, sure,

all the part of the environment, too, of the college, of the friends, but I'd I would say that,

I'd like, about the 15 or 16 years. For example, in my case, I'm

in my first cigar in a first time, in a time of a final of course.

And you have got got your first cigar no, I'm

almost I'm I know, and I know why, but at

the next the next year I've and again, well,

well, so, so here I'm do the Chichas or the

Chicoes, too, the fact that in Spain, there's a number much more more than of the chicas that are

and the children do you know. In Spain, there are there other of

the government of the sanity, for that the people get to do that

they're and also, it's very, and you can be to be to do your

medical and say, I'm to get to And then he, then he,

then he, he will give a good and he have to give a partches of

nicotina, then he recetara, et cetera, et cetera. It's that the society

is still conciences and really really, well, no we know, we're

how will be, or how are the things, we're in four or five years.

We're we're going to be a better, but well. and you have

done to have been sure so Mark, I So this has been quite an interesting discussion this time round. As usual, we're going to go over everything that we've said in more simple language. Here you know the resume

of this summer. Mark was two days in Gerona, the week, and at least, and at Entrap in a cafeteria, she did account of that the people was fumando.

He surprised much, because now in Scotland, is it is prohibited

to fumar in the bars and the coffee and the

law anti-tabac is different in Spain in the

bars and the restaurants more the do can decide if

he's fumar or not in his bar. In the bars more large, it has to be a zone for no fumators. A Mark

no he doesn't respiration the humo of the other, so every he's

coming. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm

to have a when I'm when I'm when I'm with my friends when I'm a bar

Alba creed that the situation here in Scotland is different and a

sometimes he does a bad a think he that

he'll be before that he's getting embalazada and

even even has made a promise well it has

been a very very we're we're going to and that you've understood and that you've understood

all right is the hour of the intermedio Welcome to the Chiste of the Semana. A-beer so this week

we're going to do the joke together because it's a little dialogue. I'm going to be taking the part of the Ombre

of the man of 60 years and I'll be the psychologist Okay, well, at you. Well,

this is an man major, that is going to to be a psychologist

with a problem. I'm 60 years and I'm very much of a

child of a child I'm think she she would she

would if I would I'm I'm I'm I'm depending

is you he is you good? Well, I'm I'm some

many in the bank in that no problem so

then then I don't say I'm going to think I'm 50 years? All contrary, Diggale that you have you 80 years. Well, we're going to explain

the chiste. This is all about an older man that will have a psychologist, so he goes to see his psychologist, with a problem.

And what is his problem? Well, well, well, he is a manorado, enamoradissimo

of a child that is more young she has 20 years to be in love with and he

he asks the psychologist so he asks the psychologist crea that she, the 20 years would be casasaria with me so do you think

she would marry me if I were to say if I were to say in perfect subjunctive, that I am 50 years old. And the psychologist asked a question.

She asks a question. He asks a few money. Is you rich? And he has much money? He has said that he has some millions in the

bank. So he certainly has a few pennies in the bank. And the psychologist says, well, in that case, no, there's problem. Well, no, no problem. Then, then the man

says, he'll do I think I'm 50 years? And the psychologist he says, no, no, all contrary, digal he's 80 years.

So he should, of course, tell the girl that he's 80 years old with lots of money, and sure she'll be more interested in him then. Well, We're we're going to be We're going to be this Chistee.

Now, he's talking to Jose. Hello, Jose, how are you know? Hello, Mark and Alba.

I'm going great. Much of Mark, I think you think you had you have

you're so no? No, if it's a young. Did you

know how we we asked for a light in Spanish? We say, Tienes

Fuego? Or me does Fuego? Which really means Do you have or

will you give me fire? What a great way to ask for a light, isn't it?

Well, here, in the Intermedio, in Showtime Spanish, is where you learn those phrases that help you sound more authentico. The idea, as you know, is to take you Spanish further to the next stage, to the next level, al-sigiente nival. So are you ready? Okay, here we go. You have probably often been asked, Ablas Spanish? Do you speak Spanish?

To which most people say, si, or si, a poco. Or, um poikito. Well, whenever you're asked if you can do something, not just speak in a language, it could be flamenco dancing or knitting or whatever really, and you feel fairly confident about your ability, you can say, me defianto bastante bien, which means something like, I get by very well, meaning I defend myself quite well in that situation. You can also say, me la sapaño, very bien, which means I can manage very well. If however you're less confident, you can adapt these phrases and say something like simply me defianto or me la sapaio, I get by, I manage. Just take off the very bien at the end. You can also say things like,

no me defianto very well, or no me la sa paño very bien, if you find it hard. All right, you can have a go now. Why don't you repeat after me? Me defendo, bastante bien. Me la sa paño, very bien. And that's it, from me. me in this intermedio, in this interval. Always remember to take your Spanish to the next stage. For sure, Alba, I'm a little enfadado with you. No me

like that fumes. You know that no is good for the health. Well, lecture over. Muches gracias to both. Thank you both. And after the next intermedio, the Showtime Spanish. And now, back to Mark and Alva. When you're not listening to Govabreek Spanish, you can still practice your Spanish with their 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. Welcome back to Act 2 of Showtime Spanish. Now Mark will explainer the language that we've used in the first act. Thank you, Alva. The first thing that we're going to look at today is the use of the verb Soler. This is something we've come across before, and indeed it's something that we covered in Coffee Break Spanish, if you were a Coffee Break Spanish listener.

Soler means to tend to do something, and it's combined with the infinitive. So, for example, I tend to go to the cinema on a Saturday. Let's think for a moment about which tenses were most. likely to see Soler in. If we take Suelo ir at Cine, that's obviously the present tense. You can also find Soler regularly in the imperfect. Solia ir arcin when I was a I used to tend to go to the cinema, or tended to go to the cinema when I was young.

And that's really the only two tenses that you're going to find Soler in regularly. It's quite difficult to think of a scenario where you would use Soler in another tense. Let's consider the examples of Soler from this week's conversation. Alba said, Solemus tenor una fecha limite. When she was talking about girls, las chicas, Solemmeos tenet una fechalimite. We tend to hand.

have a deadline or we tend to have a date by which, in this case, they'll stop smoking. So Solemus tenet, solemos being the present tense of soler in the nosotros form. The other example is probably a little more difficult to explain. I said, And this is what is what se sule a say in Spain? Let's break that down a little. this is what so this is

that which se sule to do now if we translate the whole phrase there we could see something like

and is this what tends to happen in Spain this is what se sule a say now why is it se sule

a you've probably come across the phrase se athe as in is done or literally

does itself se a for example So, how literally does this do itself? How does one do this? How do you do this? So seyate can be used in that impersonal form, and it therefore has an infinitive,

acerse. So literally to do itself. So if we want to use soler with acerse, we've got two options. We can either say suele acerse, or we can say se sule-a-a-ter. So hopefully that makes sense. You're combining suele or part of soler with toarse.

This is what is what tends to happen in Spain? Another thing I'd like to look at is the phrase, me pillo desprevenido. I said, me pillo desprevenido, talking about the fact that people were smoking in the cafeteria where I was. I said, but la verda is that me pillio desprevenido

Now this is quite an interesting phrase Pilliard literally means to catch For example Te pillier I caught you or got you when you're playing a game The word prevenido comes from Prevenir. Prevenir normally means to warn

It can also mean to prevent So desprevenido means unwarned if you like so it caught me, something caught me, unwarned, unaware. So let's think about the me pillo. Me piyao is to me caught. So it caught me me piggilyo desprevenido.

So in this case it was the fact that this person was smoking that caught me unawares. Okay, so the verb is in the third person. Me pillio desprevenido. Now, the reason I'm talking about this, is just to make sure that you understand that this is not a reflexive verb. The verb is pilliar a-al-al-en. So to catch someone, and obviously we have to have an a-in there because it's the personal a.

Piliar a-alien. Pilié-a-a-raul. I caught Raoul. So here we're talking about piliar desprevenido a-alien. So if you wanted to say you caught me unawares, then we need to use the two form in the preterteriors. tense of pillar. So, pillaste. Me pillasted, desprevenido. And obviously because desprevenido is an adjective, it would turn to desprevenida, if in this case I were feminine. Me pillasté desprevenida. I'd also like to mention the use of fumarse and incenderson

and indeed other words like comerse and tomarse. The normal word for to smoke is fumar. The normal word for to light is Encendere, to eat, comer and to have, when you're having a drink in a bar, to tomar. In each case, it's also possible to use the verb in a reflexive form, and this is not a true reflexive. It's not like, for example,

afeiterse to shave oneself. It's not like lavarse oneself. If I say, for example, I want to take me a coffee, it's a little more emphatic than just saying, I want to take a coffee. Quero Tomar a coffee is more general. I want to have a coffee.

But I want to have a coffee to myself, almost seeing something like that. So when Alba says, Me Gusta Fumarmes when I tom a coffee. She's saying she likes to have a cigarette when she has her coffee. But she's personalizing it. She's making it more emphatic.

Me Gusta fumarme a cigar. I like to smoke myself a cigarette. when I have myself a coffee. This kind of thing in Spanish, and indeed in all languages, is something that you need to get used to. You need to hear it lots before you can begin to use it yourself. There's a wonderful word in German for this exact concept. It's spragueufl, which means the feeling that you have for language, spraach, language, geful, basically feeling. And it's something that you acquire over time, the more language you hear being spoken, and the more language you read written down.

Well, the fact that I'm finding it a little difficult to talk today, because I'm all stuffed up with the cold. So we're going to leave it there. There's lots more explanations, including lots of notes on the subjunctives that were used in this week's conversation, in the notes, which you can find as part of the premium materials for Showtime Spanish. Well, cariados ointes, yeah, it's all for today. Don't forget that you can download our bonus materials, and that includes the PDF guide that I was talking about.

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