Coffee Break Spanish - Season 3 – Lesson 11 – Coffee Break Spanish

Episode Date: July 12, 2011

In episode 11, Mark and Alba talk about the holidays and about their New Year’s Resolutions. Alba presents a review of the film La Lengua de las Mariposas in the intermedio, and José’s topic of the week is paying compliments to people. Grammar points covered include the use of sí que for emphasis, and talking about how long you did things for in the past using both durante and a more simple preterite tense. Please note that lesson 11 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 311 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 11. It's hour to pass to the next level, of the ensayos to the spectacle, that's open the telon. Hello, Alba, how how are you?

Very well, and you? Well, very well. Felice year new. Felice year new for you, also our audience, that the 2009 you bring a much And, well, that

also, that also you've got many opportunities to practice Spanish. This episode is the first episode of

2009, and we're very content of to be back with you to help us to help us

in this episode we to talk the vacations, and also we're to talk

to a time that we're a lot in this time of the year, the

good proposals for the 2009. Perfect. Well, then Now Alba, this is where we would normally start speaking in Spanish, but there's one thing I want to pick up on just before we get into our discussion today. And that's the phrase I use there,

Leto A por Eno. We've actually had a few emails about this phrase that we've used before. You used it when you said, Vamos a por los Chis. And it seems strange to some people when they hear a and por together, two prepositions used in the one phrase. Can you explain this a little? Well, in Spain, it's correct, or there's a lot, or there's a lot, that is

that it's a lot, we're going to someone or something? So, you can't give an example of when would you use? For example, we'd use the phrase, Mom, I'm going to the keys, and...

What means do you say, Mom, I'm going to look at the right? Exactly. So, I'm going to put something, I'm going to say, I'm going to ask something. Yes. So can use also for a person?

I'm going to for you, for example. Yes. And in that case, it has two different. The first significator is the equivalent to the significate to

go to the key. Is it I mean, if I say, I'm going to you, it's means that I to look at you in a phrase like,

I'm going to you when you get to the airport. So in English, I'm coming to get you when you get to the airport. I'll come and get you when you arrive at the airport.

Exactly. And when you get is, subjunctive there, yeah? Yes. Okay. And the second? The second

significato is a more macabro. For example, if I do to you, Mark, I mean, I know what

you said what you said to my brother, so prepareate I'm going to you. So then

this case would be a more like a menace effectively. You're not saying I'm

not not no, no, no, it's that in English is the

English is the same so I'm coming to get you you can you

can't I'm coming to the airport to pick you up or it can mean

I'm coming to get you And I'm going to do horrible things to you when I get you. So it's the same, no? Yes, exactly the same. And it's more well in Spain than other places, no? Yeah, I'd say that it's a level national.

It's the people. And it's very known for all the world. And then my example, We'll go to it. Let's go for it. Let's begin. So, we're going to it. Vena. Well, Alva,

what have you been to your vacations? Well, very well, I'm in Spain I'm in Galicia and then in Catalonia so I've been so

I've passed much time with my family and with my friends I've received I've come good

so in resumen an exit and you how are the vacations Mark? Well,

very well the the children very content with those the girls that

he has brought Papa Noel and we We've desksed a little,

that's important in this time of the year, no? Well, yes, the truth is that I'm

in the time, in the time we're in the champagne to make a midnight I'm

I'm a I'm that you and my other people people are you are you

are doing the uh, and I'm it's really maybe, we're maybe we maybe we

maybe we let's the tradition of our audience. Okay. The tradition says that the

day 31 December at the 12 of the night, there are to be two ovas

the compass of the two campanadas that indicate the initial of the

year new. Well, I'm going to tell one thing. The first I was

I was I'm I'm when I'm in Spain, in Salamanca.

Passed a Noche Vueja in Madrid, and, as the tradition, we've been in the Pueza of the Sol, with a lot of Madrid-nees to make a night,

debauch. My friends had done 12 ubs, and I, I, well, I knew what did with when they were

to sonar the campanadas, I did know that all had been to come the hues, so I did

the same, however, no knew that they had to trygare, so when When when they're the

campanadas I don't I'm a bock I'm sure I'm sure what you're not you're

not you know you're not I'm not I'm a yeah yeah me can't imagine

and there also there's other tradition curious of the year new

no well we know we're we're we that in the

night of the night of the night we're we have we

of color rojo, although it's only one piece, but it has to be rogo. For what? For what?

For the in other countries, I know that it's a proper but in Spain is

roger. Well, very well, the truth is that that night in Madrid, I don't

I don't I'm I'm if I know, and you know, and we're not.

We're going to new, no? Yes, that was the idea. We've been about to do many things. Well, what are your

good proposals for this year? Well, one of of my proposites is be more pointual,

because I'm a disaster in that sense. And my other purpose is to have

to be good. Ah, so I'm that Mark. Well, Mark, and you,

what are your good proposals? Well, the The truth is that this year I'm trying to

to make more exercise. Every day, from the year, I've gone to the pistina.

Well, you know, you've been to be a place to but that that's meted in

the water? Sure. I've gone to the pastina and have had done too.

Very very good. And other this year, I'd like

to learn other other? Yeah, no I don't know what, but I'd like to learn other idioma, because, because, well,

I think this year, I'm the year, the year of the Chinese or of Japanese, or no see, of Catalan, maybe, I don't know. That's, you know, Mark. Well, yeah, we'll be. I'll see what

the best and much sure, for that you can't do all your good propositions of this year. Equalment, and about the tobacco, eh? Much thanks, Mark.

Well, I wanted to ask to our audience if also have good proposals for the 2009. So, it would be

a pleasure to read your comments in our web of Showtime Spanish. That's sure,

Showtime spanish.com. Okay, it's time now for today's resuming. Today, today's

today's a for something, we've talked to the vacations of Naviad. Mark

has passed much time with his family and has been a little. Alba was to Spain and

has enjoyed much. No, she's explained the tradition of the 12 ubas

in Noche Veeha? And Mark he talked to his first 12

uvas in the Puerta of the door of the good

purposes of Alba for 2009 are more punctual

and and then stop and the and the mark are to make more

exercise and when he to go to the prison also also he's

another other and without he's going to use a

podcast of radio language very well then then

then we we we're we this this Well, in these

next lectures, the Intermedio will to change a little. Yeah,

it's about travalanguas and chists. Alva, you can explain

what we do we do? Today, I'm to recommend a movie

that I love much much the the movie is in

Spanish. And how the movie? The The movie is The Lengue of the Mariposas.

And, what about? A bit, we're in the 1936, the year in that it is the

war civil in Spain. Moncho has eight years and live in a little

a little little. Moncho has been a long time, and when

he comes to the school, he knows to his new professor, that he he'll

he he shows many things like he he explains he explains

why the mariposas have a language special everything when it's

the war and the fascists get to people

to make to the and why you do you

do you do well because it's a very

very for the most in Spain. And the action is in Galicia, a region that I know very well, yeah that my

novio is there. And the movie explains a period difficult of the history

Spanish and it's and it's a point of a point of a movie.

There's there's there there can't find information about

it or how encounter now. Now we we pass the

turn to Jose. Jose, you have seen the movie of the Languas? Yes, for suppose, that I've seen, Alba. It's one of my movies favorite. All right, I've seen with my students in the college.

But first, let me desire you a very happy year new, Alva. And to you, also, Mark, for supposed. And to all the

Showtime Spanish. No, I know, but I think the impression that this year, 2009, good and that we're going to learn a lot of Spanish.

A-ke-s? This can be one of your good propositions. The most important, no? Well, sure. Well, that. Bien-to-a-est-intermedio the Showtime Spanish. This is where I aim to take you further and teach you things that real Spanish speakers say. Today, we're dealing with piropos. A me enganed los piropos. Piropos are compliments that you pay people.

Generally, on their appearance. And in Spanish, they tend to be very inventive and funny. Shall I teach you a couple of them then? Let's go to you. If you're going to say, Estas for comerite. That in English, you look so good you're good enough to eat.

Estas for comerite. Also, you could say, Estas more good than the pan. You look tastier than bread. You look scrumptious, I suppose. Or even, you can say simply, Estas very good. Note, I'm using the feminine,

Buena, because I am complimenting a girl, a female. If you're complimenting a male, you'd have to change that to Bueno. Estas more good than the pan. Okay, so how they go yourself and repeat after me. Estas for comerte. Estas more good than the pan. Well, now you know how to pay an original compliment in Spanish,

but make sure you use it in the right context, eh? You don't want to end up with a slap cheek now, do you? And that is all in this intermedio, the Showtime Spanish. Very felice and prospero annual new to allos. And after the next. And now we'll come Mark and with Alba. Adios! When you're not listening to Coffee Break 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. There are three things I'd like to pick up on in this week's episode. The first of these is a phrase which Alba used when we were explaining the whole idea

of ir a por or someone she said is correct or there are

muchima people that is that so there are lots of people

there are muchisima people that is si as in the word for yes and

ke so si is used before a verb in this case utita to

emphasize that verb. So there are lots of people who do indeed use that structure, talking about i.e'er-a-por-al-go. This si-ke in Spanish is used very commonly, and it can be used really before any verb to emphasize the verb itself. So, for example, I've said that I've been going to the swimming pool every day since the new year. Let's suppose for some reason I didn't manage to go today. I could say, manana si'i go to the

swimming pool. Now, another example of this is the phrase esosikis, for example, esosique is good, eso si que is malo. Now, this again is used for emphasis. That really is good.

Now, that's what I call good. Esosik is good. But the interesting thing about this is when you think about Es Soc-S, it actually spells out the word Sox in English, S-O-C-K-S. And it's a good way of remembering S-O-C-K-S. It's a nice Spanish phrase, and it can be used to add emphasis. So-S-O-C-C-E-R-D. That really is the truth.

Now, that's what I call the truth. Okay, so that's the first thing I'd like to pick out from today's conversation. The second point I'd like to pick up on was my story when I was talking about the Porta del Sol on New Year's Eve. or as I would call it Hugmane. I've called it Hugmane all my life and I won't change as a Scott. That's what we call New Year's Eve. Anyway, Porta del Sol on New Year's Eve, and I was talking about the fact that people had given me grapes.

Me havei'an dado uvas. Me havei'an dado. That is the pluperfect tense. It's the imperfect of aver plus the past participle. So I had given. had given, you had given, had given,

and she or it, or indeed you, polite, had given, had given, we had given had given, have us dada, you had given,

the vosotros form, hadistado, and they had given, had given, had given me d'dough. So they had given me grapes, me have been done uvas, but this would be more naturally translated as I had been given grapes.

Me have been done uvas. Another example of the pluperfect was Toos yeah had been empezzado to come. So everyone had already started to eat. And again we're still talking about Las Uvas de Noche Vieja. yeah have been so the verb here is we're looking at the imperfect tense

of aver combined with the past participle to give the blue perfect tense the blue perfect tense as you know is translated as had done something had tocaed the piano

I had played the piano Nosotros had got to us yeggado antes. We had arrived previously or beforehand. So the Pluperfect tense is always used in this situation where you're talking about

something which had happened prior to something else happening. So it's further back in the past. Let's say Jose arrived at the party. But we had arrived already. So

we arrived before Jose. Jose arrived, Praterate tense. Jose Jégo, but we had arrived before. So that's a little recap on the Plu-Perfect tense. There's another idea related to the past that I'd like to cover before we finish today. And that's picked up from

when Alba was talking about La Lingua de las Mariposa. When she was giving her resumen of the story of the film, she mentioned that Moncho the little boy in the film, Moncho has been a estado infirmu

during a long time. Now this means Moncho has been ill for a long time but there's a slight difficulty with this

because if in English we say Moncho has been ill for a long time then we're not entirely sure whether Moncho

is still ill or whether he's now better. So in this case Moncho In Spanish, has been 100% clear. Moncho has been

infermo during a long time, that's referring to a closed space of time in the past. So Moncho was ill for a long time, but now he's better. If the perfect tense is used in Spanish, then you're talking about a closed space of time in the past which is now finished.

However, another way of translating this in Spanish, if we were going from the English phrase, Monto has been ill for a long time, could be, Monto esta enfermo, des de a meoto time, now in this case, Monto is ill since a long time ago. Again, we would translate that in Spanish as Monto has been ill for a long time. However, in this case is 100% clear that Moncho is still ill.

Let's take another example of this, perhaps an example that you might have reason to use. So, for example, you could say, have vivido three years in Spain. So there you're saying, I've vivido three years in Spain. Or, I've lived in Spain during three years. I have lived in Spain for three years. Now, that's a literal translation of the perfect tense there.

I've vivedo in Spain during three years. So we ask ourselves, am I still living in Spain? I've vivido in Spain during three years. Well, the answer to that question is no, because what I'm saying is at some point in my life, I have lived for three years in Spain. I've lived in Spain. I've lived in Spain during three years.

So during a period of three years, I lived in Spain. I have lived in Spain. Now the confusion is coming from the fact that I have lived in Spain for three years in English could mean one of two things. It could either mean I have lived in Spain for three years and now I don't live there anymore. Or it could mean I have lived in Spain for three years and I'm still living here. So let's think about this. If we want to take the second option, then what we're saying is I have lived in Spain. in Spain for three years and I'm still living here.

Therefore, in Spanish, we need to use a present tense. We would say, Vivo in Spain, Des de Acese 3 years. So I have been living in Spain or I have lived in Spain for three years, and I'm still there. Okay? Vibo in Spain,

since a 3 years. Compared to, I've lived in Spain, during 3 years. I have lived in Spain. Spain for three years, but there you're referring to a period in the past of three years when you lived in Spain. I hope that makes sense. And that's where we're going to leave this episode of Showtime Spanish. As ever, we hope you've found it useful. And don't forget that we really

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