Coffee Break Spanish - Season 3 – Lesson 12 – Coffee Break Spanish

Episode Date: July 15, 2011

In episode 12, Mark and Alba get all poetic as they celebrate the 250th anniversary of el poeta nacional de Escocia, Robert Burns. Alba learns some Scots and in return she teaches Mark a poem by Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. The intermedio includes a review of the film Secretos del Corazón, and José introduces some interesting ways to convey the concept of 'to fancy doing something'. Language points covered include how to translate “to realise” and the construction estar a punto de + infinitive, meaning “to be about to do something”. Please note that lesson 12 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 312 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 12. It's hour to pass to the next level, from the ensignos to the spectacle, that's open the telon. Hello,

all, welcome to Showtime Spanish. Hello, Mark, how are you? I, very, and you? Well, also,

then. Then, tell me, what has done since the last time we've seen? U.

to make a visit. That good, and it was the first that was the first that was the first yeah, never had been in Scotland. And he has liked it?

He has been quite. The city entire, all the we've said, Ah, Alba, allah,

all that's prettyos, but what you're to assist to a conference of education and I've been and I've

been about much people about the podcast and also about showtime

Spanish and I also and I'm and he'll then after

after and then help us a well the next

the next the year when it when we this

episode is the the day national the day of

the A moment. Let me, let's. What's? Well, it's our poet national. And it was in 1759,

I think. And he was very very close from where I when I was a little, he was in

Alouy, that's in Ayrshire. And, well, I think that almost all the world knows one

of his cancions, one of his poems, that's called Old Langsaint. Well, I mean, that title

no me sure I'm Well, maybe the title, no, but the version

musical is you know should all the Quintons be forgotten now?

There's there versions in many of different in many different.

But today we we're going to talk a poe the poetry of

Robert Burns and And also, the poetry Spaniola. Of this we'll

talk about okay. Perfect. Well, we're going to do the Burns, as the

day national, this this year and Alba, you, you,

you're going to this day? The Saturday, on the night.

Well, I'm invited a a, a, a dinner a thing of

a thing that I'm Hagis, I, and I I'll hear some poesies

of Robert Burns recitadas by someone But Alba after this episode, if someone could be you?

You crees? Yes, because today we we're going to learn a poetry

of Robert Burns. But Mark, if Robert Burns is very difficult. What, that's

going to be coser and can't, Alva. Well, well, you I think.

Okay. The Poetry that we're going to learn to a mouse Robert Burns

was a campisino and a sometimes he was his poems in the camp

there he said to a mouse I'm a mouse. I'm he said

arando in the camp and no he did know that he was

about to destroy the nid of a raton the

ratones have nids or madrigueras well then of

of a point Burns started about the existence of an animal as a little

as a raton. I'm going to recit the first the first of the poetry and

then we will be to say to learn a little to learn a little

of Scoces. And it says so, We slick a coward temerous

biste oh what a panic and I briste that need not start

I was he jeste we beckering brattle I would be leithed and in chastey We murdering paddle Whoa Well I'm going to say A verse

Alain in English Yeah, and then you You're going to repeat Okay Okay, We sleek it Cowern Timorous Biste

A Let's slick it Cawarin Timorous Biste Very well. This means

this is a little and a little and a animalillo a little

animal okay the next oh what are panics in aubriste a

oh what are panics in dibreiste uh so so

how my there in your pecho there need

not start a wos hasty with beck and brattle

wow a Let me see how much. The one needs to start Avoise hasty with Beckettin Brattle. The oneita starts our sea hasty

We're bickering brattle. Ah, that's difficult. It's very difficult. It's very To say, no you know You're, so

Aspressurately. Is it? Or deprisa. Or deprisa. Or deprisa. I would be late to run in Chesty. I would be lith to run and chase thee.

In English, I would be loath to run and chase you. I would be leath to run and chase thee. Is it. It's not? Yes, this is you traduces, of the English or the Scots? A bit, you what you think? Well, I would be leith to run and chase thee.

We murdering paddle. A bit, we murdering paddle. Yeah, murdering. Like taggart, there's been a murder. We're murdering paddle. Well, yeah, I'm a lot.

Well, well, well, well, in Spanish would say, araddo, I think.

Yes, is the plough in English. So, I don't, not, I'd be pursued

to make to get to the herad so. So, so we sleek

it coward timorous beast oh, what a panic and I briste,

that needn't start a horse a hasty way beckering braddle, I would be late to run and chastey with murdering paddle. Wow, well, the truth is that I'm the scoces, Mark. Well, you'll speak a little the idea of the poissia in sea. Burns le pida disculps at a raton, explaining

that no care to do that the raton is doing his nido for, well, to start comodo. But the problem is that no know what

is what is what is that he's he can

he he can not not we don't we

know we we we think the that is imprevis

and for the because this impivibility no we

not not we don't we we're not we

don't there there there there there there there

are the of a And the fact is that one of the of the verses most famous of the poetry

is The best lead schemes a mason men gang after glee or so in Castellano the best plans of ratones

and men are men and it's also the idea of John Steinbeck that has used of Mason men

in his book in reference to the poetry of Robert Burns Ah, very

very this no, I know I know. Well, I think now

you talk to you? Uh-huh. You have any poetry for us

in Spanish? Well, I'm a poetry very beautiful

of I'm not so it's a well, well, I

know because I've had been to study Becker in the

university Okay, very well, well, well, well, so,

uh, Beker, Gustavolf Beker, Nacio, and the year 1813

and was a well, a poet post-romanticist Spanish, super important in the literature

Spanish. Well, Alba, how is the poecea that has chosen? The poecea

no has a number that's the number 21 and is that pertaince a one a collection

of rimes that Becker wrote, then is the Rima RIMA number 21. Vena, then you

are to recit the No? Yes, well, Well, well, it's poetry? Dices, you know,

you know, you know, your pupilla blue. What is Poesia? And you me it

you're you're you? Poessia are you? Oh, yeah, you've

seen? Well, tell me, Alba, you could explain us a little the poetry

or say it in other words, for example? Yes,

a It's a a pair very enamorated that are talking between

them and they're they're a question and the question is what is the poetry

what is the beauty and so so so so so

they're what is poetry he or she he he he

a his and his exactly and the clavas clavas

in my pup Well, the word clavar, to literally, to hammer, right? So, then, what is poesia? It's the, the chicka, let's ask, what is poetry or something?

And then the poet, says, you're, you're seeing this while you're looking at me pupila, your pupilla, so you're seeing this while you're looking at me piercingly. Any I or something?

Yes, exactly. So, the poet exclama, what is poetry? And you me do you know he's

he's a extranaid of that he's the poetry? Because for him, for the

poet, the poetry is she. She is her inspiration. She is the beauty.

She's the poetry. Very well. Well, we're going to the

resume of because it has been an episode a It's a pretty long, then a resumment

short. In this episode, we've talked of the poetry, because, as, as the end of this end of the week is the day of Robert Burns in Scotia. Mark has

taught a poetry very known of Burns. And Alba has learned a little of the language Scocesa. It's useful to learn poetry

when she is learning in a language because the language of the poem is quite very much

the poem of Gustavo Bacher, that has recited Alba. But, but of

a time when the ideas of the poem are a more more

more more more than you, I'm going to go to go.

Well, me you Well, well, I'm despido for today. I'm going to make sure you and I'm going to

do you know, and that's good in the Cena Scocesa. Much thanks. Well, we'll pass

now to the intermedio. Well, well, then it's a me. Good, Mark. Hello, and adios,

a Alva, that's the need to be a lot of you've seen in London, Mark, when we've

went to a Bette the last a week this time is a day so special for the

Scocese? I've got a surprise for you. A bit, a regal if you want. We slick it cow'in' temerous pesty. Oh, what a panic in I, presti. Thar needn't a start away so hasty. We bicker in battle.

I would be late to run and chase thee. We murder in Pattle. Well, what how did? How me has said the accent Scocet? Scocet, time Spanish, I'll be to how to do

suggest a using other other phrases apart of you'd like? Everyone can say you'd

but authentic Spanish speakers also say all the things. So let's hear a couple. If you

want to make a suggestion, for example, no say, um, in Spanish, you can say

you're so we're using Te Apetece. Which means something like Do you fancy?

do you fancy going to the cinema or would you like to go to the cinema? Also, you can't say, Tienes ganas to go to the cinema. Tienes ganas, which means do you feel like? Tienes ganas to go into the cinema? Or even perhaps, are you up for going to the cinema? Okay, so now, it's your turn. Why don't you repeat after me?

Te appetece? You You have to You have to You have got to You're Do you know You know

You know Well, well, you know, how to make suggestions of a way authentic. I hope

you know you passes very well in your Cena Scocesa Alba and you

Mark, that you do you do you this this fine this

time so special for after the and adj Well, much thanks, Jose,

and your accent your accent is impressive much better than my accent

Andaloo. Me to come to me recommend a movie, because,

as you know is Alba not I've decided to

talk about a movie that I love much and

that I have used to sometimes with my students

in class the the A movie is called Secretes of the Corazon, of Moncho Armendaris. And the truth is that is a little bit similar to the movie of the week of the last, because it's also of a new and the way in that he

see and he understands the world that he rodea. During the vacations, this new, Javi, va con Juan, his brother, major, to live a people in the mountain. In the house, no-se-less-law-law-all-a-house. No, it's not the

one of the habitations that always remain in this apartment was a

father. Juan he said to Javie that in this habitation can

hear the voice of his father because the the people

want to get the and I don't say that

you see you the the movie has many

So, I won four Premios Goia in 1997 and was a candidate

a Oscar. And, well, because I recommend I this this

a little very very very very commovedora what

most I like the movie like the last is the

fact that the story is the point of the point of

There will be links in the page for that you can't find out of internet and learn more about this

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Season 3 online course this gives you access to a transcript of this episode along

with language notes helping you understand what's been covered there's also the

encore audio episode which will allow you to practice what you've learned with some

translation challenges and of course there are notes to accompany that too. You can find out more about all of this at coffeebreakacademy.com. So welcome back to Act 2 of Showtime Spanish. Now, it's been a particularly long episode so far,

so I'm only going to mention a couple of things in this second act. The first of these is the phrase Darse Quenta de. Now, this literally means to give oneself account of something. but it's used in the sense of to realize or to notice. Now the example in the passage

was when I was talking about Robert Burns and when he was plowing in the field and I said, no se diocount of that was about to destroy the nido of a raton. So, no se dio did count. Now,

Dio is the preterate sense of that's di di disteio dimos distiestieron so no se dio literally he did not give himself account de ke was upunto to destroy the nido of a raton so he didn't give himself account of the fact that he was about to do something being, being to be about to do something.

So, no se di-due to be a point of that was a point to destroy the nido of a raton. So, darse-counter, in this situation, could be translated as both realize and notice. So he didn't notice,

or he didn't realize, that he was about to destroy the nest of a mouse. So the phrase, no se diocunt, means he didn't realize that something was going to happen. But let's change this into another useful phrase that we could well come across on a number of occasions.

And that would be, I realized that something was going to happen, for example. So let's convert the no se die the third person to the first person and make it me di Quenta de que. So I realized that he had arrived. Me did that he had arrived. Now, quite an interesting one there because that's a blue-perfect tense. El had arrived.

Me did a count of that he had arrived. Now, notice I'm using the el for he here. Now, it's not 100% necessary, but there could be possible confusion with me di the quenta de que hea y'i gado. Because if we think about the imperfect tense of aver used to form the pluperfect tense with the past participle of legar, legado, then that first person is the same as the third person. So, have yeah, yeah, could mean I had arrived.

or he or indeed she or even you in the Ustet form had arrived. So that's why we use El here. Me di Quenta de that he had arrived. I realized that he had arrived. Let's think of another example. We'll change the person this time. We realized that we were not correct. So we realized because,

comes to us we gave account. Nos dimos quenta. We didn't we weren't right, or we were not correct. To be correct is to have reason.

So that we weren't correct, which tense we'll be using here? It would be the imperfect, 99% likely that it would be the imperfect. We realized that we were not correct. Nos d'emus'u'ennaz being the imperfect tense. Nos d'emus'u'ennaz'n. There's more practice of this in this week's Encore podcast.

Now, the other thing I'd like to mention is a word that was used twice in this week's discussion. and that's the word assistir. Assistir is what we would call a false friend, a false amigo, because it doesn't mean what you might think it means. Assistir looks and sounds like to assist. However, in Spanish, assister does not mean to assist. It means to attend. So, I was attending a conference in London.

Me fI to London, to assistir a Conferencia of Education and Alva was going to assistir a una a cana de Burns so she was going to attend a Burns supper

so if assistir does not mean to assist, how would you say to assist in Spanish? Well, the chances are you already know the word for to help and let's face it, to help and to assist are virtually the same thing so to say

to help in Spanish, you say, Ayoad. It means to attend, to assist. Well, yeah, it's that's it for today's program. Hopefully it's not been too boring for you, just having me here. We'll be back to normal next time

when Alva, Jose, and I will all be presenting another episode of Showtime Spanish. In the meantime, don't forget that you can go to our website at Showtimespanish.com and find all the extra materials there. Much thanks,

as always, and until the next.