Coffee Break Spanish - Season 3 – Lesson 17 – Coffee Break Spanish

Episode Date: August 2, 2011

This episode is dedicated to all fans of the imperfect subjunctive… and to those of you who are terrified of it! After listening to Mark and Alba’s discussion about all things hypothetical, you’ll be 100% confident in using the Spanish imperfect subjunctive. In addition, Alba talks about her favourite parts of Madrid, and José introduces some ways to express surprise in the intermedio. Please note that lesson 17 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 317 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.

Shut time Spanish episode 17. It's hour to pass to the next level, of the ensayos to the spectacle. That's the t'lone. A be, Alba,

what are you? Very well. What, you're Mark? Well, the is that today I'm a little can't do.

Oh, what has been? I've been this time. Suele pass. Suele pass. See,

this time we're going to do a little distinct. We've received some courteous about the imperfect

of the subjunctive. And, well, I've thought that would be interesting

to do an episode about this thing. Very very very

very very. It's a little a little. We're to start.

Well, the imperfect of the subjunctive is a thing a question

and the fact in this episode we're to use three questions

to practice the use of the imperfect of the unjunctive. In English we're going to happen,

what would we do? And then we're talking of situations hypotetical. And in Spanish, we need

to use the imperfect subjunctive for the first part of the phrase, and then

for the second part, we'll We use the conditional. It's that, in Spanish,

to be a phrase hypotetic, of an idea hypotetic, something that could be something,

we need to use three elements. The first element is the si, that's the

first thing, the second element is the imperfect of subjunctive and the third element is the

conditional. Exactly. But, but I think that the best way to help us

with this point grammatical is give us some examples. So,

Alba, I'm going to a question. Okay. If ganar you the lot

what do you do you? Wow. Well, I think. A see,

if ganara the lottery I would would a house

precious and immense in the play. Well, in what part of the world you'd have this house if you'd have the lottery? If ganar the lottery,

me would probably in Australia, why not? Very interesting. And how would this house that would you buyers if you'd the lottery? A bit, if if I'd say, if, if,

if, if, if, if, if I'd come to a house in Australia, my house would be very great, I'd would be a

a piscine, a yacuzzi and much light, that's very important, that has much light.

Very well. And you, Mark, what would you do you know, well, maybe

we've got to explain what is the gordo no. The gorg is the Lottery

National of Spain. So, if me to the gorgue, well,

I would say, that if if I would talk the gordo, it would share with all you know, I think

I think I'm other plans. A bit, if me to talker the Gordo, me would like to

get to all the world for all the world, for that my people were different

countries, and they were friends of other places, and, clear, I,

learn, many many different different, and that surprise.

Yeah, a A little bit. Another question. One more difficult. Okay, well, well, then. If you had more time to do what you'd like you, what you'd, what you'd, Alba?

Well, I'd I'd go to all those those estrenes cinematographic that me interested because, I'll tell you, because one I was, because one of the festival of Cannes, and

I was impressioned I Encaste. I've been in the festival of the

Cine of Cannes. I've been been very. It's way, is why.

So, well, and you, Mark, if you have more time to do

what you'd what you would what you do you know, well,

as you know, I'm a photography. So, if you had more

time, I would I would like to convert me in

a photograph professional. Wow. For to have much, well, if you

had more time, would be much for all the parts of the world, and would

and would make many photos of places precious. Jolin, well,

is a idea, the very good. And, a bit, maybe

a question more, if could You ever live where you'd like, Alba? Where would you? Well, if could be able to live where I'd probably maybe would have been in Australia. In your house, in your house, great, with Tisina, Jacucci, and all.

Effectively. You're all the information, yeah. So, if, for example, our audience they'd like you I'd I'd ask you're well I'm surement

would be in Australia well the is that Australia is very so it's a little

difficult to find yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and you

Mark if you if you could you want to be right where

you know I'm I think the last we that

we said that I I'm that of the live.

But, a be, Mark, if you had to do you have to get a

other remedy, where would you think you I think if I would be

not a remedy and had to do you a mudance, I think that would

in Norway. In Norway very very very because

I would like to live in a country where

would make much frie during the winter and where it's never

really, because I mean me like the the sea and the ski and

all this and but also where it was a lot during the and where

not the time during the winter I think that Norway

would would be the good the and you are you

do to pass almost the half of the year to

Scura, if you'd be able to Norway? Well, if me muddara to Norway, I'd preferrater in the part of the country. And, well, it's there where they're my friends. Ah, well, then

I like much your plan, too, too. Well, it has been a little difficult this year, no? We've been a session very intense, that

is true. Without, we've been that you've been useful. And if, for casuality, our audience,

still have had to be what would you have done Alba well if still if

still not they're the imperfect of subjunctive they're

to abonars to the material to showtime Spanish but

but that about well well well normally normally

we do we we're we we have done

in the first part of show time in

this we're going to to be the points grammatical of what we've called this week and I'm going to

do in English for if a case. So the imperfect subjunctive we've been seeing that used quite a number of times in this

conversation combined with the conditional in this kind of C clause where if something were the case something else

would be the case. So if I were to win the lottery I would travel the world or whatever. So this combination of the imperfect subjunctive and conditional is very common in Spanish. Back in episode 14, we looked at how to form the imperfect subjunctive.

In order to do that, you go to the third person plural of the preterate tense. So taking, for example, cantar, we go to cantaron, and then take off the ron and add the imperfect subjunctive endings, which gives you cantara, cantaras, cantara, cantaramos, cantarais, cantaran. We heard in this conversation, si ganara la lotteria, ganara, coming from the verb ganar, if I were to win, if I won the lottery, I would do such and such. Okay, we're going to leave it there in this first act.

I know this has been a little different this week, but hopefully it has been useful to hear lots of imperfect subjunctives in context. Now, we're going to So, Alba, you're talking to you now. You're going to

talk to a city, no? Yes, I'm going to talk to another city that

also that's that's that's it's about it. Madrid, I see

I've been in Madrid, many times but I have got to hear what you have to

talk to to lose. The first rinkon that I've encountered for our people is

the park of Retire. The Parke of Retiro is a park as a name

indicates that is in pure central of Madrid. So, that a great

city has a park a place is important. It's

very very. So, this park has a little

where can be an barquit some can remar. It's marvellous. You can't sit in the gerba,

to charlard, with the friends. It's precious. For those that want to visit something cultural, I've thought that the Museum of the Prado is a good election. Because, well,

there'll be all type of art. Well, and if you're in Madrid, the tourist, and not they're not, the museum, why not to go to the stadium of football

of the Real Madrid, the Bernabeu. So, the Real Madrid is the team most laureated of

the history of the football world. Oh, and for you're that you

want to do you have a party, there's a few that never

recommend them the little the and the barrio of

Malasana there there there's there there's an good

very interesting Alba thank and the next this Madrid I'm

to try to see the barrio of malasagna. Very well, well, I hope. And now, you're going to say,

I'm going to Hello, Jose, how how much? Hello, Alba, and hello, Mark. There's a last time in Barcelona and

in France, and this time we're talking of Madrid. We're going much, no?

Well, that's good. Because to get a ensancha the miras. Hmm, that's a good

phrase in itself. The ensancha the mirrors. It means it widens your scope or it widens your horizons, because not is good to be

a stretch of mirrors, no? Ancho or stretch of mirrors not are the phrases that we're going to study today. Today, we're going to express a surprise when, for example,

we're going to a situation inesperada, or when we know we're with a surprise great. For example,

imagineate that you get a house and you're with a a person that's not in your

cocina. That's a great surprise, no? In this situation, you could say something

like, Mother Mia, but this what is? Which means something like what on

earth is going on? Although it literally means something like Golly, what is this? Also,

it's possible that you find you findres with a person, a who

has seen in much time. So, you can say

something like, Ombre, if no lo I'm going to which means something like I can't believe

my eyes. Although literally it means if I don't see it I don't believe it. Okay, now it's your turn to get ready

and repeat after me. Okay, are you ready? Madre my but this what is? If no I don't know I don't know

I'm get to the end of this Intermedio the Showtime Spanish Now, you know, how express a surprise

of a way authentic, like a native. And now is now it's hour to back with Mark and Alba in the studio. Well, after pronto. Adios to all, and after the next. If you would like to take your learning of Spanish a stage further, why not consider

the Coffee Break Spanish 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. Well, I think if you've reached this stage in the podcast, you're probably desperate for some English. We've had quite a long episode so far with lots of Spanish. Hopefully the first section of this episode has been really useful to you in helping you get used to the idea

of using the imperfect subjunctive combined with the conditional in a conditional C clause. Now there are three items of vocabulary three expressions that I'd like to pick up on in this second act this week. The first of these is the verb berderse.

Berderse. Now you know what berderer means perder is to lose. Or indeed in some cases to miss. For example, you can talk about, I've missed the bus. I've missed the bus. But when Alba was talking about Madrid, she mentioned certain things,

that no os podais perder. Now, let's just think about that. Podais is obviously the vosotros form of Poder. So you are able. So in this case is no os podes perder. So os is the reflexive pronoun here So we're looking at the reflexive verb Perderse

that no os podais perder or indeed in some situations you might hear that no podais perderos So in addition to its meaning of to lose and indeed to miss when you're missing a type of transport an avion, an autobus and so on

perder can also be used reflexively to mean to miss out on something. So, for example, if you're talking to someone about the, perhaps the location of your holiday and you're mentioning a particularly good restaurant that they mustn't miss out on, you could say, there's a restaurant in the Plaza Mayor, that no os poes perdeer.

Or, that no te paredes perder. Or in Latin America, if you're using the plural form that Ustead is, you could say, that no se Pueen per die. which you can't miss out on. Okay, the second point I'd like to pick up on is the phrase,

Encontrarsse conalgo or conalien. Now, again, on the basic level, Encontrar means to find. However, when it's used reflexively and used with the word con, meaning with, Encontrarsse con with or conalgo,

means to come upon something or someone, or in some, case, he's to bump into someone. For example, this morning, me he encountered with Alba in the calle. So this morning, I bumped into Alba in the street. Literally, me have found myself with Alba in the callie. But it's this idea of bumping into someone, to meet someone by chance.

me encountered with Alba in the Cali Now, Encontrar is quite an interesting verb. First of all, you'll remember

that it's a radical changing verb. It becomes Enquentro, encuintra, se encuntramos, encounter,

and encounter and they're used reflexively, it can be used with con to mean to bump into someone,

but it can also be used to describe how you're feeling. Me Enquentro bien. I literally am finding myself well,

but it means I'm feeling well. Me Enquantro bien. Or no me encounter well. I'm not feeling well. No me inquintro bien. So that's another common use of Encontrarsse. And finally, while we're still talking about encountererse, it can be used to describe the location of something.

So, for example, Our hotel is Enquenchre our hotel can be found, literally, beside the bus station. So a straightforward translation would be, our hotel is beside the bus station. So Enconrarsse quite a useful and versatile verb, and we've looked at three different uses of it there. Enconrarses meaning to be feeling, me enquentro bien, Enconrarsse used to describe the location of something

La Caterral is in front of the pistina or when it's used with con meaning to bump into someone or to come upon something or indeed to find oneself faced with something unexpectedly normally okay and the final thing

I'd like to cover today is the verb imaginarse in English the verb to imagine doesn't really have a reflexive idea. But in Spanish, you imagine to yourself. Imaginarse. Now, we've already come across examples of this in Showtime Spanish,

where, for example, Alba said, Yeah, me imagino. I can imagine. Yeah, me imagino. Yeah, me imagino. And the example used by Jose in this week's episode was, imagineate. and that's the command form, the imperative, imagineate.

It carries an accent on the middle eye, imagineate, so that the stress falls in the same part of the word as the normal verb, imaginea. But in this case, it's got the reflexive pronoun at the end, imaginae. Now, imagineate is often used as a kind of throwaway comment. If you're telling a story, for example, imagineate, and here it has the sense of can you imagine?

Like so many words and phrases when you're learning a language these are things that you'll pick up in time as you hear them used by native speakers and hopefully within our conversations in Showtime Spanish we're helping you do just that. Well, there's another program

of Showtime Spanish with much grammatica today. It has been a little different but we're we're going to of course if you'd like to get more out of showtime spanish then you can download the premium materials associated with this lesson which include eight pages of notes including all the transcripts of everything that we've covered in this lesson and the exercise the encore podcast along with the notes associated with that podcast too which give you some practice on some of the language points covered for full details on how to access these materials go to showtime spanish

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