Coffee Break Spanish - Season 3 – Lesson 19 – Coffee Break Spanish

Episode Date: August 9, 2011

In this week’s episode, Mark and Alba discuss some useful techniques for learning languages and share their ideas and advice with listeners. In the intermedio Alba talks about the northern Spanish city of Bilbao, and José introduces a construction which involves lo + adjective. Grammar points covered include the construction siempre que and the use of the subjunctive after para que. Please note that lesson 19 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 319 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.

Shoot in Spanish, episode 19. It's hour to pass to the next level, of the ensignal to the spectacle. That's ever the telon.

Hello, Mar, how is this this week? A little more more than a little past.

No, I'm so much today, and even more, because it has yet the

year. I'm, I'm also super contenta. You know, you

before to start this episode, we've have we've taken a coffee out of in the

terraza at the sun. Al Sol, well, so it's a lot of

something. Well, today we're going to something of the different and the language and

the language. Because this time we've been talking a little of the tricks that

we could use to learn a, to learn and for that's a

way. A Sometimes, to learn a language, not is a very

a question. So, never are the more some some

those questions. Exactly. So, we're to pass to the

those consehios. To start, today, we we're to

some some good to learn and then we're going to

continue with some some things to learn the

grammatic more fatimely, so then Alba Dime of point of

view vocabulary what is your good good for our

our people to learn to learn the vocabulary

well well I do the materials that are

visual and that I can be to I do I

prepare some some targetitas in in those I

put in a car I I the word in the idioma that I'm learning. For example,

if if if I was learning English and necess to learn the power car or coach, would be in

a car of the card, the word in the idiom that I am the language that I think that

it's, it depends also. For example, I'm can't write the

part of the cardgetta the translation, is is, for one a car and in the other car, and in the other

car, to have a car, and in the definition of the word, is a vehicle of four wheels, or in English, a vehicle

with four wheels. And, also other option would make a different thing, so, whatever thing that you are useful

to do to relate to the concept on the concept in your your own own own your own

perfect. And to see, what is the advantage of these cards? Well,

these are little and then you're you're you're you're

if you are the showtime Spanish and then you know you know you

take you your times you can repas so that you will be

that you all the words good Mark Now, tell us now your secret.

We want to know how you do how do you do with how you do much. Well,

for me, a me do you do not the time the time. What I like is

those postits the those the little papers that you can be for all

parts, that have a band adesiva and for example, I put a

word in the postit and I And I'm, for example, in this moment, I'm learning a little of Chinese. So, I'm going the word in in the Post-it,

and behind, I'm the translation in English. And this, I do do a men, so I'm going to tell you, that I'll pick these post-its for all the parts of the house. For example, in the

in the, in the space, I'm, pego some post-its, when I'm trying to learn some, I know, something that is a that's a difficult

and also for the vocabulary of the house for example I don't see, of the

television of the frigoryifico I'm put the word for the television

frigorific banio or what that and pegals in the television

or in the space where where he where he where the where the fact

is that I have a story about related with the

postits also Because when I was living in Germany I'm I'm I'm need to make

my German of any so also I'm papered the house but completely

full of postits was so so I'm the house with with all

the words in allem that I need to and my people

and my people they were also they're also some postits with some

some And, well, then, then you sent about in the sofa a dominole, and it appeared a post-it with a phrase or a word or another. Very well. Well, they're not to be able to be able to be able to be able to. That's not all the world is to learn the idiom. Exactly. But, to learn an idiom, not only is a question of vocabulary.

No, it's only to memorize words. We're not so we're learning grammatica, too. And I always have done a thing with all the idiomas that I've learned. And it's so, I'll tell you what I've done. A bit. For the morning, when I'm up, I think in all what I'm going to do during the day. And I'm going to tell. To me, to me, yes.

So, I mean, so. So I'm going to, well, today, I'm going to go to the market, I'm going to buy, to buy a

car, or what he's and I'm to tell me myself all what I do to do the day.

So, so I'm using the verbos in the present and also in the future.

Dependent a little of the different of the day. I'm also,

I'm going to me myself again what I have done during the day.

And also I can practice my times of the past, or the preterito, the perfect, depends on the other way of the idioma. And I've encountered that this way to practice the idioma always has been very useful because I can use much vocabulary, but also it's a very good way to practice the grammatica

and, especially the times verbal. And also, I think it's a very good way to maintain a a little the fluidness because you it's a thing is a

regular that you do a practice in form regular other times all the time those times verbales

is that really you're you're going to those times you're all those days and for

example when I when I learn a structure for example in Spanish could

I would to say, um, all going to a house, I've

seen the television, for example. And this, I'm to learn this

of all going to be at all time, and when when I

will, to come to me my day, it will be more easy

it's and so I'm so I feel more more using the

new expressions. Well, I think it very interesting this

that you You're going to , Mark? And you, the point of of view of a point of

a lot of I'm going to I'm doing a grammatica that is an aspect that, I'm

usually cost to I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm

I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm

I'm I'm sometimes some article or something that any

whatever whatever that call me my attention will be

super interesting for me. Because I what I do is I intend to understand how is structured the new language and I compare also with the grammatica of my

language. And what do you do with these texts? Well, this is a good, but I'm a

bit of the old school in this sense. So, I'm just to imprimed me my texts and then

with a subralliator I'm do different subrallators of different colors, for example, subrary in amarillo,

all the verbos, in any form verbal, or subrary in rojo, all the sustantives. Very well. So, you, that you have a

memory very visual, this is all that you do. Exactly. All the other, colors, schemas.

I need to organize me the new language into my head. I don't know how to explain.

It's a little difficult, no. It's a well, we're has been useful this conversation

that we have to have been. And we pass now to resume of today. We've talked today of tricks to learn to learn

different. For start, we've done some tricks to help us with the learning of the vocabulary.

Alba us has told what he prefers to do when he want to learn

when he is a fan of the material visual, so he he gets to

prepare targetas and with her to where that's and where he wants. And Mark

is obsessed with the post-its, that pego for all the parts of your house,

with words in Chinese, in Norweg, and every every that every a

carhon, he is a post-it with a phrase new to learn.

To make a a Alba, he likes to read periodical

and texts short in internet. He imprimed some texts every week and subraya

the aspects grammatical that is studying. Mark has a routine

linguistic that is a rachatabla all the mornings he

says to he he's going to do the and then then

the night he he has he has he verbals of the past as the present and the future.

Well, a conversation a lot of today, and then we're directly to pass to the Intermedio. Well, in this Intermediro, we have two things very interesting for you, our dear audience. First, Alva, us will to tell

some things about a city that he likes, and then we have a Jose that we'll to help to pass to the next

new level with our Spanish. Alba, you talk to you. I'm going to be

a lot of a city situated in the community Autonom of the

Basco, is the north of Spain the those Bilbainos

who are the people have a bit a lot of them

have too and very and with great passion for the

good food and the good a beer. Although, you know, the stereotypes not always are to fiar. Well, I've chosen this city, because always that I visit, I'm enamored a little more of her. And, well, as we're not we're doing this day,

we're going to find out of the three aspects that I've elected, like, every year. The aspect cultural, that most me has the attention is the Museum Guggenheim, Bilbao, where they're expositions of fame national and

international also. There are some really interesting, I'm I recommend. Also, me

a little to the Opera House of Sydney, I don't if this is a perception personal

my, or what, but well. In Bilbao there are many parks,

too, and many things for visitar. But you recommend

especially that goyies to a temple gothic that's called the church of St. Anton.

The church of San Anton is at the Ria of Bilbao and in

plain casco old, so the ambient is incredible. And to to end,

you can you can not you can't get the gastronomia and the ria.

Some plato typical of this region are the bacalau al-pil

or the merlusa in salsa the calamare in their tinta, and of the postre

the canutillos of Bilbao. No. I don't these know these those are. And,

also in Bilbao also they have a wine of the place of that's

called Chacolis and that really very interesting. I do you know to to go to

this Chacolie that's interesting. Very well, well, Jose,

you have been you have been in Bilbao? Hello, Mark, and hello to you too, Alba. No, I never have been in Bilbao

for Visitarily, but I've passed a pair of times for Euskadi, the Pais Basque in Castellano, and I would like to go back to explore a little more. Well, hello

and welcome to all the audience of Showtime Spanish, which is the part of the spectacle where we

learn to learn as the natives. In Castellano we have two articles defined principales.

El and la. Both mean they in English. One is masculine, the other one is feminine. The man. The woman. But also

there are another article, a third article neutral, that's usually with adjectives. And this article is

law. Law, it's used in Spanish basically to turn an adjective into a noun. For example,

Bueno is an adjective, isn't it? means good. If I say, Lo Bueno is, now I'm saying the good thing about it is. Do you see? Just good means good, but

lo bueno means the good thing about it. Lo bueno is, what malo is, and socessively. Well, now, more grammatica. A Sometimes, expressions that use law,

can need the subjunctive. The subjunctive is very difficult, no? Well, I'll show a pair of these expressions that need the subjunctive and lo.

The first is, the important thing is that you remember my number. The important thing is that you remember my number. We have law doing it, turning an adjective into a noun thing,

but then we have iske followed by the subjunctive. Lo important is que plus subjunctive. Another example is, Lo me yamest because de comer. The best thing to do is to call me after lunch. Lo me yams. Again, you have lo plus adjective plus eske plus subjunctive.

If you are not yet sure about the subjunctive, the good news for you is that you can avoid it by removing the word k and then using the infinitive instead of the subjunctive. So you say, the important is recordar. Or in the second example, the best is caller. Well, now,

to talk to you repeat it after me. Are you? Let's list. Let's get. The important is that recordes my number. The best is that me yamess after to come. Well,

No, well, that's all for today. I hope that's another subjunctive, by the way. And now, we'll come Mark and with Alba in the studio. Adios, a salute, and as always, until the next. When you're not listening to Coffee Break Spanish, you can still practice your Spanish

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empecemes then the second act of this episode of Showtime Spanish. In the second act of this week's episode, we're going to take a closer look at some of the language that's been used in this week's conversation. The first thing that I'd like to look at is comparisons. How to say something is, for example, more expensive, than something else, or less expensive as something else, or indeed as expensive as something else. Now, the first two are straightforward. I'm sure that you know already, mas and menos.

So, for example, this book is more expensive than that book over there, Akele being that one over there. This libro is more caro than that's straightforward enough. Let's look at Menos. So if I say, This Libro is

less caro than that means this book is less expensive than that book over there. And let's just take this opportunity to remind ourselves of this, this, Esi, that, and Akele, that one over there.

So, mas caro and minus caro than something else. That's straightforward enough. The slightly different situation is where we're talking about something, which is as expensive as something else, or as beautiful as something else. So let's go back to our books and say, this book is as expensive as that one over there. as that book over there.

This libro is tan caro como a keel so in this situation we don't use ke. It's tan como this libro is tan caro

as that so we've got more than than the example in this week's conversation was when I said that my voice wasn't tan

profound as a same so it wasn't as last week because last

week me dole the garganta I had a sore throat this seman no me

dole the garganta so no I don't think the voice

that profound as so hopefully that's helped you remember

that it's more than than come okay the next thing I'd

like to pick up on is an expression which is exceptionally easy to use, but it really sounds nice when you use it. The expression is, Sienpre que.

Now, Alba, when she was talking about Bilbao, said, I've chosen this city, because Sienpre that I visit it, literally, always that I visited, me enamor a little more to her, so I fall in love a little more with it.

So this Sienpreke can be used to mean every time I do something. I could say, I could say, Sienpre that I talko el piano, I'm happy. Every time I play the piano, I'm happy. So every time I try to

in Chinese, cometo errors. So every time I try to speak in Chinese, I make mistakes. In Spanish, you commit mistakes. Commeto errors. Now, you've probably thought it's got a

k in it, therefore it might well be followed by the subjunctive. Now the good news is that it's not. You can combine this with any indicative form. Siempreke I do something. Every time I do something, literally always that I do something.

I'm going to the play to my friends. I bump into my friends every time I go to the beach. So, the infinitive. This is fairly straightforward. You've probably come across it before. We would normally translate this in English as on doing something, on arriving, on returning, and so on. So, for example, al-leger at a aeropuerto,

nos d'emos quencault de que abiyamos olivado our billets. So in English we could translate that as on arriving at the airport, we realized that we had forgotten our tickets, but we could also translate that. translated as on our arrival, making the verb into a noun, or even when we arrived. And actually changing the structure, but not really the meaning of the sentence. There will be more practice of this and indeed of the other constructions that we've looked at in this week's Encore episode. Well, chicoes and chikas, yeah we've terminated. We're

We're We're We're We're Because really We've done Some good Consheges

Yes, Well, You've tried to give some More Mark is a More

more More Well, until the Semmere And that You know And that

You're You You're You're You're You're So, That's

That's That's That That's a episode Normal of

Shut In Spanish but a episode of Verano Spanish. So, that the next we

will we will we're all the intringulis that are now in the word phenomenal.

An intringulis. Intringulis. It's good. It's a good a word. And the time you

go to understand that you have a good time. Now I'd like to add a couple of things here. We're coming to the end of season one of Showtime Spanish.

That's all episodes from number one right through to 20, which of course, as you know, will be the fourth episode of Benano Español. Now, before we launch episode 21, there are quite a few things that we have to do in order to prepare the content for the future lessons, not least because we're trying to introduce a new element to Showtime Spanish that will hopefully help you improve your Spanish even more. Now this is also coinciding with quite a lot of other things that are happening here at Radio Linguas,

so we're going to be really busy in April. And for this reason, we're going to postpone the start of season two of Showtime Spanish until the beginning of May. So that's four weeks without Showtime Spanish, and I hope that's not going to be too difficult for you. The other thing that I would like to mention here is that as we come to the end of this season, if you've not already joined up as a premium member to get access to all the bonus materials, then maybe now is the time to do so. And you can take advantage of a special 25% discount that we're offering in conjunction with our Coffee Break Scottish promotion,

which was a special charity promotion for the Comic Relief charity. There's full details at coffeebreakscottish.com and on the RadioLinguay website, but basically if you decide to buy Coffee Break Scottish, for three pounds sterling, all of which goes to the charity, then you will get not only the Coffee Break Scottish course, which hopefully will give you a little laugh, but also you'll be able to use the voucher that we'll send you to get 25% off the cost of a Showtime Spanish membership.

And I'd really like to make sure that everybody understands that the membership that you purchase now will be a retrospective membership for the whole of season one. It's a season one pass for Lessons. 1 to 20. And if you'd like access beyond Lesson 20, then we'll be setting up the season 2 pass when we start again at the beginning of May. And just on that point, those of you who have already bought the Season 1 pass, you can also use the 25% coupon that you would get if you bought Coffee Book Scottish against the price of the Season 2 pass when it becomes available.

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