Coffee Break Spanish - Season 3 – Lesson 22 – Coffee Break Spanish

Episode Date: September 13, 2011

In this week’s lesson, Mark and Alba talk about music. Their discussion includes talk of playing musical instruments and how listening to music is changing because of technology. In the intermedio, José provides a couple of interesting phrases which can be used to say that you find something difficult. Language points covered include comparitives such as tan … como and tanto … como, avoiding the subjunctive and a particular use of verbs which differs from English, based on the phrase from the conversation, espero que no seas tú. Please note that lesson 22 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 322 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.

Short time Spanish, episode 22. It's hour to pass to the next level, of the ensayos to the spectacle, that's open the telon.

Hello, welcome to all. And you, Mark, how is this time? I'm a little can't, after a

day of a very cargated, but you? And you? Well, well, I'm good but the

really is that's really is that me dwele a gargant. Honing,

but the last time he took to a this time to talk to you? To get a

the time that's the next? Well, I'm sure you, Mark. This week we're to talk

of the music, a thing for me is very important. And for you too,

Alba, no? Well, we're the one, we're to do you. When we prepared

the episode of today, Mark me that, well, you have made

a great very interesting, right? Yes. A few three

three three years I'm the three years and they've a chordion.

An accordion, wow. Well, you explain. I took the piano since

many, many years, from the age of five years or something,

and I'm to play the piano. And I don't have so

time today, as well, I wanted I'd do a little different and

I'm going to learn something new before to complete the 40. Ah, okay,

very well, so you have decided to learn to the accordion? Yes, is my reto,

my thing, for the 40 years. Well, to the piano, as I

said, and, well, the accordion like the piano has teclas so are it's quite

very from from it's right right exactly so now I've done I've done

that you know it's exactly actually and I think a little difficult yeah

I think I think really but I'm three years you're three years

you're very very very very very well well you

I'm well but with the liado you have

you Can you can learn to learn to the accordion? Well, you know you're a lot little

liable. Sin of ever I'm trying to a little time to time when it's a

way of relax me if I've had been a bad day, me sient and it

seems that my problems disappear immediately. Yeah, it's like a

way of escape, no? Exactly. Very very good. Oh, and what

type of music you're doing? Well, all the type, what

most me like to talk is the jazz for example I don't the style

of Gerswin or of Oscar Peterson or something but also I'm like many many

many many things well there's to have to selection no there

there there but you also you also you too you can you

don't talk to talk I'm in past now now

now now now but I studied much years

since that was a chiquitina until the 18 years.

And in Spain, you can study music in the college? Well, more

in the conservatorio. I went to study music classical. And

always I've wanted to study music contemporary or jazz but

never had the opportunity And you still you

sometimes when the The truth is that no, because now I'm not I don't have a piano in my house, then it's more difficult to find out of practice. And, also, for

to make a partied to an instrument, there's to dedicate him much hours. So, if you know much time, the studio no cundee. No crees? Yes, I'm completely of course. I don't know I talk as

as much as you know, my children need their nocturno And I'm So,

I'm going to So I'm a person quite occupied, and then my only rats

are before to get to so when me I'm never

I'm always I'm because I'm I'm think to

get to the people and the piano we

is precisely a instrument partatil and And for so I've decided to learn to a play a instrument more

more small. Very well. For the less you can't go to work. Yes, in the harding with my accordion. But, you know,

the same happens a little when it's about when it is to talk music, the time that was

to listen an album, now I do I'm to listen podcasts. Well, it's

it's really, it, has changed the way to hear the music. Exactly,

Exactly. Well, I still I've seen music of sometimes, especially in the coach, um,

of the jazz of the music classical, but also as they're the coffee break Spanish,

I'm a music of Aba. So, Ava, eh? And it is so

so much to be to get to get to the music pop of all

the times. Ooh! Can we change to this time. And

you've said, I've very interesting about the music and the new technologies?

Yes. Well, is that today we have a form, a way, a way

to hear music that dista much is very different of how we used music in

the past when I said, I'm I'm I'm about a few

years, no more. What I want is that now we've in the

iPod or in the reproductor of M.P.3 We've got five thousand, ten-mill cancions and you can reproduce them in an order

aleatory. It's saying that now the song number one, now it'suena the song number 100 and then the 150. No, they're

an order correlative. And this is very different to what was the album of the past, no?

Exactly. The concept album CD of 10, 12, or 15 cancions is obsolete. I think also

I think it's very interesting because, before the producers dedicated much efforts in decision in what order

appeared in the song. For example, it dependia of the style of the song, if it was

a lenta or animated, and also, of the tonality or minor. And,

yeah no has no no matter is that now, if I want a a question,

I'm that can't that can't a song, and not the same, very easily in music for internet,

no? Yes, and of many different, of course. Of course, even there's a program

for the iPhone. I don't know if you know Mark, you're sure that you know a bit? A bit.

A bit, is, a little bit. It's a that detecta and put a name to the

song that you're listening. A bit, for example, if you are in a tinder

when you you're you're doing, you It's like, you goges your iPhone, you'll see the program, and the iPhone detectar the song that you're

listening in the tenta and you're going to, you're going to buy this song? Effectively, I do. I use, I know, I'm sure, that you sure you were you used. Now, we pass into our resummen.

Today we've have been the music, because a Mark he

had had a accordion, and he has had retated

to he have to learn the before the

before the 40. Yeah he he has the years

and I thought that he would be that

he I have done that that it not

it is so it it. Alba also has studied music, but has been a few years that no practica. Yeah no tiene piano in house, and, of all modes, it would be very difficult

to find time to play. The life changes for Mark also, but he tries to guardarse a bit-in-quand-when to talk, because he he helps to disconnect. We've also talked also that the music now is

the music as much the the concept of album is changing because you know

to go to the thing to a only you need

a or a phone mobile to do to do

the that that you want we now we

know we how you see this this summer

this over this same this I'm much better.

Thanks for question. Well, we're very much so you do you do you

do you do you do you do the guitar a little and the bass electric

but oh yeah very well eh of actually I'm in a group

composed of my college that's called hip replacement

we we're we're music rock of the years 70

and 80 It's a lot talking, but the truth is that we're not very good. But Alba, the truth is that Mark and you me put always very zealos and me d'allie and me d'n't much envy. Because I always have wanted to learn to talk the piano. The piano, me seems an instrument a elegant and fascinating.

But, for disgrace, I think that no I have ability any other to learn to talk it. I think that I'm completely inuitable with the piano. But, well, in this intermedia, I'd like to show us how to say, in a manner authentic,

if you encounter if you're going to find out of or if you think that something is too complicated for you. If not you can do something in Spanish,

you can say, No do I Pee with Bola. which literally means I can't seem to hit the ball, meaning I can't get anything right. Also, it's a bit with ball. Also, it's a better expression that means the same thing. I just can't do it, or I can't get it right. No do it one.

Estupendo. Now, you're to repeat it after me, as always. Are you ready? Let's do you, let's do pay with ball. No do one. Genial. Well, we've got to

end of this intermedio. I'm sure that you have liked. Now, we'll back to

our work and our Alba. For me, it has been a pleasure. Adios, and until 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. Welcome back to the second act of this week's Showtime Spanish. The first thing that we're going to look at today is tan como and Tanto Como. We've had two examples of this in the conversation. I said, No is tan facile as it looks, or as it appears,

when I was talking about playing the accordion. No is tan facile as it seems. Let's imagine we're comparing heights of three children in a family. Carlos is the older brother, and Maria Jose and Beatrice are twins. So we could say that, Carlos is more tall or taller than Beatrice. Carlos is more alto than Beatrice.

We could also see that Maria Jose is less tall than Carlos. Mary Jose is less alt than Carlos. But when it comes to competing the height of Maria Jose and Beatrice, we need to see Maria Jose is tan alta. as so Maria Jose is as tall as Beatrice so remember it's mas ke,

but tan como now tan is always followed by an adjective tan alta tan as we heard in the conversation no is tan facile as it's not as easy

as it looks let's have some other examples and these are listed in the notes this book not as interesting as the other this book is not as

interesting as the other one as the other one as the other as interesting how I'm not so I'm not as content as I'm

not as happy as contento as I am not as happy as I would like to be or as I would like I'm not as happy as I'd like I'm not as I'd like no I'm not as content

how I want to be Carolina is tan guapa as monce Carolina is as beautiful as Monce in English we'd probably add an adjust there

Carolina is just as beautiful as Monce Carolina is tan as Monce now these are all using Tan Como there's another situation which is very similar

and that's Tanto Como where TAN Como is is competing adjectives Tanto as is comparing nouns.

So the example from the conversation was when I said, no Tengo Tanto Tiempo today, I don't have as much time today or these days as before. And here we're talking about

as much as before. No Tengo Tonto Tiempo today as before. So I don't have as much time today as before. Now the thing about Tanto is that it agrees with whatever noun it's describing. So today I haven't eaten as many cakes as the other day.

Hoy no he comido tantos pasteles as the other day. Today, no I've comeed tantos pasteles as the other day. So today I didn't eat or I haven't eaten as many cakes as I did the other day. So that's Tonto pastels as the other day. So that's Tantos agreeing with pastels.

Another example, Miguel has Tantas Ideas like I. Miguel has as many ideas as I have. So,

Tantas agreeing with ideas. Miguel has Tantas ideas like I. So in these three examples, Tantor has changed depending on the noun that it's qualifying.

Tanto time, as much time, tantos pasteles as many cakes, we're using many because it's plural, tantas ideas. And one final example is where there's no noun and no adjective. I could say, no toco tanto as much as before. And here that just means I don't play as much as before. In this last example, Tanto, is an invariable adverb. And it means as much as, it doesn't agree with anything because there's nothing for it to agree with. In this case, there's no Tanto Tiempo or Tantos pasteles or Tantas ideas.

It's just Tanto. Hoy, no toco Tanto as before. These days, I don't play as much as before. So, Tan Como Tonto Ase. So, Tancomo and Tanto Como are really straightforward to use. You just need to remember that when it's Tanto and a noun is involved, then Tanto

has to agree with the noun. Tantot tempo, tantos pasteles, tantas ideas. Okay, let's move on now. Something else that we covered in this conversation was the phrase, I hope that no seas you. I hope it's not you Now in English we say

I hope it is not you just like we say when we're on the phone it's Mark speaking Now in Spanish that's not correct You can't say it is Mark speaking because I am Mark So I would say Soi Mark when I'm on the phone

Soi Mark Literally I am Mark rather than it is Mark And in the same example I hope that it's not you. It's actually saying, I hope that you aren't you, that you are not you. Espero that no seas, seas being the subjunctive, of course, from ser. And the reason it's subjunctive is, of course, because of the, I hope that. I'm sorry that no seest you. I hope that you are not you.

Or I hope that it's not you. So for example, if someone knocks at the door and you open the door and you're surprised to see who it is, you could say, ay, eras too, it's you. Now, in English we say it is you, but in Spanish, you say you are you, erestu. I think it actually makes much more sense in Spanish than it does in English. You've introduced this it, who is it, and is it nice to call someone it, it's you. Whereas in Spanish, you are you. Well, of course you are you.

Who else would you be? Now while we're talking about the subjunctive here, I want to point out one sentence that was said in the conversation, and that's when I was saying that I want to learn something before I reach the age of 40. I want to learn something new, antes de complete los 40. Now, you might be thinking that, antes,

before something happens, especially when we're referring to a future that might not, but hopefully will arrive. Now, that kind of situation normally means that we need a subjunctive. However, the difference here is that it's the same subject. So I couldn't say, "'Antes de'a cumpla los 40. "'That would sound really strange.

"'Quero to learn something new, "'antes de' that cumple, los 40. "'I want to learn something new before I get to the age of 40. "'That just sounds strange, because when is the same subject, "'we can use an infinitive. before to complete.

If it were, I want to learn something new before you reach the age of 40, then we've got two subjects.

I want, or I want to learn something before you cumplas those 40. So in that

situation, two subjects, I want to learn something before you reach. Two subjects, the subjunctive.

One subject, the second verb can be used in the infinitive. Another example of this would be

the situation where you're saying, I want to do something. This is really straightforward. Of course we would say, I want to do something. I want to learn something new. However, if I want you to do something, two subjects, I want that you learn subjunctive. I want to learn a prendas. So I want you to learn something. I want that you learn something. I want that you learn something. I want to learn something. Now, there will be more practice of this

in the Encore episode for this week. That's where we're going to leave it for just now. Well, Alba, what you think, the theme of today? Well, I'm enchanted, you know. And, also, it's an theme interminable, no? Yeah, exactly. There's a time to say. There's a lot to say,

maybe we'll come a day to this time. I'm very very good perfect. Now your

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that's that. This is all for all right. Alba, much thanks.

Thank you, Mark, and to you're that you always are you and I

go to practice my accordion. Very well. Well, well, so the

time that's very well. Adios. You'll be understood from Madrid to

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