Coffee Break Spanish - Season 3 – Lesson 23 – Coffee Break Spanish

Episode Date: September 20, 2011

This week Mark and Alba bring you a special musical episode: combining the Eurovision Song Contest with a performance from Mark of Tango by Spanish composer Albéniz. In the intermedio, José introduces the idea of ’embarrassment’ – vergüenza – and gives listeners some examples of how to use this concept in interesting expressions. Language points covered include llevar + time in the negative to talk about what you haven’t done for a while, the imperative in the vosotros form, and what happens when the imperative is combined with object and reflexive pronouns. Please note that lesson 23 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 323 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.

Should I in Spanish, episode 23? It's hour to pass to the next level, of the ensayos, to the spectacle, that's open the telon. Well, Alba, how is this week?

Hello, all, I'm sure. Well, I'm good, Mark. Well, I'm very and, for the least no, I don't think the daughter of garganta, like you, the last, and Jose, the

anterior, no? It's true, yes, well, we're going, let's the time past we've a

second we're a time Some people, is a day important. For me, for the most, is a day important. Because this night in Moscow will be the festival of the song of Eurovision.

Chikos, I have something to say to us. I think that Mark he's two months without dormit, thinking in this night. No, one and a media. Yeah, I know. Maybe we'd have to

explain to our audience what is the festival of Eurovision, no? Very well. Eurovision is a festival of music, annual, in the year, in the year, in the the country

European and some countries of the world of the community European. Eurovision is retransmitted from the year 1956, so imaginear us the of cantantes that have passed

for those scenarios. Exactly. And then every country, every year, selects, a song to represent to

the country and then a year would be a song of music rock another year

would be something with a rhythm latino or something and then some

some places selections some some some some different for example

for example two or three years the group finlandes was

a group of monsters monsters yeah it's called lordi

and have I've been I've been a question, but they're monstrel well, well,

well, and it's two years or maybe a year, the year last, yeah, how

it's called in Spanish, Latvia? Lettonia? Lettonia, that is difficult. I'm,

I'm confunded with Latonia and Lithuania. It's that well, and with reason,

it's it's easy because in English it's much more more more more than

Latvia and Lithuania. It's But, but in 2008, the song

of Letonia was something about the pirates. Oh, Pirates in the mar? Pirates of the

Mar, or something. And he has liked much to my, my little

the pirates. But maybe the song that most I remember from the last

was the country of Lithuania the year, or maybe two

years I don't I don't know. That's titulada, we are the winners of Eurovision. No way. What do you say? But no have won't have. Or so,

they were, with a song that had for titular. We're the winners of Eurovision. And in what place they're doing? You know, you know. Well, but... A bit, then, those groups that are people that

are famous, that's all depends. That's how it's It's it depends For example In In 1979

Oh, Mark You're an encyclopedia Well, but all the world know

That's Yeah, that in 74 Gannar Ava Ah, but

in that era not so famous as as how

are so they are famous thanks to the

Concurs of Eurovision Well it but I'm don't

because after this this concurses have a little difficulty to enter

in the world of the music universal but now we're super

famous. Exactly. And then what more this year for example to know, you know

the composer Andrew Lloyd Weber? Yes, that does musicales. Exactly.

Well, then Andrew Lloyd Weber accompania to the she can that's a

country that's a little okay, okay, the she's the chica not

is famous or not he's he's he has written the song and then

the she's called Jade and she will want to a song of

Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber, that for the end of the year. And the Frenchis is because they have a

Patricia Cass as a representative Yeah. Another personage important, no? A little more in-serio than the year is the

year past, no? Well, is that the year of the year past was a bomb-a really. In Spain,

no us we could believe, because it's an Eurovision is a concursor in theory

serious, and resulta that the song that was a country in the show

of the was a catchondeo total, the really. The song

was the Chikikiky. And how it? And how about? The chick-chikiki, Mola Mowgoon

Well, is that they're, the letter of the song was a language totally colloquial for, I see, the Spaniolians

we've been this can't in the discotheka during a year, imagineate how great that was that

that can't in the concourse, no, no, no, and no, and less bad, men's mal.

In what Puest? Look, I think that it was in the post number 17.

Imagineate. Well, the Britannical in the year past, in the place 25? 25.

That is the ultimate. The last. The ultimate. For that Sarandrol Lloyd Weber this year.

Oh, you know. No, there's a bad that it's a well, that says.

Exactly. Well, well, if this night, you know, you've been the

Concurs of Eurovision, that, for sure, me it's also it's in the

United, yes, we wish we'll We'd like you do you do you do you guys

do you're going to do you're going to do the fiesta in the page. For favor, we're going

to know we're going to talk about. We've said before we had you had said that we're

a little that's that Mark has prepared a work for that we have done a work

Spanish of a composer that's Alvenith Isaac Alveniz was a composer

of the single and is one of the composers most important Catalanes

or Spanish as you want I'm not I don't no

music professional but I'm I'm here in showtime

we we're we present us in live and direct to Mark this has

been incredible Well, I have to practice a little more with the accordion, for the most well, this sounds very

well, let's go ahead, not at the intermediate but the resume of the way. Today we're talking about the festival

of Eurovision. Every year, in May, many countries European and other extracumunitarious are reune for celebrate

a concurs musical. The festival of 2009 will be this night in Moscow and

participar 25 cantants or groups of music. The Reunino and France, they're taking very in serious this year, and the representative of the United is Jade, that can't a song of the famous Andrew Lloyd-Weber, and the France is Patricia Cass. It's a

very interesting. And finally, Mark has talked a work musical of the composer-Spaniel, Alvenith. It's a note that has been been practicing much. Well, now we pass the word to Joseph. Well, Jose, what you do? You're going to

be being the television this night for the concourse of Eurovision? Hello, Mark, and hello Alba. I'm alex much of

being here with you. Oh, Mark, you're a man with many people, no? The piano,

the accordion. Oh, the next episode you have to can't also. Or it can the

next year you're you the candidate Scocence for Eurovision. I don't know if I'm

sure if I'm either or not. For one the idea of countries different and partying

their culture me is interesting and attractive. But, but for other other side,

the concurso is a hortera. Ortera means NAF as in bad taste. And even

a sometimes are taking the Pelo. Tomant the Pellon

in English is to pull someone's leg or to tease or generally not taking things seriously.

I think that many participants of Eurovision not have much verguenza. Today we are to learn some expressions using the word verguenza. In English, it's called embarrassment. And there are many expressions

that use this word as base. For example, we can say, me da verguenza. Which means, I feel embarrassed. Me da verguenza. Another expression is

what a nerve, or how can they do that? What a veruenza. An use different is me'm really embarrassed. Which means I am really embarrassed. Literally, dead embarrassed. So embarrassed, I could die. Me Muerre do de vergence.

Very well. Now, now you talk to repeat after me so we're

going I'm I'm do pergwenza I'm poor perguenza

I'm am to this is the final of the intermediate

now we'll now we're back to talk and

Alba I I've been I've been I'm I'm

so the next after my time when you're

not listening to Gophy Greek Spanish you can

still practice your Spanish with our 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. Okay, so it's time now as usual to take a closer look at some of the language in this week's program. To begin with, Alba said that Mark Ljewa dos semanas

Sin Dormeer. Now, this is an interesting use of the verb Lever. Ljavar normally means to carry or in some cases to wear. However, here, when Alba says Mark Ljewa dos semanas, it literally means Mark is carrying two weeks without

sleeping. So Mark hasn't slept for two weeks, which is of course not true, but anyway. We have come across other ways to say this in the past, for example, using and we've also seen mark no duerme and the same and we've also seen the use of with the gerand for example i have been playing the piano for two years

i've got dos aeos tocando el piano however here we're looking at something that's in the negative so we don't use the gerund instead we use the infinitive I've two semanas without sleeping. Let's think of another

example. We could say I haven't eaten chocolate for a month. Ljave a month sin comer chocolate.

So without sin comer the infinitive chocolate. Ljew a mess sin comer

chocolate and using the Desde-Athe version no como chocolate since a year there's also the version

which you can use Ace un-Mess-Key-U-M-M-Key-K and going back to my not sleeping before the Eurovision Song Contest, that would be Ace dos Semanas that no Duermo or if Alba we're talking

Aze two semanas that Mark no duime So three different versions of this construction. The next thing I'd like to look at today is to tomarselo in serio. To take things seriously. Tomarselo in serio. This is one of these verbs that includes two different pronouns. The say is of course the reflex of pronoun and then lo is referring to it or in this case things to take things seriously. Tomarselo in serio. So when you conjugate that verb it becomes me lo to-en-serio.

Te-lo-tomas, se-lo-tom-o-tom-o-tom-o-o-tom-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-on. No, the same thing happens with a verb, such as in passarsel-gien, me-lo-pas-bien, te-lo-pas-bien, and so on. However, it does get a little more complicated when we start using other tenses.

The example in the passage was, no's lo we're taking in serio so here we've got the to-mar becoming the present continuous form we're taking the two pronouns go before it

no's lo we're going to come back to this in just a moment because we're going to speak about the imperative just now because there were a couple of examples in the imperative in today's conversation and we'll see what happens with the to tomarselo type of verb in the imperative. However, let's just do some review of the imperative in general to begin with.

We already know that the tu imperative, the informal command, is formed in the same way as the Ustead form or the El-Ella form of the main present tense. So, Ablar, Ablo, Ablas, Abla. The imperative is Abla. speak Abla Spanish speak Spanish

Let's take Bender to sell Bendo Bendo, bendez Bende So the imperative form isn't Bendes

as in you sell but Bende sell Bende la casa sell the house And an IR verb Abri

Abro abres Abre So the imperative form for Tu is Abre Now, for formal commands in the singular, the Uste,

form, we need to do things slightly differently. For AR verbs, we take off the AR and add E, the letter E. So, Ablar becomes Able. So, Able, Usteed. Able Espanol. You're using a formal command, telling someone to speak Spanish. For ER and IR verbs, you take off the ER or IR and add E. So, for example, let's take Comer, coma.

Coma la Cena, por favor. Eat the dinner. Coma. Or if we take the IR, verb, Abra la Ventana, for favor. Open the window, please. So again, the Ustead form becoming Abra. A very similar thing happens with the Usteves form.

Able becomes ablen, and coma becomes coman. So if you're talking to lots of people, coman la Cena. Ablen, Spanish, and abran la Ventana. So straightforward enough with the two and the Ustead and Ustéde's form. Now, all of this so far has been. been in the positive. Before we go on to the Vosotros form, let's look a little at what happens in the

negative. So if I say Abla Espanol, talking in the two form but using the imperative, and I wanted to say, don't speak Spanish in the two form, then I would say no ables Spanish. Now, you probably recognize Ables as the present subjunctive. Just as the Ustead and Usteads form are also the same as the present subjunctive. So positive two form,

Abla, negative to form, no ables, positive Ustead form, Able, negative Ustead form, no able. Positive Ustétes form, Ablin, negative Usteadis form, no abling. So there are two imperatives that are left. There's the vosotros form and the nosotros form, the let's do something. The nosotros form is really straightforward because it's again just using the subjunctive.

Ablemus, let's speak Spanish. Abraamos la Ventana. Let's open the window. Comeamos la Cena. Let's eat the dinner. So finally let's look at the Bossotros form. Now the Bosotros form is in fact actually very straightforward. You take off the R of an infinitive and add D.

Or if you like, you take off the A-R and add AD. Or the ER and add E-D or the I-R and add ID. So let's go back to our verbs. We had Ablar. So all of you speak. Ablad Vosotros form Ablad

Comead Comeed the Cena Bended la casa Cés la Casa And Abrid

Abrid the Ventana From Abri And just like the other ones In the negative You go back to the presence injunctive No

Ableses Spanish No No comais La Cena No abris la ventana. Now if we go back to the positive form, the Ablad, Abrid, cometh, something a little strange happens

when we add in a reflex of pronoun. Let's imagine you're talking to your children and you're saying get up, all of you. So, So, levantarse is the verb that you're going to use and the Vosotros imperative form would be levantad. However, here we have the os to fit in as well. And with positive commands, the pronouns go on to the end. So this should become levantados. However, levantados could be a little bit confusing because it sounds like an adjectival form. So to avoid this, and indeed to help with pronunciation, you take out the D and levantados becomes So the example into this conversation was

Imagineos Imagineos Imagineous being a reflexive verb Imagineaus This happens with every single verb apart from one And you can probably guess which verb It's ear. Ear being a very short verb, quite often has some changes

So when ear becomes reflexive, irse, meaning to go away, you actually do pronounce the D. Idos go away. This is probably because ios is quite tricky to say. Idos sounds better. The only other thing to mention here is when you have an IR verb in the reflexive form, for example, bestirse, then the same thing happens. The D comes off and you have bestirse.

Dios, however, you have to add an accent to the I in order to keep that type of pronunciation. Bestios, bestios. This is because the combination of I-O normally is pronounced as one syllable. Think of the word Dios, Dios. It's not Dios, but Dios. So bestios requires an accent. Now, there's more practice of this in this week's Encore podcast, but just before we finish, I said earlier that we'd look again at tomarselo using the imperative.

So let's think about how we would say, take it seriously to a group of people. We have toomar, becoming tomad in the Bosotros imperative. Then we have the D dropping and we put in the os, to maos. And then finally we add in the lo. Tomaoslo in serio.

Tomaoslo in serio. So if you happen to be watching the Eurovision Song Contest tonight, and people aren't taking it seriously enough, you could shout at the television, Tomaoslo in Serio. And I think that's where we better leave things for today. Well, another episode of Showtime Spanish,

and we hope this episode musical. Well, Mark, much thanks, of concert. And in about the festival of Eurovision,

we're we can't see all. Well, Mark and I sure we are going to be able to

the time next. Adios. Understood from Madrid to Bogotov to Argentina to

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