Coffee Break Spanish - Season 3 – Lesson 24 – Coffee Break Spanish

Episode Date: September 27, 2011

Following our recent musical episodes, listeners have been asking us for some suggestions of Spanish-language singers and groups. In episode 24 we’ve provided some suggestions, talking about Spanish groups Amaral and Ojos de Brujo, and we’ve also mentioned Colombian Juanes and the renowned Panamanian salsa performer Ruben Blades. Language points include more subjunctive talk, the use of al + infinitive, and in addition to introducing some phrases meaning “to keep up to date”, José sings! Please note that lesson 24 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 324 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. Good days to all, we're from Scotland,

and I'm Mark. I'm Alva. And we're very content of to be here with you again. For sure, Mark, did the concurso of Eurovision the same past?

Sure, that is. Okay, Oh, and what was? Very well. Very well. We pass us very and to the kids

they've been very well. No, I'm strained. Very good. But let me about other other thing.

Much thanks to all the messages, the comments and the questions that you have made out

and we we're able to respond to your questions on this episode of Showtime

Spanish. Well, as we have said this time we've received many

emails. And it seems that you're saying people of groups of music that can't in Spanish. So,

this time, we're going to talk about some things about these groups that we've

encountered and that we have used. We've selected some groups of music that are

very different between each. One once you know the group and

know four things of the artists, you can go to

YouTube, YouTube, or iTunes, and those those are you can't use and you can't listen to

see your music to be so you're not quite we can't put us on the questions in

this podcast but well for the least if you have the names and the can't

you can't you can't you make a question for both let's let's

let's let's the group the group Spanioles that we've selected are two. The first group is called

Amaral and the second group is called O'Hos of Brucho. Well, we'll

come with Amaral. How is is it? A, M, A, R, A, L? Effectively. Well, then those

people will know how he's and can find it in iTunes or in YouTube?

Exactly. In YouTube? YouTube. YouTube. Okay, well, then, how are? Well,

Amaral is composed for two musicians, that are Eva and Juan. Amaral

has been very famous in Spain and in other countries, for supposed

also, and they make a music the style is rock pop so

so can be and can be being can that they're saying that they're saying and all this in the plural. So, that's normal that's use the plural to talk of a group,

even if it's a group. I think if in the language oral, when we're talking of a group of music and you know that not just a music, but there's more than a person involved in the group, then you can't refer to them in the plural, also. So,

if I'm if I'm talking about the AB, for example, the group, the most

more beautiful, more morehous of the world, could you could say, AB are the

group most wonderful of the world. Exactly. Could you say, both Ava

are the group most marvell is. Yes. Okay. Cuntain us

a about of Ojos of Brucho. Well, Ojo of Brucho are one

of my groups favorite I have to admit it. And they make a music,

it's a music totally fusioned, they're they're to make different styles.

For example, they're a flamenco with rigi, with hip-hop, with music electronic,

some mesclas of these that are a little pretty but the fact, is that

the eyes of brucho can combine them in a manner

very very very good, but I'd like to be a bit more

of The Brucho. Well, I'm going to talk because the other day was in the

bus and I'm doing the periodical and what was my surprise at

my post with a poster of The Ohos of Brucho is

so O'Brien for the Rein' Unito. Very well, let

see we let's let me now of the musicians of Latin America

that we've encountered in our our buskid of music

in... Musicas of the world. So, so what group we've

been we've been we're we're one way and for the other side,

Juanes. And for this reason, I'm a capisa a

big. You know? You know to say that I was imagineable, the very

before to start to talk to Juanes and his

camis Nika. Let's talk a little of Ruben Bledes. Alba, Dime, where comes? Well,

it's of Panama. Ruben Bledes is a Panamean very famous. I'm probably that all the

world. And what type of music does? Salsa. Salsa. And,

well, you know, is that it's a music, it's a type of music that is a

to do to be to be to be to be exactly. And then

you're You just a example of a song that you like a good at

a good a question that's a question that a special, that's Peter Navajo a bit

a bit a a bit a ta-a-tara ta-a-tara ta-a-ta-ta-ta-ta- ta-a-tara

I'm still not I'm a little more, no? Well, if it's a

good, thank you need you need You go to you look at Pedro Navajah in YouTube or in iTunes or something. Exactly. Let's just to hear podcasts of courses of Spanish, where they can't. Exactly.

And finally, we're going to about Juanes, that is Colombian, no? Yes, Juanes is of Nacian, Medellin, me it, and... What type of music can't Juanes? Well, Juanes has a mix of rock, pop, and very very ballable, no?

Yes, exactly. It has many Pekadisas. It's very very good. The can't the camisa Negra

has been a great in the world, no? Mm-hmm. It's a

exitazzo, Valle. I think my my, my song of Juan's

is called No Siento Pena and there's two reasons

for that I love this song. No only

only a strev but also it's perfect to practice

the subjunive. M. Mark, what practical. Well, for example, the first Asterfa,

the first strofa, the first strofa, when you say, when you tell me a media voice, that you love you. Then, when you tell me in a soft voice that you love me, and more ahead, it's, when you me dives a media voice,

that you ame, in this case, when you tell me in a soft voice to love you, then is the fact of that they have two subjects, no? Effectively. And, you know

that I know that I know that a me a lot of a word. One, one question

the the stribillo of the song is so, no I feel painas

nor no confusion of any natural nor I don't

I'm too so I mean in Spanish you you

do you say you say a mother but when

you can this song and when you when you listening this

song. Can't Cappas, Cabeza, Traiteza, or can't like Juanes, Cabeza,

naturalese, tristesa? Well, is a good question. Let me that think a second

a bit. A see, I think, I think, I always use my sonios,

is that I'd say, I'd say, and that's, and the a although

Juanes can't a tristesa but why you you do you

do you imitas other accents when you well if

if can't no I know in a for example

of Bobby Darren or of Frank Sinatra I I

would I would oh the shark babe has such teeth

dear and oh the shark babe As such teeth, dear, that result a more

Scocense, for the less. It's really that's a different. The fact that now, if I'm talking with

accent American or Scoces, I see that there's a difference. But when I can't in Spanish,

I don't see much. Well, it's very interesting. Oh, you, Mark, you

have done that the can't that you were that was now

the same a second song of Pedro Navajo a bit I'll be I'm sure that the song of Peter

Navajo is a homage to the song of the Mac the Knife Mac the Knife in English

which is the version English of the Englisha of the exactly that's called

MacI Meza in in fin that is all together has been to go an example

for... Good. Good. What casuality, ah? Yes. Passes then to the resume of today.

Today we've talked of four groups of music in Spanish. Alba us has

told that Amaral and Ojos of Brucho are two groups Spanish that they

are much. A we we have much Ruben Blandes a

paname with much rhythm Also we've We've discovered that Mark practica

his subjunctive with the letter of the song, No, I'm Siento Well, we're to pass

now to Well, Jose, How do you do you know? Hello, Mark, and hello to you too all right,

Alba. All right. I'm to say you that you talk to you now. You've

can't you, you've can't Alba? then what you're going to What you? What you want?

That's sure? No, know what you know what you're sure you'll I'll remember. I'll be, I mean, I'm

also practicantive with my students with a song a little but not for that's more more beautiful.

The song is called No me important nothing that in English I don't

really care and is of a can't a cantante of Asturias in the north of Spain, that's called Luf Casal. And it's a little like,

You play to care me, I'm a-to-you-jew-hue-to-creas, that I want. Well, so, so is the song. You'd say that you'd repentiris, no? A me also me also much the music of Amaral and Juan's. But the truth is that,

I'm living in England, I'm a little difficult know what music is in this moment. In the intermediate of today, I'd like to say to keep up to date, in Spanish, but

of a form natural, is to say, as we say, how we do we say in the habitian. Cotidiano means daily or day-to-day. Well,

First, we're going to be up to date, which means to be up to date. For example, no I'm not I'm the day of the music in Spain. The second expression is similar and is start al-tanto, which means to be up on or to be informed about something. Start Al Tanto For example I'm at

I'm at the music Colombian Well, now you're now you know

so it's So, let's repeat I'm I'm I'm I'm

day I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm all I'm

well well well it's the final of this Intermedio

and in Seguida, we'll come Mark and Alba in the studio.

But I'm I'm solemnly not never to never to never. You're

start sure. A suor and after the next. Adios. 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 being 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. Much thanks, Jose, and thanks for have canted also. Okay, it's time now to take a closer look at some of the words and phrases and the construction that have been used in our conversations today. The first construction that we're going to cover in Act 2 is the use of the

phrase, one-based. Now, as you know, Unabef, or in Latin American pronunciation, un-based, literally means one time or once. Now, perhaps the most

normal or the most expected use of this phrase would be in, for example, I've been in Guadalajara. I've been in Guadalajara once or one time. However, in English, we can also use once

when we're referring to the future and we're about to describe the second step or the third step. For example, once you arrive at the station, turn right. Now, in English we tend to say once you have arrived at the station turn right. In Spanish, you can just use a normal present tense. However, because once in this situation is referring to the future, then it works the same way as wheno with the future. when

when you arrive at the station so when you arrive at the station and yeges being of course the present subjunctive it's triggered because of course there's an element of doubt that you might never get to the station you might stop for a coffee on the way there or something like that

so when do you getes a station and therefore with the same situation one of the same you getes to the station you've got to turn right so one-one plus the subjunctive

works the same way as when you're referring to that future time now it's also possible to use one-beath with a past participle so for example you could say one a bit of a station hiras a de reza so once arrived at the station

you turn right so that's another way of saying it but the one-a-beth plus the subjunctive is possibly a nicer more natural way it's quite possible that you would see the version with the past participle in written Spanish now let's think about one thing here

if we're talking about the past for example once he arrived at the station he turned right in this situation there's no doubt because he didn't stop for a coffee he got to the station then he turned right so we don't need a subjunctive here

it's happened already there's no doubt one of this l'estego a station giro to the de reza so when it's referring to the past there's no subjunctive and the same thing happens obviously with wheno

when hego to the station hereo a de reza. Another interesting point that came up a couple of times in today's episode has been the use

of al plus the infinitive. This is something we've come across a few times in fact. Jose said Al vivir in

In Inglaterra and in this situation it means since I live in England or given that I live in England I'll be in

Iniglaterra and then he went on to say that he finds it more difficult to know what's in fashion with Spanish music

Al vivir in In Inglaterra. Now, Al plus the infinitive was also used earlier in the passage when Alba said, Qual was my surprise Al Enconstra to a poster of Ojos de Brujo.

So literally, what was my surprise on encountering a poster of Ojos de Brujo? Now, this is a similar situation, Al Encontrar me with, on encountering, on finding,

but I thought it would be worth picking this out. because it's a really nice phrase to use. You could use, Qual fue my surprise Al-Lieger at the station. What a surprise I got on arriving at the station because you were waiting with me

with a bouquet of flowers and so on. So, qual fue my surprise, and simply follow it with Al plus the infinitive. It's a nice expression that you can use when you're speaking or writing in Spanish. Okay, there's one other thing

that I'd like to talk about today. And that's the use of the subjunctives, in our songs. My song was No Siento Penas by Juanes. And Jose spoke about this song by Luz Casal, which is called, No Me Importa Nada. Now, Jose's line was,

Tu Juegas a Kererme. So you play at loving me, or you pretend to love me. And then the second line was, I Juego, a que te creas, that they want. So I play.

play, I play in order that you believe, creas, being the subjunctive of creer. I play to make you believe that I love you. So I play at making you believe that I love you. So you play at loving me, and I play at making you believe that I love you. Obviously it's a little complicated here, but hopefully you've understood the fact that there are two subjects here.

I play at making you believe that I love you. I'm going to Juego a que te creas, that te quiro. Okay, now the other situation, the other subjunctive examples that we were going to look at came from my song,

which was No Siento Penas by Juanes. And the lines here are When you tell me you tell me in a quiet voice, a media voice is a soft voice or quietly, that you love me, that you love me,

me, me, you love, we know that's amas that you love from the ending of the verb. When do you me dishe a media voice, that me amas. And then in the second verse, it comes back with when you tell me in a

media voice, that you tell me in a soft voice, that you I love, subjunctive. So when you tell me in a soft voice that I love you, indeed it means in English, we would see this in English, when you tell me in a soft voice to love you. Now, De Thier can be used in this way

when you want to tell someone to do something, Dime that you tell me to love you. Dime that loaga, tell me to do it. Or, for example, I'll let him to come. I will tell him to come. And just remember that in English we use to tell someone to do something.

So the second verb is an infinitive, whereas in Spanish, as we've seen so many times before, when there are two subjects, the second verb goes into the subjunctive. So rather than I will tell him to come, we need to say in Spanish, I will tell him that he comes, and comes would be in the subjunctive. Le dire, que beenga. Now, as usual, there's more practice of these language points in this week's bonus content, but that's where we're going to leave it for just now. Well, an episode

very musical, no? Yes, we're going. We're going that you enjoy much listening the music

that we've recommended? And say, what are you do you do your recommendations or if

you have some a question in the comments of the page shotimespanish

.com on Shotimes Spanish just click on Lesson Library and you

find the post for Lesson 24. Well, much thanks as

always. And after the next. Until the next.