Coffee Break Spanish - Season 3 – Lesson 26 – Coffee Break Spanish

Episode Date: October 11, 2011

This week’s topic is low-cost airlines and the advantages and disadvantages of low-cost travel. Mark and Alba discuss their experiences of flying with low-cost airlines (and indeed with other airlines!) and José introduces two phrases which you can use when you manage to find a real bargain! Language points covered include the use of quedarse, fijarse and no sólo … sino también. Premium members will find a bonus item in this week’s feed – a special bonus episode concentrating on quedar and its various uses. Let us know what you think! Please note that lesson 26 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 326 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.

Showtime Spanish episode 26. It's hour to pass to the next level, of the ensayos, to the spectacle, that's open the telon. Good days to all. You're going showtime Spanish,

and I'm Mark. Hello, I am Alva. We're here to help us with your Spanish, and we're going to this episode. Mark, tell us what has done

this time. Well, this time I've been on a little. Oh, I'm going on again.

See, I've been in Alemania and I've been done some

some of the other new episodes of other programs? Yeah, programs in

Alemann but also programs in other other other other

so there there there there's there but we're we're

not not let's okay okay so so we're

so we're and, in particular, of the companies of the whelow, of a low-cost. It's a question that's

interesting. And of actuality, no? Exactly. Well, this time, in Germany,

all it has been a matter. And the is that I really is that when the things

are going when you're because the fact is that is that can be a little

stressante, no? From yes, yes, but you sometimes when the

things not they don't sound well. When you when you're not you're in your territory so you depend you're other people, other services.

I'll give you know the last time that I've gone to Paris, I was with one of these companies of the low-cost from the airport of Beauvais

that's like two hours of Paris I don't want to say the name of the company for if a car and the world was the

last one of the night So, so it was previsto that our plane despegates

at the 10 and while there was a problem technical and the world

was retraso. Tan-Tan. Yeah no me like the problems technical.

Yeah. But, well, all, all, this is all very manud

with the world's, no? What happened was that in Prestwick the

those have been to after the night. And how

our Vuelo was retraso was the intervise to be able

so we're not a we're in we've got to have to be yeah, yeah, man, it's

really, you know, in this case, for example, you've got to you've got

to get to get to get to the officio when one when one he's,

you know, you're you're to get to be a lot to get to

do you want to I'm what you with a company traditional, like, like British Airways

or France or something, I've been paid the hotel, the assayune, the taxi to the airport, etc.

But in Beauvais, that they said that us were that we're that we're that we're not

that you're going to take the dinner to be not so that

you're a first class but this we're we're

we're more we're One thing very interesting of the companies of the world of

cost is that they're to do you don't have airports important. You know, I'm thinking that maybe

not pass that's the United, maybe our people of the United us, not they can

explain in the page what what what the companies of the low-cost. Well,

yeah, and also it's super interesting to know if it's it's

the same way a level or is more a thing a level

of a point of a example if I go to Barcelona there's

there there's the possibility of to go to Barcelona to need to

take a world of I know of British Airways or

what so but there two other possibilities so could

could could go a a from a flight from Glasgow Presswick

to Reus, at the South of Barcelona. Exactly. Or, for example,

a Gerona, that's at the north of Barcelona. Exactly. So, these are

the cities, Reus and Gerona, are cities important and, with many things for

the tourists. And the truth is that the world's the world of Ryanair,

for example, maybe these cities not have many tourists and

much important for the tourism, no? No, no, I'm totally with what

you're in the fact, I think the cities of Girona and Reus in this

case, have have been the the gains that

are the sector services, is with the the people, so

and the same in the southwest of the area, in the area

of the Now, now there are much more tourists, Alemannes, Frenches, and, especially Scandinavos. If you're going to the street, you see a much

Norwego, and to Suek, Swek, speaking in Sweko and Norwego. And, well, I mean, me, I'm an edictorceder for everyone.

It's really, that's a lot. Another thing that I like much of the companies of the world of low-cost,

is that many people that had been a lot of a car that's not so much, now, so can.

Now, all the world has the opportunity to go to other cultures, other people, to watch

other languages, I mean I think great, the fact, the very. But at the same

time, we have to say, if there more people going, then it's great

for the media-ambiente, no? Exactly. That is the part negative of the companies, of a low-cost. For one side, they've opened a little the doors to all the world,

to fly, and for other side, they're doing to do that the environment because, quite as

more people willen, more combustible is to get to. But, well, not we're

to get us in things medium-ambientalists. And, tell us that anecdote that you.

You refer to my voyage in first-class? Ah, I, I wanted I was

the year last, with the excuse that had to the had to a conference

in States. I decided to do my business, a pleasure.

I'm going to first, I'm a little back to Rik

in Islamia, and I went a night in an

hotel precious, roaded by a place a placeau was really

impressive it's a good time a time marvellous and at the morning the next

I did a bano in the famous laguna a before before

to get my next world to talk to see

and this that what I'm I'm going I was

with Iceland I'm treated like a rey. And the is that no me costar

to be used to get to get to not to get to the airport of Beau yeah.

Yeah, I'm imagine, yeah. But, but not always I can

do this type of not ever not not that's that's that I'm

that we're going to let's let's let's we're the

advantages of the companies of the company's Coste. Mark has told what

he passed in one of of his voyages. The company of whelos of costed not the company of the world when his flight

was retraso, which probably probably not had been had been with a company traditional.

Another advantage of the companies of the back coste is that very a men know

to use to be aeroupto secondaries and that way not only only the

large cities can benefit but also other regions. For example, where I live, the tourism

has desorogued much in the last years for the expansion of the companies of low-cost and help a help to make sure

the economy local. Mark us has told how can be a project a business

to pass it in great. Only you need a little of money

and know good rinkons like the laguna a blue in Icelandia. Sin embargo, you have to

have a much pasta to be able this level of life. Very well, now, we're going

with the Intermedio. Good, Jose, how we are we are we good,

thanks. And hello to you also, Alva. Hello, Jose, I have

a question for you, you, when you're when you do you

do you do you have, or have you have much pasta? Tell us.

No, I always I travel with the aeronies baratas. Pasta, I don't have any but why

you take you're only I'm a modest professor and the professors as you know,

don't gain much money. So, so, as I'm contrary that Mark,

I'm I'm to go to be to a perpetuity I suspect

that the reason for that much people have with the people

with the people, is because the billets not cost them much money and this is because these companies not

have any luxus nor florituras. Florituras in English is frills. A people

like to use to use the occasions is when when you can buy

something that normally cost much much money for a price asequible

Asequible, in English, in the sense of affordable. Today, I'm going to use a two phrases that you can use if you discover you something that is very barat. A occasion that simply not could leave escape.

Here you know the first phrase. It's a ganga. It's a ganga. Which literally means it's a bargain. is a ganga. This is the second phrase. It's a choyo. It's a choyo.

Which means something like, it's a steel. It's a choyo. Well, now, as always, you're to repeat it after me. So, we're going to repeat.

It's a ganga. It's a choyo. Well, yeah we've got volando at final of this intermedio. I hope

to learn these new phrases and now I'll give a Mark and Alba in the studio. A salute

very cordial and until the next. Adios. As someone who's working on Spanish at an intermediate level

you may also be interested in our coffee break Spanish magazine podcast. This is a podcast for intermediate learners

and we focus on texts which allow you to develop up your linguistic knowledge and also your cultural knowledge. We have presenters from Spain and also various parts of Latin America, so you'll be building your understanding of different accents throughout the series. Find out more about the Coffee Break Spanish magazine at coffeebreakacademy.com. Gratias Jose, I have to point out here that my first-class flight

was a one-off. It's not something I do regularly, and the only reason I did it was because the first-class tickets were only about 25 pounds more expensive than the economy class on that particular occasion. Anyway, that's me justified my first class ticket. Although perhaps justification enough was the fact that it allows me to use the phrase, No me costaria much, accostumbrammer to this manner to beajar. It wouldn't take a lot. No me costa much.

Literally, it wouldn't cost me lots. But of course, here we're not talking about money. No me costa much, accostumbrame to get used to. And because it's me who's getting used to something, I say, as opposed to to accostombrarse to this manner to beajar. So it wouldn't take a lot

for me to get used to this way of traveling. Okay, it's time to take a closer look at a number of things that we've covered in the discussion today and indeed in Jose Intermedio. The first of these deals with relative pronouns in a sense. At the beginning of

our conversation, Alba said to me, Quintanos, what has I'd like you to think carefully about this. Quintanos tell us, what has et cetera this now, ke here, obviously means what. And because it's used almost as an indirect question, it would have an accent, just like all Spanish question words.

So, Quintanos, what has it's this semena. Now, an alternative way of saying this would be tell us what has seto this semen. Tell us that which you have done this week. And in this situation, because loke is not really any kind of question word,

there's no accent on the ke. It's just the equivalent of saying something like, see what you want to say, that which you mean to say, I know what you mean. Se lo what you mean. What you do you

So, Quintanos what you have this time. Tell us that which

you have done this week, tell us what you've done this week. But the

alternative, as Alba said, would be Quintanos what has done this semester. And it's

almost like that idea of saying tell us what have you done this week as opposed to

tell us what you have done this week, if that makes sense. It's the same words

in English but it's all to do with the way it said, Quintanos what has eto this

semen tell us that which you've done this week or Quintanos what has

this seman tell us what have you done this week? Another expression

which came up in the conversation which is actually a very common expression both in

English and in Spanish is the idea of not only but also and in

Spanish this is no Solo, Sino Tamin. No solo, Sino

Taming. Now, you're already familiar with solo. We've talked about solo a number

of times. Based on your knowledge, can you tell me if no solo Sino Tamin,

if the solo here would have an accent or not. Well, if you've done your homework,

then you should know that solo here should have an accent because it means only.

Solo without the accent means alone. So, Solo, Sola, Solos, Solas. It agrees in that situation. So, no solo, Sino also, not only, but also. No solo comi gambas, sino also pulpo. So not only did I eat

prawns, but also octopus. was no solo comigambas, but also pulpo. So, no solo, sino

also, but also, Sino also. Fijas was Fijas. Fijas. Now, this is an

imperative in the Vosotros form, and it's coming from the verb Fijarse. Now, Fijarse is actually quite a difficult

verb to translate. You're most likely to hear ficharse in the expression, fichate, fichate. We'll come back to fichate in a moment. Ficharse in itself means to pay attention or to notice. For example, you can ficharse in los detailles. You can pay attention to the details.

So, for example, me fijo in those details. I pay attention to details. However, in this sense when we're using it as an imperative, a command, fichate, it's actually quite a difficult expression to translate effectively into English. If you're having a conversation with someone and you've said something that's perhaps surprising or something that you want them to react to, for example, then you can use fichate. Now, fichate is the tu version of the imperative. The Ustead form would be fichese.

Now, using it in this way, fichate or fichese, to be honest, it is quite an informal way of speaking. If you're using Ustead with someone, then perhaps you'd be a little more formal. But the idea of fichese, I've got this image in my mind of perhaps two mature ladies, perhaps two neighbours talking to each other, and they use the Ustead form with each other, but they would be the kind of people that might be gossiping about something and say, fichese, you know, hmm, did you hear what I said there? pay attention to this. So, Fiegesse, perhaps marginally less common than Fijate,

but of course it all depends on the context. And then the Boshotros imperative would be F Fijas. Fichaus. Remember that the Bosotros imperative normally ends in a D, but with a reflexive verb, then you take the D off and add us.

Fijas. Now we've come back to that in a a moment, the Usteves imperative would be, figence, figence. Okay, let's come back to the vosotros imperative, because that's actually what Alba said. I had said, this semana, I've been traveling a little this week. And Alba, inferring that I perhaps travel quite a bit, she says, ah, So talking to the listeners to you, she says, Ah, fichaus. Did you hear that?

Pay attention to this. So it's a bit like saying to the listeners, did you get that? Mark's been off on his travels again or something like that. So that's why it's difficult to translate word for word into English. But that in a sense, I think, is the wonderful thing about languages. There's never quite an exact way to see some things in another language. Now the final thing I'd like to pick up on in this week's conversation was the use of Kedar.

Kedar is one of those words that can mean a number of things which does make it quite difficult to translate sometimes. In our conversation, Alba talking about my having to stay in Bov when we had a problem with our plane, used the expression, Te tuviste, keadar adi. Now, Kedar sits on its own here, however, it is the reflexive. form because the te before te tuviste the te of that refers to the reflexive pronoun linked to kedar so te tuviste kekka let's take the te out and put it onto the end of kedar so tuvisteke from tenet of course tuvisse you had to and then kedarse or in this case kedarte it means to stay, to stay

there. Te tu'vee te dee dee dee dee you had to stay there. An alternative version would be Tuviste ke kreste you had to stay there.

And in that construction in this version we're putting the te onto the end of the infinitive which of course is quite normal. Now given that Kedar can mean a number of things I don't want to go through everything just now, there's not time to do that.

But I have put some notes in this week's lesson notes, and I might put some extra audio into the premium feed to help you with Kedar. Well, Chicoes and chikas, past all right for today. The week that we're going to be a time that we've discussed during our elections. But the last time, we've received many comments and messages your messages. So, we think we'd be interesting to talk a little more of this theme. You'll see why next

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