Coffee Break Spanish - Season 3 – Lesson 27 – Coffee Break Spanish

Episode Date: October 18, 2011

This week we return to a topic we covered previously – in response to listeners’ requests. It’s time to look at your tricks and tips for language learning. Mark and Alba talk about the suggestion of one of our listeners which involves printing out internet texts and cutting out the words. Listen to the episode for more information and further suggestions! Language topics this week include the alternative forms of the possessive adjectives including mío, tuyo, suyo, and so on. We also look at the phrase una vez, this time not linked to the subjunctive. Please note that lesson 27 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 327 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 27. It's hour to pass to the next level, of the ensayos, to the spectacle, that's open the telon. Hello, and good days to all our audience,

and good days to you, Alba, what tell? Hello, how you guys? How do you guys the time? Well, the truth is that this year has been a little

difficult, much, much, much, much, a time, but I'm content to be back with Showtime Spanish. The same

Last week We said We said that this Semana We're about this year we're

about we're but not we did we about we're about.

Maybe the episode most made or more interesting of Spanish

has been the episode of the Trucos to learn idiomas

we have received a lot of messages and comments

about our the trickos, and then we've thought that would be interesting to this theme. So, we're going to for it. Well, Alba, we've received a message, a email

very interesting, of Jason, of Detroit, and Jason us tells us a trick of sui for to learn your Spanish. You can't tell us. A bit, a Jason, what

he does, and what is to use a text a text short, of internet even

whatever that's anything that's one of the text it's a word to a

a processor of a then once it's in Word

intent memorization the text this is very important and then

then the letter and imprimed all the document One

once it's the document impressed, coge some he's a

little the text in that's a lot a lot of paper

little little and the and then the puzzle is

to recombin the text? Exactly. That not is a

fact not but that good idea. It's fantastic

because it is the different different levels for

example you one one phrase, you can be very complicated

or very easy, or you can get a text more more more

more longer, exactly. Menue idea. De really, Jason,

much thanks. We've made some questions about the

learning of the language and one of these questions

is how how encounter more material authentic to

develop your capacity to I guess. Well, I have an idea. If you use iTunes,

you know, you need to the Tienda of iTunes, the iTunes Store, and then you're going to the Rathons

to the screen and the iTunes store, and above, you'll be that you can't

choose the Tijuana or the Pays of the Tients, so, for example, could you

choose iTunes Spain. So if you make click in Spain, now the iTunes Store will be in Spanish. Well,

now you're a little problem. Because if not you don't have a card of credit registered in Spain,

then you can't buy nothing. If you go to the section of podcasts, that is

a little more more than the page you, you can you know all the

gamas of podcast that, well, that's called the Spaniards or even the Frenches or Italianos, depending on the Tienda of the iTunes Store that you've chosen. So, it's a good way to discover more materiales of actuality that you

can't discargar gratis of Internet or of iTunes, using the iTunes store of the country where the language that you're learning. Ah, well, that good idea.

I, as I'm doing my Alman, I'm going to do it, to be to find some a little

I'm sure that I'm sure that will be and that also we're also we're another

question very interesting because some of you're you're doing two different

in the French and the Spanish and the Spanish and the same time. Well,

yeah, to learn those advantages and and inconvenienced, no? Yes,

effectively. For example, one of the advantages that I see to study at the way two languages that

are quite is that is possible comparals. And you can't compare tables, for example,

of verbs or the vocabulary even, for example, if some a word is a word

in Spanish to the language and the also. And also it also

at a level intuitive, because if you are learning that's a vocabulary in French, obviously when intends studying the same vocabulary, but in Spanish, you

tendrard's a certain idea because you'll know the root of the words. Exactly. Perfect. Yes.

But also, but also, it's the disadvantages. For example, you can confunding very easily and

you have the double of information linguistically. At times the reglas grammatical are

completely opuces. For example, the time of the preterito simple in French,

only is used in the literature, and never it's in the language oral.

But, as we know, in Castellian, it's completely normal, to say,

I'm to say, I'm using the preterito, no? The form compuise. So,

so for those that are learning those languages simultaneously I have a

I have a a idea of trying to separate the other other

in your memory, in your mind. For example, if you study

your Spanish in the coach going to the job, or in

the train or or what you for always the words

that you have learned in the coach or in the train

are for for every in Spanish , no?

Okay, so, you what you do you do, is relationar a place and a moment of the day with a language? Exactly, yeah. And, for example, when I studied French or Chinese or what or whatever, in the garden, for example, Debago of the Sol, Scotses, in the garden, well, all the words that I've learned in the

garden are... Seran... ...relations, or... ...relationated with the idioma that I'm impending in that place. Okay. So, you when you have to, for example, to be able to

in French, in bed to look like a local for your brain, directly you're to the cajita, between commas,

say, where you have used to your garden and your French. Exactly. And also,

with my quaderno blue, with my boligrapo and then the words that I'm

in the coach, but no I'm not I don't know I'm going to the coach, but in the train, let's see, in a card no rojo with a belligeropho and all this.

Well, as you know, guys, there are quite organized to learn two languages at the way, but, well, you know, and it's possible. Who, something wants, something is,

now we're going to pass to the resum. Today we've brought to a time very interesting of which we've been and as receiving

many messages our own. We've decided to enfocar this time one way more. It's a time that us interest to us also, and it seems that you also, we've talked about the other way, and of some tricks that we've

offered. Mark us has given some ideas for those that are playing two idiomas simultaneously. Of your experience, has suggested that is a good idea, to try to almacenar the idiomas in different compartiments of the memory,

using quaderns of different colors or even studying in different places. We've commented also a text, a koreo, that has arrived, the Jason, of the US. A him he likes to choose a text of internet and imprimed it and to cut it. Then, then it's reconstructural the text

original of memory. Of that he's ability to recording structures grammatical

complicated and vocabularial specific. As always, we can't receive emails your emails

your and write more comments in the page and so

we can we do we know how you do you do

Mark hello Alba all all all Supendamely, thank you.

You have an idea for the learning of the language? How has you made you to learn

American and English? I like much the idea of recortar the text to reconstruct

it after like if it was a rompecabes. I think I'm going to have

to use this idea in my classes of Spanish. I also

also I'm some ideas and strategies to help me to

learn to For example, I procure to use many resources that can find in internet. For example, one of my sites web favorite is

lingro.com, that's scribe L-I-N-G-R-O-com. And it's a dictionary very way that you can't learn a page, a page web,

in an idioma extragero, and if there a word that no know, simply you just make click in the word and you say what

it's a word. It's great, no? As Mark has said, I know, I

know speak English and me defiant very well in in the German.

But, result, that my English is much better than my American, because I

live in England. If lived in Germany, then my a German, would be so good

as my English. And this is because, while living in England, I know I'm always English constantly.

So, my advice, my strategy for you is to try to talk about in the

idiom that you are studying the most possible. Quantto more more,

and so I'm sure that you'll learn very very much. Well,

well, the phrases that I'm going to I'm going to soundies as authentic Hispanic Hispanics

have to be with about, with about much and with about a little. For example, if a person

a lot much, we can say that this person about for the codos. Abla

for those codos. This means that somebody speaks so much they speak even through their elbows.

I know. It's a very strange turn of phrase. But trust me, it's very common. Abla for the codos. At contrary, if a person

about a little, then you can say that he has comeido the language the cat. I'll say other way more despacio, because it's more difficult. Le has

eaten the language the gato. And it means the cat ate his or her tongue. It's very similar to the English expression. Has the cat got your tongue? Well, and now, as a cat,

the cat. Well, and now, as it's customary, you know, you know, these phrases after me. Venga.

Abla for the codos. Abla for the codos. He has eaten the language, the gato. He has come the language

the gato. Well, well, I have been enough sufficient. Demasio even. Now, me to give to give us to the studio

with Mark and with Alba. It's been a pleasure to be here with you also. Until the next, then. Adios! Well, Jose, much thanks, as always. It's time now to take a closer look at some of the language that we've covered in our conversations

today. To begin with, let's start with the subjunctive and a particular use of the subjunctive that we've come across a number of times. In our discussions today, there were three particular examples of this. And it's the subjunctive of uncertainty, or the subjunctive where we're not quite sure if something exists or doesn't exist. The first example was when Alba was explaining about our email from Jason, who looked for a text on the internet, something that interested him

in order to be able to cut the text up and use it as a language learning exercise. Now when Abba said he looks for anything that interests him. She said, Qualqueer cosa that interests him. Qualqueer cosa that le intereste from the verb

interestar. And of course this is the subjunctive. And the reason that's the subjunctive is because this particular topic that interests him may not actually exist in that particular moment. He might not find something that interests him. I'm sure that he will. find something that interests him in the whole of the internet. But in this case, because we're saying

anything that interests him, we use the subjunctive. And another example of this was when Alba said that she would look on iTunes, Germany, to find something that might interest her. She said, A'er, if I encounter, some material that me interest. So again, intereste, because there's a possibility that she might not find it. It's this idea of some, some material or any material. It might not exist. Therefore, we need to use the subjunctive. And the final example that I'm going to pick up on from today's conversation

was when I said, for those people that are learning dos idiomas simultaneously, for those people, of our listeners, who may be learning two languages simultaneously. Now, there may well not be anyone who's listening to Showtime Spanish at the moment who is learning two languages. The chances are there are,

but because there's uncertainty involved, we use the subjunctive. That esten aprendendo, as opposed to, stand in the indicative. For those that are that are learning those idiomas simultaneously. Okay, so much for the subjunctive of uncertainty.

Another thing that's related to the subjunctive that I'd like to pick up on is the fact that a couple of weeks back we were looking at the phrase, One Veth. And when we were referring to the future using One Veth, for example, giving instructions, when you arrive in the square, One Vets Ljeges at La Plaza, yamame, or something like that. So once you get to the square, call me,

one once you getes to the plaza however in this week's discussion

when Alba was talking about what Jason does she said one a by a

text so once he has selected the text he sends it to word or he copies

it to word so one once yeah has selection

the text that's an indicative yeah has selected is the perfect tense.

One a selectionado the text. Once he's chosen the text, he sends it to

Word. And another example of this was then one a word,

intenta memorize the text. So then, once it's in word, he tries to memorize the

text. Now here, One Be doesn't use the subjunctive because it's already

happened. It's not referring to once you've done something in the future, it's referring to once he has done something in the past. So there's no uncertainty here. Once he's selected the text, of course he's selected the text. The text exists and he's selected it. So it's referring to the past. It's really the same as using the word when. When, when you're referring to the future, when you're referring to the future,

When you arrive, call me, using the subjunctive in the future. But, when you arrive, call me, using the subjunctive in the future. but when he arrived he called me when he gaveo preterate me called me name oh preterid so one a month works exactly like when it's referring to something that's happened then there's no doubt there's no uncertainty so you simply use an indicative

when it's referring to something that may or may not happen in the future then you use the subjunctive now the final thing I'd like to look at today is an alternative version of possessive adjectives. At one point, again, when we were talking about Jason, Alma mentioned, Un troco suyo, one of his tricks for learning a language,

Un troco suyo. Suyo is spelled S-U-Y-O. In fact, there are a whole group of alternative possessive adjectives in Spanish. Normally, you would say, my book. However, you could equally say El Libro Mio. That's M.I. with an accent O, El Libro Mio. My book. La Casa Mia. My house. If you were talking about one of my books,

you could say, Un Libro Mio. Or one of my houses, if you're lucky enough to have more than one. One casamia. So there are versions for masculine singular, feminine singular, masculine plural, and feminine plural, for each of the possessive adjectors. Now these are all listed

in this week's notes, but I'll quickly go through them just now. So to begin with my, my, meo, mya, meos, mias. Your, this is the two form, tuyo, tuya, toyos,

his so yo suya suyos suyas so for example if we are talking about his friends

Los Amigos Suyos or some of his friends Unos Amigos Suyos Now her

works the same way as his Soyo Suya Suyos Suyas and likewise It's works the same

way. So if we were talking about the dog's bones, Los Wesos Suyos, Suyo, Suya, suyos, suyas. If you're talking about your, using the formal, singular form for the Usteith part, then again you use suyo, suya, suyos, suyas. Our would be Nostro, Nuestra, Nuestra, Nuestros, Nuestras. So it's the same as the one that comes before the noun. Likewise with Yur in the Vosotros form, Vestro, Wuestra, Wistros, Wuestra, Wistras. And then when we get back to there

and you're in the Usteades form, then we use Soyo, Suya, Suyos and Suyas again. Now, as I said, there's a full list of all these possessive adjectives, the alternative form in the notes for this week. And we'll be doing some practice of this in the Oncor podcast too. Well, we're going to this episode you've been useful, at the way, to practice your Spanish.

And to animar us to start with that second idioma. Exactly. Well, much thanks, as always, to you know, and after the semester that coming. A good. www.radolinguar.com.