Coffee Break Spanish - Season 3 – Lesson 36 – Coffee Break Spanish

Episode Date: December 28, 2011

¡Estamos de vuelta! We’re delighted to be back with a new episode of Coffee Break Spanish in which Mark is joined by Loreto, from Chile. In this first of two episodes with Loreto, we learn about the geography and culture of Chile. Please note that lesson 36 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 336 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 36. It's hour to pass to the next level. De the ensayos to the spectacle. That's open the telon. Well, we're back with another episode of Showtime Spanish. And the truth is that

has been much that we don't know? There are various reasons for the which we've had this pause between the episodes of Showtime Spanish. And one of these reasons is because

we've been many problems with our servitors we're We're doing these problems in this moment

and I'm going to go back now. Jose also has been a little

a little occupied but he he will he will he he's

going to how you know we're doing a little a little

in this moment and I am here with another person of

Latin America today we we we're we very

very thank Mark what you. Very well, thank you. And Dinoes, Loretto, where you are you? I know of Chile. Of Chile. Of what part of Chile?

Well, I'm in Rancawa, that's near to Santiago, of Chile. Very well. Well, today we're going to talk a little of Chile and the country, of the tourism in Chile, and also a little

of the culture of Chile. So, we're going to start. Well, Well, Loretto, you know that I never have been in Chile. us You can't

a little where is how is geographically? Well, Chile is in the

South America in the Costa Oceana, Pacific is a a country that is

a shi. Aji. You know you say an Aji? Yes, aji.

It's like in all the other countries I think say like he

do you do you and then has frontiers with which other

countries? Bolivia, Peru Argentina. And there are different

regions of Chile. For example, I know that there's the part of Andina, but the other parts of Chile are very varied. Yes, yeah. Well, Chile is divided in 15 regions, and all the regions have different climates, and, for example, the

north of Chile, it has a climate more calient, like, the desert. The center has the climate more Mediterranean, which is not so hoturoso, but also more enjoyable. And the north is It's frio,

almost alpine, like in the sea, with many mountains. Many mountains, so. So the

north is the zone Andina? Yes, well, is the border of Los Angeles Yeah,

yeah. And the capital of Chile is Santiago, right? Yeah, San Diego,

is the city more population and for the size. For time.

For time exactly. And what are the other cities in Chile? Yes, Valparaiso

that has a port that's a port principal, Vina del Mar, which is a place a place, very beautiful.

And you've said that you are from Rankawa? Yes, and where is exactly? It's like

at one hour of Santiago of the capital and the sixth region of Chile. Ah,

then the regions are six region, Kinta region and all this. No, no, don't have

no names? Okay. And Rankawa is that close of the mar, or in

the mountains or in the desert? Like, it's exactly where is exactly where is.

Well, no, not it's much near the mountaines, it's more the mountainous,

we call it, that are not very great. My badgues to say it, but the

only experience that I know of Chile is the Vino Chile. Rancagua is in this zone where

is the wine central, which is the area central, where the majority of of the wine of Chile no.

And the wine is more bit tint than black or the two? I think that

of the two, but I see more more tinted in Scosia. In Scotias, the

wine is the is the modern in this moment, no? Yes, that

me really a much to me. Yes, well, I mean too is

very If I were I was a visit Chile, what are the zones that I would visit are? Personally,

I'm like Valparaiso, Vina del Mar Pichilemo, which is a place in the sector region. And these

are then playas? They're plains, yes, the majority. Bartharizu is more

a port, but is a city very vibrant, it's touristic, very beautiful.

And are tourists Chileos or international in these regions? Well, in Pichilemo is more Chileans, but Valparaiso and vine more touristic, well, American, of, of all.

Of all. And also, you know, one part of Chile that I'd like to visit is the Isla of Pasqua. Yes, very beautiful, very beautiful. I've seen, but I've seen the photos, the websites, too. Yeah, I've said in various episodes of Showtime Spanish, that I'd like to go to. Machu Picchu in Peru And when I'm going to

I'll be a visit to Chile and maybe to the Isla of Pasqua also. It's going to be a year for all Latin America, I think. When you have much money. And then we'll talk a little of the culture

Chilean because there is the culture indigena but also a culture more maybe moderned also. Yes, I think yeah, I

think that every the people go adaptating and changing things and in Chile, but for the

time, we always we'll keep a little of the old old traditions. Maybe one

of these new traditions be the day national. I've had been before we had been

to grab of the day national of Chile. We can't for

our our the audience, a what is what is what is the day the day

18 of September. I'm the day of the day of the independence of Chile.

It's celebrate, well, while playing with music folklorica Chilean and food

and it is a year a year entire. One a time.

So it's a day national, the same. The semester. National. And then so much people

to go back to Chile, for example, if you're here, you're going to come to celebrate it? No, well, for the general, I don't, I've been to

celebrate it directly for to go to the 18, but if the people in Chile in see, they're that's called a ramada,

that are one, a celebration, for example, the serro in campos, and they put this ramada and they're

asado, and they're all the night, all the a week. You've said a ramada.

Yes, well, a ramada is like a house, a chica, but it's, they're doing

with rama. And they're they're doing and they can't do, but they're for example, in the

serras, they put an 10, 12 ramadas, and all have their own name.

So, so it's like every family have some so, in all

the people, they think, ramada. And it's very popular. So,

in all part they have in the ramada the 18 And in

the ramas they're in the food Yeah, they're in the

typical chilene chichia which is of a wine that's in Chile

well the wine tint yeah that's that's that's very popular

also during so and the and the asado is like

a barbaco yeah exactly a barbacca well then

when I to Chile I I'd the 18

of September to participate in these ramadas and experimenter all the day national of the country. Yes, I think you're going to do you want to dovetir. Very well. Well, yeah, just for today with this conversation with Loretto.

But Loretto, you can come the week to talk a little more of Chile and perhaps some words Chilean? Yes, sure, with gusto. Perfect. Well, in this moment, we're going to pass the word to Jose,

and I think that has some news for you. Hello Mark and Hello Loretto Encanated to be here in Showtime Spanish with you

This week I know I was going to be to be because my husband had a baby

ago and we've been very occupied as you as you know as

the mother and the baby are very well and sanos that is the important

is a a child, and we've put to name Pablo, like Pablo Neruda, Chilean Universal, or Pablo Picasso, Spanish Universal. Well, this of

having a baby in house, we make very very felices, for the point, but is very can't.

Well, more than can't is agotante. In English, agotante is it is exhausting,

and, and, and, so, it's very agetreated. Agetreado in English is hectic,

with tantas things to do and many times and many me remember a little to

the phrases that we saw in the episode number three recordys I'm I'm

Molido and I'm made you remember what they mean I'm

Molido and I'm made I'm chatted. That's right they both mean I'm shatted

but the phrases authentic of today have to say, are related with these

two words, agotante and agetreado. I like much how this

word agetreado. The first phrase is I'm quite cansadissim I'm

completely agotado which means I am really tired I am completely exhausted

It's I'll hear other And repeat After me I'm I'm I'm I'm

completely agotado I'm I'm sorry completely agotado Very well The second

phrase is I'm much to do I'm much Agetreated Which means

I have so much to do It's hectic literally I'm Hector.

Listen, other and repeat after me, I'm much to do. I'm very ageteerated.

I'm much too do. I'm very agetreated. Well, we've got to

final of this intermedio. Now, I'm to have a little,

because if is really, I'm I'm made, I'm made

polo, I'm agotado, because my life in this moment is very agitreada. Well, until the next next.

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through our regular posts on Instagram. Follow Coffee Break. Languages. It's our mission to help you turn your downtime into your due time. As usual, in Act 2, we're going to take a closer look at some of the language covered in this lesson. Now, like many of our recent episodes, the language and the constructions that have been used haven't necessarily been particularly complex. However, there's lots of vocabulary to deal with and also a different accent. This week, the accent of Chile. To begin with, we're going to look at a phrase that

I actually used right at the beginning of the lesson, and that's en quanto. Now, I actually said, Jose O'Otasus noticias, in quanto poeda. So, Jose will tell you his news, Enquanto puida. This means as soon as he can. En quanto pueda. And of course you've noticed that the can part,

the verb here, isn't the subjunctive. Now, like many situations where you're referring to, To the future that may not necessarily happen, you use the subjunctive. Think of saying, when I arrive, when I get, the subjunctive of Yegar. So, when I arrive, I will call you, When do yege, Te llamere. But if you wanted to say, as soon as I arrive, then you would say, In Quanto Yege, Te Yamere.

en quanto so it's taking that same idea of the future that may not come to pass combining it with en quanto and therefore using the subjunctive for the verb so another example of this could be as soon as you are here

we will set off so we'll use Ponersen Marcha for to set off as soon as you are here in quanto estes here, we'll put them

in marcha. Poners in marcha into the future, we'll put them in marcha.

In when you're in when you getes, we're put we in

marcha. Another expression that I used in this particular conversation

was me a berguenza I'm embarrassed to say.

Now, the word verguenza, la verguenza, is shame or

embarrassment. So turning it into a verb, it becomes averganzhar. And it's one of those interesting words that actually takes a diaricist or an umlaut. In German, we would refer to it as an umlaut, the two little dots above the U, so that you pronounce both the U and the E. Remember that if an E follows a G, then the G becomes che. For example, think of the word general. So if you require the G to maintain it's hard sound, then you put a U in. Think of the word, for example, gherra, the word for war, gera. Now, if we consider averguenza, or averganzart, but obviously the conjugated verb becomes averguenza.

If the U-E were following the G, then that would just sound like avergenza, because the U would be there to keep the G sound hard. So in order to make the guenza sound, and we need to put the diarices on top of the U. Me averguenza. So me averguenza is followed by an infinitive. Me a verguenza estar a key. I'm embarrassed to be here.

And obviously like any verb, it can be conjugated in different tenses. So he was embarrassed to have to say he se avergonzada, in perfect tense, Tener to say it. He was embarrassed to have to say it. So he avergonzada, to never to say it. Literally,

he was embarrassing himself, or he was shaming himself, to have to say it. Se avergonsaba, Tener to say it. Another expression. I'd like to pick up on is something that Loretto said. She said,

And she was talking about traditions and the fact that people continue to adopt or to, in this case, accept change, really. Now, this is an interesting construction. Cada Veth literally means each time or every time. So, cada Veth is followed by a subject, in this case, La Jente, or Tu, or Miguel or whatever,

La gente se va adoptando. So la gente, the subject is followed by a part of iir, and then the gerent form, adoptando. That's the ando form for ER verbs or

yendo for ER and IR verbs. So using this construction, that's cada-bef, plus a subject, plus a part of the verb, ir, plus the gerund, can you try to say we continue to learn more Spanish? So, converting this into Spangles or Spanglish, we would say each time we go learning more Spanish.

each so this we're learning more Spanish every we're

learning so this Apprend is the gerend of learn aprende

and every we're learning more Spanish and the expression

has the idea of we continue to learn more Spanish all the

time every literally each time or every time. Now the final thing I'd like to mention is the difference between recordar, which means to remember, and recordarle a alien, or recordarle a algo, which means to remind someone about something. And this came from what Jose was saying. He said, recordais, do you remember when we were talking about estar molido or ester etchopold?

to be exhausted? Recordaise, do you remember? Now compare that to what he said just before then. He was talking about the word agetreado, meaning hectic. And about that word, he said, me recorda a poco a las phrases that we've seen in the episode

number three. It reminds me a little of the phrases that we saw in episode three. Me recuirda. So the subject here is La Palabra agitreado. So the word agetriado reminds me

me, me recorda. So the subject is la palabra, so is, recorda, and it reminds me, me requeurda, a las phrases. It reminds me, in English we would say, of the phrases. A las phrases, in Spanish

we use a. Me cueira, a las phrases, that we saw in the episode number three. Now, we could turn us around and say, you remind me of, my sister. Me recordas a my

hermana. So here the subject is you. Tu, me recuidas. You, to me remind. Me recordas

a my hermana. Literally at or to my sister. But in English we would say of course, you remind me of my sister.

As usual, there will be more practice of all of these expressions in this week's encore podcast. And yeah It's for Oh,

Thank you Thank you for having Descargated this podcast and we're that you have got to

And much thank you thank you thank you thank you you can you can you can

be back to talk yeah yeah so so then until the

next Adios.