Coffee Break Spanish - Season 3 – Lesson 37 – Coffee Break Spanish

Episode Date: January 4, 2012

This week Mark returns with Loreto for the second of our Chilean episodes of Coffee Break Spanish Season 3. In episode 37 we learn a bit more about Chilean culture and Loreto teaches Mark some Chilean expressions. Please note that lesson 37 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 337 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 37. It's hour to pass to the next level. Of the ensign to the spectacle. That's open the telon. Hello, and welcome to this episode of Showtime Spanish. It's the episode 37,

and, I'm here with Loretto of Chile. Good days, Loretto. Good day, Mar, how you're you? Very good, and you? Yeah, thanks. And, well, we're just. And, well, we're just to

have decided to work to work to us for this episode. What, how you have been the anterior? Yes,

a good experience, thank you. And at oirte in iTunes? Yeah, well,

it's a bit and it seems very very very good. Well, well,

we're going to continue to to talk to and we are ready to

start. The last we've about a part of the

country because the geography of the time this

question for you, Loretto, what are the Chileans most famous that we're going to know? Bastant people Chilean famous. It's Pablo Neruda

and Gabriel L'A Mistral. I've heard to talk about Pablo Neruda in the university. We've had to study the

poems of Neruda. And Gabriel La Mistral is an author that is very famous. The two

are the winner of the Premier Nobel, of literature. Ah, very good. Yes.

And other Chileans, famous? St. Francisco, I think is famous for all Latin America. He has a program that's called Sadoe Gigante,

and this program is like a program of varieties that have ballets, people who come to

can't, people who came to talk of the movies that have done and he

is Chilean? Yes. Well, he is Chilean. but descendance Judea, I think Alemann Judea

yeah, yeah, and it's a man greatsburger but his person is Don Francisco

I think our people have heard have heard about don't think that

because he is based in Miami in the United. Very very good and for

example musicians there is the group Yappu that has

music fructore Chilena is in Tijimani This this group me

it's good. In the university we've had to have to do a option of music Latin American and we've learned all of the Kena, the Zampoña, yeah, Zampoia?

Zampoia, yeah, that are Panpipes, no? And, well, these instruments are very typical of the music Andina. Exactly, yeah.

In Tillymani. Very well, the audience can look at Intilimani and Yipu. Yipu. In Yipu in iTunes or

in YouTube or what or what you are to know a little more of the music of Chile and you can't

give some of the musicians that are of this type of music folklorical Yeah

yeah the law that's a group of rock also is very very

known in the Latin America I think the prisoners that also

that also they're they're more in the 80 in I think

I think also that the people could have heard about

of Victor He was a, well, was a manned a music popular,

folklorical Chilean also. And he is, well, I think is the history

of Chile because he was assassinated during the paro Chilean.

He was a guitarist, no? He was a guitarista, he was a cantante and,

well, director of a, I think. And, and his music is very

known in the country, in all the world. Yes, I imagine

that is I've heard many I've heard many songs that they're that they're to refer

to Victor and when we're doing this episode have you have you said something about another music

that's called Violetta Parra yeah the cantante Violetta Parra she well she's

I think that the more of the 60 of the years of the years of the

family of her still still still still much in the music has

now children and that all can't and all the people they

like, they know. And all of the same type of music? No, different

music. For example, the nietta is called Javier Parra. She can't I think

pop pop rock, something and the nietos have a group of rock

and also they're and they incorporate all. Very well. So,

it's to us to us our audience to look all those

music in internet in iTunes in what or whatever it's

to be experimented a little of the music Chilean. One thing that us is

very important is the idea. And I would like to know if there some

expressions Chileas that are very typical that use you use much in

Chile. For example, what are the words that you can you

can use one one that is popular is the Kachai

or Kachar. That is a verb or Catchar? What is to say? It's, understand.

Entienes? Catchaste? Or, you know, you? So, then, so? Entient. So, so, so, it's used very a menudo? Yes, yeah, very popular.

And what is the origin of this word? A me, it's English, the word catch. Ah, to catch? So did you catch it? Did you catch it? Did you catch it?

Did you catch? Catchaste. Very good. And other words? Yes, well, the phrase, the phrase, that is no there, no, no,

it's not no me it's no, I'm not there in English it's traduce I'm not even there

yeah, okay no I'm not even there, and what can't say? No me it's not it's like I'm not

I'm not no I'm no I'm perfect and one one question poe this is this

this is this poe what is this poe? Well poe it uses much people in Chile

no It doesn't sense of a right. Okay. And,

well, we're we're for, all, all, it's all

and it is written peo? Poh? Poh, with an apostrophe Okay,

but no, it has no, well, of a repent it can

be a question, but no generally not, generally, no, generally,

it's more well, to put, to put something, to

make a time to , perhaps yeah. Okay. And other

words, other words? A bit, what other palavra? Well, when he said a person

a type, also can say a mino, a mina, but that is when a person in an attractive,

you know, I like that me, I mean, so, so, so, so,

so, so, so, so, and then, type, or type is, like,

in Spanish, of the Spanish, a tio? Yes, only that person That's the type That's the type

Is he still? Yes, and you Do you? No No Okay Tio, Sin embargo

Well, Tio is my My uncle Exactly Well, So, So, we We're

It's a time And I Woulder And I'd And I'd And I'm For

So again For this This episode And The The last And I'm

You know You've You're You You've pass it very chancho, thank you.

Wait, before, before, before, before, before, you know, you're going to

you're going to be chancho? Yeah, and this is a Chileanism? Yes, is a Chileanism. He says,

pass it well, do you know, and it's a man, and what mean, a chancho normally? Pigg, a chanch,

a, a cerdow. A bird. A bird. So, then you know, you know, you know, you know,

well, I think, that he came of the, the chancho that's that he He's a lot. Perfect.

Well, much more thanks. I also me know fased chancho. That's good. Thank you, Jose, you know, you're going to

you're doing, chancho, with your night's with your new baby? Hello, Markey, hello, Loretto.

Well, chancho, chancho, no see, but this time we're we're not much better. The baby

is partand very well, doorme much, and his brother is a kid genial, a helpantant

perfect. It's a champion. Moma and Papa, we're we're quite

we're we're we're we're to have a our baby, and that is

the most important. But, O'ye, Volvient to Showtime Spanish, how I

like the accent Chileo of Loretto. Me recall much the accent

of the southeastern of Spain, especially in the provinces of Sevilla and Cadiz. I always have thought that the accent of the sur of Spain is

very similar to many of the accentos Latin-American. Maybe there some reason historic for it. I don't know I'm sure. A lot more, you're not those the audience,

do you know, if is so, for favor, no dudey in poners in contact. Well, Well, well, the phrases authentic of today are

related to the parties. You know, that the Spanioles and the Latin American us, we're

very good organizing fiestas. Much, much, much better than the Anglo-Sajones, but shh,

is a secret. Some fiestas are great, and you do you do you pass too

that the time is that's right. That's right. That means that time flies when you're having fun. In these occasions, you can say something like what has said Loretto. Me lo is I'm going to say-chance.

A me would like to show us a phrase new. And the phrase is, This Fiesta is El No-Mas. Meaning, this path is ace. Literally, it's as good as it gets. This fiesta is the no-va-mast. This feast is the no-v-mas. In

Cambio, a time, a time, a bore, a burr and a burr

and you not you do you do you in absolute. In these occasions, it can

say, this fiesta is a baudrio, meaning this part is rubbish or garbage.

This fiesta is a bodrio. This fiesta is a bodrio. Well,

now you talk to you to repeat after me. Are you ready?

Excellent. Let's go here. This fiesta is the no-va-mast. This fiesta is a bodri.

Well, this is the final of this intermedio. As always, it has been a pleasure to be

with you and now I'll give up a Mark and Loretto in the studio.

A-D-U- 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 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. Okay, so welcome back to the second act of lesson 37 in which we're going to take a closer look at a couple of the things that have come up in this week's conversation with Loretto.

Firstly, at the beginning, I said to her, we're very content of that you've decided to move. So we're very happy, or we're very glad, that you have decided to come back. So the first thing is, of course, that there's a subjunctive in there. It's the perfect subjunctive because we're looking at the subjunctive

of the present tense of the auxiliary verb that would be Aver. In this case, it's Ayes, and it's followed by the past participle. So forming the perfect subjunctive. We're very content of that you have returned. Now, we are happy that you have returned.

What we're saying here is we're passing a judgment on the fact that you, you have returned. So that's why the second verb needs to be in the subjunctive. The other thing I wanted to mention about this is the verb Decidier. Decidier means to decide, and it's followed immediately by the subjunctive. We're very content of that you have decided Bolver. There's no preposition in between Decidier and the infinitive in this case Volver. It's just straight into the

infinitive. That is decided to Volver. He decided to return.

Now, there is another situation using that same verb Decidiet where you

do actually have a preposition. However, this time it's not Decidier, but

Decidierse to do a something. And that's stronger than just deciding.

Decid means to decide, but Decidier's to a to make your mind up to do something. So there's more resolve there. Me decided to go. I've made up my mind to return compared with, I've decided to return. I have

decided to return. Now, you could argue that there's very little difference in these two phrases, but just be aware that decidirese to do something is stronger than decision. Decidier to make your mind up to do something, as opposed to to to decide to do something. So just to repeat that one more time, Decidier to do something, to decide to do something, Decidier say to a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-to make up one's mind to do something. Now, as we've been talking to Loretto and to Juan and Carolina in the past few episodes, One thing that I've found quite interesting is the idea that Escutar and O'IIR have slightly overlapping meanings,

particularly in certain parts of Latin America. In Spain, normally, escutar is used when you're actively listening to something. For example, a presentation or the radio or to music. Escutto musica. And O'IER is the verb that's used when, you're hearing something. You're not actually deliberately listening to it, but you can hear it because it's in your vicinity. So you might be listening to the radio. For example, you're driving along

in your car, you're listening to the radio actively. But compare that to the situation where perhaps you walk past an open door and in that room you happen to hear a radio playing. In that case, you hear it, you don't stop and listen to see what the radio presenter is saying. So in Spanish, in Spain, we have Escutad for to listen to and Oyer for to hear. Now there seems to be a little more crossover in these two expressions in Latin America.

So for example, you might hear someone saying, no te'escucied to get. Literally, I didn't listen to you arrive. Now, that sounds a little bit funny if we say it in English, but it's absolutely natural to see it this way in many parts of Latin America. So, no te'es-cuchad-jegar. In Spain, Spanish, would become, no te oido-ablar.

And the same happens with the phrase, Oir-A-Blar de algo or de al-Gian. So, have you heard of something? Has I heard of the intiglimani? Have you heard of the group Intillimani? In our discussion, Loretto suggested that our listeners have been

escutado to don't Francisco so that they will have heard of Don Francisco. But in this case, she's using escutad instead of o'er. Again, perfectly reasonable, perfectly normal to do so

in many parts of Latin America. So just be aware of these two phrases, either oir-a-blar or de a-al-gien, or escut-a-l-l-l-l-er-h-h-l-hust-a-l-l-l-l-l-l-lard. or de alien. And as with so many of these situations, I would suggest try listening to the people around you and find out which version of this expression is used wherever you are speaking Spanish. We'll be practicing these expressions in this week's bonus podcast. Now, there's also

a special item in this week's bonus content, and that is an explanation of que and qual. I have to admit that I find que and qual really quite. tricky. For example, if I'm saying, which book are you reading? Is it ke or qual? Or what is your phone number? Is that ke or qual? So what I've done is create a flow chart and this flow chart will ask you a number of questions and by answering the questions you'll work out whether you need ke or qual. And hopefully after using the flow chart a few times you'll get used to this and it will become second nature to you. So I hope that you find that useful.

And yeah is for another episode of Showtime Spanish. I hope, as soon as it has been useful and that you have liked. The week we'll be back, then we're back, with another person, of other country Latino-Mercano,

and we're hoping that this also interest. One of us. One more, much thanks to Loretto, and thanks to you. Thanks, Thank you.