Coffee Break Spanish - Última parada - Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries Episode 10

Episode Date: October 29, 2020

We have reached the 10th and final episode in this series of the Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries. We hope that you've enjoyed discovering some beautiful locations in the north of Spain from the comfort of your own home. Join Victoria and Abel for the final instalment of the series, as they arrive at the last stop on their trip - Santiago de Compostela, the capital of northwest Spain’s Galicia region.Travel Diaries will be published in one season of ten episodes weekly from 27th August. If you’d like to access lesson notes and a video version which features pauses after each sentence to allow you to practise your pronunciation, check out the full course on the Coffee Break Academy.At Coffee Break Spanish we provide content for beginners, intermediate and advanced learners, along with regular mini lessons on social media. Visit coffeebreakspanish.com for all the information you need to build your confidence in Spanish, whatever your level. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries Season 1, Episode 10. Hello, all, and welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Mark. And I'm Annabelle. How are you? Well, the truth is that I'm a little bit of Tristed today. Triste, why? Well, it's the ultimate episode of this series, no?

Yes, but we've enjoyed, and this episode, is sure that will be a great. I'm totally in accord. This is our final episode. in this series of the Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries, and we hope that you've enjoyed following Victoria and Amel's journey as they cross the north of Spain and they're arriving today in their final destination.

It's not the Camino de Santiago that they've been following, but it's been their own Camino that's taken them in different ways and in different directions across the north of Spain. We, as usual, will listen to the text, and then Anamela and I will discuss the language and talk about any tricky grammar points or tricky vocabulary in there. So, Arabel, you're going to be? Yes, we're going to start.

We're going to start. The voyage to Santiago de Compostela was quite rapid and comodo. We're going to doer something calentito in a cafeteria of the city and to start the, the next day of the Luna of Miel. In when we came

We came We went We were the city We started We started The Cateral of Santiago It was enormous

I think We were three hours To be it After it Then Weitam The Market

of Abastos of Santiago Where we bought something of Picoteo The Museum Do Pobo

Gallego Vino, and for when we're we're so we're so we're to come to a place

we're we're we're we're we're to go to the hardin's

and to see the rest of the city with tranquillity for one part

we're we're exaustos but for other also we're we're

We need to finish to to take that the last day of adventure. We're taking chipirons

in a terrace and about our places favourites of the

voyage. I me me enchant Bilbao and Abel

was about most a much with Asturias. And you,

what was your part favorite of the Well, that is a question that we will perhaps answer at the end of this episode. But Annabelle, I think we should go through the text, first of all, before we get to that question.

The voyage to Santiago de Compostela was a fast and comodo. Okay, so the journey to Santiago de Compostela was quite quick and comfortable. Santiago de Compostela is a city in the north of Spain, in the northwest of Spain. in the northwest of Spain, which I'm sure many of our listeners will be familiar with. And if you haven't heard of it,

then do check out Santiago de Compostela. Look up this on the internet and you'll find out more about it because it's the end of a pilgrimage. It's a journey that many people take, the Camino de Santiago. And we've got some other content about the Camino that you can check out too.

But here, as we said, Abel and Victoria, weren't doing the official Camino. They were doing their own journey towards Santiago and their journey. today has been a bit very quick and quite comfortable.

We're going to get us to- a little bit of a cafeteria of the city and to start the last day of the Luna of Miel. So,

we came to get to do something to get a little so we arrived in order to have breakfast something warm

in a cafeteria of the city, in a cafeteria, in a cafe in the city. And then the sentence continues, and then the sentence continues, and so to start, el-ke-seria, that which would be our final day, of our honeymoon. in In quanto we came

we did we arrived there in quanto we're going to come back to that in just a moment

we must lo vibrant that was we saw how vibrant the city was so let's look at this

sentence in more detail because there are actually a number of things in here that I want to talk about

in when we we arrived we did what vibrant that was So we were the city. So weimos lo vibrante.

Lo vibrante is lo plus an adjective. And you can do that when you want to make that adjective into a noun. So lo vibrante, what era la the vibrancy of the city? Or we saw how vibrant the city was. Can you give us another example of that when we combine lo with an adjective to make it into something slightly different? So their unico is an adjective meaning only the sole thing. So lo unico that I want is a coffee.

So for example, we could also talk about what interesting this book is, something like that. So lots of things that we can do with lo plus an adjective. However, the other thing that, that I want to talk about here is enquanto. Anabel, Enquanto we get there, that's when we're talking about in the past. But if we're talking about the future using enquanto, can you give us an example and let's see if our listeners can work out what happens with enquanto?

Inquanto, yegges a casa, yamame. Perfecto. In quanto So, jeges a casa. So jeges there is a present subjunctive. Enquanto jeges a casa, when you arrive, or as soon as you arrive at home, call me. I think you said, call me. So call me as soon as you get there. Now, if we were replacing as soon as with when,

then we would notice that we would use when. And when we're using when we're using wheno with a future, then that future has to be the present subjunct. So when you arrive at home, call me. And exactly the same thing happens with, en quanto he gets a casa. As soon as you get home, call me. In quanto jake that house, yamame. Perfect.

We started visiting the Cathedral of Santiago. Okay, we started by visiting the Cathedral of Santiago, the Santiago Cathedral, perhaps, the most famous place to visit in the least to visit in San Diego. It was huge. I think we were there. So I think we were there. Stubimus three hours, three hours,

in order to see it in its entirety. So entera there is referring to the cathedral. It's an adjective that's referring to the cathedral. Therefore, it's feminine. and we were there three hours to see it in its entirety. Well, three hours may seem quite a long time to visit one cathedral. But Annabelle, I think there's quite a lot to see in that particular cathedral, yeah? Yeah, they said that it's enormous and in fact it is.

It's huge. Good, good, good, good. Okay, let's continue. you. The word the market of

Abastos of Santiago where we'll buy something of pickoteo

Okay, the word abasto may be new to some of our listeners.

It's the word that you use when you're talking about your supplies,

the provisions, the things that you might buy in a grocery

store. So in this case, afterwards they visited the

Mercado of Santiago, is a particular thing? or is this just the name of this particular market?

It's the name. Okay. So visit us the Mercado of Abastos of Santiago. We visited the Mercado of Abastos of Santiago. So hopefully that's a new word for you there, Abasto or Abastos.

And there's also one expression that is not that Abasto. That means that you cannot manage because there's a lot of things to do. So this I'm not a week

occupied. No do abasto. Brilliant. That's an excellent expression there. No do a basto.

I'm not managing. I'm stressed because there's too much to do. No do a vasto. Perfect. And so what did they do in this

market? Don't we come us a picoteo. I love this word. Picotear.

It's to nibble, isn't it? To picket things. And you just have some snacks. So we bought something to have a little snack. The Museum of the

Gallego vino despite. And for when we we're done we're so can'tasas that we're going to come to a little bit circano. Okay. I'm just actually thinking about picoteer. We should explain also that picoteer is what birds do.

So it's to peck. The sort of official meaning of it but it's also used when humans peck at food and they have a little snack in that sense. So let's move on. El Museo du Pobo Gallego is the museum of the Galician people. And you'll see there that it's not written in Spanish. It would be del Pueblo Gallego, if it were in Spanish,

but it's written in Gallego itself in Galician. El Moseo du Bobo Gallego. Apologies for my Gillesseon accent. I don't know if it's very good. But that came afterwards. The Museum du Popu, Calegro, came after. And then, Victoria Gozon,

and for when we were so can't-canes that we were to come to a a place in a little bit of and by the time we finished, we were so tired that we went to have lunch in a nearby place,

a place, a place, a little bit Anabel, for when when we need the para in there? Because it's by the time we finish. It's not when we finish, but by the time we finish. Exactly.

And I think we've spoken about that before, either in one of our episodes in this series or perhaps in one of our Facebook lives or something like that. But para when is by the time we finished in this case, not just when we finished. By the time we finish, by when we finished, we're so tired,

that we were so tired, that we were to comeer to a place. So they're having their lunch break and we're going to take a short break now. We'll be back in just a moment. We wanted to let you know that there's a premium version of the travel diaries course and this includes a set of lesson notes where you'll be able to read the text from each of the diaries and work through the vocabulary and any explanations that we've provided. There's also a video version of the text where we've left space for you to repeat the words and phrases used giving you an opportunity to practice your speaking and your pronunciation. For more information about this, head to coffeebreakacademy.com.

Okay, welcome back. Hopefully by now, Victoria and Abel will have finished their lunch, and we're ready to finish the day with them in Santiago de Compostela. Annabel, would you like to continue on reading? For sure. Dedicamos the rest of the afternoon to walk the

gardenes and to see the rest of the city with tranquillity. Okay, dedicamos the rest of the afternoon.

We dedicated literally the rest of the afternoon to passier for the gardens to wondering about the gardens and to be the

rest of the city with tranquillity literally with tranquility. The It did it nice and calmly, basically. For one

part, we're exhausted, but for other, also, we'd we'd try to try to make that elitimate that the last day of adventure.

Okay, on the one hand, for one part, we were exhausted. We were exhausted. But, but on the other hand, in the sense, also, we'd

We also wanted to finish taking advantage of that last day of adventure. That last day of adventure. So they wanted to make the most of their final day of their trip, their holiday, as they spent the time walking around the city of Santiago de Compostela. Terminamos Tomando Chipirones in a terraza

and about our places favorite of our life Okay, so we ended

the day tomando chipirones in a terraza so they had chipirones I think

these would be called cuttlefish in English so Chipirones in Spain would they

be battered That's Chipirones Rebozados Reboados Okay So these are battered

little fish in a terrace and on a terrace and about our other places favorite favorite places of the trip, of the journey. A me me encanto Bill, and Abel was quite emoconado with Asturias.

Okay, so, I mean me enchanted Bilbao. So Victoria is speaking here, I loved Bilbao. And Abel seemed to be quite excited. by Asturias. He seemed to be really, well, he kind of fell in love with Asturias. He seemed to be emoconado with Asturias. And you, what was your favorite part of the journey? Before we answer that question, let's just look at that question word there. Qual, qual,

what was your part favorite of the voyage? When we translate that into English, we get what was your favorite place on the journey. But if we were translating back from English into Spanish and that word what can sometimes confuse us because you might think it's, but in this sentence we need that qual there, don't me, Anabel? Yep, Qual is the only option here

because we have plenty of options to choose. So that's why we use qual. So for example, what's your favorite color? There are too many colors. So that's why we use qual is your color. And here, since they are like different parts of the journey, then we use qual. Yeah, exactly. So when it's followed immediately by a verb there,

qual fue tu part favorite, qual is your color preferred. That's often a good pointer that we're going to use qual. Because if we were to see, what part of the viaje preferiste, that would be different because we're talking about which part. and we're following it with a known. But in this case,

what was your part favorite, what is your color preferred and suan? There's lots more about what K and K and Kual in the other podcasts and the other

resources that we've created so you can look for that at your leisure. Well, then, Annabel, what was your part favorite of the voyage? All.

But, especially me, so, Bilbao. And to you, Mark? I think my part

favorite of the voyage was the of the city because it's a city

that I like much and I would like to go back and I have

had been got to get there a great ohhale

you you know you're going through this whole text let's now

listen one more time to this and of course now that we've

talked about the language the vocabulary the grammar in hopefully everything will make more sense. Let's go for it.

The voyage to Santiago de Compostela was quite and comodou. We're going to get to have done a little calentito in a cafeteria of the city

and to start the next our last day of the moon of meal. In when we we came, we were the

vibrant that was the city. We started visiting the Cathedral of Santiago. It was enormous. I think we've two hours

to see her entire. Then, we visited the market of Abastos of Santiago, where we bought some

of picoteo. The Museum Do Pobo Gallego came after and for when we were, we were

so We were too we were to eat to a place we're doing the rest of the time to the last of the

city and to be the rest of the part we're exaustos but for other also we're to finish

to make that the last day of adventure We're coming chipirons in a terraza and about

of our places favorite of the life. A me me enchanted

Bilbao and Abel was quite quite much with Asturias

and you what was your part favorite of the life?

Okay that is where we're going to leave this episode and the

series of the Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries If you've enjoyed this, do let us know Please leave a review on one of the podcast apps

Whichever app you're listening on Or indeed, just let us know Get in touch with us by going to the website And leaving a comment or emailing us You can email team at coffeebreaklanguages.com And that will reach us. We'd love to know what you've thought about this journey And indeed, if you'd like more travel diaries in the future

We'll be back with further seasons Of Coffee Break Spanish very soon and in the meantime, of course, you can check out the Coffee Brick Academy at Coffeebrickacademy.com for all of our courses. Annabel, muchismas, thanks. Thank you. And, for sure, thanks to you. Well, we'll see then the next time. And until then.

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