
Mark and Pablo return for Chapter nine of Scenes!
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Coffee Break Spanish Host
Scenes from the Coffee brick spanish cafe lesson 9 we're not going to the beach today. We're not going to be doing it anything like that. But we are going to be spending some time in our Coffee Break Spanish Cafe where we are following the adventures of all the people who come into the cafe, the people who work there, and of course learning some Spanish as we go.
Pablo
Perfecto. Sona General.
Spanish Cafe Guest
Scenes from the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe Capitulo nueve Oy el cielo esta moyaful es mi idioma favorito adoreo es cuccarlo Ilos italianos son siempre tan simpaticos que no epodido evitar char lar conellos largo y tendido. Me uncontado que ha bian visitado la catedral yan andureado por las calles del casco historico de estebien temprano asi quebenian combastante ambre para beber unos piderombino yotros cerbeza despuestia cabar con seis pinchos de tortilla un arracion de croquetas iotra de en sala de lla rusa hablar de comida comida italiana y espanola estavan Mara Villa dos por el sabor y la textura de la tortilla asique me preguntarum por la reseta una de las mujeres di ho quello mas importante siemprera la cocinera ibro meo di siendo que de via visitar Italia paraco finarles undia la tortilla.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Okay, let's go back and we'll look at each sentence one by one. And we start, as usual, with a bit of a weather update.
Pablo
Oy, el cielo esta muyazul a un que aje fresco por las mananas.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
So today the sky is very blue.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Oy, el fielo esta muy azul anque a una se fresco por las mananas.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Although it's still cold in the mornings. Now, even in this first sentence, we've got something interesting because we have with an indicative.
Pablo
Enconcreto. Pero si porrejemployo. Siemprevoya manga.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Yeah, I think Pablo's describing me right now because he's in long sleeves, I'm in short sleeves, and I wear short sleeves even if it is cold. And that when it's. Even if that's a subjunctive situation. But here it's even though. Or although it's still cool in the mornings. And as you said, it's a fact. So even though it's still cold in the mornings, the sky is blue. Okay, so this is, of course, this eternal question as to whether or not.
Spanish Cafe Participant
We should put onion in our tortilla de patatas. Tortilla de espanola.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
And I very much want to put onion in. I always make my tortilla with potato, onion, and eggs, obviously. But Pablo previously wouldn't have put onion in, but maybe now is more inclined to have some onion anyway.
Spanish Cafe Participant
So kadabez. Ay, mas turistas por la sona.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
So, literally, each time there are more tourists in the area. But cadavez just means it's a natural way of saying, increasingly there are more and more tourists in the area.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Ila demanda de tortilla de patatas. And the demand for tortilla de patatas sigue en aoumento.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
It keeps increasing. It follows in increase.
Pablo
General estatarde e conocido a un grupo de italianos de lo mas adorable.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
What a nice structure here.
Spanish Cafe Participant
De lomas. Adorable. So, esta tarde. This afternoon I met.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
I got to know a un grupo.
Spanish Cafe Participant
De italianos, a group of Italians de lo mass adorable.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
And they were of the most adorable kind. So that's why the de is in there.
Spanish Cafe Participant
De lo mas adorable.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
They were of the most adorable kind of Italians.
Pablo
De lo mas segido de adjedivo. Tenemos dos optiones mantener la concordancia de genero in numero con el sustantivo anterior o simplemente mantener el hajetivo. And singular masculino.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Okay.
Pablo
Una pellicula de lomas divertido. Divertido and masculino singular. No, I concordancia con pellicula. Pero podrimos de thirtamien una pellicula de lomas divertida. Concordancia. Ambas son validas y quitad nuestros ollientes escuchen ambas possibilidades.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
So here we're talking about una pedicula film.
Spanish Cafe Participant
And it would be de lomas divertida or de lomas divertido.
Pablo
Si.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
But both cases it's lo mas. It's not la mas sos. Okay, so that's important. Now, if we come back to our sentence.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Esta tarde y conocido un grupo de italianos de lomas. Adorable.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Now, Pablo here, adorable.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Is that referring to the grupo or the italianos?
Pablo
Sesta referendo al grupo de italianos.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Okay, so it's an adorable group. And in this case, therefore, we couldn't have had adorable because we're talking about the group, not the group.
Pablo
El grupo. Si, exacto. Herra napenas las doce del medio dia cuando tres parejas de resarro por la celebre, tortilla de patatas de casa, isa y manu.
Spanish Cafe Participant
So her an apenas las doce del med.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
It was barely noon cuando tres parejas when three couples de resien jubilados of recently retired people and pasado por el bar came by the bar.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Preguntando por la celebre, tortilla de patatas de casaisa y manu.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
So they were asking about, or asking for the famous tortilla de patatas, the famous Spanish omelette de casaisa y manu of the house. So we've got celebre here. That's not the usual word for famous.
Pablo
No, pero funciona de manera similar. La celebre tortilla, la famosa tortilla. El celebre actor, la celebre actress.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
So it is invariable. Okay, let's continue.
Pablo
El italiano esmidioma favorito. Adoro, escucarlo. Ilos italiano son siempre tan simpaticos que no epo did largo y tendido.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Okay, so el italiano es mi idioma favorito.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Italian is my favorite language.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Adoro escutarlo.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
I love listening to it. The lo referring back to el italiano.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Y los italianos son siempre Tan simpaticos.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
And Italians are always so nice, so friendly.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Que no e podido evitar charlar conedios.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Largo y tendido that I wasn't able to avoid. I couldn't help but have a long, relaxed chat with them.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Largo y tendido.
Pablo
Me an contado que ha vian visitado la catedral yan andurreado por las calles del casco historico. Des devien temprano.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
This was a new word for me.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Andurre.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
It's a lovely word, see, but basically it's the idea of to kind of wander about the streets without having any kind of fixed plan or anything like that.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Andorriar or. Andorriar or callejayar.
Pablo
Calle, esagto, callejear.
Spanish Cafe Participant
And the word calle is in there, of course.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
So me and contado, they told me that they visited the cathedral, but that they had visited the cathedrals plus perfect.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Por las calles del casco historico.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
And they had been wandering around the streets of the old town. Desde bien temprano since quite early in the morning.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Asique veni con bastante ambre.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
So they were coming literally with some hunger, with quite a bit of hunger. So they were quite hungry.
Pablo
Unos piedierombino yotros cerveza.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
So to drink some ordered wine and others beer.
Pablo
Despues de cavar con seis pinchos de tortilla. Un arracion de croquetas. Yotra de en saladilla rusa. Empezamos hablar de comida, comida italiana y espanola. Meanchivado chiati. No te gusta mucho la en saladilla rusa.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Thank you.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Yes. Russian salad. Literally, it's not my favorite, I have to say, but maybe I've had. I've had bad experiences.
Pablo
Like.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Let's just hold off. Hold off there. So it's basically a salad of potatoes and vegetables. So things like peas and carrots and.
Pablo
Peppers and tuna, boiled egg.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
But for me, the key thing about.
Spanish Cafe Participant
La in saladilla rusa is the mayonnaise.
Pablo
Una marinera estibica de la sona de murcia. Una marinera is bien. And una rosquilla.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Okay.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
I mean, I'm already hungry by the looks of this sentence, but now you're making me even more hungry.
Spanish Cafe Participant
So despuesta cavar con seis pinchos de tortilla.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
After finishing off six portions of tortilla or unaracion de croquetas, a portion of croquet well, croquettes.
Spanish Cafe Participant
They're croquetas de jamon or croquetas de poggio y otra de ensaladilla rusa empe hablad de comida.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
We started talking about food comida italiana y espanola, both Italian and Spanish food.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Pablo, una pregunta cuales la diferencia para nuestros olientes entre un pincho perfecto.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
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Spanish Cafe Participant
So they were amazed Estaban maravillados por el sabor by the flavor ila textura.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
And the texture de la tortilla.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Por la reyzeta.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
So they asked me for the recipe. A quick question. Could we have said here, asique me pideron la receta?
Pablo
Si podreamos de filo, pero.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
So when you're using pedir, you're almost asking for something to be given to you physically. And if we had the recipe written down, then yes, we could indeed hand that over. But here they're just asking about it.
Pablo
Una de las mujeres digo que lomas importante siempre hera la cocinera y bromeo di siendo que de via visitar Italia paracothinar le sundia la tortilla.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Okay, so una de las mujeres. One of the women.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Que lomasimportante said.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
That the most important thing siempre always era la cocinera was the cook I and she joked di siendo che de.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Via visitar Italia that I should visit Italy para cocinales un dia la tortilla AI.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
I should visit Italy one day to.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Cook the tortilla for them there.
Pablo
Perfecto, Mark. Muy bien cual fue mi sor presa cuando descubri quieran denardo.
Spanish Cafe Participant
So cuel fue mi sor presa.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Literally. What was my surprise, or imagine my surprise cuando descubri when I discovered que heran de nardo that they were from.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Nardo un pequeno pueblo del Salento Italiano.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
A small town in Italy's Salento region.
Spanish Cafe Participant
En el que passe mi luna de.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Miel in which I spent my honeymoon. Gia mas de renti cincoanos more than 25 years ago.
Spanish Cafe Participant
So, Gianni y Antonell una pareja encantadora. A lovely couple. Me hablaron te lotel de susobrino.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
They told Me or they talked to me about their nephew's hotel. So today, encuanto e llegado a casa. As soon as I got home, le diczo ami marido. I said to my husband, que n.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Agosto that in August deveriamos revivir noestra luna de mil.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
We should relive our honeymoon in August.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Yeah.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Cece, quick question.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Encuanto e geado a casa?
Coffee Break Spanish Host
So here we're seeing a perfect tense. Now, perhaps in Latin America that would have been a preterite. However, the reason it's perfect here is because of that oi that just came before. It's linked to the present. It's something that happened, you know, in the very recent past. We could also see encwanto with the preterite in other situations, particularly telling a.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Story in Kwanto Diego as soon as.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
He got there, blah, blah, blah. Okay, lovely word.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Podamos hacerlo.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
And you'll notice that that's a subjunctive following alerda. So I hope we can do it. Let's hope we can do it. Fingers crossed we can do it.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Ojala.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Sometimes it's quite tricky to translate just in this kind of idea of, oh, fingers crossed we can do it. Hopefully we'll be able to do it. And hopefully, now that we've gone through all of the language in it, look out for the things that we've discussed.
Spanish Cafe Guest
Scenes from the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe Capitulo nueve Oy el cielo esta muya. Solutions Me an contado que ha bian visitado la catedral yan andureado por las calles del casco historico des devien temprano asi quebenian combastante ambre para bever unos piderombino yotros cerveza despues de a cabar con seis pinchos de tortilla. Un arracion de croquetas iotra de en sala de lla rusa estavan Mara Villa dos por el sabor y la textura de la tortilla asique me preguntarum por la reseta una de las mujeres dijo quelo masimportante siemprera la cocinera ibro meo di siendo que de via visitar Italia paraco finarles un dia la tortilla.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
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Pablo
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Coffee Break Spanish Host
You have some homework for next week with our listeners. We would like you to find some.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Tortilla espanola in your local Spanish restaurant and determine whether it's con or sin cebolla.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
Si, si.
Spanish Cafe Participant
Vencanta astra proxima.
Pablo
Adios.
Coffee Break Spanish Host
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Podcast Summary: Coffee Break Spanish
Episode: CBS Scenes 1.09 | Una visita de recuerdos
Release Date: May 29, 2025
Host/Author: Coffee Break Languages
In Episode 1.09 of Coffee Break Spanish, titled Una visita de recuerdos ("A Visit of Memories"), listeners are immersed in a lively interaction set within the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe. This episode continues the journey for absolute beginners, blending engaging storytelling with practical language lessons that gradually increase in complexity. The host, along with recurring characters like Pablo and various Spanish Cafe Participants, guides learners through authentic conversations, providing detailed explanations of grammar, vocabulary, and cultural nuances.
The episode unfolds in the bustling environment of the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe, where patrons and staff engage in everyday dialogues that serve as the foundation for language learning. The central narrative revolves around Spanish speakers discussing topics such as weather, food preferences, cultural experiences, and personal anecdotes.
Key Scenes:
Weather Discussion ([00:05:38] - [00:07:39]): The conversation begins with a weather update, describing a clear blue sky despite the chilly mornings.
Food Conversations ([00:14:02] - [00:16:22]): The dialogue shifts to a debate about adding onions to the traditional Spanish tortilla de patatas, highlighting differing culinary preferences.
Cultural Exchange ([00:23:06] - [00:24:33]): The story deepens as Italian guests share their admiration for Spanish cuisine and discuss visiting the historic streets and cathedrals, intertwining personal memories with language lessons.
Throughout the episode, the host meticulously breaks down Spanish sentences to elucidate grammatical structures and vocabulary usage. Key language points include:
Adjective Agreement ([02:23] - [09:52]):
Use of Subjunctive vs. Indicative ([05:30] - [06:35]):
Perfect Tense vs. Preterite ([23:40] - [24:07]):
Vocabulary Enrichment:
1. Culinary Preferences:
2. Cultural Interactions:
3. Personal Anecdotes:
4. Practical Language Tips:
Adjective Agreement:
Subjunctive Usage:
Cultural Reflection:
Personal Story:
Episode 1.09 of Coffee Break Spanish successfully intertwines engaging storytelling with comprehensive language instruction, making learning Spanish both enjoyable and practical. By situating lessons within the relatable context of a Spanish cafe, the hosts provide listeners with tangible examples of everyday conversations, cultural exchanges, and personal anecdotes that facilitate deeper understanding and retention of the language.
Listeners are not only exposed to grammatical concepts and vocabulary but are also encouraged to apply their knowledge through interactive assignments, such as exploring local Spanish eateries. This holistic approach ensures that learners can connect the dots between language structure and real-world usage, paving the way for effective communication with native Spanish speakers.
For those seeking to further enhance their Spanish proficiency, the episode also highlights additional resources available through Coffee Break Languages' online courses, offering a more immersive and detailed learning experience.
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