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Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
Scenes from the coffee break Spanish Cafe Season 2 lesson 2.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Hola marquetales.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
Welcome back to Scenes from the Coffee Break Cafe where we are visiting once again the Cafe de Issa Emanue and we are experiencing a scene in the life of the cafe and all that happens in there. So as usual, we're going to listen to the text. We'll listen a little slow first and then we'll talk about the language and then afterwards we'll listen to the text again at a normal speed and. Okay, let's see if we find out anything more about that plan in today's chapter.
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Los domingos son dias bonitos tienen algo special la gente parece mace serena y esta todo en calma suelen venir los clientes de siempre padres que treen associos a desayonar churros con chocolate senores que d' is frutan de un buen cafe legendo el periodico tranquilamente y el grupo de infermeras quesiemprese pasa hazaludar y atomar algorapido albulber de misa Nati, Margarita y Aurora settlement un vermu juntas antes derce akasa para terminar de preparar la comida los chicos de oro apparezen por latarde para supartida de cartas Porlo general, los domingos medan pas son dias tranquilos sinembargo hoy e vueltuacasa con sentimientos en contrados a la seis de la tarde. Cuando el local estaba practicamen te bacio anjegado dos chicos de veenti poco sanos charlaban nerviosos interrumpiendose constantemente pideron una Coca Cola y una cerveza minutos despues. Diego, un tercer chico atraves del cristal pudeber que lu accompania una chica que paseaba a superro sedes pidieron cunun beso and los los pas juntos mas de unaved creo que vanzalendo mucho tiempo podilla oirle uno de los chicos hablaba bastanto estaba ne revioso y emocionado el otru parecia mastranquilo. No ha bien pasado ni tres minutos cuando uno deyos ledijo tio que no san da de la plaza para jugar en el equipo de football italiano. El chabal solto un grito de allegria. Pero y mediante sequedo oji platico sara que le boy adecir azara. Quesigo entendi quesara erasunovia la miisma chica que habia estado paseando al perro. El pobrechico estaba entre alegre y driste. Pero entra dos amigos logran animarlo las relaciones adistancia son po sibles. Sabes.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
Nothing really about Isabel's plan, no, with Miguel and Elena, but maybe that will come back another time. But some really interesting words in this one. There's one word in particular I want to pick up on, but we'll get to that. Let's go through line by line.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Los domingos son dias bonitos tien en algo especial y differente.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
So Sundays are lovely days. Tienen algo especial. They have something special y differente and different about them. I think we'd add in English. They've got something different about them. There's something different about them. So I always write a Monday email on a Sunday and that's a Monday email full of language learning wisdom and tips and so do just sign up for that coffeebreaklanguages.com newsletter if you would like to sign up and receive our Monday epistle.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Bueno seguir la gente parece mace Serena y estatodo en calma so people seem calmer.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
Macerena y estatodo en calma. And everything is calm. Everything's at peace.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Suelembenir los clientes de siempre.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
So the clientes de siempre. The usual customers tend to come. I love that verb. Soler Suelen benir. They usually. They tend to come. The usual customers.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Que train a susijos a de salros conchagolate.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
So parents bringing their children to have churros with chocolate for breakfast.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Senor, es que diz frutan de un buen cafe leyendo el periodamente.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
So men, perhaps older men. Yeah. Who enjoy a good coffee while reading the newspaper peacefully. And the usual group of nurses que se pasas who drops in to say hello y tomara algor rapido. And to grab something quickly, something to eat quickly.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Al bolber de misa Nati Margarita yaudora setoman umber mu juntas antes de ircasa para terminar de preparar la comida.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
Okay, so al borber de misa. So on their way back from mass, Nati Margarita y Aurora. So these are her three older ladies. So this is a vermouth, like an aperitif. Juntas together. Okay, so they have this vermouth. Vermouth. Vermouth in a Spanish accent together. Antes de ircasa para terminade prepara la comida. So before going home to finish preparing.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
La comida lunch, same los chicos de oro. Apares emporlatarde para supartida de cartas.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
So the chicos de oro are our golden boys, the group of old friends. Aparecin. They show up por la tarde in the afternoon para supartida de cartas for their card game.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Porlo, general, los domingos medan paz son dias tranquilos.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
Sorry, porlo general. In general, los domingos medan pas. They literally give me peace. Son dias tranquilos. They're calm days.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Sinembargo. Oy, e vuelto a casa. Consentimientos encontrados.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
So this is interesting because there's a nice expression here. Sinembargo. However, hoy e vuelto a casa. I went home. I came home. Con sentimentos encontrados. Literally with met feelings. But I think it's mixed feelings. Isn't it.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Bittersweet or al wagri dulce como.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
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Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
Okay, let's continue on with our text and find out what else happens in this chapter.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
A la seis de la tarde cuando el local estava practicamente vasillo anegado dos chicos de veenti pocos anos.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
Okay, great. Great expression. So at six in the evening cuando e local estaba practicamentivacio when the place was practically empty and yegado dos chicos de veintibocos anos two guys in their 20s. Would that be like early 20s? In their 20s? Early twenties?
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Charlava nerviosos interrumpiendo se constante.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
A Spanish person Interrupting someone? No, This is something that Pablo and I talk about regularly. The fact that the Spanish, particularly Pablo, interrupts quite often, but meant with love. Okay, so they were chatting nervously. Inter rumpiendo se constante. Constantly interrupting each other. So they ordered a Coke and a beer.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Minotos despues Diego un tercer chico.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
So a few minutes later, Diego un tercer chico. A third guy arrived.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
A trave del cristal. Pude ver que lo a companaba una chica Que paseaba a superro seve spideron con umbeso and los labios.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
Oh, okay. So a travest del cristal. Through the glass, through the window, pude ver I could see, and it's interesting there that it's a pretra. It's pu de ver. At that moment I could see que lua campagnava una tsica. That he was accompanied by a girl. That a girl was accompanying him. Que pasiaba a superro who was walking her dog. Sedespidiero con hu en los lavios. They said goodbye with a kiss on the lips. Now, I think we have to be a little bit specific here, because in Spanish, conumbeso would be a very natural way for friends to say goodbye. But here it's specified conumbeso los lavios. And I think in English, we would probably just translate that they said goodbye with a kiss, because we don't really need to specify. It's on the list.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Mucho diempo.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
So Isabel, who does like to keep tabs on everything that's passing, that's happening in the barrio, she says, los evisto pasiendo por el barrio juntos masti unaved. So I've seen them walking together in the neighbourhood more than once. Creo que j varsaliendo mucho tiempo. I think they've been going out for a long time. And this is that lovely expression jevar plus the gerund to talk about how long something has been happening for. In the Spotlight video. So that's the topic of our Spotlight video for this episode. Great. Okay.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
It's a great expressionado.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
So I could hear podia ojir. And that's different from pude when she was looking through the window and at that moment she saw it. So podia IR lo que de c. And I could hear what they were saying. Porque uno de nos chico habla mastantialto. Because one of the boys was talking quite loudly. Estaba nervioso. He was nervous. Y emocionado and excited.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
El otro parecia mastranquilo.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
The other seemed calmer.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
No havian pasado ni tres minutos. Cuando uno de ellos le vijo tio que no sandado la plaza para juare en el equipo de football italiano.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
Wow. Okay, so no ha bien pasado ni tres minutos. Barely three minutes had passed cuando uno de ellos le rijo. When one of them said, which is like mates or something like that. They've given us a sport to play in the Italian football team. Wow. Okay, let's find out more about this. Yeah. So like, not even three minutes. We've got. The knee is separated by the even. But if it's. If we start with the no habi impassado ni tres minutos, we need the no in there. But if we start with the ni tres minutos, we don't need the no.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Effective. Amente.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
Muy bien.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
El chabal sold un grito de allegria. Pero in mediatamente sequedo oj Platico.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
What a brilliant word. So el chaval the. The guy, the lad solto un grito de allegria. He let out a cry of joy, Pero in mediatamente, but immediately, sequedo ojiblatico. He was left gobsmacked or something like that.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Oji platico.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
Nice. Okay, that is brilliant. Eyes literally were his biggest plates. Brilliant. Okay, so why exactly were his eyes as big as plates?
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Sara que le voya de sira? Sara dijo entonces Sara.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
What am I going to tell Sara?
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
He said, por la conversacion que siggio entendi que sara erasunovia. La misma chica que av estado pasando alberro.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
So from the conversation that followed. Por la conversacion quesiglio entendi que sara erasunovia. I understood that Sara was his girlfriend. La misma chica que havia estado pasiando al perro. The same girl who had been walking the dog. It's just worth mentioning that whole idea of pasiar al perro. We use a personal A for the dog. It's a member of the family. Okay.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
El pobreco estava entre allegre y triste. Pero entres dos amigos lo grado.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
So the poor boy was both happy and sad. He was between happiness and sadness. But with the help of his two friends, they managed to cheer him up. So one of them said, las relationes long distance relationships, they're possible Sabes, you know, Seems more Spanish. Okay. So after a few moments of tension, the boy cheered up. Y los tres empesaron hace nuevas. And the three of them started to celebrate the las buenas nuevas. The good news, literally the good new ones. Could we say las buenas nuevas noticias. Right. So some of the things that we've covered in this, we've seen Soler plus the infinitive. I love that kind of construction. We've seen al plus infinitive as well. To express the idea of on doing something, we had that wonderful word ojiplatiko. And what else? Some colloquial words as well. Listen out for these as we listen through to the text again, but this time at a more normal speaking speed.
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Los domingos sun dias bonitos tienen algo special y differente la gente parece mace Serena y esta todo en calma suelembenir los clientes de siempre padres que trana susijos adesayunar churros con chocolate. Senores que diz frutan de un buen cafe legendo el periodico tranquilamente yel grupo de infermeras de siempre que se pasa passa ludar yatomar algora, albul verde, misa Nati, Margarita y Aurora Settlement. Los chicos de oro apparecen por la tarde para supartida de cartas. Porlo general, los domingos medan paz son dias tranquilos sin embargo. Oye, vuelto a casa. Concentimentos encontrados ala seis de la tarde cuando elocale estaba practica mentevacio Anjecado dos chicos de veintipoco. Diego, un tercer chico atraves del cristal. Pudeber que lua compa una chica que pace aba super. Lose visto paciando por el barrio juntos mas de unaved. Creo que jeban saliento mucho tiempo podilla. Oy, lo quedec uno de los chicos hablaba bastante alto Estaba el otro parecia mas tranquilo. No ha biam pasado ni tres minutos. Juan, dono deyos lejo tio que no san da dola plaza para jugar en el equipo de football italiano. El chabal solto ungrido de allegria. Pero in media. Estado pasando al perro.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
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Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
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Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
Perfecto. Pues, muchas gracias. Pablo Nada.
Coffee Break Spanish Co-host (Pablo)
Muchas gracias.
Coffee Break Spanish Host (Mark)
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Podcast: Coffee Break Spanish
Hosts: Mark (Host) & Pablo (Co-host)
Episode Date: January 29, 2026
This episode transports listeners to another day in the fictional Café de Isa y Manuel. The hosts, Mark and Pablo, guide us through a narrated scene describing the unique atmosphere of Sundays at the café, introducing new vocabulary and cultural insights along the way. The second chapter focuses on the apparently tranquil routine of Sundays at the café, only for a bittersweet episode among a group of young friends to break the calm. The usual blend of language breakdowns, idiomatic expressions, and host banter makes it an engaging and practical lesson for improving Spanish comprehension and cultural understanding.
[02:44–06:28] Scene Narrative (Slow Reading):
Language Insight:
[06:28–10:31] Scene Narrative & Language Breakdown:
[13:43–23:48] Scene Narrative (Continued) & Detailed Language Analysis:
Expressions Explored:
The hosts often pause to explain not just vocabulary, but how Spanish expressions differ from English equivalents.
Mark frequently remarks on how useful the discussed constructions and vocabulary are for intermediate learners.
They encourage listeners to sign up for extra resources and the Monday newsletter for further language immersion.
This episode immerses listeners in a tender, vivid Sunday at a Spanish café, expertly weaving together everyday vocabulary, nuanced expressions, and cultural habits. The core storyline—a group of young friends navigating joy, shock, and impending change as one is invited to play in an Italian football team, potentially leaving his girlfriend behind—offers a relatable situation rich in emotional and linguistic takeaway. Throughout, Mark and Pablo break down expressions, clarify subtle grammatical points, and inject warmth and humor into each teaching moment. The discussion is full of mini-lessons valuable for intermediate Spanish learners and is peppered with authentic, practical insights from both Spanish and English perspectives.
If you love language, culture, and thoughtful storytelling, this lesson is both a language boost and cultural window—perfect for your next coffee break.
Skip to the timestamps above for specific segments, and don’t miss the brilliant discussion of "ojiplático" at [20:01]! For further resources and deeper dives into these language points, the hosts recommend their online platform and newsletter.