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LearnCraft Spanish

247: Desayunar, Almorzar, Cenar, Viajar.

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9635 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Why does Spanish have so many different verbs for eating? Today we'll talk about "having breakfast", "having lunch", and "having dinner" in Spanish. We'll also explore the verb Viajar, which means "to travel", and we'll get lots of spoken practice using these verbs in real sentence contexts.

Practice all of today's Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/247

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0:00.0

Wei haemos.

0:04.3

Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.

0:09.1

I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

0:14.0

Today we're going to learn our last four verbs on our journey to essential fluency.

0:19.2

Let's start with three verbs that relate to eating. Remember back in episode 234, we learned the nouns for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. For example, we're going to bring something for lunch. We're going to bring something for lunch. We're going to bring something for the emuarso.

0:41.2

But there's a use of these words

0:43.5

that exists in English

0:45.2

that doesn't exist in Spanish.

0:47.8

In English, we talk

0:49.2

about having breakfast,

0:51.2

having lunch, and so on.

0:53.5

For example, no thanks, I just had breakfast. In Spanish,

0:59.4

there's actually a verb for having breakfast, having lunch, and so on. The good news is that these

1:05.5

verbs are actually closely related to the names of the meals. So, for example, the verb for to breakfast is

1:13.3

desajunar, which is obviously closely related to desajuno. So here's the Spanish version of,

1:21.1

no thanks, I just had breakfast.

1:25.5

No, thanks. Acabo to desajunar.

1:30.7

The verb

1:31.8

desajunar is conjugated exactly like

1:34.8

Ablar, so it's pretty easy to use.

1:38.2

Here are a couple of more examples.

1:40.9

I had breakfast at that cafe.

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