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🗓️ 15 November 2008

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In this week’s lesson, you’ll learn how to introduce members of your family. Please note that lesson 5 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 105 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. Now one of the things that you often have to do when you're visiting a country where Spanish is spoken is
0:14.0	introduce members of your family or your friends to other people and that's what we're going to be learning in this lesson. You'll learn how to say this is my friend, this is my husband or wife and so on. I hope you enjoy the lesson.
0:31.0	Coffee Break Spanish!
0:34.0	Okay so today we're going to talk about families. When you're in holiday or you're traveling around it's sometimes one of the best ways to get to know other people to talk about your family and to practice the language which is of course as a language learner one of the things that you really should be trying to do as much as possible.
0:50.0	We're going to start by looking at the words for various members of the family. So if you can repeat after me, cara won't be repeating the words and of course you our listeners should repeat along with cara.
1:01.0	Obviously no all of these words will apply to all of you but it's a good idea to learn the words nevertheless. Let's begin with the word hermano.
1:11.0	hermano, hermano, hermano means brother, hermano, hermano, hermano.
1:24.0	Spanish very often what you can do is change the ending O to A and it becomes the feminine version so hermano becomes hermano.
1:35.0	hermano, hermano means sister, hermano, hermano, hermano, hermano, hermano, hermano, hermano, hermano, hermano, hermano.
1:51.0	So that's brother and sister, hermano, hermano.
1:55.0	Let's think about the word for mother.
2:00.0	madre.
2:05.0	This is a good word for practicing the Spanish D sound. It's not a hard D like the word dad in English. It's a softer D.
2:14.0	Listen to the difference between madre and madre.
2:19.0	madre.
2:21.0	It's almost like the T H in the word D in English but it's not quite as soft as that. If you say Z rather than D then you're nearer the sound so madre.
2:33.0	madre.
2:35.0	madre.
2:36.0	madre.
2:38.0	madre means mother.
2:41.0	madre.
2:43.0	The word for father is very similar.
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