CBS 1.24 | The alphabet and staying at a campsite

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🗓️ 29 May 2009

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this week’s lesson of Coffee Break Spanish, Mark and Kara introduce the necessary language for staying on a campsite in a Spanish-speaking country, from tent hire to shower blocks! They also cover the alphabet and the variations in certain letters in different parts of the Spanish-speaking world. Please note that lesson 24 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 124 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	My name is Mark and I'm here to help you with your Spanish. In this episode, episode 24, we're going to be going camping and looking at some useful phrases that you can use in lots of situations. I hope that you enjoy the episode.
0:31.0	Now over the past few weeks we've been talking about accommodation, mainly concentrating on hotels and the type of language that you may need to book into a hotel and if you encounter any problems in the hotel.
0:43.0	As with everything that you learn in coffee but in Spanish, the kind of language that you learned in these previous programs can be reused and you might well find that phrases that you learned previously can be reused in other situations.
0:55.0	Today we're talking about the campsite and lots of the language you've already learned can be used in the campsite situation.
1:02.0	Let's first of all begin by asking, is there a campsite near here? Now the word for campsite in Spanish is Un Camping.
1:14.0	Un Camping?
1:16.0	Yeah, it's a bit strange, it's one of these words in foreign languages that's not quite right, it's based on the English word but it's really not the English word. So Un Camping is a campsite, Un Camping.
1:30.0	Now can you remember how to say around here?
1:34.0	Por aquí?
1:35.0	Por aquí, yep, and you could change it equally to near here which would be?
1:40.0	Cerca de aquí?
1:41.0	Cerca de aquí or Cerca de aquí. So how would you say is there a campsite around here?
1:48.0	I'm camping por aquí.
2:02.0	I'm camping por aquí or I'm camping Cerca de aquí.
2:10.0	Perfecto.
2:11.0	There we're going to learn a few words that are associated with the campsite to begin with, the verb, to camp or to go camping.
2:19.0	It's a campar.
2:30.0	Okay, and the word for a tent very slightly between Spain and some countries in Latin America, it could either be una tienda?
2:42.0	Una tienda?
2:43.0	Una tienda and that's in fact the same word that you would use for a shop. Una tienda?
2:51.0	It comes from the fact that in the olden days shops used to be under tents. Una tienda?
2:59.0	And in some Latin American countries you may find the word una carpa used.
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