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🗓️ 16 October 2009
⏱️ 22 minutes
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After a few weeks of server problems, we’re back with another episode of Coffee Break Spanish recorded in Santiago de la Ribera in eastern Spain. This week Mark and Kara go shopping for postcards and shoes. Please note that lesson 36 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 136 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. This is lesson 36 and in today's lesson we are going |
| 0:17.2 | to be going shopping. Well Karra is going to be shopping and we are going to be buying |
| 0:20.8 | some postcards. We will be putting into practice the language that we learned back in lesson |
| 0:25.4 | 25 and 26. So we will you find this useful for shopping in a Spanish speaking country. |
| 0:36.6 | We're going to begin with a conversation that was recorded in an estanco. |
| 0:41.1 | Un estanco. Can you remember what un estanco was? |
| 0:46.2 | Un estanco is at tobacanists and that's where you can buy stamps and also in this case postcards. |
| 0:55.7 | We'll then be continuing our shopping trip with the visit to the shoe shop where Karra and her |
| 1:01.2 | mum decided to buy some shoes. Let's begin first of all in the estanco and we will listen to the |
| 1:09.0 | conversation as usual right the way through and then I'll start to split it up and talk about |
| 1:14.0 | the various aspects of language contained in this conversation. So get ready to listen. |
| 1:25.4 | Thank you very well. Do you want to go shopping for the cards? |
| 1:36.1 | Yes, please. And that's all? I also need them. Where? |
| 1:42.2 | One for Canada, two for Great Britain and one for Spain. |
| 1:47.2 | Very well. Do you need anything else? No, no, it's already there. |
| 1:51.3 | So how much of that did you understand? Hopefully you picked up quite a few of the words and phrases |
| 2:08.2 | in that conversation. We're going to listen to the conversation now in parts and you can see the |
| 2:14.2 | constructions used in this conversation when I explain them. Let's listen to the beginning of |
| 2:19.3 | the conversation. Hi. Do you have postcards? Yes, they are on the left side of the |
| 2:26.2 | revistas. Thank you. So I've asked the question. Do you have postcards? |
| 2:32.9 | Let's listen once more to the answer. Yes, they are on the left side of the revistas. |
| 2:38.2 | No, that was quite quick. So I'll see them more slowly. Listen carefully. |
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