CBS 2.01 | The present tense
Coffee Break Spanish
Radio Lingua Network
4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2010
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Hello and welcome to another season of Coffee Break Spanish! In level 1 we concentrated on learning useful words and phrases for a whole range of situations you’re likely to encounter on a trip to a Spanish-speaking part of the world. However, to a certain extent we’ve been concentrating on set phrases. In level 2 it’s now time to look more deeply at how the language is constructed, and you’ll learn to create the language yourself.
Episode 1 introduces the idea of verbs and you’ll learn to conjugate a verb in its six forms. You’ll be talking about what you do at the weekend, and answering the question ¿Qué haces durante el fin de semana?. Please note that lesson 1 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 201 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 | Olai bianbini knows that copyright Spanish. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome back to copyright Spanish. |
| 0:13.6 | This is lesson 41 and is the first lesson in level 2 of our course. |
| 0:18.4 | Level 2 in a sense is going back to the beginning but looking at things in a grammatical way. |
| 0:23.5 | So you're going to be learning how to construct phrases yourself rather than just concentrating |
| 0:27.1 | on learning and memorising phrases, but in a sense we've done until now. |
| 0:32.3 | Today we're going to be looking at conjugating regular verbs in this case, the regular |
| 0:37.4 | AR verbs in the present tense. |
| 0:39.8 | So you'll be learning the six forms of the verb, the job part, the two parts, the |
| 0:44.7 | el or e-dya part, the no-sotras part, the bo-sotras part and the e-jos part. |
| 0:52.6 | And that will only much more sense when you listen to the lesson. |
| 0:55.3 | So I hope you enjoy the lesson. |
| 1:02.0 | So to begin with in this lesson I'm going to ask you a question, cara. |
| 1:05.9 | It's a question that you've not probably heard before but something that you'll probably |
| 1:11.4 | understand if you can piece together the various parts of the sentence. |
| 1:15.2 | So the question is, que haces durante el fin de semana? |
| 1:26.3 | Now let's see if you can work out what that means from the different words included |
| 1:30.2 | in this sentence. |
| 1:32.0 | First of all the word que. |
| 1:34.0 | What? |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah, that's what. |
| 1:37.0 | So que haces, now aces going by the spelling rules that you're already aware of. |
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