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Coffee Break Spanish

CBS 2.09 | Describing people

Coffee Break Spanish

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🗓️ 25 March 2010

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This week on Coffee Break Spanish we’re taking a further look at adjectives and we’ll be doing more practice using adjectives and making them agree with the word they describe. We’ll also take a look at describing people, including talking about hair and eyes. Please note that lesson 09 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 209 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

We're continuing to look at adjectives. Last time we started looking at adjectives, but

0:18.3

this time we're going to take a further look at them in particular at certain adjectives

0:22.6

which come before the noun and when they come before the noun it changes their meaning.

0:27.7

So this won't become clearer as we listen to the episode. We'll also be talking about

0:32.5

physical descriptions of people talking about their hair, their eyes and so on. Hopefully

0:37.7

you'll enjoy this lesson.

0:44.9

So last week we looked at adjectives. Adjectives ending in O that gave feminine form ending

0:51.6

in masculine plural in us and feminine plural in us. So let's take the word blanco as

1:02.3

an example. Let's talk about a white cat, un gato blanco.

1:10.5

Un gato blanco. Okay so let's change the word and we'll talk about content. How would

1:16.1

you say the main are happy?

1:23.8

Muy bien, and you remember that that was estan. Los hombres están contentos. How would you

1:30.4

say the women are happy?

1:36.2

Las mujeres están contentas. Okay, muy bien, las mujeres están contentas. So that's o a

1:44.4

sus as adjectives. We also learned some adjectives that end in E or the sound E importante,

1:52.2

for example. So how would you say an important book?

1:58.3

Un libro importante. Un libro importante. And how would you say an intelligent woman?

2:08.7

Una mujer inteligente. Una mujer inteligente. Now how would you say mark and cara are very

2:18.6

intelligent. Mark y cara son muy inteligentes. Okay excellent you got both the verb right

2:27.9

as son from the verb ser because it's an inherent characteristic that we are both very intelligent

2:34.1

people obviously son inteligentes es ending in es, the plural form of inteligente. Muy bien,

2:44.4

now what we noticed last week is that all the adjectives that we were learning came after

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