CBS 2.30 | Making a phone call in Spanish

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🗓️ 30 December 2010

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In lesson 30 of Coffee Break Spanish we’re dealing with one of the trickiest things to do in a foreign language: make telephone calls. When you can’t see the person to whom you are speaking, it makes things that bit more difficult! In this episode you’ll learn the standard phrases used when making phone calls and get some practice by listening to Mark and Kara. Again, this lesson uses previously learned language structures to create phrases in the language. Please note that lesson 30 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 230 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 going to be looking at making phone calls in Spanish. That is quite tricky because
0:21.3	you can't see the other person that you're talking to. So hopefully you'll find this
0:25.7	less and useful. Let's start off with looking at some useful vocabulary for talking about
0:35.6	phones. First of all the word for phone or telephone itself. El teléfono.
0:41.4	El teléfono. Karah, what can you tell me about that word based on the pronunciation
0:47.3	or stress of that word? El teléfono. There's an accent on the second E. Exactly because
0:54.4	what can you tell me about the standard pronunciation or the standard stress on Spanish words,
0:58.9	think of words like cantado, Pedro, esta. The stress is on the second last row. Exactly. The
1:09.4	second last syllable is so if there was no accent on teléfono, it would be teléfono, but that's
1:15.5	wrong. So it's teléfono. So your phone number or my phone number, let's just say the phone number
1:23.8	to begin with. El número de teléfono. El número de teléfono. Can you tell me anything about
1:32.5	the spelling of número? There's an accent on the E. Yeah, because otherwise it would be
1:36.9	número, número, which is wrong again. So your number, your phone number, your number
1:44.4	de teléfono. To número de teléfono. Okay, that's obviously your when we're being
1:51.8	in-form to número de teléfono, but if you want to be formal, then you would say su número
1:58.2	de teléfono. Su número de teléfono. And my phone number would be? Mi número de teléfono.
2:07.4	Mi número de teléfono. Mi número de teléfono. Okay, to say what is your phone number?
2:14.8	You would use the word cual. Qual es tu número de teléfono?
2:23.8	Qual es tu número de teléfono? Okay, or in using the polite form, the Usted form, what is your phone
2:33.6	number would be? Qual es su número de teléfono? Qual es su número de teléfono? Muy bien. Another word
2:40.9	that's useful to know when we're talking about phones and we're looking at the vocabulary as my
2:45.1	aspects of this first of all is marcar. Marcar. Okay, literally to mark, but when we're marking a
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