CBS 2.34 | Conditional tense in a café setting

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🗓️ 15 February 2011

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In lesson 34 we’re continuing our ‘soap opera’. This week María-José is taking her friend to a restaurant, so we’ll be revisiting the language we learned previously in the course. We’ll also take the opportunity to look at the conditional tense or ‘mood’. Please note that lesson 34 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 234 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	Alright, Buenos dias, catalistas. Welcome to Lesson 74 of Coffee Break Spanish. In this
0:14.7	lesson, Andrew and Maria Jose are in a cafe and they're ordering drinks. We'll be looking
0:20.0	at the conditional tense, seeing things like megal estaria I would like. I hope you enjoy
0:26.6	this lesson.
0:33.7	Now the dialogue in this lesson is actually fairly straightforward and we really wanted
0:38.4	to use this one just to introduce the concept of the conditional tense or the conditional
0:43.2	mood. Have a listen to the dialogue and Karad let you to try and identify what does
0:47.8	Maria Jose order and what exactly does the dish contain which is suggested to Maria Jose
0:53.7	and her friend by the waiter.
0:57.1	Hola, ¿se puede comer aquí? Sí, ¿se puede comer aquí? ¿Quieren una mesa para
1:02.5	dos personas? Sí, una mesa para dos, por favor. ¿Nos trae la carta, por favor?
1:09.7	Claro, aquí tiene. Gracias. Quiero un boquedillo de jamón y queso y una coca-cola-light,
1:19.0	por favor. Algo más. Sí, mi amiga quiere una ensalada de pollo y una ración de patatas
1:26.9	fritas. Y para beber. Una botella de agua. Con gas o sin gas.
1:34.4	Con gas, por favor. ¿Ya han probado la tortilla española? Yo sí, pero mi amiga no, nunca
1:42.8	la ha probado. Lleva huevos patatas y cebollas. ¿Le disgustaría probar un poco? Sí,
1:49.7	nos gustaría mucho, gracias. So, as I said, it is a fairly straightforward dialogue. Karad,
1:56.7	did you work out what Maria Jose ordered? I did. She ordered a ham and cheese sandwich and
2:03.6	a Thai cook. Una coca-cola-light y un boquedillo de jamón y queso, jamón, ham and queso
2:12.4	cheese. Muy bien. Now, there was a dish suggested to Maria Jose and her friend by the waiter.
2:19.0	This dish was tortilla española. And the waiter explained what it contains, quileva.
2:26.8	It has eggs, potatoes and onions. Exactly, huevos, eggs, patatas, potatoes, sometimes known
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