CBS 2.38 | Introduction to the subjunctive in a tapas bar
Coffee Break Spanish
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4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2011
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week María-José and Andrew discuss their plans for the following week when Andrew’s friend arrives in Spain and María-José will be attending a conference in Madrid. In this episode we introduce the concept of the subjunctive, something which often confuses language learners. You’ll learn how to use the subjunctive with cuando when it refers to the future, eg. “when I get back from Madrid…” – cuando vuelva de Madrid. Please note that lesson 38 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 238 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 | The one of the Azte talistas, Espero, Guestes muy bien. |
| 0:13.4 | You might have heard me saying that Espero, Guestes muy bien. |
| 0:17.6 | It's not the normal Estas bien, it's a different type of verb and it's actually the type |
| 0:22.7 | of verb that we're going to be looking at in this lesson. |
| 0:25.6 | Let's listen 78 and we're focusing on the present subjunctive it had to happen sooner or later. |
| 0:32.7 | But it's not as bad as you think. |
| 0:35.6 | We'll hopefully convince you of this in the course of this lesson. |
| 0:44.7 | So as we join Maria Jose and Andrew this week, they're having dinner in a restaurant |
| 0:50.0 | in a tapas bar and they're talking about the tapas that they're eating and also about |
| 0:55.1 | what's coming up this week in their lives. |
| 0:58.7 | Now things do seem to have moved on a little in their relationship as you'll probably |
| 1:02.5 | pick up from the conversation. |
| 1:03.7 | Have a listen and the one thing I'd like you to listen out for this time in addition |
| 1:08.7 | obviously to trying to understand as much as possible is how you see that's life in |
| 1:14.4 | Spanish. |
| 1:15.9 | So Karen, I'll be asking you about that at the end of this conversation. |
| 1:19.6 | Okay. |
| 1:21.6 | ¿Hay que ricas están esas cambas? |
| 1:24.3 | Sí, ¿cómo se llaman? |
| 1:26.1 | Son cambas al agillo. |
| 1:28.1 | ¿Y esto qué es? |
| 1:30.3 | Esto es tortilla. |
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