Coffee Break Spanish Espresso 010
Coffee Break Spanish
Radio Lingua Network
4.4 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2014
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this final episode of the season, Mark discusses the Sorteo de Navidad, the Spanish Christmas lottery known as El Gordo. In the Subjunctive of the Week segment, Fernanda talks about es bueno que… and our festive Quotation of the Week focuses on a quotation about the Christmas spirit.
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| 0:00.0 | Coffee Break Spanish is Presil, Episode 10 |
| 0:11.2 | Hola todos y bienvenidos a Coffee Break Spanish, this is your Coffee Break Spanish |
| 0:15.4 | is Presil in which we are bringing you a quick shot of Spanish to help you keep thinking |
| 0:20.0 | about the language on a regular basis. |
| 0:22.6 | This is in fact the final episode in this first season of a espresso, but don't worry, |
| 0:27.4 | we'll be back again soon with more. |
| 0:29.3 | Now let's get straight on with the episode. |
| 0:31.9 | Coffee Break Spanish |
| 0:37.4 | Now as we record this episode of this espresso, it's the 22nd of December and this is an |
| 0:43.8 | interesting day in Spain, it's the day of El Gordo, which literally means the fat one |
| 0:50.1 | and it's traditionally the biggest lottery in the year in Spain, El Chorteo de Navidad. |
| 0:57.3 | By the time this episode goes live, the lottery will have been drawn and some lucky people |
| 1:01.6 | in various parts of the country will be celebrating even more than usual this Christmas. |
| 1:06.7 | This week's photo is of an advert for El Chorteo de Navidad and that's the official name |
| 1:11.4 | for El Gordo, however it is known as El Gordo by most people. |
| 1:15.9 | El Chorteo de Navidad has been running since 1812 and a ticket for this lottery costs |
| 1:21.7 | 200 euros, however it is also possible to purchase UNETIMO a tenth of a ticket and therefore |
| 1:28.4 | when a tenth of the price, it's often the case that groups of family members, friends |
| 1:33.0 | or what colleagues buy a ticket together and then share the price. |
| 1:37.5 | You see the end of the swear, take let off. |
| 1:39.5 | As usual, if you're listening to this episode on the podcast app of your mobile device, |
| 1:43.9 | you should be able to see the photo if not head over to coffeebreakspanishespresso.com. |
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