Coffee Break Spanish Magazine Episode 102
Coffee Break Spanish
Radio Lingua Network
4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2012
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
This is the second episode of our Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this edition:
- Laura introduces us to the expression por si las moscas;
- JP and Nahyeli answer Steve’s question about using the verb fingir, meaning “to pretend”
- and in our interviews, Alba asks ¿Qué es para ti un buen profesor?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the free edition of the Coffee Break Spanish magazine, and it's the 10th of October |
| 0:05.0 | 2012. |
| 0:07.0 | It's Daises Utano Coffee Break Spanish, you're listening to the Coffee Break Spanish |
| 0:14.2 | magazine, my name is Mark and I'm your host for the show, I'll be getting you through |
| 0:18.0 | this episode, helping you understand all their fantastic content. |
| 0:22.0 | This week we'll be joining Alba on the streets of Barcelona, where she is talking to |
| 0:25.6 | Pazosmá, about un buen profesor, what makes a good teacher. |
| 0:30.3 | Laura's idiomatic phrase this week is por si les moscas, we'll find out more about that, |
| 0:35.5 | and we'll find out what JP and Naillie have for us in our CUNY Spanish section. |
| 0:40.6 | All of this and more coming up in this episode of Coffee Break Spanish! |
| 0:48.3 | We've had some fantastic feedback already from last week's first episode of the Coffee |
| 0:52.4 | Break Spanish magazine. |
| 0:54.3 | Some of you have been wondering exactly what level we're aiming the Coffee Break Spanish |
| 0:58.9 | magazine at. |
| 0:59.9 | Well, in fact, we're actually trying to target both intermediate and advanced learners |
| 1:05.0 | with the content. |
| 1:06.7 | With our interviews, sometimes we have very complicated and long answers, other times |
| 1:11.8 | our answers are much more succinct and easier to understand. |
| 1:15.8 | Equally, with our listeners' questions, it depends entirely on what the questions you |
| 1:20.9 | have asked are. |
| 1:22.6 | So last week's question was perhaps more straightforward, and this week's question involves |
| 1:27.6 | the subjunctive and it's a little more complicated. |
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