Coffee Break Spanish Magazine Episode 109
Coffee Break Spanish
Radio Lingua Network
4.4 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2012
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Join the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine team and improve your Spanish listening skills. In this edition:
- Alba asks her interviewees, ¿cuál es el mejor regalo que has recibido jamás?;
- Laura teaches us the phrases de tal palo, tal astillo, meaning “like father, like son” or “a chip off the old block”;
- and JP and Nahyeli answer listener Heather’s question about the difference between ahora and ahorita, which is particularly important in Mexican Spanish when there is a significant difference between these two words!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the free edition of the Coffee Break Spanish magazine, |
| 0:03.1 | it's the 24th of December 2012. |
| 0:10.2 | Es país escutando, Coffee Break Spanish, you're listening to the Coffee Break Spanish magazine. |
| 0:14.8 | My name is Mark and I'm your host for the show. |
| 0:17.4 | It's quite possible that you're shopping for gifts at the moment with Christmas fast approaching. |
| 0:21.5 | And this week, Alba is asking, what is the best present you've ever received? |
| 0:25.8 | Laura es frasidio madica, es de tal palo, de la stilla. |
| 0:29.9 | And you'll find out later what that means. |
| 0:32.5 | Finally, JP and Nayeli are discussing the very subtle differences |
| 0:36.6 | in Mexican Spanish between Aura and Ahorita. |
| 0:40.5 | All this and more in this week's episode of Coffee Break Spanish. |
| 1:00.6 | Cuál es el mejor regalo? |
| 1:03.5 | What is the best present best gift |
| 1:07.7 | que has recibido jamás? |
| 1:11.7 | That you have ever received. |
| 1:14.4 | Cuál es el mejor regalo que has recibido jamás? |
| 1:20.4 | Una poesía. |
| 1:23.2 | Yo el amor de mis hijos. |
| 1:28.7 | Nacer. |
| 1:35.7 | El juego de Skylanders de la Wii. |
| 1:40.9 | Un viaje a Venezuela. |
| 1:42.9 | Yo, un viaje a Londres. |
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