NIS Beginners 024 - Ir de Tapas

Learn Spanish: Notes in Spanish Inspired Beginners

Ben Curtis and Marina Diez

Education, Spanish, Beginners, Learning, Learn, Language Learning, Audio, Conversation, Real

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2008

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Marina look at words and phrases connected with eating, ordering, and dealing with waiters in Spanish bars and restaruants, plus a rundown of the best Spanish tapas. See notesinspanish.com to comment and pick up the accompanying worksheet.

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0:00.0	Notes in Spanish Inspire Picineers 24.
0:04.0	I'm de tapas.
0:06.0	Hello, Marina.
0:07.0	How do?
0:08.0	I'm very well.
0:09.0	Ben.
0:10.0	You, how are you?
0:11.0	Very well, too.
0:12.0	Today we're going to follow up on another one of the suggestions that was sent in by quite a few people
0:17.0	who requested that we talk a bit more about food and tapas and how to get by
0:22.8	in a bar, for example. So, Ired Tapas is the title of today's podcast, which really means
0:29.4	to go out and have some tapas, basically. But before we get on to today's topic, as usual,
0:36.1	we'd like to do a quick review of three key phrases from
0:39.8	last week's episode, which was all about ser and estar, the two verbs for to be. So, let's start
0:48.6	straight away. As usual, I am going to say a phrase in English. Marina is going to then give the perfect Spanish version,
0:56.4	but we're going to leave a pause in the middle for you to try and remember. So how would you say in
1:01.2	Spanish to be ready? What's a way of saying to be ready?
1:08.8	Estar listo. Estar listo.
1:12.6	Now remember that listo is an adjective that changes its meaning depending on whether you use
1:18.6	ser or estar.
1:21.6	Est listo means he is intelligent.
1:24.6	Estabisto means he's ready. So be so be liisto to be intelligent, estalisto means he's ready. So say listo to be intelligent,
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