NIS Beginners 004 - Nuestras Familias

It's been here just a quick message. We've got a very special free PDF report for you our real Spanish Fluency Roadmap. These are the exact steps that I used to go from clunky textbook Spanish to real Confluence Spanish Fluency. It'll make a huge difference whatever level you're at. So you can get this wonderful free real Spanish Fluency Roadmap if you go to notes and Spanish.com/real. That's notes and Spanish.com/real spelled R-E-A-L. Hello and welcome to Inspired Beginners, the latest podcast from Notes and Spanish. I'm Ben Curtis and I'm here as ever with Marina Diaz. Marina Catal. -Muy bien. Hi. How are you? -Very well. Thank you. So what are we going to talk about today? Today's topic is the family. We are going to look at some descriptive vocabulary for families. And also we are going to review some constructions like comparatives that we use in the previous podcast. And some super relatives as well. And you're going to find out why Ben thinks Marina's brother is a cool guy. Okay, right then. As usual, we're going to start with a little bit of revision from last week's episode. So hopefully none of this gets forgotten. Marina, first of all, a phrase we're going to hear a lot today as well. How do you ask what something's like, for example, what's Madrid like? -How is Madrid? -Okay. And if I wanted to ask you what is my sister like? -Like how is my sister? -Okay or? -Your sister. -Your sister, whichever. Okay. Now, who can remember the word for there is? All there are. There's three letter words. -Ai. -Okay. Perfect. For example, there's a lot of noise in Madrid. -Ai. Mucha ridam Madrid. -Perfect. Okay. Also, last week we had some comparisons. So, for example, we looked at the phrase "mass", then adjective, then "k". So, for example, how would we say Madrid is bigger than Oxford? -Madrid is más grande que Oxford. -Perfect. And, of course, the other one less than. So, what about Oxford is less noisy than Madrid? Oxford is menos ridoso que Madrid. Also, there was a bit of vocabulary that's definitely worth remembering from last week's podcast. So, we've got traffic jams. Atasco. Okay. And star word from last week. Nightlife. Marta. So, when you walk into a Spanish city, you walk straight up to the most beautiful looking local you can find and you say. -Donde está la Marta? -Yep. Where's all the nightlife? And with any luck they say. Come with me. -I'll show you. -You are dreaming. It never happened to me that way. They said it's over there, certainly after some empty district of the city. No, not really. Okay. And finally, oh dear. How do we say oh dear? -Vaya. -For example, you arrive at your front door and you realize you've left your keys in the office. -You say oh dear, I haven't got my keys. -Vaya. No tengo mis llaves. Actually, you might add a couple of expletives in there, but we're certainly not going to do that today. Right then. So, it's time to have a look at the vocabulary that we're going to be using in the first part of today's real Spanish audio. As usual, there's a conversation coming up between me and Marina so that you get used to listening to Spanish as it's really spoken. We're going to be talking about our families and you're going to hear some more comparatives. It's mass blah, blah, blah. Okay, but also some superlatives. For example, my sister Rebecca is the most intelligent member of the family. How would you say that? Rebecca is the most list of the family. Okay, so we've got Lamas in this case. Lamas with the adjective. Lista de la familia. -Lista, what does Lista mean? -Clipper. -Yeah. -That would be the perfect choice. -Clipper, sharp, fast, intelligent. I think my sister would be pretty happy with this description. -Clipper, yeah, better she doesn't hear. -Yeah, it's too right. Okay, comparisons. If you want to say, for example, your brother is the same height as me. What would you say? Mi hermano es tan alto como ven. Okay, es tan alto como ven. So, we've got this construction. es tan, ven the adjective, in this case, alto, ven como, and then the other part of the comparison, in this case, ven. Which would be as tall as ven. Right, another piece of vocabulary you'll hear is how to say two people look like each other. How would you say that my sister, for example, Elena, as you'll hear, looks quite like me. So, how would you say that Elena looks a lot like ven? Elena, se parece a ven. Okay, se parece a. So, for example, Marina looks like a sister, I'd say Marina, se parece a su hermana. Right, let's hear the first part of today's audio. Yo tengo tres hermanas y la pequeña, que no es muy pequeña, tiene 26 años, se llama Rebecca. ¿Cómo es Rebecca Marina? Rebecca es alta y rubia y es muy inteligente. Sí, es la más lista de la familia. Es periodista y viven y trabaja en Londres. Y habla muchos idiomas. Habla español igual que yo, o mejor que yo, ¿qué más? Frances. Potugués. Y un poco de alemán. Es una máquina. Bueno, luego la mediana se llama Naomi. Y pues Naomi, ¿dónde vive? Viven tu luz en Francia. Y está casada con un chico francés. Sí, que se llama toma y están muy contentos en Francia, porque en Francia se comen muy bien. Y también es rubia y muy alta, casi más alta que yo. Tan alta como ven. Sí. Bueno, y la última es Ellie. Ellie es la mayor. ¿Sabes cuántos años tiene? Como yo, tiene 32. Sí. ¿Y qué hacen? Ellie es un artista. Sí, hace dibujos increíbles. Y cómo es? Ellie tiene el pelo risado y se parece mucho avent. ¿Tú crees? Sí. Yo también tengo el pelo muy risado. También quiero hablar de mi padre, porque mi padre es un padre muy guay. ¿Por qué? Porque tiene 64 años y el año pasado aprendí a montar en moto. Sí, y ahora tiene dos motos. Una ducati y un jali Davidson. Estoy muy deloso. Y él está muy contento con sus motos. Okay, that's Ben's family. We will hear about mine in a minute. But I wanted to point out a couple of things. Ben mentioned that his little sister is a máquina. Es una máquina. Yep, that's Rebecca. And we don't mean that she is a machine, really. What does it mean if you say that somebody es una máquina? That she's very clever or she works very well. She's very productive in a way. Yeah, I mean, this case it's because she's got several languages and she's got a great job and so on. So it's just like saying 'puff', you know. She's doing well. She's doing really well. Yeah. Okay, so the other phrase was when we were talking about my father, I said. Es guay. Yeah, es un padre muy guay. Now, guay is probably should be today's star. How to sound really Spanish word. It means cool. Often you'll hear it used if somebody says. Do you want to go for a beer tonight? Guay. It's fairly teenage, isn't it? Yeah, it's quite teenage, isn't it? Or, you know, people in their 20s. But you could perfectly say, do you like this CD? Es muy guay. Es guay. Yeah, de de yamos. Es guay. It's cool. So, you know, not a word to use all the time, but a little peppering every now and again of guay is going to make you sound super Spanish. And that's our aim, isn't it? Right, let's get onto Marina's family. Okay, in part two, you are going to listen to the descriptions about my family. We will see some more comparatives again. Ben is going to ask me if my sister is as pretty as me. Yep, I'm going to say, es tan guapa como tú. So, we've got the same thing again tan plus the adjective. Then como. And then in this case, Marina, tú. So, es tu hermana tan guapa como tú. Okay, is your sister as. pretty as you. We'll find out the answer in a minute, okay. And some vocab as well. Now, how do you describe your brother? Okay, he is Castanio. Castanio is the word used for brown hair. Castanio is literally a chestnut. Yeah. So if you call someone chestnut, it means brown hair. So this is what happens when you analyze words. Okay. My brother also has a very different profession. He's a helicopter pilot. Yeah. Pilot of helicopters. Okay, and you'll hear who I think that means he's a bit like in a minute. Your father is an architect in Spanish. Architect. And your sister and English teacher. She's studying to be an English teacher. Yes. So how do you say English teacher? Professor at English. Perfect. Right. Let's find out all about Marina's family. How is your family, Marina? I have two brothers. My little sister is called Marta and she's 24 years old. And how is Marta? He's as handsome as you. He's the same as me. And he has the hair of the same color, which is brown color. And Marta is working or studying? Marta is studying in university and he's studying to be a teacher for children. Very good. And now let's talk about your brother. Your brother is older than you. My brother is two two and a half years older than me. He's called Isaac and he has two little children. How is he? He's a child. What is your job? He's a pilot of Lycopteros. Yes. For me, your brother is like 007. James Bond. You're going to love him. Of course. A pilot of Lycopteros. Incredible. Yes, I like his job a lot. Well, and your parents. My father is an architect. And he has a very rich hair and blue eyes. That's not very normal in Spain. That's not common. And my mother helps my father in the office. And we are the same. So, Fero, Fero, Siete. Your brother is James Bond in my eyes. 007. I don't think I've ever told him that. And perhaps it's best not to. But as you said, Leba, I encantar. Yeah. We have a combination of two pieces of vocabulary and constructions that we've seen already. That is encantar, which is he's going to love it. Well, Leincanta would be normally he loves it. And Leba, I encantar, which is with the perf to go, is like a to indicate future. So the expression itself is he's going to love it. Yeah. Okay. We've seen this in earlier podcasts. Boy, I comment. I'm going to eat great way to talk about the future. And we've just stuck at Ba'a in the middle of Leincanta to say he's going to love it. Le ban can't that. Right, then, quick summary. What have we seen today, Marina? Okay. We've seen some superlatives like Ben Sisters is the most clever of the family. So, she's the most list of the family. Okay. So, we've got the most than the adjective list of de la familia. Okay. How about saying my father is the coolest member of the family? El más guay de la familia. Okay. So, now it's not lat, it's el, because it's a male person. Right, then. Okay. So, we've also seen some comparatives. So, this is using the construction tan plus an adjective and then comma. So, if we said that your sister was as beautiful as you, it would be tan guapa como mi hermana es tan guapa como yo. Okay. Perfect. Or let's say my middle sister Nemi is as tall as me, Nemi. Nemi es tan alta como tú. Perfecto. Okay. Or tan alta como Ben. Right, then. And some vocabulary. Cool. Guay. The other one would be to look like somebody. Se parece a. For example, how would you translate? Marina looks like her mother. Marina se parece a su madre. Perfect. And if somebody's got sort of brownish hair. Castaño. They're a chestnut. I'm sure you are not going to forget that one now. Right, then. Finally, so we're going to do some on the worksheet today's worksheet. There will be some vocab building exercises. So, we'll have lots more vocab about ways of describing people and also professions. Okay. Although your brother still wins, I think, with helicopter pilot. No one can beat that, I think. And of course, also on the worksheet, there'll be a transcript of the Spanish conversations that we've had today, the translation of those. And anything else? Ah, all the key vocab. Yes, of course. Right, then. That's another episode of Inspired Beginners, wrapped up. We hope you are still inspired. Very soon you won't be beginners and you'll be jumping off to the intermediate podcast. No doubt. But for now, this is Ben Curtis and Marina Dia saying, "Hasta luego." Hasta luego. Hi, it's Ben here. Just a quick message. We've got a very special free PDF report for you, our real Spanish fluency road map. These are the exact steps that I used to go from clunky textbook Spanish to real confidence Spanish fluency. So you can get this wonderful free real Spanish fluency road map if you go to notes in Spanish.com/real. That's notes in Spanish.com/realspelt-al.