NIS Beginners 005 - El Fin de Semana

Hello and welcome to Inspire Beginners by Notes in Spanish. Hi Ben. Hi Marina, how are you today? I'm very well. Are you feeling inspired? I'm feeling very inspired to me. Good, me too and we hope that you lot are because we've got lots of great vocabulary for you today. So what are we going to be talking about later on? What's our conversation in Spanish going to be about today? Okay, we are going to talk about our typical weekend. But first of all, as usual, we'd like to quickly go back and have a look at some of the vocab from last week's podcast. So last week we were talking about our family and so on. Marina, let's look at some jobs quickly. My sister is a journalist which in Spanish. I know all the listeners have already got it in their heads, but it is. Periodista. Okay, now I don't know if you'll remember but I seem to think that Marina's brother is a bit like James Bond. Thero, Thero Siete, because he's a helicopter pilot which of course in Spanish is. Piloto delicóptero. And your father builds houses or designs plans for them at least making him an architect which in Spanish is a pretty easy one. This one. Architect. Okay, right then. So we also used a couple of descriptive words. For example, my youngest sister again, the journalist. We said that she was pretty sharp, pretty quick, pretty intelligent, which is of course. Lista. Yeah. It's muy lista. Muy lista, mi hermaná. God, she'd love to listen to this. Definitely not going to tell her about this podcast. Right then, your brother is very sort of brown head, very chestnut colored head. He's a bit of a chestnut. He's a chestnut. He's James Bond and a chestnut. Yeah. Interesting guy. Yeah, he's a chestnut. Okay, great. And the other thing we looked at was doing some comparatives. So comparing two things. For example, we said that Marina's sister Marta is as pretty as Marina. Isn't that lovely? Pretty of course is guapa or guapa for Hanson. So how would we say Marina? Marta is as pretty as Marina. Marta is tan guapa como Marina. Okay, so we've got that construction tan plus adjective plus como. Nemi, my sister. Nemi is as tall as Ben. How would you say that? Nemi is tan alta como ven. Exactly. Tan plus alta tall como ven. Right then, that's plenty of revision. I'm sure you've remembered it all anyway. Let's get on with today's podcast. So Marina, what do you think? All of our super keen inspired listeners definitely know already if you're talking about things that you would typically do at a weekend. Or do often, no? Well, Soler, which is Ayofen do, suelo hacer. Yeah. So Soler, the verb means to tend to do something or to often do something, as you said. So how does it go? Suelo, sueles. El suele, nosotros solemos, vosotros soleis, ellos suelen. Okay. So for example, Marina and I at the weekend, we tend to have lunch with your parents would be. Solemos comer con mis padres. Okay. Solemos plus comer, to eat con los padres. Right then. So I'm sure you already know Soler plus infinitive to tend to do something, but we're going to introduce lots more vocabulary today. So Marina, how do you say to get up in Spanish? Levantarse. Okay. It's one of these reflexive verbs. So it's me levanto. Te levantas, se levanta. Mm-hmm. And well, as you'll be hearing, I tend to get up very early, even at the weekends. And how do you say in Spanish to get up early? Madrugar. Okay. Marina is a bit of a sleepyhead on Saturdays and tends to sleep quite a long time, which makes her sleepyhead would be. Dormilona. Yeah. A complete dormilona. Now that's a very, a very real Spanish word. That's one of those ones that if you can bring it up in a conversation, you're going to sound very Spanish. In the afternoon, we tend to have a siesta. Now there's a verb that's often used with siesta is echar, which literally means to throw, actually. But the whole sentence would be. Echarse la siesta. So nosotros, nos echamos una siesta. It's another reflexive verb. We chacaciesta. Sounds bizarre in English. Ah, now I don't know if you remember from a previous episode, Marina often adds ito or ita to the end of words. Yeah. The diminutive, which makes him sound a bit smaller. So for example, how long do you usually have a siesta for? Unahorita. Yeah, instead of una hora, unahorita, short hour. And finally, one more piece of vocab you're going to hear quite a lot is to meet friends. I'm sure you all know how to say this. To meet Marina. Quedar con amigos. Okay. Quedar. Perfect. Okay. We'll start off by telling you about our Saturdays. Yo, yo matruco, como todos los días, a las ocho, ocho y media. Pero tú eres una domilona. Sí, a mí me gusta dormir un poquito más los fines de semana. O leer un rato antes de levantarme. Y cuando te levantas, ¿qué hacemos? Pues, a veces vamos al parque, al retiro, que está aquí cerca, a dar un paseo. O vamos a hacer unas compras o al supermercado. Sí. Y luego solemos hacer una comida especial y después echarnos una siesta. Sí. Los fines de semana nos gusta dormir un rato después de comer. Muy español. Sí. Una orita. No mucho. Y la siesta nos da muchas energías para la noche. Porque solemos quedar con los amigos. Pero ¿a qué hora? En España se queda muy tarde. Normalmente a las diez de la noche. Sí. Mucho más tarde que en Inglaterra. En Inglaterra, los sábados a la gente suele quedar a la siete, siete y media, pero aquí las diez, las diez y media. Y luego vamos a casa. Muy tarde también, ¿no? A veces a la una, si estamos cansados y a veces a las cuatro. Right, you've heard us talking about meeting, meeting late. We use the expression "se queda". Can you tell us something about this construction? Yeah, well, we talked earlier about "quedad", meaning "to meet". If you use the reflexiform "se queda", it means that you're talking in general. So, in general, in Spain, "se queda muy tarde". So, normally in Spain, you meet very late. And basically, all we've done is we've put "se" "se" at the front of the construction before the verb. Now, you can use this with lots of different things when you're talking about habits. So, for example, Marina, how would you say in Spain, people usually eat very late. In España, se comen muy tarde. Okay, so it's just the same, the verb "comer", but we put "se" in front. Se comen muy tarde. Another example, for example, in Spain, people drink lots of wine. In España, se bebe mucho vino. Yep, bebe, to drink with "se" on the front. Mucho vino, a lot of wine. Se bebe mucho vino. So, that's a very easy way of talking about generalizations. Okay, so, England, for example, we could say se bebe mucha ferreza. In England, they tend to drink a lot of beer. Okay, in the next part of the podcast, we're going to be talking again in Spanish, Marina and I about Sundays. We've heard all about Saturdays. And we talk about the first thing that Marina tends to do on a Sunday morning, which is. Para comprar el periódico. Bajo, I go down. Yeah. Because we live in a six floor, so I have to go down to buy the newspaper. So, the newspaper, el periódico, which one does she buy? Here's a little thing that you can listen out for when you're listening to this second part now, and we'll give you the answer afterwards. But what is the name of the newspaper that Marina gets? Right, then another thing is going to the cinema. Now, one word that we use is unapeli. Marina, what is this pele? Pele is a short way of saying pelicula, and it's very. it's used very, very often. It's exactly another one of our favorite examples of how to sound extremely Spanish, hardly trying at all. So, next time you're talking about what films you've seen say unapeli, instead of una pelicula. And, yeah, you might as well have been born with a Spanish passport. Hemos estado en el país. ¿Cómo vas a decir a través del país? Ir de excursión al campo. ¡Bien! ¿Cuéntame qué hacemos los domingos? Los domingos, Marina, siempre hace la misma cosa por la mañana. ¿Qué haces? Siempre les el país, el periódico más conocido en España, creo. ¿Y luego qué hacemos? Y luego vamos a comer con mi familia. Sí, en España el domingo es un día muy familiar. Familiar? Familiar, gracias. Y con tus sobrinos también. Y mis hermanos. Claro. Y por la tarde, ¿qué hacemos? ¿Otra si está? No, solemos ir al cine. A ver, una peli. Y con un poco de suerte vemos una peli en inglés. Porque si no, voy a olvidar mi inglés. No me lo creo. Otros domingos preferimos hacer una excursión en el campo. Sí, porque cerca de Madrid hay unas ciudades muy interesantes, como Toledo, que es muy famoso el escorial, o, a veces, vamos a pueblos muy pequeños para comer algo. ¿Pero haces el nombre de un nuevo paper? Es el país, literalmente significa el país. Es probablemente el pequeño nuevo paper en España, ¿no? ¿No sé, el primer aparte de el nuevo paper? Ah, es verdad, bueno, en realidad, por mucho tiempo, no sé si es verdad, pero, literalmente, hasta el año a la vez, el primer paper en España es called Marca, que means "to score", como Marca y Goll, "to score a goal", y es literalmente full of sport, no news atall, el primer paper. Ahora, creo que ha sido tomado por Ben de Menudos 20 minutos, que es un nuevo paper que se da la forma en el metro y la ciudad. Ok, un poco de revision? Sí, así que, vamos a ver lo que hemos visto hoy. ¡Hablan de ser esta! ¡Chacan de ser esta, literalmente! ¡Echarse la siesta! ¿Vamos a ir con algunos amigos? Quedar con amigos. Ok, es algo que creo que probablemente todos los días. Ahora, Marina es un poco de suave, pero me lo he hecho muy bien. ¿Qué fue ese verbo que fue para ser muy bien? Madrugar. Madrugar. ¿Cómo se puede decir que Ben se ha hecho muy bien? Ben, Madruga, muchos los sábados. Sí, no sé por qué, no sé si se puede ir a la ciudad. También se ha visto un poco de muy spanish de vocabularía hoy. First of all, well, I might get up early, but Marina has a bit of a sleepy head, which is. Dormilona. If it was me, it would be. Dormilón. Sí, es un masculino de Dormilón, feminine. Dormilona. La otra vez que hicimos fue también una mejor forma de usar el Word para un film, porque un film normal es. Pelicula. Pero el Word que llevamos, y casi todo el mundo de español, es todo el tiempo. Pelicula. Una pelicula. Esta noche vamos a ver una peli al cine. Perfecto. Once again, Marina, your accent is quite estupendol. We also looked at ways of generalizing about what people do in a country. So, for example, in Spain, we said people meet very late on Saturdays. Se queda muy tarde. Exactamente. We take a verb, like "quedar" and put "say" in front. So, the verb to eat "comer", how would we say people eat very late as well in Spain? Se come muy tarde. And also drinking lots of wine, the Spanish drink lots of wine. Se come muy. Se bebe mucho vino. Se bebe mucho vino. So bebe to drink with "say" on the front. Ok, as usual, we just wanted to remind you that you can pick up a full transcript of our Spanish conversation today. On our worksheets, which also include all of the key vocabulary and constructions that we've used today, all outlined. Some vocabulary building exercises. And translation as well. Ah, the translation of the Spanish part of the podcast, of course. What else more, and a super cool extra bit of Spanish vocabulary, or a really Spanish phrase? That's all available in our mega worksheet pack, which also includes some audio flashcards, which are designed to really help you with the pronunciation of all the vocabulary from all these first five podcasts so far. And also, a little bonus extra podcast with Marino and I giving out some really top tips for learning Spanish as quickly as possible. See you soon. Hasta luego. Adiós.