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Well, I'm really happy to be here again. And you? How are you? Well, I'm also very happy to be here again to record a Scenes episode in the studio. This is of course our Scenes from the Coffee Break Cafe podcast, our course series, where we are flying on the wall of a local cafe somewhere in Spain in each episode. Seeing the life that happens in that cafe. Well, today, as always, we're going to read the text and then we're going to talk a little bit about the vocabulary and the grammar that's in the text. But first, Pablo, what happened in the previous episode? Well, in the previous episode, Isabel was having a week that was a little bit of a struggle. Do you remember this expression, Marc? Yes, I do. But in the end, he got super happy because Antonio, who is one of the guys from Oro, told him that both him and his wife were very happy to have rented the floor to Elena, the professor of the institute. Exactly, very good. Well then, in this episode, what are we going to know? Well, I don't know. I'm very intrigued. I think Isabel is bringing something in between his hands. Oh, he's bringing something in between his hands. We'll find out more about that expression after we read the chapter. It's still a pleasant time. Fresh, but very sunny. Today's morning has been agitated and I love that. Many tourist groups have gone through drinking churros before or after their visit to the historic helmet. The clients always have their breakfasts, appetizers in the morning and half-day beer. Also, the cafes in the afternoon and the snack bars of some of the children in the neighborhood when leaving school, who have taken advantage of the sunny day to play in the Paloma Park. I love the days in which the bar is full of life, of people entering and leaving and of clients from here and there. But the visit that made me most excited was that of Miguel. Today he has told me his name. The boy who did the interview a few days ago came to thank me for the coffee of luck. He has taken another one, this time sitting in the bar. And he told me that it was great and that today he has the second interview for which only two candidates remain. Today I was also nervous, but much more confident. He told me that the next time he comes, he will be before he enters to work and that he will invite me to the coffee we agreed on. I hope so. When leaving the door, he has touched Elena, who, in the rest of the retreat, came to have breakfast, her usual half-tosted coffee and milk. They make a very good couple. Hmm, I'm going to start my Celestina work. The destiny is already doing its part, but I am decided to help. What is the story behind the Celestina work? I love what Isabel is doing because she is planning to match Elena, the teacher and Miguel, the lawyer. With Celestina's work. Yes, yes. Interesting. We're going to find out more about what that means and indeed about what the whole chapter means. So let's go back through it now with Pablo reading each phrase. As of her, we're starting with a little weather report. So this is Seguir plus the gerund, which refers to a continuation of an ongoing state. It is continuing to be nice weather, fresh, but very sunny. It's a great word. It has been hectic this morning. Very busy. And I love that. I love it when it's like that. I first came across Trajín in a... It is a really interesting set of songs by the Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal. And they talked about El Trajín de cada día. And it's actually called the Misa Campesina Nicaragüense. And it's a really, really interesting set of songs in a liberation theology idea, which we probably won't go into in this podcast, but El Trajín de cada día. The busyness of every day. Okay, so muchos grupos de turistas, many groups of tourists, han pasado a tomar churros, they came by to have churros. Que buenos. This fried dough. Antes o después de su visita, before or after their visit, al casco histórico. And that is the old tone, the historic center of the tone. Sorry, I just took a sip of my tea there. Un casco es a helmet. Sí, sí. De la moto, okay? A motorcycle helmet. But it's used as this old tone or historic center when you're talking about a tone. So los clientes de... You know what's interesting about this? It's not really a sentence, there's no verb in it. No, ya. Los clientes de siempre, so the usual customers, the regular customers, con sus desayunos with their breakfasts aperitivos, their aperitifs de media mañana, of the middle of the morning, y cermeditas de mediodía. And they're at little beers of midday, there's a bunch of time days. So this is not all happening at the same time, it's happening over the course of the morning, the very busy morning. De algunos de los niños del barrio, al salir del colegio, que han aprovechado el día soleado para jugar en el parque de las palomas. Okay, so more going on here, more explanation of the trajín. También los cafés de por la tarde, so also the afternoon coffees, y las meriendas and the snacks. That's a really important cultural thing in Spanish, isn't it? Una merienda, yo diría, es un afternoon snack. Sabe, sí, puede ser cualquier cosa. Por ejemplo, yo cuando era pequeño recuerdo que mi merienda solía ser un bocadillo pequeño, con algo de fruta, un zumo. Sabes que en España cenamos muy tarde, entonces para aguantar hasta la hora de cenar, necesitamos comer algo. Okay, so these are the meriendas de algunos de los niños del barrio, of some of the children of the local area, al salir del colegio, when they got out of school, upon leaving school, que han aprovechado el día soleado. So these are still the niños who have taken advantage of, made them most of the sunny day para jugar en el parque de las palomas. Paloma can mean dove or pigeon, can't it? Let's call it the dove park. Suena mejor, suena más bonito, sí. Pigeon park. Okay, let's continue on. So I love those days en los que, in which, el bar está lleno de vida. De gente entrando y saliendo, of people coming in and leaving, arriving and leaving, y de clientes de aquí y allá, and of customers from here and there. A lovely image there. Totalmente. Muy bien. Let's break there for a little moment and we'll be back soon with the rest of the chapter. In each episode of the Scenes from the Coffee Break Cafe podcast, you'll enjoy listening to the story and their discussion of key words and phrases from each chapter. But what if you could explore the language even further and take your learning to the next level? That's where the Scenes Online course comes in. For every chapter, you'll get comprehensive lesson notes, a video version of the reading, exercises, vocabulary and even spotlight videos that help break down the conversation. It's the perfect way to deepen your understanding and get even more from the story. 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But without identity, you can't trust they'll serve your business instead of jeopardizing it. Fortunately, OCTA helps you get identity right by securing your AI agent's identities. A single layer of control. A single standard of trust. So whether an agent supports one user or the whole enterprise, OCTA turns risk into opportunity. Secure every agent. Secure any agent. OCTA secures AI. OCTA OCTA OCTA OCTA So we are today in the cafe, as ever, and we are hearing about a kind of normal day, but I think something's now going to happen. Yes, yes. Let's see. But the visit that made me most excited was Miguel's. Today, he told me his name. But the visit that made me most excited was the visit which most illusion did to me. So the one that made me most happy has sido la de Miguel. It was the one from Miguel. Now in English we're saying the one from la de... because la there is a pronoun referring back to la visita. Hoy me ha dicho su nombre, so now we know his name. He told me his name today. Let's find out more about Miguel then. Sí, sí. El chico que hizo la entrevista hace unos días ha venido a agradecerme el café de la suerte. So this is the boy who did the interview a few days ago and he has come back to thank me. Ha venido a agradecerme el café de la suerte to thank me for the café of good luck. So if we think back to chapter 4, I think it was, when Miguel, as we now know, was preparing for his interview and he got a free coffee, an offer of a coffee in the café and now it's time for him to pay that back. Fingers crossed it goes well. So se ha tomado otro. He had another to himself. It's that use of the reflexive just to make it a little more. Es ese énfático que suena mucho mejor que sólo ha tomado otro. So he had another one, another coffee. Esta vez sentado en la barra, this time it's seated at the bar y me ha contado, and he told me, que fue genial, that it was great y que hoy tiene la segunda entrevista and today he has the second interview para la que sólo quedan dos candidatos for which, a nice relative close there, para la que, for the one that, for which sólo quedan dos candidatos. There are only two candidates left. Y es importante aquí no confundir este para la que con para que, que necesitaría el subjuntivo después. Aquí como bien has dicho es una subordinada de relativo. Pero imagínate que hubiéramos dicho el examen para el que estoy estudiando. Es importante que ese pronombre concuerde en género y número con el antecedente. Exacto, and also in the plural it would say what happened para los que para las que. Exacto. Just one thing to talk about there, and that is quedar. Es a really, really versatile verb. It can mean so many different things. And here we're using quedar as in there are two candidates left. There only remain two candidates. Ok, let's continue. So today he was nervous. He was also nervous today. También estaba nervioso. Pero mucho más seguro. Much more sure of himself. Me ha dicho que la próxima vez que venga será antes de entrar a trabajar y que me invitará al café que acordamos. Ok, so me ha dicho que, he told me that, la próxima vez que venga, this is great, the next time he comes. Now that's a subjunctive there. And it's kind of like saying when he comes back, cuando vuelva. We don't know if he's actually going to, hopefully he will. So the next time he comes back será antes de entrar a trabajar. Will be before he is going into work, before he's starting work. Y que me invitará al café que acordamos. And that he will invite me to the coffee that we agreed on. So this is when they agreed to, that he would buy the owner a coffee. If he got the job. And hopefully this is what's going to happen this time. Let's hope it's like that. Let's hope that's what happens. Ok, al salir por la puerta on leaving by the door, se ha chocado con Elena. He bumped into, chocarse con alguien. He bumped into Elena, quien en el descanso de Recreo, at school break time, venía a desayunar su habitual media tostada y café con leche. Who was coming for her usual, have a piece of toast, which seems like a very small breakfast, but it's quite typical. Y café con leche, y un pollo de café. Oh, so Isabel is definitely imagining things here. Hacen una pareja monísima de mi ca lovely couple. Mono literally means a monkey. But it's a word that you can describe a child as muy mono, muy buena, very cute. Y se usa sobre todo en España. Ok. Voy a empezar mi labor de celestina. El destino ya está haciendo su parte, pero yo estoy decidida a ayudar. Me encanta. Excellent. La celestina. La celestina is a famous word of a work of Spanish literature, and I'm trying to think, was it Fernando de Rojas? Eso es, y muy bien. Es del siglo XV, y es una obra, yo diría, de las más importantes de la literatura española. El título real es la trágico media de Calisto y Melibia, pero a la obra se la conoce como la celestina. Y la celestina era una de las protagonistas, y se encargaba un poquito de emparejar a la gente. So this celestina, the main character was a matchmaker, basically. And I go between, going between the different characters and bringing them together and manipulating all these relationships and so on. I'm almost certain we did la celestina at university, so long ago. I can't quite remember. Yo la tuve que estudiar en el instituto, así que me acuerdo. I think this is the great thing about this understanding, little bits of the culture of a country, where the language that you're learning is spoken, because when you get these little, these references, knowing the background to that, just transform it. Es fascinante, verdad, me encanta, sí. Completely. So just that last sentence then, I'm going to start my celestina. I'm going to begin my job of matchmaker. El destino ya está haciendo su parte, so destiny or fate is already playing its role. It's taking its part, pero yo estoy decidida a ayudar, but I'm determined to help. Uy, uy, uy, quiero saber cómo continúa esto por Dios. But we'll need to wait until a few charts after to find out what happens. Or if anything happens between Miguel and Elena. Let's go back through the whole text now, and hopefully now that we've gone through the language in detail, everything will make more sense. Scenes from the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe, Capítulo 7. Muchos grupos de turistas han pasado a tomar churros antes o después de su visita al casco histórico. Los clientes de siempre, con sus desayunos, aperitivos de media mañana y cervecitas de mediodía. También los cafés de por la tarde y las meriendas de algunos de los niños del barrio al salir del colegio, que han aprovechado el día soleado para jugar en el Parque de las Palomas. Me encantan los días en los que el bar está lleno de vida, de gente entrando y saliendo y de clientes de aquí y allá. Pero la visita que más ilusión me ha hecho ha sido la de Miguel. Hoy me ha dicho su nombre. El chico que hizo la entrevista hace unos días ha venido a agradecerme el café de la suerte. Se ha tomado otro, esta vez sentado en la barra. Y me ha contado que fue genial y que hoy tiene la segunda entrevista para la que solo quedan dos candidatos. Hoy también estaba nervioso, pero mucho más seguro. Me ha dicho que la próxima vez que venga será antes de entrar a trabajar y que me invitará al café que acordamos. Ojalá sea así. Al salir por la puerta se ha chocado con Elena, quien en el descanso del recreo venía a desayunar su habitual media tostada y café con leche. Hacen una pareja monísima. Hmm, voy a empezar mi labor de celestina. El destino ya está haciendo su parte, pero yo estoy decidida a ayudar. Well, that's it for this part of chapter 7 of our Scenes course. If you are using our premium version, the version in the Coffee Break Academy, move on to the exercises, the vocabulary list and of course the spotlight videos which will help you take one or two elements of these interesting grammar points that we've looked at and language points that we've looked at a little further. And if you're not using that already, then head to coffeebreaklanguages.com slash scenes to find out more. And additionally, you also have the option to subscribe to our Spanish newsletter for no cost, giving you access to a variety of lessons covering many, many different things. So simply go to coffeebreakspanis.com and sign up. Perfecto, pues muchas gracias Pablo. Gracias a ti Marco, como siempre. Y hasta la próxima. Adiós. 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