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This is actually going to be the best office ever. We're going to have a coffee corner and meditation station. A meditation area. What have I done? Don't make me regret this. And if you're looking to sort your own place out or just show your home a little love, head to Wayfair.co.uk. Digital ID, making public services work for you. Scenes from the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe. Season 2, Lesson 8. Hello everyone. How are you, Mark? Very good. And you, Pablo? I'm great too, with a lot of energy and desire to know what you tell us. I always have to say that Pablo always has energy. Even if he's very tired, he always has. I'm going to confess one thing. I can only have a coffee a day with a coffee machine. Because if not, well, imagine if he would have two coffee machines. Oh my God. Well, we're delighted that you've got lots of energy today for another episode of Coffee Break Spanish. This is, of course, scenes from the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe, where we're taking a little slices of life from our cafe in a typical Spanish town and meeting some of the regulars, meeting some new people and seeing what happens on a day-to-day basis in our cafe. Pablo, tell us what happened in the previous episode. Well, in the previous episode, we witnessed how the birthday of my to-call birthday was celebrated, Pablo. The grandson of Jose and Nati in the bar, because they had had a small problem at home. I don't know if you remember what happened to them. The Tuería that was destroyed. The Tuería Revento, yes. Well, they ended all the children filling the bar of joy and vitality. And Isabel is super happy. No, Pablo used an interesting word there. Just threw it into the conversation without even thinking about it. And that's what I love about doing these podcasts, these courses that we can really get into things, because you used that word for namesake. Namesake, to callio. To callio. OK, so te o, te a, i, i, grega o. Si to callio o to callia. Yes, claro. So another useful word that we didn't even think we were going to learn today. That is the beauty of Coffee Break. OK, let's get on with today's episode. This weekend, the neighborhood parties have started. So in the bar, we are in a rush. This week, our usual customers come a little less. And the neighborhood young people come a little less. And the neighborhood young people get on the terrace tables. I see them and I can't help but remember my childhood years. The streets in the neighborhood are decorated with lights. And in the Palomas Park, there are feria attractions for the younger people. A live uncle, a witch train and even some shocking cars. There are also places where they sell sugar-coated cotton and sweet popcorn. And other sweet-sweet ones and churros. In addition, in the square they have set up a bar every year. And they have put some loud voices. The music sounds from lunchtime to dawn. It is a tradition in these parties that the first day they are left to have dinner, all the boys from the institute, before going to dance, to the verbena of the square. I think it is the few times that in the bar we have such large tables reserved. They always come at 9 o'clock in the night and ask for typical dishes to share. The croquettes, the potato cake and the quince flamenco are the star dishes. The dinner is always accompanied by summer-cooled jars of fresh summer ink. It is a joy to have the bar full of young people. I love how they say goodbye with joy and go to the square to continue with the party somewhere else. Seeing them always brings me good memories. How wonderful! I would have loved to be in this verbena and having fun with them. This weekend the neighborhood parties have started. So we are in the bar at the top. So the bar is absolutely packed. Super busy. Yes, Marquise, it is a super versatile expression because we can use it in many contexts. For example, if I tell you, this week I am at the top of Curro. Curro? What is curro? Curro is work in slang, in Spain. To be at the top of Curro, you are up to your eyes with work. But in this sense, the bar is at the top, so it means super busy. This week our regular customers come a little less. And the young people in the neighborhood get in the tables of the terrace. This week our regular customers come a little less. They are coming in a little bit less often. And the young people from the neighborhood get in the tables of the terrace. So getting in the tables means, well, you can see it, the mount, they are mounting up. They are basically piling up on the tables of the terrace. And Marquise, with mounting up, I can give you another example with work. I get the work. Right, so we can use exactly the expression in English, work is piling up. And on me is it where? We hope not. Okay, let's continue. I see them and I can't help but remember my youth years. My own years of youth. The streets of the neighborhood are decorated with lights. And in the Palomas Park there are fairs for the youngest. A live uncle, a witch's train and even some carriages. Okay, so the streets of the neighborhood, the neighborhood streets, are decorated with lights. And in the Dove Park or Pigeon Park, I never know. There are fairs, there are funfair rides for the youngest. A live uncle, a carousel. A witch's train, good. And a little boy. And a little girl. And a little boy. And a little boy. And a little boy. A carousel, isn't it? A witch's train, a ghost train. Do you say ghost train? Yes, it's a witch train in Spanish. Yes, interesting. And even some bumper cars. Yes, bumper cars. Marc, what was your favorite attraction when you were little? I don't know how to say it in Spanish. But there are... There are ducks, you have to fish them. And if you get them, you get a prize. Exactly. Look at Duckstall, I think it was my name. We also have it in Spain. I'm thinking how we call it, honestly, I don't remember. I'm thinking what mine was. I don't know if you have it in English. The jumpers. What? The jumpers are like a grasshopper. It's like a attraction that has arms. And then they go up and down and they go up and down. I don't know what they call it. It basically has wings. And then you are at the end of the wing, like with the belt and everything. And then it rotates and it goes up and down. I don't know if we have that. I've seen it in Glasgow, but I don't know how to call it. I don't know, but if you know this, then let us know in the comments. Let's continue on. There are also stalls in which they sell sugar and sweet popcorn and other snacks. There are also stalls in which they sell sugar. There are stalls in which they sell candy floss and sweet popcorn. And others are selling fritters. I wouldn't dare to translate the word. I think fritters are probably as close as we'll get. They're deep fried. They're double-spits. Yes, with a hole in the middle, similar to a donut, but they have the texture of a churro. Yes, exactly. So churros are of course the long, slightly sweet dough things that you have with your chocolate. Also, in the square they have mounted, like every year, a bar and they have put some loudspeakers. Music plays from lunchtime until the early hours of the morning. So they have installed some loudspeakers. Yes, they have installed some loudspeakers. So music plays from lunchtime until the early hours of the morning. Very much party time. Say, say, say. Okay, let's break there. We'll be back in just a moment to continue the rest of the text. Music plays 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. 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Okay, so it's very much la fiesta del barrio at the moment and we are experiencing some of this through the text. Es tradición en estas fiestas que el primer día queden para cenar todos los chicos del instituto antes de ir a bailar a la verbena de la plaza. Okay, I've got a question about the sentence for you Pablo, but we'll translate it first and then we'll come back to it. Es tradición en estas fiestas. So it's a tradition during these celebrations que el primer día, the first day, queden para cenar todos los chicos del instituto. So all of the high school kids meet up for dinner. They have a meal together. Antes de ir a bailar a la verbena de la plaza. So before going to dance a la verbena. A new word. Verbena, me sorprende que no conozcas esta palabra. La conozco como verbena, like the lemon smelling citrus flavor. I know that my wife has shower gel that's verbena shower gel. Verbena, pero no tiene nada que ver. No tiene nada que ver con esto. Una verbena es una fiesta al aire libre. Con música, con un DJ, con una orquesta. It's like a street party type. Si, si una street party sería el equivalente. Y es muy típico durante los meses de verano en cualquier pueblo de España o en cualquier fiesta del barrio de una ciudad. Okay, okay, muy bien. The reason I said that I had a question about it wasn't about the verbena. So the school kids meet up, they have dinner together, then they go dancing at the street party in the square. But I've got a question about the subjunctive in the sentence. ¿Es tradición en estas fiestas que el primer día queden para cenar todos los chicos? So why are we using a subjunctive here? Bueno, pues por varias razones, la primera de ellas es porque cuando decimos es tradición que o es tradicional que, using the adjective instead, estamos juzgando algo. We're basically passing judgement on to something. We're giving an opinion and this requires the subjunctive. Okay. También podríamos decir es tradición que dar, but we will not be addressing it to any person. Y también tenemos dos sujetos diferentes porque al principio tenemos es tradición, it is a tradition, that they do something, so it's two subjects. So it's a little bit like es importante que vayas a la fiesta, whatever. Okay. Y otro ejemplo podríamos decir es costumbre que queden o es costumbre que dar si no es para nadie en específico. Okay, perfecto. Okay, vamos a seguir. Creo que es de las pocas veces que en el bar tenemos mesas tan grandes reservadas. Right, so I think that it's one of the few times, creo que es de las pocas veces, literally one of the few times, que en el bar tenemos mesas tan grandes reservadas, that we've had such big tables reserved in the bar. Siempre llegan sobre las nueve de la noche y piden platos típicos para compartir. Las croquetas, la tortilla de patatas y los flamenquines son los platos estrella. Hoy, ahora sí que tengo hambre. Ahora sí que tengo hambre, yo también, sí. Siempre llegan sobre las nueve de la noche, they always arrive at 9 in the evening y piden platos típicos para compartir. And the order, typical dishes to share. Las croquetas, or croquettes, de jamón, de pollo. ¿Cuáles son tus favoritas? Te le va a preguntar. De pollo, creo. De pollo, sí. Las mías de jamón, también me gustan mucho las de boletus, que es un tipo de zeta. That's a mushroom. Sí, y también las de pollo. Las de pollo, sí. La tortilla de patatas, claro. No vamos a entrar en el debate. Spanish of the weather with the onion. Y los flamenquines, los flamenquines, they are meat rolled up or something like that. Sí, es lomo envuelto en jamón serrano y también está como rebozado. Yeah, so it's pork wrapped in jamón and then it's deep fried. Sí, es muy típico de Córdoba. Tengo entendido, sí. Pero, Mare, tenemos los platos estrella y estrella es un sustantivo. Y estos son los best sellers. Sí, pero aquí estrella funciona como un adjetivo, pero no está concordando con el sustantivo platos. Yeah, so there's no agreement there with platos. No estrella o anything like that. No, no, no, no. Y esto pasa cuando tenemos estas construcciones de dos sustantivos, pero no voy a decir nada más porque es el tema de nuestro spotlight. Así que, Annabel nos va a explicar todo sobre este aspecto. Perfecto. Okay, well you can look out for that if you are using the course version, the spotlight video for this episode. Let's continue. Las cenas siempre van acompañadas de jarras de tinto de verano bien fresquito. Okay, so las cenas, the dinners, siempre van acompañadas. They are always accompanied by jarras de tinto de verano. So they are always accompanied by pictures of tinto de verano, which is a kind of popular summer drink. It's red wine, it's got like sparkling water or fruit in it and so on. Actually no, there's no fruit in tinto de verano. No, no, no, eso es la sangría. Que no es lo mismo. Aparecidas pero no lo son. And es bien fresquito, it's nice and chilled. Y Pablo, estos son niños o jóvenes. Bueno, pero está es tinto de verano sin alcohol. Okay, perfecto. Es una alegría tener el bar lleno de gente joven. Es una alegría, es a joy tener el bar, to have the bar lleno de gente joven. A lot of young people. Y esto es similar a lo que hemos visto anteriormente, porque aquí podríamos decir, es una alegría que tengan el bar lleno de gente joven. So this is like this tradition que plus the... Tengan, si queremos referirnos a Manuel e Isabel. Perfecto, so that same idea of es una alegría que plus the subjunctive, if we're referring specifically to protect the people over here, we're just using the infinitive because it's more generic. Me encanta cómo se despiden con alegría y se dirigen a la plaza, a seguir con la fiesta a otra parte. So I love how they say goodbye cheerfully. Me encanta cómo se despiden con alegría y se dirigen a la plaza and they head off to the square a seguir con la fiesta a otra parte, to carry on the party elsewhere. Just one thing about that. I love how they say goodbye cheerfully. It's not saying I love that they say goodbye cheerfully, because if that were the case, it would be Me encanta qué se despiden con alegría. Sí, sí, efectivamente. So when you say I love how something happens, you know that it happens and you love that. But I love that it happens, then you're passing judgment and that's where you would use the subjunctive. Verlos siempre me trae buenos recuerdos. So seeing them always brings back good memories for me. We've covered a lot in this lesson. There have been some nice expressions like atope and a monto enarse. Muchos subjuntivos también. Yeah, lots of subjunctives and interesting aspects of the subjunctive that we perhaps we've not covered before in other episodes. Ok, listen out for those as we hear the text one more time. This time at a more normal speaking speed. Este fin de semana han empezado las fiestas del barrio. Así que en el bar estamos atope. Esta semana nuestros clientes habituales vienen un poquito menos y los jóvenes del barrio se amontonan en las mesas de la terraza. Los veo y no puedo evitar recordar mis años de juventud. Las calles del barrio están adornadas con luces y en el parque de las palomas hay atracciones de feria para los más pequeños. Un tío vivo, un tren de la bruja y hasta unos coches de choque. También hay puestos en los que venden algodón de azúcar y palomitas dulces y otros de buñuelos y churros. Además, en la plaza han montado como cada año una barra y han puesto unos altavoces grandes. La música suena desde la hora del almuerzo hasta la madrugada. Es tradición en estas fiestas que el primer día queden para cenar todos los chicos del instituto antes de ir a bailar a la verbena de la plaza. Creo que es de las pocas veces que en el bar tenemos mesas tan grandes reservadas. Siempre llegan sobre las 9 de la noche y piden platos típicos para compartir. Las croquetas, la tortilla de patatas y los flamenquines son los platos estrella. Las tenas siempre van acompañadas de jarras de tinto de verano bien fresquito. Es una alegría tener el bar lleno de gente joven. Me encanta cómo se despiden con alegría y se dirigen a la plaza, a seguir con la fiesta a otra parte. Verlos siempre me trae buenos recuerdos. Music Ok, as ever, this episode is part of our coffee break scenes course. And the scenes course offers lots of additional materials to help you get more out of the experience. There are the lesson notes of course, which explain everything that's covered in the text and give you further examples. There's the vocabulary list, the exercises and of course that spotlight video for each lesson that Pablo mentioned earlier. You can find all of this over on the coffeebreakacademy.com And if you want to receive weekly emails with free Spanish lessons, don't forget to subscribe to our newsletter at coffeebreakspanish.com Perfecto. Music Well, Pablo, is that it? That's it. I really liked this episode because it reminded me of the parties of my town with the verbena, the good atmosphere, the breath, it's very, very, very intangible. Very intangible, very good. Well, I enjoyed it too and I think the reason I enjoyed it is because I learned lots of new words. So that's all good. We'll be back soon with a new episode of Scenes for now. Muchas gracias y hasta la próxima. Hasta la próxima, adiós. Music You have been listening to a Coffee Break Languages production for the Radio Linguinetwork. Copyright 2026, Radio Lingua Limited, recording copyright 2026, Radio Lingua Limited, all rights reserved. Music Dating apps? Easy. Online shopping? Simple. Banking app? Sorted. Life admin? Ugh. 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