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Pablo, can you tell us what happened in the last episode? We'll read the chapter together and then we'll talk about everything interesting that there is in the text. Let's go. Today I'm a little tired. I'm a tired, but happy. He revivido la infancia de mis hijos porque hemos celebrado el cumpleaños de uno de los nietos de José y Nati en el bar. Esta mañana temprano ha venido José a tomarse un café y a leer el periódico. Como no ha venido acompañado, se ha sentado en la barra para charlar con Manuel. Diez minutos después ha llegado Nati, muy preocupada y un poco nerviosa. Resulta que hoy era el cumpleaños de su nieto Pablo. They had everything organized to celebrate the birthday of his daughter Carolina. But he exploded a building building and the building is completely inundated. I was listening to him and they seemed very apuros. De pronto, Manuel ha tenido una gran idea. Les ha propuesto celebrar el cumpleaños en el bar. Los amigos del pequeño no empezaban a llegar hasta las 5 de la tarde. Así que, después de servir los menús de mediodía, Manuel ha ido con la furgoneta para recoger las cosas de casa de Carolina. Elena, who was there when they arrived with all the bartholos, has helped us prepare the decoration and colgar the piñata. We have prepared a large table table with mantels of colors. From the kitchen, they came large boxes with the typical potatoes of infant birthday. medias noches con chopet, chorizo o salchichón, sándwiches de nocilla y boles con patatas fritas y con bolitas de chocolate. Para el final quedó la deliciosa tarta de galleta y chocolate que había preparado su abuela Nati. What a fun, Mark. He has been transferred to my birthday to those I was little when I was little. Very good. Okay, let's go back through each sentence one by one now. Hoy me he deslomado. This is a great word, deslomarse. So, lomo is, well, normally I associate lomo with food because it's pork loin, isn't it? Yes, exactly. But when you deslomarse, it's when you work your back off. Efectivamente, sí, es como esforzarse mucho, trabajar duro para conseguir algo. También podríamos decir dejarse la piel. Oh, dejarse la piel. Me he dejado la piel. OK, so I have worked my back off today. I've broken my back. Working very hard. Estoy cansadísima, pero feliz. I am absolutely exhausted, but I am happy. Cansadísima, that's the superlative form of cansada. Claro. He revivido la infancia de mis hijos porque hemos celebrado el cumpleaños de uno de los nietos de José y Nati en el bar. This is nice. He revivido, I've relived la infancia de mis hijos, the childhood of my children, because we celebrated the birthday of one of Jose and Nati in the bar. Because we celebrated the birthday of one of Jose and Nati grandchildren in the bar Genial s Esta ma temprano ha venido Jos a tomarse un caf y a leer el peri Okay, so this morning early, or early this morning, esta mañana temprano, ha venido José a tomarse un café y a leer el periódico. Now this means that José came in to have a coffee and to read the newspaper, but it's interesting to see the ah there. So he came in to do something. Ha venido a tomarse un café. He came in to have a coffee. It's that tomarse again, it reflects, we've seen this many, many times. Muchísimas veces, sí. It's always good to consolidate these ideas. To grab a coffee for himself y a leer el periódico. And to read the newspaper. Perfecto. Como no ha venido acompañado, se ha sentado en la barra para charlar con Manuel. OK, como no ha venido acompañado, so because or since he didn't come accompanied, literally, he didn't come in with anyone, se ha sentado en la barra, so he sat down at the counter para charlar con Manuel, to chat with Manuel. Exacto. Diez minutos después, ha llegado Nati muy preocupada y un poco nerviosa. So this is straightforward enough again, 10 minutes later, ha llegado Nati. Nati arrived. Muy preocupada, very worried, y un poco nerviosa, and a bit nervous. We're also seeing that nice word order there. Ha llegado Nati. Very, very Spanish. Resulta que hoy era el cumpleaños de su nieto Pablo. Tenían todo organizado para celebrar la fiesta de cumpleaños en casa de su hija Carolina, pero ha explotado una tubería del edificio y el piso está completamente inundado. So, resulta que… this is so common. Me encanta. Y además, vamos a descubrir mucho más sobre esta expresión y muchas otras parecidas en nuestro Spotlight. Perfecto, muchas gracias. So that's the Spotlight video, part of the course version of this. Resulta que, so it turns out that, hoy era el cumpleaños de su nieto Pablo. Today was the birthday of her grandson, Pablo. Tenían todo organizado para celebrar la fiesta de cumpleaños en casa de su hija Carolina. So they had everything organized to celebrate the birthday, the cumpleaños birthday, the birthday party, en casa de su hija Carolina, in her daughter Carolina's flat. Pero ha explotado una tubería del edificio. So this is a pipe, una tubería. Sí, sí, exacto. A pipe in the building burst, ha explotado, literally exploded. Y el piso está completamente inundado. And the flat, or the apartment, is completely flooded. Los estaba escuchando hablar y parecían muy apurados. So, los estaba escuchando hablar. I was listening to them talking y parecían muy apurados. And they seemed very stressed. Exactly. Y aquí podríamos poner el pronombre de complemento directo, los, directamente en el gerundio, escuchándolos. Pero si lo hacemos, tenemos que añadir un pequeño acento sobre la A para mantener el patrón de acentuación. Exacto. So, los estaba escuchando hablar or estaba escuchándolos hablar. And Pablo, just a question here, Liz. En teoría, no. Sí. No, porque solo lo podemos hacer cuando es masculino una persona. Sí. And just to be clear there, the reason I'm asking about that is I was listening to them talking and them, if it were masculine, it could be less for leismo purposes. Sí, pero como lo hemos dicho muchas veces, no es extraño para nada escuchar a hablantes decir les estaba escuchando. Pero lo correcto es los estaba escuchando. Ok, muy bien. ¿Y apurados? An interesting word. Sí, lo vimos también en la temporada anterior, si no recuerdo mal. Y un sinónimo sería agobiados. Esa idea de que estás preocupado o nervioso por… Evidentemente, el piso está inundado, pues es un motivo bastante grande. And I think it kind of, I don't know, always gives me that feeling of real stress. It's like, oh, okay, yeah. De pronto, Manuel ha tenido una gran idea. De pronto, suddenly, Manuel ha tenido una gran idea. Manuel had a great idea, or literally has had a great idea. Why did we use a perfect tense there? Probably because we're seeing the fact that he had an idea with a direct relationship at this moment. But suddenly, it usually triggers the preterite. That's why you're asking. Completely perfect. Perfectamente, we could say, suddenly Manuel had a great idea. Okay. Good. Okay, well, we are going to find out what that idea is after the break. In each episode of the Scenes from the Coffee Break Café podcast, you'll enjoy listening to the story and our 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 key expressions and grammar points with additional examples. It's the perfect way to deepen your understanding and get even more from the story. To access this wealth of learning resources, visit coffeebreaklanguages.com slash scenes. Okay, let's find out what Manuel's idea was. Venga, vamos. Les ha propuesto celebrar el cumplea en el bar Of course we know that already because we heard the full text but les ha propuesto celebrar el cumplea en el bar So to them and that an indirect there there's nothing to do with leismo there. To them, ha propuesto, he has suggested, celebrar el cumpleaños en el bar, to celebrate the birthday in the bar. And again, we're seeing a perfect tense there, and it's part of that narrative, it's part of the ongoing telling of the story that kind of brings it to the present. Sí, pero otra vez también podríamos decir les propuso celebrar el cumpleaños en el bar y sería correcto también. Ok, propuso, proponer. Sí. Los amigos del pequeño no empezaban a llegar hasta las cinco de la tarde, así que después de servir los menús de mediodía, Manuel ha ido con la furgoneta para recoger las cosas de casa de Carolina. ¿De qué te ríes? La palabra furgoneta. ¿Te gusta? Sí, me gusta. ¿Por qué? Te explico después. Los amigos del pequeño, so the little boy's friends, no empezaban a llegar. They weren't starting to arrive hasta las cinco de la tarde until five in the afternoon. Así que, so, después de servir los menús de mediodía, after serving the lunchtime set menus, Manuel ha ido con la furgoneta. So Manuel went off in the van para recoger las cosas de casa de Carolina, to collect things from Carolina's place, from her house. Y Mark, aquí estamos viendo un uso del imperfecto un poquito diferente. No sé si te has dado cuenta porque estamos diciendo no empezaban a llegar, but that still hasn't happened. Yeah, so they weren't starting to arrive. En inglés, decís lo mismo, pero este imperfecto lo llamamos el imperfecto prospectivo. Used to refer to something that was planned or expected to happen from a previous point in the course of events. Okay, so give us another example of that. Por ejemplo, Juan corría su primera maratón este fin de semana. Right, so Juan was running his first marathon this weekend. And as you say, we do this in English. En inglés es exactamente lo mismo. But it's really good to point that out because it's always nice to see when languages work the same as each other. Even though, when you think about it, Juan was running his first marathon this weekend. It does not make sense at all. Me encantan estas cosas a mí personalmente. And the furgoneta. A ver, cuéntame la historia. It made me think back to when, well, lo diga en español. Cuando filmábamos High Five Spanish. Sí. La serie para los niños. que está muy bien. Sí, sí, la recomendamos muchísimo. You can find that on the Coffee Break Academy and in the Coffee Break TV. It's a series for younger learners of Spanish and we were filming it. Lo estábamos filmando en el sur de España, en Málaga, en Frigiliana, en Erhans. Ah, qué bonito Frigiliana. Sí, sí, sí. Y pues teníamos uno a furgoneta para llevar a todos los niños, sus padres, etcétera, para todo el equipaje para filmar. He always looked like me ... not sure, but her too left before I sat on опасny lol with the high-five thingnotch OWFafft sang делает. So that I sent to my dad's family with these children with this project. este proyecto, y los niños súper ilusionados con la idea de estar en la furgoneta de High Five con el logotipo. En la furgoneta oficial. Pero era solamente Photoshop, entonces… No, pobrecillos. Ellos con toda la ilusión del mundo. They arrived and said, where's the logo? I felt very guilty. Qué graciosos. Anyway, let's continue on. Elena, que estaba por allí cuando llegaron con todos los bártulos, nos ha ayudado a preparar la decoración y a colgar la piñata. Los bártulos, that's a great word. We could have talked about the bártulos for filming high five, all that gear and all that, all the stuff, basically. Sí, es difícil traducirla, estaba pensando al inglés. Stuff, I think, or belongings, maybe, something like that. So Elena, who was around there, when they arrived with all the gear, has helped us prepare the decoration and put the piñata. So she helped us prepare the decorations and hang up the piñata. We can't translate piñata. No, de hecho, he descubierto, mientras me preparaba para este episodio, que viene del italiano. Siempre pensé que era una palabra de origen español, pero viene del italiano. ¿Sí? Sí. Bueno, tenemos que hablar con Francesca. Sí, sí, le preguntaremos. Ok. Hemos preparado una mesa enorme cubierta con manteles de colores. De la cocina salían grandes bandejas con los típicos bocadillos de cumpleaños infantil. Ok, we'll stop there. Hemos preparado una mesa enorme. So we set up a huge table cubierta con manteles de colores. So covered with colorful tablecloths, un mantel. De la cocina salían grandes bandejas con los típicos bocadillos de cumpleaños infantil. So from the kitchen, there were coming out large trees with the typical sandwiches of children's birthdays. That kind of idea. Soy un pesado siempre con esto, pero bocadillos no es sandwich. Baguette style sandwich. Baguette style sandwich. I'm going to say that our listeners will think that Pablo always says this in all episodes. Yes, but I would also say sandwich. Sandwich doesn't mean a sandwich in Spanish. Yes, yes, a sandwich in Spanish. Yes, but a little. I accept it, I accept it. Medias noches with choppet, chorizo or salchichón, sandwiches of nocilla and bowls with potatoes frites and with chocolate. So medias noches half nights what this all about Pues esto es un plato t de los cumplea de ni y es como brioche rolls Y que llevan pues dentro choppet, chorizo, salchichón. ¿Qué es choppet? Choppet es luncheon meat. Y me imagino que viene de chopped pork. Yeah. I guess. But we wrote it chopper, like and with an accent on the O. Chorizo or salchitones or sausage. Well, I'm not going to translate chorizo or sausage. I think Pablo's looking at me with daggers in his eyes. Sandwiches de nocilla. So that's, look, nocilla is the equivalent of Nutella. Exactly. It's a cream of cacao and avellanas. With hazelnut as well. No sé qué pensaría Francesca de la nocilla. Seguramente piense que es una copia. So nocilla is the Spanish version of Natalya. Sí, sí, sí. Y bols con patatas fritas and bowls of crisps or potato chips con bolitas de chocolate with little chocolate balls. Genial. Para el final quedó la deliciosa tarta de galleta y chocolate que había preparado su abuela Nati. Para el final, so literally for the final, and to finish, quedó, literally there remained, but it means came last, the last thing to come. Otra vez más los mil diferentes usos del verbo quedar en español. And what was it? It was la deliciosa tarta de galleta y chocolate. So it was a delicious biscuit and chocolate cake that his grandmother Nati had made. It's already. It's already. So we have seen lots of things. I think this has been interesting culturally because children's birthday parties happen differently. But I have opened the stomach a little bit. I don't know, to you. The truth, with so much food. Yes, the chopper. A half-night with chopper. I don't like that. No te gusta como suena? Suena raro. Es súper típico en España de los cumpleaños de niños. Vale, vale. Okay, let us pause there and we'll go back and listen through one more time to the whole text and see how much you understand it this time. Hoy me he deslomado. Estoy cansadísima, pero feliz. He revivido la infancia de mis hijos porque hemos celebrado el cumpleaños de uno de los nietos de José y Nati en el bar. Esta mañana temprano ha venido José a tomarse un café y a leer el periódico. Como no ha venido acompañado, se ha sentado en la barra para charlar con Manuel. 10 minutes later, Nati has arrived very worried and a little nervous. It turns out that today is the birthday of his father. They had everything organized to celebrate the birthday of his daughter, but he exploded a building building and the building is completely inundated. I was listening to talk and they seemed very apuros. Suddenly, Manuel had a great idea. They proposed to celebrate the birthday in the bar. The friends of the little bit didn't start to arrive until the 5.00. de la tarde. Así que, después de servir los menús de mediodía, Manuel ha ido con la furgoneta para recoger las cosas de la casa de Carolina. Elena, que estaba por allí cuando llegaron con todos los bártulos, nos ha ayudado a preparar la decoración y a colgar la piñata. Hemos preparado una mesa enorme cubierta con manteles de colores. De la cocina salían grandes bandejas con los típicos bocadillos de cumpleaños infantil. Medias noches con chopet, chorizo, salchichón, sándwiches de nocilla y boles con patatas fritas y con bolitas de chocolate. Para el final quedó la deliciosa tarta de galleta y chocolate que había preparado su abuela Nati. Okay, so this episode of Scenes is, like all the others, part of our course. And our course offers additional materials which help you make more progress with your Spanish. These include the lesson notes, our video spotlight, the vocabulary lists, and the exercises, all of which will help you get more into the language that is featured in each episode and help you to understand the text that bit more. You can find out more about that by heading to coffeebreakacademy.com and you'll see the Scenes course there. Also remember that you can get weekly Spanish mini lessons straight to your inbox by subscribing to our newsletter for free at coffeebreakspanish.com. Well, that's it. Thank you very much, Pablo. Nothing, Mark. Thank you very much. Thank you, as always. I'm always very happy to be with you here to record an episode. And I too. Thank you for listening. We'll be back soon with the next episode of Scenes for Now. Thank you very much and until the next time. Until then. you have been listening to a coffee break languages production for the radiolingua network copyright 2026 radiolingua limited recording copyright 2026 radiolingua limited all rights reserved
