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Well, it's very good. It's very nice to be here in the studio with you again for a new episode and a new season. A new season. Yes, yes, we're going to train a new season. I'm very emotional. We are back with a new season of scenes from the Coffee Break Cafe. We got so much fantastic feedback on season one. You asked for a new season and here you are as the new season beginning today. So we're going to be revisiting our coffee, the Casay Ise Imanu. And we will be seeing some of our regulars, but we'll also be seeing some new characters. Yes, yes, Marc. I have a lot of ganas. I also. Well, what we're going to do is listen first the text, then we'll see a little bit of the text of the grammar of the vocabulary and all that. And in the end we'll listen to the text of the trice and then it's done. I think it's fantastic. Well, that's why. Come on. Let's listen to the first reading of the text and we're going to begin by listening to a slightly slower version at the end. We'll hear a normal speed version. I love that the days start to be longer. I give a lot of energy. The trees of the streets start to have flowers. How much do you like the first time? Although it hasn't started officially, it begins to feel. I've been a beautiful day full of good news. I've always believed in the destiny, but today more than ever. I've felt like a secondary character of a romantic comedy. The protagonists are Miguel and Elena. Today, on the middle of the day, Miguel has arrived. I was inside in the kitchen, finishing by making a cake when I heard Miguel asking Manuel for me. I left as soon as I finished. The red one told me when you fell asleep. I don't know if it's time to take a coffee, but I come to invite you to what you want. I have to thank you for your coffee. I gave a huge joy to know that you had hired him. And that I started on the buffet in a few days. When I was telling everything, I arrived, Elena. And I felt in the bar. I quickly introduced them to you. And she also gave you the good news. In the bar, there were more people than the one who arrived to take the day off. So I had to go to attend the table. They continued to talk very quickly. It seems that they were with Jenny. When she left, Elena asked me a menu of the day and she felt in a table. After eating, she had her class of conversation with Harvey, the girl of the summer. When I took the coffee, I confessed that Miguel had appeared very beautiful. I thought he would come back. I hope he returns and he will see you again. Well, you can't start the first coffee, because, well, we will see what happens. Let's go through it line by line now. I love that the days start to be longer. It gives me a lot of energy. I love this time of year two, because I think the light always changes at this time of year. The day is big again to get a little longer. And for me, the light changes. It's the sign of spring, it's the sign of the warmth of the summer, even in Scotland. Yes, and we have the first subjunctive trigger here. I love that the days start to get longer. The days start to get longer. The days start to get longer. It gives me a lot of energy. It gives me so much energy. Of course. The streets start to have flowers. So the trees of the streets are starting to have flowers. They're starting to bloom. Yes, and I know that you love the verbal peripherals, as starting to do something. Yes, yes, yes. So it's always to do something. And we have to do something in the infinitive in English. But in Spanish, we need to add in that preposition A, and start to do something. Yes. So how much do you like the first time? Although I haven't started yet, I'm going to start to feel. Okay, so how much do you like the first time? How much do I love spring? And there's how much with an accent on it. We're kind of exclaiming how much. How much do I love springtime? Although I haven't started yet, I'm going to start to feel. Although I haven't officially started yet. How much do I feel? Literally already it starts to feel and then it's a reflexive. Yes, it's a step-as-if. So you can already feel it. It's already being felt. Yes, and if I don't remember wrong, I think the first chapter of the previous season we also had a one-way, so as you already know, our students, although they can go with indicative or with their group. But here it goes with indicative, because it's an hecho. So, Anke is one of those words that can trigger the subjunctive. And I think when you're learning and you're beginning to get used to using the subjunctive, you're thinking, Ah, Anke, I'm putting a subjunctive. But here it's a really good example, because although it hasn't officially started yet, there's no doubt it's a fact. Although it hasn't officially started yet, Anke, how no, ah, empath, ah, though. If we were talking about even if something hasn't started, then we might need to ask some questions. And I would say, although it hasn't started yet, exactly. Okay, very good. So straightforward, today has been a lovely day. Today has been a good day. I love those candidates. I've always believed in destiny, but I've always believed in destiny, but I've always believed in destiny, but I've always believed in skills that skills that skills skills skills skills but today more than ever. Mm-hmm. Me he sentido como el personaje secundario de una comedia romántica. So me he sentido, I have felt like, como el personaje secundario. Now, is that the same wording that you would use, let's say, in an awards ceremony where you've got a supporting actor or a supporting actress? Me, dejame pensar. Yo creo que mejor actor de reparto, mejor actriz de reparto. Ah, de reparto, okay. Pero ambos, es ambas cosas de notar lo mismo. Esa supporting character, ¿sí? Sí, pero estaba pensando en los oscars. Y creo que la categoría la traduce como mejor actor o actriz de reparto, que significa personaje secundario. Okay, so me he sentido como el personaje secundario. I felt like a supporting character or a secondary person. De una comedia romántica, en una romántica comedy. Los protagonistas son Miguel y Elena. Ah, he has the big reveal, of course we know it, because we've heard it already, but los protagonistas, the key characters, the main characters, the protagonists are Miguel and Elena. Hoy sobre la una del mediodía, ha llegado Miguel. So today, around 1 o'clock, Miguel arrived. And we're using the perfect tense there, ha llegado Miguel, mainly because it happened today. It's very much linked to the present. Sí, pero podríamos decir perfectamente llegó Miguel. Okay. Yo estaba dentro en la cocina, terminando de hacer una tortilla cuando escuché a Miguel preguntándole a Manuel por mí. Okay, so yo estaba dentro, I was inside, en la cocina, en la cuchina, terminando de hacer una tortilla, finishing making a tortilla con cebolla o ciente bolla. ¿Sabes? Cuando escuché a Miguel preguntándole a Manuel por mí. When I heard Miguel, a personal, a enter, escuché a Miguel, preguntándole a Manuel asking Manuel por mí, a Bavumí. Y aquí tenemos el clásico ejemplo del redublicación del complemento indirecto, porque tenemos preguntándole a Manuel. Exacto. So preguntándole means asking him, and then we're saying, okay, who were asking to Manuel? A Manuel, le a Manuel. Preguntándole a Manuel. Salí en cuanto termine. So I came out as soon as I finished making a tortilla, ¿no? Sí. Al verme me dijo entusiasmado. No sé si es hora de tomar un café, pero vengo a invitarte a lo que quieras. Okay, so al verme, on seeing me, this is all plus the infinitive, but we've added in the may here as well, on seeing me, me dijo entusiasmado. He said excitedly, no sé si es hora de tomar un café, pero vengo a invitarte a lo que quieras. So I don't know if it's the time for a coffee, but I am coming, having a bitarte to invite you or to buy for you a lo que quieras, whatever you want. And that whatever you want is triggering this object and lo que quieras. Sí, sí. Porque si él su piece lo que quiere y saber diría a lo que quieres, pero como no lo sabe, usamos el sojuntivas. Perfecto. Tengo que agradecerte por tu café de la suerte. So I have to thank you for your lucky coffee. Sí, sí. Me dio una alegría enorme saber que lo habían contratado y que empezaba en el bufete en unos días. Que bien. So me dio una alegría enorme. It gave me an enormous joy. I was overjoyed saber to know que lo habían contratado that they had hired him or that he had been hired y que empezaba en el bufete en unos días. And that he was starting at the law firm in a few days. Sí, sí, sí. Cuando estaba contándome lo todo llegó Elena y se sentó en la barra. So while Miguel was telling me everything, cuando estaba contándome lo todo and they were contando, the chair inform, me, to me, and lo it, as in everything he was telling. Llego Elena, Elena arrived y se sentó en la barra and she sat down at the counter. Sí, Marc, y aquí no sé si te has dado cuenta que tenemos contándome lo todo. Normalmente cuando tenemos todo como complemento directo, normalmente reduplicamos el complemento directo y ponemos lo. Lo, también. Sí, sí, sí. So we get, okay? Let's pause there for a little break and then we'll find out what happens after the break. 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. 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San Conocido por Vien que teníamos ganas. And Isabel is ready to do the introductions. Los presentes, y ella le dio la enora buena también. Los presentes, rapidamente, ay, quickly introduce them, y ella, and she, meaning Elena, le dio, y ella, y ella, y ella, y ella, y ella, y ella, y ella, y ella, y ella, y ella, y ella, y ella, y ella, y ella, le dio to hem gave la enora buena también, the congratulations to, so she congratulated him too. Tienes razón sí? En el bar había cada vez más gente que llegaba para tomar el menú del día, por lo que me tuve que ir a atender mesas. Ok, so en el bar, en el bar había cada vez más gente, más y más gente que llegaba. A mí me gusta traducir cada vez a inglés como nonativo de la lengua inglés. Me parece una palabra difícil de traducir. I mean, literally every time more, but you would never see that. So, increasingly, but increasingly sounds quite posh. I think there were just more and more people que llegaba para tomar en menú del día, who were coming in for the same menu. Sí. Por lo que, for which reason or just so, me tuve que ir atender mesas, I had to go and serve tables. Sí. Ellos siguieron hablando mucho rato. Parece que congeniaron. Ah, that's a nice word congeniar. Sí. So we can say to get along or to click. Sí, llevarse bien también valdría, pero congeniar, no se suena mucho mejor. Sí. So, ellos siguieron hablando mucho rato. They kept talking for a long while. Parece que congeniaron. They seem to get along. They seem to head off. Exacto. Cuando él se fue, el ename pidió menú del día y se sentó en una mesa. I wonder if this is a working day. Is Elena not... ¿Suchina obvia a school? Sí. Tiene razón. Sí, no la había pensado. Bueno, quizás, fin de semana. Sí, quizás. OK, so cuando él se fue, cuando él le fue, Elena me pidió un menú del día. She asked me for the set menu. Y se sentó en una mesa. And she sat down at a table. We've seen lots of pretries there. Se fue. Se sentó. El pidió. Se sentó. Sí. Después de comer, tenía su clase de conversación semanal con Harvey, el chico de Lerasmus. OK, so I'm guessing probably isn't a normal working day. So she's maybe organized there. Puede que haya salido del instituto a la hora de comer para comer allí, sí. So después de comer, after eating, tenía su clase de conversación semanal. So she had a weekly conversation class con Harvey with Harvey, el chico de Lerasmus. Irasmus, shouldn't. Cuando le llevé el café, me confesó que Miguel le había parecido monísimo. I love that word. Me encanta esto, sí, sí. Cuando le llevé el café, cuando he took her the coffee, me confesó. She confessed to me que Miguel le había parecido monísimo. That Miguel, to her, had seemed monísimo, really cute, really good looking. Sí, sí, exacto. So mono, mono, can mean good looking in that sense. Sí. But can you also use it for cute, like, if you're just going to be an animal lover. Sí, sí, es como cute. Hay que perro más mono. Que camiseta más mono, llevas. OK, OK. Muy bien. Crees que volverá, me pregunto. So, crees que volverá, we've got a future tense there. Sí. Do you think he'll return? Sí, y estaba pensando que es interesante porque si decimos crees en positivo, crees que volverá, necesitamos indicativo en este caso futuro, pero si lo transformamos a negativo, necesitamos el subjuntivo, no crees que vuelva. Yeah, do you not think he'll come back? Sí. Yeah, so there's some different, it's no creer. Sí. Sí, sí, cuidado. Crees que aquí, with a future, crees que volverá, me pregunto. So, do you think he'll come back? Sí, ask me. Pues ya veremos. Espero que vuelva y se vean de nuevo. So, isabel is making her statement there. Espero que vuelva. I hope he comes back. Y se vean de nuevo. And then we see each other again. So, we've got two subjuntos there, and it's interesting that we do need to repeat the que. No, no, porque será por entendido. Sí. So, espero que vuelva y que se vean. Podríamos decirlo, espero que vuelva y que se vean de nuevo. Good. We've seen quite a few subjuntos triggers in the set episode. We've seen me encanta que. I've also lo que quieras, which I always like. And what else have we seen? We've seen some interesting verbs. We saw a perfect, we've seen some... Imparefaces. Imperfec, yeah, most. And we've also seen some expressions with Dar. Sí, hemos visto Dar alegria, Dar la inorabuena. Sí. Pero no vamos a decir mucho sobre esto, no, Marc? ¿Is that good something to do with the spotlight video, perhaps? Sí, sí. So, we've got these spotlight videos where we talk in greater detail about some of the elements of the episode. But I'll tell you a little more about that after we hear the text again. And listen out for these Dar expressions and subjuntos and the tenses. So, let's hear it now at a more normal speaking speed. Me encanta que los días empiecen a ser más largos. Me da muchísima energía. Los árboles de las calles empiezan a tener flores. Cuanto me gusta la primavera. Aunque aún no ha empezado oficialmente, ya comienza a sentirse. Hoy ha sido un día bonito, lleno de buenas noticias. Siempre he creído en el destino, pero hoy más que nunca. Me he sentido como el personaje secundario de una comedia romántica. Los protagonistas son Miguel y Elena. Hoy sobre la una del medio día ha llegado Miguel. Yo estaba dentro en la cocina, terminando de hacer una tortilla. Cuando escuché a Miguel preguntándole a Manuel por mí, salí en cuanto terminé. Al verme me dijo entusiasmado. No sé si es hora de tomar un café, pero vengo a invitarte a lo que quieras. Tengo que agradecerte por tu café de la suerte. Me dio una alegría enorme saber que lo habían contratado y que empezaba en el buffet en unos días. Cuando estaba contándome lo todo, llegó Elena y se sentó en la barra. Los presenté rápidamente y ella le dio la enora buena también. En el bar había cada vez más gente que llegaba para tomar el menú del día, por lo que tuve que ir a atender mesas. Ellos siguieron hablando mucho rato. Parece que congeniaron. Cuando él se fue, Elena me pidió un menú del día y se sentó en una mesa. Después de comer tenía su clase de conversación semanal con Harvey, el chico de Lerasmus. Cuando le lleve el café, me confesó que Miguel le había parecido monísimo. ¿Crees que volverá? Me preguntó. Espero que vuelva y se vean de nuevo. Pues, bien. I mentioned earlier, in fact Pablo mentioned the spotlight videos. This time we're looking at dad expressions. The idea of these spotlight videos is that we take more in depth what we've covered in our main lesson and go into that in more detail and give you further examples. And these are part of the Coffee Break Scenes course, which is available over on the Coffee Break Academy. We also provide lesson notes and exercises for vocabulary lists, lots of information, lots of content to help you get the most out of scenes from the Coffee Break Cafe. And as I said, you can find all of this at coffeebreakacademy.com. And as Mark, we can also remind our listeners that they can subscribe to our Spanish newsletter, of course, where they can receive weekly emails with mini-lisons on everything in Spanish. And all they need to do is to go to coffeebreakspanis.com and just sign up there. Perfecto. Muchas gracias Pablo. Muchas gracias a ti, Mark. Y ya, ya, veremos qué pasa porque para hacer el primer episodio ha sido muy interesante, yo creo. Sí. You have been listening to our Coffee Break Language's production for the RadioLinguan Network. Copyright 2026, RadioLinguallimited, all rates reserved. Now, this is usually the bit in the radio ad where you drift off. You half-listen, your brain wanders home. Not to the house itself, but to what it could be. 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