Cbs 02 Guide

Coffee Break Spanish is a new podcast aimed at learners of the Spanish language. In this episode we cover greetings for different times of the day, saying "goodbye" and how to introduce yourself.

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Cbs 02 Guide

Coffee Break Spanish is a new podcast aimed at learners of the Spanish language. In this episode we cover greetings for different times of the day, saying "goodbye" and how to introduce yourself.

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October 25, 2006

Lesson 02 Notes
In this edition: greetings at different times of the day; saying goodbye; giving your name

Adis y hasta luego! Lesson 02

Programme Notes

Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish, the new podcast aimed at learners of Spanish. In Coffee Break Spanish well be guiding you through the beginnings of the Spanish language and helping you learn the basics of Spanish. This second lesson builds on the content of Lesson 01 where we learned some greetings and how to ask people how they are feeling. In Lesson 02 we cover greetings for different times of the day, words for saying goodbye, and how to introduce yourself. Basta ya! Lets get straight into learning Spanish!

literally means good days. The same construction is used for good afternoon:

buenas tardes good afternoon

You can say buenase tardes from after lunch until the middle of the evening. Like buenos das the phrase literally means good afternoons, ie. the word tardes is in the plural form. To say good night you say:

buenas noches good night

This phrase can be used when you leave somewhere at night, but it can also be used when you arrive somewhere in the evening. If youre confused about when to use buenas tardes and buenas noches, this rule may help: if its daylight, use buenas tardes, if its dark, use buenas noches. It normally works! You may have noticed that the word for good in the above phrases changes depending on what follows it: its buenOs das and buenAs tardes / noches.

Greetings
Last week we learned hola, meaning hello. This works in an informal way for any time of the day. To say good morning, use this phrase:

buenos das good morning

Buenos das is used until lunchtime, normally around 2pm in Spain, although this may vary in other Spanish speaking countries. The phrase

Spanish, like many languages uses different genders, making some words masculine and some words feminine. In the case of da, the word is masculine so the adjective has to be in the masculine form. The word tarde is feminine, so the adjective has to be in the feminine form. Well be talking more about this in future lessons so dont let it worry you just now!

me llamo... my name is... / Im called...

The word llamo uses a double l and this sounds quite different depending on which Spanishspeaking country youre familiar with. In Spain it generally sounds like ly, so me llamo sounds like me lyamo. Listen to the recording for examples of pronunciation. There are two versions of the nal phrase in this lesson, one for males and one for females. If youre male, to say its nice to meet you you used the phrase:

Saying goodbye
The straightforward word for goodbye is:

adis goodbye
Just like in English where the word for goodbye comes from God be with you, adis is linked to the word for God, dos. Pronunciation tip: try to make sure your d in adis is a soft d, almost like the th in the English word this. You can also use other phrases describing when youre likely to see the person again. You can say:

encantado nice to meet you (m)

If youre female you change the -o ending to -a:

encantada nice to meet you (f)

In some books when one word with two forms ending in either -o or -a is given it is sometimes written as encantad@. The theory is that the @ symbol encapsulates both the o and a endings. This is an informal way of writing and is particularly common on the internet. Lets put some of the words and phrases weve covered in this lesson into a conversation. Mark: Hola, buenos das. Kara: Hola, buenos das. Mark: Qu tal? Kara: Muy bien, gracias. Qu tal? Mark: Muy bien. Me llamo Mark. Kara: Encantada. Me llamo Kara. Mark: Encantado.

hasta luego see you later

Just like in English, hasta luego is used when youre not sure when youll see the person again and is a very common way to bid farewell to someone. Hasta itself means until.

hasta pronto see you soon

Hasta pronto is used when youre fairly certain youll see the person soon. If you are likely to see the person the following day you can use:

hasta maana see you tomorrow

Notice the letter in this phrase: this is used to represent a nasal n and is pronounced rather like the ni in onion. It is very common in Spanish and in dictionaries it is treated as a different letter to n. It is used in the word for Spanish itself: espaol, which sounds like espanyol. The ~ mark is called a tilde. See the bonus vocabulary below for some other phrases using hasta.

Bonus vocabulary
In each edition of Coffee Break Spanish we cover the basic language you need to communicate. However we also provide some additional vocabulary for our listeners who download the extra materials. You can download the bonus vocabulary recording from our website. For the full list of vocabulary for this lesson, including the bonus words and phrases, see overleaf.

Giving your name

To say my name is... or I am called... you use the phrase:

CoffeeBreakSpanish: Lesson 02 - Key Vocabulary

buenos das buenas tardes buenas noches adis hasta luego hasta pronto hasta maana me llamo... encantado / encantada good morning good afternoon (also early evening) good evening (arriving), good night (departing) goodbye see you later see you soon see you tomorrow my name is... / Im called... pleased to meet you

CoffeeBreakSpanish: Lesson 02 - Bonus Vocabulary

chao nos vemos hasta la prxima hasta otra hasta la semana que viene mucho gusto* bye (informal) - from Italian ciao See you. (lit. well see each other) until the next time until another time until next week pleased to meet you

*Unlike encantado / encantada, the phrase mucho gusto does not change depending on whether you are male or female. Mucho gusto literally means much pleasure and therefore the construction is not based on an adjective which has to agree with the person who is being described. Again, dont worry about this! We know that some of you like to know why things are the way they are. If youre quite happy not knowing, then just ignore these grammar tips for the time being!

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