CBS Mag 3.04 | ¡A bailar!

CBS Mag 3.04 | ¡A bailar!

Author: Coffee Break Languages January 17, 2020 Duration: 30:00

¡Feliz Año Nuevo! We're starting a new year of Coffee Break Spanish with episode 4 of our third season of the Magazine, and the topic for this week is salsa. Not the kind of salsa you put on your fajitas, but the dance which is popular all over the world. There's a question from listener Namrata about combining infinitives, and Sofía shares a fantastic Spanish tongue twister which will get you practising your pronunciation.


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CBS 2.23 | Various uses of por [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 16:24
Over lessons 21-23 we’ve been looking at por and para. In lesson 23 it’s time to look at the various uses of por, including a number of situations when por doesn’t mean “for”. Please note that lesson 23 of Season 2 was o…
CBS 2.22 | Expressing purpose using para [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:57
In lesson 22 we’re continuing to discuss por and para: this time we’re focusing on the use of para when expressing purpose, e.g. "this gift is for you” – este regalo es para ti. We’ll also learn the verb regalar, and tal…
CBS 2.21 | Using "for" in Spanish [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 17:44
Lessons 21-23 will look at the thorny issue of por and para: by the end of these three lessons you’ll be confident in knowing exactly when to use which word! In lesson 61 we’ll introduce both words and consider various s…
CBS 2.20 | End-of-unit test [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:56
In this week’s episode we reach episode 20 and Mark will be testing Kara on everything she’s learned so far about verbs and adjectives in the past few lessons of the course. Please note that lesson 20 of Season 2 was ori…
CBS 2.19 | Describing the past [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:37
This week we’re continuing to look at the imperfect tense. We’ll go through the conjugation of -ar, -er and -ir verbs and talk about how the imperfect tense is used to describe things in the past. Please note that lesson…
CBS 2.18 | Talking more about the past - the imperfect tense [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 16:38
In this week’s lesson we introduce the imperfect tense and consider in what situations this tense is used. We’ll also learn the conjugation of -ar verbs in the imperfect tense. Please note that lesson 18 of Season 2 was…
CBS 2.17 | Identity quiz [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:53
It’s time to put into practice what you’ve been learning about the preterite tense. In this week’s episode Mark challenges Kara to an identity quiz using lots of preterite tenses to describe the lives of the mystery pers…
CBS 2.16 | Spelling changes in the preterite tense [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:54
More preterite tenses this week: it’s now time to look at reflexive verbs and verbs which have spelling changes ('radical-changing verbs') in the preterite tense. Please note that lesson 16 of Season 2 was originally kno…
CBS 2.15 | Preterite tense of irregular verbs [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:06
We’ll be continuing our study of the preterite tense in this week’s lesson and it’s time to take a look at some irregular verbs: hacer, ir, ver and dar in the preterite, so that you can talk about what you did, where you…
CBS 2.14 | Preterite tense of -ir and -ar verbs [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:23
This week’s episode of Coffee Break Spanish looks further at the preterite tense which is used to relate events in the past. Listeners should be aware that this episode was originally released in February 2008 and theref…