LESSON TRANSCRIPT

Gengo Spanish S1 #5
Making Tricky Spanish Calculations

CONTENTS
2 INTRODUCTION
2 DIALOGUE
3 POST CONVERSATION BANTER
3 VOCAB LIST
4 VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
5 LESSON FOCUS
7 OUTRO

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 INTRODUCTION

Fernando: Hola todos! This is Gengo Spanish lesson 5 - (Touch down) Making Tricky
Spanish Calculations. Soy Fernando, y yo soy aquí con JP. Hola, JP.

JP: Hello, and welcome to the Gengo Spanish at SpanishPOD101.com, where we

study modern Spanish in a fun, educational format! So, brush up on the Spanish that
you started learning long ago, or start learning today. Thanks for being here with us for
this lesson. Fernando, what are we going to talk about today?

JP: In this lesson you will learn about expressing time of day. This conversation takes
place on the plane. First you’ll hear the pilot, and then a brief conversation between
Jimmy and Sandra. The pilot address the passengers with the formal register; Jimmy
and Sandra in the familiar one.

DIALOGUE

PILOTO: Buenas tardes damas y caballeros, bienvenidos al Aeropuerto Internacional

de Cancún. Son las tres de la tarde, y estamos a 17 grados centígrados y el cielo está
despejado. Que disfruten de su estancia en México.

JIMMY: 17 grados, que frío, ¿no?

SANDRA: Sí, siempre traigo un suéter.

JIMMY: Pues yo no.

JP: One more time, with the translation.

PILOTO: Buenas tardes damas y caballeros, bienvenidos al Aeropuerto Internacional

de Cancún. Son las tres de la tarde, y estamos a 17 grados centígrados y el cielo está
despejado. Que disfruten de su estancia en México.

PILOT: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Cancún International

Airport. It is three o'clock in the afternoon, seventeen degrees centigrade, and the sky
is clear. Enjoy your stay in Mexico.

JIMMY: 17 grados, que frío, ¿no?

JIMMY: Seventeen degrees. That's cold, right?

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SANDRA: Sí, siempre traigo un suéter.

SANDRA: Yes. I always take a sweater.

JIMMY: Pues yo no.

JIMMY: Not me.

POST CONVERSATION BANTER

JP: So Fernando, today we heard the airline pilot's speech as the plane touched down
in Cancún.

Fernando: Right, if you've flown before, you're familiar with this speech; welcome to the
destination, this is the local time, this is the weather, enjoy your stay.

JP: You know, I actually had a question about the weather. What was the temperature
he said it was?

Fernando: He said "estamos a 17 grados centígrados."

JP: Ok, what is 17 Celsius for those of us that are... metrically challenged.

Fernando: In Fahrenheit, that's the low 60s.

JP: Doesn't that seem a little cold for Cancún at 3 in the afternoon?

Fernando: It is; it does seem a little cold. Hope you brought a sweater. Sandra brought
a sweater.

JP: Well, sounds like Jimmy's going to have to buy one. Ok, let's take a look at the
vocabulary for this lesson.

VOCAB LIST

Fernando: el suéter [natural native speed]

JP: the sweater

Fernando: el suéter [slowly - broken down by syllable]

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Fernando: el suéter [natural native speed]

JP: Next.

Fernando: la estancia [natural native speed]

JP: the stay

Fernando: la estancia [slowly - broken down by syllable]

Fernando: la estancia [natural native speed]

JP: Next.

Fernando: disfrutar [natural native speed]

JP: enjoy

Fernando: disfrutar [slowly - broken down by syllable]

Fernando: disfrutar [natural native speed]

JP: Next.

Fernando: bienvenido/a [natural native speed]

JP: welcome

Fernando: bienvenido/a [slowly - broken down by syllable]

Fernando: bienvenido/a [natural native speed]

VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE

JP: Ok, now let’s take a look at how we use some of the words and phrases in this
lesson. Now, what are we going to talk about first?

Fernando: El suéter.

JP: Yah, el suéter sounds exactly like English.

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Fernando: I think it's a loan word from English, actually.

JP: Cool. el suéter. What was the next word?

Fernando: La estancia.

JP: Ok, so this is a stay... it's the length of time you stay at a certain place. La
estancia. So when they say enjoy your stay in Mexico...

Fernando: Que disfruten de su estancia... en México. Which takes us to our next

word... disfrutar.

JP: Ok, and in the dialog we heard "disfrutar de." He says "que disfruten de su
estancia." So the pilot is wishing the passengers an enjoyable stay,"que disfruten de...
su estancia en México. And the last word?

Fernando: Bienvenido. It means welcome, bienvenido.

JP: Bienvenido. Actually in the dialog we heard it with an /s/ on the end, bienvenidos.

Fernando: That's right. That's because the pilot was addressing all the passengers of
the plane. In Spanish when you use an adjective, it has to agree in gender and number
to the noun you're referring to, and in this case, the passengers are plural. So
"bienvenidos."

JP: Bienvenidos.

LESSON FOCUS

Fernando: What's the grammar point for today?

JP: I want to talk about how to tell time in Spanish.

Fernando: Alright... In the dialog, we heard the pilot say "it's three in the afternoon."
Son las tres de la tarde.

JP: Ok, we're going to break this down, so 3 o'clock? las tres.

Fernando: Las tres.

JP: Las tres. Notice how we use the feminine article with a number to talk about the

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time. las tres. what if it's two o'clock?

Fernando: Las dos.

JP: What if it's one o'clock?

Fernando: La una.

JP: La una. Why is it la una but las dos? Is it singular and plural?

Fernando: Apparently so...

JP: Ok then. So to say "it three o'clock" son las tres.

Fernando: Son las tres. we use "ser" to make the sentence. Son las tres.

JP: It's two o'clock?

Fernando: son las dos

JP: It's one o'clock?

Fernando: es la una.

JP: Es la una... we use 'es' because it's singular.

Fernando: Así es.

JP: Ok, from there you can extrapolate, son las cuatro, son las cinco, son las once,
son las doce.

Fernando: Right. But let's get back to "it's three o'clock in the afternoon" for a second.
We have to be able to say "in the afternoon."

JP: Ok, we said "son las tres... de la tarde."

Fernando: And that's how you say "in the afternoon... "de la tarde."

JP: Ok, so what if it's nine in the morning? Son las nueve...

Fernando: de la mañana.

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JP: de la mañana.. that means in the morning.

Fernando: de la mañana.... If you want to say it's nine in the evening...

JP: Son las nueve... de la...

Fernando: Son las nueve de la noche.... de la noche.

JP: De la noche... so now we know our three times of the day, there's de la mañana,
de la tarde, and de la noche.

Fernando: And there's one more...

JP: one more? I thought we covered it all... we have in the morning, in the afternoon, in
the evening... what else is there?

Fernando: de la madrugada.

JP: Ahh... like, son las tres de la madrugada.

Fernando: Right. La madrugada. We use la madrugada to talk about the early morning,
before sunrise. La madrugada.

JP: La madrugada. Ok, now la madrugada is the time when people are expected to be
asleep.

Fernando: Exactly. And it depends on point of view, you know... if it's 3am and you're
still going strong at the club, you might say "son las tres de la noche." But if you're
tired and you think you ought to be in bed, you'll say "son las tres de la madrugada"

JP: haha, the noche only ends... when the evening ends... la madrugada.

OUTRO

Fernando: I think that’s a wrap!

JP: Before we go, I wanna remind our Premium members, use the review track to
perfect your pronunciation. This is available in the premium section of the website, the
learning center and through iTunes via the premium feed, the Review Track gives you
vocabulary and phrases followed by a short pause so you can repeat the words aloud.
The best way to get good fast!

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Fernando: Adiós.

JP: Hasta Luego.

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