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INTRODUCTION
JP: Welcome everyone to Basic Bootcamp Lesson 4. This one’s called Happy New Year. My name is JP and I'm here with Fernando.
Fernando: Hey, JP. Hey, everyone.
JP: ¿Cómo estas tú?
Fernando: Bien, bien, gracias.
JP: So this lesson is called Happy New Year. What are we going to listen for?
Fernando: The countdown.
JP: The countdown. It’s going to be a New Year’s countdown, I suppose.
Fernando: Yes, yes.
JP: So I bet we’re going to hear some numbers, right?
Fernando: That is correct.
JP: Ok, so we’re going to listen for those numbers in this dialogue which you’re about to hear right now. Here we go.
DIALOGUE
GROUP: ¡Diez, nueve, ocho...!
GROUP: ¡Siete, seis, cinco...!
GROUP: ¡Cuatro, tres, dos, uno!
GROUP: ¡Feliz año nuevo!
JP: Let’s hear it again, dramatic speed.
GROUP: ¡Diez, nueve, ocho...!
GROUP: ¡Siete, seis, cinco...!
GROUP: ¡Cuatro, tres, dos, uno!
GROUP: ¡Feliz año nuevo!
JP: One more time with the translation.
GROUP: ¡Diez, nueve, ocho...!
GROUP: Ten, nine, eight...!
GROUP: ¡Siete, seis, cinco...!
GROUP: Seven, six, five...!
GROUP: ¡Cuatro, tres, dos, uno!
GROUP: Four, three, two, one...!
GROUP: ¡Feliz año nuevo!
GROUP: Happy New Year!
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
JP: Ok, Fernando, what did we just hear? What just happened?
Fernando: We were at a New Year’s Eve party and we heard everyone counting down to the last ten seconds until midnight struck.
JP: Ok. This is where everybody watches the clock and then the countdown happens, and then everybody shouts “Happy New Year!” And then there’s kissing and drinking…
Fernando: And mistletoe… Wait, no. that’s a different holiday. So you’ve been to a New Year’s Eve party then, JP.
JP: I’ve been to a few. Should we look at the vocabulary?
Fernando: Let’s.
VOCAB LIST
Fernando: Uno.
JP: One.
Fernando: Uno.
JP: What’s next?
Fernando: Dos.
JP: Two.
Fernando: Dos.
JP: What’s next?
Fernando: Tres.
JP: Three.
Fernando: Tres.
JP: What’s next?
Fernando: Cuatro.
JP: Four.
Fernando: Cuatro.
JP: What’s next?
Fernando: Cinco.
JP: Five.
Fernando: Cinco.
JP: What’s next?
Fernando: Seis.
JP: Six.
Fernando: Seis.
JP: What’s next?
Fernando: Siete.
JP: Seven.
Fernando: Siete.
JP: What’s next?
Fernando: Ocho.
JP: Eight.
Fernando: Ocho.
JP: What’s next?
Fernando: Nueve.
JP: Nine.
Fernando: Nueve.
JP: Ok, last one.
Fernando: Diez.
JP: Ten.
Fernando: Diez.
VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
JP: Alright, let’s have a closer look at the usage of the words and phrases in this lesson. So, Fernando, counting backwards from ten to one is a great skill to have for countdowns.
Fernando: Countdowns are always exciting.
JP: Ok, so let’s hear the numbers again, but this time let’s hear it in order, like in counting order.
Fernando: Uno, dos, tres.
JP: Uno, dos, tres. Ok, this is “one, two, three”. Now remember, folks, when you’re pronouncing the O in uno and dos, you have to use a Spanish O, right? uno, dos. Not the American O, right? It’s not dos, or, uno. It’s uno, and dos.
Fernando: Uno, dos, tres. That’s “one, two, three”.
JP: Ok, how about “four, five and six”?
Fernando: Cuatro, cinco, seis.
JP: Now for that number “five”, cinco, in Latin America we say cinco, in Spain they’d say cinco.
Fernando: Cinco, tío.
JP: Cinco. Ok, and the word for “six”. It’s one little syllable, right? Seis.
Fernando: Seis. Siete, ocho, nueve.
JP: Ok, so Siete, ocho, nueve, these are “seven, eight and nine”. Siete, ocho, nueve. Siete is two syllables, right? Now if you jag it out to a three syllables like you’d say Si-e-te.
Fernando: Then you sound Gringo fabulous.
JP: Ok, so siete. Nueve is also only two syllables, so nueve. The first syllable nue is sometimes hard for English speakers to say in one syllable, right? Nueve.
Fernando: And the last number, diez. Just one syllable, Jp.
JP: Ok, just one syllable, diez, not di-ez.
Fernando: diez
JP: diez Number 10, diez.

Lesson focus

Fernando: Ok. So what’s the grammatical point you want to talk about now? We did all these numbers…
JP: Ok, so I want to talk about ¡Feliz año nuevo!.
Fernando: This is how we say “Happy New Year!”
JP: Right, ¡Feliz año nuevo!
Fernando: Now we really only say this one day a year.
JP: Yes, but for one day we say it a lot. Now I want to break it down just a little bit. The word for “happy” is…
Fernando: Feliz.
JP: Feliz. So if you’re looking at the lesson notes you can see that feliz ends in a Z, right? In a zeta, so in Latin America we say feliz and in Spain we would say feliz.
Fernando: Feliz.
JP: Feliz Now, ¡Feliz año nuevo! The last word is nuevo, right?
Fernando: nuevo, “new”.
JP: “New”. Ok, so the pronunciation tip I have for you all is that nuevo is a two syllable word, right? nue and vo. So if you say it in three syllables, nu-e-vo…
Fernando: JP, can you stop? I think they got the picture.
JP: Nuevo.
Fernando: JP?
JP: Ok, two syllables. Nue-vo. Now the last word is año.
Fernando: Año.
JP: Ok, means “year”, año. And here’s a good example of the ñ in the wild, right? The letter ñ. Año. Now, folks, that ñ is a real Spanish letter and if you forget the squiggle when you write it, your Spanish teacher will mark it misspelled because then it says ano.
Fernando: Which means “anus”. So ¡Feliz año nuevo!, JP.
JP: Gracias, Fernando ¡Feliz año nuevo! Hey, Fernando, can you tell us any Mexican traditions for the año nuevo?
Fernando: In my home you tend to have a big dinner.
JP: Ok.
Fernando: Or before, accompanied by, you know, a bit of, you know, drink, adult drinks.
JP: Ok. Are there any crazy traditions like jumping or you have to kiss somebody? Or is there anything out of the ordinary that our American listeners might not know about?
Fernando: Well, there’s the grape tradition.
JP: The grape tradition? What’s that?
Fernando: You have 12 grapes ready to go once the clock strikes 12. So you have to eat a grape for each chime which will signify a wish that will come true.
JP: Ok, buy those chimes come like a second apart, right? They’re like dong, ding…
Fernando: You have to practice, JP. Yes.
JP: You need 12 grapes.
Fernando: You need 12 grapes and, more importantly, you need to know what you want to wish for.
JP: You have 12 wishes.
Fernando: You have 12 wishes, yes.
JP: Ok.
Fernando: So if you finish them all then you will have your wishes granted, or so they say, yes.
JP: Ok.

Outro

Fernando: Ok, folks. Thank you for listening. This has been Basic Bootcamp Lesson number 4, we’ll be back for lesson 5. Hasta luego.
JP: Hasta luego.

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