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INTRODUCTION
Fernando: On My Own. In this lesson, you will learn about the preterit tense. This conversation takes place in a restaurant. The conversation is between Jimmy and Sandra and the speakers use the familiar register.
Fernando: Alright, let's listen to the conversation now.
DIALOGUE
SANDRA: ¿Y qué tal Cozumel?
JIMMY: Fue una maravilla. Una belleza. Fuimos en barco desde Playa del Carmen, y recorrimos toda las isla en un jeep que nos alquiló Don Roberto. Comimos en un restaurante al lado del Caribe y tomamos... pues, tomamos mucho.
SANDRA: ¿Hicieron snorkel por la mañana?
JIMMY: Sí, claro. Fue padre. ¿Y tú qué hiciste ayer?
SANDRA: Trabajé todo el día.
JIMMY: Pobrecita.
SANDRA: [Risas], tu español ya se va mejorando.
MESERO: Señorita, el chile relleno, señor, el pollo asado. Provecho.
JIMMY Y SANDRA: Gracias.
SANDRA: Oye ¡qué delicioso! ¿Quién te recomendó este restaurante?
JIMMY: El taxista.
SANDRA: Pues deli-deli.
JP: One more time, with the translation.
SANDRA: ¿Y qué tal Cozumel?
SANDRA: So, how was Cozumel?
JIMMY: Fue una maravilla. Una belleza. Fuimos en barco desde Playa del Carmen, y recorrimos toda las isla en un jeep que nos alquiló Don Roberto. Comimos en un restaurante al lado del Caribe y tomamos... pues, tomamos mucho.
JIMMY: It was amazing. A thing of beauty. We took the ferry from Playa del Carmen, and we drove all over the island in a jeep that Don Roberto rented. We ate at a restaurant beside the Caribbean and we drank... Well, we drank a lot.
SANDRA: ¿Hicieron snorkel por la mañana?
SANDRA: Did you go snorkeling in the morning?
JIMMY: Sí, claro. Fue padre. ¿Y tú qué hiciste ayer?
JIMMY: Yes, of course. It was sweet. What about you? What did you do yesterday?
SANDRA: Trabajé todo el día.
SANDRA: I worked all day.
JIMMY: Pobrecita.
JIMMY: Poor thing.
SANDRA: [Risas], tu español ya se va mejorando.
SANDRA: [Laughter] Your Spanish is getting better.
MESERO: Señorita, el chile relleno, señor, el pollo asado. Provecho.
WAITER: Miss, the chile relleno. Sir, the grilled chicken. Enjoy.
JIMMY Y SANDRA: Gracias.
JIMMY AND SANDRA: Thanks.
SANDRA: Oye ¡qué delicioso! ¿Quién te recomendó este restaurante?
SANDRA: Man, this is delicious! Who told you about this restaurant?
JIMMY: El taxista.
JIMMY: The taxi driver.
SANDRA: Pues deli-deli.
SANDRA: Well, it's delish.
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
JP: Ok, Jimmy's back in a restaurant, this time telling Sandra all about his adventures.
Fernando: Yes, Jimmy has a list of exciting adventures, but Sandra says trabajé todo el día
JP: I worked all day. trabajé todo el día. well that's no fun!
Fernando: Not at all. So anyway, Sandra notices how good Jimmy's Spanish is getting. And that's when the food arrives.
JP: What did they order?
Fernando: Chile relleno for her, pollo asado for him.
JP: Pollo asado is grilled chicken. Pollo asado.
Fernando: So the food is good! Sandra likes it, calls it deli-deli. Mmmm
JP: Let's take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson.
VOCAB LIST
Fernando: Claro. [natural native speed]
JP: Of course.
Fernando: Claro. [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Fernando: Claro. [natural native speed]
JP: Next.
Fernando: recorrer [natural native speed]
JP: to traverse
Fernando: recorrer [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Fernando: recorrer [natural native speed]
JP: Next.
Fernando: alquilar [natural native speed]
JP: to rent
Fernando: alquilar [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Fernando: alquilar [natural native speed]
JP: Next.
Fernando: delicioso [natural native speed]
JP: delicious
Fernando: delicioso [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Fernando: delicioso [natural native speed]
JP: Next.
Fernando: Pobrecita. [natural native speed]
JP: Poor thing.
Fernando: Pobrecita. [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Fernando: Pobrecita. [natural native speed]
VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
JP: Now, let's take a look at how we use these words.
Fernando: First one we want to look at is claro.
JP: Claro... it means of course. Sandra asked Jimmy if he went snorkeling, and he says duh, of course.
Fernando: Sí, claro. Ok, the next word is a verb... recorrer.
JP: Recorrer.. this is to traverse or to run all over... it's got a lot of awesome /r/ sounds... recorrer.
Fernando: Recorrer. Next we have alquilar to rent
JP: alquilar. what was rented in this dialog?
Fernando: A jeep. Alquilar.
JP: Ok, what's next?
Fernando: delicioso.
JP: delicioso. looks just like English, if you see it written. delicious. delicioso.
Fernando: And the last expression, is pobrecita.
JP: Ok, pobrecita, this is an expression of sympathy. Oh you poor thing, pobrecita. Now why are we using the feminine version?
Fernando: Jimmy says it to Sandra, so it has to be feminine, pobrecita. The masculine form is pobrecito.
JP: awww

Lesson focus

JP: Ok, let's do the grammar. Now there was a lot of preterit tense in the dialog today.
Fernando: And the preterit tense is...
JP: It's one of the past tenses in Spanish. The preterit is the past tense you use when you look at your action as a simple completed action in the past.
Fernando: Can we have an example?
JP: Ok, for example, Sandra says she worked all day.
Fernando: Trabajé todo el día.
JP: Ok, the verb form was trabajé, it means I worked. Now that verb is trabajar... to work. But we know it's the preterit tense because it's got that preterit tense suffix -é on it. trabajé.
Fernando: Ok, that means I worked.
JP: You worked would be trabajaste ... see, i added that -aste suffix, made it you worked.. trabajaste. And then the third person would be trabajó.
Fernando: Whoah, JP, you're giving a lot of information now
JP: Right, actually it's too much information to teach in a podcast. so tell you what, folks, if you want to see the preterit suffixes for regular -ar, -er, and -ir verbs, go to our website, you'll find the lesson notes for this lesson there at the site, which is www.SpanishPod101.com.
Fernando: Oh, tricky... sending people to the website.
JP: That's right!

Outro

JP: Ok, time to go. Hasta luego.
Fernando: ¡Nos vemos!

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