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Context
Ben and Marina discover that although a lot of shops are going out of business in their neighbourhood, fruit and veg shops continue to open continuously and thrive!
Vocab and phrases from the ‘Analysis’ section
Los pequeños comercios – Local shops / small businesses
Están cerrando sus puertas – They are going out of business
Grandes almacenes – Superstores
¿Qué te contó la dueña? – What did the owner tell you?
Hola, ¿qué me cuentas? – Hi, what’s new?
No suele estar lo suficientemente madura – It (the fruit) doesn’t tend to be ripe enough
Está un poco entera /un poco verde – It’s a bit unripe
5 raciones de fruta al dia – 5 portions of fruit or vegetables a day
Una ración – Like a big tapa, a big plateful of ham for example
Un racimo de uvas – A bunch of grapes
Las generaciones mas mayores – The older generations
Los mayores – Older people
“Mis viejos no me dejan ir a la discoteca” – My parents won’t let me go to the disco (very informal/teenager only!)
Update: Gold Season Two, as mentioned in the video, is now available as a complete season pack in our store:
Get the Gold Season Two Complete Pack Here.
Saludos desde Madrid,
Ben y Marina
I love this! Please keep it up. I learn so much!
This is just so wonderful thank you so much! Keep up the good work.
!muchos grazias! muy interesante – me inspirais a aprender mas, y a volver en espana para praticar espanol, y para disfrutarme explorando en este pais tan agradable.
I just want to add that I am so excited about this sight and wish you bundles of blessings for doing this. I just love Spanish and here I can learn at my own time and put in a lot of my free time over here! I found my joy! THANK YOU!
Thanks a lot for creating this website.I am still listening to your beginners podcasts, now accompanied with the worksheets and I hope my Spanish will improve soon. Thanks for all the great work you both are doing!
Yes, please keep these coming! They are just the right length for me to be able to justify watching them as I check my e-mails! Any longer and I would have to say “Ah yes, I’ll have to have a look at that later…” and, of course, I probably wouldn’t!
Just one oddity – the first part of the video was in perfect sync, but in the Analysis part, the sound seemed to be a little bit ahead of the video; most disconcerting!
Quality!!! i love these videos! i’ve never learnt so much so quickly!i wish i’d found you earlier!lol
keep up the good work and keep the vids coming!
Me encanta los videos y la sección de analisis . La lengua es corriente y sencillo. Me animan mucho a continuar los estudios en español. Con respecto a´La Fruteria’. He notado lo mismo suceso en nuestro barrio de Gandía.
Podéis corregir la gramática por favor. Keep up the good work.
(¿Como se dice este frase hecha en español?)
Appropriate and informative communication, thank you for keeping us up to date. My students find your videos filled with useful information presented in a way that makes them feel comfortable and somewhat proficient.
GRACIAS! Thanks for all your lovely comments! Clearly we need to keep making more videos! @Val – I’ll try to get Marina to answer your question later – we are a bit frantic today, but I am reading all the comments!
Hi, Ben and Marina,
I have a grammar question based on the vocabulary analysis section of your recent video. You used the expression, “Las generaciones mas mayores.” I thought you could not use mas with mayor since mayor already implies mas, and so it would be considered redundant and incorrect. Could you please explain that usage? Thanks so much!
will your Gold 2 have audio or only video? I found you guys on I tunes and love listening to you guys chat while on my walk. Feels like I am walking with friends
Only thing is I waaaaant new ones!! And super advanced would be GREAT! Please don’t stop doing audio downloads. <3
from your American friend living in cehegin, Murcia. chao
@Val – I would say:
Buen trabajo!! Sigue asi!! (if you are the only one doing the job)
Buen trabajo!! Seguid asi!! (if there are several people doing the job)
i have no access to this video cause i’m in mainland china. Anyway, really appreciate you can send me the real spanish words everyday, thanks
Buen trabajo. No obstante, diria que podrais desarrollar el tema con mas videos sobre las tiendas distantas…por ejemplo fui anoche a duplicar una lllave. En Inglaterra iriamos por lo habitual a un “locksmith,” en cambio aqui se va a la ferreteria, donde se venden un monton de cosas distintas, ollas, herramientas, papapatatas y tal. Profundizarse en estas diferencias puede ser la clave de meterse de lleno en la cultura, las costmbres, el ritmo de la vida y tal.
Tengo una pregunta para vosotros (parece el programma de Telediaro en la TVE1 !)…arreglais de vez en cuando intercambios entre espanaols y britanicos/americanos con el proposito a poner en practica todo lo que ha salido por vuestra pagina web. Soy periodista ingles. Voy a estudiar aqui hasta Junio/Julio pero me hace falta amigos espanoles a mi proprio nivel. Que deceis??
@Marie – I’ll try to get Marina to look at your question but she might not be able to until Monday now.
@Sabina – Gold Two is all audio
@Rick – oh no! Sorry about that!
You both are great! I admit that I actually just teared up watching your el secreto video. I have followed you both for so long and you have helped me so much that it hit a chord! I really like these video clips! Thank you very much for posting them. You have really have proved the most effective method for learning Spanish–and I have tried many! I am grateful.
Thank you!
Here in Catalunya the older folks are called iaios and iaias (pronounced yayos and yayas).
When you begin the second series of Gold on Monday (great news) will the first Gold Season still be available on the website or do I need to quickly download them somewhere for future reference?
Re: Gold 2
I am assuming this will be like Gold 1 — something we can download to our IPOD — and not something we have to listen to or watch online. Is that correct?
Como siempre, me encantó, especialmente porque me gusto el comentario acerca de lo que pasa actualmente en España. Voy seguramente apuntarme a la segunda serie. Muchas gracias por hacerlo, y tengo muchas ganas de ver el serial nuevo.
@mm – thank you, what a lovely lovely comment!
@Steve – never heard that before!
@ Felicity – you should still get access, any problems just contact us via support and we’ll sort any problems out.
@Brian – Absolutely correct, you can download it to your iPod or other mp3 player.
@Alan – Fantastico, me alegro de que lo que hagamos resulta ser interesante!
Como la mayoría, me encantan los podcasts y me han ayudado mucho. Por eso, os debo mi agradecimiento. Quiero comprar NIS gold 1 pero para mí cuesta demasiado.. ¿Ofrecerán un discuento en el futuro?
@Kiah – no tenemos planes ahora de ofrecer descuentos en Gold 1, pero a lo mejor te va a resultar mas asequible Gold 2, mañana lunes puedes decidir!
When I watched this program, it was great. It included people talking and the visual–where I could SEE them talking and watch their facial expressions–which helped with the comprehension.
I bought the program–but there is NO visual, only auditory. Why? Why can’t I get the visual component WITH the talking????
@Ivan – our paid programs are currently just audio based, I’m sorry if that wasn’t clear at the time of purchase – if you are disappointed with the program in any way, please do contact us via support and we can always arrange a refund.
@Val, Aquí tienes unas correcciones:
“Me encantaN (en plural porque los vídeos es plural) los vídeos y la sección de análisis . La LENGUAJE es corriente y sencillo. Me animan mucho a continuar los estudios en español. Con respecto a´La Frutería’. He notado EL mismo suceso en nuestro barrio de Gandía.”
Podéis corregir la gramática por favor. Keep up the good work.
(¿Como se dice este frase hecha en español?)
Flix te ha contestado perfectamente a la última pregunta!!!
@Marie, That is true for superlative adjetives, for example: “Enorme” means really big.
So you would never say: “Esta casa es la más enorme”
You would simply say: “Esta casa es enorme”
If you’d like to use a comparative then you would say: “Esta casa es la más grande de esta zona”.
“Mayor” is used as a comparative in your example so the construction with “más” is correct.
@Mark Dowd, hay un montón de servicios on-line para encontrar intercambio, algunos amigos nuestros los han usado y les ha ido bastante bien.
@Steve, yayos y yayas is a way of saying grandma and grandpa.
Fantastic. I am learning Spanish and coupled with my weekly lessons I look forward to reading and listening to these articles