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Podcast Transcription
Good morning and welcome to another Mansión Inglés podcast from mansióninglés.com, recorded for February 2010. Is it two thousand and ten or twenty ten? I don’t know. Twenty ten has fewer syllables and it’s easier to say, but two thousand and ten seems more natural to me. I think we’ll have to wait and see what the majority of English speakers decide to say. Why not “two zero, one zero” just to be different?
Anyway, here’s where we talk about English. English vocabulary, English grammar, English expressions, pronunciation; “pronunciation” British English, American English, Spanglish English. All hopefully, to improve your English a little.
This month in our monthly newsletter – el cuaderno mensual, you probably saw a few general expressions in the basic section of the newsletter – la parte básico. If you did the exercise (and even if you didn’t) I want to test you. So I’m going to say the Spanish with my really bad Spanish pronunciation, and I want you to say the English translation before I do. So speak after you hear the tone. Di la traducción de las siguientes frases antes que las digo yo y después del tono. OK are you ready? ¿Listo?

Gracias – Thank you.
De nada - You’re welcome.
¿Qué tal? - How are you?
No entiendo - I don’t understand.
Tengo una reserva - I have a reservation
¿Cuánto cuesta? - How much is it?
Quisiera un café - I’d like a coffee.
¿Cuál es tu número de teléfono? - What’s your phone number?
¿Te puedo dar un beso? - Can I kiss you? - Can I kiss you? 
Tomaré lo mismo que ellos - I’ll have what they’re having.

Now listen to the English again and repeat. Escucha y repite.
 Thank you
You’re welcome
How are you?
I don’t understand
I have a reservation
How much is it?
I’d like a coffee
What’s your phone number?
Can I kiss you?
I’ll have what they’re having
Good. Now let’s move on to the intermediate and advanced part of the newsletter where you saw vocabulary connected to the five senses – los cinco sentidos. Do you remember what the five senses are in English?
oído - hearing
vista - sight
tacto - touch
gusto - taste
olor - smell
We can use five basic verbs to talk about the five senses. Listen and repeat:
to sound ; to look ; to feel ; to taste ; to smell
These verbs are usually modified by an adjective, not an adverb. For example:
My new iPod sounds fantastic. Repeat: My new iPod sounds fantastic.
She looks really sexy. Repeat: She looks really sexy
It felt weird (weird means raro o extraño). Repeat: It felt weird
This chicken tastes wonderful. Repeat: This chicken tastes wonderful.
The cake smelt delicious. Repeat: The cake smelt delicious.
In the hearing exercise there were six adjectives to describe sound. Listen and repeat: 
noiseless – a noiseless environment.
silent – a silent prayer. A prayer, P-R-A-Y-E-R is oración in Spanish. Repeat- a silent prayer.
quiet – a quiet person
noisy -.  A noisy bar
loud – loud music
deafening – a deafening noise. Sordo is deaf, so we say a deaf person. “Can you hear me? Are you deaf?” - The verb is to deafen. And the adjective is deafening. Repeat: a deafening noise.
Do you remember the sight vocabulary? Maybe there are some words here that you haven’t heard before. For example:
to glimpse – vislumbrar. Glimpse is a verb and a noun. The noun glimpse likes to go together with the verb to catch. To catch a glimpse of something. What’s the past of the verb to catch? …….caught. ¡OJO! - Be careful of the pronunciation of caught C-A U-G-H-T. I caught a glimpse. Repeat..I caught a glimpse. I caught of glimpse of Penelope Cruz - I caught of glimpse of Penelope Cruz in a resta