MT Spanish Advanced (Eng Only)
Transcript of MT Spanish Advanced (Eng Only)
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MICHEL THOMAS SPANISH (ADVANCED) COURSE, 4 CDs
TRANSCRIPT
This is an approximate transcript of the course, since Michel often changed his mind in
the middle of a sentence to be translated, or adapted his sentences for the students. The
booklet that accompanied Michel's courses was wholly inadequate, so I have written thistranscript. I have found it useful, so maybe other people will, too.
Naturally, it would be foolish to try to learn the language using this transcript, withoutbuying the recordings.
Note that English is my native language, so I don't guarantee that there are no mistakes.
Tracks and track times in the recording are shown in brackets.
Version 2, Aug 16th 2006
Transcribed by JK
CD 1 (74.10)
(1) 6.43to buy
I am buying it
I don't buy it because it is very expensive
why don't you buy it?why aren't you buying it?
to understand
I understandI understand it
you understandwhy don't you understand me?why don't you understand me? (friend)
why don't you understand me? (plural)
they don't understand mehe is preparing it for me
(2) 2.39
he is right now preparing it for me
why don't you do it?why aren't you doing it? (friend)
why don't you do it? (plural)
he is right now in the process of doing ithe is leaving right now
he is leaving tomorrow
(3) 6.05I don't understand what you are saying
to say, to tell
they are telling me
you are telling me
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why don't you tell me? (plural)
why don't you tell me? (friend)
we are telling youto understand
why don't you understand me?
why don't you understand me?to start, to commence
why don't you start?
why don't you start? (plural)I am starting now
why don't you start? (friend)
why don't you start? (friend)
to buyI don't buy it
why don't you buy it? (friend)
why don't you buy it? (plural)
we are buying it(4) 8.08
you are not buying the house, he is not buying the housebuy the house!
don't buy it!
don't buy it! (friend)
don't buy it! (plural)buy it!
don't buy it!
buy it! (plural)don't buy them! (plural)
don't buy them! (friend)
(for a positive command, talking to a friend, you don't switch tracks and you drop the -s)buy it! (friend)
to call
I am calling youI am calling you (friend)
he is calling me
why don't you call me? (friend)
why don't you call me? (plural)we are calling you
we are calling you (friend)
call me tomorrow!don't call me today!
don't call me today! (friend)
call me! (friend)call me!
(5) 4.37
to have
you have
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why don't you have it for me?
we don't have it
I haveI have it
I don't have it
I have to see itto say, to tell
you say, you tell
I tellI am telling you
I am telling you (friend)
why don't you tell me? (friend)
why don't you tell me? (plural)I have
I am telling, I am saying
to have
to comehe is coming with us
we are comingI am coming
to do, to make
what are you doing?
(6) 2.28to know
do you know it?
do you know it? (friend)why don't you know it? (plural)
we know it
I know itI don't know it
to know (general knowledge)
to know, be acquainted with (somebody, somewhere)I know
I don't know him
I don't know her
(7) 1.19do you know Pedro?
do you know my friend?
do you know Madrid?I don't know him
I don't know it
(8) 3.53I have
I am saying, I am telling
I am doing, I am making
I am doing it
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I have it
I am telling you (friend)
I am comingto leave
I am leaving
I am leaving tomorrowat what time are you leaving?
I have
I comeI am doing
I am telling
I am leaving
to putI am putting
I am putting it here
where are you putting it?
why don't you put it here? (friend)to compose
to opposeto suppose
I suppose
to bring
I am bringing itto hear
I hear
(9) 12.18come with me!
don't leave!
don't leave! (friend)don't leave! (plural)
tell me!
don't tell me!tell it to me!
don't tell it to me!
tell it to him!
tell it to her!tell it to them!
don't tell it to him, tell it to me!
don't do it!don't do it!
don't do it! (friend)
don't do it! (plural)do it! (plural)
to put
I am putting it here
I want to do it
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I can do it
I cannot do it
I am right now in the process of doing itdo it!
don't do it!
I am doing itI am not doing it
why don't you do it?
why don't you do it? (friend)why don't you do it? (plural)
do it! (plural)
don't do it now! (plural)
put it here!don't put it there!
bring it!
bring me something!
bring it to me!don't bring it to me today because I don't need it today
I hear ithear it!
tell it to me, don't tell it to him!
tell it to him!
but don't tell it to him today!(10) 4.14
(for positive commands to a friend, you drop the -go ending completely)
tell me! (friend)tell it to me! (friend)
don't tell it to me! (friend)
don't tell it to me! (plural)tell it to me! (friend)
come with me! (friend)
have it! (friend)put it here! (friend)
don't put it there, put it here! (friend)
leave! (friend)
don't leave! (friend)don't leave! (plural)
(11) 5.34
(we'll now turn the imperative into a command tense, namely the subjunctive. In English,we hardly use the subjunctive; e.g. "I want you to be here" means "I want that you be
here", and not "I want that you are here". "at what time do you want me to be there?"
means "at what time do you want that I be there?"; this is the equivalent to giving acommand of "be there!")
(12) 5.15
(in Spanish, the subjunctive is used quite a lot. It expresses an element of doubt and
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uncertainty, e.g. "it is necessary that you be here" expresses some doubt that you will be
here)
(Verbs in the subjunctive, like the imperative, switch tracks. For -go verbs, the -ga
ending is used with everyone, including "you friend")
it is important that you be here
(in the subjunctive, there is no -o ending for "I")it is important that you call me
it is important that you all call me
it is very important for you to call me later (friend)it is not necessary for you to wait from me
to write
(13) 2.32
(in Spanish, no words begin with st-, sc-, sp-. Spanish speakers have to insert an e-before those letters)
to study
student
schoolto write
Spainwhy don't you write to me?
write to me!
because it's very important that you write to me
(14) 1.23(in Spanish, you cannot say literally "I want you to write to me". In Spanish, "I want
you" means "I love you")
I love you (I want you - friend)(15) 6.54
what do you want me to write to him?
I want you to do it, I want that you do itI want you to do it (friend)
I want you to do it (plural)
what do you want me to do?why don't you want me to tell it to him?
I think that he can do it
(that sentence is not subjunctive, but the next one is because there is an element of
uncertainty)I don't think that he can do it
I want you to call me later
I want you to write to mehe wants me to send it to him
(end of recording)
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CD 2 (74.44)
(1) 5.09
I will buy itwe will buy it
he will buy it
they will buy ityou will buy it (friend)
I will write to you
he will write to youwe will write to you
you will write to me
you will write to me (friend)
they won't write to meto take
I won't take it
we will take it
they won't take it(2) 2.34
I haveI will have
I leave
I will leave
we will leavethey will leave
you will leave (friend)
I comeI will come
we will come
you will come (friend)to sell
I will sell it
I will comeI put
I will put
I won't put it here
(3) 4.30I will call you tomorrow
I am going to call you tomorrow
I call you tomorrowI call you tomorrow (friend)
to stay
I am stayingwe are staying
he is staying
they are staying
you are staying (friend)
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I am going to stay
I want to know how long you are going to stay
I will stay here a few days(4) 2.32
I am telling
I am doingI will tell
I will do
I won't do itI will tell you later why we won't do it
he won't tell me
he won't tell me why he won't do it
(5) 2.11tell me!
tell me! (friend)
put it here! (friend)
make a reservation!(the imperative of "make, do" to a friend is haz)
make a reservation! (friend)do it! (friend)
don't do it! (friend)
(6) 6.52
riverI will leave
I would leave
we would leavehe would do it
he will do it
I wouldn't do itthey wouldn't do it
we wouldn't do it
I wouldn't tell you why we wouldn't do itto wait
he won't wait
he will wait
he wouldn't waitto prepare
I will prepare it
he wouldn't prepare itI like
I like to see it
I don't like to do itI would like to see it, it would please me
I would like to see you
(7) 3.19
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I have spoken
I have bought
I have bought itwe have bought it
they have bought it
he has sold itwe have eaten
he has left
(8) 5.44(now here is a simple past tense, called the "past historic")
I spoke
to take
I took itI called
I accepted
I didn't accept it
I bought itI will buy
I boughtto wait
I waited
I will wait
I spokehe spoke, she spoke, you spoke
I speak
I am buying ithe bought it, she bought it, you bought it
(that is the -artrack. On the other track, you use the ending -for "I", and the ending -i
for "you, he, she")I sold
I left
he left, you leftI understood
he understood, you understood
(9) 10.45
he sold itI didn't sell it
I bought it
why didn't you buy it?why did you sell it?
I didn't sell it
why did you sell it?why didn't you sell it?
to lose
I lost it
when did you lose it?
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at what time did you leave?
when did you arrive?
yesterdaylast night
I called you yesterday
he called me last nightI call myself..., my name is...
I call you tomorrow
he called youI spoke
did you speak?
to start
I startedat what time did you start?
I left
I am leaving
he is leavingat what time are you leaving? (plural)
at what time did you leave?I didn't eat
why didn't you eat?
I called you this morning
at what time did you call me?I call you tomorrow
he is calling you
he called mewhy didn't you call me?
I wrote to you
he wrote to mewhy didn't you write to me?
to see
I saw itI didn't see it
did you see it?
I didn't understand it
(10) 1.32(for "they", on the -artrack you use the ending -aron)
they spoke
they called meat what time did you call me? (plural)
they arrived
at what time did you arrive? (plural)(11) 1.41
I arrived here two hours ago
at what time?
two hours ago
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(12) 3.23
they didn't arrive yet, they still didn't arrive
they leftat what time did you leave? (plural)
they didn't eat
they wrote to methey talked to me, they spoke to me
I am staying
I am not stayingI stayed
he stayed
he didn't stay
they stayed(the ending for the other track is -ieron)
(13) 4.45
(for "you friend", the ending is -aste on the -artrack)
you spoke (friend)at what time did you call me? (friend)
why didn't you call me? (friend)at what time did you leave? (friend)
why didn't you sell it? (friend)
why didn't you sell it?
why didn't you sell it? (plural)they sold it
I didn't sell it
I bought ithe didn't buy it
they bought it
they sold it(on the other track, the ending is -iste)
why didn't you sell it? (friend)
why didn't you call me? (friend)(14) 3.47
I spoke
they spoke
you spoke (friend)(for "we", the ending in the present and the past historic is the same)
we spoke
we speakwe spoke
we are arriving, we arrive
we arrivedwe arrived yesterday
we arrive tomorrow
he left
they left
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you left (friend)
I left
we leftwe leave, we are leaving
to sell
(with -erverbs, they a distinction between "we" past and "we" present)we sold
we are selling
we soldwe eat, we are eating
we ate
(15) 8.37
(the -go on verbs are a little different. However, they all follow the same pattern, on bothtracks)
I am doing
I am doing it
I am not doing itI did, I made
he did, he madeI did it
he did it
he didn't do it
why didn't you do it?I didn't do it
he made a reservation for us
why sayI said
I told
I told youhe told me
to do
I didhe told me that he didn't do it
I told you
he told me
he told me that he didn't do itwhy didn't you tell me?
why didn't you tell it to me?
why didn't you tell it to him?I did, I made
I told, I said
he told meto put
I am putting
I put (past)
he put (past)
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where did you put (past) it?
(16) 7.16
to be able("to be able" in the past ispud-)
I couldn't do it
he couldn't do itI did
I said, I told
I put (past)I could
to want
I wanted
I wanted ithe wanted it
I did
I said, I told
I put (past)I could
I wantedwine
he came
he came with wine
I cameI have
I had
he hadI was
he was
(for "they", the ending for all these verbs is -ieron, and for "we", the ending for all theseverbs is -imos)
I put (past)
he put (past)they put (past)
you put (friend, past)
we put (past)
I did, I madehe did, he made, you made
they did, they made, you all made
you did (friend)we did
he came
they cameyou came (friend)
we came
(end of recording)
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CD 3 (76.12)
(1) 3.21
I couldthey could
we could
you could (friend)he couldn't
he told me
they told mewhy didn't you tell me? (plural)
they didn't tell me
they came with me
they didn't have itI wanted it
he didn't want it
they wanted it
you wanted it (friend)we didn't want it
(2) 3.53(now back to the "diving" past)
I have bought it
I have not bought it
we have bought itthey have bought it
where have you bought it? (friend)
where did you buy it?he has sold it
he sold it
why didn't you sell it?why didn't you sell it? (friend)
he has not sold it
(3) 2.04he would buy it
I wouldn't buy it
they wouldn't buy it
you wouldn't buy it (friend)we wouldn't buy it
(4) 4.07
(for "will" and "would", there are some contractions in the stem, but never in theendings)
I will leave
he won't leavehe wouldn't leave
we won't leave
we wouldn't leave
I would put it here
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I won't put it here
we will put it here
we wouldn't put it herehe wouldn't come with us
he wouldn't sell it
he would come here with us and he would sell it(5) 2.44
I will do it
I won't do itI wouldn't do it
we wouldn't do it
we won't do it
I will tell you laterhe wouldn't tell me
we wouldn't tell you
I will have it for you
(6) 2.02to go
I am going to do ithe is going to do it
they are going to do it
we are going to do it
to goI will go
I will go to see it
I wouldn't gowe wouldn't go
(7) 0.57
to be ableI will be able to do it
he won't be able to do it
he wouldn't be able to it(8) 2.40
(in English, "could you" means "would you be able to")
can you tell me, will you tell me
can you tell me where it is, will you tell me where it iscould you tell me where it is, would you be able to tell me where it is?
could you come with me?
can you wait for me, will you wait for mecould you wait for me?
(9) 4.54
(devercan mean "must", "have to", "shall/should", "to owe")I must have it
I speak
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I understand
I am eating
I mustI must do it now
you must do it
I have to do ithow much is it?
how much does it cost?
how much do I owe?I will have to do it
I will have to do it
I would have to do it
I would have to do it(devera is also used in the sense of "I should do something", meaning "I ought to do
something")
you should tell me (friend)
(10) 1.37I have sold it
(after any form ofhaber, there is nowhere to go but to dive)I would have sold it
I wouldn't have sold it
(11) 5.19
made in SpainI have done it
I haven't done it
I wouldn't have done itI have told you
he has told me
I would have told youto see
I haven't seen it
we would have seen itI would have gone
(in diving, estarbecomes estado, andserbecomes sido)
it is possible
it would have been possibleit wouldn't have been possible that way
(12) 4.08
(for the English -ing tenses, in Spanish use the endings -ando and -iendo)I am right now doing it
I am doing it every day
(the English past -ing is expressed in Spanish with -aba on the -artrack, and -a on theother track)
I was speaking
he was speaking
she was speaking
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you were speaking
they were speaking
they were callingthey were buying
they were selling
they were doing itthey were telling me
we were telling you
we were doing it(13) 3.57
(there are only two or three exceptions in Spanish language)
I was going
I was going toI was going to do it
I was not going to tell you that I was going to do it
he was going to be here
you haven't told me that you were going to arrive todayI would have waited for you
(14) 3.39I told
you told me me
you didn't tell me
you didn't tell me (friend)you didn't tell me (plural)
I did, I made
I said, I toldI came
I put (past)
I wantedI had
(15) 0.55
I was(in the past historic, haber is hub- and "could" ispud-)
(16) 4.08
I made, I did
he didthey did
you did (friend)
we didI put
they put
you put (friend)we put
they had
you had (friend)
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we had
I said, I told
he said, he toldthey said
they told me
you didn't tell me (plural)we told you
you didn't tell me that you were going to arrive today
you didn't tell me that you were going to arrive today (friend)I would have waited for you
I would have waited for you (friend)
(17) 7.23
I was waitingI was waiting for you
I was waiting for you (friend)
he is waiting from me
(the "was -ing" and "were -ing" could be called the "wing" tenses; in Spanish, -aba and-a)
he was doing itI was telling you
(in Spanish, the wing tense expresses a straight line in the past, maybe a short line or
maybe a long line, but a straight line. On the other hand, "I did it" is not a straight line.)
(In Spanish, the wing tense can also express a broken line: "I did it very often", "I did itall the time", "I used to do it". In English, you don't make a distinction)
he did it every day
he is speakinghe was speaking
he spoke (this morning)
he spoke (every day)(18) 5.22
to do, to make
I did it (it is done)he did it (this morning)
he did it (every day, very often)
he told me
he told me (every day)he put it here
he put it here (every day)
and I cannot see itI don't know where it is
he put it here (this morning)
he put it here (every day)he told me
he was telling me
he told me (all the time)
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(19) 4.08
("I knew" is rarely used, except in the context of finding something out)
I knewI knew it, I found out
he knew
they knewyou knew (friend)
we knew
(fui- is the past of two separate verbs)to go
I went
I went to see it
he went to see itthey went
you went (friend)
we went
I wenthe went
they wentyou went (friend)
we went
we went to see it
I wenthe went
she went
you wentthey went
you went (friend)
we went(20) 2.21
(fui- is also the past ofser)
I wentI was
it was possible
("was" as a straight line is era)
I was goingI was going to
it was important (straight line)
(21) 4.11(it is in the nature of some verbs to express a straight line in the past, for example "to
know")
I knew, I found outI knew, I used to know
I didn't know
I didn't know you were going to arrive today
I didn't know that they were going to arrive today
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I didn't know that you were going to arrive today (friend)
(the same for "to have the time")
I didn't have the timeI was very busy
(22) 2.11
I wanted (dot)I wanted (line)
I wanted to do it
("I would want" contracted from querera to querra)I wanted
I would want
(end of recording)
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CD 4 (76.04)
(1) 1.13
I would want, I would like me gustara, quisieraI wanted
they wanted
I wanted to do ithe wanted to do it
they wanted to do it
(2) 4.03(the "they - past" ending, -ron, when changed to -ran is the past subjunctive, meaning "I
might...")
they wanted
I might wantI might want, I would like
I want to do it
I wanted to do it
I would like to do itI would like to do it
I would want to do itI may want
they wanted
I would like to do it
(3) 4.38I can do it
I could do it
I will tell youI will do it
I will tell you
will you please tell me where it is(4) 5.19
you have to wait here
you have to wait for meyou don't have to wait
(in English, "you have to wait" means "you must wait", but "you don't have to wait"
means not "you must not wait", but "you don't need to wait")
it's not necessary that you waitI need
you don't need to wait
(5) 6.56(it is in the nature of some verbs to express a line, not a dot, in the past)
I knew it
I found outI didn't know
I wanted
("I could" can be in the past, meaning "I was able"; or it might not be in the past,
meaning "I would be able")
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I would be able, I could
could you tell me?
could you wait?can you wait, will you wait
can you tell me
could you tell me?I couldn't find it, I was not able to find it
I couldn't see it
I couldn't (line in past)I couldn't do it
I couldn't (at that moment in the past)
(6) 5.31
I wantedhe wanted
they wanted it
I would like
(after "if", you use the subjunctive in both Spanish and English, e.g. "if I were" not "if Iwas")
I knewthey knew
if I knew
(the form of "they knew" gives you the subjunctive)
if I had the time I would do itif I were there I would tell you
I had (straight line, broken line)
to haveI was having, I used to have, I had
I had (dot)
they hadif I had
(7) 6.30
I have sold itI would have sold it
I had sold it
I would have sold it
I have sold itI had sold it
I would have sold it
they hadif I had sold it
if I had seen it I would have bought it
if I had known itif I had bought it
if I had known it I would have told you
(8) 2.14
if I told you
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I said, I told
they said, they told
they did, they madeI might do it
I knew
they knewif I knew
if I knew it I would tell you
(9) 3.50(we must distinguish in English between "would" and "would have")
I would
I would have
I would do itI would buy it
I would have bought it
(10) 7.57
I was buying ithe was selling it
he sold itthey sold it
he was selling it
he used to sell
he sold ithe has sold it
we have sold it
they have sold itthey were selling it
they sold it (all the time)
he sold it (dot)they sold it
if I sold it
I have sold itI had sold it
if I had sold it
(you could use hubierafor "I might have")
I might have sold itI would have sold it
if I had been there last night I would have seen it and I would have bought it
I might have bought it(11) 2.09
I don't know that you will come
I don't think that he may comeI know that he will come
(if you are in the past, you must use the past subjunctive)
I didn't know that he might come
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(12) 1.25
(after the expression ojal, meaning "I hope that", "hopefully that" you use the
subjunctive)(13) 6.41
to look for
I was looking for itto lose
I lost it and I was looking for it but I couldn't find it
I couldn't do it(14) 2.52
if you had called me last night
I have bought it
I would have bought itif you had called me last night
and if you had told me
that you were going to arrive today
(15) 2.30if you had told me that you were going to arrive today
I would have waited for youI would have made a reservation
we would have had dinner (would have dined) at the restaurant
we would have gone to see it
and it would have been very interesting(16) 3.43
if I had known it I would have done it
I might have done it("I could have" means "I would have been able")
I could have done it, I wouldn't have been able to do it
(17) 5.12could you come with me?
should
could have, would have been ableshould have
you should have told me
you could have told me
he would have told meyou should have done it
you could have told me
he would tell mehe would have told me
(18) 3.14
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