Spanish Shorts

THEY CHATTER IN SPANISH

Oh, hi, there.

We're trying to decide on what to show you of our town.

THEY TALK IN SPANISH

Why are we speaking in Spanish? Well, some of us are English,

and some of us are Spanish, but we all live here in Tres Cantos,

just outside the centre of Madrid, the capital of Spain.

Let me introduce you to everybody.

ALL SPEAK SPANISH

So, where shall we go, then?

-We can't decide.

-HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

OK, let's go to my house. THEY SPEAK IN SPANISH

ALL SPEAK IN SPANISH

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

ALL SPEAK IN SPANISH

ALL SPEAK IN SPANISH

ALL SPEAK IN SPANISH

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH Welcome.

SHE CONTINUES TO SPEAK IN SPANISH

We've been living here now for four years.

I live with my Mum, with my Dad,

and my three sisters.

I also have a dog...

two cats...

a hamster...

..and fish.

I really like living in Spain,

because the weather is fantastic in summer.

We get to go in the swimming pool all day.

And the Spanish are really friendly. I made loads of friends.

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

ALL SPEAK IN SPANISH

It's true. SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

OK, let's go!

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

ALL SPEAK IN SPANISH

That's all from Tres Cantos today.

THEY SPEAK SPANISH

THEY SHOUT

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

We say el tuto for short.

BELL RINGS, STUDENTS CHATTER

I've been at this school for a year.

I like it cos the teachers are friendly,

and I have lots of Spanish friends.

ALL SPEAK IN SPANISH

On my first day, I was nervous, cos I didn't know the teachers.

And I didn't speak much Spanish.

TEACHER SPEAKS SPANISH

But then,

I found out they're really friendly, and they help me. And the people are really nice too.

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

Kira, would you please read?

A forest is a space covered...

'I'm in the bilingual section in my school.

'That means I have some lessons in English, and some in Spanish.

'I have art, PE, history, and geography,

'English and technology in English. The rest are in Spanish.'

Do you know the difference between a deciduous tree

-and an evergreen tree?

-BELL RINGS

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

CHEERING

ALL SPEAK IN SPANISH

We've got to go back to class now,

we've two more lessons before the next break at 12.15.

And then, two more after that before lunch at 2.15.

CHATTERING

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

When we fly,

we can have a window or an aisle seat. A window seat...

TEACHER SPEAKS SPANISH

KIRA SPEAKS SPANISH

And the rest of you should be thinking,

because I want you to make a sentence with one verb.

Come on, your chance.

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

ALL SPEAK SPANISH

BELL RINGS

STUDENTS CHATTER

ALL SPEAK IN SPANISH

LAUGHTER

'I like the school because we finish at 2.15,'

so we have lots of time to do our homework, or play.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Yeah, a lot of homework.

BOTH SPEAK IN SPANISH

THEY TALK IN SPANISH

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Welcome to my house.

It's a bit noisy here, but it's dinner time.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

THEY CHAT IN SPANISH

'In my house,'

we have English and Spanish food.

Today, my dad's cooked the dinner, so we're having Spanish food.

It's...

HE SPEAKS SPANISH

I love Spanish foods. Especially fish.

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

-My favourites.

-SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

-Monkfish.

-SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Tuna fish.

-SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

-Hake.

And the very live lobsters.

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

ALL SPEAK SPANISH

ALL SPEAK IN SPANISH

First, we peel the potatoes.

Then, we cut the potatoes.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Now we add salt to the potatoes.

Then, we fry the potatoes.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Now, we crack the eggs.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

CHEF TALKS IN SPANISH

Now we add salt,

and then we beat the eggs.

Now we're going to drain the potatoes.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Now we mix the egg with the potato.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

CHEF AND BOY CHAT IN SPANISH

Whoa!

Erm...

CHEF CHATS IN SPANISH

-SHE EXHALES

-Yay!

SHE GIGGLES

CHEF SPEAKS IN SPANISH

This is the best part. We get to eat!

THEY CHAT IN SPANISH

-Mmm.

-SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

ALL CHAT IN SPANISH

-Hi, I'm Ella, Kira's sister.

-We're in the centre of Madrid today,

but do you know where?

CHEERING

HE SPEAKS SPANISH

When we came to Spain, we decided to support Real.

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

That means we're season ticket-holders.

We get seats at the front, to see... SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

-First, the training session.

-SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

Let's look at our questions.

What do you like doing in your free time?

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Do you like any other sports?

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Do you know any other languages?

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Have you always liked football?

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Are you nervous before a match?

HE CHUCKLES

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH What about your questions?

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH What age did you start playing football?

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Who's your idol in the football world?

ALL SPEAK IN SPANISH

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

THEY CHATTER IN SPANISH

BOTH SPEAK IN SPANISH

ALL SHOUT

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

SPANISH STYLE MUSIC PLAYS

TEACHER TALKS IN SPANISH

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

We're not very good - this is only our fourth lesson.

We're learning, because we're going to the Edinburgh festival

to perform there.

HE TALKS IN SPANISH

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

ALL SPEAK SPANISH

-HE SPEAKS SPANISH

-Physics zone.

HE SPEAKS SPANISH

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

-HE SPEAKS SPANISH

-Geology zone.

-HE SPEAKS SPANISH

-Zoology.

HE SPEAKS SPANISH

CHATTER IN SPANISH

HE TALKS IN SPANISH

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

It's not like chocolate in England. Look how thick it is.

It's more like chocolate sauce.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Today, we thought we'd show you the centre of Madrid.

THEY MOUTH

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

It's the centre of Madrid,

a bit like Piccadilly Circus in London.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

They're doing lots of building work.

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

CHEERING

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Christopher Columbus.

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

They sell just about everything here.

SHE TALKS IN SPANISH

THEY TALK IN SPANISH

HE TALKS IN SPANISH

Like La Puerta del Sol,

this used to be one of the old gates of the city.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

MEN CHAT IN SPANISH

THEY TALK IN SPANISH

HE CHUCKLES

THEY TALK IN SPANISH

ALL TALK IN SPANISH

They're setting up the Christmas market.

Sunday is a big day for families in Madrid.

You see everyone out together.

HE TALKS IN SPANISH

We hope you enjoyed your flying visit to Madrid.

Hope to see you soon.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

ALL SPEAK IN SPANISH

You don't have to be abroad to use your Spanish.

Having another language is an increasingly sought-after skill,

by many employers in all industries.

So you might find it useful right here in the UK.

# Hello, hello

# Hello, hello... #

THEY GREET IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES

Welcome to the Cactus Languages call centre,

where you can find a language course to suit everybody's needs.

Bonjour.

Guten tag.

You don't have to speak the language to work here,

but it definitely helps.

Meet Alex, who works in their Spanish language department.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

My name's Alex Wolfson, and I work for Cactus Worldwide,

and the part of Cactus Worldwide I work for

is Cactus Language.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

My job is as a language holiday advisor.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

That involves me dealing with both the schools that we work with,

and directly with our clients.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Cactus is an organisation

that works with languages,

from English and Spanish, through to Czech and Polish.

My job is selling language holidays abroad.

I deal mainly with the ones in Latin America.

I use Spanish in my job - it's mostly telephone and email-based -

so if I talk to one of our schools in Spain or in Latin America,

then usually I like to speak to them in Spanish.

It helps our working relationship.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Then, sometimes, I have to speak Spanish,

because, we get clients who

want to book an English course, and they come from Latin America,

so all the telephone conversations we might need,

I have to do in Spanish.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

I first learned Spanish at GCSE.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

But I've only really first used it in a meaningful way

when I went backpacking in Venezuela.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

There are some places where people just don't speak any English at all.

If you make an effort to speak somebody else's language,

it makes a difference, and makes people helpful

towards you, and makes you get more out of the experience.

That experience in Venezuela of backpacking made me wanna go back to South America,

Later, I did a volunteer placement in Peru,

and ended up staying there for rather longer than I expected, because I met my wife there.

That obviously improved my Spanish a lot,

and just made me fit into Peruvian life a lot better than I would have done

if I hadn't spoken any Spanish at all.

Alex doesn't just deal with making bookings,

he often meets with clients who have specific needs,

so he can create a unique programme just for them.

We also provide language training for businesses in the UK.

So, for example, if a business wants to teach Spanish

to some of its staff,

then we can provide that kind of language training.

Komedia is a live-entertainment venue, here in Brighton.

It was founded from a love of physical theatre in Europe.

Physical theatre, music and comedy, I should say.

Even though we're a theatre, we still need to use an amazing range of foreign languages,

especially Spanish. Obviously the programming has such a wide diversity of artists,

we need to have Spanish as part of our skills here, day-to-day.

I come to speak to you about what you need in terms of the language training

we're going to provide.

What are the levels of Spanish that people have got?

-Just holiday Spanish, really.

-Right, OK.

-"Hello, goodbye, thank you."

I don't have any Spanish.

I'd have to start from the beginning.

What kind of things are you going to need to be able to say in Spanish?

-Where should we focus?

-Well, I deal with publicity,

so I will need to know things like, "Posters, flyers."

OK. And how about yourself?

Yeah, I book all the accommodation for the visiting artists,

so all kinds of vocabulary to do with hotels.

And, Chris, what about yourself?

As press, I'll be speaking directly to the agents as well,

-to organise interviews, photo shoots, so on, so forth.

-Mmm.

So is there anything else? Any other kinds of vocabulary you might need?

We do have quite a lot of Spanish bands and performers that come here

and therefore, bring with them a Spanish audience.

So it'd be good to have dialogue, or questions we could relate to them with.

So, working for a language school can be very different and exciting.

And who knows where it might take you.

Millions of people visit the UK every year from all over the world.

And this is what they come to see.

And maybe one or two of them might pop into the Britain and London Visitor Centre,

where they might be helped by Charlotte.

HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

My name's Charlotte Fraser. I work for Visit Britain,

which is an organisation that looks to attract visitors

from foreign countries,

get them to visit various different attractions.

We look to give information.

We also assist with the buying of transport tickets,

accommodation, booking theatre tickets.

BOTH SPEAK IN SPANISH

Well, Spanish is very important to me, here in the workplace.

I use it every single day that I'm here.

Basically, we get a lot of people, a lot of tourists, who come in from Spain,

from Latin America, and they may speak English, but they feel more comfortable

speaking their own language,

especially with things like knowing they're buying the right ticket,

knowing they're going in the right direction.

ALL SPEAK IN SPANISH

That's a little bit expensive for them.

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

I learnt Spanish at university.

It was a four-year course,

with third year spent abroad, so I spent six months in Argentina.

Spanish is used a lot now, especially between businesses.

We have businessmen coming over from Spain, wanting to do business with the UK,

so learning languages, and having someone who can speak Spanish is very important.

But it's not only in the front offices of Visit Britain

that Spanish is a useful skill.

It also comes in handy behind the scenes.

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

I'm Lindsey, and I work for Visit Britain.

My job is in the international press office,

so I work with journalists from Spain, from Canada,

from Australia,

and work with them to write about Britain,

so help organise their visit, help give them story angles.

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

PERSON ON PHONE SPEAKS SPANISH

So, Maria's just called.

And she wants some ideas for a journalist, Gemma,

who's coming over next month.

I'm looking for something a bit different, unseen.

Jewellery going on at the moment,

-which is just kind of a jewellery festival.

-OK.

-Then there's the Chola, which is more Indian.

-The bronze thing.

There's this new hidden art,

it's basically open studios.

You can actually go and visit artist's studios

and get involved and see what they're doing -

sculpture, ceramics, painting.

I can see Maria really going for that, actually.

THEY SPEAK SPANISH

I was lucky as a child. My parents would take me abroad on holiday.

I created a passion for languages at the age of nine or ten

and then decided that I wanted to continue those, so I studied languages at university.

I use my Spanish quite a lot now. If we've got a Spanish journalist coming to do a feature on London,

I meet them, show them around, maybe take them out for dinner.

Anybody can do the job with your PR skills, but just having languages,

for me, just adds another dimension to it.

THEY SPEAK SPANISH

So, this is the art production space.

Rich makes his not about audiences, it's about participants.

We don't bring art to the building and show people art,

we get people involved in making it.

How does it work?

There's a twelve channel sound-system inside the bed,

so it's an instrument and you just take off your shoes and step in

and the music spins and vibrates and moves all around you.

LOW DRONING RUMBLE

OK, so here we are in the largest of our three cinemas.

One of the reasons that we opened cinemas

was because it's a good way of bringing people into the building.

We hope that they might come to see a James Bond film

but go away having signed up to create some art themselves.

They've been designed to reflect the culture that exists in the area,

so you've got the fabric trade, which is a big employer in the area,

and you've got the influence of Asian culture as well.

THEY SPEAK SPANISH

Even though it may not be necessary to speak Spanish at work,

it really helps to create a good relationship between two different cultures when working together.

If your passion is passion is books, then this might be the job for you.

From the latest Jamie Oliver to Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code to picture books,

2 billion, 295 million books are sold every year world-wide.

Over 250 million Harry Potter books alone have been sold,

distributed in over 200 countries and translated into 61 languages.

Publishers know that a good story will always translate well.

SPANISH TRANSLATION

This is Maeve and she works for Random House Publishing.

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

I'm Senior Rights Manager for Random House Children's Books

and I negotiate with foreign publishers

for them to translate print

and publish their editions in their own languages.

Random House is one of the largest children's publishers

of picture books and fiction.

We have offices all over the world.

Our authors include Terry Pratchett, Roald Dahl, Jacqueline Wilson, Philip Pullman...

THEY SPEAK SPANISH

It is useful to have Spanish or any language in publishing.

I'm not using my Spanish on a daily basis

but it is required from time to time...

..for speaking on the phone...

..or checking translations for books to see that they've been produced properly.

Spanish has been very useful in my career.

It's enabled me to work in a field that I really enjoy.

I don't see myself moving from what I'm doing

and look forward to continuing working in translation rights in the future.

But it's not only English books that get translated.

Many of the books you read may have originally been written in a foreign language,

like Like Water For Chocolate,

and it's Jane's job to bring those books to the English reader.

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

My job is to meet lots of agents who will send me their manuscripts.

I read them and the ones that I think are books that people in the street will want to read,

I acquire and I edit them.

I choose a cover with the art director,

then the sales department send it to all the book shops -

Waterstone's, WH Smiths...

What I do is, in fact, very competitive,

so by speaking Spanish, I was able to do something that not a lot of other people could do.

It became a bit of a niche.

When the Spanish publishers realised I could speak Spanish,

they began to send me their best books.

I acquired the UK rights and one of our earliest books was Like Water For Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel,

which has been a phenomenal best-seller and a film.

About six months ago I bought a book called La Catedral Del Mar,

The Cathedral Of The Sea, which is a phenomenal best-seller in Spain

and I bought UK rights and we hope to see it all over the book shops here in about 12 months time,

when it's been translated.

Well, Spanish has helped very much to get me where I am now.

I want to be able to buy the best from agents, find the best new writers.

Particularly in Spanish and any of the countries from South America

and see people on the tube reading them.

Every editor's dream is to see their book being read by everybody and winning the Booker Prize.

Did you know that in a corner of this very English market,

you can find a taste of Spain?

Now, when you think of Spanish food, what do you think of?

Tortillas and paella?

Well, there's a lot more to Spanish food than that.

Spain specialises in olive oil, ham,

wine and it's the biggest exporter of fresh fruit and vegetables.

But you don't have to fly out to Spain to buy them.

You can buy them right here at Brindisa.

We import speciality products and we distribute them around the country

to delicatessens, food halls, supermarkets and wholesalers.

We've also got two shops where we sell to the public directly.

We also have a tapas bar where we can serve the food on a plate to the public.

And this is Claire, who works for Brindisa.

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

My name is Claire Roff and I work for Brindisa Ltd,

which is the main importer of Spanish food in the UK.

I'm the assistant to the Managing Director

and I also co-ordinate all the marketing.

My job can involve meetings, preparation of documents,

communication and that's where I sometimes use Spanish.

THEY SPEAK SPANISH

Also, preparing all the marketing support of our products is where I use Spanish.

Brindisa is rooted in a love of Spain and Spanish.

The Managing Director studied Spanish and lived in Spain.

When she came back she wanted a job where she could use her Spanish

so she set up the company and she realised there was a potential demand for Spanish food in England

and started to bring over all these foods which are now quite familiar.

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

Spanish has been really useful to me in this job. I need it every day

to be able to read things, communicate, do training in English or Spanish.

THEY SPEAKS SPANISH

The marketing side involves meeting with people to discuss how to present the product.

THEY SPEAK SPANISH

Spanish is not only important for Claire,

it also come in handy for other staff at Brindisa.

It's good for me to know Spanish so that I know

what's in the containers.

Spanish has been great for me here because

we get a huge number of Spanish customers and I can speak to them.

Spanish is useful for me because I can read the cheese's labels

and then I can advise the customers or recommend something similar.

I find it useful for the Spanish,

to translate the menu to the customers.

So, no matter how much or how little Spanish you know

it always comes in handy.

# I wanna give you devotion... #

You may be an avid football fan but how many of you can say

you go to your team's ground everyday?

Meet Jenny.

She's a Liverpool fanatic.

She's got the hat, the scarf,

the poster, the shirt

and the job!

She's lucky enough to go to Anfield, home of Liverpool Football Club,

every day because that's where she works.

My name is Jenny Dunn, I am Curriculum Development Officer

for Reduc@te at Liverpool Football Club.

In early 2000, many Liverpool schools were putting Spanish

on the national curriculum.

But many children were bored and not motivated to do the language.

So, Liverpool Football Club got involved.

-And then you just change it so, what's your name?

-Daniel.

-Daniel.

So, you change that to Daniel.

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

-Do you live in Liverpool with your family?

-Yep.

-You leave that in.

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

My job is to create the activities the children use

when they visit the centre.

I use Spanish in my job because we have an Hola website

in conjunction with Barcelona Football Club

in which I have to use written Spanish to update the website.

It helps children in Barcelona try to learn the language

and vice versa for children in Liverpool.

What is the Spanish word for yellow?

-Rebecca?

-Amarillo.

-Amarillo is the right answer.

I also use Spanish when children who are Spanish come to the centre

and I have to speak to them.

An S, a T, an I, an S and an E.

What does that rearrange to in Spanish

that you might take around one-ish?

-What do you think?

-Siesta.

-Siesta! Well done!

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

I learned Spanish at school from the age of 11.

I did it for GCSE and then the past 4 years at Reduc@te I've been improving my Spanish.

What is 30 in Spanish?

Andrew?

I wanted to work at Reduc@te because I wanted to work

at Liverpool Football Club because I love it

and everything the club stands for.

I needed a Spanish language qualification to get the job

and improving my Spanish has been a bonus.

Where better to come than Liverpool Football Club

where we have so many Spanish connections such as the manager

and many players not only from Spain

but from South American countries as well?

Not only does she work at the education support centre,

Reduc@te, but sometimes other members of the club come calling for her help.

Morning, can I help you?

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

I'm sorry, I don't understand you,

I only speak a very small amount of Spanish.

Just hold on a sec.

SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

Thank you.

Liverpool is a truly international team

and Momo Sissoko is a great example of that.

Born in France, plays for the international African team, Mali,

and played for Valencia in Spain before transferring to Liverpool.

HE SPEAKS SPANISH

My name is Momo Sissoko. I'm a football player with Liverpool FC.

HE SPEAKS SPANISH

I want to do footballer because it's one sport I like when I young.

I've got some letters from our students.

-They've asked some questions in Spanish. Would you answer them?

-Yes.

THEY SPEAK SPANISH

I learn Spanish by myself because I live three years in Valencia in Spain.

Yeah, I think it is important, because when you speak a lot of language,

in one team it's possible you have a lot of different team-mates who speak a lot of language.

It's very important.

Thank you for doing it. We'll write back to the children.

OK. Thank you.

So, no matter what kind of job you might be thinking of doing,

you never know when you might need your Spanish.

So, what's it like working at Liverpool Football Club?

HE SPEAKS SPANISH

It's very great because it's one of the big clubs in England, in the world.

I like this club.

SHE SPEAKS SPANISH

It's the best job in the world.

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