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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

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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

(end of recording)

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