Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.15 | Ordering drinks in a café

Episode Date: February 14, 2009

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Hello, Amy and meeting us a coffee break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. It's lesson 15 and we're in the cafe. Now, you've probably guessed that already. But today we're going to be learning how to say a coffee, a tea, basically order drinks in a cafe or a bar. I hope you enjoy today's lesson. Okay, so the first thing that we're going to have to learn

when we are going to a cafe and ordering drinks and so on is how to attract the waiter or waitresses attention. And in fact, there's nothing really. to learn because it's something that we've covered before. When we were stopping people in the street, asking for directions, we used a phrase that's very common in Spanish to get their attention. Can you remember what that phrase was?

Kara, can you remember? Por favor? Por favor? Of course. It was the word for, please. Por favor? Por favor? Por favor? Por favor?

Okay, now, you may have heard another word being used or indeed have read this other word in some guidebooks or some phrase books. And that word would be Oiga, Oiga. I would strongly suggest that you don't use this word because in most places, certainly in Spain, it's not really very polite to shout at a waiter or a waitress. Oiga, better to say, por favor.

Por favor. Very well. Okay. So let's learn some of the words for talking about things in a cafe. We'll start with something very straightforward. An café. An cafe. A café

A café Very bien Un café is a coffee A coffee A café A café Now you may want to be a little more specific

About what type of coffee you would like Therefore you might want to ask for Umcafe con leit Uncafe con leche Make sure you're trying to get As Spanish a sound as possible One cafe con leitze Uncafe con leche

Uh huh Now remember with your C-Hs in Spanish, you need to smile at the same time. Lecee. Leche. Very bien. A café with lece. A cafe with leitie.

Very well. Okay, so that's, Uncafe con lece is literally a coffee with milk. It's a white coffee. If you want a black coffee, you ask for One Café Solo. A café solo. A coffee solo.

A cafe solo. Now, in some of Latin American countries, you would probably ask for A cafe negro. A cafe negro. A cafe negro. A cafe negro. Negro means literally black.

And solo means literally the coffee on its own, as opposed to with milk or anything else. A coffee solo? A coffee solo? A cafe solo. A cafe negro. A coffee negr. Very good. Another type of coffee that some people might like is a cortado.

A cortado A cortado A cortado A cortado A cortado Is a coffee with just a little splash of milk in it And it's very popular in Spain And indeed in many Latin American countries

Un cortado So as far as coffee is concerned This is coffee breaks Spanish So we may as well start with coffee We have A café A cafe A cafe with lece

A coffee with lece A coffee solo Or a coffee Negr? A coffee negro. A cortado. And let's move on to tea. A te with tea

con lece. A tea with milk, a tea with milk, a white tea. A tea with tea. A tea with leech. Or you could have a te with limon. A tea with lemon.

A te con limon. A tea with lemon. So, so much for hot drinks. Let's go on and talk about some cold drinks. You might want an thomom. Un thomou. Now, Un thomom is the Spanish word for a juice. Un thumo, for example, de naranca.

De narancha. Narancha. Narancha Un thumo de narancha Unthumo de Narancha Now, I would normally say that in Latin America you would say un sumo However, Latin American in Spanish

has a different word for a juice And that is unhugo Try that, unhugo It's that difficult j sound to produce So unhugo Un hugo So you could say Un hugo de narancha

Ongo de naranca Well, yeah Now, un thumo de narancha Or unhugo de narancha is orange juice Naranha being the word for orange You may also want Unzumo de manzana

And in Latin America An sumo de manzana An sumo de manzana And in Latin America A Jugo de Manzana An apple juice Or A sumo de piña

A sumo de piña A sumo de piña Or a sumo de piña Or a hugo de piña Or a hugo de piña A pineapple juice. You could also ask for a limonada.

Una limonada. Una limonada. A limonada. Limonada. Limonada. I notice that that word is an feminine word. Una limonada. As opposed to

a coffee, a tea, a thuma, a jugo and suole. A limonada A limonada Very well Now obviously there are other things that you can ask for Which are brand names

Like una Coca-Cola or una Fanta and so on But we're not really supposed to talk about these here in Coffee Break Spanish So we'll not see any more about that Most of these tend to take the same name as the brand itself You might want to talk about water An Agua Mineral An aqua mineral An aqua mineral

No, an aqua mineral Listen to the way I say Agua Agua Agua Agua Okay, it's a very, very soft G Agua

Agua Now notice the difference between Agua and Agua Agua Agua, Agua Certainly in Spain you would definitely say something more like

Agua, Agua. Aqua. As opposed to a very hard Agua. So an agua mineral. An aqua mineral.

And you might want to specify sin gas. Sin gas. Sin gas literally means without gas. So this is a still mineral water. If you want a sparkling mineral water, you would ask for

an agua mineral with gas. Some aqua mineral with gas. An aquameral with gas. Very well. So some soft drinks, Zumo de Naranja, Manzan, Pina, or Jugo, de Naranha, Manana, Pina,

limonada, or an agamineral with gas, an aqua mineral with gas. Let's talk about some alcoholic drinks now. You might ask for A Cereveza Una Cereza A Cereza Now, this is a word

that is definitely pronounced differently in different countries You might hear Una Cereza And that would be a Latin American pronunciation in certain countries Ceresa Cereveza

In Spain Cervesa Cervesa beer. There is a word another word for beer which in fact gets away from any of the problems with pronunciation and it's a very very common word.

Una cana. Una cana. Una cana. This would be a small glass of beer, a half-pint glass of beer and it's what you tend to order in a Spanish bar rather than a serbeza. Una cana.

Una cana. Una cana is more Spanish than Latin American Unacania Una canna So if you're in Latin America Stick to Ceresa Cereza In Spain

Una Cereza will still get you a beer But try to ask for Unacania Una Canya This is all getting quite complicated Sorry about this So perhaps it's time to move on from beer

On to wine Wine in Spanish is Mino Bino Bino And if you're talking about red wine You say Bino tinto

Bino tinto Literally tinted wine One bino tinto And try to make sure that the tea sound is one of those soft teas Tinto Tinto

We're going to talk for a little about the T sound at the moment Something we've mentioned before but I just want to remind everybody that teas in Spanish are slightly different from teas in English in Spanish you take your tongue and put it in between your teeth rather than up on the hard part

of your mouth up above your teeth so in Spanish you say tinto as opposed to tinto which would be an English equivalent so try that tinto tinto

very tinto tinto as opposed to tinto which would be a more English version. So, um bino tinto. And that's a red wine. Note it's not unbino rocho. Rojo is the word for red. You may know that already, but you don't talk about bino rojo because in Spanish, bino is tinto, not rojo. Un bino tinto. If you're looking for white wine, then it's un bino

Blanco. An vino blanco. A vino blanco. Very bien. Now, next week we'll cover things like glasses of and cups of and bottles of, but we'll stick to the drinks themselves for the time being. Okay, we'll be back in just a moment. When you're not listening to Coffee Break Spanish,

you can still practice your Spanish with our regular posts on social media. Find us on Facebook, just search for Coffee Break Spanish. learn Spanish on Twitter and you can keep up with the team through our regular posts on Instagram. Follow coffee break languages. It's our mission to help you turn your downtime into your due time. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. So let's learn how to actually order these drinks. You could say, Quero. Chiero.

Quero. Chiero. Kiero literally means I want. Kierro. Kiero. Kiero. So if you say, I want a lemonade, you would say, Kierro,

a limonada. Kierro, an limonada. Kierro, a coffee with leche. Kierro uncafe with leit. Very well. So that's I want. and it's a fairly straightforward way of specifying which drink you want.

Equally, you could say, for me, a pineapple juice. For me, a sumo de piña, or a hugo de piña. For me, um sumo de piña. Very well. For me, a sumo de piña. for me a zamo de pina para me

a canna very very very a canna very very means for me you could equally

say for my friend can you remember the word for friend that's taking us back a few lessons now amigo

amigo or amiga so for my friend would be for my amiga for my amiga or my

amigua. For my amiga, for my wife? Very good. For my wife? Very

well. Or, my husband as well as we've learned. For my

husband, for my mother. For my wife, for my mother. So,

you could see something like for me a canna and for my amigo a

limonada. For me, a cana and for my amiga, a limonada. One limonada, yeah. Okay, it's fairly straightforward. And these are the kind of things that you're going to have to say to the waiter or the waitress. But what we've not covered yet is what the waitress or the waiter will say to you. Once you've called them over, they'll arrive at your table.

And the most likely question that they will ask you is, What are you going to take? What are to take? What are to take? What are to take? What are you going to have? What are you going to have? So let's imagine the situation.

I'm the waiter. Kara, can you call me over? Por favor? Yes, good tardes. What are to take? For me, a coffee with leche and for my

friend, a limonada. Very well. For Ustead, a coffee with leech and for your friend, a limonada.

Yes. Very well. Insegida. Now, that was a conversation that sort of wasn't really prepared in any way, but hopefully you got the idea

that Kara asked for two things. One for her. What did you ask for? Um, cafe with leche? A cafe with lece, so what was that listeners? What was it, Kara? A white coffee.

A white coffee. And you also asked for something for your friend, for my friend. A limonada. A lemonade. So the waiter then said, for you, an cafe with lece,

and for your friend. And so, because the waiter is trying to be polite, he's saying Su Amigo and not your friend,

which is the other way of saying your friend for his amigo a limonada listen to that whole

conversation again we'll try to remember all the parts of it so start off by

asking for the waiter for favor yes what are to take for me

a cafe with leche and for my a limonad very

well a coffee with leech for you and for your a limonada Yes very Insegida

Thank you Okay so the waiter finished by saying Insegida Ensegida Is something very common in cafes It basically means

straight away Insegida It's something that you're more likely to hear than say Ensegida Ensegida So the waiter will head off

Get the drinks and come back And he'll start by saying El Café con leite And Pacara, what would you say in that situation? Para me Or es para me It's for me It's for me

So el cafe con leit Is para me So it's Um cafe with leet A white coffee And then when the waiter comes back He's saying The white coffee, who's it for?

El Café con leche? It's for me. It's for me. He would say, El Café, El Café with Leche, El Cortado, El Te.

But Kara's friend asked for a limonada. So he wouldn't say El limonada. What would he say? La limonada. La limonada.

Very bien. La is the feminine form. La limonada. La limonada. is for my amigo is for my friend you've got your drinks there's one more word that you need to learn

and that is the word of course for cheers in Spanish you would say salud salud salud now it's time to put all this together in a conversation to practice all the language that you've been learning in today's show and it's a bit boring if it's just me and Kara

pretending to be a customer and a waitress or a waiter so we're going to invite some else back into the studio and that someone is my Iho Matthew. Hello Matthew, what tal estes? Very bien, grafayas papa. So the situation is I am going to be in the cafe with Matthew and we're going to be ordering some drinks and Kara this time is the waitress. So let us go. For favor. Goods. What are you going to take?

Well, for me, a coffee with leche. And for me, on three summa de pina. Very well, for you a coffee with leche and for you a sum of

piña. That's so, much thanks. Insegida. The sumo of piya? Yes,

for me. Grafias. And the cafe with leche is for you sir? Yes, much

thanks. No, nothing. And there you have it, a conversation that hopefully you understand

everything of. One thing that I'd like to mention is the fact that Kara, when she was addressing Matthew, didn't say para Uste, she said, para ti, para ti. Because, of course, Matthew's younger, and she's using the informal version with him, para ti. So just to revise that, para me.

For me, for me, for you, the informal version, and paraustead. Para Ustead. For you, the formal version. And that's where we're going to leave it today for this edition of Coffee Break Spanish. Thanks for joining us and we hope it's been useful. You can join the Coffee Break Spanish community on Facebook at Facebook.com slash Coffee Break Spanish and follow at Learn Spanish on Twitter. Much a gratis and hasta pronto.

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