Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.17 | Ordering food in a restaurant

Episode Date: March 11, 2009

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Hello and welcomeinos at Copybraith Spanish. This is Lesson 17 and in Lesson 17 we're going to be asking for a table in a restaurant and dealing with some of the things that you need to in a restaurant situation. Now, lots of the language that you've already learned for ordering drinks and snacks can be reused when ordering food from a menu in a restaurant. And hopefully by the end of this lesson you'll have picked up more useful phrases for dealing with these kind of situations. I hope you enjoy the life.

Well, Oi, yo Tenggo Ambre. Today, I am hungry. Tengue ambr, it means I am hungry. It actually means I have hunger. Tengo ambre. Can you defeat that, please? Tengue ambre. Tengo ambre.

Tengue ambr. So it's the same Tengo as when you say, Tengu Unermano. Tengu, I have a brother. Tengue ambr. I have hunger. I have hunger. I have hunger.

Tengue ambre And if you're thirsty you say Tengo se Tengue SED Tengue SED Tengue SED

Very Let's see if we can find A restaurant There's a restaurant For Aki Yes There's a restaurant Certa de Aki

Very Very bien Put you on the spot there Kara You didn't expect that So I'm a restaurant Cerca de Aki There are 19 restaurants in this city

Yes, in the city where I live I, there's 19 restaurants And many things interesting, yes Okay, so we found our restaurant We go to the door of the restaurant And the first thing that we would want to ask Is, do you have a table? Now let's think back to when we were talking

about brothers and sisters How did we ask, do you have any brothers or sisters? Tienes an Ermano? Tienes un hermano or Tienes ermanos Tienes unermano

Do you have a brother? Tienes ermanos do you have brothers and sisters? So do you have can be Tienes. However,

when we're talking to someone in a restaurant in this kind of situation, we would use the formal form and the formal form is not

Tienes, but it's Tienes. Tienes. Tiene. Tiene Now, a mesa. Tienie

a mesa. Now, a mesa is a table. Tienie una mesa. Tienie a mesa. Now, the first thing

that you're likely to be asked in response to this question is, para quantas personas. Para quantas persons. Okay, so

for how many people? For how many people? Exactly, that's it. The word, Quantos. or quantas means how many. So, for how many people? If you're asked then,

for how would you say for four people? For four people? For four persons. For four persons. Or you could just say, para quattro. In fact, you could say, Tienie one mesa for four?

Tienie a mesa for four. Very well. Okay. The next thing that you might be asked would be something like fumadores or no fumadores. Fumadores or no fumadores. Okay, fumador. Fumador is a smoker.

So fumadores is in the smoking section or in the no fumadores section. So fumadores or no fumadores. Fumadores or no fumadores. Exactly. In Scotland, we have a smoking ban in place and you're not allowed to smoke in any restaurants at all. In Spain, you can smoke in some restaurants

and I'm not entirely sure of what the situation is in Spanish-speaking parts of Latin America. So you can decide which section you want to sit in. We're going to do a bit of role play here. I'm going to be the restaurant manager at the door and Kara is going to arrive at the restaurant and ask for a table. Well, I want to start this. good

Good tardes Tieni a mess for a favor? Yes, a moment fumadores or

no fumadores? No fumedores for favor Yes, but here Now in that situation

Kara obviously got the table for two that she was in the which section was it? The no smoking

section that's right now the waiter or me I said Foraki Normally

For Aki normally poracki when we're asking There's a bank for a key means around here When a waiter says something like that

to you in a restaurant then it means over this way please come this way or something like that but here For a key Very good

Okay let's do another situation And something different is going to happen this time Kara's going to be asking for a table for two again

and she's going to be told something different See if you can work out what she's told Good Tardes Good afternoon

Tiene has a mess for two no siento. Okay, I'll see again what I said there. Lo Siento. We've serrado.

Emos serrated means literally we've closed. Okay, so we're closed. We're finished serving. Emos serrado. Very well. Okay, another situation. Same again, Kara,

if you arrive at the restaurant. Buenos Aires. Goodsardes. Has a mess for two, for a bit? A ver Lo siento we're

We're okay in that particular situation I said we're yenos We're

Yenos Any idea what that means We are not sure Okay It does mean we are

something We're is the We are part and yenos means full

We're yenos. We're yenos. Okay, I could also have said no tenemos messas. No tenemes messes. And do you know what that means? No tenemes messes.

We don't have any tables. Exactly. No tenemos mesas. Tenemos is the we part. I would say Tengo, I have. Tienes, you have or tiene, you formal have. And tenemos means

we have. So, no tenemos messes. We don't have any tables. Lo Siento, no we have no our our santo we're

our samos yenos. I also said something else. I said hay to expect.

Ay to expect. Ayke means you have to do something. You have to or it's

necessary to so Ike expect means you have to wait. It's necessary

to wait. There to expect There's There's Very Very

I get You have to wait And Kara you could have said in that situation Quanto have to

expect Quanto I can expect Exactly Quanto is related to

Quantas Perssonas Personas How many people Quanto means how much So how much

time in this case do you have to wait How much time How long will we have to wait

Quanto Ike Esperar Quanto is that the same Ike that was in the Christmas song

which line Ike feste you have to celebrate exactly so Ike to wait you have to wait

you have to celebrate exactly very bien okay we'll be back in just a moment when you're not listening

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It's our mission to help you turn your downtime into your due time. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. So you now have three situations that you can cope with arriving at a restaurant, either getting a table and being asked to follow the waiter, or being told that they've closed already, or that you'll have to wait because they're full. Let's imagine you're now sitting at your table. Can you remember from last week how you would say,

Can you bring us? Nos try. Okay, so how would you say, can you bring us the menu, please? Nos try la carte. Nos try la carte, por favor, exactly. Nos trai la carte. Something else that you might want to ask if you're arriving at a restaurant.

you might ask, nos trae a sillita for the baby nos try a sillita for the baby Webe

Nos try a silita for the baby Okay, this is something for who do you think

that's for? A baby? A baby. And if I tell you that a cilia is a chair, what do you

think a sillita is? A high chair? A high chair, yeah, it's a little chair, so a special chair for the baby, and that's called different things in different parts of the world. In Scotland, we'd call it a high chair.

A small chair, a siliita, and the Ita, or ito, at the end of a word, makes it smaller. So, una si jillita for el be be be. One thing that we would like to do here is talk about all the different types of food that you could be ordering in a restaurant.

The slight problem is that because this program is aimed at Spanish learners all over the world, it would be very difficult to cover all the different types of food that you might come across, particularly because there are so many regional varieties of food, both in Spain and in Spanish-speaking parts of Latin America. We'd suggest that you get a good phrasebook that gives you a menu decoder, which allows you basically to use the phrasebook to understand the menu. Or you could also ask, Tiena a card

in English. Tienes a card in English. Or in some parts of Latin America. Tiene a menu

in English. Tien Tien an menu in English. Very good. Can you tell me how you would

say, can you bring us an English menu, please? Or a menu in English? Nos try

a cart in English. Very Good. Nice. We can't bring a card in English. Perfecto. Okay, it's time to order our food.

Now, last week we learned all sorts of phrases for ordering drinks, and it's exactly the same this week. We could say, para me. Par me? Or, I'm going to teach you another word this week. You could say,

Quisiera. Quisiera. Quisiera means I would like. It's a more polite way of saying, Quiro, Quisiera. Quisiera. Quisiera.

Quisiera. Okay. So, the situation is that we've got the menu. We've been reading through the menu. Perhaps it's an English menu. You could say, I would like this and point to something. Quero this.

Quiro this. Very well. Quero esto, or quisiera this. Quisiera this. Perfecto. Sometimes restaurants have photos or pictures in their menus of the kind of things that they offer. Equally, they sometimes have things sitting out. So you could ask, what is in this?

What does this dish contain? And the keyword here is leava. Yeah. Lever. Lever. Very. It's quite tricky to say. Lever.

the double L sound, L'uiva. Leva. Very good. You could see then, que leva. What does this contain? Literally, what does it carry?

So if you point to something and say, que leva. Kea or you could say, what does this dish contain? Que leva

this plato. That Leva This plato That leva This plato That leva this plato Very well

Of course You may be told What the dish does contain And at that point You would be using your menu decoda that we suggested earlier

To find out What all these things mean It might, for example, be tomato Or ajo Tomate is tomato Ajo Ajo, garlic

And so on You might be sitting at a table And see something That looks Absolutely delicious at the table next to you. So you could ask,

what are they eating they're eating? Ejos. Ejos. Ejos are them. What are they doing? So, what are they doing? So, what are eating? Estan comienda. They're eating.

What are eating? What are coming Elios? Very well Very well Is Estan like

Estas and estat Yes it's from the same verb Estar means to be and it's a verb that's used to talk about how you are

feeling for example Como Estas is another way of saying What How is How is

How is Oste How is Uste? Very well How is Stas How is

but it's also used in this particular construction when it's used are doing something i am doing something you are doing something so if we said ke estan comienda elios what are they eating or what are eating they really how would you say what are you eating what are you eating what is not elios because that's them so what are you eating What are, Kestas comienda? Okay, you could say you could say you at the end

to make it more clear that you're talking about you, but what you're talking about. And to say, I am eating something, I am eating something, I'm eating carne. I'm comingando

carne. Carnie is meat. I'm eating carne. I'm eating very well and that was a good question because it's important that we do get used to thinking about these verbs and so on okay so one more phrase tonight and that is what me recommenda ke me recommenda okay me recommenda okay now can you guess what this means what do you recommend exactly what do you recommend to me the me part in there is to me

What me recommenda? Very well. And again, in this situation, the waiter would explain things by pointing or showing what there is on the menu and you can order from that. Well, much phrases and much words today, no? You could say, have learned. we've learned We've learned We've learned Many phrases

And much phrases And much And many words And so today We've learned Many phrases and many words We've learned

Many words And much phrases Yes And today And if you can Say can say We've We've

We've We've Puts and much Phrase with Coffee Bricks Spanish Is, right?

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