Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.18 | Situations in a restaurant

Episode Date: March 14, 2009

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Hello and bienninos at Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. Sometimes when you're eating out, you have to explain certain situations, for example, perhaps an allergy, or that you can't eat something in particular. In this lesson, we'll be learning how to cope with that in Spanish and we'll also be learning how to deal with complaints. Perhaps your food is cold, perhaps it's not what you ordered. All of that and more coming up in this lesson of Coffee Break Spanish.

Okay, so before we even get into this lesson, Kara, you said there, Estes listo to start. Now, not only I say, Estes lista, to learn to learn Spanish. Are you ready? So the word lista means ready.

But that's the word I used to talk to you, Lista. You said, Estas listo. Why is that? Because you're masculine. Because I'm masculine, yeah, it's the masculine and feminine versions of the adjective.

I'm masculine, therefore, I would say, Listo. And you would say Lista? Very well. Now, we're going to use this idea in the first phrase

for today's lesson and that phrase is Soe Vegetariano Soe Begetariano Very good, it is quite tricky to say. Try that syllable by syllable.

Be Be Ge Ta Tariano V Vegetariano. Vegetariano.

Vegetariano. Vegetarian. Vegetarian. Very well. Now, vegetariano means vegetarian. And you would say, So I vegetariano if you're male. If you're female, you wouldn't say vegetariano.

What would you say? Kind of what would you say? Vegetariana. So, So I vegetariania. Soe vegetariana. Very good. So if you're meal. repeat after me, and then if you're female, repeat after Kara.

I'm vegetariano. I'm vegetarian. Perfecto. Now you can say I'm vegetarian. Now, you might also have particular likes and dislikes or particular things you can and can't eat. The word for I eat in Spanish is Como. Come.

Now that's very like another word that you already know as in Como Te Yamas. But in Como te yamas, the como means how. And you know that it's different from Como as in I eat because Como meaning how carries an accent on the first O.

Como te yams or Como, como meaning I eat. So repeat Como. Como. Como. So does the accent on

Como meaning how change the way the word said at all? No, the word common meaning how and the word como meaning I eat sound exactly the same there is absolutely no difference in pronunciation you would be able to tell from the context so if I say como carne as an I eat meat which will be coming to in a

moment then you know that it's not como as in Como tel yamas okay so you know from the context but the accent never changes the the sound of the word it's simply written differently to differentiate in the written language Okay, thank you. Okay, so Como means I eat, how would you say I don't eat?

No como. No como, no como. And you might want to say that you don't eat, for example, meat. No, como, carne. No, como, carne. Very well, carne is the word for meat. I mentioned it earlier. No como carne.

No como carne. And you might want to say you don't eat. red meat in which case you would say no como carne roja no como carny roja try making sure that you're saying roja Roja Very good roja

No como carne roja No como carne roja Okay Other things that you might not eat You might not eat shellfish for example seafood Marisco Marisco

Marisco Marisco Very good No como marisco. No como marisco. Okay. Or you might not eat fish. No.

Pescaido. No. Pescado. That's it? No como pescado. No como pescado. Okay, let's repeat all of those. I'll see them first.

You see them and then Cata will see them. No. No. Carni roja. No, como carno-roha. Roja, roja. Roja.

No, come carnoja. No, like marisco. No, how marisco. No, how pescado.

No, pescado. Perfect. So, so I vegetariano, I'm vegetariana, no como carneroja,

marisco, pescado. Something else that you may come across in a Spanish restaurant situation is the fact

that you may have to say that allergic to something. So to say I am allergic, you say, I am allergic, you say, so alergico. Soy alergico. Soy alergico. Soy elerhico. Yeah, it's quite tricky to get the difference between the r and the ch together.

So, allergico. Alergico. Very well. Alergico. Alerhico. Perfect. I'm allergic or if you're female, I'm allergic. Very well. So I'm allergic to something.

So it might be, for example, a las nues. A las noces. And in Latin America, a las noises. A las noces So Alerhico Alas Nueces So

Alergico Alas Nuises Again if you're female Soi alergica Alas Nuis Soi Alerica A Las Nueces

Very Something else that you may be allergic to would be dairy products And those are Los Prouctos Lactios

The products Lactios Productos Productos Productos Productus Products Very good

Those products Lactios So I am allergic to Diti products So I'm allergic to those products Lactios

Very well I'm Alergic to the products Lactios So I'm allergic to

as productus electors. Very well. So there's a couple of things that you may be allergic to and also the situation that you may be vegetarian or that you don't eat a particular thing.

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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. Let's imagine that your meal has now arrived. The waiter or waitress has brought your food and they're going to wish you have a nice meal.

In English we don't even have a phrase for that, and certainly in Scotland we say bonapetee rather than have a nice meal or anything like that. In Spanish, What a provete? What a provete? What a provete? What a prevette? And of course the waiter or waitress is likely to say that, but also you can say that to your fellow diners.

What a provete? What a preveti. You may also hear from time to time, Buen provoceo. Good prevecio. Okay, so your food has arrived at the table and you start eating it, and sometimes you may find that there's a particular problem with your food. You might want to say, it's cold or it's hot or something like that.

So the word for it is is esta. Okay, so you might want to say then that something is cold. You would say, esthsta frio. Now to say this ista frio This is cold Okay, that's kind of This is cold You would say

This is cold, You would say, Thiso Ista frio Okay, that's kind of complicated because This and esta sound quite similar Thise, this This

This This Ista frio This isa frio This isa frio This is free Okay

To say something is hot You might want to see Thiso Ista Caliente This is Caliente This is caliente

This is caliente Okay, so We've got Ista frio Ista frio? Ista Caliente And there's also a word to say something is too cold or too hot.

And that word is, Demasio. Demasio. So to say this is too cold, this is too cold. This is too cold. This is too, freeo.

This is ta'emascado frio. This is da, Demacio, Or this is too hot. Demasio Demasial Demosciado Frio

Demasio Or this is too hot This is Demosia Dement This is Demacio Caliente

Very good Another couple of words This Kemado This is Kymado Me means Burnt

Okay, so This is Kemado This is quimado Kymado burnt Okay

Kymar is the verb to burn This is Kemado So is Kemado Okay And the other

situation that you may find is that something It's just a bit too spicy

for you In which case It's Picante Okay So to say this is

too spicy You would say This is Demosia Dement Piquante

And if that were the situation, how would you say, can you bring us more water, please? Nos try less water, for favor. Very bien, very well. I hope all our listeners got that too. Nos try more water, for favor. One thing to mention, just when we're talking about nos try, someone in the forum was mentioning that perhaps another way of saying nos try would be, tryganos

traiganos triaganos triganos is the command form the imperative and it's a way of saying bring us more water nos trae

is spelled differently T-R-A-E it's spelled and the difference between Nostrae and Traikanos is that Nostrae

is just a little less direct it's a little less of a command so it's more can you bring us some more water please Nostrae us water

for favor? As opposed to bring us more water, for favor. Traigernos more water, for favor. Exactly, exactly. Okay, you've said then that things are too cold, too hot,

burnt, and too spicy. Another thing that you would equally want to say is this is this is goodissimo. This is goodissimo.

Very well. It means it's wonderful. It's perfect. It's absolutely delicious. It's ta buennissimo. Estabuenissimo. Isimo at the end of any adjective makes it a much stronger adjective. So, Bueno means good. It's good.

But to say estabuenissimo means it's really good. It's goodissimo. It's goodissimo. Another way of saying the same thing in Spain is esta riquissimo. It's diquissimo. Riquissimo. and that means really rich the way you would describe food, really rich.

Estesissimo. Stay richissimo. Very well. Now, at the end of the meal, you may well want to say that you're full. We learned a word for fool last week when we said that the restaurant is full. We are full. Can you remember how to say that? We're done well remembered.

Very well remembered. Now, you can say yeno when you're talking about yourself, but it's probably better to use another word. And that other word is satisffecho. Satisfetcho. And if you're a female, Satisfecha. Satisfecha. So, Estoy Satisfecho. I'm satisfiedo.

Or, I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied. Okay, and that means literally, I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied with what I've eaten. But it's the way you would say, I'm full, I've had enough to eat, thank you very much. I'm satisfiedo I'm satisfiedio Okay, very well

Now just before we finish There are two aspects of grammar that we've covered in today's lesson And I'm going to mention just a little more about them Before we finish off for today The first of these is adjectives If you're male Then you'll use one particular form

And normally that form ends in the letter Oh Listo Vegetariano Alerhico. If you're feminine, if you're female, then you would use a form that ends in A. Kara, can you give us some examples here?

Lista vegetariana alergica. Very well. Lista vegetariana alergica. Now most of the time, in Spanish, feminine adjectives end in A. So vegetariana and masculine adjectives end in O. Alerhico. We'll be covering more about adjectives in future lessons. The one other thing I wanted to mention today is the whole issue about, for example, you say,

Soi vegetariano, but estoy listo. And both soy and the stoie mean I am. And I want you to think about the difference between soy vegetarian and estoy listo. if you are saying you're vegetarian that's pretty much a permanent thing you are vegetarian and there's probably not a lot that's going to change if equally you're allergic to something that's a permanent thing again

soi alerhico but if you say estoy listo I am ready well just at that moment you're ready you weren't ready five minutes ago and if something else happens you might not be ready in five minutes time So to say, estuille listo, it's a different kind of I am. It's a temporary thing. For example, think as well about I'm satisfied.

I am full. That's just a temporary thing. You're not always full. It's a temporary thing. I'm satisfecho. So there are different words in Spanish for I am, you are, he is and so on, depending on whether it's a temporary thing or a permanent thing.

And we'll come back to that in future lessons. It's a big thing in Spanish, the difference between estoi and soy, or indeed the infinitives of the verbs are estar and ser. Don't worry too much about it just now. We'll be covering lots more about it in future lessons. And that's where we're going to leave it today

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