Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.22 | Hotels and accommodation

Episode Date: May 9, 2009

In this week’s lesson of Coffee Break Spanish, Mark and Kara talk about booking into hotels and asking for specific types of rooms. Please note that lesson 22 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 122 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.This season of Coffee Break Spanish features a total of 40 lessons, all of which will be included in the podcast feed. Just stay subscribed to the podcast to enjoy each episode. If you’d like to benefit from video versions, lesson notes and bonus audio materials, you can access the premium version of Coffee Break Spanish in the Coffee Break Academy.Don’t forget to follow Coffee Break Spanish on Facebook where we post language activities, cultural points and review materials to help you practise your Spanish. Remember - a few minutes a day can help you build your confidence in the language. Access the Coffee Break Spanish Facebook page here.If you’d like to find out what goes on behind the scenes here at Coffee Break Languages, follow @coffeebreaklanguages on Instagram.You can also check out our Coffee Break Spanish Twitter page and the Coffee Break Languages YouTube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and bienninoes a coffee break Spanish. This is episode 22. And today we're talking about hotels, booking into a hotel and getting the room that you want. I hope you enjoy the lesson. Buenos days of allos and good. NARC. Hello, Kara. How is today? Yo, very well. And you, what tell you? Phenomenal, because today, today, has a very good time here in Scotland. The weather is great here in Scotland. After last week, we... we said that we don't see much of the sun. We've had a full week of sunshine. Well, no has much

calor, but, and we're just so much again. Can you say that again? Okay. No has much color, but it's not very warm, but it's sunny. That'su is. And then I went on to say, and we're happy.

Exactly. So we're back with another program of coffee break Spanish. It's less than 22. This week and next week we're going to be tackling the topic of hotels and accommodation. Sounds good to me. Okay, cara. Estes list to start? Yes, Mark.

I'm ready to learn Spanish with coffee break Spanish. Okay, so one of the first things that we are going to be needing to think about is the word for a reservation. And a reservation in Spanish is, Una Reserva. A Reserva. A reservation. Now, in today's lesson, we're going to be using a lot of word. and phrases that we've already learned in previous lessons.

The first of these is I have. I have a reservation. How would you say I have? Tengo. Tengo, exactly, as in Tengo, an Eremano. So I have a reservation would be. Tengo unareserva. Now, if you said Tengo unareserva in a hotel reception, what's the first question that someone is likely to ask you?

What's your name? Exactly. And how would they ask what is your name? Como te amas? Okay. They may well ask Como te yamas, but it's probably more likely

that they would use the polite form. Can you remember, Kara, how you say, what is your name using the polite form? Como se yama? Como se laima. How se yama?

Or, how se laima Usteed? Como se y'iama Uste. Okay, let's repeat that. How's se y'allama Uste? Something else that you may want to say is we have a reservation. To say that, you would say, TENEMEMOS,

a reserve. Tenemos, a reserve. Tenemos, is we have. Tenemos a reserve. Tenements a reserve. Now, the other situation is obviously that you don't have a reservation, in which case you say, no

Tengo Reserva No Tengo Reserva No Tengo Reserva No Tengo Reserva

Very Now No Tengo Reserva There's something is a bit funny about that

Can you work out what it is? You don't say Una Resera Exactly

There's no word for una in there when you don't have something

you just say no Tengo Reserva I don't have reservation

No Teng Reserva No, I have a reserve. How would you say we don't have a reservation? No. We don't have a reserve. No, we've got reserva. Very well.

No tenemos reserve. No tenements reserve. Excellent. Now, in today's lesson, as I've already said, we're going to be looking at lots of words and phrases that we've already learned in previous lessons and putting them together, almost like a jigsaw puzzle

where we learn that one word can go with other words, but that you can also make up sentences with different combinations of words. We're going to start by looking at the word for a room. In Spanish, our room is una abitacion. Very well. One abitacion. Very well. One abitacion. Una abitacion. Now, a couple of things. One in Latin American Spanish, you would say abitacion or in some parts of Latin America

you would talk about instead of an abitacion, one quarto. One quarto. An quarto. An quarto. Okay. We'll stick with

Abitacion in these examples. Let's put that together with a couple of other words that we already know. Thinking back to when we were ordering drinks, how do you say, I want? Quero. I want a room. Kierro una abitacion.

Exactly. Now, Kiro una abitacion is probably a little direct. I want a room. But it gets the message across. And it's using a new word, Abitacion, with a word that you already know. Kiero.

So, Kiero an abitacion. Or, in Latin America, Kiro one abitacion. Kiero a abitacion. Abitacion. Yeah. Okay, abitacion in Spain,

abitacion in the parts of Latin America. Kara, can you think we're in a way to make this a bit more polite, a bit less direct? By saying, Por favor? Por favor, at the end, exactly. Quero una abitacion, por favor.

Quero a unabitacion, por favor. Very well. Now, there's another way of making it more polite, and that is by using the word for I would like. And again, that's another word that we came across

when we were doing drinks. You remember what I would like. It starts with a cue as well. Quisiera. Quisiera. Quisiera a abitacion. Quisiera

an abitacion, for favor. Very well, at the end to make it even more polite. Quisiera one abitacion, for favor. Quisiera

a abitacion, for favor. Very well. Now, we're going to go on and learn different types of rooms and different types of requirements that you may have. But before we do, I'm going to ask you one further question. If you didn't want to say, I want a room or I would like a room, how would you say, do you have

a room? Tienes. Tienes would be the informal version. Tienes an abitacion. But it's probably better to use the formal version, Tienie or Tienie Uste.Tienes an abitacion. Tienie Ustez Unabitacion Very good So that means you now have three different ways of asking for a room

Kierro an abitacion Kierro an abitacion Kisiera one Avitacion And

Tiene Ustel An abitacion Tienie Ustel An abitacion Now just to make it clear I want and quesera both refer to I I want or I would like and Tieni is referring to you the formal version

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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. Let's go on and think a little bit more about the types of rooms that may might be wanting to ask for. One abitacion individual. individual. Individual. Individual. Individual.

Individual. Okay. Individual, it's spelled exactly the same as individual in English. Individual means a single room. One abitation individual. One abitation individual. So let's put this into practice.

How would you say, I want a single room, please? Kisiera an invitation individual, for favor Okay,

Kisiera an abitation individual would be I would like okay they're really polite or the more

polite version I want would be I want would be Kero an an abitation individual

okay but it's the same thing it's almost the same thing

let's move on a double room a an abitation double

a abitation double A abitacion double. And if you're in Latin America, a habitation double. Or a quarto double. A double room can mean a variety of things in Spanish-speaking countries,

so you may want to be more specific. You may want to ask, a abitation double with a coma de matrimonio let's repeat that last part con camera

de matrimonio con camera de matrimonio okay now what do you think matrimonio has got something to do with marriage

marriage wedding yeah matrimonio is literally a wedding a marriage so cama de matrimonio is

a bit of marriage a bit of marriage a bit of marriage A bed of marriage, that's right, so it's a double bed, okay? Kama de matrimonio. Kama de matrimonio. Okay, and equally you could say in certain parts, Kama matrimonial.

Kama matrimonial. Okay, so, con camera de matrimonio, or con camera matrimonial, as I did too, a unavitacion double. Let's put the whole phrase together. Quisiera, a one abitacion doble with a coma de matrimonio

Quisiera a abitacion doble with camo de matrimonio Very well Now if you want a twin room That would be a room with two single beds You could ask for One abitacion dole With two camas

A abitacion dole With two camas Very well With two beds A camera is a bed two camas, two beds. One camera. Two camas.

Two camas. So, Kisiera an abitacion doble with two kamas. Kisiera a abitacion doble with two kamas.

Very well. And if you wanted to ask in a hotel, do you have any twin rooms, for example? Then you could say, Tiene an abitation

double with two kamas. Tiena An abitacion noble with two camas. Okay, so we're going to use this word

con with a few more situations because we might want to specify what we want in the room. Can you repeat con banio?

Con banio. Banio is a bath. Con banio. Con banio. Alternatively, you may want to ask for an abitacion

con ducha. Conducha Conducha Conducha Conducha Conducia Conducia Now this is another example of words that are very similar to words in other languages

For example, in French we have as in the same route as banio and douche the same route as ducha Let's add in a couple of other things that you may want to specify when you're ordering your room or reserving your room con baño, con ducha,

con vistas al mar Any guesses as to what that might be? A sea view? A sea view, exactly, con vistas al mar. Literally, with views to the sea. Vistas al mar. Bistas al mar.

Okay, and equally you may want to ask, con vistas a la mountaina. A la Montagna. Which would be. A view of the mountains? A view of the mountains, exactly. Let's put some of this into a little exercise now. I'm going to specify a particular type of room,

and Kara, you're going to have to ask for this room at the hotel reception. So, starting off, I would like you to ask for a double room with a bath. So the whole sentence, I would like a double room with a bath, please. Kisiera a abitation Doble with

a very very Kisiera a abitacion dole with

banio for favor Okay what about this one I would

like a single room with a shower and a sea view

Kisiera an abitacion individual with ducha was that right

It was a shower. A shower, yeah. With a seat-view. I would like a man. Very good. Quisiera an abitation

individual with duch and with vistas to mar or and vistas at mar. Very well. One final one.

I would like a twin room with a shower and a bath and a view of the mountains. Quisiera an abitation

double two camas and with banio, ducha and vistas at the mountaine. Very bien, de facto. It's quite difficult, but at least when you're actually asking for your room, you'll know what you want from your room.

Now, there are two final things that I want to cover in this week's lesson. First of all, we'll cover how many nights are you staying? You may be asked the question, para quantas noches. For how many nights? Okay, so for how many nights? And you can simply say,

For two noches, for three noches, or indeed, for one night. Let's start with one noche. For one noche. And why is it

one night? Because notche is feminine. Exactly. For one night. For two noches. For two noches. Okay. Now, every single week,

we use the word week when we say, see you next week. We say, After. La Semana. After la Semana que vienes. So the word for a week is one a week is one.

Semana. For a one semana. Or para two semanas. Par a two semanas. And so on. So for two nights, for one night, it's using para. One final thing I'd like to cover in this week's program, and that is, how much does it cost? It's all very well asking for a room and everything, but it's useful to know how much it's going to cost you.

So to ask the question, how much does it cost? and this is obviously a very useful question and could become useful in all sorts of different situations, you would say, Quanto Cesta. Quanto Cesta. Quanto Cesta? Quanto Cesta.

Okay, and you might want to say per night, per week, or whatever. So let's try, Quanto Cesta, for noce. Quanto cost for noche. Quanto cesta for noce. Quanto questa for noce. Or, what cost

per semena. Quanto cost per semen. And indeed, you may also want to ask how cost for person. Quanto

per person. Very well. Quanto costa. Quanto cost. A really useful phrase. For person means per person.

Oh, sorry. Yeah. Por person means per person. Okay. For person. Sorry. Lo siento much. 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.

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