Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 1.33 | Checking in to a hotel

Episode Date: September 11, 2009

In lesson 33 we revisit the language learned in earlier lessons for booking into a hotel. Having arrived in Santiago de la Ribera, Kara takes on the role of “Jane Johnston” who needs to check into the hotel. Please note that lesson 33 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 133 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 bienninos at Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. Now, in Lesson 33, Kara and I have arrived at our hotel. Way back in Lesson 22 and 23, we were learning how to check into a hotel and deal with some problems that you might encounter in a hotel. So let's find out if we encounter any of these problems when we check into the hotel in Lesson 33.

Okay, so just as we did last time, week we're going to begin by listening to the whole conversation between Kara, in this case Jane, and the person working in the Hotel Estrella at the reception. Good afternoon. Hello, my name is Jane Johnson. I have one reserve. A ver, yes, here is. Well, me can't give your passaportes, for favor?

Yes, yes, here you have. You have reserved a individual and an abitation double with a camera of matrimonio, right? No,

I'd be a an abitation with a camera of matrimonial and an abitation double with two cameras.

You're called Jill Johnson? No, no, I'm Jane Johnson. Ah, me have equivocated.

We have another reserve a name of Jill Johnson. What casuality. A-be, a here is your

reserve. A bitation double with two camas and a room with a room with a

matrimonial. It's so. Perfect. Well, prefer you see you vistas

at the mountain. Vistas at the sea is possible. Yes, it's

possible. But, but for a room for a bit of a

bit of a have to pay a supplement. How is the supplement? The supplement is of 10 euros for night and for an apartment.

And the abutations with the mountains do not have a supplement? No, no they're a supplement.

Well, no has much important we're here four nights so 40 euros are much preferrime, then, a bitacean with vistas to the mountain.

Very well. Me can't firm this fitcher, for favor? Sure that yes. Thank you. The room is in the third-pice. There are ascensor here to the left. Very well, much thanks. That's good.

That's good here in the Hotel Estrella. Thank you. Now, it has to be said that that was really quite a lot of Spanish to listen to, all at once. There are two sections to this conversation. In the first section, there is a problem with the room that Kara, or in this case Jane, has reserved. I'd like you to listen to this section again and try to find out what that problem is. As a clue, you may want to consider carefully what type of rooms are being asked for. Listen to the first section again. Good, good

Good afternoon. Hello, my am I'm Jane Johnson. I have a reserve. A ver, yes, here is it. Well,

can't give your passports, for favor? Yes, here you have. You've has reserved an abitation

individual and an abitation double with a family and not? No,

I'd be a an abitation double with a camera of matrimonio and

a room double with two camas. You see called Jill Johnson? No, no, I'm Jean Johnson. Ah, me I've

equivocated. We have another reserve a name of Jill Johnson. What casuality. A- see, here

is your a room with two and two and a room with a room with a

matrimonio. It's so. Perfect. So were you able to work out what the problem was? Basically, the man at reception has two reservations in the name of Johnson. One is for a Jill Johnson, and the other is for Jane Johnson, the character being played by Kara. We're going to study the language in this conversation more carefully now.

Let's begin with the first part of this dialogue. Good afternoon, bienveno to Hotel Estrella. Hello, my name is Jane Johnson. I have one reserve. Now, all this language is very straightforward. The man begins by saying, Buenas Tardes. Good afternoon.

Bienvenido to the hotel Estrella. Bienvenido is the general word for welcome. Welcome to the Hotel Estrella. Estrella actually means star. Kara then says, Hello, me name Jane Johnson. Tengo a reserve. Tengo a reserve.

You should recognize. I have a reservation. So the receptionist looks for the reservation and finds it. He then asks for something. Can you identify what he's asking for? A ver, yes, here is it. Well, me can't do his passaportes, for favor? Yes, here he asks,

me can't do his passaportes, for favor? Me can you? Can you, in the plural form and the polite? form and the polite form, can you give me? Me Pueden dar. He could also have said, Pueden darme, can't dar me sus passaportes? Or me done sus passaportes, in the sense of will you give me your passports? Can you give me your passports? And obviously in any situation like this, you're listening for the keywords, the keyword here being passaporte. That's the word that you need to recognize in order to achieve understanding.

Let's listen on. Ustet has reserved an abitaphed individual and an abitacion double with a matrimonio, right? The man at reception says, Ustead ha reserved, you've reserved, and then he goes on to describe the room he thinks that Jane Johnson has reserved. Listen again and see if you can identify exactly what type of rooms are on this reservation.

So, according to the abitation individual and a an abitation double with a camera of matrimonio, so according to the receptionist, Jane Johnson has reserved

an abitation individual and a abitation double with a camera of matrimonio. So, a abitation

individual is, of course, a single room. And a habitation double with a a room for two people with a double bed. He finishes this statement by saying, Verda? Literally, truth. And he's simply checking that this is correct. And as we now find out,

it's not correct. Let's listen to what Jane Johnson says about the reservation. No, it'd be a abitation doble with a camo de matrimonio and an abitacion doble with two So what should the reservation be? One abitacion double with a camera de matrimonio. So a room for two people with a double bed and a abitacion doble with two camas. And a twin room, a room for two people with two beds.

Ustay is a jail Johnson? No, no, I'm Jane Johnson. So the receptionist begins to realize that there's something not quite right. He checks the name of the guest. Ustezsse y'all Johnson. Is your name Jill Johnson, and of course he's using the Ustead form, the formal version. Ustez de jill Johnson.

And the answer is, no, no, I'm Jane Johnson. I am Jane Johnson. Listen to how the receptionist reacts to this. Ah, me, equivocado. Listen again to this phrase. Ah, me equivocado. You're saying here, me e equivocado. Equivocado comes from the verb, equivocarse.

It's a reflexive verb, and it means to make a mistake. So, me e equivocado, I have made a mistake. We have made a mistake. What casualit. What casualidad is a nice phrase. It means what a coincidence. We have another reservation. A number of Jill Johnson.

And the name of Jill Johnson. So then the receptionist begins to look for Jane Johnson's reservation. A ver, here is his reserve. A bitation double with two camas and a and a room and a room with a a matrimonial.

It's so. Perfect. Well, prefer you vistas at the mountain vistas at the sea

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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 we're now moving into the second part of this conversation. The receptionist has found the reservation, and he asks the question, prefere Ustez visas al mar or vistas

a la montaña now if you don't understand this question fully you may pick up a few words first of all prefere is something to do with preferring so do you prefer prefer

prefieri usted vistas al mar you may not remember what vistas are vistas are views views towards the mar el mar is the sea

or vistas a mountain views towards the mountain prefer you prefer you see a lot or vistas a la mountaina and Jane Johnson would prefer

vistas al mar if it's possible if it's possible if it's possible but for an abitation with vistas at mar, there's to pay a supplement listen again to what the receptionist

says here Again, if we're working on the basis of looking for key expressions and keywords, you may have recognized a supplement a supplement, an additional payment. He says, for a habitation with vistas at mar. So for a room with a sea view, Ike Pagar a supplement Ake is something

that we've come across before Ake means you have to or it's necessary to I can pay a supplement So Jane Johnson then asks Howan is the supplement? The supplemento is

10 euros for night and for abitation Can you work out how much the supplement is? 10 euros per night and for abitation. So 10 euros, 10 euros per night and per room. So 10 euros per night per room. Hmm. And the habitations with vistas to the mountaine no have supplement?

No, no, no they have supplement. So she wants to clarify here that the rooms with a mountain view don't have a supplement. And that is indeed the case. So let's listen to what Jane Johnson decides to do. Well, no has much important. We're here four nights, so 40 euros are much. Preferring us, then, a bitation with vistas to the mountaine. Very well.

She explains, we are here four nights. So, we are here for four nights. So, 40 euros, are much. 40 euros is quite a lot.

Preferimos then, so we prefer, a bitation, so she decides to go for the cheaper room, with vistas to the mountaina. The receptionist then asks if Jane can do something.

Listen carefully to this. Me can't firm this fichita, for favor? Claro that yes. One fichia is a form, a registration form in a hotel, that Jane is asked to sign, firmar. Me can't firm this fichie, for favor. And notice here that the receptionist is in fact

asking all the people in Jane's party to sign the form. Me Pueen, being the plural formal form. me Pueden Firmar this ficha If it were just Jane who had to sign it

he would say me Puede firmer this fichia Now the receptionist finally gives one more

piece of information and that's about where the room is listen carefully to this final

section Thank the Abitations are in the third Piso

there is an so where are the rooms on the third on the third floor

and he also says there is an ascensor here to the so there is a lift an ascensor, an elevator here on the left and he finally wishes Jane and her friends

a pleasant stay in the Hotel Estrella that that's been here in the Hotel Estrella Thank you. Okay, so you've now understood all of this dialogue between Jane Johnson and the hotel receptionist in the Hotel Estrella. We're going to listen to it one more time from beginning to end and hopefully this time you'll realize how much you've learned in this lesson.

Good afternoon, bienveno to Hotel Estrella. Hello, my name is Jane Johnson. I have a reservoir. A ver, yes, here is. Well, me can't give your passports, for favor? Yes, yes, here you have. You have reserved a individual and an abitation

individual and a an abitation double with a camera of matrimonial, right? No, I'd be a an abitation

with a room of matrimonio and an abitation double with two cameras. You're

called Jill Johnson? No, no, I'm Jane Johnson. Ah, me have We have a We have a

No, a number of Jill Johnson. What casuality. A-beer Here, here is a a room two comas

and a room with a matrimonial. That's so Perfect. Well, prefer you vistas at the

sea or vistas at the Muntai? Vistas at the S'Ans possible. However, for an abitation with vistas at the mar, have to pay a supplement.

How is the supplement? The supplement is of 10 euros for night and for abitation. Hmm. And the abitations with vistas to the mountaine do not have a supplement? No, no, they're supplement. Well, no has much importance.

We're here four nights, so 40 euros are much. Preferimus, then, a bit of a bitation with vistas to the mountaine. Very well. Can you sign this fitcher, for favor? Sure that so.

Thank you. The habitations are in the third piso. There's an ascensor here to the left. Very well,

much thanks. That's so. 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 coffeebreak Spanish and follow at Learn Spanish on Twitter.

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