CBF 1:16 | Ordering snacks ina café
Coffee Break French
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4.6 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2008
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Last time, we taught you how to order drinks in a café. In this episode you’ll learn how to order snacks to go with your drink. We'll teach you the correct vocabulary to use for the kind of snacks you may find in a French café.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you, you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head, |
| 0:07.6 | taking in the views, instead of taking on the road, maybe even taking a nap. |
| 0:13.6 | That's the bliss of getting where you need to go without worrying about driving. |
| 0:19.2 | Book your train journey via AvantiWescoast.co.uk and we'll take you there. |
| 0:24.4 | AvantiWescoast, feel good, travel. |
| 0:41.2 | Bonjour et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. |
| 0:43.6 | Welcome once again to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:45.6 | Vous avez faim, vous avez suif, |
| 0:47.5 | Are you hungry, are you thirsty? |
| 0:49.6 | Well in this lesson, we're taking our visit to the cafe a stage further |
| 0:53.5 | and ordering some snacks. |
| 0:55.3 | You can use j'ouvriré again, but you'll be learning some new vocabulary |
| 0:59.3 | to help you order food and drinks in a cafe or restaurant. |
| 1:03.0 | I hope you enjoy the lesson. |
| 1:16.0 | Now the first thing that we're going to learn tonight is how to attract the waiter's attention. |
| 1:21.6 | Of course you could stand on the table and do a dance if you like, |
| 1:24.0 | but it's probably easier to say excuse me or call the waiter over by simply saying please. |
| 1:30.0 | One thing that you must not do and that is use the word garçon. |
| 1:35.6 | Garçon. |
| 1:37.6 | Le garçon literally means the boy and it is in a sense the word |
| 1:43.6 | that sometimes used for waiter in France. |
| 1:46.4 | However, if you shout garçon, it kind of puts you back about 100 years |
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