CBF 1:17 | Ordering food in a restaurant
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 13 March 2008
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
It's time to learn how to order food in a French restaurant. You'll learn various words and phrases to help you get a table, ask for a menu, and of course, order food.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you, you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head, taking in the views, |
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| 0:30.3 | Welcome back to Coffee Break French. In the lesson 17 we're going to be visiting a restaurant |
| 0:50.0 | and you're going to be learning all the useful phrases that you need to visit a restaurant. |
| 0:54.4 | So you'll be able to ask for the menu, ask for a table indeed and also order your food. |
| 1:00.7 | I hope that you enjoy this lesson. Bon appétit. |
| 1:15.9 | To begin with today I'm going to start by testing you in some of the vocabulary and phrases that |
| 1:20.5 | we've learned in the past few weeks. So Anna, can you remember how you would say I'm hungry? |
| 1:27.6 | I would say je fain. |
| 1:30.9 | Très bien, and remember that I am hungry in French becomes I have hunger je fain. So if I have |
| 1:38.0 | hunger is je fain, how would you say I'm thirsty or I have thirst? |
| 1:43.8 | Je swap. Let's see if we can turn this around. How would I ask someone are you? |
| 1:50.2 | Hungry. Tu as fain? Tu as fain. Très bien. So je fain. I have hunger. Tu as fain. Do you have hunger? |
| 2:04.1 | Are you hungry? Tu as fain. And therefore are you thirsty? Would be? Tu as suaf. Tu as suaf. Excellent. |
| 2:13.3 | Très bien. Okay, can you remember the word for to eat? |
| 2:19.2 | Manger. |
| 2:20.5 | Manger. Manger, c'est ça. That's what for to eat. I eat would be je mange. |
| 2:27.0 | Je mange. |
| 2:28.8 | Je mange. So I could say je mange sans vich. What would that be? |
| 2:34.1 | I eat a sandwich. Yeah, I eat a sandwich or indeed I am eating a sandwich because both |
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