CBF 1:18 | Restaurant situations
Coffee Break French
Radio Lingua Network
4.6 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2008
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you’ll learn to deal with dietary requirements in the restaurant and complain about your food – or compliment the chef!
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| 0:58.0 | Bonjour, et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. |
| 1:01.0 | Welcome back once again to Coffee Break French. |
| 1:04.0 | In less than 18 we're still in the restaurant, but this time we're learning to cope with particular situations that you may find yourself in. |
| 1:10.0 | For example, trying to order food if you're a vegetarian or dealing with any other dietary requirements. |
| 1:17.0 | You'll also be learning to complain and say that your food is cold or not well cooked or something like that. |
| 1:23.0 | Hopefully, you won't need to use these phrases. |
| 1:26.0 | I hope that you enjoy this lesson of Coffee Break French. |
| 1:43.0 | And now, what was the phrase I asked you there? Are you ready to begin? |
| 1:47.0 | Est-ce que tu es prêt? |
| 1:49.0 | And you said I'm ready? |
| 1:52.0 | Oui, Marc, je suis prêt. |
| 1:54.0 | Ok, so prêt is the word for ready, yeah? |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah. |
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