CBS 1.15 | Ordering drinks in a café

Coffee Break Spanish

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🗓️ 14 February 2009

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In lesson 15 you’ll visit a café and learn how to order some drinks. Please note that lesson 15 of Season 1 was originally known as lesson 115 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. It's lesson 15 and we're in the cafe now. You probably guessed that already, but today we're going to be learning how to say a coffee, a tea, basically order drinks in a cafe or a bar. I hope you enjoyed today's lesson.
0:31.0	Okay, so the first thing that we're going to have to learn when we are going to a cafe and ordering drinks and so on is how to attract the waiter or waitresses attention.
0:40.0	And in fact, there's nothing really to learn because it's something that we've covered before. When we were stopping people in the street asking for directions, we used a phrase that was very common in Spanish to get their attention.
0:51.0	Can you remember what that phrase was?
0:55.0	Can I, can you remember?
0:57.0	Por favor?
0:58.0	Por favor, of course. It was the word for please. Por favor.
1:02.0	Por favor.
1:03.0	Por favor.
1:04.0	Por favor.
1:05.0	Okay, now you may have heard another word being used or indeed have read this other word in some guidebooks or some phrasebooks.
1:14.0	And that word would be oiga, oiga. I would strongly suggest that you don't use this word because in most places, certainly in Spain, it's not really very polite to shout at a waiter or waitress, oiga, better to say por favor.
1:30.0	Por favor.
1:32.0	Okay, so let's learn some of the words for talking about things in a cafe. We'll start with something very straightforward.
1:40.0	Un café.
1:42.0	Un café.
1:43.0	Un café.
1:45.0	Un café.
1:46.0	Muy bien. Un café is a coffee. Un café.
1:50.0	Un café.
1:52.0	Now you may want to be a little more specific about what type of coffee you would like. Therefore you may want to ask for un café con leche.
2:04.0	Un café con leche.
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